Here's how Microsoft owns everybody, every time

Step by step instruction:

1. Create something horrible like WPF.

2. Sound fanfares and announce that it is the next big thing.

3. Once everybody realizes what a horrid mess it is come up with libraries that fix its bugs but by different vendors.

4. Bank the cash.

They do it every time, and the gullible 8 billion hamsters around the world buy it every time.

Get it? TreeView.SelectedValue is the actual collection item bound to the tree. So far so good. But TreeView.SelectedItem is also that very same object whereas it has to be a TreeViewItem! That makes it impossible to find the selected item's parent (or any item's parent for that matter) w/o resorting to 3d party libraries that override the default behavior of tree views.

And Microsoft's stooge companies that delivery hacks and patches that fix its bugs laugh at us all the way to the bank.

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