In WinForms, Form had a ClientSize property (inherited from Control), which returns the size of its client area, i.e., the area inside the title bar and window borders.
I'm not seeing anything similar in WPF: there's no ClientSize, ClientWidth, ClientHeight, GetClientSize(), or anything else that I can think to guess the name of.
How do I go about getting the client size of a WPF Window?
One way you could do it is to take the top most child element, cast this.Content
to its type, and call .RenderSize
on it, which will give you its size.
<Window x:Class="XML_Reader.Window1"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="Window1" Height="400" Width="600" WindowStyle="SingleBorderWindow">
<Grid VerticalAlignment="Stretch" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch">
</Grid>
</Window>
((Grid)this.Content).RenderSize.Height
((Grid)this.Content).RenderSize.Width
edit:
as Trent said, ActualWidth
and ActualHeight
are also viable solutions. Basically easier methods of getting what I put above.
var h = ((Panel)Application.Current.MainWindow.Content).ActualHeight;
var w = ((Panel)Application.Current.MainWindow.Content).ActualWidth;
One way to do it is with the code below. XAML:
<Window x:Class="WpfApplication1.Window1"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:local="clr-namespace:WpfApplication1"
Title="Window1" Height="300" Width="300" Loaded="Window_Loaded">
<Canvas>
</Canvas>
</Window>
C#:
using System.Windows;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;
using System.Windows.Controls;
namespace WpfApplication1
{
/// <summary>
/// Interaction logic for Window1.xaml
/// </summary>
public partial class Window1 : Window
{
public Window1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void Window_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
double dWidth = -1;
double dHeight = -1;
FrameworkElement pnlClient = this.Content as FrameworkElement;
if (pnlClient != null)
{
dWidth = pnlClient.ActualWidth;
dHeight = pnlClient.ActualHeight;
}
}
}
}