Looping Through Controls in ASP.NET

In my recent development I have badly needed to read all the controls from asp.net page. After searching I have found lots of solution. Now I want share with you one of these solution. In this solution we read all the control from asp.net page with out using master page.

**Remember to add namespace  System.Collections.Generic
 
Code: C#

private static Control FindControlIterative 

(Control root, string id)
        {
            Control ctl = root;
            LinkedList ctls = new LinkedList();

            while (ctl != null)
            {
                if (ctl.ID == id)
                    return ctl;
                foreach (Control child in ctl.Controls)
                {
                    if (child.ID == id)
                        return child;
                    if (child.HasControls())
                        ctls.AddLast(child);
                }
                ctl = ctls.First.Value;
                ctls.Remove(ctl);
            }
            return null;
        }

 Code: VB.net
  
Private Shared Function FindControlIterative
(ByVal root As Control, _

ByVal id As String) As Control

  Dim ctl As Control = root
  Dim ctls As LinkedList(Of Control) = 

                  New LinkedList(Of Control)

  Do While (ctl IsNot Nothing)
   If ctl.ID = id Then
    Return ctl
   End If
   For Each child As Control In ctl.Controls
    If child.ID = id Then
     Return child
    End If
    If child.HasControls() Then
     ctls.AddLast(child)
    End If
   Next
   ctl = ctls.First.Value
   ctls.Remove(ctl)
  Loop

  Return Nothing

 End Function

 Read Control when use Master Page:

And this is where things get a bit tricky with MasterPages. The problem is that when you use MasterPages the page hierarchy drastically changes. Where a simple this.FindControl() used to give you a control instance you now have to drill into the container hierarchy pretty deeply just to get to the content container.

Code:C#

public static Control FindControlRecursive(Control Root, string Id)
{
if (Root.ID == Id)
return Root;

foreach (Control Ctl in Root.Controls)
{
Control FoundCtl = FindControlRecursive(Ctl, Id);
if (FoundCtl != null)
return FoundCtl;
}
return null;
}

You can use this method this way..

this.lblError = FindControlRecursive(this.Master,"lblError") as Label;