Having hardcoded text with a binding in a TextBlock

Question

In WPF, is there any way to have the Text property of a TextBlock to contain both hard coded text and a specific binding?

What I have in mind is something along the lines of the following (ofcourse, the below doesn't compile):

<TextBlock Text="Number of Fans: {Binding Artist.Fans.Count}"></TextBlock>

Solution 1

There is, if you are on .Net 3.5 SP1

<TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Artist.Fans.Count, 
                 StringFormat='Number of Fans: {0}'}" />

Solution 2

In using the above approach:

<TextBlock Text="{Binding Path="Artist.Fans.Count, 
                  StringFormat='Number of Fans: {0}'}" />

I found it somewhat restrictive in that I couldn't find a way to bold face inside the StringFormat nor could I use an apostrophe in the StringFormat.

Instead I went with this approach, which worked better for me:

<TextBlock TextWrapping="Wrap">
    <Run>The value</Run>
    <Run Text="{Binding Path=MyProperty1, Mode=OneWay}" FontWeight="Bold" />
    <Run>was invalid. Please enter it with the format... </Run>
    <LineBreak/><LineBreak/>
    <Run>Here is another value in the program</Run>
    <Run Text="{Binding Path=MyProperty2, Mode=OneWay}" FontWeight="Bold" />
</TextBlock>                    

Solution 3

Use Binding.StringFormat:

<TextBlock Text="{Binding Artist.Fans.Count, StringFormat='Number of Fans: {0}'}"/>

Solution 4

Here the binding value(clouds.all) is added with "%". You can add any value you want after "\{0\}".

 <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=clouds.all, StringFormat=\{0\}%}"/>

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Comments

[Nathan Tuggy]

Could you please edit in an explanation of why this code answers the question? Code-only answers are discouraged, because they don't teach the solution.

[reza.cse08]

@Nathan I edit my answer. Is it helpful now? Thank for your advice.

[Johan Aspeling]

Is this possible to use multiple outputs, similar to args[] in the string.Format([1], [2], [3],...[n])?

[BenKoshy]

hi Danko - would you know how to make it work with property element syntax?

[WeSam Abdallah]

it's missing escaping \{0\}

[CAD bloke]

... or use 2 bindings in the same TextBlock