I am trying to dynamically add form controls to a gui I’m developing in

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Asked: May 23, 20262026-05-23T02:36:26+00:00 2026-05-23T02:36:26+00:00

I am trying to dynamically add form controls to a gui I’m developing in

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I am trying to dynamically add form controls to a gui I’m developing in PowerShell. I have looked at VB and C# examples but can’t seem to get my form to actually populate the gui with a new control. What I want is to be able to append a potentially large number of additional controls to the form and the added controls get dumped into a scrollable field so they don’t end up off the end of the gui. How I tried to accomplish this is append a combobox to a tablelayoutpanel. My idea being, adding a new row to the tablelayoutpanel with a new combobox control would accomplish this. So I suppose I have two questions:

Is this the logically correct way of going about dynamically adding controls to an object that will allow for scrollable overflow?
If #1 is true, how do I accomplish this tasK?

This is the most recent iteration of my attempts:

$button1_Click={
    $new = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox
    Add-ComboBox $rowCount
    $rowCount++
}

function Add-ComboBox {
    param([string] $rowCount)
    $combobox = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox
    $combobox.Dock = [System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle]::Fill
    $combobox.Text = ""
    $combobox.Tag = "ComboBox$rowCount"
    $tablelayoutpanel1.Controls.Add($combobox, 1, $rowCount)
}

Your assistance is greatly appreciated.