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Avoid cluttering your XAML (and getting in a mess) by putting simple styling like fonts, colours into collections of styles and re-use them.

The 'X' in XAML stands for eXtensible because we can add our own types and use them just like the built-in types in XAML. Here, we take a look at how we can start doing that.

When databinding, there is not always a natural conversion between the data and the UI property you want to bind. Converters are your friend

Here we build on what we learnt about simple data binding and apply it to items in a ListBox looking at how we use DataTemplate to control what's displayed.

How to build a .NET class and a UI that databinds to it and how to ensure that you can have both OneWay and TwoWay binding.

How to use a Canvas for simple layout with absolute sizing and positioning.

How to use a StackPanel for laying out content in a vertical or horizontal stacked manner

The GridSplitter control is an easy way of adding dynamic layout to a Grid-based UI in that it gives an Explorer-like experience of providing grab handles that resize rows/columns in the grid. Here, we take a quick look at how to use it

How to use a Grid layout to get flexible and dynamically resizing layout including absolute, size-to-content and proportional sizing

In order to lay out content you need to look at properties such as Margin, Width, Height, Padding, Alignment - here we take a quick look at these in XamlPad in order to figure out which property does what.