How to layout a Silverlight app?

Question

I am brand new to Silverlight. Just downloaded and installed it (the SDK and the controls toolkit), went through a few tutorial and getting my head around XAML.

I want to build a fairly simple app with 3 panes. It should look similar to the image below.

Panel 1 will have a TreeView. Whenever the user clicks on a node, something else will load into panel 2. Panel 3 will just be the logo, version info, etc...

My question is what controls should I use to build a layout like this?

Answer 1

Silverlight Tutorial Part 2: Using Layout Management

Answer 2

For this layout, I'd use a Grid, two cells wide and two cells high. You can set the title cell over the top to span the two columns. You'll probably want a StackPanel with vertical orientation in Panel 3 for your textual layout.

Answer 3

You should take some time out to research the Prism guidelines. This should help you get up and running with such an application layout fairly quickly.