Programmatically Add Controls to WPF Form

Question

I am trying to add controls to a UserControl dynamically (programatically). I get a generic List of objects from my Business Layer (retrieved from the database), and for each o

Answer 1

It is not recommended to add controls like this. What you ideally do in WPF is to put a ListBox(or ItemsControl) and bind your Business object collection as the itemsControl.ItemsSource property. Now define DataTemplate in XAML for your DataObject type and you are good to go, That is the magic of WPF.

People come from a winforms background tend to do the way you described and which is not the right way in WPF.