What's the TxtDataProvider for?

[Rod]

I'm new to using the RadRichTextBox control. I want to bind it to a plain text field in our database. To get an idea as to what it's about I decided to create a new WPF project and just drag the RadRichTextBox onto the window (no database is involved). When I did, I looked at the XAML and saw the RadRichTextBox control, but under it a TxtDataProvider control. What's the TxtDataProvider for? (Yes, I've looked it up, found the definition of the class, etc., but that doesn't give me a feel for what it's there for or why I would need it.)

[Iva Toteva]

Hi Rod,

DataProviders are the mechanism that RadRichTextBox uses to bind its content to string properties in different formats. TxtDataProvider in particular is used to bind the document to a plain text string.

For more information on data providers, please refer to this article.

All the best,
Iva Toteva
the Telerik team