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DropDownButton Properties

Represents a dropdown button control.
Name Description
ActualHeight Gets the rendered height of this element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
ActualWidth Gets the rendered width of this element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
AllowDrop Gets or sets a value indicating whether this element can be used as the target of a drag-and-drop operation. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
AreAnyTouchesCaptured Gets a value that indicates whether at least one touch is captured to this element. Inherited from UIElement.
AreAnyTouchesCapturedWithin Gets a value that indicates whether at least one touch is captured to this element or to any child elements in its visual tree. Inherited from UIElement.
AreAnyTouchesDirectlyOver Gets a value that indicates whether at least one touch is pressed over this element. Inherited from UIElement.
AreAnyTouchesOver Gets a value that indicates whether at least one touch is pressed over this element or any child elements in its visual tree. Inherited from UIElement.
ArrowAlignment Gets or sets the alignment of the button that invokes the popup. This is a dependency property. Inherited from DropDownButtonBase.
ArrowGlyph Gets or sets the image displayed within the button that invokes the popup. This is a dependency property. Inherited from DropDownButtonBase.
ArrowPadding Gets or sets the thickness of the padding space between the dropdown button‘s borders and its content. This is a dependency property. Inherited from DropDownButtonBase.
AsyncDisplayMode Gets or sets how the button indicates the progress of an asynchronous operation. Inherited from SimpleButton.
Background Gets or sets a brush that describes the background of a control. Inherited from Control.
BindingGroup Gets or sets the BindingGroup that is used for the element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
BitmapEffect Gets or sets a bitmap effect that applies directly to the rendered content for this element. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
BitmapEffectInput Gets or sets an input source for the bitmap effect that applies directly to the rendered content for this element. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
BorderBrush Gets or sets a brush that describes the border background of a control. Inherited from Control.
BorderThickness Gets or sets the border thickness of a control. Inherited from Control.
ButtonKind Gets a value that specifies the button’s behavior (simple button, repeat button, or toggle button). This is a dependency property. Inherited from SimpleButton.
CacheMode Gets or sets a cached representation of the UIElement. Inherited from UIElement.
ClickMode Gets or sets when the Click event occurs. Inherited from ButtonBase.
Clip Gets or sets the geometry used to define the outline of the contents of an element. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
ClipToBounds Gets or sets a value indicating whether to clip the content of this element (or content coming from the child elements of this element) to fit into the size of the containing element. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
Command Gets or sets the command to invoke when this button is pressed. Inherited from ButtonBase.
CommandBindings Gets a collection of CommandBinding objects associated with this element. A CommandBinding enables command handling for this element, and declares the linkage between a command, its events, and the handlers attached by this element. Inherited from UIElement.
CommandParameter Gets or sets the parameter to pass to the Command property. Inherited from ButtonBase.
CommandTarget Gets or sets the element on which to raise the specified command. Inherited from ButtonBase.
Content Gets or sets the content of a ContentControl. Inherited from ContentControl.
ContentStringFormat Gets or sets a composite string that specifies how to format the Content property if it is displayed as a string. Inherited from ContentControl.
ContentTemplate Gets or sets the data template used to display the content of the ContentControl. Inherited from ContentControl.
ContentTemplateSelector Gets or sets a template selector that enables an application writer to provide custom template-selection logic. Inherited from ContentControl.
ContextMenu Gets or sets the context menu element that should appear whenever the context menu is requested through user interface (UI) from within this element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
CornerRadius Gets or sets the SimpleButton‘s corner radius. This is a dependency property. Inherited from SimpleButton.
Cursor Gets or sets the cursor that displays when the mouse pointer is over this element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
DataContext Gets or sets the data context for an element when it participates in data binding. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
DefaultStyleKey protected Gets or sets the key to use to reference the style for this control, when theme styles are used or defined. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
Delay Gets or sets the amount of time, in milliseconds, the button waits while it is pressed before it starts repeating. This is a dependency property. Inherited from SimpleButton.
DependencyObjectType Gets the DependencyObjectType that wraps the CLR type of this instance. Inherited from DependencyObject.
DesiredSize Gets the size that this element computed during the measure pass of the layout process. Inherited from UIElement.
Dispatcher Gets the Dispatcher this DispatcherObject is associated with. Inherited from DispatcherObject.
Effect Gets or sets the bitmap effect to apply to the UIElement. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
FlowDirection Gets or sets the direction that text and other user interface (UI) elements flow within any parent element that controls their layout. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
Focusable Gets or sets a value that indicates whether the element can receive focus. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
FocusVisualStyle Gets or sets a property that enables customization of appearance, effects, or other style characteristics that will apply to this element when it captures keyboard focus. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
FontFamily Gets or sets the font family of the control. Inherited from Control.
FontSize Gets or sets the font size. Inherited from Control.
FontStretch Gets or sets the degree to which a font is condensed or expanded on the screen. Inherited from Control.
FontStyle Gets or sets the font style. Inherited from Control.
FontWeight Gets or sets the weight or thickness of the specified font. Inherited from Control.
ForceCursor Gets or sets a value that indicates whether this FrameworkElement should force the user interface (UI) to render the cursor as declared by the Cursor property. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
Foreground Gets or sets a brush that describes the foreground color. Inherited from Control.
Glyph Gets or sets the image displayed within the button. This is a dependency property. Inherited from SimpleButton.
GlyphAlignment Specifies the icon horizontal alignment. This is a dependency property. Inherited from SimpleButton.
GlyphHeight Gets or sets the height of the frame into which the button icon is fitted. This is a dependency property. Inherited from SimpleButton.
GlyphToContentOffset Specifies the button’s content offset relative to the icon. This is a dependency property. Inherited from SimpleButton.
GlyphWidth Gets or sets the width of the frame into which the button icon is fitted. This is a dependency property. Inherited from SimpleButton.
HandlesScrolling protected Gets a value that indicates whether a control supports scrolling. Inherited from Control.
HasAnimatedProperties Gets a value indicating whether this element has any animated properties. Inherited from UIElement.
HasContent Gets a value that indicates whether the ContentControl contains content. Inherited from ContentControl.
HasEffectiveKeyboardFocus protected Gets a value that indicates whether the UIElement has focus. Inherited from UIElement.
Height Gets or sets the suggested height of the element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
HorizontalAlignment Gets or sets the horizontal alignment characteristics applied to this element when it is composed within a parent element, such as a panel or items control. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
HorizontalContentAlignment Gets or sets the horizontal alignment of the control’s content. Inherited from Control.
InheritanceBehavior protected Gets or sets the scope limits for property value inheritance, resource key lookup, and RelativeSource FindAncestor lookup. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
InputBindings Gets the collection of input bindings associated with this element. Inherited from UIElement.
InputScope Gets or sets the context for input used by this FrameworkElement. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
Interval Gets or sets the amount of time, in milliseconds, between repeats once repeating starts. This is a dependency property. Inherited from SimpleButton.
IsArrangeValid Gets a value indicating whether the computed size and position of child elements in this element’s layout are valid. Inherited from UIElement.
IsAsyncOperationInProgress Gets whether the asynchronous operation associated with the button is in progress. Inherited from SimpleButton.
IsCancel Gets or sets a value that indicates whether a Button is a Cancel button. A user can activate the Cancel button by pressing the ESC key. Inherited from Button.
IsChecked Gets or sets whether a button is checked. This is a dependency property. Inherited from SimpleButton.
IsDefault Gets or sets a value that indicates whether a Button is the default button. A user invokes the default button by pressing the ENTER key. Inherited from Button.
IsDefaulted Gets a value that indicates whether a Button is the button that is activated when a user presses ENTER. Inherited from Button.
IsEnabled Gets or sets a value indicating whether this element is enabled in the user interface (UI). This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
IsEnabledCore protected Gets the value of the IsEnabled property. Inherited from ButtonBase.
IsFocused Gets a value that determines whether this element has logical focus. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
IsHitTestVisible Gets or sets a value that declares whether this element can possibly be returned as a hit test result from some portion of its rendered content. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
IsInitialized Gets a value that indicates whether this element has been initialized, either during processing by a XAML processor, or by explicitly having its EndInit() method called. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
IsInputMethodEnabled Gets a value indicating whether an input method system, such as an Input Method Editor (IME), is enabled for processing the input to this element. Inherited from UIElement.
IsKeyboardFocused Gets a value indicating whether this element has keyboard focus. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
IsKeyboardFocusWithin Gets a value indicating whether keyboard focus is anywhere within the element or its visual tree child elements. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
IsLoaded Gets a value that indicates whether this element has been loaded for presentation. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
IsManipulationEnabled Gets or sets a value that indicates whether manipulation events are enabled on this UIElement. Inherited from UIElement.
IsMeasureValid Gets a value indicating whether the current size returned by layout measure is valid. Inherited from UIElement.
IsMouseCaptured Gets a value indicating whether the mouse is captured to this element. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
IsMouseCaptureWithin Gets a value that determines whether mouse capture is held by this element or by child elements in its visual tree. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
IsMouseDirectlyOver Gets a value that indicates whether the position of the mouse pointer corresponds to hit test results, which take element compositing into account. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
IsMouseOver Gets a value indicating whether the mouse pointer is located over this element (including child elements in the visual tree). This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
IsMouseOverArrow Gets or sets whether the cursor is hovering the dropdown button. This is a dependency property. Inherited from DropDownButtonBase.
IsPopupOpen

Gets or sets whether the popup is opened. This is a dependency property.

Inherited from DropDownButtonBase.
IsPressed Gets a value that indicates whether a ButtonBase is currently activated. Inherited from ButtonBase.
IsSealed Gets a value that indicates whether this instance is currently sealed (read-only). Inherited from DependencyObject.
IsStylusCaptured Gets a value indicating whether the stylus is captured by this element. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
IsStylusCaptureWithin Gets a value that determines whether stylus capture is held by this element, or an element within the element bounds and its visual tree. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
IsStylusDirectlyOver Gets a value that indicates whether the stylus position corresponds to hit test results, which take element compositing into account. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
IsStylusOver Gets a value indicating whether the stylus cursor is located over this element (including visual child elements). This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
IsTabStop Gets or sets a value that indicates whether a control is included in tab navigation. Inherited from Control.
IsThreeState Gets or sets whether the button supports three states (checked, unchecked and indeterminate). This is a dependency property. Inherited from SimpleButton.
IsVisible Gets a value indicating whether this element is visible in the user interface (UI). This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
Language Gets or sets localization/globalization language information that applies to an element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
LayoutTransform Gets or sets a graphics transformation that should apply to this element when layout is performed. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
Margin Gets or sets the outer margin of an element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
MaxHeight Gets or sets the maximum height constraint of the element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
MaxWidth Gets or sets the maximum width constraint of the element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
MinHeight Gets or sets the minimum height constraint of the element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
MinWidth Gets or sets the minimum width constraint of the element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
Name Gets or sets the identifying name of the element. The name provides a reference so that code-behind, such as event handler code, can refer to a markup element after it is constructed during processing by a XAML processor. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
Opacity Gets or sets the opacity factor applied to the entire UIElement when it is rendered in the user interface (UI). This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
OpacityMask Gets or sets an opacity mask, as a Brush implementation that is applied to any alpha-channel masking for the rendered content of this element. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
OverridesDefaultStyle Gets or sets a value that indicates whether this element incorporates style properties from theme styles. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
Padding Gets or sets the padding inside a control. Inherited from Control.
Parent Gets the logical parent element of this element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
PersistId Gets a value that uniquely identifies this element. Inherited from UIElement.
PopupAutoWidth Gets or sets whether this DropDownButtonBase object’s popup should have the same width as the DropDownButtonBase object itself. This is a dependency property. Inherited from DropDownButtonBase.
PopupContent Specifies the popup content. This is a dependency property. Inherited from DropDownButtonBase.
PopupContentTemplate Gets or sets the template that defines the presentation of the popup’s content. This is a dependency property. Inherited from DropDownButtonBase.
PopupContentTemplateSelector Gets or sets an object that chooses a content template for this DropDownButtonBase based on custom logic. This is a dependency property. Inherited from DropDownButtonBase.
PopupDropAlignment Gets or sets the relative position of this DropDownButtonBase object’s pop-up. Inherited from DropDownButtonBase.
PopupHeight Gets or sets the popup’s height. This is a dependency property. Inherited from DropDownButtonBase.
PopupMaxHeight Gets or sets the popup’s maximum height. This is a dependency property. Inherited from DropDownButtonBase.
PopupMaxWidth Gets or sets the popup’s maximum width. This is a dependency property. Inherited from DropDownButtonBase.
PopupMinHeight Gets or sets the popup’s minimum height. This is a dependency property. Inherited from DropDownButtonBase.
PopupMinWidth Gets or sets the popup’s minimum width. This is a dependency property. Inherited from DropDownButtonBase.
PopupWidth Gets or sets the popup’s width. This is a dependency property. Inherited from DropDownButtonBase.
RenderSize Gets (or sets) the final render size of this element. Inherited from UIElement.
RenderTransform Gets or sets transform information that affects the rendering position of this element. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
RenderTransformOrigin Gets or sets the center point of any possible render transform declared by RenderTransform, relative to the bounds of the element. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
Resources Gets or sets the locally-defined resource dictionary. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
SnapsToDevicePixels Gets or sets a value that determines whether rendering for this element should use device-specific pixel settings during rendering. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
Style Gets or sets the style used by this element when it is rendered. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
StylusPlugIns protected Gets a collection of all stylus plug-in (customization) objects associated with this element. Inherited from UIElement.
TabIndex Gets or sets a value that determines the order in which elements receive focus when the user navigates through controls by using the TAB key. Inherited from Control.
Tag Gets or sets an arbitrary object value that can be used to store custom information about this element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
Template Gets or sets a control template. Inherited from Control.
TemplatedParent Gets a reference to the template parent of this element. This property is not relevant if the element was not created through a template. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
ToolTip Gets or sets the tool-tip object that is displayed for this element in the user interface (UI). Inherited from FrameworkElement.
TouchesCaptured Gets all touch devices that are captured to this element. Inherited from UIElement.
TouchesCapturedWithin Gets all touch devices that are captured to this element or any child elements in its visual tree. Inherited from UIElement.
TouchesDirectlyOver Gets all touch devices that are over this element. Inherited from UIElement.
TouchesOver Gets all touch devices that are over this element or any child elements in its visual tree. Inherited from UIElement.
Triggers Gets the collection of triggers established directly on this element, or in child elements. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
Uid Gets or sets the unique identifier (for localization) for this element. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
UseLayoutRounding Gets or sets a value that indicates whether layout rounding should be applied to this element’s size and position during layout. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
VerticalAlignment Gets or sets the vertical alignment characteristics applied to this element when it is composed within a parent element such as a panel or items control. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
VerticalContentAlignment Gets or sets the vertical alignment of the control’s content. Inherited from Control.
Visibility Gets or sets the user interface (UI) visibility of this element. This is a dependency property. Inherited from UIElement.
VisualBitmapEffect protected Gets or sets the BitmapEffect value for the Visual. Inherited from Visual.
VisualBitmapEffectInput protected Gets or sets the BitmapEffectInput value for the Visual. Inherited from Visual.
VisualBitmapScalingMode protected Gets or sets the BitmapScalingMode for the Visual. Inherited from Visual.
VisualCacheMode protected Gets or sets a cached representation of the Visual. Inherited from Visual.
VisualChildrenCount protected Gets the number of visual child elements within this element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
VisualClearTypeHint protected Gets or sets the ClearTypeHint that determines how ClearType is rendered in the Visual. Inherited from Visual.
VisualClip protected Gets or sets the clip region of the Visual as a Geometry value. Inherited from Visual.
VisualEdgeMode protected Gets or sets the edge mode of the Visual as an EdgeMode value. Inherited from Visual.
VisualEffect protected Gets or sets the bitmap effect to apply to the Visual. Inherited from Visual.
VisualOffset protected Gets or sets the offset value of the visual object. Inherited from Visual.
VisualOpacity protected Gets or sets the opacity of the Visual. Inherited from Visual.
VisualOpacityMask protected Gets or sets the Brush value that represents the opacity mask of the Visual. Inherited from Visual.
VisualParent protected Gets the visual tree parent of the visual object. Inherited from Visual.
VisualScrollableAreaClip protected Gets or sets a clipped scrollable area for the Visual. Inherited from Visual.
VisualTextHintingMode protected Gets or sets the TextHintingMode of the Visual. Inherited from Visual.
VisualTextRenderingMode protected Gets or sets the TextRenderingMode of the Visual. Inherited from Visual.
VisualTransform protected Gets or sets the Transform value for the Visual. Inherited from Visual.
VisualXSnappingGuidelines protected Gets or sets the x-coordinate (vertical) guideline collection. Inherited from Visual.
VisualYSnappingGuidelines protected Gets or sets the y-coordinate (horizontal) guideline collection. Inherited from Visual.
Width Gets or sets the width of the element. Inherited from FrameworkElement.
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