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

If you just want to get a specific parent, not only the window, a specific parent in the tree structure, and also not using recursion, or hard break loop counters, you can use the following:

public static T FindParent(DependencyObject current)
    where T : class 
{
    var dependency = current;

    while((dependency = VisualTreeHelper.GetParent(dependency) ?? LogicalTreeHelper.GetParent(dependency)) != null
        && !(dependency is T)) { }

    return dependency as T;
}

Just don't put this call in a constructor (since the Parent property is not yet initialized). Add it in the loading event handler, or in other parts of your application.