How to determine index of statusStrip Item ?

Question

I am developing a WinApp in C# in Visual Studio 2010. The parent form allows the user to open child forms.
As the child forms are opened I add an entries to the statusStrip on the bottom of my form as follows:

   statusStrip1.Items.Add("<Form1>");
   statusStrip1.Items.Add("<Form2>");
   statusStrip1.Items.Add("<FormX>");

I need to get the index value of an item in that collection for subsequent RemoveAt, but all I know is the Text value of the item I added.

statusStrip1 is a System.Windows.Forms.StatusStrip
It has a collection of Items.
Not seeing where the Items.Add returns a value or index in the documentation.

When the user closes the child form, I would like to remove the entry from statusStrip1 but do not know how to determine the
index value so I can use the RemoveAt function.

I think it should be some variation of the following:

   statusStrip1.Items.Find("<Form2>");           // no error, but not sure what code does
   statusStrip1.Items.IndexOf("<Form2>")         //err on compile: invalid argument on this line, bad overload
   statusStrip1.Items.RemoveAt(0);               //works, but it removes the '0' entry, need to get the index of <Form2>

Looking forward to some helpful hints on this one.

Beers on me....:-)

Thank you in advance.
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Vulpes · Answer

OK I think you'll need to add some sort of ToolStripItem (say a ToolStripLabel) to the StatusStrip so that you can give it a name and then search on that. Try this code: statusStrip1.Items.Add(new ToolStripLabel() { Text =   Name =   }); statusStrip1.Items.Add(new ToolStripLabel() { Text =   Name =   }); statusStrip1.Items.Add(new ToolStripLabel() { Text =   Name =   }); // and then look for the second item say string name =  ; int index = statusStrip1.Items.IndexOfKey(name); if (index >= 0) { statusStrip1.Items.RemoveAt(index); }

Rob Sobol · Answer

Wow ! Works great ! Amazing ! Thank you for working it out. The c-sharpcorner has been helpful. I will continue to use it and hopefully I will be able to give something back as my skills improve. Have a great day!

Rob Sobol · Answer

Thank you for your help. The end user is selecting options from a pull down menu. Each option opens a new child form. They are added in the order the end user selects to statusStrip1 potentially a different sequence each time. When they close out a particular child form the parent form receives the name of the form. I want the parent form to then remove that entry from statusStrip1. Your solution returned an Out of Range error. I think you are parsing the string variable 'find' for a portion of itself in the line int index = int.Parse(find.Substring(1 find.Length -2).Substring(4)) - 1; I need to search the statusStrip1 collection to find the index that related to the string in the variable 'find' in your example. Rob

Vulpes · Answer

If you're adding them sequentially like that then you can deduce the index from the text. For example: string find =  ; int index = int.Parse(find.Substring(1 find.Length - 2).Substring(4)) - 1; statusStrip1.Items.RemoveAt(index); // removes item at index 1