How can I find WPF controls by name or type?

Question

I need to search a WPF control hierarchy for controls that match a given name or type. How can I do this?

Answer 1

My extensions to the code.

• Added overloads to find one child by type, by type and criteria (predicate), find all children of type which meet the criteria
• the FindChildren method is an iterator in addition to being an extension method for DependencyObject
• FindChildren walks logical sub-trees also. See Josh Smith's post linked in the blog post.

Source: https://code.google.com/p/gishu-util/source/browse/#git%2FWPF%2FUtilities

Explanatory blog post : http://madcoderspeak.blogspot.com/2010/04/wpf-find-child-control-of-specific-type.html