WPF - Best Practice for the run-of-the-mill [Label:Input] Control

Question

I am wondering, which is the best and quickest way to get the well known Label Input [or output, doesn't matter] combination in WPF. Its a simple Task, just think of a quick output of the "object" ME:

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Name - Christian

Age - 28

Mood - Good

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I know, I can use a Grid with TextBlocks. But to be honest, the "short" XAML for this is nearly half a page long (RowDefinitions, ColDefs, Grid.Col on each Label)

The alternative way, using three StackPanels (horizontal) with one vertical seems also a little bit stupid. In this case, I have to give each Label a fixed width, to get the indent correct. And it just does not "feel" right.

So, given the Situation above, you got a custom object with 3-6 Properties you just want to dump as readonly to your GUI, how would you do it (in WPF, Silverlight too, if you are really in the mood :).

I can, of course, write a usercontrol for this. But why reinvent the wheel, if it might be already there...

And finally, to illustrate even further, the example I just created in real life and was the reason for this post:

      <StackPanel>
        <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
            <TextBlock Text="Log Count"  Width="100"/>
            <TextBlock Text="{Binding LastLogRun.LogMessageCount}"/>
        </StackPanel>
        <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
            <TextBlock Text="Start Time" Width="100"/>
            <TextBlock Text="{Binding LastLogRun.StartTime}"/>
        </StackPanel>
        <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
            <TextBlock Text="End Time" Width="100"/>
            <TextBlock Text="{Binding LastLogRun.EndTime}"/>
        </StackPanel>
    </StackPanel>

Answer 1

If you're using 3.5sp1 you can use StringFormat in the binding. Something like this should work...

<TextBlock Text="{Binding LastLogRun.LogMessageCount, StringFormat={}Log Count - {0}}" />