Window Height="Auto" not working as expected
WpfWpf Problem Overview
What I am trying to do is show a window, that does not explicitly have a height/width, (both values omitted or set to Auto).
I was guessing that the window would find out its size by auto - calculating all contained usercontrols sizes, but this doesn't actually work!
Instead I get a big window with Actualwidth and Actualheight values both set to 512 (?!?!)
Window declaration:
<Window x:Class="Window3"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="Window3"
Height="Auto">
<StackPanel>
<Label>Window</Label>
</StackPanel>
</Window>
Showing this window as a dialog via:
Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
Dim dlg As New Window3
dlg.ShowDialog()
End Sub
Is there a solution for this? I don't want to explicitly set the size of my window because many controls in the form will be collapsed based on constructor parameters, and trying to find the actual size of the form would be tricky (and ugly).
Wpf Solutions
Solution 1 - Wpf
Set the window's property SizeToContent="WidthAndHeight". This should help.
Solution 2 - Wpf
Old question but an updated answer:
As @Muad'Dib suggested in his answer :
you should set SizeToContent="WidthAndHeight".
If the size of content of window increases more than the screen size, window can overflow from screen. So, you must consider:
MaxWidth="600"
MaxHeight="400"
Solution 3 - Wpf
Well you can't set the window height to auto, to do this you can use a little trick, name the main main grid container, set its height to auto then bind the window height to the height of the main grid
Solution 4 - Wpf
You can do the following:
MaxWidth = SystemParameters.MaximizedPrimaryScreenWidth;
MaxHeight = SystemParameters.MaximizedPrimaryScreenHeight;
SizeToContent = SizeToContent.WidthAndHeight;
Please note that using SizeToContent alone will work. However, if your content size is bigger than the screen the window will overflow beyond your screen but combining this with setting the MaxWidth and MaxHeight of the window to be as your screen will basically fit the window to contents up to the maximum of your screen.
Solution 5 - Wpf
Set size in curent screen with loaded event windows