Find control inside silverlight container controls

There is no standard API for finding a control inside a Silverlight page or container control like we have in ASP.NET. You need to traverse the container element using VisualTreeHelper. Here is a generic function that can find any type of control in side a container control using recursion.

public T FindControl<T>(UIElement parent, Type targetType, string ControlName) where T : FrameworkElement
        {
           
            if (parent == null) return null;

            if (parent.GetType() == targetType && ((T)parent).Name == ControlName)
            {
                return (T)parent;
            }
            T result = null;
            int count = VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(parent);
            for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
            {
                UIElement child = (UIElement)VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(parent, i);

                if (FindControl<T>(child, targetType, ControlName) != null)
                {
                    result = FindControl<T>(child, targetType, ControlName);
                    break;
                }
            }
            return result;
        }

parent: is the container control that needs to be traversed for the desired control.
targetType: Target Control type.
ControlName: is the name/Id of the control to be searched.

Example Usage:
TextBlock ControlToSearch = FindControl<TextBlock>((UIElement)ContainerControl, typeof(TextBlock), "NameOfTheControlToSearch");

Method will return the desired control if found in container otherwise NULL.