28.3. Building a Window's Frame Using Nested Panels
As mentioned previously, a typical WPF window will not use a single panel control, but instead will nest panels within other panels to gain the desired layout system. The next step is to learn how to nest panels, as well as how to use a number of new WPF controls. You will learn this by building a simple WPF word processor application. Begin by opening Visual Studio 2010 and creating a new WPF Application named MyWordPad.
Your goal is to construct a layout where the main window has a topmost menu system, a toolbar under the menu system, and a status bar mounted on the bottom of the window. The status bar will contain a pane to hold text prompts that are displayed when the user selects a menu ...
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