Using ICSharpCode.TextEditor on VB.NET

Question

Hi,

I've integrated ICSharpCode.TextEditor into VB.NET and it run smoothly without error. But, I cannot find in properties window the property to enable or select the syntax highlighting features as well as intellisense. I don't have any experience with ICSTE, so please help me. Thanks you.

Answer 1

Here is code from my project

//Initialize HM
HighlightingManager.Manager.AddSyntaxModeFileProvider(new FileSyntaxModeProvider(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory));

//Setup current Highlighter

IHighlightingStrategy highlighter = HighlightingManager.Manager.FindHighlighter("SQL");
txtQuery.Document.HighlightingStrategy = highlighter;

Ensure that file SQL.xshd exists in AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory

As for entellisense you should implement it mostly yourself using this code

private void ShowCompletionWindow(ICompletionDataProvider completionDataProvider, char ch)
     {

      try
      {
       codeCompletionWindow = CodeCompletionWindow.ShowCompletionWindow(
        this,
        codeEditorControl,
        "<code>",
        completionDataProvider,
        ch);
       if (codeCompletionWindow != null)
       {
        codeCompletionWindow.Closed += delegate
                                        {
                                         _blockKeys = false;
                                        };

       }
      }
      catch (Exception e)
      {
       Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
      }
     }

Answer 2

Sample code (C#) for enabling syntax highlight, and techics, avoiding using external files is described in this post

Basically you need to call method SetHighlighting("Mode"), where Mode is name of your syntax schema