How to put & symbol in the Text property of TextBlock in xaml?

Question

I need to the display the Text which is having the & symbol in the TextBlock... Is there any way to display in xaml... Even i write the Text with the & symbol in the Text property of TextBlock.. It displays an error ?

Answer 1

Well you should try using & which should show up as &

and maybe you can also achieve the same using CDATA <![CDATA[&]]>

Special Characters in XAML

Answer 2

It must be an encoding issue with xaml, yoou could use html encoded string to print some special characters there.

for ampersand, you coudld use &. Hope this helps.