>Thanks. I will certainly lookup those links.
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>Later. Those links were great, especially the series Josh does on "A Guided Tour of WPF". It explains in clear language how objects are put together in a WPF app and was very illuminating.

You're welcome Bernard. I hope Josh's articles help make things clearer to you. I know I got a lot out of them, even though I've not done much with WPF since I read them.

~~Bonnie



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>>>Since you are experienced with WPF you know what is happening. I will do some more testing and observer the changes in XAML that VS generates.
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>>No, I'm not all that experienced in WPF. I just started looking at it a few weeks ago. For example, I don't know why sometimes VS is generating Width or Height settings and sometimes it isn't. I could only tell what was happening to your Form from looking at your XAML, and then it was obvious to me.
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>>But, anyway, keep plugging along. I kind of set it aside for now (not because I couldn't get my head around it, but because I got side-tracked by something else I need to know more about ... WCF).
>>BTW, I've suggested this before to others and you might want to take a look if you haven't already. Josh Smith has some good stuff on his website as it pertains to WPF and the MVVM pattern; which seems to be *the* way to go when using WPF (and Silverlight too, I think):
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>>http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com/category/mvvm/
>>http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com/a-guided-tour-of-wpf/
>>http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com/category/praxis/
>>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd419663.aspx
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>>I'm sure I could find more, but the above are a few I've used for learning and for reference. I like Josh's writing, coding and his ability to make it all fairly understandable.
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>>~~Bonnie