Functional Controls to Improve Usability

Functional controls such as Label, TextBlock, Border, ToolTip, Menu, and ContextMenu help to organize and categorize information and different actions and provide useful visual guidance while you are working on the application.

Label

Supported By

WPF

Yes

Silverlight

Yes (SDK)

The System.Windows.Controls.Label control provides user interface information with support for a shortcut access key. Unlike traditional Windows Forms label controls, the XAML Label control can not only display simple text but can also contain any UIElement because the Label class inherits from the System.Windows.Controls.ContentControl class.

The Label control provides a Target dependency property that defines which element should gain ...

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