Finding a control on a Winforms using LINQ?

Question

I am trying to find an elegant way to get controls on a Windows Forms form by name. For example:

MyForm.GetControl \"MyTextBox\"

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But t

Answer 1

Not so easy...

LINQ isn't very good at recursion and Control.Controls isn't LINQ enabled (needs Cast).

Sometimes a method is the best solution. Since you can write one that works for all Controls it will be even more reusable than a LINQ query. It could be an extension method.