Same header & footer in all WPF windows

Question

In my project I have same header & footer for all windows (I have more then 20 wpf windows in this project), Only Content has changed. This is WPF project. If its a asp.

Answer 1

I'm not a 100% sure what do you mean by "all windows", but a good approach would be to have a header and a footer UserControls.

You can set them whichever way you want, (text, colors, etc), and then, in all your windows you could have a grid with 3 elements, stackpanel, dockpanel, whatever you want, which will have the header, then your content, and last, your footer.

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Edit: As per comment: Instead of having this:

    
        one
        two 
        three
    

You can have a UserControls (lets say called HeaderControl), and then all you need to do is

1. Add the namespace so you can use it.
2. Add it like you'll add any other control.
3. Enjoy reusability.

steps explanation:

1. Add this to your windown with the rest of the xmlns.... definitions:
   xmlns:controls="clr-namespace:WpfApplication1"

2. Changing the first control from label to our resource:
   Instead of one write: