Question

I have a user control that contains a stackpanel.

I’m trying to find a way to bind the children of the stackpanel to aproperty so that I can access them from another control

Anyone has any clue how to do that?

Answer 1

If you are using DataBinding, then enable a binding override your stackpanel with an itemsControl. Then you can work with the collection property named ItemsProperty

<StackPanel>
   <ItemsControl x:Name="itemsControl" ItemsSource="{Binding ItemsProperty, Mode=TwoWay}" >
          <ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
              <DataTemplate>
                 <ContentPresenter Content="{Binding}" /> <!-- you could also use Border -->
              </DataTemplate>
         </ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
    </ItemsControl>
</StackPanel>

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If you are in the codebehind, you don’t need to override the ItemsControl, just call stackpanel1.Children.Add(item); (if x:Name=”stackpanel1″ in XAML).

Then stackPanel1.Children should have elements.