Question

I’m new to C# and WPF format. In my program, I have an array of strings with text, and I want to create a button in the canvas for each string in the array. I’ve used flex, and in that i can use the addChild command to put something in something else, but I haven’t figured out how to do it in WPF yet. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Answer 1

I hope this can get you started (untested!):

foreach ( var s in textArray )
{
  Button b = new Button();
  //set button width/height/text
  ...
  myCanvas.AddChild( b );

  // position button on canvas (set attached properties)
  Canvas.SetLeft( b, ... ); // fill in the ellipses
  Canvas.SetTop( b, ... );
}

A more advanced technique would let you sync the UI to the contents of your array.

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