Adding a toolbar panel to perform quick tasks

In any windows-based application, you can find a toolbar, usually placed just below the main menu of a window. It contains a set of controls to provide easy access to common functions.

WPF offers you a ToolBarTray element to host one or more ToolBar controls, containing various UI controls. It provides you with some extra features, such as an automatic overflowing mechanism and a manual repositioning feature.

In this recipe, we will learn how to work with toolbars in a WPF application.

Getting ready

To begin with, open your Visual Studio IDE and create a new WPF application project called CH03.ToolBarDemo.

How to do it...

Once the project gets created, follow these steps to add a toolbar in the application window:

1. Open the MainWindow.xaml page from the Solution Explorer.
2. Now, replace the existing Grid with a DockPanel so that we can host the toolbar docking to the top of the window.
3. Add a ToolBarTray element inside the DockPanel and dock it to Top.
4. Add...