I have the following loop to remove the buttons in my C# Windows Forms application. The only problem is that it skips every other button. How do I go about removing all the button controls from my form?
foreach (Control cntrl in Controls)
{
if(cntrl.GetType() == typeof(Button))
{
Controls.Remove(cntrl);
cntrl.Dispose();
}
}
I think this way is a bit more readable:
var controlsToRemove = Controls.OfType<Button>().ToArray();
foreach (var control in controlsToRemove)
{
Controls.Remove(control);
cntrl.Dispose();
}
Calling ToArray()
makes a new concrete collection, so that you can enumerate over one and modify the other.
Surprised that's not erroring on you, since you're modifying the collection as you're iterating over it. Use a for
loop and start at the end:
for (int ii = Controls.Count - 1; ii >= 0; ii--)
{
Control cntrl = Controls[ii];
Controls.remove(cntrl);
cntrl.Dispose();
}
(Starting at the end because otherwise you'd be changing the indexes of each control as you iterated.)
Youre iterating over the same collection from whitch youre removing. Use this code:
List<Control> cleanControls = new List<Control>();
foreach(Control ctr in Controls)
{
if(cntrl.GetType() != typeof(Button))
{
cleanControls.Add(ctr);
}
else
{
ctr.Dispose();
}
}
Controls = cleanControls;
That's It!
Hope I helped!