Andrew Pallant

While writing a windows application in C#, I realized that there was no find control method in the ControlCollection class. This was a problem as it would create a significant amount of code to find a control. Well it turns out you can do it using LINQ. I had found a blog that I was able to implement the code fairly cleanly. The original code limited me a little bit, but with a very minor modification I came up with this code.

Original Blog: linq-the-uber-findcontrol

public static class PageExtensions
    {
        public static IEnumerable All(this Control.ControlCollection controls)
        {
            foreach (Control control in controls)
            {
                if (control.HasChildren)
                {
                    foreach (Control child in control.Controls.All()) 
                    {
                         yield return child;
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    yield return control;
                }
            }
        }
    }

     private Control GetControlByName(string name)
     {
            Control firstEmpty = this.Controls.All()
            .OfType()
            .Where(tb => tb.Name.Trim().Equals(name))
            .FirstOrDefault();
            return firstEmpty;
     }

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