RichTextBlock
A typical first reaction to discovering the RichTextBlock element is, “Isn’t TextBlock already rich?” TextBlock can do a lot when it comes to formatting text, but RichTextBlock adds two big new tricks:
Embedding arbitrary UIElements among text
Letting text overflow into separate elements, which enables multicolumn text or other custom text layouts
Except for these two features, TextBlock and RichTextBlock are almost identical. They expose the same methods, properties, and events, although RichTextBlock happens to have an extra
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