Align bottoms of text in controls

Question

The following snippet:

<Window x:Class="Window1"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml">
    <Grid>
        <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal"
                    VerticalAlignment="Center"
                    HorizontalAlignment="Center">            
            <Label Content="Name:"/>
            <Label Content="Itzhak Perlman" FontSize="44"/>
        </StackPanel>
    </Grid>
</Window>

Renders the following:

Is there any way I can set in the Labels' styles so that their text bottoms should be aligned?
I have the same question with TextBlocks as well.

NOTE: since I've been struggling with this issue for a while, please post only certains answers that you know that work.
I already tried: VerticalAlignment, VerticalContentAlignment, Padding, Margin. Is there anything else I am not aware of?

I've read this post, but it doesn't talk about a scenario of different font size.

UPDATE: The problem is, that even Padding is set to 0 there is still an indeterminate space around the font, within the ContentPresenter area. this space varies on the font size. If I could control this space I would be in a better situation.

Thanks

Answer 1

Another fairly simple solution:

1) Use TextBlock controls instead of Labels. The reason being that TextBlock is lighter weight than Label - see http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com/2007/07/04/differences-between-label-and-textblock/

2) Use the LineHeight and LineStackingStrategy = BlockLineHeight for your TextBlock style. This will align the two at their baseline easily.

<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal"
            VerticalAlignment="Center"
            HorizontalAlignment="Center">
    <StackPanel.Resources>
        <Style TargetType="TextBlock">
            <Setter Property="LineHeight" Value="44pt"/>
            <Setter Property="LineStackingStrategy" Value="BlockLineHeight"/>
        </Style>
    </StackPanel.Resources>            
    <TextBlock Text="Name:"/>
    <TextBlock Text="Itzhak Perlman" FontSize="44"/>
</StackPanel>

Answer 2

I really like the creative solutions that are presented here but I do think that in the long run (pun intended) we should use this:

<TextBlock>
   <Run FontSize="20">What</Run>
   <Run FontSize="36">ever</Run>
   <Run FontSize="12" FontWeight="Bold">FontSize</Run>
</TextBlock>

The only thing that is missing from the Run element is databinding of the Text property but that might be added sooner or later.

A Run will not fix the alignment of labels and their textboxes but for many simple situation the Run will do quite nicely.