How to find button by name

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I have a winform with several buttons. I need to find button by its name and make it visible or hidden after the button is found. Any suggestions for solutions?

What I have tried:

I tried Controls.Find and some other options but none of them was succesful….

Posted 3-Apr-19 9:12am

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Updated 3-Apr-19 23:42pm

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shashankacharya · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-03T23:43:00

Solution 2

You can iterate through control collection.

foreach (Control control in Controls)
{
      Button button = control as Button;
      if (!ReferenceEqual(null, button))
      {
        button.Visible = someConditionIfYoWant;
      }
}

Posted 3-Apr-19 23:43pm

shashankacharya

Chris Copeland · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-03T09:38:00

Solution 1

If you're trying to find the button directly in the code of your window you can just reference the button by it's name. All controls in WinForms are given a name, so if your button has been called button1 then accessing the button for visibility is just button1.Visible

If it's from outside the window you may need to change your button to be public.

Posted 3-Apr-19 9:38am

Chris Copeland

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Member 12370240 4-Apr-19 2:16am

How to call a button from outside the window? Do I just need to change PRIVATE VOID to PUBLIC VOID? I am familiar with calling from inside the window.