Displaying key/value pairs - windows-phone-8

Question

I have a bunch of key/value pair text data that I need to display.
I currently use LongListSelector with an ItemTemplate which uses a horizontal StackPanel with two TextBlock s inside:
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<TextBlock Text="Title: " />
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Title}" TextWrapping="Wrap" />
</StackPanel>
This gives a nice "label: value" look.
However, I find this verbose.
Is there a nicer way to achieve the same thing?
I've tried putting everything in a single TextBlock like so:
<TextBlock Text="Title: {Binding Path=Title}" TextWrapping="Wrap" />
but it doesn't want to work!

Answer 1

Inside a single TextBlock, this is not possible. However, you could use a ValueConverter:
public class NameValueConverter : IValueConverter
{
public object Convert(Object value,
Type targetType,
Object parameter,
CultureInfo culture)
{
return "Title: " + (string)value;
}
}
You should add this to your app.xaml as a global resource (named NameValueConverter). Then you can do this in XAML:
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Title, Converter={StaticResource NameValueConverter}}" TextWrapping="Wrap" />
When databinding kicks in, it will pass the Title to the valueconverter and bind the result to the textbox.