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How to find the child element of WPF DockingManager?
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The child element of WPF DockingManager can be find by iterating the children collection of DockingManager. The following code example demonstrates the same.
MainWindow.Xaml
<syncfusion:DockingManager x:Name="SyncDockingManager" DockFill="True" UseDocumentContainer="True"> <ContentControl Name="Content1" syncfusion:DockingManager.Header="Tab1" syncfusion:DockingManager.State="Document"/> <ContentControl Name="Content2" syncfusion:DockingManager.Header="Tab2" syncfusion:DockingManager.State="Document"/> <ContentControl Name="Content3" syncfusion:DockingManager.Header="Tab3" syncfusion:DockingManager.State="Document"/> <ContentControl Name="Content4" syncfusion:DockingManager.Header="Tab4" syncfusion:DockingManager.State="Document"/> </syncfusion:DockingManager> <Button x:Name="button" Content="clickhere" Click="button_Click" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" HorizontalAlignment="Right"/>
C#
public partial class MainWindow : Window { public MainWindow() { InitializeComponent(); } internal FrameworkElement FindChild(string nameForFind) { foreach (FrameworkElement element in SyncDockingManager.Children) { if (nameForFind == element.Name) { return element; } } return null; } private void button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { if (SyncDockingManager != null) { FrameworkElement Name = FindChild("Content2"); if(Name == null) { MessageBox.Show("Child doesn't exsits in this name"); } else { MessageBox.Show("Header of the element is " + DockingManager.GetHeader(Name)); } } } }