XAML Layout and Positioning Controls

As discussed in Chapter 2, the System.Windows.Controls.Panel is a base class of layout containers and provides a set of layout and positioning controls that range from very basic to advanced. These controls act as a main or subcontainer for group of user controls so that you can arrange them in specific positions and in a particular order to build a meaningful user interface.

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The WPF Panel class provides the full set of layout and positioning controls. However, the Silverlight Panel class includes all the key layout and positioning controls as part of the default library; remaining controls such as WrapPanel are part of the Silverlight toolkit (http://silverlight.codeplex.com/). To use these latter controls, ...

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