How to get a ListView from a ListViewItem?

Question

I've got a ListViewItem that is added to a ListView, but I don't know which ListView it is added to.

I would like to (through the ListViewItem) to be able to grab the ListView from the item itself.

I tried using the Parent property, but for some reason, it returns a StackPanel.

Any ideas?

There is no such problems with MVVM. – vortexwolf Jan 22 '11 at 20:05 — vortexwolf, Jan 22 '11 at 20:05
Like that had anything to do with this... – H.B. Jan 22 '11 at 21:50 — H.B., Jan 22 '11 at 21:50

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 16 '12 at 09:28

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While this is quite an old question, it doesn't work for WinRT

For WinRT, you need to traverse the Visual Tree using VisualTreeHelper instead of LogicalTreeHelper to find the ListView from the ListViewItem

answered Dec 16 '12 at 09:28

Anthony Wieser

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score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 19 '17 at 16:41

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I recently discovered this concise solution:

ListView listView = ItemsControl.ItemsControlFromItemContainer(listViewItem) as ListView;

answered Apr 19 '17 at 16:41

fyodorfranz

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This worked when LogicalTreeHelper.GetParent(item) just gave me "null" – sneusse Oct 06 '20 at 13:15

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 23 '11 at 04:59

I've gotten this to run and work:

private void Window_Loaded(object s, RoutedEventArgs args)
    {
        var collectionview = CollectionViewSource.GetDefaultView(this.listview.Items);
        collectionview.CollectionChanged += (sender, e) =>
        {
            if (e.NewItems != null && e.NewItems.Count > 0)
            {                   
                var added = e.NewItems[0];
                ListViewItem item = added as ListViewItem;
                ListView parent = FindParent<ListView>(item);
            }
        };

    }   
    public static T FindParent<T>(FrameworkElement element) where T : FrameworkElement
    {
        FrameworkElement parent = LogicalTreeHelper.GetParent(element) as FrameworkElement;

        while (parent != null)
        {
            T correctlyTyped = parent as T;
            if (correctlyTyped != null)
                return correctlyTyped;
            else
                return FindParent<T>(parent);
        }

        return null;
    }

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 23 '13 at 17:48

I'm using an approach different from those that were already suggested.

I only have a handful of ListView controls (two or three) so I can do the following.

ListViewItem listViewItem = e.OriginalSource as ListViewItem;
if (listViewItem == null)
{
    ...
}
else
{
    if (firstListView.ItemContainerGenerator.IndexFromContainer(listViewItem) >= 0)
    {
        ...
    }
    else if (secondListView.ItemContainerGenerator.IndexFromContainer(listViewItem) >= 0)
    {
        ...
    }
}

This could be used with a foreach loop but if there are hundreds of ListView controls to iterate through then looking up the parent ListView of the ListViewItem is probably more efficient (as most of the other answers suggest). However I think my solution is cleaner (a bit). Hope it helps someone!

How to get a ListView from a ListViewItem?

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