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How do I make controls extend passed a control bound or overlap with others?

I have a wpf grid setup where I have two custom buttons that are next to each other. First picture is how the design window looks like, however, functionally, it looks like the second picture. I want them to function like the grid doesn't block them (closely resembling the first picture.)
The current xml I have is based on this MSDM which is very basic.
I do not know how to proceed. Do I have to use a different control panel/container or is there a setting to allowed them to extend passed the grid if the other button isn't above it (like zpanel?)
E: I couldn't find any other questions for this, so please link to any searches/posts with information on it.

Turns out I can use canvas and just do a bit more xml to keep the design the same. I would still like to know if it is possible to overlap them in any way for future use.

WPF Control Identification

Sorry but I am a newbie to WPF, I would really appreciate if you could help me-
Tag 1 in pic- Which control can I use to create a menu similar to that in the picture ? The closest I came was using a gridview within a listview but that ends up using a header for the gridview. Normal listview just highlights the entire strip and doesn't look good at all.
Tag 2 in pic // (No longer relevant, sorry)
Edit:
Looking for something simple like when using gridview with listview (as in pic below) there is automatically that standard window gradient & bevel effect etc. (As an idea, implementing it with buttons seems to cumbersome, first strip button border, then create all these effects.) So essentially anything already inbuilt in WPF.
Thanks for any help :-D !!!

ListBox or ListView are good controls to use. If it's just the 'pretty' factor you don't like, you can provide Templates to change the appearance. But functionally, ListBox and ListView provide the function of that menu.
When working with WPF, that should be your primary motivation when choose controls. What FUNCTIONS the way you want. You can always make it LOOK different with Templates, but getting the right FUNCTION is the primary goal for the control.

FindPanel DevExpress Component Too Slow

I need a search panel similar to the findpanel in devexpress. FindPanel is a bit slow: it searches all the visible columns and removes the not-fitting-the-description rows from the xtragrid. If you know a way to override these unwanted behaviors or another component that does the same job without the previous behaviors please do share. If not...
I need to create a panel, with one textedit, and two simplebuttons in it. And since I am going to use this same component with different xtragrids over and over again, I need to make it a standalone component, and be able to point towards the xtragrid from the properties window. As if its a standard component.
So how do I do that ? If you have an entire example project it would be perfect, but if not, I am just looking for some pointers.
Thank you...

There is a property to specify a list of columns for search by: ColumnViewOptionsFind.FindFilterColumns Property
You also can create a standalone user control with the public GridView property. This property allows you to select GridView instances in the designer. To apply the search expression programmatically, use the ColumnView.ApplyFindFilter Method

Create a custom Data Grid from Silverlight

I'm watching at this page:
http://leeontech.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/summary-row-in-datagrid/
But they're using silverlight. I'm trying to create that user control to use it in a WPF C# application. I mean, not using Silverlight. But I can't find the namespaces: GroupHeader
I'm having a hard time with this. Thanks in advance.

Okay listen, you can totally do this, and in some scenarios I even recommend it.
Using a CollectionViewSource you can easily group your data. In the HeaderTemplate you can even use an Expander (or make your own) and get the animation you might be wanting. Here's a link to a sample of this: http://jerrytech.blogspot.com/2010/06/wpf-data-presentation-step-by-step.html
Using an ItemsControl, you can easily present your groups and details. In the ItemTemplate you can use styles make this look like a grid (if that is really what you want). You can also shift the style based on the type if your collection has more than one type of object in it (eat that datagrid!).
You can wire up your column headers (which will really be custom objects, right?) and handle all the sorting and stuff like that. They will look just right! Not like datagrid WinForm column headers!
Here's what's hard (not impossible, but more coding).
User-resizable columns.
User-rearrangable columns.
New record using bottom, empty row.
Paste from Excel (doesn't work right in datagrid either).
Select Row, highlight Column header.
That's it.
In lots of situations, this is really nice.
For the most part, I cannot stand the datagrid. Too restricting on UX.

I don't think you're not going to be able to get a silverlight control working in WPF.
Adding a footer row to the WPF datagrid is something a lot of people have complained about; it's ridiculous that it wasn't included out of the box.
See this thread from MSDN
Having been through this myself, your best bet will probably be to bite the bullet and use a third party control. It sucks, I know.

adding a windows form object to listbox

I'm creating a twitter client in C#.
I want to put every tweet as an element of a listbox.
I created a windows form that represents a tweet(it has a picture, and labels).
My problem is that when i can't see the tweets when i add them to the listbox. After adding 3 tweets(windows form objects), the listbox has 3 blank elements in them, but i can't see anything of it.
How can i add a windows form object to a listbox?
(these forms are working fine, because i can see them if i use the ShowDialog method)
please help

You can add a Form object to the ListBox.Items collection but the only thing you'll ever see is the type name of the form. ListBox is not capable of rendering controls as its items.
The efficient solution is to implement the ListBox.DrawItem event and custom draw the tweet. There's a good example of such an event handler in the MSDN Library documentation for the event.
The slow solution is to add controls to a Panel's Collection property with its AutoScroll property set to true. That cannot be a form, it must be a UserControl.

You may want to look into implementing it using WPF. Where you can pretty much put anything inside a listbox.

Some thoughts:
You'd do better to work with custom controls, rather than a whole form
A listbox can't have controls on it... consider a ListView: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/list/ListViewEmbeddedControls.aspx
Some example code of what you're trying will help us zoom in on what you're doing
HTH,
James

I don't think ListBox can display anything but a text string for each element, so you won't be able to see an image of each form if that's what you were hoping for. You might try using FlowLayoutPanel instead to manage a list of controls.