June 20, 2011

Find all controls of a type, recursively, and perform an operation on them

By Brent|2011-06-20T22:54:06+00:00June 20th, 2011|Categories: ASP.NET|Tags: find controls of type, recursion|

Recently I wanted a way to recursively iterate through a control, and its children and perform a certain operation on all controls of a specific type. I did a quick search on Google for this, but surprisingly wasn't able to come up with much. I know someone has definitely done this, but I'm going to post [...]

January 5, 2011

Find first parent control of a specific type using recursion

By Brent|2011-01-05T22:53:16+00:00January 5th, 2011|Categories: ASP.NET|Tags: first control of type, recursion|

Just like the title says. There have been some scenarios where I have had to search a controls parents until I find a specific control of type. A common example would be within a datagrid. Say you have a button that fires, and you need to to call Update() on a parent updatePanel. But you don't [...]