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>>>UPDATE: I did get this to work. I limited the number of controls I have to search through by putting them in an mmgroupbox and used an arraylist to make it easier to work backwords from the control name to the correct text value.
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>>You don't actually have to run through all of the controls. The Control collection has a Find() method, ex:
>
>Just out of curiosity, isn't that what the Find() method does?
>Tim

I guess it does it behind the scenes, but since it's inner code it should be quicker than doing this explicitly.

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>>

>>string name = "textBox1";
>>Control[] control = this.Controls.Find(name);
>>if (control.Length > 0 && control is TextBox)
>>{
>>   TextBox txt = (TextBox)control[0];
>>   txt.Text = "My Control";
>>}
>>

>>
>>Or, even simpler:
>>
>>

>>string name = "textBox1";
>>Control control = this.Controls[name];
>>TextBox textBox = control as TextBox;
>>if (textBox != null)
>>{
>>   textBox.Text = "My Control";
>>}
>>