C# WinForm: Accessing a certain Control in Controls

Question

I have 3 Controls inside a TabPage tabpage1 ; let's call them panel1 , panel2 and datagridview1 . I'm trying to make a general method for accessing panel2 . How do I access this Panel in TabPage.Controls ? I've found out that I can use something like tabpage1.Controls[1] . But how do I know the index of panel2 ? And how do I set its index?

Answer 1

I believe you can use the controls collection.

        var ctrls = this.Controls.Find("ControlName", true);
        if (ctrls != null)
           if(ctrls.Length != 0)
               {
                    Control ctrl = ctrls[0];
               }

I am not good in C# but I believe it works and you can easy make an universal method from it. ( this only for the ilustrational purposes - replace with the apriopriate object.