Fluent Visual Basic® > 16. WPF Controls > The Dock Panel

By default, Visual Studio sets up a new window with a Grid as the layout root. I almost always change that to a DockPanel, which seems to me perfectly suited to the conventional layout of any window, with a menu bar and a toolbar at the top, a status bar at the bottom, and a client area filling the remaining space.

It’s probably obvious by now how you can use the Dock attached property to arrange the children of a DockPanel, but look carefully at the example below. The TextBox at the very top runs all the way to the edges of the panel, but the TextBox at the bottom is interrupted by the Rectangle at the left.

Try building the window in Visual Studio. Can you work out what controls how the child elements are stacked?

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16. WPF Controls > The Dock Panel

The Dock Panel