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FlowDocumentReader Arabic strings
30 July 09 10:48 AM | Dina Lasheen | 0 Comments   

I had a customer question about how to use FlowDocumentReader in WPF, for Arabic text. I thought this was a good opportunity to share with you this short sample. This is a FlowDocumentReader that displays an Arabic FlowDocument. I included diacritics Read More...

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WPF Sample for Drawing Text
25 December 08 10:46 AM | Dina Lasheen | 1 Comments   

In my earlier post , I mentioned the different consideration when dealing with rtl (or Bidi) text. This time I’m going to post the sample with more in-depth discussion. 1) I created a WPF Windows application: RTLApplication. 2) Created a CustomControl Read More...

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Attachment(s): RTLApplication.zip

Developing Arabic WPF applications – Part 4
27 October 08 12:36 PM | Dina Lasheen | 1 Comments   

Drawing Text using FormattedText FormattedText Class offers low-level method to manage drawing text in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). It processes text as graphical elements, instead of text in controls such as the TextBox and TextBlock, which Read More...

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Developing Arabic WPF applications – Part 2
13 July 08 12:19 PM | Dina Lasheen | 1 Comments   

There are a few cases where FlowDirection does not behave as expected. This blog covers two of these exceptions. Image An Image represents a control that displays an image. It can be used with a Source property that defines the uniform resource identifier Read More...

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Developing Arabic WPF applications – Part 1
11 June 07 12:48 PM | Dina Lasheen | 0 Comments   

I’ll talk today about developing Arabic applications in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). The main property for right-to-left display is FlowDirection . FlowDirection is similar to the Windows Forms RightToLeft , but not exactly the same. FlowDirection Read More...

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