Rick,
See my replied within the text below.

>Einar,
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>Couple of things.
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>Just a suggestion: you're duplicating code by putting the foreach in both routines someone mentioned this before - you could just pass treeView.TopNode to RecursiveMethod, and the looping would would be encapsulated all within RecursiveMethod.

Yeah I know I should do that but I think it will be mostly to make it easier to read. Everything is encapsulated within the RecursiveMethod (in my oppinion that is).

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>Second,
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>if (treeNode.Id == foo.Id)
>

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>There's no Id property of a tree node, so I'm guessing you're using something like the Tag property to hold the id of the record (or maybe you're using a third party treeview). In the old treeview, you could set a key, which had the benefit of being able to pass the key directly to the Nodes collection to get the exact node - I'll never understand why they stopped that.

The nodes of my tree are custom TreeNodes that inherit from System.Windows.Forms.TreeNode and my custom TreeNode has a property called Id (which happends to be a Guid) (I belive this better than the Tag property in the olden days as I can have multiple custom properties). The ability to pass a key (in my case Id) to the tree is exactly what I want to do with my recursive quest (why didn't I just say that to start with? lol)


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>My final *g* suggestion would be to make TreeNode the return value of RecursiveMethod. When it finds the node, it returns the node, and if its not found, then return null. Its a little more useful and reusable that way: you're not burying what to do with the node inside the recursive method. You get a reference to the node you are looking for, and you can do whatever you want with it.
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>TreeNode oFoundNode = RecursiveMethod(treeView.TopNode)
>if(oFoundNode!=null)
>{
>   oFoundNode.Selected=true;
>   oFoundNode.Font.Bold=true;
>}
>

Hmm I like your idea. I like it a lot, but I don't think it will work. Hmm on 2nd thought it might. (it is kind of hard to think because my kids will not leave me alone).

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>>>It is not that I am really confused, but if I pretend to be more people are willing to help .
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>Damn, tricked again! *g*

lol it works every time
>Rick

Thanks for your time Rick.

Einar