Umbraco : Locate nearest node with specific property

In an ongoing project I am working on I needed to adapt a custom user control that was being used as a DataType in Umbraco. I needed to locate the nearest node that had a specific property set and default the selected value of my control to the value of the property in the parent document. Here is the final piece of code: [code language="c#"]//- Get the current document as our starting point Document currentDoc = new Document(Convert.ToInt32(Request.QueryString["id"])); //- Climb the tree looking for a parent node with the property set while (currentDoc.getProperty("myProperty") == null) { currentDoc = new Document(currentDoc.Parent.Id); } //- Set the value in the list if it exists if (this.myDropDownList.Items.FindByValue(currentDoc.getProperty("myProperty").Value.ToString()) != null) { this.myDropDownList.Items.FindByValue(currentDoc.getProperty("myProperty").Value.ToString()).Selected = true; this.myDropDownList.Enabled = false; //-Disable the control so the branch can't be changed }[/code] Thanks again to Tim Geyssens for the tip that led me to my final solution.