Skip to Main Content
Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, Fifth Edition
book

Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, Fifth Edition

by Andrew Troelsen
May 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1752 pages
41h 17m
English
Apress
Content preview from Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, Fifth Edition

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 ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Professional C# 5.0 and .NET 4.5.1

Professional C# 5.0 and .NET 4.5.1

Christian Nagel, Jay Glynn, Morgan Skinner
Visual C++ 2008: How to Program, Second Edition

Visual C++ 2008: How to Program, Second Edition

P. J. Deitel, H. M. Deitel, D. T. Quirk

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781430225492Purchase book