>>Am I missing something here? How can XAML be the problem?
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>>>He hasn't posted the xaml code yet, but I'll make a bet that its his xaml and not the editor.....
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>I should have said "in his xaml"...there is something in the xaml causing it to display differently...

Hi John

I replied to Viv with the XAML code before reading the other posts in this thread. If I had I would have included you in the post. Sorry about that. Anyway please read it as I have posted it to Viv

You mention a problem in my XAML: It is not my XAML, but the XAML generated by VS. All I did was drop a couple of controls on the form and line them up in design time. Nothing fancy and the button was not resized at all - the default size, as I have just reached chapter 3 of the book so far. VS generated the XAML and everything looked fine till I ran the form, and you know the result. I even posted the steps to reproduce the problem in my post to VIV.

When I try the same thing with a normal Windows Form it works perfectly. WYSIWYG, at least for form controls at Design and Runtime.

As a new (Learner) user, this is most frustrating when I cannot get the controls to line up and size up properly.

I know other people both here and in other forums, where I posted this, suggested Expression, but I don't want to have to shell out again for just an editor.

Bernard