Working with the WPF Designer

The WPF Designer for Visual Studio has many features to help you visually create user interfaces for your Windows applications. Working with the WPF Designer is similar to working with other visual designers, for example, the Windows Forms Designer and Expression Blend. You arrange controls and elements on a visual design surface, which represents a window in your application.

In This Section

• Alignment in the WPF Designer
  Describes a variety of visual cues to help you with the alignment and layout of controls on the user interface.

• Working with Controls in the WPF Designer
  Contains links to topics that describe how to create WPF applications by arranging controls on the design surface.

• WPF Container Controls
  Contains links to topics that describe controls which provide built-in layout and positioning functionality.

• Layouts in the WPF Designer
  Contains links to topics that describe how to create absolute, dynamic, and data-driven dynamic layouts.

Related Sections

• Binding WPF Controls to Data in Visual Studio
  Describes how to use Visual Studio to connect to data and generate business logic and data bindings.

• XAML in WPF
  Describes Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML).

• Windows Forms Designer
  Describes the designer for Windows Forms controls and applications.