Hidden WPF: Secrets for Creating Great Applications in Windows Presentation Foundation

Creating a LinkLabel Control

Unfortunately, WPF doesn’t offer a native implementation of the LinkLabel control, as Windows Forms does—but creating one is an easy task. The base is a Label control, in which the context is not plain text but rather a Hyperlink control. The following example demonstrates how to create a label that points to my blog:

<Label Width="150" Height="30">   <Hyperlink    NavigateUri= "http://community.visual-basic.it/AlessandroEnglish"    Hyperlink.RequestNavigate= "Hyperlink_RequestNavigate">    <TextBlock Text="Alessandro Del Sole" />   </Hyperlink></Label>

The text shown in the hyperlink is contained inside a TextBlock control and its Text property. The NavigateUri property contains the web address associated to the ...