How do I refer to a windows form control by name (C# / VB)

Question

Suppose I have a label control on a windows form called \"UserName\". How can I refer to that label programmatically using the label name?

For example I can do:

Answer 1

One solution would be to pass the controls to the class in addition to or instead of the tabpage. For example, you could have a RecordCounter property in addition to your ActivePage property. (Incidentally, Find is efficient to code but not so efficient at runtime.)