How to loop for controls, in multi user controls?

[dyte]

I want to ask if I can loop in my controls, like textbox, dropdown list or etc, in which they are in a page's user control. The scenario is that, assume I have a page called 'Page.aspx' and I have 3 user controls in that page(uc1, uc2 and uc3) and an asp panel (named PnlTab1) to contain all these controls in each user control. I am using that code to reach my controls:

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UserControl uc1, uc2, uc3;             
uc1 = usercontrol1;             
uc2 = usercontrol2;             
uc3 = usercontrol3;              
 
foreach (Control c in uc1.FindControl("PnlTab1").Controls)             
{                 
   if (c is TextBox)                     
   ((TextBox)c).Enabled = true;             
}              
foreach (Control c in uc2.FindControl("PnlTab1").Controls)             
{                 
   if (c is TextBox)                     
   ((TextBox)c).Enabled = true;             
}             
foreach (Control c in uc3.FindControl("PnlTab1").Controls)             
{                 
   if (c is TextBox)                     
   ((TextBox)c).Enabled = true;             
} 

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Now, I do not want to write each time 'foreach (Control c in uc3.FindControl("PnlTab1").Controls' . Can I recursively do that?

Thank you all a lot!

[Frinavale]

Have you considered writing a Public method that disables all of the TextBoxes in the user controls themselves?

That way you don't need to loop through controls like you are doing (expensive because the majority of them aren't what you're going to be looking for).

You'd just call the "DisableTextBoxes" method of the user control.

Or you could even implement Public Properties in the user controls to accomplish the same thing.

-Frinny

[dyte]

No I did not, beside this, I have done that and the problem is solved;
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UserControl[] ucs = new UserControl[3] = {uc1, uc2, uc3);
foreach(UserControl uc in ucs)
{
    foreachforeach (Control c in uc.FindControl("PnlTab1").Controls)             
    {                 
       if (c is TextBox)                     
       ((TextBox)c).Enabled = true;             
    } 
}

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Thank you anyway... I hope this helps, who need this.