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Calcium: A Modular Application Toolset Leveraging PRISM – Part 2

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Calcium provides much of what one needs to rapidly build a multifaceted and sophisticated modular application. Includes a host of modules and services, and an infrastructure that is ready to use in your next application.
#region File and License Information
/*
<File>
	<Copyright>Copyright © 2007, Daniel Vaughan. All rights reserved.</Copyright>
	<License see="prj:///Documentation/License.txt"/>
	<Owner Name="Daniel Vaughan" Email="dbvaughan@gmail.com"/>
	<CreationDate>2009-03-01 18:44:57Z</CreationDate>
	<LastSubmissionDate>$Date: $</LastSubmissionDate>
	<Version>$Revision: $</Version>
</File>
*/
#endregion

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Windows;

namespace DanielVaughan.Wpf
{
	/* TODO: [DV] Comment. */
	public static class DependencyObjectExtensions
	{
		public static IEnumerable<T> GetChildrenOfType<T>(this DependencyObject dependencyObject) where T : class
		{
			ArgumentValidator.AssertNotNull(dependencyObject, "dependencyObject");
			var accumulator = new List<T>();
			AccumulateChildrenOfType(dependencyObject, accumulator, true);
			return accumulator;
		}

		public static IEnumerable<T> GetChildrenOfTypeBreadthFirst<T>(this DependencyObject dependencyObject) where T : class
		{
			ArgumentValidator.AssertNotNull(dependencyObject, "dependencyObject");
			var accumulator = new List<T>();
			AccumulateChildrenOfType(dependencyObject, accumulator, false);
			return accumulator;
		}

		public static TAncestor FindAncestor<TAncestor>(this DependencyObject dependencyObject) where TAncestor : class
		{
			ArgumentValidator.AssertNotNull(dependencyObject, "dependencyObject");
			var parent = LogicalTreeHelper.GetParent(dependencyObject);
			while (parent != null)
			{
				var casted = parent as TAncestor;
				if (casted != null)
				{
					return casted;
				}
				parent = LogicalTreeHelper.GetParent(parent);
			}
			return null;
		}

		public static bool IsAncestorOf(this DependencyObject dependencyObject, DependencyObject child)
		{
			ArgumentValidator.AssertNotNull(dependencyObject, "dependencyObject");
			ArgumentValidator.AssertNotNull(child, "child");
			var accumulator = new List<DependencyObject>();
			/* We can improve efficiency here. There is no need to gather all. */
			AccumulateChildrenOfType(dependencyObject, accumulator, false);
			var result = accumulator.Contains(child);
			return result;
		}

		static void AccumulateChildrenOfType<T>(DependencyObject dependencyObject, ICollection<T> accumulator, bool depthFirst)
			where T : class
		{
			var children = LogicalTreeHelper.GetChildren(dependencyObject);
			foreach (var child in children)
			{
//				if (child is System.Windows.Controls.Expander)
//				{
//					Console.WriteLine("");
//				}

				var childOfType = child as T;
				if (childOfType != null && !accumulator.Contains(childOfType))
				{
					accumulator.Add(childOfType);
				}
				if (depthFirst)
				{
					var childDependencyObject = child as DependencyObject;
					if (childDependencyObject != null)
					{
						AccumulateChildrenOfType(childDependencyObject, accumulator, true);
					}
				}
			}

			if (depthFirst)
			{
				return;
			}

			/* Breadth first. */
			foreach (var child in children)
			{
				var childDependencyObject = child as DependencyObject;
				if (childDependencyObject != null)
				{
					AccumulateChildrenOfType(childDependencyObject, accumulator, false);
				}
			}
		}
	}
}

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Daniel is a former senior engineer in Technology and Research at the Office of the CTO at Microsoft, working on next generation systems.

Previously Daniel was a nine-time Microsoft MVP and co-founder of Outcoder, a Swiss software and consulting company.

Daniel is the author of Windows Phone 8 Unleashed and Windows Phone 7.5 Unleashed, both published by SAMS.

Daniel is the developer behind several acclaimed mobile apps including Surfy Browser for Android and Windows Phone. Daniel is the creator of a number of popular open-source projects, most notably Codon.

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