Wpf – How to get ScrollViewer to work inside a StackPanel

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In the following WPF XAML the ScrollViewer does not work (it displays a scroll bar but you cannot scroll and the contents go off the window to the bottom).

I can change the outer StackPanel to a Grid and it will work.

However, in my application from which I reproduced the following code, I need to have an outer StackPanel. What do I have to do to the StackPanel to make the ScrollViewer show a usable scrollbar? e.g. VerticalAlignment="Stretch" Height="Auto" don't work. 

 <StackPanel>
        <ScrollViewer>
            <StackPanel>
                <TextBlock Text="This is a test"/>
                <TextBlock Text="This is a test"/>
                <TextBlock Text="This is a test"/>
                <TextBlock Text="This is a test"/>
                <TextBlock Text="This is a test"/>
                <TextBlock Text="This is a test"/>
                <TextBlock Text="This is a test"/>
                <TextBlock Text="This is a test"/>
                <TextBlock Text="This is a test"/>
                <TextBlock Text="This is a test"/>
                <TextBlock Text="This is a test"/>
                <TextBlock Text="This is a test"/>
                <TextBlock Text="This is a test"/>
                <TextBlock Text="This is a test"/>
                <TextBlock Text="This is a test"/>
                <TextBlock Text="This is a test"/>
                <TextBlock Text="This is a test"/>
                <TextBlock Text="This is a test"/>
                <TextBlock Text="This is a test"/>
                <TextBlock Text="This is a test"/>
                <TextBlock Text="This is a test"/>
                <TextBlock Text="This is a test"/>
                <TextBlock Text="This is a test"/>
                <TextBlock Text="This is a test"/>
                <TextBlock Text="This is a test"/>
                <TextBlock Text="This is a test"/>
                <TextBlock Text="This is a test"/>
            </StackPanel>
        </ScrollViewer>
 </StackPanel>

Best Answer

This was bugging me for a while too, the trick is to put your stackpanel within a scrollviewer.

Also, you need to ensure that you set the CanContentScroll property of the scroll viewer to True, here's an example:

  <ScrollViewer Grid.Row="1" Margin="299,12,34,54" Name="ScrollViewer1" VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto" HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Auto" Height="195" CanContentScroll="True">
        <StackPanel Name="StackPanel1" OverridesDefaultStyle="False"  Height="193" Width="376" VerticalAlignment="Top" HorizontalAlignment="Left"></StackPanel>
  </ScrollViewer>
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