What is the WPF control that VS2010 uses for the code editor?

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What is the WPF control that VS2010 uses for the code editor?

What is the WPF control that VS2010 uses for the code editor? Some time in the past, I tried to use the 1st WPF version but it performed very bad. Seams like the performance in the .NET 4 is far better.

My question is actually related with the fact that I'm very unhappy with the editors available for Windows and want to try made one by myself :) Any help will be very welcome.

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VS2010 uses something Microsoft wrote for their own, internal use. It is not a redistributable control.

The best code editing control for WPF I've found (to date) is Actipro's SyntaxEditor.

Reed Copsey 2009-10-26 17:34:43

It should be noted that it's not quite "for internal use" - if you build your application on top of VS (e.g. using VS Shell), then you can use VS editor anywhere - for any code running within VS, editor is essentially just a hostable WPF control with public and documented API.

Pavel Minaev 2009-10-26 17:42:15

True. If you want to build your application around Visual Studio itself, you can. It's not a simple, reusable WPF control, though - wrapping this into your app is a much more involved process.

Reed Copsey 2009-10-26 17:42:58

Yeh, I'm sure that the Editor is an internal component. But it is not based on any existent control, for example, RichTextBox? My point is not start from scratch (Control base class).

Eduardo Cobuci 2009-10-26 19:23:40

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