How to create the border of a dynamic canvas in Silverlight?

How to create the border of a dynamic canvas in Silverlight?

Hi I am creating a Canvas in code behind like below:

Canvas musicPlayerCanvas = new Canvas();                     musicPlayerCanvas.Background = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.White);                     musicPlayerCanvas.Height = 80;                     musicPlayerCanvas.Width = 1018; LayoutRoot.Children.Add(musicPlayerCanvas);  musicPlayerCanvas.Children.Add(playingText); musicPlayerCanvas.Children.Add(albumImage); 

Now how can I add border to the canvas from the codebehind.

I tried with creating a Border and assigning a child like below:

Border myBorder = new Border();                     //Border Proporties                        Canvas.SetTop(musicPlayerCanvas, 26);                     Canvas.SetLeft(musicPlayerCanvas, 154);                     LayoutRoot.Children.Add(musicPlayerCanvas);                     myBorder.Child = musicPlayerCanvas; 

It is not working for me . Any help please.

Thanks, Subhen

Answers & Comments...

Answer: 1

You want to add the canvas to the border, like so:

Canvas musicPlayerCanvas = new Canvas(); musicPlayerCanvas.Background = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Purple);  Border border = new Border(); border.BorderBrush = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Black); border.BorderThickness = new Thickness(5); border.Height = 80; border.Width = 1018; border.Child = musicPlayerCanvas;  LayoutRoot.Children.Add(border); 

On a side note, when using controls like text boxes and images (which is what I think you might be doing looking at your control names), you might want to use a Grid rather than a Canvas as a container control. Cheers, Phil

by : Philhttp://stackoverflow.com/users/158551

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