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Can you explain how can I achieve the same functionality in .Net 1.0 Or 1.1 ?

Ayan, for .net controls in Winform applications, you can usually do a Control.Location to get the cordinates of the control wrt to its immediate parent. If you want it wrt to its top level parent form, somethign like the following should work

Control.FindForm().PointToClient(Control.Parent.PointToScreen(Control.Location))

The conversion of control's coordinates to screen coordinates should be done wrt to its parent, otherwise there will be a difference equal to the border of the Form.

I used GeneralTransformation in wpf it works fine with stack panel and grid but as soon as Put my control in tab control (on tab pages it gives error :---
"The specified Visual is not an ancestor of this Visual."
So with tab control how to remove this error or is there any other way in WPF?

I got the solution for WPF,
Use following to get location of control :--

// Return the offset vector for the TextBlock object.
Vector vector = VisualTreeHelper.GetOffset(myTextBlock);

// Convert the vector to a point value.
Point currentPoint = new Point(vector.X, vector.Y);

Thanks Prasad for sharing your findings

Can you please tell me how to dynamically add a control to a canvas at a particular location .

Sreeraj, you can use the Canvas.SetLeft, Canvas.SetRight etc attached properties. something like this should work

Button btn = new Button();
btn.Content = "Click Me";
Canvas.SetLeft(btn, 50);
Canvas.SetTop(btn, 40);
LayoutRoot.Children.Add(btn);

(where LayoutRoot is a Canvas)

Hello Atul,

Tried this code on different window size and on different location on the screen.
Doesn't seem to work.

KJ, can you share more details on what you tried and what didn't work?

Can someone please tell me how can I set control location in the page? In c#, I used to set it like:
ctrl.Location = new point (int,int)

Eran, is your question related to WPF or Winform? In WPF, the control location can be set as I had shown a few comments earlier.

Note however this will also depend on what Panel is the control residing inside of, as not all panels allow contols to positioned at any location. In such containers you need work with Margins and padding and not really location.

I am using code below to get the position of a ContectMenu as I want to place an image at the point the user right clicks. However, the "currentPoint" is always 0,0. What am I doing wrong here?
private void MenuItemNewShop_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
TabItem ti = tabControl1.SelectedItem as TabItem;
MenuItem mi = sender as MenuItem;
ContextMenu cm = mi.Parent as ContextMenu;

Vector vector = VisualTreeHelper.GetOffset(mi);
Point currentPoint = new Point(vector.X, vector.Y);