Generating a rectangle in windows store app

Question

I'm trying to generate a rectangle dynamicaly when a button is pressed in a windows store app I've tried

Rect r = new Rect();

myGrid.Children.Add(r);

but it gives me an error
"The best overloaded method match for 'name' has some invalid arguments"

what's the problem?

Answer 1

Try

Rectangle r = new Rectangle();
myGrid.Children.Add(r);

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