Create Hyperlink in TextBlock via Binding

Question

My problem is to find the urls from the text content and convert it into the clickable hyperlinks via data binding.

This is what I\'ve tried

Answer 1

You can't put Hyperlink objects inside a String. Instead you need to return a Span containing inlines from your converter. The plain text will be Run objects and the links will be Hyperlink objects.

    public static Span returnTextWithUrl(String text)
    {
        if(text == null) { return null;  }
        var span = new Span();
        MatchCollection mactches = uriFindRegex.Matches(text);
        int lastIndex = 0;
        foreach (Match match in mactches)
        {
            var run = new Run(text.Substring(lastIndex, match.Index - lastIndex));
            span.Inlines.Add(run);
            lastIndex = match.Index + match.Length;
            var hyperlink = new Hyperlink();
            hyperlink.Content = match.Value;
            hyperlink.NavigateUri = new Uri(match.Value);
            span.Inlines.Add(hyperlink);
        }
        span.Inlines.Add(new Run(text.Substring(lastIndex)));
        return span;
    }