ContainerVisual.DescendantBounds Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.Windows.Media

Assembly:

PresentationCore.dll

Gets the union of all the content bounding boxes for all of the descendants of the ContainerVisual, but not including the contents of the ContainerVisual.

public:
 property System::Windows::Rect DescendantBounds { System::Windows::Rect get(); };

public System.Windows.Rect DescendantBounds { get; }

member this.DescendantBounds : System.Windows.Rect

Public ReadOnly Property DescendantBounds As Rect

Property Value

Rect

A Rect that specifies the combination bounding box.

Examples

The following example shows how to retrieve the bounding rectangle of a ContainerVisual object's descendants.

// Return the bounding rectangle for the ContainerVisual.
Rect rectBounds = containerVisual.ContentBounds;

// Expand the rectangle to include the bounding rectangle
// of the all of the ContainerVisual's descendants.
rectBounds.Union(containerVisual.DescendantBounds);

' Return the bounding rectangle for the ContainerVisual.
Dim rectBounds As Rect = containerVisual.ContentBounds

' Expand the rectangle to include the bounding rectangle
' of the all of the ContainerVisual's descendants.
rectBounds.Union(containerVisual.DescendantBounds)

Remarks

Get the ContentBounds property to return the cached bounding box rectangle for the ContainerVisual itself.