TextBlock Control in Windows Store App

The TextBlock Control displays static (read-only) text in a Windows Store app simply by assigning the text in string format to the Text property of the TextBlock control.

The text property of the textblock control above will simply output whatever you write in it.

Note: However a TextBlock also provides the ability to display a series of strings in a Textblock with different formatting or break the line of text by using the "Run" and "Linebreak" element.

<Run FontFamily="Arial" FontWeight="ExtraBold" Foreground="Red" FontSize="14">Second line text</Run>

<Run FontFamily="Gigi" FontSize="15" FontWeight="ExtraBold" Foreground="Blue" >Third line text</Run>

</TextBlock>

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Summary

A Textblock is just like the label control of the .Net framework. Both are used to display static text. In a Windows Store app however the label control is not available; instead of the label control, use a Textblock control.