How to create a Dock Panel in WPF dynamically.

The DockPanel class in WPF represents a DockPanel control.  The code listed in Listing creates a Dock Panel dynamically, add five Button controls to it, and sets their docking properties by using SetDock method.   In this code, RootWindow is the Windows or page where this DockPanel is added to.

private void CreateADockPanelDynamically()

{

    // Create a DockPanel

    DockPanel dcPanel = new DockPanel();

    // Create a button

    Button TopRect = new Button();

    TopRect.Background = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.LightGreen);

    TopRect.Height = 50;

    TopRect.Content = "Top";

    // Dock button to top

    DockPanel.SetDock(TopRect, Dock.Top);

    // Add docked button to DockPanel

    dcPanel.Children.Add(TopRect);

    // Create a button

    Button LeftRect = new Button();

    LeftRect.Background = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.LightBlue);

    LeftRect.Width = 50;

    LeftRect.Content = "Left";

    // Dock button to left

    DockPanel.SetDock(LeftRect, Dock.Left);

    // Add docked button to DockPanel

    dcPanel.Children.Add(LeftRect);

    // Create a button

    Button RightRect = new Button();

    RightRect.Background = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.LightSalmon);

    RightRect.Width = 50;

    RightRect.Content = "Right";

    // Dock button to left

    DockPanel.SetDock(RightRect, Dock.Right);

    // Add docked button to DockPanel

    dcPanel.Children.Add(RightRect);

    // Create a button

    Button BottomRect = new Button();

    BottomRect.Background = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.LightCyan);

    BottomRect.Height = 50;

    BottomRect.Content = "Bottom";

    // Dock button to left

    DockPanel.SetDock(BottomRect, Dock.Bottom);

    // Add docked button to DockPanel

    dcPanel.Children.Add(BottomRect);

    // Create a fill button

    Button FillRect = new Button();

    BottomRect.Background = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.LightGray);

    // Add docked button to DockPanel

    dcPanel.Children.Add(FillRect);

    RootWindow.Content = dcPanel;

}