How to programmatically select an item in a WPF TreeView?

Question

How is it possible to programmatically select an item in a WPF TreeView? The ItemsControl model seems to prevent it.

Answer 1

I've succeeded with this code:

public static TreeViewItem FindTviFromObjectRecursive(ItemsControl ic, object o) {
  //Search for the object model in first level children (recursively)
  TreeViewItem tvi = ic.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromItem(o) as TreeViewItem;
  if (tvi != null) return tvi;
  //Loop through user object models
  foreach (object i in ic.Items) {
    //Get the TreeViewItem associated with the iterated object model
    TreeViewItem tvi2 = ic.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromItem(i) as TreeViewItem;
    tvi = FindTviFromObjectRecursive(tvi2, o);
    if (tvi != null) return tvi;
  }
  return null;
}

Usage:

var tvi = FindTviFromObjectRecursive(TheTreeView, TheModel);
if (tvi != null) tvi.IsSelected = true;