dynamically create a new tab with textbox, button in the tab with click and keypress events (AddHandler is what i cant get to work) - vb.net

Question

I am creating some tabs and I need two things to work that I can't get to work. I need to AddHandler for a Textbox.Keypress event AND a Button.Click event. I can make these things work outside of the tabcontrol but not in.
In the example below my text box and buttons have same name from on tab to the another, I thought that might be my problem but even changing names between tabs does not work. I assume I need to be more specific in the AddHandler part to give the tab name as well as control. There is a logic in my real code to allow me to give unique names to each tab panel and controls, but i can't get the simple part to work.
I left some of the things I tried commented, but I tried LOTS and LOTS of other things.
Public Class Form1
Public Sub addTab(tabPageName As String)
Dim tabpage As New TabPage
tabpage.Text = tabPageName
tabpage.Name = "tabPage1" 'real code has logic to make sure names are unique
Dim label1 As New Label
Dim txtCreator As New TextBox
Dim combox1 As New ComboBox
Dim tabPageButton2 As New Button
tabPageButton2.Parent = tabpage
label1.Parent = tabpage
txtCreator.Parent = tabpage
combox1.Parent = tabpage
label1.Location = New Point(10, 10)
txtCreator.Location = New Point(150, 10)
combox1.Location = New Point(300, 10)
tabPageButton2.Location = New Point(20, 40)
label1.Text = "Creator"
txtCreator.Name = "txtCreator"
'fill the comboboxes...this will come from a database but testing now.
combox1.Items.Add("one")
combox1.Items.Add("two")
combox1.Items.Add("three") 'ok that works so should work from DB no problem.
tabRoleClass.TabPages.Add(tabpage)
End Sub
Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
addTab("First Tab")
AddHandler Controls("tabRoleClass.tabPage1.tabPageButton2").Click, AddressOf tabPageButton_click
'AddHandler CType(Controls("tabPageButton"), Button).Click, AddressOf tabPageButton_click
'AddHandler Controls("tabPageButton").Click, AddressOf tabPageButton_click
AddHandler CType(Controls("txtCreator"), TextBox).KeyPress, AddressOf txtcreator_keypress 'the Keypress to call lookup
End Sub
Private Sub tabPageButton_click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) 'Handles tabPageButton.click
MessageBox.Show(tabRoleClass.SelectedTab.Name.ToString)
End Sub
Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
addTab("Second Tab")
tabRoleClass.SelectedIndex = tabRoleClass.TabCount - 1
'AddHandler Controls("tabRoleClass.tabPage1.tabPageButton2").Click, AddressOf tabPageButton_click
'AddHandler CType(Controls("tabPageButton"), Button).Click, AddressOf tabPageButton_click
'AddHandler Controls("tabPageButton").Click, AddressOf tabPageButton_click
'AddHandler CType(Controls("txtCreator"), TextBox).KeyPress, AddressOf txtcreator_keypress 'the Keypress to call lookup
End Sub
Private Sub txtcreator_keypress(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs) 'Handles txtCreator.KeyPress
MessageBox.Show("keypress worked on " & tabRoleClass.SelectedTab.Name.ToString)
End Sub
End Class

Answer 1

This is a very confusing question and your code could really do with some cleaning, but you need to add the AddHandler code to the addTab subroutine as pointed out by #Plutonix:
Public Sub addTab(tabPageName As String)
Dim tabpage As New TabPage
Dim tabPageButton As New Button
Dim txtCreator As New TextBox
/.../
AddHandler tabPageButton.Click, AddressOf tabPageButton_click
AddHandler txtCreator.KeyDown, AddressOf txtcreator_keypress
tabRoleClass.TabPages.Add(tabpage)
End Sub
Private Sub tabPageButton_click()
MessageBox.Show(tabRoleClass.SelectedTab.Name.ToString)
End Sub
Private Sub txtcreator_keypress()
MessageBox.Show("keypress worked on " & tabRoleClass.SelectedTab.Name.ToString)
End Sub
Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
addTab("First Tab")
End Sub
Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
addTab("Second Tab")
tabRoleClass.SelectedIndex = tabRoleClass.TabCount - 1
End Sub
AddHandler works by adding event handlers to your controls. This means that each time an event is raised during this runtime, the new event handler will handle the event; everytime you click your tabPageButton the associated event tabPageButton_click will handle it.
Therefore, you will only need to add the handler once, preferably upon the creation of the control. There is absolutely no need to create them upon every single keypress, for example. You should look up event handlers on MSDN.
Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Sorry if the code was confusing, I cut up my actual code to make a "sample" and I can see the confusion. Now of course I AM confused, I originally had the AddHandler INSIDE the addTab sub that creates the tab and it didn't work there, I incorrectly assumed the reason was that the control was not yet created so I moved it out. Moving it back in this sub this morning worked perfectly, I don't know what I did wrong but its working GREAT by moving it up to where it belongs, thanks A LOT, I worked on this for 2 days trying and googling things. Next time I will post real code instead of a sample to be less confusing and also remove my commented attemps (I thought those would help show what I was trying but I think it didn't)