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

If someone still wants to do the recursion approach, using Jop's code, and keeping the TreeNodes (so you can use their .tag, .name, .checked or .text properties) here is my version

Public Shared Function GetChildren(objTree As TreeView) As List(Of TreeNode)
    Dim nodes As List(Of TreeNode) = New List(Of TreeNode)
    For Each parentNode As TreeNode In objTree.Nodes
        nodes.Add(parentNode)
        GetAllChildren(parentNode, nodes)
    Next

    Return nodes
End Function

Public Shared Sub GetAllChildren(parentNode As TreeNode, nodes As List(Of TreeNode))
    For Each childNode As TreeNode In parentNode.Nodes
        nodes.Add(childNode)
        GetAllChildren(childNode, nodes)
    Next
End Sub