How to Add Elements To Canvas From List

Question

Hi!

Sorry, I don't know if it's a basic question or not, i couldn't find anything on the interner.

I'd like to place positioned items in a grid from a list. This list has items with properies Top and Left. I figured out, i would need a canvas to make my task, but i dont know how to make this from XAML. I tried putting an ItemsControl into the Canvas and bind the Canvas.Top to the Top property, but it didn't work. Then i tried to add my items from code, like this:

foreach (var item in MyElements)
            {
                Image img = new Image();
                img.Source = item.MainImage;
                img.Width = 20;
                img.Height = 20;
                img.Stretch = Stretch.UniformToFill;
                MyCanvas.Children.Add(img);   
            }

but this way i don't know how to tell the images' position.

So as a summary, how can i add items to a canvas from a List?

Thanks,

Tom

Answer 1

Please see Canvas.SetLeft and Canvas.SetTop:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.ui.xaml.controls.canvas.setleft.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.ui.xaml.controls.canvas.settop.aspx

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