A Better way? C# finding controls, finding their id,
- by CSharp
I have a method that finds all the controls, iterates through them, determines if they are a textbox,drop down list, etc.. retrieves their ID name, and depending on the ID name it will set a boolean statement (thus I would know if that section of the form is complete, and will email to a certain group of people) unfortunetly this is done with too many if statements and was wondering if I could get some help making this more manageable
` protected void getEmailGroup()
{
Control[] allControls = FlattenHierachy(Page);
foreach (Control control in allControls)
{
if (control.ID != null)
{
if (control is TextBox)
{
TextBox txt = control as TextBox;
if (txt.Text != "")
{
if (control.ID.StartsWith("GenInfo_"))
{
GenInfo = true;
}
if (control.ID.StartsWith("EmpInfo_"))
{
EmpInfo = true;
}
}
}
if (control is DropDownList)
{
DropDownList lb = control as DropDownList;
if (lb.SelectedIndex != -1)
{
if (control.ID.StartsWith("GenInfo_"))
{
GenInfo = true;
}
if (control.ID.StartsWith("EmpInfo_"))
{
EmpInfo = true;
}
}
}
}
}
}`.
