Having hardcoded text with a binding in a TextBlock

Question

In WPF, is there any way to have the Text property of a TextBlock to contain both hard coded text and a specific binding?

What I have in mind is something along the lines of the following (ofcourse, the below doesn't compile):

<TextBlock Text="Number of Fans: {Binding Artist.Fans.Count}"></TextBlock> 

Answer 1

There is, if you are on .Net 3.5 SP1

<TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Artist.Fans.Count,                   StringFormat='Number of Fans: {0}'}" /> 

Answer 2

In using the above approach:

<TextBlock Text="{Binding Path="Artist.Fans.Count,                    StringFormat='Number of Fans: {0}'}" /> 

I found it somewhat restrictive in that I couldn't find a way to bold face inside the StringFormat nor could I use an apostrophe in the StringFormat.

Instead I went with this approach, which worked better for me:

<TextBlock TextWrapping="Wrap">     <Run>The value</Run>     <Run Text="{Binding Path=MyProperty1, Mode=OneWay}" FontWeight="Bold" />     <Run>was invalid. Please enter it with the format... </Run>     <LineBreak/><LineBreak/>     <Run>Here is another value in the program</Run>     <Run Text="{Binding Path=MyProperty2, Mode=OneWay}" FontWeight="Bold" /> </TextBlock>