How to automatically set Tag=name in code behind

Question

Is there any way to automatically achieve this for each UI element?

var UI = new UI(){ Name="MyUI", Tag=??? }

for example with a button it might be

var btn = new Button(){ Name="myButton", Tag=???  }

Of course I might do it manually but for any element it gets boring and error prone. That would help me when I have to search for it on the UI Tree

Thanks

Answer 1

First thing first let me state that the idea is of David Venegoni for Winform. Instead if you want to have it in WPF you can do this:

public static void GetChildrenList(Visual parent, List<Visual> collection)
{
    for (int i = 0; i < VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(parent); i++)
    {
        // Get the child visual at specified index value.
        Visual childVisual = (Visual)VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(parent, i);

        // Add the child visual object to the collection.
        collection.Add(childVisual);

        // Recursively enumerate children of the child visual object.
        GetChildrenList(childVisual, collection);
    }
}

I just changed the name of the s/r but it is taken from here from dodgy coder.

And then you simply loop on the collection and do whatever you want:

foreach (var item in collection)
{
    if(item is Button)
    {
        (item as Button).Content = (item as Button).Name.Substring(3);
        (item as Button).Tag = (item as Button).Name;
    }
}

Ah very important remember do launch this after the element has been loaded otherwise you will get no children!