Prajakta's Blog on WPF, Silverlight and beyond

I was recently playing with code to print contents of WPF RichTextBox control. The SDK has a code sample on this at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa970917.aspx // Print RichTextBox content private void PrintCommand() { PrintDialog...

In this post, we will look at a custom RichTextBox implementation. In V1, TextBox selection highlight is not extensible and TextBox schema is restricted to plain text only. Often customers want a “ rich ” TextBox, where they can apply formatting properties...

In this post, we will see a custom RichTextBox implementation that auto-detects Hyperlink s while typing. In a later post, I will demonstrate how auto-detection can be done on paste command. Both these parts together enable complete auto-detect support...

In my previous post, we looked at code that auto-formats hyperlink strings while typing. The remaining part was to scan words when content is pasted in RichTextBox to auto-format any hyperlink strings. The approach to do this is quite straight forward...

I am a developer on WPF editing team. I have been on this team for little over 1 year now. It has been an awesome year for me and I have learnt a great deal about WPF. Ofcourse, there is so much more to learn from the myriad powerful features WPF offers...

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A commonly asked question on the WPF forum is - how can I navigate RichTextBox 's content word by word (see http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=778441&SiteID=1 ). In today's post, we will see how this can be done using the TextPointer...

I received a few questions from my blog readers in email. I will try my best to answer them in this post. Question 1 : Hi there! I saw that you were posting about the use of RichTextBox control and I thought you might be able to help me on my problem...

This past winter, I had coded a custom control which has a RichTextBox with toolbar for various formatting commands. I had hoped to publish it as a a standalone control sample which people could reuse, but it needed some styling to make the control look...

It is time to catch up with blogging after a long silence from my end. Earlier this year, I moved to work on WPF/e aka Silverlight team. It has been an exciting time and now that the cat is out of the bag, I am looking forward to blogging some fun Silverlight...

One of the topmost questions about Silverlight has been the lack of layout controls and TextBox. Dave Relyea has put together a great set of sample layout controls for Silvelight in C#. The controls in his project are: Layout framework LayoutControl...

A while ago, I made up a UML diagram to illustrate WPF FlowDocument content model. This diagram is useful to understand the inheritance hierarchy of TextElement implementations and their TextElementCollection members. Check out the full diagram...

The WPF team will be hosting our first ever live online technical chat on the MSDN site next Thursday, December 21st, at 12:30pm Pacific Time (that's 3:30pm ET, 8:30pm GMT, 9:30pm CET). We'll have a collection of the WPF team on hand to answer your technical...