Building a Resizable Silverlight Control

When building a Silverlight control, in some situations, you need the visual elements of the control to scale according to the size of the control. Sometimes, this is easy because you can simply leave the height and width dimensions unspecified for the visual elements and they will fill to consume the available space in the parent container. But in more complex situations, you need to be able to specify the dimensions of the visual elements in your control.