Silverlight & WPF
Say Hello to RadRichTextBox
RadRichTextBox offers broad editing and formatting capabilities that come with unmatched performance. It provides a MS Word-like editing experience along with support for importing & exporting many different file formats including .docx, .html, .rtf, .xaml and .txt.
Getting Started with RadRichTextBox
In this video, we will dive into Visual Studio 2010 and begin with File -> New Project and discover what RadRichTextBox has to offer. With RadRichTextBox, you are able to display and edit rich-text content including formatted text arranged in pages, paragraphs, spans (runs), tables, etc...
Download the project Implementing RadRichTextBox with the Built-in Wizard
In this video, we will see how easy it is to setup and start using RadRichTextBox by utilizing the built-in wizard. The brand new wizard allows you to quickly and easily setup RadRichTextBox in full word processing mode, to simply display text, or anywhere in-between, complete with configuration options to choose ribbon items, add-ons like the ruler and status bar, and features like spell-checking.
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RadRichTextBox allows you to export and import its content. This is useful in case you want to save the user's input into a data base and then load it from there, or if you want to save/load the content of RadRichTextBox to/from a file.
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RadRichTextBox supports searching the contents of the document along with providing some methods for manipulating the selection. Used in combination, they become quite a powerful tool enabling scenarios like highlighting of specific parts of the document or replacing words and collocations.
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The ContextMenu is showed on right click over RadRichTextBox, and contains some context specific commands arranged in groups. We explore the Context Menu built into RadRichTextBox and add an extra command to the menu that the user can select.
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RadRichTextBox supports Styles similar to the ones in Microsoft Office. Styles can be created and added to a document programmatically or via the ManageStylesDialog. In this video, we walk you through adding custom styles to the RadRichTextBox control.
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In this video, we will walk you through setting up a Mail Merge with a predefined business letter. We will setup several fields found in a typical mail merge and review the generated word document.
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