Question

all windows controls has property called anchor by which i can force control to stick on its surface and if anyone re-size form the controls height & width also increase & decrease along with form size.

i asked some one that how to do it in wpf and he said as below
‘Docking’ in WPF can be done by Setting the HorizontalAllignment and the VerticalAllignment properties of a child control.

‘Anchoring’ in WPF can be done by setting the Margin on the child and/or the Padding on the container.

unfortunately i am not being able to do so. so here is my sample xaml.

<Window x:Class="WpfApplication1.Window3"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    Title="Window3" Height="300" Width="515">
<Grid>
    <Label Name="lblName" Content="Enter Name" Height="28" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="-17,5,0,0"  VerticalAlignment="Top" />
    <Label Content="Enter Address" Height="28" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="-17,39,0,0" Name="label2" VerticalAlignment="Top" />
    <Label Content="Enter Company" Height="28" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="-17,68,0,0" Name="label3" VerticalAlignment="Top" />
    <TextBox Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="83,10,0,0" Name="textBox1" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="222" />
    <TextBox Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="83,73,0,0" Name="textBox2" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="222" />
    <TextBox Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="83,42,0,0" Name="textBox3" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="222" />
</Grid>
</Window>

so please do edit ny xaml to achieve what i am looking for….thanks

Answer 1

Here’s an alternative approach. It will give you static layout:

<Grid>
     <Grid.RowDefinitions>
 <RowDefinition Height="auto"/>
  <RowDefinition Height="auto"/>
  <RowDefinition Height="auto"/>
  </Grid.RowDefinitions>
  <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
  <ColumnDefinition Width="auto"/>
  <ColumnDefinition Width="auto"/>
  </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>

  <Label Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="0" Name="lblName" Content="Enter Name"/>     
  <Label Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="1" Content="Enter Address" />     
  <Label Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="2" Content="Enter Company" />     
  <TextBox Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="0" Width="200"/>     
  <TextBox Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="1" Width="200" />     
  <TextBox Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="2" Width="200"/> 
</Grid>