How to open a child windows under parent window on menu item click in WPF?

Question

I am developing an application in C#. I'm using .Net under WPF. I want to open a new child window (like a dialog) and it should open within the main window, just below the menu bar.

However, the newly opened windows is simply showing an OS task bar. How can I open the various new windows(like a dialog box) under the main window?

score 26 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 10 '11 at 18:34

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Try this.

MyChildWindow cw = new MyChildWindow();
cw.ShowInTaskbar = false;
cw.Owner = Application.Current.MainWindow;
cw.Show();

answered Sep 10 '11 at 18:34

Henry

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If you have multiple windows and the Application.Current.MainWindow is not the desired Window, You could use VisualTreeHelper.GetParent to traverse the tree until you reach the current window. – dowhilefor Sep 10 '11 at 19:09
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For a dialog, you should use ShowDialog as opposed to Show. – sellmeadog Sep 11 '11 at 00:40

How to open a child windows under parent window on menu item click in WPF?

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