Question

I’m working on an app to try and get to grips with Windows 8. I want to add a GridSplitter to my XAML form, but the control doesn’t seem to be available.

The XAML I have is

<Page
    x:Class="TweetiCon.BlankPage"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    xmlns:local="using:TweetiCon">

    <Grid Background="{StaticResource ApplicationPageBackgroundBrush}">
        <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
            <ColumnDefinition/>
            <ColumnDefinition Width="auto"/>
            <ColumnDefinition/>
        </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
        <GridSplitter Grid.Column="1" Orientation="Vertical"/>
    </Grid>
</Page>

but the GridSpliter element is causing the the app not to complile, because

The name GridSplitter does not exist in the namespace http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation

but I’m pretty sure it does. That’s where it is in normal WPF applications.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

From this blog post

There is no GridSplitter on Windows Phone or in WinRT. I checked what MinWidth/MaxWidth do then (on Windows Phone and in WinRT) on a column with Width=”Auto” with variable size content and it seemed like while MinWidth did work to keep the column a given size – the column did stretch beyond MaxWidth, although the documentation says: “the MinWidth value takes precedence over the MaxWidth value, which in turn takes precedence over the Width value”.

The “documentation” begin referred to is this MSDN page