How to do it...

Follow these steps to design our application UI with a simple button and then utilize Live Property Explorer to view and modify the XAML properties at runtime:

1. From Solution Explorer, open the MainWindow.xaml file.
2. Replace the content of the XAML with the following code to have a basic Button with default style:

<Window x:Class="CH10.LivePropertyExplorerDemo.MainWindow" 
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" 
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" 
        Title="Live Property Explorer Demo" Height="150" Width="400"> 
    <Grid> 
        <Button x:Name="myButton" 
                Content="Click here"/> 
    </Grid> 
</Window> 

3. Let's run the application. You will see that the button automatically arranges itself to cover the entire application. This is because we have placed the button inside a...