Getting Started with WinForms SyntaxEditor

This tutorial will walk you through the creation of a sample application that contains a RadSyntaxEditor control.

Defining RadSyntaxEditor

To start using the control you only need to add a RadSyntaxEditor to the form either at design time by dragging it from the Toolbox and dropping it into the form or at run time via code.

Adding a RadSyntaxEditor at run time

RadSyntaxEditor radSyntaxEditor1 = new RadSyntaxEditor();

Dim radSyntaxEditor1 As RadSyntaxEditor = New RadSyntaxEditor()

Figure 1: Empty RadSyntaxEditor

Opening a File

To load a file in the RadSyntaxEditor you need to use its Document property.

public RadForm1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader("../../CS_File.txt"))
            {
               this.radSyntaxEditor1.Document = new TextDocument(reader);
            }
        }

Public Sub New()
    InitializeComponent()

    Using Reader As StreamReader = New StreamReader("../../CS_File.txt")
        Me.RadSyntaxEditor1.Document = New TextDocument(Reader)
    End Using
End Sub

Figure 2: RadSyntaxEditor with a loaded C# file

Enable Syntax Highlighting

Once you have loaded the code, you need to register an appropriate tagger to enable syntax highlighting for the particular language.

CSharpTagger cSharptagger = new CSharpTagger(this.radSyntaxEditor1.SyntaxEditorElement);
this.radSyntaxEditor1.TaggersRegistry.RegisterTagger(cSharptagger);

Dim CSharptagger As CSharpTagger = New CSharpTagger(Me.radSyntaxEditor1.SyntaxEditorElement)
Me.RadSyntaxEditor1.TaggersRegistry.RegisterTagger(CSharptagger)

Figure 3: RadSyntaxEditor with C# code highlighting

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