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You can create almost any interface by using nested Grid containers. (One exception is wrapped rows or columns that use the WrapPanel.) However, when you’re dealing with small sections of user interface or laying out a small number of elements, it’s often simpler to use the more specialized StackPanel and DockPanel containers. A good rule of thumb is to use smaller layout containers such as the StackPanel for one-off layout tasks, such as arranging a group of buttons. On the other hand, if you need to apply a consistent structure to more than one area of your window, the Grid is an indispensable tool for standardizing your layout.

Elements (such as controls) should not be explicitly sized. Instead, they grow to fit their content. For example, a button expands as you add more text. You can limit controls to acceptable sizes by setting a maximum and minimum size. Elements do not indicate their position with screen coordinates. Instead, they are arranged by their container based on their size, order, and (optionally) other information that’s specific to the layout container. If you need to add whitespace between elements, you use the Margin property. Layout containers “share” the available space among their children.They attempt to give each element its preferred size (based on its content) if the space is available. They can also distribute extra space to one or more children. Layout containers can be nested.A typical user interface begins with the Grid, WPF’s most capable container, and contains other layout containers that arrange smaller groups of elements, such as captioned text boxes, items in a list, ic...

WPF 4.5 Unleashed by Adam Nathan (Aug 9, 2013) Pro WPF 4.5 in C#: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4.5 by Matthew MacDonald (Nov 20, 2012)

XAML (short for Extensible Application Markup) is  a markup language used to instantiate .NET objects. 오~~~. 이 얼마나 깔끔한 설명인가. You need to understand rules: Every element in a XAML document maps to an instance of a .NET class. The name of the element matches the name of the class exactly. For example, the element <Button instructs WPF to create a Button object. As with any XML document, you can nest one element inside another. As you’ll see, XAML gives every class the flexibility to decide how it handles this situation. However, nesting is usually a way to express containment—in other words, if you find a Button element inside a Grid element, your user interface probably includes a grid that contains a button inside. You can set the properties of each class through attributes. However, in some situations, an attribute isn’t powerful enough to handle the job. In these cases, you’ll use nested tags with a special syntax.

Design-Time Code Generation by using T4 Text Templates 주로 소스 코드 파일을 생성하는데  쓰이겠지.

Run-Time Text Generation with T4 Text Templates 런타임에 매우 큰 문자열과 같은 리소스를 동적으로 생성해야 할 경우, 리소스 생성을 소스 파일에서 할 수도 있지만, T4 Text Template을 이용하면 소스에서 분리할 수 있다.

정말 UML 도구 만큼은 공짜 프로그램들 중에는 쓸만한 것이 거의 없다. http://www.visual-paradigm.com/product/vpuml/features/umlmodeling.jsp 의 Community Edition이 있는데, 상업적인 목적으로는 쓸 수 없고, 대신 월 사용료 형태로 쓰면 생각보단 저렴하네. 하지만 UML다이어그램만 그릴 목적이라면 월 $5의 Modeler 도 좋아 보인다.