This had me stuck for a little while. I always like to add a resize grip to my forms as it provides a bigger target for resizing the form (
remember Fitts' Law?).
In Windows forms you would simply set the SizeGripStyle for the Form to show to achieve this.

However, if you were using a StatusBar (or StatusStrip as it was called in WinForms) you could easily accidentally cover up the resize handle so you had to make sure that the StatusStrip's
various Grip related properties are set...

Fortunately, things get much simpler in WPF. The StatusBar control no longer contains any grip related nonsense and it's just a matter of setting the Window's ResizeMode to CanResizeWithGrip. And this works even if you have a StatusBar :)

Wonderful (but took me a while to find!).

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Josh Twist
12:49 AM
29 Jun 2007
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Posted by
Jerry
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22 May 2009
6:57 AM
Cool! I couldn't find it either. Thanks. I've been a Sybase Powerbuilder developer for the past 15 years and am just startting to develop .NET apps using VS2008 and I love WPF!
Posted by
SeriousDen
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23 Nov 2009
9:39 PM
???????, ? ???? ????? ?? ????? ???? grip, ??????? ??? ? ???? ???????! =)
Posted by
Matt McGregor
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02 Feb 2010
1:00 PM
Thanks dude, couldn't see it either.
Posted by
Matthew Overall
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13 Oct 2010
10:16 PM
Thank you so much, I couldn't figure out how to get it to show up.
Posted by
Dave
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29 Jul 2011
5:26 PM
Thank you very much for posting this - I thought I had to write my own control to get this to function this way!