How to put TextBox on top of Camera for Windows Phone - silverlight

Question

This is the camera screen using the Rectangle for Augmented Reality:
<Grid x:Name=”LayoutRoot”>
<Rectangle Width=”640″ Height=”480″>
<Rectangle.Fill>
<VideoBrush x:Name=”ViewFinderBrush” />
</Rectangle.Fill>
</Rectangle>
</Grid>
Questions:
1) How do I place a textbox ontop of the Rectangle?
2) How to place map, pin, image ontop of the rectangle dynamically?
Any link of reference for placing object ontop of the Rectangle such as place a Pin for current Gps location?
Thanks

Answer 1

In XAML, you need to add the TextBox control after the Rectangle declaration in order for it to be in front:
<Grid>
<Rectangle Width="640" Height="480">
<Rectangle.Fill>
<VideoBrush x:Name=”ViewFinderBrush” />
</Rectangle.Fill>
</Rectangle>
<TextBox Height="80" Margin="10,10,0,0"></TextBox>
</Grid>
When placing objects dynamically to the Grid, you add them as children and those will be automatically placed on top of the existing layout. You simply need to make sure that you are setting the proper margins.
For example, if you would need to add another TextBox, you could do this:
TextBox t = new TextBox();
t.Height = 80;
mainRoot.Children.Add(t);
Where mainRoot is the name of the host grid. The same applies to other controls that support the ability to set child controls.