Font doesn't change in xaml, why?

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Hi, Could possibly someone explain to me why font family is not changing no matter what Font family I choose? Here is my xaml code:

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<TextBlock x:Name="nameTextBlcok" Grid.Row="4" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Margin="5,5,5,5"
           FontSize="20" TextAlignment="Justify" TextWrapping="Wrap" VerticalAlignment="Stretch"  DataContext="{Binding perosn}"
           Text="{Binding Name,Mode=TwoWay}"
FontFamily="Edwardian Script ITC">

As You can see font family is set to "Edwardian Script" and basically whatever I change it to is stays as standard font. Any Ideas?

Posted 31-Mar-15 9:41am

Reatellino

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Richard Deeming 31-Mar-15 15:55pm

Is this a "Windows Desktop application" (WPF), or a "Windows app" (Metro/Modern/Store/Universal)?

Your code block works fine for me in a WPF application.

Reatellino 31-Mar-15 16:01pm

universal app(windows phone). I have the same xaml code in windows app and works fine but not on phone version.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 31-Mar-15 23:17pm

What makes you thinking that this font is installed? If you hard-code font family, how can you guarantee it after deployment?
—SA

Richard Deeming 1-Apr-15 6:37am

You might need to embed the font in your app:
TTF Font with Windows Phone 8[^]
Adding a custom font to a windows phone 8 app[^]

Reatellino 1-Apr-15 13:58pm

It's not hard coded. None of the font family work from properties. I don't know how to do something like embedding fonts but the point is, that it should work anyway. It's really annoying that such a simple thing for no reason is not working.

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