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user704762
user704762

Reputation: 41

Show and Hide UserControls (BringToFront/SendToBack)

I'm working on a "tricky" UI. Part of what I need to do is easily show and hide various UserControls. Generally one control will occupy the entire main window when needed, the other's will hide.

In WinForms I used to simply use SendToBack and BringToFront and easily showed the control I wanted to show. Now I have no clue. Played around with zorder but that didn't seem to work.

I'm thinking maybe put all the controls I want on the main window, then pro-grammatically resize them and remove the unused ones... or something.

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1051

Answers (1)

ChrisF
ChrisF

Reputation: 137118

You should set the Visibility property to Collapsed, Hidden or Visbible depending on whether you want the controls removed, hidden or shown.

As @AresAvatar points out Collapsed removes the control completely so it takes up no space, this means that other controls may move around the container. If the position of elements is important then using Hidden will be the better option.

UIElement.Visibility Property on MSDN
Visibility Enumeration on MSDN

Upvotes: 2

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