winforms - C# - TreeView: inserting node at certain position -

how 1 insert new child particular node in treeview in c# winforms?

i've been clumsily stabbing @ treeviews hour , i'd use c#'s treeview this:

treeview.getchildbyname("bob").addchild(new node("bob's dog")); 

here's tried last (which think @ level of hairiness c# should never have allowed me reach):

tree.nodes[item.name].nodes.add(new treenode("thing")); 

needless say, doesn't work.

oh, , here's lazy question: can store objects in these nodes? or treenode support strings , whatnot? (in case should extend treenode.. /sigh)

please help, thanks!

actually code should work - in order add sub node have do:

mynode.nodes.add(new treenode("sub node")); 

maybe problem in way refer existing nodes. guessing tree.nodes[item.name] returned null?

in order indexer find node, need specify key when add node. did specify node name key? example, following code works me:

treeview1.nodes.add("key", "root"); treeview1.nodes["key"].nodes.add(new treenode("sub node")); 

if answer doesn't work, can add more details on happen? did exception or did nothing happen?

ps: in order store object in node, instead of using tag property, can derive own class treenode , store in it. if you're developing library, more useful because leaving tag property users use.

ran