WPF controls can be categorized in to four categories:-
- Control: - This is the basic control with which you will work most of time. For example textbox, buttons etc. Now controls which are standalone control like button , text box , labels etc are termed as content control. Now there are other controls which can hold other controls, for instance itemscontrols. Itemscontrol can have multiple textbox controls, label controls etc.
- Shape: - These controls help us to create simple graphic controls like Ellipse, line, rectangle etc.
- Panel: - These controls help to align and position the controls. For instance grid helps us to align in a table manner, stack panel helps for horizontal and vertical alignment.
- Content presenter: - This control helps to place any XAML content inside it. Used when we want to add dynamic controls on a WPF screen.
All the above four types of WPF controls finally inherit from the frameworkelement class of WPF.
