Question

I’m working on a Silverlight Polling control. My goal is to have a Button that contains other controls, so that when a user clicks on this combination, stuff happens.

Here’s the basic XAML:

<Button Grid.Row='1' Grid.Column='0' Style='{StaticResource AnswerButton}'>    <StackPanel Grid.Row='1' Grid.Column='0' Height='Auto' Width='Auto' Style='{StaticResource StackPnl}'>       <TextBox Text='this is a text box' Style='{StaticResource Answer}' />       <ProgressBar Style='{StaticResource PollProgress}' />    </StackPanel> </Button> 

That works fine, but assume I don’t have the StackPanel, etc, defined:

<Button Grid.Row='1' Grid.Column='0' Style='{StaticResource AnswerButton}'>  </Button> 

But that I want to add the StackPanel, TextBox, and ProgressBar at runtime.

Looking at just the first hurdle that I’ve run into, how do I dynamically add the StackPanel to the Button control?

Alternatively, if someone knows of a better way to do this…

Answer 1

var panel = new StackPanel();

Button.Content = panel;