Referencing ASP.NET Wizard Buttons

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When you use the StepType of Finish a Finish Button is automatically generated and its ID is “FinishButton”, e.g. the WizardStep looks like this:

<asp:WizardStep ID="ConfirmWizardStep" runat="server" Title="Confirm" StepType="Finish">

Due to a business rule you may wish to disable the Finish button and to do this you would think that a FindControl on the WizardStep would work but it doesn’t as the Button is nested below many other tables/templates etc.

The method I used involved a custom recursive FindControl function as follows:

Dim finishButton As Button = CType(FindControlRecursive(WizardControl, "FinishButton"), Button)

Public Shared Function FindControlRecursive(ByVal root As Control, ByVal id As String) As Control

            If root.ID = id Then
                Return root
            End If
            Dim c As Control
            For Each c In root.Controls
                Dim t As Control = FindControlRecursive(c, id)
                If Not t Is Nothing Then
                    Return t
                End If
            Next
            Return Nothing

Function