Pro WPF 4.5 in VB: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4.5

CHAPTER 28

Documents

Using the WPF skills you’ve picked up so far, you can craft windows and pages that include a wide variety of elements. Displaying fixed text is easy—you simply need to add the TextBlock and Label elements to the mix.

However, using the Label and TextBlock elements isn’t a good solution if you need to display large volumes of text (such as a newspaper article or detailed instructions for online help). Large amounts of text are particularly problematic if you want your text to fit in a resizable window in the best possible way. For example, if you pile a large swath of text into a TextBlock and stretch it to fit a wide window, ...