Vertical Text in Wpf TextBlock

Question

Is it possible to display the text in a TextBlock vertically so that all letters are stacked upon each other (not rotated with LayoutTransform)?

Answer 1

You could also use the "RUN" binding

In the App.xaml file use something like this:

Create the command class binded to the textblock using i:Interaction.Triggers on the Loaded event in the app.xaml example

namespace Deridiam.Helper.Commands
{
public class HorizontalToVertical
{
    private ICommand _convertToVerticalCommand;

    public ICommand ConvertToVerticalCmd =>
        _convertToVerticalCommand ?? (_convertToVerticalCommand = new RelayCommand(
                x =>
                {
                    var tBlock = x as TextBlock;
                    var horizontalText = tBlock.Text;
                    tBlock.Text = "";

                    horizontalText.Select(c => c).ToList().ForEach(c =>
                    {
                        if (c.ToString() == " ")
                        {
                            tBlock.Inlines.Add("\n");
                            //tBlock.Inlines.Add("\n");
                        }

                        else
                        {
                            tBlock.Inlines.Add((new Run(c.ToString())));
                            tBlock.Inlines.Add(new LineBreak());
                        }


                    });
                }));
}
}

Finally in the .xaml file where you want the vertical text to be shown

Will result in:

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