How to get a list of all child nodes in a TreeView in .NET

Question

I have a TreeView control in my WinForms .NET application that has multiple levels of childnodes that have childnodes with more childnodes, with no defined depth. When a use

Answer 1

Use recursion

Function GetChildren(parentNode as TreeNode) as List(Of String)
  Dim nodes as List(Of String) = New List(Of String)
  GetAllChildren(parentNode, nodes)
  return nodes
End Function

Sub GetAllChildren(parentNode as TreeNode, nodes as List(Of String))
  For Each childNode as TreeNode in parentNode.Nodes
    nodes.Add(childNode.Text)
    GetAllChildren(childNode, nodes)
  Next
End Sub