Assigning border to every Grid row

Question

Currently I am setting the background on each Grid row individually:

<Grid>
    <Grid.RowDefinitions><RowDefinition /><RowDefinition /></Grid.RowDefinitions>
    <Grid.ColumnDefinitions><ColumnDefinition /><ColumnDefinition /><ColumnDefinition /><ColumnDefinition /><ColumnDefinition /><ColumnDefinition /></Grid.ColumnDefinitions>

    <Border Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="6" Height="24" BorderBrush="#FF252A30" CornerRadius="10" BorderThickness="1">
        <Border.Background>
            <LinearGradientBrush EndPoint="1.036,0.367" StartPoint="-0.194,0.362">
                <GradientStop Color="#AAE098" Offset="0.1"/>
                <GradientStop Color="#D5E9D4" Offset="0.9"/>
            </LinearGradientBrush>
        </Border.Background>
    </Border>

    <Border Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="6" Height="24" BorderBrush="#FF252A30" CornerRadius="10" BorderThickness="1">
        <Border.Background>
            <LinearGradientBrush EndPoint="1.036,0.367" StartPoint="-0.194,0.362">
                <GradientStop Color="#AAE098" Offset="0.1"/>
                <GradientStop Color="#D5E9D4" Offset="0.9"/>
            </LinearGradientBrush>
        </Border.Background>
    </Border>
</Grid>

Surely there must be some way to set this Border once for all rows. How is that done?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Or you could use this grid I just made. It will automatically add a border to every cell in the grid. This is the result:

C#:

using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Media;

namespace GridWithBorder
{
   public class BorderGrid : Grid
   {
       protected override void OnRender(DrawingContext dc)
       {
           double leftOffset = 0;
           double topOffset = 0;
           Pen pen = new Pen(Brushes.Black, 3);
           pen.Freeze();

           foreach (RowDefinition row in this.RowDefinitions)
           {
               dc.DrawLine(pen, new Point(0, topOffset), new Point(this.ActualWidth, topOffset));
               topOffset += row.ActualHeight;
           }
            // draw last line at the bottom
        dc.DrawLine(pen, new Point(0, topOffset), new Point(this.ActualWidth, topOffset));

           //foreach (ColumnDefinition column in this.ColumnDefinitions)
           //{
           //   dc.DrawLine(pen, new Point(leftOffset, 0), new Point(leftOffset, this.ActualHeight));
           //   leftOffset += column.ActualWidth;
           //}
           // draw last line on the right
           //dc.DrawLine(pen, new Point(leftOffset, 0), new Point(leftOffset, this.ActualHeight));

           base.OnRender(dc);
       }
   }
}

XAML:

<Window x:Class="GridWithBorder.MainWindow"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        xmlns:local="clr-namespace:GridWithBorder"
        Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525">
    <local:BorderGrid>
        <local:BorderGrid.RowDefinitions>
            <RowDefinition />
            <RowDefinition />
            <RowDefinition />
        </local:BorderGrid.RowDefinitions>
        <local:BorderGrid.ColumnDefinitions>
            <ColumnDefinition />
            <ColumnDefinition />
            <ColumnDefinition />
            <ColumnDefinition />
        </local:BorderGrid.ColumnDefinitions>
        <Rectangle Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" Fill="Red" Margin="5" />
        <Rectangle Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="1" Fill="Blue" Margin="5" />
        <Rectangle Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="2" Fill="Orange" Margin="5" />
        <Rectangle Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="3" Fill="Red" Margin="5" />
        <Rectangle Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0" Fill="Yellow" Margin="5" />
        <Rectangle Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="1" Fill="Green" Margin="5" />
        <Rectangle Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="2" Fill="Purple" Margin="5" />
        <Rectangle Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="3" Fill="Green" Margin="5" />
        <Rectangle Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="0" Fill="Orange" Margin="5" />
        <Rectangle Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="1" Fill="Red" Margin="5" />
        <Rectangle Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="2" Fill="Blue" Margin="5" />
        <Rectangle Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="3" Fill="Red" Margin="5" />
    </local:BorderGrid>
</Window>

Answer 2

You could pull that border out into a reusable resource, but I suspect what you're really trying to do is create a GridView.