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Asked: 2026-06-12T04:41:18+00:00

I am currently working on a Windows 8 Metro/Modern UI application. Right now, I’m

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I am currently working on a Windows 8 Metro/Modern UI application. Right now, I’m working on the interface in Expression Blend for Visual Studio.

My question is this: When sizing UI elements such as grid columns, I can use either pixels, auto, or stars. What is a star in this context? A google search turns up nothing and I haven’t found anything in the Windiws 8 developer documentation.

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  1. Editorial Team

    In a grid a * means that it will equally share available space with other * columns (or rows). There are some good WPF examples of how this works here.

    From the documentation here:

    starSizing

    A convention by which you can size rows or columns to take
    the remaining available space in a Grid. A star sizing always includes
    the asterisk character (), and optionally precedes the asterisk with
    an integer value that specifies a weighted factor versus other
    possible star sizings (for example, 3    ). For more information about
    star sizing, see Grid.

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