Determine the bounding rect of a WPF element relative to some parent

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I consider this a pretty simple request, but I can't seem to find a conclusive answer in my searches. How can I determine the bounds of a particular visual element in my window, relative to some other parent element?

I've tried using LayoutInformation.GetLayoutSlot but this just seems to return a Rect at 0,0 and doesn't reflect the actual location of the element.

What I'm trying to do is take a "screenshot" of a window using RenderTargetBitmap and then crop it to a particular element, but I can't get the element's bounds to know what to crop the bitmap to!

rect bounds layout wpf c#
4 Answers

Taking into account a few suggestions i found here this solved the problem for me.

item.TransformToVisual( relativeToElement )
    .TransformBounds( new Rect( item.RenderSize ) );
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