How to enable ALL controls on a form?

Question

Currently I have most of my form\'s controls disabled at launch because you cannot use them until a file is loaded. However, once the file is loaded the controls should beco

Answer 1

For menustrip items you can do it recursively, it's very simple. Just set the item.Enabled Flag to true or false.

You can use my class, it's just a few lines code, easy to use. You can also create a Search Function and just pass the name want to disable. Enjoy:

namespace Test_MenuItemIteration
{
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.Windows.Forms;

    public static class GetAllMenuStripItems
    {
        #region Methods

        /// 

        /// Gets a list of all ToolStripMenuItems
        /// 
        /// The menu strip control
        /// List of all ToolStripMenuItems
        public static List GetItems(MenuStrip menuStrip)
        {
            List myItems = new List();
            foreach (ToolStripMenuItem i in menuStrip.Items)
            {
                GetMenuItems(i, myItems);
            }
            return myItems;
        }

        /// 

        /// Gets the menu items.
        /// 
        /// The item.
        /// The items.
        private static void GetMenuItems(ToolStripMenuItem item, List items)
        {
            items.Add(item);
            foreach (ToolStripItem i in item.DropDownItems)
            {
                if (i is ToolStripMenuItem)
                {
                    GetMenuItems((ToolStripMenuItem)i, items);
                }
            }
        }

        #endregion Methods
    }
}

Use in your app:

List myItems = GetAllMenuStripItems.GetItems(this.menuStrip1);
foreach (var item in myItems)
{
    MessageBox.Show(item.Text);
    item.Enabled = false;
}