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title: "What is the need of layout panels in WPF?"  
description: "What is the need of layout panels in WPF?"  
author: "Madam Walker"  
published: 2013-07-17  
updated: 2020-09-09  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/1792/what-is-the-need-of-layout-panels-in-wpf  
category: "wpf"  
tags: ["wpf"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is the need of layout panels in WPF?

Layout of controls is critical to an applications usability. Arranging controls based on fixed pixel coordinates may work for an limited enviroment, but as soon as you want to use it on different screen resolutions or with different font sizes it will fail. WPF provides a rich set built-in layout panels that help you to avoid the common pitfalls.

## Answers

### Answer by Madam Walker

Layout of controls is critical to an applications usability. Arranging controls based on fixed pixel coordinates may work for an limited enviroment, but as soon as you want to use it on different screen resolutions or with different font sizes it will fail. WPF provides a rich set built-in layout panels that help you to avoid the common pitfalls.


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