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Add the control assembly to your Silverlight project. Then, add an XMLNS prefix to your Silverlight page where you’d like to use the control.

There are two properties of interest that should be set or bound: SourceCode (the actual source text), and SourceLanguage

Embedding a font is as simple as selecting the “Embed” checkbox in the text properties panel.
One thing to note when embedding the font “Myriad Pro” the xap file size becomes 831 kb.

In this article, Jeremy Likness sets out on a quest to be able to take a simple set of text, formatted for a text block, and generate inline links.

The first step is to simply open your solution, start a new Silverlight 3 application, and get rolling with some text. The easiest way to grab text is to visit Lorem Ipsum, where you can request however much text you need and it will generate the paragraphs for you. I just grabbed a few sentences and set the width of my control to 200 so I could show the text wrapping. 

In this short post Laurent Duveau demonstrates how to create a bulleted list in Silverlight.

Today I wanted to add a bulleted list of text items in a xaml page, as there is no BulletedList control in Silverlight, you have to do it yourself. But I don’t need a databound list, just something simple in a TextBlock, so here is what I ended with, using <LineBreak> and <Run> elements.

Here are some main decisions for the label control:

• It derived from Control, because one should not be able to add a child control to it (just like the normal TextBlock control)
• The template is hardcoded, because nobody should be able to change it.
• The text trimming functionality is implemented in the MeasureOverride method, because it’s the only place I get the available space from the parent element (including infinity) [...]

There’s plenty of room for improvement here. Specifically, I’m just shortening the text one character at a time. I’m pretty confident that could be improved. Also, I only have the equivalent of TextTrimming=”CharacterEllipses” and not TextTrimming=”WordEllipses” but that one should be pretty easy to add too.

In this next post on the new features of Silverlight 3 Jesse Liberty talks about the Multi-Select List Box and shows a working example of it.

In Silverlight 3 the standard ListBox now has a SelectionMode property which is filled from an enumerated constant whose possible values are

    •    Single
    •    Multiple
    •    Extended

Creating and using a multi-select list box requires only setting the property and retrieving the values. In the following example we create a multi-select list box, a button to indicate that our selection is complete, and a TextBlock to display the retrieved values.

Dante Gagne has a post about Silverlight TextBlock with tracking.

Yes, that is right, there is no Label control in Silverlight. Instead you should use the new control System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock. Keep in mind that it can display only text, no images or other type of content, just text.

Xaml

<TextBlock x:Name="statusText" Text="Active" TextWrapping="Wrap" TextAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Center"/>

C#

TextBlock statusText = new TextBlock();

statusText.Text = "Active";

statusText.TextWrapping = TextWrapping.Wrap;

statusText.TextAlignment = TextAlignment.Left;

statusText.VerticalAlignment = VerticalAlignment.Center;

That's it!