Bring Winforms control to front

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Published on 2010-04-11T17:59:36Z Indexed on 2010/04/11 19:53 UTC
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Are there any other methods of bringing a control to the front other than control.BringToFront()? I have series of labels on a user control and when I try to bring one of them to front it is not working. I have even looped through all the controls and sent them all the back except for the one I am interested in and it doesn't change a thing.

Here is the method where a label is added to the user control

private void AddUserLabel()
{
    UserLabel field = new UserLabel();
    ++fieldNumber;

    field.Name = "field" + fieldNumber.ToString();         

    field.Top = field.FieldTop + fieldNumber;
    field.Left = field.FieldLeft + fieldNumber;
    field.Height = field.FieldHeight;
    field.Width = field.FieldWidth;
    field.RotationAngle = field.FieldRotation;
    field.Barcode = field.BarCoded;
    field.HumanReadable = field.HumanReadable;
    field.Text = field.FieldText;
    field.ForeColor = Color.Black;

    field.MouseDown += new MouseEventHandler(label_MouseDown);
    field.MouseUp += new MouseEventHandler(label_MouseUp);
    field.MouseMove += new MouseEventHandler(label_MouseMove);

    userContainer.Controls.Add(field);

    SendLabelsToBack(); //Send All labels to back

    userContainer.Controls[field.FieldName].BringToFront();
}

Here is the method that sends all of them to the back.

private void SendLabelsToBack()
{
    foreach (UserLabel lbl in userContainer.Controls)
    {
        lbl.SendToBack();
    }
}

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