WINDOW GRID TYPES FULL

Icon - Allows you to define the icon of the window, which is usually shown in the upper left corner, to the left of the window title. Here's a short list of the most interesting ones: The WPF Window class has a bunch of interesting attributes that you may set to control the look and behavior of your application window. Later in this tutorial, we will have a much closer look into the different types of panels that you can use, as they are very important in WPF. The Grid is one of the WPF panels, and while it could be any panel or control, the Window can only have ONE child control, so a Panel, which in turn can contain multiple child controls, is usually a good choice. You will also notice that Visual Studio has created a Grid control for us inside the Window. There are also a couple of namespace definitions, which we will talk about in the XAML chapters. If we go back to the XAML file, you will notice a couple of other interesting attributes on the Window element, like Title, which defines the title of the window (shown in the title bar) as well as the starting width and height.

WINDOW GRID TYPES FULL

This is actually what the call to InitializeComponent() does, which is why it's required to get a full functioning window up and running. By default, it looks something like this: using System Īs you can see, the Window1 class is definied as partial, because it's being combined with your XAML file in runtime to give you the full window. You will find it in the project tree in VS, as a child node of the XAML file. The x:class attribute tells the XAML file which class to use, in this case Window1, which Visual Studio has created for us as well. If you're using Visual Studio (Express) and you create a new WPF application, it will create a default window for you, which will look something like this: A WPF window is a combination of a XAML (.xaml) file, where the element is the root, and a CodeBehind (.cs) file. It serves as the root of a window and provides you with the standard border, title bar and maximize, minimize and close buttons.

When creating a WPF application, the first thing you will meet is the Window class.

Window grid types