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

These options already talk about traversing the Visual Tree in C#. Its possible to traverse the visual tree in xaml as well using RelativeSource markup extension. msdn

find by type

Binding="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource Mode=FindAncestor, AncestorType={x:Type }}}"