What I want to be more specific is an element I can use for grouping a set of other elements, without effecting their layout. The only thing it should do besides giving a nicer XAML by grouping related elements in their own parent tag is to propagate ambient properties such as DataContext. It should be a purely logical element without any visual. Is there something in WPF/XAML intended to be used like this?
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Visual Studio 2019 contains a snippet for collapsible region tags.
You can access this by typing #region and hitting tab twice.
It enters the following lines of code:
<!--#region MyRegion-->
<MyComponent />
<MyComponent />
<!--#endregion-->
It sounds like this is the tag you were looking for. As it is a comment tag, it doesn't allow any special interaction, so it won't propagate ambient properties unfortunately.
It does allow you to collapse the region in VS though.
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