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by
kirupa | 27 March 2008
In the
previous page,
we started creating our Hello World app and made
quite a bit a progress by drawing a textfield on our
design surface. In this page, let's pick up from
where we left off and continue making more
modifications:
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First, let's
customize our text a little bit. Select your
textblock, and make sure you are displaying your
Properties panel by clicking on the Properties
tab found towards the top-right of your window:
[ click on the Properties tab to see all of the
properties available for your textblock ]
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Your Properties
panel contains all of the various knobs and
buttons you can tweak to modify your selected
control. The Properties panel is also categorized
to help you find similar sets of properties.
We want to change both the font used and the
font size, so let's find the Text category where
we can accomplish both of those tasks:
[ find the Text category which contains....text
properties! ]
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From your Text
category, find the font size drop-down menu.
Click on that menu and select a large number
such as 36:
[ change your font size to 36 ]
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From this same
area (to the left of your font size drop-down
menu), you will also see a drop-down menu to
select which font your text will be displayed
in. The default is usually Arial, but let's
change it to Trebuchet MS.
Click on the
font drop-down menu, and select Trebuchet MS:
[ select the Trebuchet MS font ]
After
having made both your font and font size changes,
your textblock's text will look a little bit
different now:
[ your textblock's text reflects the new font
modifications you made ]
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All this time, we
have been making modifications to a textblock
control that displays the text
TextBlock. Let's change our text
to actually say hello, world.
In your
Properties Panel, find your Text property. It
will be located inside the Common Properties
category which is located directly above your
Text category:
[ find the Text property under Common Properties ]
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Change the
displayed TextBlock text to instead say
hello, world.
Once you have done that, press Enter to accept
your changes. Your textblock will now look like
the following:
[ your textblock no longer says TextBlock
]
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If you are curious
to see how this looks in your browser, simply
hit F5 or go to Project | Test Solution. A few
seconds later, your browser will launch with
your hello, world text displayed:
[ you can preview your creation in your browser ]
We are making great
progress, and the light at the end of the tunnel is
now visible! We'll wrap things up on the
next page!
Onwards to the
next page!
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Creating Hello World in Silverlight
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