Canvas.Left vs Canvas.Right

Question

• What is the difference between Canvas.Right and Canvas.Left similarly Canvas.Top and Canvas.Bottom
• It is really painful when i align the controls with Canvas.Right and when i try to align in the Design mode it adds the Canvas.Left, how to prevent auto adding Canvas.Left property to a control while aligning it, as I already defined the Canvas.Right to it why it doesn't update the same property. Its really irritating when we want to do animation on controls, it reverses the direction of animation

Answer 1

Canvas.Left is the distance between left side of control and left side of Canvas and Canvas.Right is the distance of the right side from the right and analogically it's the same with Canvas.Top and Canvas.Bottom. You can read about it in Canvas attached properties. The designer is not particularly intelligent or helpful in this case. The only way is to do it manually in XAML

Answer 2

The answer to this is don't use the visual drag&drop designer. It will do it's best but it cannot read your mind. If you know what you want, you are faster doing XAML directly, than visually designing it and then manually doing XAML optimization anyway.