Using TxtFormatProvider

TxtFormatProvider makes it easy to import and export RadDocument to/from plain text format, preserving the document structure.

To use TxtFormatProvider, you should add references to:

• Telerik.Windows.Documents.dll

The TxtFormatProvider of RadRichTextBox resides in the Telerik.Windows.Documents.FormatProviders.Txt namespace, so you will need to add a using statement for it.

Import

In order to import a plain text document, you need to use the Import() method of TxtFormatProvider. Example 1 shows how to use TxtFormatProvider to import a document from a file.

Example 1: Import document from a file

TxtFormatProvider provider = new TxtFormatProvider(); 
using (Stream input = File.OpenRead("Sample.txt")) 
{ 
    RadDocument document = provider.Import(input); 
} 

And here is how you can import a document from string:

Example 2: Import document from a string

TxtFormatProvider provider = new TxtFormatProvider(); 
RadDocument document = provider.Import(input); 

The resulting RadDocument can be manipulated like any code-generated document.

Export

In order to export a document to plain text, you need to use the Export() method of TxtFormatProvider.

Example 3 shows how to use TxtFormatProvider to export RadDocument to a file.

Example 3: Export a document to a file

TxtFormatProvider provider = new TxtFormatProvider(); 
using (Stream output = File.OpenWrite("sample.txt")) 
{ 
    RadDocument document = CreateRadDocument(); 
    provider.Export(document, output); 
} 

You can also export the document to a string and preserve it in a database.

Example 4: Export a document to a string

TxtFormatProvider provider = new TxtFormatProvider(); 
RadDocument document = CreateRadDocument(); 
string output = provider.Export(document); 

However, the format providers cannot be used in XAML and you have to implement a logic that will call their Import() and Export() methods. This is something that you might not want to be concerned with when using RadRichTextBox in a data bound scenarios. For such cases, the DataProvider classes are used. They wrap the FormatProviders' functionality and allow its usage in XAML.

See Also

• Getting Started
• Plain Text
• DataProvider