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SymbolIcon

SymbolIcon provides an easy way to use a glyph from the Segoe UI Symbol font. Segoe UI Symbol is like a modern version of the Wingdings font, with many icons matching the style of Windows. SymbolIcon has a single Symbol property that can be set to a value from the Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls.Symbol enumeration to select a glyph via a friendly name. This impressive list of values is shown in Table 9.1.

TABLE 9.1 The Values from the Symbol Enumeration That Can Be Used for a SymbolIcon

The XAML for Figure 9.3 shows that a type converter ...

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