.Net HTML Editor Control

Question

I need to add in a WYSIWYG control into a .NET form. I found this one from SpiceLogic on several sites and was wondering if this is a decent library to use?

http://www.spicelogic.com/Products/NET-Win-HTML-Editor-Control-8/

If anyone has any additional input, I also would like to know of any other decent alternatives, both free and non-free.

Thanks in advance for any opinions on this!

EDIT Should have clarified this before, but this is a desktop application.

Answer 1

You can also try one of these strategies:

1. Use the RichTextBox control, which exposes a FlowDocument. Write a program that converts the FlowDocument to HTML. Since FlowDocs are much more constrained that HTML, this conversion might be pretty straightforward (sections -> div, paragraph -> p, styles -> css or style attributes, etc).

2. Use MSHTML and put it into edit mode. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa753622(v=vs.85).aspx

Answer 2

You may want to try XStandard. I have used it in CMS web sites and it works great. You can also use it with desktop apps. There is a free "lite" version and a for=pay pro version. It creates XHTML markup and has lots of slick built-in functionality.

As a comparison, I have used Telerik RAD Editor and XStandard is much better (IMO). I have also tried other web-specific solutions like FCKEditor and TinyMCE and I prefer XStandard.

Answer 3

If your concern is to get XHTML all the time right from the beginning which should be published on the Web, then, I would say, "Yes", you can try that component from SpiceLogic, especially the version 5.x which was released very recently. It comes with many features like embedding images for an email client, Uploading local images to FTP, paste from MS Word, rich Dialogs for Tables, Images, Hyperlink, Symbols, Inline Spell Checker and Spell Checker dialogs, and more.

https://www.spicelogic.com/Products/NET-WinForms-HTML-Editor-Control-8

All Screenshots:

http://www.spicelogic.com/Products/NET-WinForms-HTML-Editor-Control-8/Screenshots