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Border inside a Grid containing GridSplitter-s overlaps all following rows

Using WPF I'm trying to create a Grid which contains A list view then some controller with details and then a row with a singe button. Here's what I tried
<Grid DataContext="...">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="177" MinHeight="177"/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<ListView Grid.Row="0" BorderBrush="LightGray" BorderThickness="1,1,1,0">
<ListView.View>
<GridView x:Name="SomeName"/>
</ListView.View>
</ListView>
<GridSplitter Grid.Row="1" Height="5" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" ResizeDirection="Rows" BorderBrush="LightGray" BorderThickness="1,0,1,0"/>
<Border Grid.Row="2" Grid.RowSpan="1" BorderBrush="LightGray" BorderThickness="1,0,1,1" Height="Auto" Padding="1">
<ContentControl Grid.RowSpan="1" ContentTemplateSelector="{StaticResource someTemplateSelector}" Content="{Binding itemBinding, Mode=OneWay}" Height="Auto"/>
</Border>
<GridSplitter Grid.Row="3" Height="5" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" ResizeDirection="Rows" BorderBrush="LightGray" BorderThickness="1,0,1,0"/>
<Button Grid.Row="4" Grid.RowSpan="1" DockPanel.Dock="Right" Margin="3,0,0,0" Command="{Binding Click}" Width="28" Height="28" Padding="0" VerticalAlignment="Bottom">
<Image Width="16" Height="16" Source="{StaticResource Heart}"/>
</Button>
</Grid>
The above XAML is functional but the border overlaps all rows below and including row 2, instead of going just up to the next GridSplitter.
And it looks roughly like this:

You have five rows but only three row definitions
Add the desired row definitions:
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="177" MinHeight="177"/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
and the layout should be correct.

UWP: Cannot make ListView scrollable

I have a page with a simple grid (2x2). In one grid on the bottom left corner is another Grid and inside this grid is a ListView bound to a collection. Entries can be added to the collection so the ListView grows in height (height of ListView is set to auto, so that all space available is used).
What I want is, if all available space (from the screen height) is used, scrollbars for the ListView should appear and should be usable. Funny (unfunny) thing is: scrollbars do appear but I cannot use them, I cannot scroll the ListView with the vertical scrollbar that appears when I hover the ListView.
It works, when I set the height of the ListView to a fixed value, but I don't want it that way, because then it doesn't use all the available space on the screen.
This is the XAML of the page (I removed some parts for demonstration purposes) :
<Page
x:Class="Qooli.TimeTracker.MainPage"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:local="using:Qooli.TimeTracker"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
mc:Ignorable="d">
<Page.Resources>
...
</Page.Resources>
<Grid Background="{ThemeResource ApplicationPageBackgroundThemeBrush}">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"></RowDefinition>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"></RowDefinition>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"></ColumnDefinition>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"></ColumnDefinition>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<StackPanel Name="spAddEntry" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" Margin="30">
<TextBlock Text="Add new entry:" Name="lblAddNewEntry" />
...
</StackPanel>
<StackPanel Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="1" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" Margin="30">
<TextBlock Text="Allocated time:" Name="lblAllocatedTime" />
...
</StackPanel>
<Grid Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="1" Margin="30">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"></RowDefinition>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"></RowDefinition>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"></ColumnDefinition>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBlock Text="Daily overview:" Name="lblDailyOverview" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" />
<ListView Name="lvTimeEntries" Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0" HorizontalAlignment="Left"
Height="Auto"
MinHeight="100"
VerticalAlignment="Top"
MinWidth="300"
SelectionMode="Single"
ItemsSource="{x:Bind ViewModel.TimeEntriesAdvancedCollectionView, Mode=OneWay}"
ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Visible"
ScrollViewer.IsVerticalRailEnabled="True"
ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollMode="Enabled">
<ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<StackPanel></StackPanel>
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate x:DataType="local:TimeEntry">
<Grid Background="{Binding Type, Converter={StaticResource TimeEntryTypeColorConverter}}" Padding="5">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="200"></RowDefinition>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"></ColumnDefinition>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"></ColumnDefinition>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"></ColumnDefinition>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"></ColumnDefinition>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBlock Text="{x:Bind Time, Mode=OneWay}" Style="{StaticResource TitleTextBlockStyle}"
MinWidth="60"
MaxWidth="60"
Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0">
</TextBlock>
<TextBlock Text="{x:Bind Title, Mode=OneWay}" Style="{StaticResource BodyTextBlockStyle}" Margin="5,0,0,0"
MinWidth="100"
MaxWidth="100"
Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="1">
</TextBlock>
<Button Name="btnEditTimeEntry" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="2" Margin="5,5,5,5">
<SymbolIcon x:Name="edit" Symbol="Edit"/>
</Button>
<Button Name="btnDeleteTimeEntry" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="3" Margin="5,5,5,5">
<SymbolIcon x:Name="delete" Symbol="Delete"/>
</Button>
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
</ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
</ListView>
</Grid>
<StackPanel Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="1" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" Margin="30">
<TextBlock Style="{StaticResource summaryTextStyle}" Text="Start time:" Name="lblDayStartTime" />
...
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</Page>
Can someone spot why it is behaving this way?

You need to set the height of the second row to "*" for both grids.

Content of ScrollViewer won't extend

I have the following Window
Now if I try to pull down the Gridsplitter I can only as far as the blue Grid fits in the visible Window. But when sliding down the splitter I want a scrollbar to appear and be able to pull it down to the botton until the blue Grid is not visible any more.
<Window.Content>
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="25"/>
<RowDefinition />
<RowDefinition Height="25" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Menu Name="MainMenu" Grid.Row="0">
</Menu>
<Grid Grid.Row="1">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="200" />
<ColumnDefinition />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<DockPanel x:Name="Green" Grid.Column="0" Width="Auto" Height="Auto">
<views:MyView></views:MyView>
</DockPanel>
<GridSplitter Grid.Column="0" Width="6"></GridSplitter>
<Grid Grid.Column="1" >
<ScrollViewer VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto">
<Grid VerticalAlignment="Stretch">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
<RowDefinition Height="7" />
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid Grid.Row="0">
<views:ListView x:Name="Yellow" ></views:ListView>
</Grid>
<GridSplitter Grid.Row="1" Height="7" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" />
<Grid Grid.Row="2" >
<ContentControl Content="{Binding LoadedControl}" x:Name="Blue" />
</Grid>
</Grid>
</ScrollViewer>
</Grid>
</Grid>
<StatusBar x:Name="StatusBar" Grid.Row="2">
</StatusBar>
</Grid>
</Window.Content>
What do I have to change here?

Move your ScrollViewer further down so it wraps the blue ContentControl in row 2, and ensure the ContentControl has a Height or MinHeight set.
ScrollViewers allow their child to take up as much space as they want, and only shows scrollbars if the child object gets larger than the ScrollViewer size.
Also as a side note, you can remove some of those extra Grid's in your layout to make it easier to read. Here's an example with a bunch of them removed, and the first one being replaced with a DockPanel :)
<DockPanel>
<Menu Name="MainMenu" DockPanel.Dock="Top" Height="25" />
<StatusBar x:Name="StatusBar" DockPanel.Dock="Bottom" Height="25"/>
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="200" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="6" />
<ColumnDefinition />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<views:MyView x:Name="Green" Grid.Column="0" />
<GridSplitter Grid.Column="1" Width="6" />
<Grid Grid.Column="2" >
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
<RowDefinition Height="7" />
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<views:ListView x:Name="Yellow" Grid.Row="0" />
<GridSplitter Grid.Row="1" Height="7" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" />
<ScrollViewer Grid.Row="2" VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto">
<ContentControl x:Name="Blue" MinHeight="400"/>
</ScrollViewer>
</Grid>
</Grid>
</DockPanel>

Hope you find a better solution XD as mine use a code behind
I used the DragDelta event of the control GridSplitter and enlarge the height of the grid so the ScrollBar can be activated
The xaml Code:
<Grid Grid.Row="1">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="200" />
<ColumnDefinition />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<DockPanel x:Name="Green" Grid.Column="0" Width="Auto" Height="Auto" Background="#FF0CFA8F" >
<local:BusyUserControl Width="200" Height="200"/>
</DockPanel>
<GridSplitter ResizeDirection="Rows" Grid.Column="0" Width="6"></GridSplitter>
<ScrollViewer x:Name="MainScrollViewer" VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto" Grid.Column="1" >
<Grid x:Name="MainGrid">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="7" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid >
<views:ListView x:Name="Yellow" ></views:ListView>
</Grid>
<GridSplitter Grid.Row="1" Height="7" ResizeBehavior="PreviousAndNext" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" DragDelta="GridSplitter_DragDelta" />
<Grid Grid.Row="2">
<ContentControl Content="{Binding LoadedControl}" x:Name="Blue" />
</Grid>
</Grid>
</ScrollViewer>
</Grid>
The code Behind:
private void GridSplitter_DragDelta(object sender, System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.DragDeltaEventArgs e)
{
if (e.VerticalChange > 1500 || e.VerticalChange > -15000) return;
if (e.VerticalChange > 0 || Visibility.Visible.Equals(MainScrollViewer.ComputedVerticalScrollBarVisibility))
{
this.MainGrid.Height = this.MainGrid.ActualHeight + e.VerticalChange;
}
e.Handled = true;
}
Note:
When the scrollbar is no more visible I stop shrinking the grid (keep the grid stretshed) that’s the meaning of the condition
Visibility.Visible.Equals(MainScrollViewer.ComputedVerticalScrollBarVisibility)
Hope this could help you and thx for the question :)

if you want to display a vertical scroll bar for each part in the splitted grid try the following code :
<Grid Grid.Row="1">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="200" />
<ColumnDefinition />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<DockPanel x:Name="Green" Grid.Column="0" Width="Auto" Height="Auto" Background="#FF0CFA8F" >
<local:BusyUserControl Width="200" Height="200"/>
</DockPanel>
<GridSplitter Grid.Column="0" Width="6"></GridSplitter>
<Grid Grid.Column="1" >
<Grid VerticalAlignment="Stretch">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
<RowDefinition Height="7" />
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<ScrollViewer VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto" Grid.Row="0" >
<Grid >
<views:ListView x:Name="Yellow" ></views:ListView>
</Grid>
</ScrollViewer>
<GridSplitter Grid.Row="1" Height="7" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" />
<ScrollViewer VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto" Grid.Row="2" >
<Grid Grid.Row="2" >
<ContentControl Content="{Binding LoadedControl}" x:Name="Blue" />
</Grid>
</ScrollViewer>
</Grid>
</Grid>
</Grid>
otherwise clarify your need

How to scroll the enitre Windows Phone page with webbrowser content?

I have a webbrowser in my page, with other controls, I simply just want to scroll the entire page, instead of only scrolling the webbrowser. how can I do this?
my code:
<ScrollViewer >
<!--LayoutRoot is the root grid where all page content is placed-->
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White">
<Grid.Resources>
<convertstring:htmlconverter x:Name="htmlconv"/>
<convertstring:DateTimeToStringConverter x:Name="datetimestringconverter"/>
</Grid.Resources>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="200"/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Image Source="/Images/smallerheading.png"
Margin="0,0,10,0"
Grid.Column="1"/>
<TextBlock Text="Stuff"
Foreground="Black"
FontSize="45"
Margin="15,5,0,0"
/>
<Image Grid.Row="1" Grid.ColumnSpan="2"
HorizontalAlignment="Center"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
x:Name="img"/>
<TextBlock Grid.Row="2"
x:Name="txtTitle"
TextWrapping="Wrap"
Grid.ColumnSpan="2"
FontSize="30"
Foreground="Black" />
<StackPanel Grid.Row="3">
<TextBlock Grid.Column="0"
x:Name="Autho"
TextWrapping="Wrap"
Foreground="Black"/>
<TextBlock
Foreground="Black"
x:Name="txtDate"/>
</StackPanel>
<phone:WebBrowser x:Name="webbrowsercontrol"
Grid.Row="4"
Background="Transparent"
Foreground="Black"
Grid.ColumnSpan="2"
FontSize="20">
</phone:WebBrowser>
</Grid>
</ScrollViewer>

If you don't want to scroll the WebBrowser at all, you can draw a Border that is almost transparent (like #01000000).
That way, your touch movements will not be handled by the WebBrowser, but by the Border and the page will scroll instead of the WebBrowser content.

wpf is it possible to have a resizable horizontal expander?

I'm new to WPF. I was able to found out how to do a resizable vertical expander from here: Combine expander and grid (resizable expander)
So I thought making a horizontal would be easy, I have tried different ways with no success.
Can it be done without complex code? To have a glidsplitter between 2 grid rows which one of them has an expander
The layout looks like this:
Left expander/gridsplitter works fine. But the expander/gridsplitter at the bottom does not. It works fine without a gridsplitter though.
My XAML:
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
<RowDefinition Height="10" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<DockPanel Grid.Row="0">
<Expander ExpandDirection="Left" Header="">
<Expander.Content>
<Grid>
<!-- this works -->
</Grid>
</Expander.Content>
</Expander>
<TextBox AcceptsReturn="True" />
</DockPanel>
<GridSplitter Grid.Row="1" Height="10" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" ResizeBehavior="PreviousAndCurrent" ResizeDirection="Rows"/>
<DockPanel Grid.Row="2">
<Expander ExpandDirection="Down" Header="Summary">
<Expander.Content>
<TextBox AcceptsReturn="True" />
</Expander.Content>
</Expander>
</DockPanel>
</Grid>
If you remove the middle row and the gridsplitter, it works fine but it's not resizable.
Any help is appreciated.

The 3rd rows height should also be proportional. Specify MinHeight for the first and bottom rows so that they don't completely shrink.
Edited XAML:
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="6*" MinHeight="100"/>
<RowDefinition Height="10" />
<RowDefinition Height="*" MinHeight="50"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<DockPanel Grid.Row="0">
<Expander ExpandDirection="Left" Header="">
<Expander.Content>
<Grid>
<!-- this works -->
</Grid>
</Expander.Content>
</Expander>
<TextBox AcceptsReturn="True" />
</DockPanel>
<GridSplitter Grid.Row="1" Height="2" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"/>
<DockPanel Grid.Row="2">
<Expander ExpandDirection="Down" Header="Summary">
<Expander.Content>
<TextBox AcceptsReturn="True" />
</Expander.Content>
</Expander>
</DockPanel>
</Grid>

The following works for me. The GridSplitter is shown when expanded and hidden when collapsed.
I use ellipses that fill the panes in the example, because that makes it easy to see how much space is taken by each panel.
Xaml
<Grid Background="Green">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" Name="expanderRow"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Ellipse Grid.Row="0" Fill="Black"></Ellipse>
<Expander Grid.Row="2" ExpandDirection="Up" IsExpanded="False" Background="Yellow"
Expanded="Expander_Expanded"
Collapsed="Expander_Collapsed">
<Ellipse Fill="Red"/>
</Expander>
<GridSplitter Grid.Row="1" Height="15" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Name="expander" Visibility="Collapsed"></GridSplitter>
</Grid>
Code behind
private GridLength expandedHeight = new GridLength(0.5, GridUnitType.Star);
public MainWindow()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void Expander_Expanded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
expanderRow.Height = expandedHeight;
expander.Visibility = Visibility.Visible;
}
private void Expander_Collapsed(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
expandedHeight = expanderRow.Height;
expanderRow.Height = GridLength.Auto;
expander.Visibility = Visibility.Collapsed;
}