WPF / Siverlight Routed Events Processing Order
2011-01-14
Here is the order of WPF / Silverlight event processing :
 
   1.      PreviewMouseDown (tunnel) on root element.
   2.      PreviewMouseDown (tunnel) on intermediate element #1.
   3.      PreviewMouseDown (tunnel) on source element #2.
   4.      MouseDown (bubble) on source element #2.
   5.      MouseDown (bubble) on intermediate element #1.
   6.      MouseDown (bubble) on root element.
Above content from MSDN