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ControlCollection.Item[Int32] Property

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Definition

Namespace:
System.Web.UI
Assembly:
System.Web.dll

Gets a reference to the server control at the specified index location in the ControlCollection object.

public:
 virtual property System::Web::UI::Control ^ default[int] { System::Web::UI::Control ^ get(int index); };
public virtual System.Web.UI.Control this[int index] { get; }
member this.Item(int) : System.Web.UI.Control
Default Public Overridable ReadOnly Property Item(index As Integer) As Control

Parameters

index
Int32

The location of the server control in the ControlCollection.

Property Value

Control

The reference to the control.

Exceptions

ArgumentOutOfRangeException

The index parameter is less than zero or greater than or equal to Count.

Examples

The following code example uses the Item[] property to specify the index location of a child control that is removed in a Remove method call. This is performed by the myButton.Controls.Remove syntax.


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<script runat="server">
   void Page_Load(Object Sender,EventArgs e)
   {
       Response.Write("<h2>Sample for ControlCollection Class</h2>");

       LiteralControl myLiteralControl 
           = new LiteralControl("ChildControl1");

       myButton.Controls.Add(myLiteralControl);
       myButton.Controls.AddAt(1,new LiteralControl("ChildControl2"));

       System.Array myControlCollectionArray 
           = Array.CreateInstance(typeof(object), 
               myButton.Controls.Count);
       myButton.Controls.CopyTo(myControlCollectionArray,0);

       IEnumerator myEnumerator1 = 
           myControlCollectionArray.GetEnumerator();

       while (myEnumerator1.MoveNext())
       {
           object myObject = myEnumerator1.Current;

           if(myObject.GetType().Equals(typeof(LiteralControl)))
           {
               LiteralControl childControl = 
                   (LiteralControl)myEnumerator1.Current;
               Response.Write("<p style=\"font-weight:bold\">");
               Response.Write("This is the  text of the child Control:" 
                   + Server.HtmlEncode(childControl.Text));
           }
       }

       myButton.Controls.Remove(myButton.Controls[0]);
       Response.Write("</p><p style=\"font-weight:bold\">");
       Response.Write("ChildControl1 is removed<br />");
       Response.Write("The count of ControlCollection = "
           + myButton.Controls.Count.ToString() + "</p>");
       myButton.Controls.Clear();
   }
</script>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
    <title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>

        <asp:Button ID="myButton" Text="Sample ServerControl" 
            Runat="server"></asp:Button>

    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<script runat="server">
    Sub Page_Load(ByVal Sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)

        Response.Write("<h2>Sample for ControlCollection Class</h2>")
        Dim myLiteralControl As LiteralControl _
            = New LiteralControl("ChildControl1")

        myButton.Controls.Add(myLiteralControl)
        myButton.Controls.AddAt(1, New LiteralControl("ChildControl2"))

        Dim myControlCollectionArray As System.Array = _
            Array.CreateInstance(GetType(Object), _
                myButton.Controls.Count)
        myButton.Controls.CopyTo(myControlCollectionArray, 0)

        Dim myEnumerator1 As IEnumerator = _
            myControlCollectionArray.GetEnumerator()

        While myEnumerator1.MoveNext()
            Dim myObject As Object = myEnumerator1.Current

            If myObject.GetType().Equals(GetType(LiteralControl)) Then
                Dim childControl As LiteralControl _
                    = CType(myEnumerator1.Current, LiteralControl)
                Response.Write("<p style=""font-weight:bold"">")
                Response.Write("This is the  text of the child Control:" _
                    & Server.HtmlEncode(childControl.Text))
            End If
        End While

        myButton.Controls.Remove(myButton.Controls(0))
        Response.Write("</p><p style=""font-weight:bold"">ChildControl1 is removed")
        Response.Write("<br />The count of ControlCollection = " _
            & myButton.Controls.Count.ToString() & "</p>")
        myButton.Controls.Clear()

    End Sub
</script>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
    <title>Sample for ControlCollection Class</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>

        <asp:Button ID="myButton" Text="Sample ServerControl" 
            Runat="server"></asp:Button>
    
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

Applies to

See also