#833 – CheckBox is a ContentControl

June 3, 2013 2 Comments

A CheckBox control derives from ContentControl, which means that it can contain a single piece of content.  In the case of a CheckBox, this content is rendered next to the actual check box that a user can check on or off.

You typically set the content of a CheckBox to a string, which gets rendered next to the check box.

        <CheckBox Content="Learn to juggle"/>
        <CheckBox Content="Read War and Peace"/>
        <CheckBox Content="Visit Japan"/>

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You can, however, set the Content property to anything that you like, including a panel that contains other controls.

        <CheckBox VerticalContentAlignment="Center">
            <CheckBox.Content>
                <StackPanel>
                    <Image Source="Juggler.png" Height="85"/>
                    <Label Content="Learn to juggle"/>
                </StackPanel>
            </CheckBox.Content>
        </CheckBox>
        <CheckBox VerticalContentAlignment="Center">
            <CheckBox.Content>
                <StackPanel>
                    <Image Source="leo.jpg" Height="85"/>
                    <Label Content="Read War and Peace"/>
                </StackPanel>
            </CheckBox.Content>
        </CheckBox>
        <CheckBox VerticalContentAlignment="Center">
            <CheckBox.Content>
                <StackPanel>
                    <Image Source="kinkakuji.jpg" Height="85"/>
                    <Label Content="Visit Japan"/>
                </StackPanel>
            </CheckBox.Content>
        </CheckBox>

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#34 – ContentControl

August 15, 2010 4 Comments

Content controls are a category of controls that can hold a single nested element, which represents its content.  Since the nested element can be anything, controls that derive from ContentControl can store a variety of different types of content.

Content controls have a Content property, which points to the single element that they contain.  The element is often an UIElement, but can be any .NET object.

Here’s an example, with CheckBox using a DatePicker as its content.

 <CheckBox Height="31" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Name="checkBox1" VerticalAlignment="Center">
     <DatePicker Name="datePicker1"  />
 </CheckBox>

Note that because the Window class is a content control, a Window may have only one child element.

You can effectively include a collection of controls in a content control by including as its content a single container object that in turn contains other elements.  (E.g. A Button could contain a StackPanel, which would then contain other elements).

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