.NET 4.0+

WPF Data Display Controls Class Hierarchy

by Richard Carr, published at http://www.blackwasp.co.uk/WPFDataDisplayControls.aspx

The one hundred and seventeenth part of the Windows Presentation Foundation Fundamentals tutorial looks at the base classes of the WPF data display controls. This article includes the inheritance hierarchy of all of the WPF controls seen in the tutorial so far.

Data Display Controls

Recent articles in the WPF tutorial have described the data display controls, which are primarily populated using data binding. We've seen the ListView, TreeView and DataGrid controls. In this article we'll add the classes for these controls to the inheritance hierarchy of the WPF controls.

Class Hierarchy

The updated type hierarchy is as follows:

• System.Object
  • System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherObject
    • System.Windows.DependencyObject
      • System.Windows.Media.Visual
        • System.Windows.UIElement
          • System.Windows.FrameworkElement
            • System.Windows.Controls.Control
              • System.Windows.Controls.ContentControl
                • System.Windows.Controls.Calendar
                • System.Windows.Controls.DatePicker
                • System.Windows.Controls.Label
                • System.Windows.Controls.ScrollViewer
                • System.Windows.Controls.HeaderedContentControl
                  • System.Windows.Controls.Expander
                  • System.Windows.Controls.GroupBox
                  • System.Windows.Controls.TabItem
                • System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.ButtonBase
                  • System.Windows.Controls.Button
                  • System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.RepeatButton
                  • System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.ToggleButton
                    • System.Windows.Controls.CheckBox
                    • System.Windows.Controls.RadioButton
                • System.Windows.Control.ToolTip
              • System.Windows.Controls.ItemsControl
                • System.Windows.Controls.HeaderedItemsControl
                  • System.Windows.Controls.MenuItem
                  • System.Windows.Controls.ToolBar
                • System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.MenuBase
                  • System.Windows.Controls.ContextMenu
                  • System.Windows.Controls.Menu
                • System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.Selector
                  • System.Windows.Controls.ComboBox
                  • System.Windows.Controls.ListBox
                    • System.Windows.Controls.ListView
                  • System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.MultiSelector
                    • System.Windows.Controls.DataGrid
                  • System.Windows.Controls.TabControl
                • System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.StatusBar
                  • System.Windows.Controls.TreeView
              • System.Windows.Controls.PasswordBox
              • System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.RangeBase
                • System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.ProgressBar
                • System.Windows.Controls.Slider
              • System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.TextBoxBase
                • System.Windows.Controls.TextBox
                • System.Windows.Controls.RichTextBox
              • System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.Thumb
                • System.Windows.Controls.GridSplitter
              • System.Windows.Controls.Separator
            • System.Windows.Controls.Decorator
              • System.Windows.Controls.Border
              • System.Windows.Controls.ViewBox
            • System.Windows.Controls.Image
            • System.Windows.Controls.MediaElement
            • System.Windows.Controls.Panel
              • System.Windows.Controls.Canvas
              • System.Windows.Controls.DockPanel
              • System.Windows.Controls.Grid
              • System.Windows.Controls.StackPanel
              • System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.UniformGrid
              • System.Windows.Controls.WrapPanel
            • System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock
            • System.Windows.Controls.ToolBarTray
            • System.Windows.Primitives.Popup