Find position of Button/UIElement on screen relative to grid Windows Phone

c# silverlight windows-phone-7 uielement
James Mundy picture James Mundy · Nov 21, 2011 · Viewed 10.8k times · Source

I can't find a way to get the position in (x,y) co-ordinates of an on-screen control like a button relative to the grid that it is inside. Is there a way to do this that I am overlooking?

Answer

Filip Skakun picture Filip Skakun · Nov 21, 2011 
var transform = button.TransformToVisual(grid);        
Point absolutePosition = transform.Transform(new Point(0, 0));

From How to get the position of an element in a StackPanel?.

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