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Asked: 2026-05-11T07:58:41+00:00

In a C#, Windows forms app, we have a series of user controls that

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In a C#, Windows forms app, we have a series of user controls that are associated with menu entry records in a database…

    ID  Menu Title     1   User Management     4   Group Management     6   System Utilities     12  Configuration Management

A few user controls…

  • UserManagement.cs
  • GroupManager.cs
  • SysUtil.cs
  • ConfigurationMan.cs

We’re currently just switching on the ID, but that seems like a very primitive way to accomplish this and has a lot of hard-coded IDs, which I don’t like.

What would be the most appropriate way to read the database entries and load the appropriate user control?

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  1. You could store the class names in the database and instance them via reflection. They would need to all implement an interface or all derive from a base class (which I’m assuming you’re doing, extending Control) in order to be dealt with without having to handle each individual class differently.

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