Jaime Rodriguez | Microsoft Principal Technical Evangelist Laurent Bugnion | IdentityMine Senior Director XAML Deep Dive for Windows & Windows Phone Apps Jump Start

Course Topics XAML Deep Dive for Windows & Windows Phone Apps Jump Start 01 | Intro to XAML 02 | XAML UI Elements 03 | Controls 04 | Panels & Layout 05 | Data Binding 06 | MVVM 07 | Windows Personality Controls

Module 4 | Panels & Layout

Panel class  Responsible for layout of its’ children public class Panel : FrameworkElement { protected Panel(); public Brush Background { get; set; } public UIElementCollection Children { get; } public TransitionCollection ChildrenTransitions { get; set; } public bool IsItemsHost { get; } // from FrameworkElement protected virtual Size ArrangeOverride(Size finalSize); protected virtual Size MeasureOverride(Size availableSize); }

Panels Core Framework panels:  Canvas  StackPanel  Grid  VirtualizingStackPanel Platform specific  Phone:  Windows: ItemsWrapGrid, VariableSizedWrapGrid,

Canvas Top, Left Top, Right Bottom, Left Bottom, Right X Y Absolute Positioning

StackPanel Stacks child elements together Orientation:  Vertical  Horizontal

Grid Row = 0 Row = 1 Row = 2 Row = 3 Column = 0 Column = 1 Column = 2 RowSpan = 3 ColumnSpan = 2

Properties affecting layout  Width/Height  HorizontalAlignment/VerticalAlignment  Margin  Padding  Visibility

Alignment Determines position and stretch for an element HorizontalAlignment  Left, Center, Right, Stretch VerticalAlignment  Top, Center, Bottom, Stretch

Margin Space outside edges of an element

Padding Space inside edges of an element

Custom panels

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