Switch does not enter the cases

Question

Hello there,

I am working with C# in Windows Forms. I have my parent form and inside it I open my child forms.

In my child forms I added a control tab, with different controls, all this in my presentation layer.
In the services layer I have a helper class with a reusable method to clean the controls of my forms.

This is my class to clean up the controls:

public static class Helper
    {
        public static void ClearFormControls(this Form form)
        {
            foreach(var control in form.Controls)
            {
                switch (control)
                {
                    case TextBox textbox: textbox.Text = string.Empty;break;
                    case TextBoxBase txt: txt.Text = string.Empty;break;
                    case ComboBox comboBox: comboBox.Text = String.Empty; break;
                    case CheckBox checkBox: checkBox.Checked = false; break;
                    case RadioButton radioButton: radioButton.Checked = false; break;
                    case DateTimePicker dateTimePicker: dateTimePicker.Value = DateTime.Now;break;
                    }
            }
        }
}

And called the class from my form:

private void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            this.ClearFormControls();
        }

But the Switch does not enter the cases, It just ignores it, can anyone help me see where my mistake is?

I appreciate any help you can give me.

Thank you

DS

Answer 1

Try another function:

public static void ClearChildControls( this Control parentControl )
{
    foreach( Control control in parentControl.Controls )
    {
        switch( control )
        {
        case TextBox textbox: textbox.Text = string.Empty; break;
        case TextBoxBase txt: txt.Text = string.Empty; break;
        case ComboBox comboBox: comboBox.Text = String.Empty; break;
        case CheckBox checkBox: checkBox.Checked = false; break;
        case RadioButton radioButton: radioButton.Checked = false; break;
        case DateTimePicker dateTimePicker: dateTimePicker.Value = DateTime.Now; break;
        default: control.ClearChildControls( ); break;
        }
    }
}