Silverlight: How to display items in a grid? - silverlight

I'm using Silverlight 4. I know how to display items in a vertical or horizontal list using a ListControl or ItemsControl. However, I want to display items in a grid, like you'd see Windows Explorer viewing in grid of icons. How can I do this? Is there a control, or must I use a hack like ItemControls of ItemControls?

you probably want the wrappanel in the silverlight toolkit. here's an old example but you get the idea: http://blogs.silverlight.net/blogs/justinangel/archive/2008/11/05/silverlight-toolkit-wrappanel.aspx

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WPF Datagrid Inside WrapPanel?

I have a lot of columns in my DataGrid and would like to be able to put it into a wrap panel so it has the ability to resize while still displaying all of it's contents. Here's a visual example:
No WrapPanel
With WrapPanel (This is just two DataGrids for representation)
Is there any way to achieve this effect?
No, you can't get the DataGrid to wrap like you want it to.
To achieve the effect that you want would require creating a custom control.

Cannot set ScrollUnit or ContentScroll in Windows Store App

I have a VirtualizingStackPanel with Horizontal orientation. I am looking for a way to make the ScrollViewer scroll to content rather than by pixel.
I know that .NET 4.5 brought the ScrollUnit property, however I can't find it on WinRT. There's no ContentScroll too.
ListViewBase has a ScrollIntoView method which is what you would use to scroll to items. You could simply scroll with that to any given item in your list control.

Making a custom(/templated) ScrollViewer or ListBox that understands which item to bring to view

I am trying to make a panorama-like control in WPF c# that scrolls to/brings into view only one grid from a horizontal set of grids. I need to expose the command which allows me to scroll forward/backward from various controls (which using an InteractionTrigger would suffice) on any of the grids in the ScrollViewer or ListBox.
I want each of the internal grids to size to the actual height/width of the usercontrol they live in (like tiled pages), won't need any scrollbars, and will eventually be applying easing effects/states to each of the scroll positions.
If this is too vague/convoluted, please let me know.
Thanks in advance! :)
Easy Solution:
PathListBox. Downloaded the PathListBox toolkit (for the PathListBoxScrollBehavior), set the capacity to 1, and used the templated InteractionTriggers to bind various source objects on my grids to the InvokeCommandAction Increment/Decrement Commands. Then I added easing effects/GoToStateActions.
I realize this is sort of a cheat, but am still going to search for the "real" way to do this with custom control templates deriving from ListBox and/or ScrollViewer.

Is it possible to add two or more repository controls in devepxress grid control

Hey i am dealing with winform(c#) application. i am using Devexpress Grid Control.
Is it possible to have two or more repository controls in grid control column for edit purpose.
eg.. say like a textbox and combo box in a grid column.(this is possible in web application by adding item templates to the grid column)
Is this possible or any other way to get this done?
You can set the GridColumn.ColumnEdit property to specifying the editor used to edit a column's value

Is it possible for WinForm controls (Panel,etc.) to grow like a webform control?

I'm converting an app from ASP.NET WebForms to WinForms. There is one asp.net page which contains a ListView/Repeater that contains several custom controls, which in turn contain a ListView with other custom controls. Basically the layout looks like a TreeView, but on each node/leaf there are few controls like comboboxes, etc.
When this is in ASP.NET, the page automatically lays itself out, so it is several screens tall - if I add 20 buttons into a Panel, it will grow and the browser will get scrollbars.
I'd like to do the same thing in a WinForms application - so I'll have a user control that will contain a lot of controls in a some variation of Panel (Flow, Table layout), and the controls might have another controls inside them, etc.
The problem is, that when I make winforms app, each control has specific height in the design time. I'd like some user controls to be able to grow with their contents - so they'll add up. In the main Form, there should be a vertical scrollbar, just like in the web browser when the generated page is taller than the screen.
I'd just like to get some general pointers in the right direction. Thanks.
Use Anchor and Dock container properties.
Yes, to expound on Anchor and Dock...try this
-Place a Panel on an empty form, and set its dock property to Top
-place a textbox in the panel, and Dock it to Full...it should fill the whole top panel
-Place a splitter on the form, and if not already docked correctly, set its dock to top
-place another panel below the splitter, and set its Dock to Fill
-place another textbox inside the lower panel and fill it as as well
Now you have a form with two resiable textboxes and will resize when the form does.
*you may have to set the textbox MultiLine property to true but not sure.
Hope this helps.
Anchor the controls to the parent. Anchoring all four sides will cause it to stretch.
If the Anchoring and Docking answers don't work for you, there is another option. It's not pretty, but you can access a control's properties and change them dynamically during runtime. You'd do something like: if(listBox.Items.Count > [yourVal]) listBox.height = [yourFormula] or something.
It's been a while since I've done a Win Form (and I don't have my IDE fired up at the moment) but I'm pretty sure there's even a ScrollPanel or other scrolling control that you can set on your form.
That said, when you're working with WinForms, the less scrolling you can make your users do, the better.

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