Overview
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Handle most layout scenarios for your Windows applications with WPF layout panels. Learn how to use six core layout panels, size and position elements, and create custom panels.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching
- Using the exercise files
- Understand layout and child elements
- Use the LetterBox custom project
- Explore the layout panels
- Use the StackPanel
- Use the WrapPanel
- Use the DockPanel
- Use the UniformGrid
- Explore columnar layout with the grid
- Work with grid column and row sizes
- Add grid rows and columns with the designer
- Size grid rows and columns with the designers
- Position grid child elements with the designer
- Make sizeable grid cells with the GridSplitter
- Absolute positioning with the Canvas
- Scrolling content with the ScrollViewer
- Use a TabControl
- Control the visibility of an element
- Understand the layout process
- Indicate control size
- How panels affect control size
- Adjust content alignment
- Overlay elements with ZIndex
- Work with margins
- Why make a custom layout panel
- Examples of custom layout panels
- Anatomy of a custom panel
- Use a custom panel
- Replace layout panel in ListBox
- Next steps
