Displaying a mix of plain-text and hyperlinks in a WinForm

[DotNetter]

I have a list of items to display to users in a VB.NET WinForm app. The list will be mostly plain text, with some hyperlinks sprinkled in, as well. I don't want the text to be edited. (Probably not relevent, but the text is coming from a stored procedure, one "item"/line per row of the resultset.)

What's the best control to use to easily display this in a read-only fashion?

Thanks!
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[earthandfire]

Try something like:

    Dim s As String = "This is some text in a RichTextBox.  "
    s += "It includes URLs like [URL unfurl="true"]www.thisismysite.com[/URL] and [URL unfurl="true"]www.thisisalsomysite.co.uk.[/URL]  "
    s += "Set the DetectURLs property to True (this is the default) to enable this feature.  "
    s += "To prevent the user from editing this text set the ReadOnly property to True."

    RichTextBox1.Text = s

Hope this helps.