Can I find Logical Children by Type

Question

I know i can use LogicalTreeHelper class to find children node for every element searching it by name. But is there a possibility to find a child node by Type? For example, what if i would like to find a ListBox element in my Window without knowing its Name property??

Answer 1

I don't think that there is a built in way of doing this. Probably the best approach would be to recursively call LogicalTreeHelper.GetChildren() until a child control of the specified type is found.

Answer 2

Note that descending the Logical tree cleanly is actually a little tricky, here's a nice article on the intricacies of both the visual and logical trees.

I don't think any helper code exists to do this for you so implementing a recursive walk over the tree is required.