Nested Scroll Areas

Question

I creating a control for WPF, and I have a question for you WPF gurus out there.

I want my control to be able to expand to fit a resizable window.

In my con

Answer 1

You problem arises, because Controls within a ScrollViewer have virtually unlimited space available. Therefore your inner ListBox thinks it can avoid scrolling by taking up the complete height necessary to display all its elements. Of course in your case that behaviour has the unwanted side effect of exercising the outer ScrollViewer too much.

The objective therefore is to get the ListBox to use the visible height within the ScrollViewer iff there is enough of it and a certain minimal height otherwise. To achieve this, the most direct way is to inherit from ScrollViewer and override MeasureOverride() to pass an appropriately sized availableSize (that is the given availableSize blown up to the minimal size instead of the "usual" infinity) to the Visuals found by using VisualChildrenCount and GetVisualChild(int).