Object with all of form's controls to loop through ASP.NET

[David A. Beck]

Is there a way I can loop through a form object in ASP.NET codebehind like
in VB.NET and get all of the controls?

[Chris Bower]

Use the Controls collection.

dim ctrl as Control
for each ctrl in Page.Controls
.....
next

"David A. Beck" <da****@beckb.com> wrote in message
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Is there a way I can loop through a form object in ASP.NET codebehind like
in VB.NET and get all of the controls?

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

You can loop through the controls collection.
However it gets complicated if you have controls nested within other
container controls.
Here's some code Kevin Spencer posted a while back that provides a good
demonstration using recursion.

Private Function FindChildControl(ByVal objSearchControl As
System.Web.UI.Control, _
ByVal strControlID As String) As Object

Dim objChildControl As System.Web.UI.Control
Dim objControl As System.Web.UI.Control

If objSearchControl.Controls.Count = 0 Return Nothing

For Each objChildControl in objSearchControl.Controls
objControl = FindChildControl(objChildControl, strControlID)
If Not IsNothing(objControl) Return objControl
Next

Return Nothing
End Function

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I hope this helps,
Steve C. Orr, MCSD, MVP
http://Steve.Orr.net
Hire top-notch developers at http://www.able-consulting.com

"David A. Beck" <da****@beckb.com> wrote in message
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Is there a way I can loop through a form object in ASP.NET codebehind like
in VB.NET and get all of the controls?

[David A. Beck]

Steve:

Thanks. This code searches for a given control name in a control that itself
has controls. I have not been sucessful yet in adapting it to loop through
the Page.Controls object for my "Form1" to get all the controls.

Dab
"Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]" <St***@Orr.net> wrote in message
news:e0**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

You can loop through the controls collection.
However it gets complicated if you have controls nested within other
container controls.
Here's some code Kevin Spencer posted a while back that provides a good
demonstration using recursion.

Private Function FindChildControl(ByVal objSearchControl As
System.Web.UI.Control, _
ByVal strControlID As String) As Object

Dim objChildControl As System.Web.UI.Control
Dim objControl As System.Web.UI.Control

If objSearchControl.Controls.Count = 0 Return Nothing

For Each objChildControl in objSearchControl.Controls
objControl = FindChildControl(objChildControl, strControlID)
If Not IsNothing(objControl) Return objControl
Next

Return Nothing
End Function

--
I hope this helps,
Steve C. Orr, MCSD, MVP
http://Steve.Orr.net
Hire top-notch developers at http://www.able-consulting.com

"David A. Beck" <da****@beckb.com> wrote in message
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Is there a way I can loop through a form object in ASP.NET codebehind like in VB.NET and get all of the controls?

[Saravana [MVP]]

Check out this article,
http://www.extremeexperts.com/Net/Ar...hControls.aspx

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Saravana
Microsoft MVP - ASP.NET
www.extremeexperts.com

"David A. Beck" <da****@beckb.com> wrote in message
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Steve:

Thanks. This code searches for a given control name in a control that itself has controls. I have not been sucessful yet in adapting it to loop through the Page.Controls object for my "Form1" to get all the controls.

Dab
"Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]" <St***@Orr.net> wrote in message
news:e0**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

You can loop through the controls collection.
However it gets complicated if you have controls nested within other
container controls.
Here's some code Kevin Spencer posted a while back that provides a good
demonstration using recursion.

Private Function FindChildControl(ByVal objSearchControl As
System.Web.UI.Control, _
ByVal strControlID As String) As Object

Dim objChildControl As System.Web.UI.Control
Dim objControl As System.Web.UI.Control

If objSearchControl.Controls.Count = 0 Return Nothing

For Each objChildControl in objSearchControl.Controls
objControl = FindChildControl(objChildControl, strControlID)
If Not IsNothing(objControl) Return objControl
Next

Return Nothing
End Function

--
I hope this helps,
Steve C. Orr, MCSD, MVP
http://Steve.Orr.net
Hire top-notch developers at http://www.able-consulting.com

"David A. Beck" <da****@beckb.com> wrote in message
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Is there a way I can loop through a form object in ASP.NET codebehind like in VB.NET and get all of the controls?