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I have tried this approach first but getting error "Element is already the child of another element" var objClone = new MyImageControl(); objClone = this; ((Canvas)this.Parent).Children.Add(objClone); Then I checked this and this , but XamlWriter and XamlReader is not available in WinRT. I have tried to use MemberwiseClone() but it throws exception, "COM object that has been separated from its underlying RCW cannot be used. System.Runtime.InteropServices.InvalidComObjectException ". So can anyone tell me how can I clone the existing UserControl in my canvas to itself ? Dr Herbie I have written

For logging user actions in my WPF forms, I added some global event handlers I want to log exactly which control fire the event, is there some unique identifier for a wpf UIElement like ClientId in ASP.Net? Jason Ridge Why don't you use the Hash Code. You can compare the values to make sure they are the same object, and its easy to get them with .GetHashCode() Edit Obviously this is different every time you run the program, so actually this is prolly a bad idea, unless you want to update the log each time the process is logged. Still possible though I mean you could store a hash value for each