Chapter 5. Layout with Panels

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Canvas

• StackPanel

• WrapPanel

• DockPanel

• Grid

• Primitive Panels

• Handling Content Overflow

• Putting It All Together: Creating a Visual Studio–Like Collapsible, Dockable, Resizable Pane

Layout is a critical component of an application’s usability on a wide range of devices, but without good platform support, getting it right can be extremely difficult. Arranging the pieces of a user interface simply with static pixel-based coordinates and static pixel-based sizes can work in limited environments, but these types of interfaces start to crumble under the influence of many varying factors: different screen resolutions and dimensions, user settings such as font sizes, or content that changes ...

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