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

How about this:

DependencyObject parent = ExVisualTreeHelper.FindVisualParent(this);

public static class ExVisualTreeHelper
{
    /// 

    /// Finds the visual parent.
    /// 
    /// 
    /// The sender.
    /// 
    public static T FindVisualParent(DependencyObject sender) where T : DependencyObject
    {
        if (sender == null)
        {
            return (null);
        }
        else if (VisualTreeHelper.GetParent(sender) is T)
        {
            return (VisualTreeHelper.GetParent(sender) as T);
        }
        else
        {
            DependencyObject parent = VisualTreeHelper.GetParent(sender);
            return (FindVisualParent(parent));
        }
    } 
}