What is the best way to clear all controls on a form C#?

Question

I do remember seeing someone ask something along these lines a while ago but I did a search and couldn\'t find anything.

I\'m trying to come up with the cleanest wa

Answer 1

The above solutions seem to ignore nested controls.

A recursive function may be required such as:

public void ClearControl(Control control)
{
  TextBox tb = control as TextBox;
  if (tb != null)
  {
    tb.Text = String.Empty;
  }
  // repeat for combobox, listbox, checkbox and any other controls you want to clear
  if (control.HasChildren)
  {
    foreach(Control child in control.Controls)
    {
      ClearControl(child)
    }
  }
}

You don't want to just clear the Text property without checking the controls type.

Implementing an interface, such as IClearable (as suggested by Bill K), on a set of derived controls would cut down the length of this function, but require more work on each control.