How to check if a windows form is already open, and close it if it is?

Question

I have a form "fm" that is a simple info window that opens every 10 mins (fm.Show();).

How I can make that every 10 mins it will check if the form "fm" is open and if it is open it closes it and open it again!

Now the form fm is always created with form fm = new form();
so when I try to check if the form is open it will always be false and open a new window even if there is one form before!

I need to have a tool to give it a unique identity and then check if this form with unique identity is opened or not!

I do not want to just update the data on the form (fm), because I have a complicated info with buttons.

The form name is "UpdateWindow"

Thanks

Answer 1

maybe this helps:

FormCollection fc = Application.OpenForms;

foreach (Form frm in fc)
{
//iterate through
     if (frm.Name == "YourFormName")
     {
         bFormNameOpen = true;
     }
}

Some code in the foreach to detect the specific form and it could be done. Untested though.

Found on http://bytes.com/topic/c-sharp/answers/591308-iterating-all-open-forms