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How to display links in TextBlock?

I want to show a long list of reviews which may contain links. how can I show them so the user can click and open links?
this question has been asked a lot, but I couldn't find a functional answer, this obsolete answer seems isn't working:
<TextBlock>
<Run>let me</Run>
<Hyperlink NavigateUri="http://www.google.com">google</Hyperlink>
<Run>that for you</Run>
</TextBlock>
Also RichTextBox doesn't support Data Binding does it?
reviews will be shown inside a LongListSelector like this:
<phone:LongListSelector ItemsSource="{Binding Reviews}">
<phone:LongListSelector.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<TextBlock Text={Binding Review}/>
</DataTemplate>
</phone:LongListSelector.ItemTemplate>
</phone:LongListSelector>

You are missing Text Property,
Here is a complete example of how to add links inside RichTextBox
Hyperlink inside rich textbox

Copying Xaml RichTextBlock text with InlineUIContainers

I am working with some RichTextBlock objects that contain InlineUIContainer elements. I would like to be able to select and copy all of the text including the text contained in the InlineUIContainer.
Currently, when I select all of the text in the block, the text contained in the InlineUIContainer objects are skipped.
Here is an example of what I'm creating:
<RichTextBlock IsTextSelectionEnabled="True">
<Paragraph FontSize="20">
<Bold>This text is selectable</Bold>
<InlineUIContainer FontFamily="Global User Interface">
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<TextBlock FontSize="11" VerticalAlignment="Top" Margin="0,0,-1,0">Super Script Text</TextBlock>
<HyperlinkButton ClickMode="Release" Style="{StaticResource NoMarginHyperlinkButtonStyle}">
Link
</HyperlinkButton>
</StackPanel>
</InlineUIContainer>
This text is also selectable
</Paragraph>
</RichTextBlock>
If I select all of the text from this piece of Xaml and copy/paste it in NotePad, I don't get the Super Script Text or the Link text.
Is there any way to get all of the text selected?

This is because HyperlinkButton is not part of the document API and in fact a UIElement wrapped in InlineUIContainer. There are 2 ways to handle this.
Switch to Windows 8.1 and Hyperlink which inherits from TextElement and copy will work just fine.
This is the hard way, if you must support this in Windows 8.
Remove the default Context menu items for the RichTextBlock and replace with your own Copy Command. Which should get the 2 TextPointers i.e. RichtextBlock.SelectionStart and RichTextBlock.SelectionEnd
Now with WPF we could get a TextRange within this range but winRT does not expose it, so you will need to do it in your code...
Get all the block within the RichTextBlock, and iterate through each to check if it's ContentStart and ContentEnd is within the RTB.SelectionStart and RTB.SelectionEnd if so then add them to a list.
Now it should be easy to extract all the Runs and Bold/Italics from this list and any InlineUIContainers hosting HyperlinkButtons.
2 This is not really a good way to go as it will be hard to allow for margins etc. on Paragraphs etc.

Can I implement ScrollToHorizontalOffset() functionality in XAML? (for a dynamic list)

Here's the problem: I have a data-bound list of items, basically a way for users to map a request to a response. The response is an xml-based file. I'm letting them queue these up, so I've used a combobox for responses. The responses will include the full path, so they get a bit long. I want the displayed text of the combobox to be right-justified so the user can see the file name. For my static controls, I just use ScrollToHorizontalOffset() when a file is loaded and I'm done. For this dynamic list, I'd like to do it in xaml.
The "somewhat ugly" solution would be to store all the ComboBox objects as they load... then I can call ScrollToHorizontalOffset() directly, but I'd really prefer to do it a cleaner way than that! EDIT: (Actually, this may not be reasonable. A quick look at trying to hack around this issue gets into some really awkward situations trying to map my datasource items to the controls)
I've tried HorizontalContentAlignment, that only impacts the "dropped-down" portion of the ComboBox.
I've also tried to hook other various loading events, but haven't found one that works.

Using an Item template you can decide what will be shown.
You can set tooltip. You can then also use converters to add the dots.
<ComboBox x:Name="ConfigurationComboBox" VerticalContentAlignment="Center" ToolTip="saved configuration" SelectionChanged="ConfigurationComboBox_SelectionChanged">
<ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate >
<StackPanel>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding}" ToolTip="{Binding Path}"></TextBlock>
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
</ComboBox>
To measure the text, see Measuring text in WPF.

WPF highlighting

Anyone has any idea how to highlight in a textblock?
Basically i have 2 textblock and both have the same string. When I highlight part of the string in one of the textblock, the other textblock shows the same highlighted part as well. I am basically stuck at how to do the highlighting.
Thanks in advance

Do you have a TextBlock or a TextBox? I'm going to assume it's a TextBox, since TextBlock does not support text selection.
In that case, you can simply use data binding to keep this in sync.
<TextBox Name="text1" />
<TextBox Name="text2"
SelectionStart="{Binding Path=SelectionStart, ElementName=text1}"
SelectionLength="{Binding Path=SelectionLength, ElementName=text1}" />
This should ensure that the same area of text is selected in text2 when the user selects it in text1 and vice-versa.
EDIT See this answer for instructions on how to bind to these properties.
If you create a custom TextBox as described in the linked answer, your code would look something like this:
<SelectionBindingTextBox Name="text1" />
<SelectionBindingTextBox Name="text2"
BindableSelectionStart="{Binding Path=BindableSelectionStart, ElementName=text1}"
BindableSelectionLength="{Binding Path=BindableSelectionLength, ElementName=text1}" />

Binding with a converter inside a template

I have defined a DataTemplate for a ListBox. Inside the template, I use TextBlock controls to display the properties of the data context. For example:
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=FirstName}" />
And if I do this:
<TextBlock Visibility="{Binding Path=IsAccountValid}" />
...the application runs, but there is a warning in the output about trying to bind a boolean property to a Visibility enumeration.
If I do this:
<TextBlock Visibility="{Binding Path=IsAccountValid,Converter={StaticResource visibilityOfBool}}" />
and somewhere in my App.xaml is:
<BooleanToVisibilityConverter x:Key="visibilityOfBool" />
I get a null reference exception.
I suspected this might be because the property IsAccountValid is not a dependency property, so I added a CheckBox to the window, and did this:
<TextBlock Visibility="{Binding Path=IsChecked,Converter={StaticResource visibilityOfBool},ElementName=butA}" />
But got the same error.
Why? The DataContext object is valid because if I bind IsAccountValid to the Text property, the value is correctly displayed.
The converter is never called, so I am wondering if it is the converter that cannot be found.
Why can the converter not be found? Why can the converter be found outside the data template and not inside the data template?
I tried building the template again with Blend, as Blend usually gets it right, but the code it generated was the same as mine.
I tried some of the fixes suggested on this website, including setting RelativeSource to TemplateParent and Self, but it made no difference.
What is going on?

We use such converter all the time in our Data Templates. Do you define the converter key inside your resource dictionary? Merge another Resource Dictionary?

The IsAccountValid property doesn't have to be a dependency property. If the converter couldn't be found then you wouldn't be able to open the form. You have the right approach using the converter but it is difficult to say exactly what is causing the exception without seeing more information.

As Amittai and Chris pointed out, it seems that you're headed in the right direction. I know it sounds a bit stupid, but try to add a space between the comma and the Converter= statement in the binding. Like so:
<TextBlock Visibility="{Binding Path=IsAccountValid, Converter={StaticResource visibilityOfBool}}" />
On some systems there are weird symptoms when there's no space after the comma. I couldn't find the actual reason for that.

Thank you all for your help in my investigation.
I have solved the problem.
These two lines of code are included in the DataTemplate, one is a TextBlock, and one is a hyperlink:
<TextBlock Text="Hello" Visibility="{Binding IsChecked,ElementName=chkBox,Converter={StaticResource visibilityOfBool}}" />
and
<TextBlock Grid.Column="1" >
<Hyperlink Click="ProgHomePageHyperlink_Click" >
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Title}" />
</Hyperlink>
</TextBlock>
When they are both included in the code, the runtime throws a null reference exception.
But if I comment one of them out, either the TextBlock or the HyperLink, everything runs ok.
If I remove the Click handler from the hyperlink, everything runs ok.
If I comment out the converter in the TextBlock, the application runs, but I get a mismatched binding warning, which is well deserved.
So, including a Click handler in the hyperlink means the converter in the TextBlock cannot be found.
How weird is that!