Rich Text Editor for WinForms
Create, edit, format, and manage rich text documents in your .NET WinForms applications with ComponentOne Rich Text Editor for WinForms.
- Create, open, edit, and save DOCX, RTF, HTML, and XHTML documents
- Built-in ribbon and toolbar with 50+ commands accelerate rich text editing development
- Familiar Microsoft Word-style editing experience for end users
- Supports .NET 10 and .NET Framework 4.8
Overview
A WinForms Rich Text Editor is a powerful document editing control that enables users to create, edit, format, print, and manage rich content within desktop applications.
Why Choose Rich Text Editor for WinForms?
Create Professional Rich Text Experiences
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Familiar Microsoft Word-Like Interface
Enjoy building your UI swiftly thanks to our smart Visual Studio design-time integration.
Work with Popular Document Formats
Get the features you need for today and tomorrow, with an ever-growing API that allows you to customize every control to your specifications.
Reliable HTML Rendering
Go beyond the standard desktop look-and-feel with 40+ built-in themes, or create your own with our Theme Designer.
WinForms Rich Text Box Key Features
Insert Images, Tables, and Hyperlinks
Create rich, interactive documents by inserting and editing tables, pictures, and links. Built-in dialogs make it easy to customize properties and formatting.
Professional Formatting Tools
Apply fonts, styles, headings, lists, colors, alignment, and other formatting options through a familiar toolbar and ribbon experience.
Built-In Spell Checking
Integrated support for spell-checking on the WebView2 component provides as-you-type spell-checking and context menu suggestions.
Additional Features
Flexible Content Access
Programmatically access and manipulate document content with a rich API of insert before and after methods. Easily insert content into the document for custom editing solutions.
Load and Save Documents
Load documents from files, streams, or strings and save them back in DOCX, RTF, HTML, or XHTML formats.
Preview Mode
Preview mode allows you to display rich text content without editing functionality. This enables the Editor to be used as a static display of rich text instead of an editor.
Find Text
Enable users to quickly search text with the built-in Find (Ctrl+F) dialog, or implement your own custom search experience.
Unlimited Undo and Redo
Provide a complete editing history with unlimited undo and redo support, including standard keyboard shortcuts and programmatic access.
Clipboard Support
Support cut, copy, and paste operations for formatted text, tables, images, and other document content. Content can be pasted as rich text or plain text as needed.
See What You Can Do with ComponentOne Editor
Provide an Editor with Syntax Highlighting
A WinForms rich text editor can be used to provide custom syntax highlighting. We provide a sample that shows how to highlight formatted C# text.
Create a Desktop Chat Editor
A WinForms rich text editor can be used to create a simple chat editor complete with formatting options and emojis. The text would be managed as XHTML but displayed as rich, formatted content.
Easy Licensing and Distribution
Manage your licenses through your MESCIUS account.
Licensing Information
ComponentOne is licensed per developer on a yearly subscription basis. You can build and publish unlimited .NET applications using ComponentOne controls during your subscription period. Published applications are royalty-free and never expire.
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