Hi Bill,

The Controls collection has a Find method that looks like it might do the trick, but I haven't actually tried it. I think it would probably be used like this:

this.Controls.Find("MyControl", true);

The second parameter is for SearchAllChildren.

~~Bonnie


>If a control is nested within other controls on a Windows form and the control Name is known, is it possible to get a reference to the control without doing a recursive search of the control array? Recursively searching the control array is the only method I have been able to find for this. Although this works, I would prefer a more direct approach if one exists.
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>Thanks,
>Bill