Question

In XAML, if you insert

<TextBlock Text="Hello World" />

You will see the words “Hello World”.

If you insert

<TextBlock Text="{Binding}" />

it will trigger the data binding functionality. But what if I really wanted the display text to be “{Binding}”?”

Are there the equivalent of escape characters in XAML strings?

Or is my only solution to do this:

<TextBlock>Binding</TextBlock>

Answer 1

You can escape the entire string with “{}”:

<TextBlock Text="{}{Binding}"/>

Or individual curly braces can be escaped with a backslash:

<TextBlock Text="{Binding Foo,StringFormat='Hello \{0\}'}" />