How to make a list of button controls in the ListBox or in the ItemsControl to Show them horizontally in WPF

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I am new in the WPF and started learning on it.
I want to make the list of buttons from a list of a class say "Buttons" and having two fields (ButtonContent,ButtonID) in the MainForm in WPF.
The idea behind this is that when the MainForm will be loaded then i want to make buttons list dynamically.
The Best Example is already given in the Link
Animating Interactive 2D Elements in a 3D Panel[^]
But i only want to make the equal size buttons stacked horizontally.
How can i do this in WPF? Thank you in advance.

Posted 6-Apr-14 20:26pm

WaseemAmin

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Solution 1

Try this

HTML

<listbox.itemspanel>
         <itemspaneltemplate>
             <stackpanel orientation="Horizontal" verticalalignment="Top" />
         </itemspaneltemplate>
     </listbox.itemspanel>

Posted 7-Apr-14 0:47am

Naz_Firdouse

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WaseemAmin 7-Apr-14 6:59am

Sir the main functionality which i need is to know how to add the UserContol(Button) as a ListBoxItem in the list box dynamically?

Naz_Firdouse 7-Apr-14 7:05am

if you have listbox in xaml, then you can add like this
<pre lang="c#">
Button Button1 = new Button();

Button1.Name = "item1";
Button1.Content = "Item1";
Button1.Height = 60;
Button1.Width = 87;
Button1.Margin = new Thickness(10, 5, 0, 5);

listbox1.Items.Add(Button1); //where listbox1 is the name of the listbox
</pre>

WaseemAmin 7-Apr-14 9:38am

Thank you !
I got the Idea.

Jazak Allah

Naz_Firdouse 8-Apr-14 5:37am

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WaseemAmin · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-08T21:45:00

It will be handy for others also. I am giving my solution here. This will help to make buttons dynamically in a ItemsControl or ListBox.
After some working hard i was able to do it as i wanted.
in my XAML i did like this.

<itemscontrol x:name="ic"><br />
    <itemscontrol.itemtemplate><br />
        <datatemplate><br />
            <Button<br />
                Command="Open"<br />
                CommandParameter="{Binding Path=ID}"<br />
                Cursor="Hand"<br />
                Focusable="False"<br />
                ><br />
                <Button.Template><br />
                    <controltemplate targettype="Button"><br />
                        <border><br />
                            removed="Black"<br />
                            BorderBrush="#88000000"<br />
                            BorderThickness="0.5"<br />
                            Padding="1"<br />
                            ><br />
                            <dockpanel><br />
                                <Button<br />
                                    Background="Transparent"             <br />
                                    Command="{Binding Open}"<br />
                                    CommandParameter="{Binding Path=ID}"<br />
                                    Content="{Binding Path=Content}"<br />
                                    DockPanel.Dock="Top"<br />
                                    Focusable="False"<br />
                                    Foreground="White"<br />
                                    HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"<br />
                                    Margin="0"<br />
                                    ToolTip="Testing Buttons..."<br />
                                        Click="Button_Click"<br />
                                    /><br />
                                <dockpanel.commandbindings><br />
                                    <commandbinding command="Open" executed="Open_Executed" /><br />
                                </dockpanel.commandbindings><br />
                            </dockpanel><br />
                        </border><br />
                    </controltemplate><br />
                </Button.Template><br />
            </Button><br />
        </datatemplate><br />
    </itemscontrol.itemtemplate><br />
</itemscontrol>

then code behind i did like the following:

buttonContentList = MainButtonsList.FindAll(o => (o.MenuLevel == levelID) && (o.GroupID == groupID) && (o.Enable == isEnable));<br />
                this.ic.Items.Clear();<br />
                int buttonIndex = 0;<br />
                foreach (ButtonContent bc in buttonContentList)<br />
                {<br />
                    Button btn = new Button();<br />
                    btn.Click += new RoutedEventHandler(btn_Click);<br />
                    btn.Content = bc.Content;<br />
                    btn.Tag = buttonIndex++;<br />
                    btn.Height = 60;<br />
                    btn.Width = 80;<br />
                    btn.Margin = new Thickness(10, 5, 0, 5);<br />
<br />
                    this.ic.Items.Add(btn);<br />
                }