Layouts in the WPF Designer

The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Designer for Visual Studio provides many panels and controls to help you achieve the layout you want for your applications. This section contains topics that help you create absolute, dynamic, and data-driven dynamic layouts. 

In This Section

• Layout with Absolute and Dynamic Positioning
  Discusses types of layouts, layout panels and controls, dynamic sizing, and auto and star sizing.

• How to: Construct a Layout Based on Absolute Positioning
  Describes how you can use panel controls to support absolute positioning in the WPF Designer.

• How to: Construct a Dynamic Layout
  Describes how you can use panel controls to support dynamic positioning in the WPF Designer.

• How to: Construct a Data-driven Dynamic Layout
  Describes how you can use view controls to support data-driven layouts in the WPF Designer.

• How to: Create User-Resizable Applications with GridSplitter
  Describes how to use the GridSplitter control to create resizable applications.

• How to: Work with Dialog Boxes
  Contains links to information about how to work with dialog boxes in the WPF Designer.

• Layout Walkthroughs
  Contains links to topics that walk you step-by-step through the procedures to create different layouts in the WPF Designer.

Related Sections

• Alignment in the WPF Designer
  Describes how the WPF Designer helps you with the alignment and layout of controls for the user interface.

• WPF Container Controls
  Contains links to topics that describe the various container controls and their uses.

• Working with the WPF Designer
  Contains links to topics that describe how to use and work with the WPF Designer.