Author: Tess1 | Posted on: 5/13/2013 3:39:00 AM | Views : 1260

  [This post is a part of a series of posts about the Social Media Dashboard Sample.  For an introductory blog post with information and links to the Social Media Dashboard sample click here]

When you want to display HTML content from a blog RSS feed or other sources in a Windows 8 app you can display this in a WebView but the problem with the WebWiew is that you can’t use your own background or disable zooming which means that you will have a rather crude UX experience.
One thing you can do is inject CSS but if you want to have more control over the content you can display it in a RichTextBlock instead.
The RichTextBlock control doesn’t display HTML as is, so in the Social Media Da ...

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