From the course: Windows Presentation Foundation 5: Interaction and Controls

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Overview

- [Instructor] WPF sports several text controls and a number of document specific elements. Broadly speaking, you can categorize the elements as follows. There are text display elements, which excel at showing read only content on the screen. There are editors, which provide editable boxes on the screen. In the editor, you can write text, edit, and rearrange the text, and in some cases, change the format of characters and words. There are document specific elements, too. These document elements work in conjunction with the display and editor controls. These elements allow fine tune control over the content of a text document. I'll be demonstrating some of these controls in this XAML file, AllTheText.xaml. We'll start by looking at the Read-Only text display. I have three, Label, TextBlock, and AccessText. Label has a history in Windows. If you go back prior to WPF in the Windows Forms days, or in the old VB days, there was a concept of a label. In the HTML world, in markup, there's a…

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