Question

How can I obtain the lenght of a string (given a font , size weight etc) in Pixels? I have seen recomendations to try System.Drawing.Graphics.* but that Assembly / Namespace doesn’t seem to be available to me in silverlight.

I hope to center a text box under an image, but the text is provided dynamically.

Answer 1

Since your goal is to Centre the TextBox don’t mess around with calculating width etc. Just tell the Container to centre the textbox.

eg.

<Grid>
    <Image Source="ToolBox Avatar.png" Stretch="Fill"/>
    <TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" Text="TextBlock" TextWrapping="Wrap"/>
</Grid>