Doing some app building and I needed to use FindControl to manipulate a control in the OnItemCreated event in a Repeater...well, to save a bit of typing I came up with this extension method:
namespace Presentation
{
public static class ControlHelper
{
public static T FindControl<T>(this System.Web.UI.Control root, string controlId, bool recursive) where T: System.Web.UI.Control
{
if(root.Controls!=null && root.Controls.Count>0 && root.FindControl(controlId) != null)
{
return root.FindControl(controlId) as T;
}
else if(recursive)
{
return FindControl<T>(root, controlId, recursive);
}
return null;
}
}
}
Pretty simple but it lets me do the following :
var link = e.Row.FindControl<HyperLink>("MenuLink", true);
if(link!=null) link.NavigateUrl="http://www.mostlylucid.net";
Not a HUGE time-saver but it just makes my code a bit tidier...