Free Richtextbox control

[drew10]

I needed to implement a richtextbox control for a site I'm working on, and I stumbled across

http://www.cwebrun.com

. They provide a free open source rich textbox control in c#. All you have to do is download and run the executable. It creates a virtual directory in the

http://wwwroot

folder. From there you can reference it from a vb app or a c# app or whatever. It seems very comparable to

http://www.richtextbox.com's

control, but it's free and open source. If anybody wants to use it with a vb app, I have rewritten the source code for the sample.aspx.cs page to work with vb.net. I'll try to post a sample website with source code tonight, then I'll include the link here.

-drew10

 

[Rilez]

Thanks Drew - I could do with the vb version is that is possible. Cheers

 

[drew10]

After installing the cwebrun yahenet executable, there will be a yahe directory in the

http://wwwroot

folder. When you want to use the control in a vb.net project, just browse to and add a reference to the YAHELib.dll. You can even add the control to your vs.net toolbar and just drag and drop it onto webforms. If you don't do the drag and drop method, just copy their html source code from sample.aspx. For the code behind, use:

Imports System
Imports System.Collections
Imports System.ComponentModel
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Drawing
Imports System.Web
Imports System.Web.SessionState
Imports System.Web.UI
Imports System.Web.UI.WebControls
Imports System.Web.UI.HtmlControls

Public Class WebForm1
    Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
    Protected WithEvents Label1 As System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label
    Protected YAHENet1 As CWebRun.Editor.YAHENet

#Region " Web Form Designer Generated Code "

    'This call is required by the Web Form Designer.
    <System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThrough()> Private Sub InitializeComponent()
        AddHandler YAHENet1.EditorHTMLSaved, New CWebRun.Editor.YAHENet.EditorHTMLSavedHandler(AddressOf OnEditorHTMLSaved)
        AddHandler Me.Load, New System.EventHandler(AddressOf Me.Page_Load)
    End Sub

    Private Sub Page_Init(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Init
        'CODEGEN: This method call is required by the Web Form Designer
        'Do not modify it using the code editor.
        InitializeComponent()
    End Sub

#End Region

    Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        If Not IsPostBack() Then
            YAHENet1.HTMLValue = &quot;This is the initial value&quot;
        End If
    End Sub

    Protected Overrides Sub oninit(ByVal e As EventArgs)
        InitializeComponent()
        MyBase.OnInit(e)
    End Sub

    Private Sub OnEditorHTMLSaved(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As CWebRun.Editor.YAHENet.EditorEventArgs)
        Label1.Text = YAHENet1.HTMLValue
    End Sub

End Class

Then everything should work. What I like about this is that you have the source code, so you can change the function of the buttons or add more, etc...

hth
-drew