How to access a winforms control using its name

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I have created a TextBox on a winforms form named "txtName". Now I want to show the value of the TextBox named "txtName" by fetching that TextBox control by its name, which is stored in a string variable.

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Posted 21-Oct-11 21:43pm

Shailesh Tank

Updated 21-Oct-11 22:44pm

Manfred Rudolf Bihy

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OriginalGriff 22-Oct-11 3:51am

I'm sure English is not your native language, but it is the default language for this site.
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Xeshan Ahmed 22-Oct-11 4:31am

i think he want to get text of txtName(or some variable name)

Manfred Rudolf Bihy 22-Oct-11 4:46am

I took off my tinfoil hat and did some editing of OP's question.

OriginalGriff 22-Oct-11 4:47am

Ah-Ha! So, it is true, you also have a tin-foil hat...

Xeshan Ahmed 22-Oct-11 5:22am

nice effort

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Xeshan Ahmed · Answer 1 · 2011-10-21T22:30:00

Solution 1

Its quite simple, to get value simply send the string with stored name to following method and get its text

C#

private string GetControlValue(string ControlName)
{
    Control[] ctrls = this.Controls.Find(ControlName, true);
    return ctrls[0].Text;
}

Posted 21-Oct-11 22:30pm

Xeshan Ahmed

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Manfred Rudolf Bihy 22-Oct-11 4:48am

I think that is what OP was looking for! 5+