Pro WPF in C# 2010: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4

3.4. The Grid

The Grid is the most powerful layout container in WPF. Much of what you can accomplish with the other layout controls is also possible with the Grid. The Grid is also an ideal tool for carving your window into smaller regions that you can manage with other panels. In fact, the Grid is so useful that when you add a new XAML document for a window in Visual Studio, it automatically adds the Grid tags as the first-level container, nested inside the root Window element.

The Grid separates elements into an invisible grid of rows and columns. Although more than one element can be placed in a single cell (in which case they overlap), it generally makes sense to place just a single element per cell. Of course, that element may itself be ...