WPF Binding Grid Children UIElementCollection

Question

I have a list of Rectangle shapes which I keep in memory,

I want to bind this list of rectangles to a Grid so that the Grid will display the rectangles as its children.

So when I update this list of rectangles (adding, removing) it would be updated in the display. I know I can do this programatically by accessing the children property of the Grid and adding and removing the rectangles but for difficult reasons to explain I want to use the Binding feature....

Is this possible?

Thanks

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

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You should use an itemscontrol in this case, since binding directly to the Children property of a panel is not possible. See this example for the same situation, except that it's using a canvas.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

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answered Mar 22 '11 at 00:17

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[A more detailed answer](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1395701/how-do-you-bind-a-grids-children-to-a-list) explaining how one might use the `ItemsControl` to do this. – Roman Starkov Aug 25 '12 at 11:09

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 22 '11 at 00:13

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Put the Rectangles in an ObservableCollection.

answered Mar 22 '11 at 00:13

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