CHAPTER 3
Panels
All classes that derive from the Panel abstract base class are referred to as panels. Panels hold other controls and assist in their layout and presentation. Each XAML panel can hold any number of controls in its Children collection. What differentiates the various panels is how it arranges those children.
Canvas, StackPanel, Grid, and VariableSizedWrapGrid all derive directly from Panel as does VirtualizingPanel. OrientedVirtualizingPanel derives from VirtualizingPanel and itself has two derived classes: VirtualizingStackPanel and WrapGrid, as shown in Figure 3-1.
Figure 3-1. Class hierarchy
The most popular panels are ...
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