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Getting Hyperlinks Working in Rich Text Box Using RTF

I am trying to format a hyperlink in a Rich Text Box using the Rich Text Format. I can get basic formatting working thanks to this answer, for example making text bold. However I cannot get the RTF formatted hyperlink to work. I found an example of making an RTF link here. However, when I try to put this in the Rich Text Box as seen below, it causes my application to crash. Any suggestions as to what i'm missing here?
string my_hyperlink_text = #"{\field{\*\fldinst HYPERLINK \"http://www.google.com/\"}{\fldrslt Google}}"
if (rtbControl is RichTextBox & rtbControl.Name == "name_of_control") // Making sure the control is a RichTextBox
{
RichTextBox rtb = rtbControl as RichTextBox;
rtb.Rtf = my_hyperlink_text;
}

An easy way for getting rtfs to work is to write your text in Microsoft word, copy & paste it to Wordpad and the saving it as a RTF from there.
The detour with MS Word is needed, because WordPad does not support entering links in the UI, although it handles them correctly when they come from other sources, like the clipboard. Also, MS Word creates massively bloated rtf.
The rtf file you create this way can then be opened in any text editor and can be used as a string constant in your program.
In your case, I suppose that the prefix and maybe the color table are missing and are causing the problem.
By the way: Wordpad is not much more than a wrapper around the Windows rtf control, i.e. the same control that you are using in your code.

XML text Editor - Text Box

I would like to design one xml text editor which is based on normal text-box which implements all XML characteristics(i.e., it should implement intelligence to differentiate the text colors by node_name,attribute_name,attribute_value and it should check proper closing the tag).
Can any one give me the idea how I could process the each and every character entered by the user(normally we can call the TextBox1_TextChanged event after fully entered the text in text-box but I need to call this event each and every character entry)? I am good in C#, so that I have decided to transform the control to coding page because I already did one editor using console application which read the input character from the user and change the text color.
I might be wrong to approach this problem like this way so, give your suggestions, valuable reference links and ideas to accomplish this editor.
If you know any plugins to do this task please inform me
Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
--SJ

Use a Rich Text Box and handle the KeyDown event for character processing.
Rich Text Box will allow you to do syntax highlighting, text formatting, etc.
I would also validate entered xml for correctness and possibly highlight incorrect syntax to the user if validation fails.
All this is going to required effort, i am not aware of any QUICK solution. But using the basics i've suggested here, you could achieve what you require if you put in the effort.

The EditArea appears to have the features (and more) that you are looking for.
You could also check the list of Javascript base source code editors

Rich textbox that displays html like a web browser control

I am displaying text in a rich textbox and i want it to show the html formatting on the text. Is there a way to make a rich textbox display html.
If you push the button on the following link you will see how my out put displays, i would like it done in a rich textbox.
http://neil.fraser.name/software/diff_match_patch/svn/trunk/demos/demo_diff.html
Is there a way to build a rich textbox that can display html???

RTF encoding is different from HTML.
If not, then you need to write your own HTML to RTF converter or find something similar.
Writing Your Own RTF Converter. This guy gives a great breakdown of how the program works along with details of the conversion.
An Extended richtextbox control, Check this out. It may solve your solution

highlight a word in textarea in ASP.NET using C#

I have a TextArea control in my ASP.NET page which gets populated with a paragraph containing multiple sentences from the database. After this data gets populated in the TextArea control, I need to search for a few words in them and highlight them in different color. The words that I need to highlight are present inside a table in the database.
My question is : How do I highlight the selected words in a TextArea control using C#?
Please help. Thank you.

The HTML <textarea> tag doesn't contain the ability to add any text formatting. If you want to highlight a portion of your text, then you'll need to display it within a <div>, <span> or some other HTML element.
If you need to make the text editable and still highlight portions of it, then you could use a WYSIWYG HTML editor, such as the jHtmlArea Free, Open Source jQuery plugin.
Shameless Plug: jHtmlArea is a jQuery plugin I created a while back to fit a need I had for a light weight, easily extensible WYSIWYG HTML editor.

You can look into the DynaCloud jQuery plugin, or CodeMirror. Both provide some functionality for highlighting text.
http://johannburkard.de/blog/programming/javascript/highlight-javascript-text-higlighting-jquery-plugin.html
http://codemirror.net/

Highlighting particular text ina WPF textbox and registering event to that text only

In my WPF application I am having some following type of textbox
So, In this textbox, the text is not written by user it is generated by program, i wish to Highlight the particular text "Enter String Value" and when user clicks on that particular highlighted text only then I wish to fire a event.
Can u guys give me some hint or overview to achieve this. I tried few tricks but can't get success.
Thanks in advance.

Use <RichTextBox> with <FlowDocument>. As I know, TextBox allow you to determinate font (color, size, etc.) only one time, and you wouldn't able to modify color of partial text in one TextBox

I think you can use Regex to get your match from your textbox, and then create Run objects using that match. You can set the Background of the match (runobject.Background = Brushes.Red)