What property should the control have to stay the same when window is Maximized

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When I press the Maximize button on my WPF app, all the controls therein expand and disrupt the positions I already had for them. Should I be setting a property somewhere on each control?

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Posted 7-May-12 4:52am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2012-05-07T07:57:00

No. Instead, you should design the window layouts the size-tolerant way.

Avoid any manual positioning. Actually, if your window is resizeable, never position a single control manually, and avoid it even if a window is supposed to have a fixed size. The layout should be based on the Grids, DockPanels, etc., using Padding, Margin and related properties. To make a uniform look of different windows, use ResourceDictionary.

You might need to learn FrameWorkElements from scratch, as well as the layout model. Start here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms745058.aspx[^],
http://wpftutorial.net/LayoutProperties.html[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.controls.panel.aspx#inheritanceContinued[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms754152.aspx[^].

On using ResourceDictionaries, please see:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms750613.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa350178.aspx[^],
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wpfsldesigner/archive/2010/06/03/creating-and-consuming-resource-dictionaries-in-wpf-and-silverlight.aspx[^]

This CodeProject article can also be useful:
Using a Resource Dictionary in WPF[^].

—SA