Getting Started
This tutorial will walk you through the creation of a sample application that contains a RadSyntaxEditor control.
Assembly References
In order to use RadSyntaxEditor, you will need to add references to the following assemblies:
- Telerik.Windows.Controls
- Telerik.Windows.Controls.Input
- Telerik.Windows.Controls.SyntaxEditor
- Telerik.Windows.SyntaxEditor.Core
You can find the required assemblies for each control from the suite in the Controls Dependencies help article.
Defining RadSyntaxEditor
Example 1 demonstrates how you can define a RadSyntaxEditor in XAML.
Example 1: Defining RadSyntaxEditor
<telerik:RadSyntaxEditor x:Name="syntaxEditor" />
Figure 1: Empty RadSyntaxEditor
Opening a File
To load a file in the RadSyntaxEditor you need to use its Document property.
Example 2: Opening a File
public MainWindow()
{
InitializeComponent();
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader("../../CS_File.txt"))
{
this.syntaxEditor.Document = new TextDocument(reader);
}
}
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.
Example 3: Enable C# code highlighting
var cSharptagger = new CSharpTagger(this.syntaxEditor);
this.syntaxEditor.TaggersRegistry.RegisterTagger(cSharptagger);
Figure 3: RadSyntaxEditor with C# code highlighting
