WPF cannot access nested control

Question

Wondering if there's any trick to accessing a nested control in the code-behind ?

given some XAML along the lines of

<UserControl>    
    <textbox />
    <DataGrid Name="MyGrid">
        <Columns>
            <Column field=ABC>
                <EditType>
                    <ComboBox Name="myCombo1"/>

I can access this.MyGrid but cannot access this.myCombo1 !!

Answer 1

Everytime that I have run into this I have be able to resolve it by using x:Name instead of Name . This may not be the issue in your case but give it a try.

Answer 2

In simple cases you can access elements using their name, but looks like combobox is datatemplate part, you can work with visual tree at runtime using VisualTreeHelper , but if you use mvvm & code right usually you don't need to access elements directly. Can you provide more information on general problem or test project to reproduce issue?