Reach all your customer's devices with one beautiful XAML user interface (Channel 9)

Reach all your customer's devices with one beautiful XAML user interface

Date: September 15, 2011 from 10:30AM to 11:30AM

Day 3

APP-847T

Speakers: Tim Heuer

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At 15 minutes Tim talks about star sizing grids, he says that a column with a Width of 250* is 'defined as a minimum of 250 but takes up the rest of the available space'. As a WPF guy this statement got my attention because in WPF this would be incorrect.

The following is an excerpt from the WPF documentation.

In Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML), star values are expressed as * or 2*. In the first case, the row or column would receive one times the available space; in the second case, the row or column would receive two times the available space, and so on.

So in Tim's example the column would receive 250 times the available space, but since he's set the other two columns to a fixed width of 250, it doesn't really make sense. In fact omitting the 250 and just leaving the * produces the same effect, a column that takes up all available space.

Now I'm pretty sure this hasn't changed in Windows XAML either. Looking at XAML documentation star sizing still seems to work the same way as WPF, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

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karl1406 Hopeless .NET, WPF fanatic.

Sep 18, 2011 at 8:14 AM quote reply

Very nice presentation.
Karl
ianoakes

Sep 29, 2011 at 2:51 PM quote reply

At 15 minutes Tim talks about star sizing grids, he says that a column with a Width of 250* is 'defined as a minimum of 250 but takes up the rest of the available space'. As a WPF guy this statement got my attention because in WPF this would be incorrect.
The following is an excerpt from the WPF documentation.
In Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML), star values are expressed as * or 2*. In the first case, the row or column would receive one times the available space; in the second case, the row or column would receive two times the available space, and so on.
So in Tim's example the column would receive 250 times the available space, but since he's set the other two columns to a fixed width of 250, it doesn't really make sense. In fact omitting the 250 and just leaving the * produces the same effect, a column that takes up all available space.
Now I'm pretty sure this hasn't changed in Windows XAML either. Looking at XAML documentation star sizing still seems to work the same way as WPF, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
BSalita

Oct 11, 2011 at 2:53 PM quote reply

Presentation needs less powerpoint text and more images. The same content could be conveyed in half the time.

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