Building a UI layout using a Grid

A Grid panel enables you to arrange child elements in tabular format, represented by cells in rows and columns. This is the default panel that you will see when you create a new WPF project and navigate to the MainWindow.xaml file. Visual Studio automatically adds this as the first container inside every window.

It is often useful when you want to represent data in a tabular or matrix form. It is also useful when creating a form layout.

In this recipe, we will discuss the Grid panel in detail, so that you can properly use it while designing your application layout.

Getting ready

Let's start with Grid as a layout panel, by creating a new project. Open Visual Studio and create a new project named CH03.GridDemo, by selecting the WPF application template.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to create a sample Grid layout to host a few rectangles in each cell:

1. Inside Solution Explorer, open your MainWindow.xaml page.
2. Create a few rows and columns inside the default...