Question

I want to have a multiline text nicely formatted and displayed in silverlight 4.0.
I think, it would be nice to use TextBox for that purpose (possibility of adjusting the background color and so forth).

My text would like like the following:

First row            aaaaaaa   
Second row           bbbbbbbb  
Third row            53456.00
Fourth row           66

Basically, what is the best approach to get nicely formatted text – I want to “first… row” to be aligned left, wheres “aaaa ….” aligned right for each row.

Thanks for the clues and hints!

Cheers

Answer 1

Looks to me like you are after an items control, here is a starter:-

     <ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding YourData}">
        <ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
            <DataTemplate>
                <Grid>
                    <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                        <ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
                        <ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
                    </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                    <TextBlock Text="{Binding RowText}" />
                    <TextBlock Text="{Binding RowValue}" Grid.Column="1"/>
                </Grid>
            </DataTemplate>
        </ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
    </ItemsControl>