Can i use stack panel to design the following layout

I am wondering If I can use stack panel to get th开发者_Go百科e following layout

one will not be enough, but you can certainly do with two:

<StackPanel Orientation="Vertical">

    <BigBoxOnTop />

    <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
        <SmallBox_1 />
        <SmallBox_2 />
        <SmallBox_3 />
        ....
    </StackPanel>

</StackPanel>

use margin and padding to place your boxes inside the panels

Yes. The outer one looks like a vertical stackpanel. The smaller boxes (controls or panels) can be placed with explicit margins to lay them out as shown above.

Looks to me like you need to nest a gridpanel inside each of the vertical stack panel's top and bottom halves... but I'm just a beginner at WPF.

try something like this

<Grid>
        <Grid.RowDefinitions>
            <RowDefinition/>
            <RowDefinition/>
        </Grid.RowDefinitions>
        <Rectangle Fill="White" Stroke="Black" Margin="5" StrokeThickness="2"/>
        <StackPanel Grid.Row="1" Orientation="Horizontal">
            <Rectangle Fill="White" Stroke="Black" Width="100" Height="35" StrokeThickness="5" Margin="25,0,0,0"/>
            <Rectangle Fill="White" Stroke="Black" StrokeThickness="5" Width="100" Height="35" Margin="20,0,0,0"/>
            <Rectangle Fill="White" Stroke="Black" Width="100" Height="35" Margin="25,0,0,0" StrokeThickness="5"/>
        </StackPanel>
    </Grid>