Adding a Control to the Content Panel

The C1Expander control will accept one child control in its content panel. In this topic, you will add learn how to add a WPF button control in the Properties window, in XAML, and in code.

At Design Time

To add a control to the content panel, complete the following steps:

1.   Click the C1Expander control once to select it.

2.   In the Toolbox, double-click the Button icon to add a Button control the content panel of the C1Expander control.

3.   Run the program and then expand the C1Expander control.

In XAML

To add a button control to the C1Expander control's content panel in XAML, complete the following steps:

1.   Place the following markup between the <c1ext:C1Expander> and </c1ext:C1Expander> tags:

<Button Content="Button" Height="Auto" Width="Auto"/>

2.   Run the program and then expand the C1Expander control.

In Code

To add a button control to the C1Expander control's content panel in code, complete the following:

1.   Enter Code view and add the following code beneath the InitializeComponent() method:

•      Visual Basic

'Create the Button control

Dim NewButton As New Button() 

NewButton.Content = "Button" 

'Set the Button Control's Width and Height properties

NewButton.Width = Double.NaN 

NewButton.Height = Double.NaN 

'Add the Button to the content panel 

C1Expander1.Content = (NewButton)

•      C#

//Create the Button control

Button NewButton = new Button();

NewButton.Content = "Button";

//Set the Button Control's Width and Height properties

NewButton.Width = double.NaN;

NewButton.Height = double.NaN;

//Add the Button to the content panel

c1Expander1.Content = (NewButton);

2.   Run the program and then expand the C1Expander control.

 This Topic Illustrates the Following:

When the C1Expander control is expanded, the button control appears in its content panel and  resembles the following image: