Assign object to treeview child node in c# to identify parent

Question

Hi I'm trying to attach a child node to a parent node depending on if their strings match.

I'm running into some problems because I'm not sure how to identify a parent by it's name alone. For example if "string a" == "string a" then I want to add the child nodes LoanName to the parent id where the string matches the parent name.

This works if I do:

tvTodoList.Nodes[0].Nodes.Add(activityResult.ActivityName);

But obviously this will attach the child node to the first parent node in the treeview. How do I get it to match the name of the variable loanresult.LoanName?

Below is the code for my FillTodoList method

private void FillTodoList()
{
    var nol = NetworkOpsLayer.NetworkOpsLayer.CreateForDirectMongoConnection("mongodb://localhost", "test", "loans");
    //demoSave(nol);

    var loanList = nol.GetDocsWhichMatchGivenDocString("{ \"isActive\" : 1 }");

    foreach (string s in loanList)
    {
        //System.Console.WriteLine(s);
        var loanResult = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<RootObject>(s);

        tvTodoList.Nodes.Add("Loan Name: " + loanResult.LoanName);

        //Add children to each Loan

        var con = NetworkOpsLayer.NetworkOpsLayer.CreateForDirectMongoConnection("mongodb://localhost", "test", "activity");
        //demoSave(con);
        var activityList = con.GetDocsWhichMatchGivenDocString("{ \"isActive\" : 1 }");

        foreach (string st in activityList)
        {
            var activityResult = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Activity>(st);
            if (loanResult.LoanName == activityResult.ParentLoanName)
            {
                tvTodoList.Nodes[loanResult.LoanName].Nodes.Add(activityResult.ActivityName);
            }
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

The method TreeNodeCollection.Find(string, boolean) will help with this...

foreach (string st in activityList)
{
    var activityResult = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Activity>(st);
    if (loanResult.LoanName == activityResult.ParentLoanName)
    {
        TreeNode[] matches = tvTodoList.Nodes.Find("Loan Name: " + loanResult.LoanName, false);
        if (matches.Length > 0) matches[0].Nodes.Add(activityResult.ActivityName);
    }
}