Question

I have a WPF Hyperlink that I am able to click and get its NavigateUri property just fine. However, I want to be able to bundle some additional information with the Hyperlink so I can process it in my event handler. This is how it looks right now:

<TextBlock Grid.Row="0">
    <Hyperlink ToolTip="{Binding Path=Contact.ToolTipPersonalEmail}" 
           Name="ContactHyperlink" Foreground="#FF333333" 
           RequestNavigate="HandleContactEmailClicked" 
           NavigateUri="{Binding Path=Contact.Email}"
           >
        <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Contact.Fullname}" Width="Auto"
            HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
            TextTrimming="CharacterEllipsis"/>
        <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Data1}" Name="data1"  Visibility="Collapsed" />
        <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Data2}" Name="data2"  Visibility="Collapsed" />  
    </Hyperlink>

</TextBlock>

Basically, in my event handler, I want to be able to access the data inside the two textblocks that have visibility = “Collapsed” (data1 and data2). I liken this to “hidden” data in an HTML form.

I tried messing with the “Inlines” property of Hyperlink but that’s not working, and since this is inside a DataTemplate I can’t access data1 and data2 by name in my code.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Answer 1

In your event handler you can do something like this:

ContentPresenter presenter = (ContentPresenter)sender.TemplatedParent;
DataTemplate template = presenter.ContentTemplate;
TextBlock textBlock = (TextBlock)template.FindName("data1", presenter);

Probably not the prettiest way, but it works for me.