Question

Suppose I have some XAML like this:

<Window.Resources>   <v:MyClass x:Key='whatever' Text='foo\nbar' /> </Window.Resources> 

Obviously I want a newline character in the MyClass.Text property, but the XAML parser constructs the object with the literal string ‘foo\nbar’.

Is there (a) a way to convince the parser to translate escape sequences, or (b) a .NET method to interpret a string in the way that the C# compiler would?

I realize that I can go in there looking for \n sequences, but it would be nicer to have a generic way to do this.

Answer 1

You can use XML character escaping

<TextBlock Text='Hello&#13;World!'/>