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.

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Answer 1

I've found that the parent of a UserControl is always null in the constructor, but in any event handlers the parent is set correctly. I guess it must have something to do with the way the control tree is loaded. So to get around this you can just get the parent in the controls Loaded event.

For an example checkout this question WPF User Control's DataContext is Null