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WPF - Bindable chat view with selectable text

I want to create a simple text chat app using WPF. And of course user should be able to select and, for example, copy text.
It's very easy to use, for example, ListView with ItemsSource bound to messages. And appearance can be tuned, but the main problem is text selection. It's possible to select text only in one single control (one message).

At the moment i use WebBrowser for showing messages. So i have tons of HTML+JS+CSS. I think i dont even have to say how terrible it is.

Can you please point me to right direction?

A textbox should give you what you are looking for I think. You will need to do the styling so it looks like you want but here is code:
XAML:

<TextBox Text="{Binding AllMessages}"/>

ViewModel:

    public IEnumerable<string> Messages { get; set; }



    public string AllMessages => GetAllMessages();



    private string GetAllMessages()

    {

        var builder = new StringBuilder();

        foreach (var message in Messages)

        {

           //Add in whatever for context

           builder.AppendLine(message);

        }

        return builder.ToString();

    }       

You will probably want to use a RichTextBox for better formatting.