How to find child controls of another control(parent control)

Hello Friends,

I have a combobox in which diffrerent controls name are present like panel1,button1,groupbox1 ect.

now i want to make panel1 which has a string type(Because it's a element of combobox) as a control panel1
so that i can find child controls of panel 1.

If You have a solution for tihs please send replay ASAP.

Thanks

I just extended your code.

Here, in the ControlDetails class,I'm storing the name and control type . While fetching for the particular parent, I'm getting the control type from the Collection and called the FindControls method.

Hope this solves your problems.

private void Form8_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            FindControls(this, comboBox2);
        }
        List controls = new List();

        public void FindControls(Control control, ComboBox cmbox)
        {
            // ComboBox cb = (ComboBox)fillControl;
            cmbox.Items.Clear();
            for (int i = 0; i < control.Controls.Count; i++)
            {
                controls.Add(new ControlDetails() { Name = control.Controls[i].Name, Type = control.Controls[i] });
                cmbox.Items.Add(control.Controls[i].Name);
            }
        }

        private void comboBox2_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            Control cc = new Control(comboBox2.Text);
            object t =   controls.SingleOrDefault(x => x.Name == comboBox2.Text).Type;
            FindControls((Control) t, comboBox3);
        }
    }
    public class ControlDetails
    {
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public System.Windows.Forms.Control Type { get; set; }
    }

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15y ago
Accepted answer
I just extended your code.

Here, in the ControlDetails class,I'm storing the name and control type . While fetching for the particular parent, I'm getting the control type from the Collection and called the FindControls method.

Hope this solves your problems.

private void Form8_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            FindControls(this, comboBox2);
        }
        List controls = new List();
        public void FindControls(Control control, ComboBox cmbox)
        {
            // ComboBox cb = (ComboBox)fillControl;
            cmbox.Items.Clear();
            for (int i = 0; i < control.Controls.Count; i++)
            {
                controls.Add(new ControlDetails() { Name = control.Controls[i].Name, Type = control.Controls[i] });
                cmbox.Items.Add(control.Controls[i].Name);
            }
        }
        private void comboBox2_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            Control cc = new Control(comboBox2.Text);
            object t =   controls.SingleOrDefault(x => x.Name == comboBox2.Text).Type;
            FindControls((Control) t, comboBox3);
        }
    }
    public class ControlDetails
    {
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public System.Windows.Forms.Control Type { get; set; }
    }
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sachin yadav15y ago
Thanks for co-operation I wanted exactly this solutionfor my problem.It is working fine. thanks
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Vulpes15y ago
I haven't looked at the code but you can find a particular child control of panel1 (let's say button1) using its built-in Controls collection as follows:

Button btn = panel1.Controls["button1"] as Button;
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