C# TreeView Traversing

Introduction

TreeView in C# is a great control. TreeView can be used to build Hierarchical Menus. I was involved in a project where i had to make use of TreeView quite heavily and as a result i wrote some code myself to Build the TreeView dynamically (database driven). Here i present the TreeView traversal operation.

Here's a snapshot of the Populated TreeView.

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Here is the code:

class</FONT> TVIEW

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<FONT color=#008000 size=1></P><P>//1- Create a TreeView</P></FONT><FONT size=1><P>TreeView treeview = </FONT><FONT color=#0000ff size=1>new</FONT><FONT size=1> TreeView();
</FONT><FONT size=1></P><P></FONT><FONT color=#008000 size=1></FONT> </P><P><FONT color=#008000 size=1>//2- Populate the TreeView with Data</P></FONT><FONT size=1><P></FONT><FONT color=#008000 size=1>//populateTreeView();
</P></FONT><P><FONT color=#008000 size=1>//3- Now You can visit each and every node of this treeview whenever you require</P></FONT><FONT size=1><P>TVIEW t1 = </FONT><FONT color=#0000ff size=1>new</FONT><FONT size=1> TVIEW();</P><P>t1.TraverseTreeView(treeview);</P><P></FONT>

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private void TraverseTreeView(TreeView tview)

{
//Create a TreeNode to hold the Parent Node
TreeNode temp = new TreeNode();

//Loop through the Parent Nodes
for(int k=0; k<tview.Nodes.Count; k++) 
{
//Store the Parent Node in temp
temp = tview.Nodes[k];

//Display the Text of the Parent Node i.e. temp
MessageBox.Show(temp.Text);

//Now Loop through each of the child nodes in this parent node i.e.temp
for (int i = 0; i < temp.Nodes.Count; i++)
visitChildNodes(temp.Nodes[i]); //send every child to the function for further traversal
}


private void visitChildNodes(TreeNode node)


{
//Display the Text of the nodeMessageBox.Show(node.Text); 
//Loop Through this node and its childs recursively
for (int j = 0; j < node.Nodes.Count; j++)
visitChildNodes(node.Nodes[j]);}

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