Using the TextBlock control to add plain text

The TextBlock control in WPF is a lightweight UI element, which is used to display text content to the screen. Almost everywhere, you will use this element in your application UI to display plain text in a single line or a multiline format. To add simple plain text, you can either write <TextBlock Text="Text message" /> or <TextBlock>Text message</TextBlock> in your XAML page.

In this recipe, we will explore more about this UI element.

Getting ready

To get started, open your Visual Studio IDE, and create a new WPF project called CH02.TextBlockDemo.

How to do it...

Now open the MainWindow.xaml, and follow these steps to add TextBlock control with various formatting options:

1. First, change the pre-existing Grid panel to a StackPanel.
2. Now add the following two TextBlock controls to it, which will have plain text in them:

<TextBlock Text="1. This is a TextBlock control, with 'Text'   
   property" Margin="10 5" /> 
<TextBlock Margin...