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?

Answer 1

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;
    }

Answer 2

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