Providing a user option to input text

The TextBox control in WPF is used to allow the user to input plain text in a single line or multiline format. A single-line textbox is the commonly used control for form inputs; whereas the multiline textbox is used like an editor.

Getting ready

Open your Visual Studio IDE, and create a new project named CH02.TextBoxDemo, based on the WPF application template.

How to do it...

Once the project gets created, follow the mentioned steps to play with some of the TextBox properties:

1. Open the MainWindow.xaml page, and replace the default Grid with a StackPanel so that we can add the controls in a stacked fashion.
2. Now add five TextBox controls inside the StackPanel, and set various properties, as follows:

<StackPanel Margin="10 10 10 20">
        <TextBox Height="30" Margin="10 5"
                 Text="Hello"/>
        <TextBox Text="Hello WPF!"
                 FontSize="18" Foreground="Blue"
                 FontWeight="Bold"
                 Height...