WPF: Grid with column/row margin/padding?

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RowDefinition and ColumnDefinition are of type ContentElement, and Margin is strictly a FrameworkElement property. So to your question, "is it easily possible" the answer is a most definite no. And no, I have not seen any layout panels that demonstrate this kind of functionality.

You can add extra rows or columns as you suggested. But you can also set margins on a Grid element itself, or anything that would go inside a Grid, so that's your best workaround for now.

Use a Border control outside the cell control and define the padding for that:

    <Grid>
        <Grid.Resources >
            <Style TargetType="Border" >
                <Setter Property="Padding" Value="5,5,5,5" />
            </Style>
        </Grid.Resources>

        <Grid.RowDefinitions>
            <RowDefinition/>
            <RowDefinition/>
        </Grid.RowDefinitions>

        <Border Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0">
            <YourGridControls/>
        </Border>
        <Border Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0">
            <YourGridControls/>
        </Border>

    </Grid>

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You could use something like this:

<Style TargetType="{x:Type DataGridCell}">
  <Setter Property="Padding" Value="4" />
  <Setter Property="Template">
    <Setter.Value>
      <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type DataGridCell}">
        <Border Padding="{TemplateBinding Padding}" BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}" BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}" Background="{TemplateBinding Background}" SnapsToDevicePixels="True">
          <ContentPresenter SnapsToDevicePixels="{TemplateBinding SnapsToDevicePixels}"/>
        </Border>
      </ControlTemplate>
    </Setter.Value>
  </Setter>

Or if you don't need the TemplateBindings:

<Style TargetType="{x:Type DataGridCell}">
   <Setter Property="Template">
      <Setter.Value>
          <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type DataGridCell}">
              <Border Padding="4">
                  <ContentPresenter />
              </Border>
          </ControlTemplate>
      </Setter.Value>
  </Setter>
</Style>

Thought I'd add my own solution because nobody yet mentioned this. Instead of designing a UserControl based on Grid, you can target controls contained in grid with a style declaration. Takes care of adding padding/margin to all elements without having to define for each, which is cumbersome and labor-intensive.For instance, if your Grid contains nothing but TextBlocks, you can do this:

<Style TargetType="{x:Type TextBlock}">
    <Setter Property="Margin" Value="10"/>
</Style>

Which is like the equivalent of "cell padding".

You could write your own GridWithMargin class, inherited from Grid, and override the ArrangeOverride method to apply the margins

in uwp (Windows10FallCreatorsUpdate version and above)

<Grid RowSpacing="3" ColumnSpacing="3">