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• Tip: How to get the relative coordinates of an element?

  3 comments  /  posted by  Denislav Savkov  on  Aug 29, 2008 (more than a year ago)

  Tags: Silverlight , UIElement coordinates

  You can get the coordinates of a System.Windows.UIElement relative to any other UIElement. Probably the most common scenario is to get the coordinates of a child element so this is our example.

  C#

  GeneralTransform generalTransform = childElement.TransformToVisual( parentElement );

  Point childToParentCoordinates = generalTransform.Transform( new Point( 0, 0 ) );

  Note! If the child is in left of the parent element or above it, the coordinates will be negative.

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• Tip: How to get the root element of a Silverlight application?

  0 comments  /  posted by  Denislav Savkov  on  Aug 29, 2008 (more than a year ago)

  Tags: Silverlight , RootVisual

  System.Windows.Application is a special class dedicated to the application. Using it you can get a few useful references one of which is the RootVisual.

  C#

  UIElement applicationRoot = Application.Current.RootVisual;

  That's it!

  

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