I have a Grid inside a Canvas defined like this: <Canvas x:Name="outerCanvas"> <Grid Grid.Row="1" Name="cGrid" ShowGridLines="True" Width="{Binding Path=ActualWidth, RelativeSource={Rela...

In a Silverlight 3.0 application I'm attempting to create a rectangle in a canvas and have it stretch the whole width of the canvas. I have attempted to do this by binding to the ActualWidth proper...

TextBlock tbl= new TextBlock(); tbl.text="Kishore"; double x=tbl.ActualHeight; double y=tbl.ActualWidth; If i execute the code from the loaded event in Metro - winRT will return 0 for both. How...

I a grid on my silverlight control, I am programatically adding a canvas, and in the canvas I am loading and displaying Image. I'm also adding a rotation to the canvas. The problem is that by defa...

I am currently working with Panels in WPF, and I noticed that as regards the Width and Height properties, there are also two other properties called ActualWidth and ActualHeight. ActualWidth ...

Consider the following: Let's say the Window is 1024x768 and the ViewBox fills the entire window, this means the TextBox is really large on the screen. I want to get the size of the Tex...

Why can't I refer to ActualWidth as a value from, which I was able to use in code. XAML: <StackPanel> <Button x:Name="cmdVibrate" HorizontalAlignment="Center"> <Button.Trigger...

I want to add WPF Path to InkCanvas and use selection to select WPF Path. So, I use this code. System.Windows.Shapes.Path path = drawCanvas.Children[i] as System.Windows.Shapes.Path; drawCanvas....

I have a user control which has a Canvas of height 100 and width 1920. At the loading of the control, I go to an external source, download a text file and add TextBlocks to the Canvas. Then I want...

I want to bind a read-only property of a control to my view model so that the value is available in the view model. What is the best way of doing this? For example I'd like to bind ActualWi...

I am trying to place a Popup element in a specific position, relative to the Placement control. In order to achieve that I need to find out the ActualWidth of the popup control. But trying to get...

How do I expose the ActualWidth property of one of the components of my user control to users? I have found plenty of examples of how to expose a normal property by creating a new dependency prope...

I have a 3 column grid in a window with a GridSplitter on the first column. I want to set the MaxWidth of the first column to a third of the parent Window or Page Width (or ActualWidth) and I would...