How to find the control inside ItemsPanelTemplate in wpf?

Question

I am trying to access the Grid inside a DataTemplate, and the ItemsControl is bound to an ItemsSource.

This is the full XMAL code. How to find a specific item from the outside?

for (int i = 0; i < allViewControl.Items.Count; i++) { var container = allViewControl.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromItem(allViewControl.Items[i]) as FrameworkElement; var grid = allViewControl.ItemTemplate.FindName("grid", container) as DataGrid; } 

I found this always returns null?

 <ScrollViewer Grid.Row="0" HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Disabled" VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto"> <ItemsControl x:Name="allViewControl" Focusable="False" HorizontalContentAlignment="Center" Grid.IsSharedSizeScope="true" ItemsSource="{Binding AllClassCharacters}" ItemTemplate="{StaticResource CharacterViewModelTemplate}" > <ItemsControl.ItemsPanel> <ItemsPanelTemplate> <Extensions:AnimatedWrapPanel IsItemsHost="true" /> </ItemsPanelTemplate> </ItemsControl.ItemsPanel> </ItemsControl> </ScrollViewer> <DataTemplate x:Key="CharacterViewModelTemplate" DataType="{x:Type ViewModel:CharacterViewModel}"> <Grid x:Name="grid" Width="200" Height="Auto" MinHeight="115" Margin="1" MinWidth="130" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" RenderTransformOrigin="0.5,0.5" Background="#66000000" > <Grid.RowDefinitions> <RowDefinition Height="70"/> <RowDefinition Height="*"/> </Grid.RowDefinitions> <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition Width="*" /> <ColumnDefinition Width="*" /> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ProgressBar x:Name="playerProgressBar" VerticalAlignment="Top" Background="Transparent" Height="5" Width="Auto" Value="0" Visibility="Collapsed" Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="0" Grid.ColumnSpan ="2" Grid.RowSpan="2" Foreground="White" BorderThickness="0" Style="{DynamicResource ProgressBarStyle1}" /> </Grid> 

Answer 1

The short answer is that you do not need to do this - using MVVM should give you simpler solutions for what you are trying to achieve.

If you need it for some situations in a niche, such as setting focus, searching for "find wpf control" on this - there are some existing questions ( example ) to hack and get controls from the WPF user interface tree