Pro WPF in C# 2008: Windows Presentation Foundation with .NET 3.5, Second Edition

Understanding Logical Trees and Visual Trees

Earlier in this book, you spent a great deal of time considering the content model of a window—in other words, how you can nest elements inside other elements to build a complete window.

For example, consider the extremely simple two-button window shown in Figure 15-1. To create this window, you nest a StackPanel control inside a Window. In the StackPanel, you place two Button controls, and inside of each you can add some content of your choice (in this case, two strings). Here's the markup:

<Window x:Class="SimpleWindow.Window1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" Title="SimpleWindow" Height="338" Width="356" > <StackPanel ...