Display Text Right-To-Left in Silverlight 4

Silverlight 4 comes with a new FlowDirection property that helps set the direction of text. This new property is particularly useful for Arabic text that flows from right-to-left. Here’s how to use this property. We have two TextBoxes in our example, one with the default FlowDirection of LeftToRight and the other with the FlowDirection of RightToLeft.

<UserControl x:Class="SilverlightApplication2.MainPage"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
    xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
    mc:Ignorable="d"
    d:DesignHeight="300" d:DesignWidth="400">
    <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White">
        <TextBox HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top"
                 Margin="10,20,0,0" Height="30" Width="280"
                 Name="txtLR" Text="This Text is Left To Right" />
        <TextBox HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top"
                 Margin="10,70,0,0" Height="30" Width="280"
                Name="txtRL" Text="This Text is Right To Left"
                FlowDirection="RightToLeft" />
    </Grid>
</UserControl>

OUTPUT

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