Cast a control to ListBox/CheckBox/RadioBtnList in order to use a common property

[letmefly]

Hello , i use a method that has a Control as parameter

ex. public static void Method(Control c)

This control can be RadioButtonList, DropDownList , CheckBoxList , ListBox ..All of these controls return a ListItemCollections collection

through the property .Items (ex. DropDownList1.Items in case of a dropdownlist)

I need to find a way to cast the control c (my parameter) to one of the above controls (or to a common interface they implenent) in order to use the Items property that returns a ListItemCollection ..

So what i m trying to do is :

ListItemCollection control_items = (( ------ )c).Items ..What should be in the brackets?



What i actually want is use the item.Text and item.Value properties for all the items found in the itemscollection of the above control (i dont care if its a dropdownlist or a radiobuttonlist , i just want the item.Text and item.Value

Thnx for your time..

[letmefly]

Found the solution , for everyone interested , all these controls inherit from ListControl class , so thats the class we should use to cast the "generic" control

[Frinavale]

Found the solution , for everyone interested , all these controls inherit from ListControl class , so thats the class we should use to cast the "generic" control

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