Question

This is a v.basic question for WPF.

At first glance, it seems that WPF is case-sensitive. But if this has to be true then how come width=”auto” & width=”Auto” both works fine? On the other hand if is case-insensitive then why do controls don’t accept ‘width’ as its property? You can define the width of a control only using ‘Width’ (Capital W).

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Answer 1

Half true.

From the official XAML Overview page

XAML is generally speaking case sensitive. For purposes of resolving backing types, WPF XAML is case sensitive by the same rules that the CLR is case sensitive. Object elements, property elements, and attribute names must all be specified by using the sensitive casing when compared by name to the underlying type in the assembly, or to a member of a type. XAML language keywords and primitives are also case sensitive. Values are not always case sensitive. Case sensitivity for values will depend on the type converter behavior associated with the property that takes the value, or the property value type. For example, properties that take the Boolean type can take either true or True as equivalent values, but only because the native WPF XAML parser type conversion for string to Boolean already permits these as equivalents.

In general XAML IS case sensitive but the property values are not always since that depends on the property converter, so in most cases it work such as where Auto is the same as auto, although in some special cases the property converter might not be able to handle them with case-insensitivity

Note: We are talking about property values here and not property names