Q:

WPF runtime control creation

Is there any good tutorial for creating WPF controls entirely at runtime?
Thanks

A:

There is no such a tutorial I know of, partially because that is quite straightforward if you've got already your XAML definition for the control.
The correspondence between XAML code and corresponding C# code is simple.
Example:
<Button Height="80" Width="150">Test</Button>

gets into
Button button = new Button() { Height = 80, Width = 150, Content = "Test" };
parentControl.Add(button);

The things you should know:

Content model: where does the content (the code between the opening and closing tags) go? It can be either property Content (as in Button's case), or a set of child items (as in case of Grid).
In XAML sometimes special value converters are implicitly applied; in C# code you must do it yourself. Example:
<Button Margin="1, 2"/>

turns into
Button button = new Button() { Margin = new Thickness(1, 2, 1, 2) };

Each UI element can have only one parent element. That is, you cannot add the same element to two different parents as a child.
Bindings are defined in a quite peculiar way:
<Label MaxWidth={Binding ActualWidth, Source={Binding ElementName=Container}}>

gets into
Label label = new Label();
label.SetBinding(
    Label.MaxWidthProperty,
    new Binding("ActualWidth") { Source = Container }
);

(it's better to reference the Container by actual reference than by name).
The syntax for attached properties is again not straightforward:
<Label Grid.Column="1"/>

turns into
Label label = new Label();
Grid.SetColumn(label, 1);

Please note that for each of the constructs/attributes you can look up in MSDN the exact way to express it in both XAML and C#, usually directly at the article describing the concept you are looking for.

