Grid
Grid is the most versatile panel and probably the one you’ll use most often. (Visual Studio and Blend use Grid by default, even when you create a Blank App project.) It enables you to arrange its children in a multirow and multicolumn fashion, and it provides a number of features to control the rows and columns in interesting ways. Working with Grid is like working with a table or CSS grid in HTML.
Listing 4.2 uses Grid to build a user interface somewhat like the Start screen in Windows 8.x. It defines a 7x8 Grid and arranges children in many of its cells.
LISTING 4.2 First Attempt at a Start Screen Clone Using a Grid
<Grid Background="#1D1D1D"> <!-- Define seven rows: --> < Grid.RowDefinitions > ...
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