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Changing the ContentControl.Content stacks the content on top of each other

I have a MainWindow with a couple of radio buttons, a ContentControl and a button to change the content of ContentControl.
I also have a UserControl1 with a label on it. When I click the button on MainWindow to change the ContentControl.Content to UserControl1, it shows the label on top of the radio buttons I have from MainWindow. How can I change this so it acts like a page and does not stack each control on top of each other?
MainWindow.xaml:
<Window x:Class="Test.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
xmlns:local="clr-namespace:Test"
mc:Ignorable="d"
Title="Test" WindowStartupLocation="CenterScreen" Width="968" Height="560" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center">
<Grid HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" Height="540" Margin="0,10,-6,-19" Width="968">
<StackPanel Height="74" Margin="731,446,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="229" Orientation="Horizontal" HorizontalAlignment="Left">
<Button Content="Back" MinWidth="100" Margin="10,20,0,0"/>
<Button Content="Next" MinWidth="100" Margin="10,20,0,0" Click="NextBtnClick"/>
</StackPanel>
<RadioButton x:Name="RadioBtn1" Content="Radio1" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Margin="312,130,95,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Height="76" Width="561" FontSize="48" FontWeight="Bold" GroupName="1"/>
<RadioButton x:Name="RadioBtn2" Content="Radio2" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Margin="312,232,95,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Height="76" Width="561" FontSize="48" FontWeight="Bold" GroupName="1"/>
<ContentControl x:Name="contentControl" Grid.Row="1"/>
</Grid>
</Window>
MainWindow.xaml.cs:
private void NextBtnClick(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
if (RadioBtn2.IsChecked == true)
{
this.contentControl.Content = new UserControl1();
}
}
After clicking the next button, I get the controls from UserControl1 stacked on top of the radio buttons.
I'm quite new to WPF so any help would be greatly appreciated. Navigating through the docs is a nightmare because I'm not sure how to tackle this problem.

You can trying to use Grid panel without defining rows and column definitions. As per your code, you are trying define the panel layout by hardcoded Margin, Width and Height. That's why contorls are rendered on top of each other.
I've changed the Grid code to define the Row Definitions so that controls are stacked on row basis. So when you click on Button the ContentContrl is loaded to last Row so (which is defined as Height="*" via RowDefinition to take the remaining space)
You can read about WPF Panels and Grid layout at internet. This can be a good start.
<Window x:Class="Test.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
xmlns:local="clr-namespace:Test"
mc:Ignorable="d"
Title="Test" WindowStartupLocation="CenterScreen" Width="968" Height="560" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center">
<Grid HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" Margin="10 10 10 10">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions?
<StackPanel Grid.Row="0" Orientation="Horizontal" HorizontalAlignment="Left">
<Button Content="Back" MinWidth="100" />
<Button Content="Next" MinWidth="100" Click="NextBtnClick"/>
</StackPanel>
<RadioButton Grid.Row="1" x:Name="RadioBtn1" Content="Radio1" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Top" FontWeight="Bold" GroupName="1"/>
<RadioButton Grid.Row="2" x:Name="RadioBtn2" Content="Radio2" HorizontalAlignment="Center" FontSize="48" FontWeight="Bold" GroupName="1"/>
<ContentControl x:Name="contentControl" Grid.Row="3"/>
</Grid>
</Window>

C# WPF - Dockpanel's children collapsed not resizing the other visible childs

I'm sorry if I didn't find any relative post/questions regarding my small annoying issue.
I have a WPF window with a DockPanel (LastChildFill = True) that hosts three controls :
One Button (OK)
One label (Title)
One Border with a listbox in it
What I do is when the test in process is "pass" it has no data to push in the listbox so I make it collapsed and then I would like the Title label to be centered in the available space that is not used by the listbox and its border.
When I have a "fail" or an "error", I have data to put in the listbox and then it is visible and everything is just as expected.
I tried many things before coming here and I lost enough time on this as I need to get other stuff done by the time I'm writing here.
Can anyone point me out how to solve my issue (centering label when listbox+border is collapsed) ?
Here is my xaml code for this window :
<Window x:Class="NI.TestStand.WPFControls.Views.DisplayBannerView"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
xmlns:local="clr-namespace:NI.TestStand.WPFControls"
mc:Ignorable="d"
Title="DisplayBanner" x:Name="DisplayBannerMessage" Height="500" Width="800" MinHeight="300" MinWidth="500">
<Window.Resources>
<Style x:Name="BaseWindowFont" TargetType="Window">
<Setter Property="FontFamily" Value="Arial"></Setter>
<Setter Property="FontSize" Value="16"></Setter>
</Style>
</Window.Resources>
<Grid>
<Border BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="2">
<DockPanel LastChildFill="True">
<Button
x:Name="butOK"
DockPanel.Dock="Bottom"
Margin="10" Content="OK"
HorizontalAlignment="Center"
VerticalAlignment="Top"
Padding="10" Width="150"
Click="butOK_Click"/>
<Label
x:Name="main_message"
Padding="15"
FontSize="50"
Content="MAIN_MSG"
DockPanel.Dock="Top"
HorizontalAlignment="Center"
VerticalContentAlignment="Center" />
<Border BorderBrush="Chocolate" BorderThickness="2" Margin="10" Name="messages_border">
<ListBox
Background="{Binding ElementName=DisplayBannerMessage, Path=Background}"
Foreground="Black"
ScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Auto"
ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto"
ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"
VerticalContentAlignment="Top"
VerticalAlignment="Stretch"
x:Name="detail_message">
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding}" ToolTip="{Binding}"/>
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>
</Border>
</DockPanel>
</Border>
</Grid>
</Window>
Here are the images that shows a PASS and an ERROR to show the difference.
The PASSED title message in the green lime window should go in the middle of the window as the listbox is collapsed..
Thanks for all your help and time

I would design the whole thing like this:
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Border BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="2"
Grid.RowSpan="{Binding PassErrorBooleanProperty, Converter={StaticResource BoolToRowSpanConverter}}">
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Label
x:Name="main_message"
Padding="15"
FontSize="50"
Content="MAIN_MSG"
DockPanel.Dock="Top"
HorizontalAlignment="Center"
VerticalContentAlignment="Center" />
<Border Grid.Row="1" BorderBrush="Chocolate" BorderThickness="2" Margin="10" Name="messages_border"
Visibility="{Binding PassErrorBooleanProperty, Converter={StaticResource BoolToVisibilityConverter}}">
<ListBox
Background="{Binding ElementName=DisplayBannerMessage, Path=Background}"
Foreground="Black"
ScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Auto"
ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto"
ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"
VerticalContentAlignment="Top"
VerticalAlignment="Stretch"
x:Name="detail_message">
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding}" ToolTip="{Binding}"/>
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>
</Border>
<Button Grid.Row="2"
x:Name="butOK"
DockPanel.Dock="Bottom"
Margin="10" Content="OK"
HorizontalAlignment="Center"
VerticalAlignment="Top"
Padding="10" Width="150"
Click="butOK_Click" />
</Grid>
</Border>
</Grid>
There are two bindings to PassErrorBooleanProperty (which I've made up as something you'd use to indicate the result, you might have something else in place for this already), and you'd need two different converters, one for converting to a Visibility, and one for converting to an int (Grid.RowSpan).
When the value is true (Pass), you'd return Visibility.Collapsed and 2 from the converters. When the value is false, you'd return Visibility.Visible and 1.
Let me know if you need more info on the converters, though there is lots of information out there on using IValueConverter to create Boolean to Visibility converters, etc.

Listview with multiple columns not acting properly when height of Item expanded

Hello I need a multicolumn control with variable heights and with expand/collapse capability. My approach so far is this-
<ListView Grid.Row="1" ItemsSource="{Binding MyCollection}" ScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Disabled" Grid.IsSharedSizeScope="True" VerticalContentAlignment="Center">
<ListView.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<WrapPanel></WrapPanel>
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</ListView.ItemsPanel>
<ListView.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<control:UCNewsFeed Margin="6" DataContext="{Binding Post}" />
</DataTemplate>
</ListView.ItemTemplate>
</ListView>
please notice that UCNewsFeed is a usercontrol which is given below-
<Grid x:Name="MainGrid">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="57"/>
<RowDefinition Height="auto"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid x:Name="namePanel">
<StackPanel x:Name="nameContainer">
<TextBlock>Lamia Mehreen</TextBlock>
<TextBlock>Monday at 12:02pm</TextBlock>
<Button/>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
<Border x:Name="hiddenPanel" Visibility="Collapsed" Grid.Row="1">
<StackPanel x:Name="editPanel" Orientation="Horizontal">
<RichTextBox/>
<Button Margin="0" Foreground="{x:Null}" Style="{DynamicResource ButtonStyle1}" BorderThickness="0" Background="{x:Null}" BorderBrush="{x:Null}" Focusable="False" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" Padding="0" Width="37" Height="37"/>
</StackPanel>
</Border>
</Grid>
The layout is so far okay. The problem arises when "hiddenPanel"'s visibility is switched to visible from code behind. The entire row of the listview gets the height of the selected row.
I need to expand one cell only, NOT an entire row. Please suggest any approach that might come in handy. (I have simplified the XAML for easy reading, they might not look like the attached images)

How do i make a clickable listbox?

i have a list of users that are bound to a listbox(image and the name of the user) and i want to render this lisbox clickable so whnever i click on a user's image i will be redirected
to his account.
this is the user control that displays the users:
<UserControl x:Class="Navigateur.Presentation.UserControlWork.ListeEnfControl"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:conv="clr-namespace:Navigateur.Presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
mc:Ignorable="d" Height="Auto" Width="Auto"
>
<UserControl.Resources>
<conv:ByteArrayToImageConverter x:Key="bytearraytoImageConverter" />
</UserControl.Resources>
<Grid >
<ListBox x:Name="_imageList" Margin="10,10,10,0" IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem="True" ScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Visible" VerticalAlignment="Top" Height="250" BorderThickness="0" MouseLeftButtonDown="Click_Kid" >
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate DataType="Enfant">
<Border CornerRadius="30">
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Image Grid.Row="0" x:Name="image" Source="{Binding avatar}" Width="50" Height="80"/>
<TextBlock Grid.Row="1" x:Name="nom" Text="{Binding prenom}" VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
</Grid>
</Border>
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>
</Grid>
</UserControl>

Use Button in place of Image and override template of Button to give it an Image look, so that you can have clickable image.
<Button Grid.Row="0" Width="50" Height="80">
<Button.Template>
<ControlTemplate>
<Image x:Name="image" Source="{Binding avatar}"/>
</ControlTemplate>
</Button.Template>
</Button>
If you are using MVVM, you can bind Command with button OR if want to do in code behind you can hook Click event of button to determine which image is clicked on.

WPF Grid with a dynamic number of columns

I am quite new to WPF, and am struggling with accomplishing a visual effect - I would like to have a two-dimensional grid of objects with a data-driven number of columns. I am trying to go with MVVM with zero code-behind. I have had a look at several posts in this regard, and have come up with the following:
<UserControl x:Class="Demo.Views.SideBySideStackPanelView"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:views="clr-namespace:Demo.Views"
xmlns:viewModels="clr-namespace:Demo.ViewModels"
mc:Ignorable="d"
d:DesignHeight="300" d:DesignWidth="300">
<UserControl.Resources>
<DataTemplate x:Key="ColumnTemplate">
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="400"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*" SharedSizeGroup="TreeView"/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*" SharedSizeGroup="DetailView"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<DockPanel Grid.Row="0" LastChildFill="True">
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Name}" DockPanel.Dock="Left"/>
<Button Command="{Binding Close}" DockPanel.Dock="Right" HorizontalAlignment="Right">
<Image Width="10" Height="10" Source="/Demo;component/Images/Close.png" />
</Button>
</DockPanel>
<views:TreeView Grid.Row="1"/>
<GridSplitter
ResizeDirection="Rows"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
Height="5"
Grid.Row="2"
Name="sideBySideSplitter"/>
<views:TreeDetail Grid.Row="2"/>
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
</UserControl.Resources>
<Grid d:DataContext="{d:DesignInstance viewModels:MainWindowViewModel}" Grid.IsSharedSizeScope="True">
<ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding PluginItem}" ItemTemplate="{StaticResource ColumnTemplate}">
<ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal"/>
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
</ItemsControl>
</Grid>
</UserControl>
The TreeView view is a basic bound TreeView and the TreeDetail view is a simple bound Grid.
The control does render my content more-or-less as desired, but when I interact with the tree view that is in the upper part of the column the control expands vertically rather than a scroll bar showing up in the tree. The GridSplitter doesn't work at all; in fact it appears to render in the middle of the detail object.
I have a similar DataTemplate in a TabControl.ContentTemplate and it works as desired. Moving the GridSplitter causes scroll bars to show up on either side when necessary and opening up TreeView items causes scroll bars to show up in that control.
What I am after is an Excel-like presentation where the user can control the sizes of the cells with horizontal and vertical "splitters" and the user objects within the cells scroll within the cell as necessary. I can live with fixed-size columns for now.
I would appreciate any help provided. Thanks.