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

Different approaches and different strategies. In my case I could not find the window of my dialog either through using VisualTreeHelper or extension methods from Telerik to find parent of given type. Instead, I found my my dialog view which accepts custom injection of contents using Application.Current.Windows.

public Window GetCurrentWindowOfType(){
 return Application.Current.Windows.OfType().FirstOrDefault() as Window;
}