How to Efficiently Find All ComboBox Controls within a WPF Grid?

Find child controls by type in WPF

Getting specific sub-controls in a WPF container can be achieved in a variety of ways. In this example, you want to retrieve the ComboBox control within a Grid control named "MyContainer".

The code you providedthis.MyContainer.Children.GetType(ComboBox); is wrong. The correct syntax to retrieve the child ComboBox control of MyContainer is as follows:

var myComboboxes = this.MyContainer.Children.OfType<ComboBox>();

This code uses the OfType() extension method to filter the child elements of MyContainer to only include elements of the ComboBox type. The result is an enumeration containing all ComboBoxes in the container.

Alternatively, you can recursively search for child elements of a specified type using the following extension method:

public static T GetChildOfType<T>(this DependencyObject depObj)
    where T : DependencyObject
{
    if (depObj == null) return null;

    for (int i = 0; i < VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(depObj); i++)
    {
        DependencyObject child = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(depObj, i);
        if (child is T result)
            return result;
        T result = GetChildOfType<T>(child);
        if (result != null) return result;
    }
    return null;
}

To use this method you can call:

MyContainer.GetChildOfType<ComboBox>();

This will retrieve the first ComboBox found in the container. If you need to retrieve all ComboBoxes, you can use the OfType() method shown earlier.

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