---
title: "How to: Draw Text to a Visual"
ms.date: "03/30/2017"
dev_langs: 
  - "csharp"
  - "vb"
helpviewer_keywords: 
  - "typography [WPF], drawing text to visuals"
  - "visuals [WPF], drawing text to"
  - "text [WPF], drawing to visuals"
  - "drawing [WPF], text to visuals"
ms.assetid: fee4003c-e8a6-46ec-babd-2c7f4231a101
---
# How to: Draw Text to a Visual
The following example shows how to draw text to a <xref:System.Windows.Media.DrawingVisual> using a <xref:System.Windows.Media.DrawingContext> object. A drawing context is returned by calling the <xref:System.Windows.Media.DrawingVisual.RenderOpen%2A> method of a <xref:System.Windows.Media.DrawingVisual> object. You can draw graphics and text into a drawing context.  
  
 To draw text into the drawing context, use the <xref:System.Windows.Media.DrawingContext.DrawText%2A> method of a <xref:System.Windows.Media.DrawingContext> object. When you are finished drawing content into the drawing context, call the <xref:System.Windows.Media.DrawingContext.Close%2A> method to close the drawing context and persist the content.  
  
## Example  
 [!code-csharp[DrawingVisualSample#110](~/samples/snippets/csharp/VS_Snippets_Wpf/DrawingVisualSample/CSharp/Window1.xaml.cs#110)]
 [!code-vb[DrawingVisualSample#110](~/samples/snippets/visualbasic/VS_Snippets_Wpf/DrawingVisualSample/visualbasic/window1.xaml.vb#110)]  
  
> [!NOTE]
> For the complete code sample from which the preceding code example was extracted, see [Hit Test Using DrawingVisuals Sample](https://github.com/Microsoft/WPF-Samples/tree/master/Visual%20Layer/DrawingVisual).