SyntaxEditor for WinForms

Hi,

I'm currently developing a mini Code Editor Control (mainly for XML, JSON, and C#) for my application and after looking here and there I've found out about Infragistics Syntax Parsing Engine which looks like what I need.

But, after fiddling with the sample and trying it out. It seems the parsing engine is not suitable for live editing or maybe I just don't know how to use it for properly.

So I searched for clues and found out about Syntax Editor, but unfortunately it doesn't support WinForms. I know I can use it in ElementHost, but I can't really use that for various reasons.

My questions are:

1. Is there any plan to add Syntax Editor to WinForms?

2. If no, do you have any other solution or idea for implementing syntax highlighting for editor? I don't really need advanced features like Intellisense or Code Folding.

Thanks.

Hello Andy,

Thank you for contacting.

Unfortunately, we do not have any plan to add syntax editor in our WinForm sooner.

May I know why you cannot use it in ElementHost ?

-Divya Jain

Hello Divya,

Thanks for the confirmation.

As for ElementHost, main reason is we have plan to move to .Net Core and adding it brings in an entire presentation layer that has its own complications in terms of display, maintenance, and portability to other versions of .Net (ie .Net Core).

Also adding WPF interoperability means that it requires us to use WPF components of Infragistics, and it will add additional payload on the binary files of 28 to 33MB files.

Which is considered too much for just one component.