WPF Syntax Highlighting and Code Editor - Syncfusion WPF UI Controls

The WPF Syntax Highlighting and Code Editor Control is a powerful text editor control similar to the Microsoft Visual Studio editor. It provides built-in syntax highlighting and code editing experience for popular languages. Allows users to create custom syntax highlighting of keywords and operators of their own language. It offers all essential features end users expect, like syntax highlighting, editing, undo, redo, cut, copy, paste, IntelliSense, line numbering, highlighting modified lines, custom language configuration, and more.

Features and Benefits of Syntax Highlighting and Code Editor Control

Syntax highlighting

Provides syntax highlighting for procedural programming and markup languages. Also allows users to customize built-in languages.

Built-in language highlighting - Offers built-in syntax highlighting and code editing experiences for the following languages:

• C#
• VB.NET
• XML
• XAML
• SQL

Configure custom language - Allows users to create custom syntax highlighting of keywords and operators of their own language.

IntelliSense

IntelliSense displays a pop-up with a list of code completion options to speed up coding by reducing typos and other common mistakes. Allows users to get the list of code completion words from any external assembly reference.

Code outlining

Displays code blocks in tree structure and allows users to expand and collapse the code blocks interactively for readability. WPF Syntax Editor automatically chooses where to create outlines for built-in languages. Also allows users to create outline for their own syntax highlighting.

Comment and uncomment codes

Support to comment or uncomment codes with the help of comment option of the WPF Syntax Editor. Allows users to select the required block of codes to comment. WPF Syntax Editor comments the current line when there is no selection.

Tracking changes

Display markers at the start of lines modified after the file is loaded or after the last file save operation.

Design IDE

Supports built-in commands to design development environment for popular languages. Provides commands for file (editing operations such as new, open, save, print, indent, and more).

Undo and redo

Include keyboard and context menu support for undo and redo operations that erase the last change in a document and reinsert it.

Clipboard operations

Provides clipboard operations such as cut, copy, and paste using keyboard and context menu.

Selection

Allows users to select the text interactively using mouse and keyboard. Users can select the text in touch environment by double tapping the text and extending the selection using touch pointer.

Search

Find occurrences of specified text with constraints such as match case, match whole words, and search directions. Allows users to search text in a specific scope like current document or within selected content.

Find and Replace

Replace the specified text with the replacement text as per the conditions specified. Includes options to replace the first occurrence or all occurrences of the search text.

Line numbers

Displays the line number at the start of a line for the users to identify the current number.

Highlight line

Support to highlight a particular line with different background color. It helps users differentiate a specific line from the non-highlighted lines.

Navigation

Navigation to the next character or word, or the start or end of a line can be done easily through keyboard. Allows users to jump to specific lines using go to line dialog.

Context tooltip

Provides built-in interactive tooltips that appear automatically when the pointer is placed over a collapsed block of text.

Context menu

Provides built-in context menu support with editing, and selection operations such as cut, copy, paste and select all, and much more.

Read-only

Support to use WPF Syntax Editor as viewer control in order to view files and restrict code editing.

Style

Provides a rich set of built-in themes inspired by popular interfaces such as Visual Studio, Microsoft Office, and Expression Blend.

Print

Support to print syntax editor content either by using the print option from the print preview or programmatically. The print preview window allows users to choose page orientation, print entire document or the specific page, and number of copies to print.

Localization

The WPF Syntax Editor supports localization to translate the static text to any desired language.

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