… in wpf (not Silverlight) means that the first column is 10x wider than the second. It's like saying “10 parts column 1, and 1 part column 2.” The cool thing about this is that your columns will resize proportionally.
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//eat up all available space that enclosing container has
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//Take up as much space as the contents of the column need
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//Fixed width: 100 pixels