How to Create Layout page and set for View: MVC

After creating default MVC application in Visual Studio there is a default layout file has been added in shared folder under views having name _Layout.cshtml. This file is used to provide consistent look on all of the pages havin...

StackPanel Overview in WPF

Layouts in WPF WPF layout, a mostly used component of an application, is basically used to arranging controls on fixed pixels. Users can not resize the places which are placed in these layouts. There are five built-in panels i.e...

How to Design Better UI: Border Control in WPF

Whenever we use a control in our WPF window, it feels a simple look in our design view. Border control is used to draw a border around other control. Borders generally play an important role to generate a better UI for the applic...

WPF: Alignments of Elements

In earlier post we have learnt about size-related properties i.e. Height & Width and Margin & Padding. In this article we will focus on alignments of elements. How a children should be positioned within a parent’s allocated space...

Margin and Padding of Elements: WPF

In our previous post we have set Height and Width properties of an element, now we will set the next size related properties i.e. Margin and Padding. Margin controls how much extra space gets placed around the outside edges of th...

How to set Height and Width of Elements: WPF

Panels, also called parent elements, supports multiple child elements to be arranged in it. Parents decide about where to render and how much space the children get. WPF elements tend to size to their content that is to be done t...

Use Canvas Panel Control in WPF

Canvas is the basic panel. One can simply place children in a canvas with its attached properties left, top, right and bottom. One should have some knowledge of graph paper to use a canvas panel in WPF. This works as margin prope...

Grid Panel Overview in WPF

When a window is added to WPF project then grid is added by default having zero children. It is most often used panel in compare to dock panel, stack panel and other panels. Grid provides no of rows and columns which enables you ...

DockPanel Overview in WPF

It is somewhat different with wrap panel. The name Dock panel is created by the word Dock. Dock element provides the user with a way of launching, switching between running applications. Dock panel provides easy docking of elemen...

WrapPanel Overview in WPF

Wrap panel is similar to stack panel, but while stack panel stacks its items, wrap panel wrap them to additional rows and columns according to provided space. It may be used when the list of items is to be shown. When we are not ...