How to display rtf in metro app?

Question

How can I show rtf strings in a RichTextBlock (or any other UI text element)? There's no rtf property I could use (different from .net I think). And if I bind the string to the normal text property I only get the rtf code itself.

So is there a way to do this? Otherwise I'd display the string as HTML in a WebView element. But I'd prefer a RichTextBlock.

Answer 1

Use a RichEditBox instead of RichTextBlock. You can inject RTF with RichEditBox.Document.SetText() method. RichTextBlock isn't an RTF control and doesn't understand RTF. The RichEditBox is the only in-box control which supports RTF. If you don't want to use that then you would need to parse the RTF yourself and create the block elements for the RichTextBlock.