Get the name of a control at runtime
I've recently taken over a project from someone else, and I've been left with code that has few naming conventions and a lot of bugs. I often find myself stepping through code wanting to check the value of a field. Unfortunately, I don't know the field's name-it could be Name, UserName, NameUser, txtName, and so on. It's a real pain to stop the program, click on the control in question, press [F4], get the control name, start the program again, and return to the point in the code where I was before. Here's a handy trick to get the control name right away. by Jeff Brown; Jeff.Brown@piog.com; Pioneering Management Corporation
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At runtime, set the focus to the control in question. Then, click the Break button on the VB toolbar, type ?Screen.ActiveControl.Name in the debug window, and press [Enter]. Voila! VB displays the control name in the debug window-and you didn't have to stop the program.