How to increase height limit of the TextBlock control in Windows Phone

Question

I need to create a view with multiple TextBlocks populating thousands words. Unfortunately, when I set the Text of the TextBlock to contain a string longer than approx. 2000

Answer 1

This is a limitation of the TextBox implementation on Windows Phone. If the area is larger thatn 2048 x 2048 it gets clipped.

This blog post has a workaround.

Answer 2

No UIElement can be greater than 2048 pixels in either dimension, however, if you exceed this limit, the space for the larger element is still reserved.

As a workaround, see this blog post which has a simple technique for splitting text into multiple TextBlocks.