Provides utility methods that can used to traverse object relationships (along child object or parent object axes) in the Silverlight visual tree.
(in System.Windows.dll)
Visual Basic (Declaration)
Public NotInheritable Class VisualTreeHelper
You do not need to declare an instance of a static class in order to access its members.
public static class VisualTreeHelper
A visual tree is a programming concept that is shared between WPF and Silverlight. In WPF, Visual is a class. Silverlight 3 does not expose a Visual class as an extension point, but still provides this helper class so that you can examine the visual tree structure.
System..::.Object
System.Windows.Media..::.VisualTreeHelper
Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.
For a list of the operating systems and browsers that are supported by Silverlight, see Supported Operating Systems and Browsers.
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