What is the most Word-like ASP.NET custom control that you can buy?

Question

We are looking to implement a rich-text box in an ASP.NET application and our requirements are specific to using the "Track Changes" features of Microsoft Word. The closest thing we found in the RadEditor by Telerik. This is a nice control that has a "Track Changes" button and will give you the ability to track the changes from the text in the box to now. It does not let you track your changes from the two previous versions.

We have used CVSWeb in the past and the display was not great but it did have the ability (in a web page) to diff two different versions of text (source code in this case).

Does anyone have any experience or know of any web-based diff tools that work nicely with a rich-text editor in the web?

Answer 1

You might be able to hack something like FreeTextBox onto a wiki backend. That would provide somewhat equivalent functionality.

Answer 2

I was going to suggest Telerik, but obviously you've seen that. Another nice one (at least in terms of a slick UI) is ComponnentOne.

http://www.componentone.com/SuperProducts/WebEditorASPNET/

Answer 3

You wouldn't want to use freetextbox.

We've used that at work and there is very little support for the component. Plus, a bunch of tab index problems. I have been pushing my company to use Telerik (which I use at home).

Answer 4

ComponentOne has a new Rich Text Editor with Ribbon UI for ASP.NET. It is really nice for using in CMS apps. It also has built-in spell-checking and DOM selecting.