WPF User Control Parent

Question

I have a user control that I load into a MainWindow at runtime. I cannot get a handle on the containing window from the UserControl.

I hav

Answer 1

I needed to use the Window.GetWindow(this) method within Loaded event handler. In other words, I used both Ian Oakes' answer in combination with Alex's answer to get a user control's parent.

public MainView()
{
    InitializeComponent();

    this.Loaded += new RoutedEventHandler(MainView_Loaded);
}

void MainView_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    Window parentWindow = Window.GetWindow(this);

    ...
}