There are many situations where we need to refer to the parent container/control of specific type of control/item in WPF. Suppose we want to get ListViewItem on which a Button control is placed or we want to get the reference of that ListView in WPF.

Here is a method through which we can find parent of a control.

/// <summary>

/// Finds a parent of a given control/item on the visual tree.

/// </summary>

/// <typeparam name="T">Type of Parent</typeparam>

/// <param name="child">Child whose parent is queried</param>

/// <returns>Returns the first parent item that matched the type (T), if no match found then it will return null</returns>

public static T TryFindParent<T>(this DependencyObject child)

where T : DependencyObject

{

DependencyObject parentObject = VisualTreeHelper.GetParent(child);

if (parentObject == null) return null;

       T parent = parentObject as T;

       if (parent != null)

              return parent;

else

              return TryFindParent<T>(parentObject);

}

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