Hour 10. Text
What You’ll Learn in This Hour:
How to display text and exploit numerous formatting options
How to enable users to input plain text, rich text, and passwords
You’ve seen TextBlock
a number of times in this book, but it’s not the only text control available. It also is a much richer control than most people expect. This hour covers the two “blocks”—TextBlock
and RichTextBlock
—designed for displaying text, and the analogous two “boxes”—TextBox
and RichEditBox
—designed for displaying and editing text. It also examines the special-purpose ...
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