Intermediate Tutorials : How to Popup Anything in Silverlight and WPF?

Introduction

The popup window, as a lightweight alternative of dialog box, is widely used in many kinds of software applications. The Popup class is a UI container that can hold any UI elements and can be popped up in another UI container. This article shows you how to use the Popup to create your own dropdown-like window.

Background

Functionally, the Popup is a lightweight alternative of the modal or modeless dialog box. Probably the most well-known example of the Popup is the ComboBox, aka dropdown. If you use the Expression Blend to examine theComboBox, you can find it consists of a ToggleButton and a Popup hosting an ItemsPresenter. You can certainly replace the ItemsPresenter to something else so that you can customize the ComboBox. And you can create your own dropdown-like Popup to host any UI elements.

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