How to Add a Scrollbar to Window in C#

Question

I have created a window as follows:

Window myWindow = new Window(); 

How can I add a Vertical Scroll Bar to this Windows and make the Scroll Bar only visible if the Height isn't large enough to show all the elements.

Answer 1

You could add a ScrollViewer element to your window and put the necessary controls into the ScrollViewer control.

<ScrollViewer VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto">     ... </ScrollViewer> 

Or if you want to code it in the code-behind file you could write

ScrollViewer viewer = new ScrollViewer(); viewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility = ScrollBarVisibility.Auto; // append scroll viewer to window 

Answer 2

You cannot add a scrollbar to a window itself. You can only add scrollbars to controls. I.E. to a grid inside your window.

Example:

<Grid  ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"        ScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Auto">    ... </Grid> 

EDIT:

Just realized that Window also has a ScrollViewer property. I'm not sure how this property works for a Window and how such a window would look like. Gave it a try, but no scrollbars show up.

EDIT 2:

ScrollViewer sv = new ScrollViewer(); sv.VerticalScrollBarVisibility = ScrollBarVisibility.Visible; myGrid.Children.Add(sv);