Displaying FontFamily in Combobox

Question

My goal is to manipulate the text-styles of my application via DependencyProperties. I got a diagram in which the texts are to be manipulated in size, fontfamily, color, etc. So

Answer 1

A great Font Combobox for WPF can be found here:

CodeProject.com: A XAML-Only Font ComboBox

It is pure XAML, can be just copied/pasted and even sorts the fonts properly. The article also describes nicely all the gotchas encountered and how to solve them.

Answer 2

A just in Xaml solution with fonts sorted in alphabetical order:

<Window x:Class="WpfFontsComboBox.MainWindow"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        xmlns:System="clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib"
        xmlns:ComponentModel="clr-namespace:System.ComponentModel;assembly=WindowsBase"
        Height="350" Width="525">
    <Window.Resources>
        <CollectionViewSource x:Key="SortedFontsCollection" Source="{Binding Source={x:Static Fonts.SystemFontFamilies}}" >
            <CollectionViewSource.SortDescriptions>
                <ComponentModel:SortDescription PropertyName="Source" />
            </CollectionViewSource.SortDescriptions>
        </CollectionViewSource>
    </Window.Resources>
    <StackPanel>
        <Label Content="42" FontFamily="{Binding ElementName=comboBoxFonts, Path=SelectedItem}" />
        <ComboBox x:Name="comboBoxFonts" ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource SortedFontsCollection}}" />
    </StackPanel>
</Window>

Answer 3

ItemsSource here expects a collection; e.g. Fonts.SystemFontFamilies

<ComboBox ItemsSource="{Binding Source={x:Static Fonts.SystemFontFamilies}}"/>

Actually, here's a very nice link covering font selection:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/LearningWPFWithBabySmashCustomerFeedbackAndAWPFFontComboBox.aspx

Scott Hanselman even shows how to render each font item in combobox with it's own font family.

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Added per OP comment.

Here's an example of binding to dependency property. Property is named "MyFontFamily" to avoid collision with existing Window's property. Sorry, no Ribbon controls (I have bare 3.5 sp1).

Window1.xaml

<Window
    x:Class="SimpleWpf.Window1"
    x:Name="ThisWindow"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml">
    <StackPanel Orientation="Vertical">
        <ComboBox
            SelectedItem="{Binding MyFontFamily, ElementName=ThisWindow}"
            ItemsSource="{Binding Source={x:Static Fonts.SystemFontFamilies}}"/>
        <TextBlock
            Text="Lazy dog jumper"
            FontFamily="{Binding MyFontFamily, ElementName=ThisWindow}"
            FontSize="24"/>
    </StackPanel>
</Window>

Window1.xaml.cs

public partial class Window1 : Window
{
    // ...

    public static readonly DependencyProperty MyFontFamilyProperty =
        DependencyProperty.Register("MyFontFamily",
        typeof(FontFamily), typeof(Window1), new UIPropertyMetadata(null));
}