AutoScroll panels in WPF

I’m still pretty new to WPF, coming from a WinForms background, and I keep running into situations where stuff that I can do easily in WinForms just isn’t there in WPF. Well, it’s there, I just don’t know how to do it. My latest example was a requirement to add some auto-scrolling to a WrapPanel, and I couldn’t find any sort of “overflow=auto” type setting on the WrapPanel, so off to Google I went.

Turns out WPF provides a pretty simple mechanism for allowing scroll: ScrollViewer. This control allowed me to do exactly what I needed to get done, but it needed to be treated as a container around my WrapPanel - a concept I’m seeing more and more as I get into WPF – another example of this was adding borders to a panel.

Here’s an example of a WrapPanel that has vertical auto-scrolling:

<ScrollViewer Name="MyScroller" VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto">
  <WrapPanel Name="MyPanel"></WrapPanel>
</ScrollViewer>