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How to implement text property for RichTextBox control in WPF application?

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You can bind text with WPF RichTextBox content by implementing an extension class with the Text property.

Please refer to the following code samples.

C#

/// <summary>
/// Represents the extension class for SfRichTextBoxAdv.
/// </summary>
public class SfRichTextBoxAdvExtension : SfRichTextBoxAdv
{
    #region Fields
    bool skipUpdating = false;
    #endregion
 
    #region Properties
    /// <summary>
    /// Gets or Sets the text.
    /// </summary>
    public string Text
    {
        get
        {
            return (string)GetValue(TextProperty);
        }
        set
        {
            SetValue(TextProperty, value);
        }
    }
    #endregion
 
    #region Constructor
    /// <summary>
    /// Initializes the instance of SfRichTextBoxAdvExtension class.
    /// </summary>
    public SfRichTextBoxAdvExtension()
    {
        // Wires the ContentChanged event.
        this.ContentChanged += RTE_ContentChanged;
    }
    #endregion
 
    #region Static Dependency Properties
    /// <summary>
    /// Using as a backing store for Text dependency property to enable styling, animation, etc.
    /// </summary>
    public static readonly DependencyProperty TextProperty = DependencyProperty.Register("Text", typeof(string), typeof(SfRichTextBoxAdvExtension), new PropertyMetadata(string.Empty, new PropertyChangedCallback(OnTextChanged)));
    #endregion
 
    #region Static Events
    /// <summary>
    /// Called when text changes.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="obj"></param>
    /// <param name="e"></param>
    private static void OnTextChanged(DependencyObject obj, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        SfRichTextBoxAdvExtension richTextBox = (SfRichTextBoxAdvExtension)obj;
        // Update the document with the text.
        richTextBox.UpdateDocument((string)e.NewValue);
    }
    #endregion
 
    #region Events
    /// <summary>
    /// Called when content changes in SfRichTextBoxAdv.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="obj"></param>
    /// <param name="args"></param>
    void RTE_ContentChanged(object obj, ContentChangedEventArgs args)
    {
        if (this.Document != null)
        {
            // To skip internal updating of the document on setting the Text property.
            skipUpdating = true;
            Stream stream = new MemoryStream();
            // Saves the document as a text stream.
            this.Save(stream, FormatType.Txt);
            stream.Position = 0;
            // Reads the stream and assigns the string to the Text property.
            using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream))
            {
                this.Text = reader.ReadToEnd();
            }
            skipUpdating = false;
        }     }     #endregion       #region Implementation     /// <summary>     /// Updates the document.     /// </summary>     /// <param name="text">The text.</param>     private void UpdateDocument(string text)     {        // If the text property is set internally, skip updating the document.
        if (!skipUpdating && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(text))
        {
            Stream stream = new MemoryStream();
            // Convert the text string to a byte array.
            byte[] bytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(text);
            // Writes the byte array to the stream.
            stream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
            stream.Position = 0;
            // Load the text stream.
            Load(stream, FormatType.Txt);
        }     }     /// <summary>
    /// Disposes of the instance.
    /// </summary>
    public void Dispose()
    {
        this.ContentChanged -= RTE_ContentChanged;
        ClearValue(TextProperty);
        base.Dispose();
    }     #endregion }

 

XAML

<local:SfRichTextBoxAdvExtension x:Name="richTextBoxAdv" Grid.Row="2" Text="{Binding Text, Mode=TwoWay}" LayoutType="Continuous" EnableMiniToolBar="False" FontFamily="Arial" FontSize="12" DocumentTitle="Note 1"/>

 

 

Conclusion

I hope you enjoyed learning about how to implement the Text property for the RichTextBox control in a WPF application.

You can refer to our WPF RichTextEditor feature tour page to know about its other groundbreaking feature representations and documentation, and how to quickly get started with configuration specifications. You can also explore our WPF RichTextEditor example to understand how to create and manipulate data.


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