Parsing the Visual Tree with LINQ - by Jeremy Likness
I noticed a project on CodePlex that provides a "JQuery-like syntax" for parsing XAML. It looked interesting, but then I wondered why it would be needed when we have such powerful features available to us in the existing runtime. Silverlight provides a powerful VisualTreeHelper for iterating elements in the visual tree. It also provides a TransformToVisual function to find the offset of elements relative to other elements.
So first things first: create a function that parses all children in the visual tree. You can either parse specific types of children, or all children that derive from a type and then filter or group on those.
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