--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/MetroWpf/FxRates.UI/Helpers/XamlHelper.cs	Tue Mar 20 20:18:35 2012 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+using System.Windows;
+using System.Windows.Media;
+
+namespace FxRates.UI.Helpers
+{
+  public static class XamlHelper
+  { 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Finds a parent of a given control/item on the visual tree.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <typeparam name="T">Type of Parent</typeparam>
+    /// <param name="child">Child whose parent is queried</param>
+    /// <returns>Returns the first parent item that matched the type (T), if no match found then it will return null</returns>
+    public static T TryFindParent<T>(this DependencyObject child) where T : DependencyObject
+    {
+      var parentObject = VisualTreeHelper.GetParent(child);
+      if (parentObject == null) return null;
+      var parent = parentObject as T;
+      return parent ?? TryFindParent<T>(parentObject);
+    }  
+  }
+}