Question

What I am looking to do is create a list of all the WPF controls that ship with .NET 4.
Ideally, this list would need to be a collection of string objects of items like “Button”, “ListBox” etc.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Kris

Answer 1

This will retrieve all subclasses of FrameworkElement in the PresentationFramework assembly

var query =
    from type in typeof(FrameworkElement).Assembly.GetTypes()
    where type.IsSubclassOf(typeof(FrameworkElement))
    select type.Name;

List<string> controls = query.ToList();

Note: there isn’t a very clear definition of what is a “control” in WPF… there is a Control class, but not all UI elements inherit from it. Most “controls” inherit (directly or indirectly) from FrameworkElement.