Recursively notify child controls via C#

Question

I have a form MainForm which is a Windows Forms form that contains many child controls. I want to call one function on MainForm that notifies all o

Answer 1

The answer from MusiGenesis is elegant, (typical in a good way), nice and clean.

But just to offer an alternative using lambda expressions and an 'Action' for a different type of recursion:

Action traverse = null;

//in a function:
traverse = (ctrl) =>
    {
         ctrl.Enabled = false; //or whatever action you're performing
         traverse = (ctrl2) => ctrl.Controls.GetEnumerator();
    };

//kick off the recursion:
traverse(rootControl);