Hi,

I have 2 applications. One is in .Net Winforms (think client) based and other is an admin web site (asp.net web forms based and NOT MVC) .  We are planning to use a Rich Text control on winforms application. The default values to winform rich control will be retrieved from server . The server values (rich text content) needs to be updated from an asp.net web form (web site) . I would like to know which infragistics rich control can be used both in Winforms and Asp.net webform which are compatible to each other.

Thanks

Thomson

Hi Thomson,

I'm not entirely sure I understand your question. It sounds to me like your data is RichText. There aren't any Infragistics WinForms controls that support RichText format. We have a FormattedTextEditor, which supports a proprietary XML format similar to html which can display text with colors and fonts, but it does not support the Rtf format specifically.

I don't really know about the ASP.Net controls. Have you tried posting in the ASP.Net forum?

Any suggestions for a workaround to display classic rtf text in an ultraGrid.

Thanks

Mendel Lowy

Hi Mendel,

There's a sample included with NetAdvantage that demonstrates embedding a RichTextBox into a grid cell using the Embeddable Editor architecture. It's not simple or trivial, though. The RichTextBox is not really a native DotNet control, it's a wrapper around the Windows RichTextBox and as such, it doesn't support common DotNet Control methods like Draw properly. The sample works around it, but I think it uses some Windows Api's and such, so like I said, it's not simple.

Anyway, the sample is called "RichTextEditor" and it's under the samples under Grid. If you have a relatively recent version of the suite, it will be under a Legacy folder.