Question

I have a text box which is bound to a data service to get its contents. At the moment the data service puts a number between 1 and 9 into that text box. What I need to do is based on that value replace the contents of that text box with a string. So for example if the original contents of the textbox was “1” instead it would be replaced with “1 – Example text here”

Below is the code where the text box is defined.

<StackPanel Margin="0,0,0,17" Width="432">
    <TextBlock Text="{Binding Category1}" TextWrapping="Wrap" Margin="12,-6,12,0" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextNormalStyle}"/>
    <TextBlock Text="{Binding Category2}" TextWrapping="Wrap" Margin="12,-6,12,0" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextNormalStyle}"/>
    <TextBlock Text="{Binding Category3}" TextWrapping="Wrap" Margin="12,-6,12,0" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextNormalStyle}"/>
</StackPanel>

I thought that possibly I would use an else if statement but I don’t know how to reference the textblock from within that if statement.

Thanks for your help

Answer 1

You need to name the TextBlock so it can ve referenced by the code behind so something like the code below will work

 <TextBlock x:Name="tb1" Text="{Binding Category1}" TextWrapping="Wrap" Margin="12,-6,12,0" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextNormalStyle}"/>

if (tb1.Text == "something")
        {
            DoSomething();
        }
        else
        {
            DoSomethingElse();
        }