Find multiple controls with by partially matching their name

Question

I currently have 100+ labels, with names like:

labelNumber1 
labelNumber2 
labelNumber3 
labelNumber4 
....
labelLetter1
labelLetter2 
labelLetter3 
labelLet         


        

Answer 1

You can loop through the Controls collection of the form and just check the name of each control that it contains something like 'Label'. or you could check that the control is a typeof TextBox, Label, etc.

E.g.

foreach (Control control in form.Controls)
{
    if (control.Name.ToUpper().Contains("[Your control search string here]"))
    {
        // Do something here.
    }


    if (control is TextBox) {
        // Do something here.
    }
}