Question

is it possible to search a particular setter, rather than iterating through the collection and doing something like this.

  foreach (Setter setter in dataRecord.Cells[i].Field.Settings.EditorStyle.Setters)
  {
    if (setter.Property.Name == "Format")
    {
      excelWorkSheetRow.Cells[i + level].CellFormat.FormatString = setter.Value.ToString();
      break;
    }
  }

Answer 1

The SetterBaseCollection doesn’t provide any methods beyond those inherited from Collection<>. You can use the FindFirstOrDefault extension method to retrieve the setter you want like this:

var formatSetter=dataRecord.Cells[i].EditorStyle.Setters.OfType<Setter>()
    .FirstOrDefault(setter=>setter.Property.Name == "Format");
if (formatSetter!=null)
...

The trick is that SetterBaseCollection can contain both Setter and EventSetter object. Only Setter objects have the Property … property, so you need OfType<> to search only the Setter objects. Your code would break if anyone ever added an event setter to the style.