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224 Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner’s Guide
Width properties. Removing the Height and Width properties allows the DockPanel to
expand and cover the entire window. Figure 8-5 shows a DockPanel with Label controls in
each docking position.
Every time you drag and drop a control onto the design surface of a DockPanel, the
control will take the center position by default. To specify where the control should dock,
open the Properties window and set the DockLayout.Dock property. When you add a new
control, the new control will become the center control and the other control will dock to
the side of the DockPanel you specified in the Dock property. The next layout control is
WrapPanel.
WrapPanel Layout
Whenever controls should naturally follow each other in sequence and continue wrapping
on new lines, you can use a WrapPanel. Examples of when this is useful could be when
adding controls that contain text and it’s useful to view the controls in sequence. Figure 8-6
shows several CheckBox controls in a WrapPanel.
Figure 8-5 DockPanel layout