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Make text editable or read-only (Blend for Visual Studio)

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You can control whether users of your Windows Store app can edit the text that is contained within TextBox object in the application, or whether the text in those object is read-only.

To designate whether text can be edited

  1. Select the TextBox object that you want to format.

  2. In the Properties panel, in the Common category, select or clear the IsReadOnly property to set whether users can edit the text in the object.