Half of the battle can be won through UI and Control placement in software paradigm .All of us know the a good UI leaves extraordinary impact on user so this post is all about control placing and control layout in WPF.In this post we will cover following topics.

  1. Layout
  2. Classic Controls
Layout

Layout in WPF are versatile than win form controls.In Win form most of the frequently used layouts used the coordinate based control placement while in WPF it is slot based depending on the screen space.the most common used layouts in wpf are as follows :

  • Canvas
    		• Used Coordinate based Control Layout (Same as panel in normal Win Form)
  • Stack Layout
    		• Control are placed horizontally / Vertically one above the other
  • Wrap Layout
    		• Controls are  placed sequentially horizontally / vertically
  • Grid Layout
    		• Creates column,Row based grid and each cell allows controls to be placed
  • Dock Panel
    		• Docks the control on specified area

    A collected sample of all can be seen bellow

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    More details can be found http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms745058.aspx.

    Classic Controls

    The control set in WPF is rich with wide support for data binding .A full comparison of WPF and winform control can be found from here.

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    Additional Link for Controls

    http://www.simple-talk.com/content/file.ashx?file=3354

    http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/.net-framework/from-winform-to-wpf-a-quick-reference-guide/