how to get a textbox text property, on having the name in a string

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I'm new to vb.net and theirs problibly a easy answer. I am trying to get values from all the textboxes in my program. and I am looping through all of my textboxes with the name of the textbox in a string. So how do you get the text with only the name of the element in a string? I am also working on a wpf app.

thank-you much.

Please provide a code example and you might be further helped — Keith Beard, Apr 20 '15 at 00:56

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 20 '15 at 08:18

You could instead use this approach to loop through all your textboxes:

For Each txtBox As TextBox In MyPanel.Controls.OfType(Of TextBox)()
    Dim txt As String = txtBox.Text
    'Do whatever
Next

If you really want to get a control from a string (keep in mind that it is very error-prone) then you should check out CType:

Dim txtBox As TextBox = CType("TextBox1", TextBox)

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

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If you really use Name property to find textbox object, this question may help: Find WPF control by Name

But to me the case is rare. When you name a user control, you would refer it as a named object.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

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