Question

I need to display special characters in TextBlock from string in code.

<TextBlock x:Name="tboxData" TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="&gt;&gt; &lt;&lt;" />

is working, but I need to do it from c#:

tboxData.Text = ">> <<";

And this doesn’t print >> << in TextBlock.

How can I do it?

Answer 1

Assuming you might need to use encoded characters for some reason (perhaps you’re not using literals and are reading in an xml file or something):

tboxData.Text = System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(">> <<")

Note that you’ll have to add a reference to the System.Web assembly.