WPF Get UserControl owner

Question

Hello, so I have this UserControl that's inside of another UserControl. Lets call them ParentUC and ChildUC. I need to get ParentUC from ChildUC.

I know to get the window owner would be Window.GetWindow(userControl), but UserControl doesn't have a method like this AFAIK.

Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

You can always use VisualTreeHelper.GetParent(child) to return the parent in the Visual Tree (the parent user control from a nested user control).

Answer 2

I came up with this solution, but post if you have a better one. Thanks!

DependencyObject ucParent = this.Parent;

while (!(ucParent is UserControl))
{
    ucParent = LogicalTreeHelper.GetParent(ucParent);
}

Answer 3

UserControl has a .Parent property that should give you access to it's parent.

Then you can cast it to your ParentUC object.