With each iteration of the Windows Phone OS, it's getting nearer to converging with the Windows desktop OS (Windows 8.x). The most recent Windows Phone update includes support for universal ...

Silverlight exposes an element named ImageBrush that can be used to show images within XAML objects. The ImageBrush element is useful any time you'd like to "paint" a PNG or JPEG image into a ...

TextBlock wrapping of text in Silverlight XAML file. I have a wierd and annoying problem. I have a textblock that is inside a stackpanel that is Oriented horizontal. It would be nice if I could have ...

When a TextBlock has FlowDirection="RightToLeft", the Padding values appear to be mirrored — the first padding value (intended for the left) is applied to the right instead. I’m currently implementing ...

I need to create a label in a Winform that word wraps a block of text and grows or shrinks (height-wise) based on the length of the text. (IOW, behave just like in HTML or a WPF TextBlock) <BR>I know ...