Question

I am wondering if anyone has any experience in creating a new control based on a WPF text box that could support syntax highlighting, line numbers, etc.

Any links or advice on how i could begin creating something like this would be very helpful.

Answer 1

Hey there. I don’t have any personal experience implementing something like you’re suggesting, but I found a couple of links that might help you out.

• Derived rich text box with syntax highlighting
• SharpDevelop (it’s open source and you can probably grab some insights from their source code for syntax highlighting)
• Syntax highlighting in a Coacoa app (maybe glean some approaches from this)