.NET BLOG

Some of you might know the comboboxes showing the available fonts including a preview of the font itself. This can be done very easily in WPF.

For this you need the following definition of a ComboBox in XAML:

<ComboBox x:Name=”FontChooser”
          ItemsSource=”{Binding Source={StaticResource myFonts}}”
          SelectedIndex=”0″>
    <ComboBox.ItemsPanel>
        <ItemsPanelTemplate>
            <VirtualizingStackPanel />
        </ItemsPanelTemplate>
    </ComboBox.ItemsPanel>
    <ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
        <DataTemplate>
            <TextBlock Text=”{Binding}” FontFamily=”{Binding}”/>
        </DataTemplate>
    </ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
</ComboBox>

Further more you need a ressource in your, for example, window:

<CollectionViewSource
    Source=”{Binding Source={x:Static Fonts.SystemFontFamilies}}”
    x:Key=”myFonts”/>

That’s all. There is no extra source code. Nothing. The result looks like as follows: