My WPF UserControl contains two stack panels and each of them contains labels, text boxes and radio buttons.
I would like to set VerticalAlignment
property to Center
to all controls in my UserControl with as little code as possible.
Now I have following solutions:
- brute force - put
VerticalAlignment="Center"
in each control - define one style for
FrameworkElement
and apply it directly - define styles for each type of the controls on user control (this needs 3 style definitions, but automatically applies style to the control)
These three solutions need too much code.
Is there any other way to write this?
I hoped that defining style for FrameworkElement
would automatically set property to all controls, but it does not work.
Here is snippet of my current XAML (I omitted second, very similar stack panel):
<UserControl.Resources>
<Style x:Key="BaseStyle" TargetType="FrameworkElement">
<Setter Property="VerticalAlignment" Value="Center" />
</Style>
</UserControl.Resources>
<Grid>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<TextBlock Style="{StaticResource BaseStyle}" Text="Value:" />
<RadioButton Style="{StaticResource BaseStyle}">Standard</RadioButton>
<RadioButton Style="{StaticResource BaseStyle}">Other</RadioButton>
<TextBox Style="{StaticResource BaseStyle}" Width="40"/>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
Edit:
Re Will's comment: I really hate idea of writing control formatting code in codebehind. XAML should be sufficient for this really simple user control.
Re Muad'Dib's comment: Controls I use in my user control are derived from FrameworkElement
, so this is not an issue here.