Embed / use custom font in Windows 8 Store apps #win8dev #winrt

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I was supposed to blog earlier but forgot. Saw a question on Stackoverflow and thought.. now is the time. So how does one embed fonts ?
Well just include them in project as Content files.

How do you use them.. here is how

<ComboBox x:Name="cbFont" Width="230" Margin="0, 10, 0, 0" Foreground="Black" Background="Gray" SelectionChanged="cbFont_SelectionChanged">
     <ComboBoxItem Content="12:34" FontFamily="Assets/Fonts/akka.ttf#Akka" />
     <ComboBoxItem Content="12:34" FontFamily="Assets/Fonts/alghorie neue.ttf#alghorie neue" />
     <ComboBoxItem Content="12:34" FontFamily="Assets/Fonts/Alpha Mutation.ttf#Alpha Mutation" />
     <ComboBoxItem Content="12:34" FontFamily="Assets/Fonts/AlphaFlowers.ttf#AlphaFlowers" />
     <ComboBoxItem Content="12:34" FontFamily="Assets/Fonts/AMSTRG__.TTF#Ams Trame" />
     <ComboBoxItem Content="12:34" FontFamily="Assets/Fonts/ARCADE_I.TTF#Arcade Interlaced" />
     <ComboBoxItem Content="12:34" FontFamily="Assets/Fonts/ARCADE_R.TTF#Arcade Rounded" />
</ComboBox>

You dont have to use combo box you can use anything.. i use it with TextBlock etc as well. Just remember. After the font file name, you need to put the font name itself. Thats all

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