Programmatically Replacing Last Child in a WPF DockPanel with LastChildFill true

Question

When LastChildFill property of a DockPanel is set true, the last child added occupies the entire unused space. That works well, until I had to programmatically replace the last Child:

        UIElementCollection children = myDockPanel.Children;
        UIElement uie = new myBestControl();
        children.RemoveAt(children.Count - 1);
        children.Add(uie);

Now the newly added control no longer fill the space. How should I fix the problem?

Thanks

Answer 1

It works for me with this xaml

<DockPanel x:Name="MyDock" LastChildFill="True">
 <TextBlock DockPanel.Dock="Left" 
               MouseDown="TextBlock_MouseDown">Child 1</TextBlock>
 <TextBlock DockPanel.Dock="Left">Child 2</TextBlock>
 <TextBlock>Child 3</TextBlock>
</DockPanel>

and this code behind

private void TextBlock_MouseDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
 UIElementCollection children = MyDock.Children;
 Button btn = new Button();
 btn.Background = Brushes.LightBlue;

 children.RemoveAt(children.Count - 1);
 children.Add(btn);
}

when you click text one, the text block is replaced, with a button that has it's back ground set, thus you can see it has happened.

Answer 2

Thanks Simeon. It turns out my confusion came from my misunderstanding of "fill". Apparently, to "fill" does not neccessary mean to occupy the entire space. Instead, the newly added control will be centered if its size is specified.