Get a visual parent of an element in Silverlight

Remember that you don’t have a parent in your control’s constructor -- it hasn’t been added anywhere yet.  Use the Loaded event when you look.  From there, you can use the VisualTreeHelper.GetParent() method.  Sometimes you are looking for a parent of a given name or type.  To help out, here’s a quick method I threw together to help you find a parent of a given type:

 

T GetParentOfType<T>() where T : DependencyObject

{

    DependencyObject p = this;

    

    while( p != null && !(p is T))

    {

        p = VisualTreeHelper.GetParent(p);

    }

Read more: Arian Kulp's Site

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