Hi,

I have a requirement of storing all the control information for the page as a collection of strings in a Dictionary object. Each item will be indexed by string using the Control ID. The final Dictionary object will be stored in the view state for the page. When the user will click the Button, the dictionary will be retrieved and all the information it contains will be displayed in a Label. Any idea about this implementation?

Please help me if anyone has got the idea on implementing this functionality.

        Dictionary<string,string> controlInfo=new Dictionary<string,string>();
        foreach (Control control in Page.Controls)
        {
            /* storing client id in view state
             * if you want to put more information of control, use custom object instead of string
             */
            if(!string.IsNullOrEmpty(control.ID))
                controlInfo.Add(control.ID,control.ClientID);
        }
        ViewState["controlInfo"]=controlInfo;

You can use above code block to store the control information in view state.If you have controls in control, you need to build a recursive algorithm to get all the controll information.If you want to retrive control information from the view state, use the following code block.

        Dictionary<string, string> controlInfo = ViewState["controlInfo"] as Dictionary<string, string>;
        Dictionary<string,string>.Enumerator enumerator=controlInfo.GetEnumerator();
        while (enumerator.MoveNext())
        {
            Label1.Text += enumerator.Current.Value;
        }

Thanks a lot for helping like this. Thank you very much.