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ContentPresenter - HorizonalAlignment not working

I have created a custom control for the simplified usage of label: control in forms:
My problem is that, no matter what is being put into my control content, I am unable to align it, using my template code. The only way it works is when I put HorizontalAlignment="Right" into the TextBox control directly:
<local:ControlEntry Label="Enter something">
<!-- I don't like having HorizontalAlignment here! -->
<TextBox Height="20" Width="200" HorizontalAlignment="Right" />
</local:ControlEntry>
However, I would rather want to do that behind the scenes in my control template.
I'm talking about this particular XAML code:
<Border x:Name="Container"
HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
Grid.Column="1">
<ContentPresenter Width="{Binding ActualWidth, ElementName=Container}" HorizontalAlignment="Right" />
</Border>
First, I stretch the HorizontalAlignment, so what it would fill the width of the grid column cell, then I'm trying to apply the Right HorizontalAlignment on the ContentPresenter. Unfortunately, no effect is visible.
Full control code:
<Style TargetType="{x:Type local:ControlLine}">
<Setter Property="HorizontalContentAlignment" Value="Stretch" />
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type local:ControlLine}">
<!-- Create bottom content border -->
<Border BorderBrush="#000" BorderThickness="0,0,0,0.5">
<StackPanel>
<Grid>
<!-- Label -> Control -->
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<!-- Label -->
<TextBlock Grid.Column="0"
Margin="0,12,15,12"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
Text="{Binding Label, RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}}"
TextWrapping="WrapWithOverflow" />
<!-- Display content -->
<Border x:Name="Container"
HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
Grid.Column="1">
<ContentPresenter Width="{Binding ActualWidth, ElementName=Container}" HorizontalAlignment="Right" />
</Border>
</Grid>
<!-- Description -->
<TextBlock Text="The control description" />
</StackPanel>
</Border>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
How can I properly keep the width stretched and at the same time align the content of ContentPresenter to right?

Cant set 3 toggle button text content which use same style

i have three toggle buttons which use a singe style resource on wpf, now i cant set their content, content is declared more than once error, each toggle button has a different content.
Each toggle button uses an image as background also.
<UserControl.Resources>
<Style x:Key="Chromeless" TargetType="ToggleButton">
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="ToggleButton">
<Border BorderThickness="0" Width="197" Height="60">
<ContentPresenter TextElement.FontFamily="{TemplateBinding TextElement.FontFamily}" HorizontalAlignment="{TemplateBinding HorizontalContentAlignment}" VerticalAlignment="{TemplateBinding VerticalContentAlignment}" Margin="0,0,0,0"/>
</Border>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
<Image x:Key="page1Pressed" Source="/graph_engine;Component/cucaracha/LD3/button_1.png" Height="60" Width="197" />
<Image x:Key="page1" Source="/graph_engine;Component/cucaracha/LD3/button_1_pressed.png" Height="60" Width="197" />
<Image x:Key="page2Pressed" Source="/graph_engine;Component/cucaracha/LD3/button_2.png" Height="60" Width="197" />
<Image x:Key="page2" Source="/graph_engine;Component/cucaracha/LD3/button_2_pressed.png" Height="60" Width="197" />
<Image x:Key="page3Pressed" Source="/graph_engine;Component/cucaracha/LD3/button_3.png" Height="60" Width="197" />
<Image x:Key="page3" Source="/graph_engine;Component/cucaracha/LD3/button_3_pressed.png" Height="60" Width="197" />
</UserControl.Resources>
<Viewbox Stretch="Fill" StretchDirection="Both">
<Grid Height="60" Name="grid1" Width="591" Margin="0,0,0,0">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="197" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="197" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="197" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ToggleButton Style="{StaticResource Chromeless}" Name="page1" Background="Transparent" BorderBrush="Transparent" BorderThickness="0" Foreground="{x:Null}" Checked="page1_Checked" Unchecked="page1_Unchecked">
<DynamicResource ResourceKey="page1"/>
</ToggleButton>
<ToggleButton Grid.Column="1" Style="{StaticResource Chromeless}" Name="page2" Background="Transparent" BorderBrush="Transparent" BorderThickness="0" Foreground="{x:Null}" Unchecked="page2_Unchecked" Checked="page2_Checked">
<DynamicResource ResourceKey="page2"/>
</ToggleButton>
<ToggleButton Grid.Column="2" Style="{StaticResource Chromeless}" Name="page3" Background="Transparent" BorderBrush="Transparent" BorderThickness="0" Foreground="{x:Null}" Checked="page3_Checked" Unchecked="page3_Unchecked">
<DynamicResource ResourceKey="page3"/>
</ToggleButton>
</Grid>
</Viewbox>

Do you mean you can't change the image when you pressed down the toggle button? You only set a image to the content of toggle button. You can use Visual State Manager to change the background like this
If you just want to set the image and failed. Please check the image path.

WPF ProgressBar Width not sizing to Text

I am having an issue with the Microsoft WPF ProgressBar. I will set Width="Auto" and the width will size to the text width until a value property of ~97. Between values 97 and 100 the control will go exponentially larger until it hits MaxWidth.
The following style is setting the template for the ProgressBar. I can't seem to find anything that will cause it to behave until a Value of ~97. I do not touch the width in the code behind.
<Style x:Key="CurrentDayProgressBar" TargetType="{x:Type ProgressBar}">
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type ProgressBar}">
<Grid>
<Border Name="PART_Track" CornerRadius="2" Background="DarkGray" BorderBrush="{DynamicResource TextBrush}" BorderThickness="1" />
<Border Name="PART_Indicator" CornerRadius="2" Background="{DynamicResource ProgressBarBackground}" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="2" />
<TextBlock Name="PART_Text" Margin="2" Width="Auto" Padding="5,0,5,0" Text="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource AncestorType=ProgressBar}, Path=Tag}"
Foreground="Black" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" Style="{DynamicResource SimpleTextBlock}"/>
</Grid>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
The first image below is what the bar looks like when it is at a Value of 99.2. The second is my implementation in the Telerik RadProgressBar, which behaves like I expect it to. The Telerik solution may be what I have to go with, but it would be nice to know why the Microsoft control is not working.
WPF ProgressBar Control
Telerik RadProgressBar and Textbox

The PART_Track cannot have any extra margins/borders attached to it and/or the PART_Indicator should be nested inside it. To resolve the problem you're having, do something like:
<Border CornerRadius="2" Background="DarkGray" BorderBrush="{DynamicResource TextBrush}" BorderThickness="1" />
<Border x:Name="PART_Track" Margin="3">
<Border Name="PART_Indicator" CornerRadius="2" Background="{DynamicResource ProgressBarBackground}" HorizontalAlignment="Left" />
</Border>
<TextBlock ... />

How to Change Pivot Header Template in Windows Phone 8

I would like to be able to change the background of the Pivot Headers and Application Title in Windows Phone 8. From what I gather, I must create a custom style targeting the Pivot control. I am not sure, however, to change the background of only the headers?
I would like to adjust the style somehow
<Style x:Key="MyPivotStyle" TargetType="phone:Pivot">
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="phone:Pivot">
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid CacheMode="BitmapCache" Grid.RowSpan="2">
<Grid.Background>
<ImageBrush ImageSource="/Assets/bg_header.png"/>
</Grid.Background>
</Grid>
<Grid Background="{TemplateBinding Background}" CacheMode="BitmapCache" Grid.Row="2" />
<ContentPresenter ContentTemplate="{TemplateBinding TitleTemplate}" Margin="24,17,0,-7">
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<Image Source="/Assets/company_name.png" Width="213.75" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" />
<Button HorizontalAlignment="Right" VerticalAlignment="Top" Margin="140,-20,0,35" BorderThickness="0" x:Name="btnHome">
<Image Source="/Assets/btnHome.png" Width="48" Height="48" ></Image>
</Button>
</StackPanel>
</ContentPresenter>
<controlsPrimitives:PivotHeadersControl x:Name="HeadersListElement" Foreground="White" Grid.Row="1"/>
<ItemsPresenter x:Name="PivotItemPresenter" Margin="{TemplateBinding Padding}" Grid.Row="2"/>
</Grid>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>

EDITED for WinRT (sorry for the delay and thanks for the reminder to update this answer):
To edit a full template right click on the control when in Document Outline and select Edit Template - Current (in Visual Studio or Blend) and the template will be generated for you and you can edit as you want, see my answer here for screenshots.
Here are the two examples below (posted in 2013) redone for Windows Phone Windows Runtime:
<Grid Background="Transparent">
<Pivot Title="Re-templating example">
<Pivot.HeaderTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Grid Background="Blue">
<TextBlock Text="{Binding}" />
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
</Pivot.HeaderTemplate>
<Pivot.TitleTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Grid Background="Green">
<TextBlock Text="{Binding}" />
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
</Pivot.TitleTemplate>
<PivotItem Header="One">
<TextBlock FontSize="35"
Text="This is item one" />
</PivotItem>
<PivotItem Header="Two">
<TextBlock FontSize="35"
Text="This is item 2" />
</PivotItem>
</Pivot>
</Grid>
And second example, notice that we are wrapping the ContentPresenter in a Grid (you could use a border as well or any other element):
<Page.Resources>
<SolidColorBrush x:Key="PivotBackground" Color="#FFE46C08"/>
<Style x:Key="PivotStyle" TargetType="Pivot">
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="Pivot">
<Grid x:Name="RootElement" HorizontalAlignment="{TemplateBinding HorizontalAlignment}" VerticalAlignment="{TemplateBinding VerticalAlignment}">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<!--Notice that ContentControl is wrapped in a Grid and Background set to resource furtehr up-->
<Grid VerticalAlignment="Center" Background="{StaticResource PivotBackground}">
<ContentControl x:Name="TitleContentControl" ContentTemplate="{TemplateBinding TitleTemplate}" Content="{TemplateBinding Title}" Style="{StaticResource PivotTitleContentControlStyle}"/>
</Grid>
<ScrollViewer x:Name="ScrollViewer" HorizontalSnapPointsAlignment="Center" HorizontalSnapPointsType="MandatorySingle" HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Hidden" Margin="{TemplateBinding Padding}" Grid.Row="1" Template="{StaticResource ScrollViewerScrollBarlessTemplate}" VerticalSnapPointsType="None" VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Disabled" VerticalScrollMode="Disabled" VerticalContentAlignment="Stretch" ZoomMode="Disabled">
<PivotPanel x:Name="Panel" VerticalAlignment="Stretch">
<!--Background set to resource further up-->
<PivotHeaderPanel Background="{StaticResource PivotBackground}" x:Name="Header" >
<PivotHeaderPanel.RenderTransform>
<CompositeTransform x:Name="HeaderTranslateTransform" TranslateX="0"/>
</PivotHeaderPanel.RenderTransform>
</PivotHeaderPanel>
<ItemsPresenter x:Name="PivotItemPresenter">
<ItemsPresenter.RenderTransform>
<TranslateTransform x:Name="ItemsPresenterTranslateTransform" X="0"/>
</ItemsPresenter.RenderTransform>
</ItemsPresenter>
</PivotPanel>
</ScrollViewer>
</Grid>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
</Page.Resources>
Using the above style:
<Grid Background="Transparent">
<Pivot Style="{StaticResource PivotStyle}"
Title="Re-templating example">
<PivotItem Header="One">
<TextBlock FontSize="35" Text="This is item one" />
</PivotItem>
<PivotItem Header="Two">
<TextBlock FontSize="35" Text="This is item 2"/>
</PivotItem>
</Pivot>
</Grid>
By the way, it's usually preferred to keep styles in a separate style file- I've only kept them on the same page for simplicity for this example. If you remove the x:key attribute the style will be applied to all the controls of the set target type (Pivot in this example).
Answer from 2013 for Windows Phone 7.X and Windows Phone 8 (WP Silverlight:
There are a few ways you can do it, but here is one example:
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="Transparent">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<phone:Pivot Grid.Row="1">
<phone:Pivot.HeaderTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Grid Background="Red" Height="200">
<TextBlock Text="{Binding}"/>
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
</phone:Pivot.HeaderTemplate>
<phone:PivotItem Header="Test">
<TextBlock Text="ghjgb"/>
</phone:PivotItem>
<phone:PivotItem Header="Test">
<TextBlock Text="ghjgb"/>
</phone:PivotItem>
</phone:Pivot>
If you however want to do this:
You can do this, remove the x:key to apply to all pivoits, or use the key to set the style on just selected pivoit elements like so:
<controls:Pivot Title="The Marathon Runner" Style="{StaticResource PivotStyle}">
<Style x:Key="PivotStyle" TargetType="phone:Pivot">
<Setter Property="Margin" Value="0"/>
<Setter Property="Padding" Value="0"/>
<Setter Property="Foreground" Value="{StaticResource PhoneForegroundBrush}"/>
<Setter Property="Background" Value="Transparent"/>
<Setter Property="ItemsPanel">
<Setter.Value>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<Grid/>
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="phone:Pivot">
<Grid HorizontalAlignment="{TemplateBinding HorizontalAlignment}"
VerticalAlignment="{TemplateBinding VerticalAlignment}">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid Background="#ff9000" CacheMode="BitmapCache" Grid.RowSpan="2" />
<Grid Background="{TemplateBinding Background}" CacheMode="BitmapCache"
Grid.Row="2" />
<ContentPresenter ContentTemplate="{TemplateBinding TitleTemplate}"
Content="{TemplateBinding Title}" Margin="24,17,0,-7"/>
<Primitives:PivotHeadersControl x:Name="HeadersListElement"
Grid.Row="1"/>
<ItemsPresenter x:Name="PivotItemPresenter"
Margin="{TemplateBinding Padding}" Grid.Row="2"/>
</Grid>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
Dont forget to use:
xmlns:phone="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Controls;assembly=Microsoft.Phone"
xmlns:Primitives="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Controls.Primitives;assembly=Microsoft.Phone"

How to change appearance of TabItems in a scrolling WPF TabControl?

I have a scrolling TabControl, using a ScrollViewer and StackPanel (with the StackPanel set as IsItemsHost="true"). To begin with, I am working from a solution originally outlined here - Creating Scrolling Tabs Using WPF's TabControl . At the moment it has broken links (Edit: I have tracked down one instance of his code in a forum here - How to prevent TabControl from doing multi rows?), so here is the xaml for the TabControl (does not require any further code):
<TabControl x:Name="TabControl2" Height="Auto" TabStripPlacement="Bottom" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Template="{DynamicResource TabControlControlTemplate1}" IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem="True">
<TabControl.Resources>
<Style x:Key="TabScrollerRepeatButtonStyle" TargetType="{x:Type RepeatButton}">
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate>
<Border Background="{TemplateBinding Background}" BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}" BorderThickness="1" Margin="1,0">
<ContentPresenter HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" Content="{TemplateBinding ContentControl.Content}"/>
</Border>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
<ControlTemplate x:Key="TabControlControlTemplate1" TargetType="{x:Type TabControl}">
<Grid x:Name="Grid" KeyboardNavigation.TabNavigation="Local">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition x:Name="ColumnDefinition0"/>
<ColumnDefinition x:Name="ColumnDefinition1" Width="0"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition x:Name="RowDefinition0" Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition x:Name="RowDefinition1" Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Border Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0" x:Name="ContentPanel" BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}" BorderThickness="0,0,1,1" KeyboardNavigation.TabIndex="2" KeyboardNavigation.TabNavigation="Local" KeyboardNavigation.DirectionalNavigation="Contained">
<Border x:Name="Border" BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}" BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}">
<Border Background="{TemplateBinding Background}" x:Name="Border1">
<ContentPresenter DataContext="{x:Null}" Margin="{TemplateBinding Padding}" x:Name="PART_SelectedContentHost" Content="{TemplateBinding SelectedContent}" ContentTemplate="{TemplateBinding SelectedContentTemplate}" ContentTemplateSelector="{TemplateBinding SelectedContentTemplateSelector}" ContentSource="SelectedContent"/>
</Border>
</Border>
</Border>
<ScrollViewer x:Name="HeaderPanel" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" Margin="0,0,0,0" HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Auto" VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Disabled">
<ScrollViewer.Style>
<Style TargetType="{x:Type ScrollViewer}">
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate>
<Grid Margin="0,0,0,0" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" x:Name="HeaderPanel">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="20"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="20"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="20"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RepeatButton Grid.Column="1" Content="<" Command="ScrollBar.LineLeftCommand" Style="{DynamicResource TabScrollerRepeatButtonStyle}" Visibility="{Binding Path=ComputedHorizontalScrollBarVisibility, Mode=OneWay, RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}}"/>
<ScrollContentPresenter Grid.Column="2" Content="{TemplateBinding ScrollViewer.Content}" />
<RepeatButton Grid.Column="3" Content=">" Command="ScrollBar.LineRightCommand" Style="{DynamicResource TabScrollerRepeatButtonStyle}" Visibility="{Binding Path=ComputedHorizontalScrollBarVisibility, Mode=OneWay, RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}}"/>
</Grid>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
</ScrollViewer.Style>
<StackPanel IsItemsHost="true" Orientation="Horizontal" Background="{x:Null}" KeyboardNavigation.TabIndex="1"/>
</ScrollViewer>
</Grid>
</ControlTemplate>
</TabControl.Resources>
<TabItem x:Name="TabItem1" Header="TabItem1"/>
<TabItem x:Name="TabItem2" Header="TabItem2"/>
</TabControl>
How might I adjust the appearance of each TabItem? For instance, I would like to place a TextBox and TextBlock inside each TabItem, with the help of a StackPanel, so that I can have renameable tabs (collapsing one or the other as appropriate). I might also want to add a close button on each tab. Ordinarily, I would use something like the following:
<TabControl.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<StackPanel Name="panel" Orientation="Horizontal">
<TextBox Name="editHeader" Text="{Binding Header}" MaxWidth="250"/>
<TextBlock Name="textHeader" Text="{Binding Header}" />
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</TabControl.ItemTemplate>
.. but this is having no effect at all. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.
Edit: I am still trying to figure this out. Is it possible that the solution could involve ContentPresenter and/or SelectedContentTemplate?
Edit 2: (this doesn't add value to my question) I really, really wish WPF included something of this sort out of the box. I am baffled by TabControl's default behavior, and by the fact that there is no scrollable TabControl (nor simple solution for attaining one) after some years.

Hey guesser. I've done something similar, I based mine off of this series though
http://www.blogs.intuidev.com/post/2010/post/2010/01/25/TabControlStyling_PartOne.aspx
The method used is to simply style the tabitems template. eg:
<TabControl.Resources>
<Style TargetType="{x:Type TabItem}">
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type TabItem}">
<!-- your custom template goes here -->
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
</TabControl.Resources>
Unforunately this method means you will have to completely redefine the way the tab items look and behave. But the provided link gives good examples on how achieve this.
Hope it helps.

Just a thought,
have you tried just adding the text block to the TabItem.Header? If you do this instead of a template it might work. Has for me in the past

I think I've got it (though still crossing fingers a bit -- I haven't yet dealt with Visibility of the TextBlock vs TextBox for renaming).
It is similar to Val's solution in that I'm working in TabControl.Resources on its TabItem, but the Property concerned is HeaderTemplate and I just override the ContentPresenter in a DataTemplate. (measures to avoid replacing\destroying a lot of good behavior that comes for free with the TabControl)
<TabControl.Resources>
<Style TargetType="{x:Type TabItem}">
<Setter Property="HeaderTemplate">
<Setter.Value>
<DataTemplate>
<ContentPresenter>
<ContentPresenter.Content>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<TextBlock Text="{TemplateBinding Content}"/>
<TextBox Text="{TemplateBinding Content}"/>
</StackPanel>
</ContentPresenter.Content>
</ContentPresenter>
</DataTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
</TabControl.Resources>
I'm somewhat of a WPF newb, so this is basically a result of persistent experimentation with what I could find Googling. For those interested, this link (on StackOverflow) helped me most in the end - WPF TabItem Header Styling