Form Tag GetType

Question

Hello,
Going to call a form as Modal from different places.

Dim F As New BlahForm
F.Tag = blah1or2
F.ShowDialog

I might pass a X509Certificate2 or a X509Certificate2Collection to the tag, different types!
On the target form, how to detect the data type?

Me.Tag.GetType.ToString will resolve:
System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Certificate2
or
System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Certificate2Collection

But is there a non string way to get the real data type?

And generally is it a good approach?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi
What I would do faced with that is to build a Select statement for all the known types that may be passed (assuming you do not plan on using dozens of types).

Select Me.Tag.GetType  
Case GetType(System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Certificate2)  
' ...........  
  
Case GetType(System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Certificate2Collection)  
' ...........  
  
End Select