I need to find controls in my forms. In asp.net I used Recursive method to do it, now how to do in winforms?
public static Control FindControlRecursive(Control root, string id)
{
if (root.ID == id)
return root;
return root.Controls.Cast<Control>()
.Select(c => FindControlRecursive(c, id))
.FirstOrDefault(c => c != null);
}
any idea..thanks...
Each control has a Controls property which in fact is a ControlCollection. This collection itself has a method Find() which takes 2 parameters. The first parameter is the name of the control which you want to find, the second parameter indicates wether to include all children into the search.
As a sample:
Control[] allButton1 = this.Controls.Find("button1", true);// for your example
Control[] foundControls = this.Controls.Find(root.Name,true);