Group disparate XAML textboxes into an array

[vandtekor]

Hi,

I am new to C#, and writing a sudoku solver as a WPF application. I've declared the windows contents as 81 textboxes in a series of grids, a label and a button. A click to the "solve" button triggers an event handler that I want to iterate over the given textboxes, and load their Text attribute into a 2d array of 2d arrays. For this I need to be able to enumerate the textboxes declared in the XAML.

I can access one textbox easily enough in the C#, but how do I get all 81 of them? If I were using a higher level language, I would use eval() with a constant string and a counter, but I gather C# being compiled has no eval.

Any help would be appreciated on this please.

Thanks!

[tlhintoq]

Maybe you should just add the textboxes to a textbox[] at the time you make them (assuming they are being made programmaticall y and not in design time.

Or... A 'for loop', looking at the .Controls of the form, checking if the type is TextBox

[vandtekor]

Creating the textboxes in code rather than XAML had not really occurred to me, but I have now changed it over, so I have an array of TextBox objects that I can access.

Thanks for your help!