WPF - Find Parent by Type

Building on from my earlier post here I thought I'd show how we can use VisualTreeHelper to go the other way up the tree and find a parent of a specified type.

WPF - Find Child by Type

WPF provides the VisualTreeHelper class which exposes a few static methods that help us to navigate the visual tree more easily. However, the existing methods don't provide any specific methods for searching the visual tree for a particular element type.