Reset the controls in win forms

The Control class has various Resetxxxx methods to reset properties (including Text, BackColor and ForeColor) back to their default values:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.control(v=vs.110).aspx

You could write a method which does this automatically for your user control:

public void ResetControlProperties(Control parent)

{

foreach(Control child in parent.Controls)

{

if(child.HasChildren)

{

ResetControlProperties(child);

}

else

{

child.ResetText();

child.ResetForeColor();

child.ResetBackColor();

}

You'd then call this, say, with:

ResetControlProperties(userControl1);

However, if you want to deal with properties which aren't catered for in the Control class or to reset to values which aren't the Windows Forms defaults, then it would be easier just to write a method which deals with the controls individually.

Note, for instance, that the above code would even set a button's Text property to an empty string which I'm sure is not what you'd want.

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Vulpes12y ago
The Control class has various Resetxxxx methods to reset properties (including Text, BackColor and ForeColor) back to their default values:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.control(v=vs.110).aspx

You could write a method which does this automatically for your user control:

public void ResetControlProperties(Control parent)
{
foreach(Control child in parent.Controls)
{
if(child.HasChildren)
{
ResetControlProperties(child);
}
else
{
child.ResetText();
child.ResetForeColor();
child.ResetBackColor();
}
}
}

You'd then call this, say, with:

ResetControlProperties(userControl1);

However, if you want to deal with properties which aren't catered for in the Control class or to reset to values which aren't the Windows Forms defaults, then it would be easier just to write a method which deals with the controls individually.

Note, for instance, that the above code would even set a button's Text property to an empty string which I'm sure is not what you'd want.