Dialog - add elements, show, get values

Class wpfBuilder allows to create WPF dialog windows quite easily without a visual designer. To start creating a dialog, use snippet wpfDialogSnippet: type wpf and select from the list. Or menu File > New > Dialogs.

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

Add controls, show dialog, get control values.

var b = new wpfBuilder("Window").WinSize(400);
b.R.Add("Text", out TextBox text1).Focus(); //row with 2 controls: Label and TextBox; also makes the TextBox focused
b.R.Add("Combo", out ComboBox combo1).Items("Zero|One|Two"); //row with 2 controls too; also adds 3 items to the ComboBox
b.R.Add(out CheckBox check1, "Check"); //row with 1 CheckBox control
b.R.AddButton("Button", _ => { print.it($"Button clicked. Text: {text1.Text}"); }); //row with 1 Button control. When clicked, print text1 value.
b.R.AddOkCancel(); //row with OK and Cancel buttons that close the dialog
b.End();
if (!b.ShowDialog()) return; //show dialog. Exit if closed not with the OK button.
print.it(text1.Text, combo1.SelectedIndex, check1.IsChecked == true); //get control values

WPF elements are of 2 main types: controls (visible elements like button, text box, label) and panels (containers for multiple elements). To add controls use wpfBuilder.Add and other AddX functions. To add panels use StartX functions. Use other functions to set properties/content of the last added element.

Adding elements is like filling a table - in rows left-to-right and top-to-bottom. Usually don't need to set control position and size; for it you can define columns and rows.

Control variables are used to set control type, get value, set properties, etc. They can be declared as Add out parameters (like in the first example) or earlier (like in the next example). Also you can create elements and then add.

TextBox t1, t2;
CheckBox c1;
var b2 = new wpfBuilder("Window").WinSize(400);
b2.R.Add("Text", out t1);
b2.R.Add(out c1, "Check").Add(out t2);

//create and add
var tb = new TextBox { Text = "text" };
b2.R.Add(tb);

//two ways to specify control type when don't need a variable
b2.R.Add(out Label _, "A").Add<Label>("B");

//also there are more AddX functions
b2.AddSeparator();

b2.R.AddOkCancel();
b2.End();
if (!b2.ShowDialog()) return;

A simple dialog with buttons that close it.

var b3 = new wpfBuilder("Window").Columns(80, 80, 80);
b3.R.AddButton("One", 1).AddButton("Two", 2).AddButton("Three", 3);
b3.End();
if (!b3.ShowDialog()) return;
print.it(b3.ResultButton);