FInd Control by ID ?

[Jarod]

In Web development wa can use a method called System.Web.UI.Control.FindControl(string) to get a control by its ID. So in a Page (inheriting from Control by default) we can easily get any control of that page.

 

Do I have missed the equivalent of that function for the System.Windows.Forms.Control ?

I know we have access to the ControlCollection of a form but if I have a textBox on my Form named "TextBox1", how can I get it ? (can't use me.TextBox1 if the control has been added dynamically)

No other solution to get an enumerator on the ControlCollection and test all control ????

 

Thanks,

[divil]

You'd have to loop through checking their .Name property I suppose. Controls don't really have names as such, so if you're creating them at runtime it's best to keep a reference to them around somewhere, either in a hashtable or you can just rely on the .Name property and loop through the Controls collection.