I am trying to add controls to a UserControl dynamically (programatically). I get a generic List of objects from my Business Layer (retrieved from the database), and for each object, I want to add a Label, and a TextBox to the WPF UserControl and set the Position and widths to make look nice, and hopefully take advantage of the WPF Validation capabilities. This is something that would be easy in Windows Forms programming but I'm new to WPF. How do I do this (see comments for questions) Say this is my object:
public class Field {
public string Name { get; set; }
public int Length { get; set; }
public bool Required { get; set; }
}
Then in my WPF UserControl, I'm trying to create a Label and TextBox for each object:
public void createControls() {
List<Field> fields = businessObj.getFields();
Label label = null;
TextBox textbox = null;
foreach (Field field in fields) {
label = new TextBox();
// HOW TO set text, x and y (margin), width, validation based upon object?
// i have tried this without luck:
// Binding b = new Binding("Name");
// BindingOperations.SetBinding(label, Label.ContentProperty, b);
MyGrid.Children.Add(label);
textbox = new TextBox();
// ???
MyGrid.Children.Add(textbox);
}
// databind?
this.DataContext = fields;
}
