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Control.FontFamily Property

.NET Framework 4

Gets or sets the font family of the control.

Namespace: System.Windows.Controls
Assembly: PresentationFramework (in PresentationFramework.dll)
XMLNS for XAML: http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation, http://schemas.microsoft.com/netfx/2007/xaml/presentation

Syntax

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[BindableAttribute(true)]
[LocalizabilityAttribute(LocalizationCategory.Font)]
public FontFamily FontFamily { get; set; }

XAML Property Element Usage

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<object>
  <object.FontFamily>
    <FontFamily .../>
  </object.FontFamily>
</object>

XAML Attribute Usage

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<object FontFamily="FontFamily" .../>

Property Value

Type: System.Windows.Media.FontFamily
A font family. The default is the system dialog font.

Dependency Property Information

Identifier field	FontFamilyProperty
Metadata properties set to true	AffectsMeasure , AffectsRender, Inherits

Remarks

This property only affects a control whose template uses the FontFamily property as a parameter. On other controls, this property has no impact.

Examples

The following example shows how to set the font family property of a control.

XAML

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<Button Name="btn2" FontFamily="Arial" 
        Click="ChangeFontFamily">
  FontFamily
</Button>

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void ChangeFontFamily(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{

    ffamily = btn2.FontFamily;
    str = ffamily.ToString();
    if (str == ("Arial Black"))
    {
        btn2.FontFamily = new FontFamily("Arial");
        btn2.Content = "FontFamily";
    }
    else
    {
        btn2.FontFamily = new FontFamily("Arial Black");
        btn2.Content = "Control font family changes from Arial to Arial Black.";

    }
}

Version Information

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

Platforms

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

Reference

Control Class

System.Windows.Controls Namespace

Other Resources

Control Library

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