For an overview of all the DXRichEdit features, please visit the Online Demo page.
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Floating Objects The DevExpress Silverlight Rich Editor supports floating objects (pictures and text boxes) within a document - including rotation of floating objects and associated API. Help Topic: Floating Objects |
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Master-Detail Mail Merge The DevExpress Rich Text Editor offers comprehensive Mail Merge options for a variety of business requirements. With it, you can generate many unique document types, including form letters, mailing shots, mailing labels, and personalized business documents. DXRichEdit supports images, and offers enhanced configurability and processing through multiple mail merge specific events. For advanced use cases, you can implement and register your own URI stream provider to intercept custom field codes. In addition, DXRichEdit ships with Master-Detail mail merge support, allowing you to combine the utility of the Document Server and document variables to create custom reports (including catalogs, header/detail invoices or statements). Help Topic: MailMerge | Help Topic: DOCVARIABLE field | Examples: How to create a Master-Detail report |
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Multiple File-Document Format Support The DevExpress Silverlight Rich Editor supports loading, saving, and conversion to and from all popular text-based document formats including DOCX, HTML, RTF, TXT, XML, ODT, EPUB, MHT, and DOC. Additionally, you can convert (load or save) documents from one format to another automatically using the DevExpress Rich Edit Document Server. Help Topic: Supported Document Formats |
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Document Server and Automation Features The DXRichEdit Suite for Silverlight exposes a specially designed non-visual equivalent of the text editor control. By using the DevExpress Document Server and its API, you can automate common text processing tasks on the server, without the need to introduce a text editor in your application’s UI. In addition, our Rich Text Editor provides a set of automation features which allow you to use document fields for inserting values of document variables, or even generating an automated Table of Contents or Table of Figures. Help Topic: RichEditDocumentServer | Help Topic: Field Codes | Help Topic: Fields | Help Topic: Table of Contents |
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Automatic Correction The DXRichEdit Suite for Silverlight can automatically process text entered by end users. The following auto-correction features are available: Automatic Hyperlink Detection, Automatic Correction of Two Initial Capitals, Automatic Correction of Misspelled Words, and Automatic Correction Using Custom Text Expander Functionality (i.e. to quickly insert symbols or any long piece of text, and even images). Help Topic: AutoCorrect | Examples: AutoCorrect features |
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Document Protection Document Protection gives you the ability to password protect your documents from modification by unauthorized users. You can protect a document and only allow editing of defined ranges or protect the document in its entirety. Additionally, the Silverlight Rich Text Editor is able to accommodate multiple users per range and supports the import of documents with existing document protection. Help Topic: Document Protection |
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Text Editor Restrictions The DevExpress Rich Editor allows you to restrict end-users from performing certain operations, such as cut, copy, and paste. You can selectively disable or hide a wide range of features including: font, paragraph or character formatting, hyperlinks or bookmarks. You can even set an entire document as read-only. Help Topic: Document Restrictions | Help Topic: Operation Restrictions |
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Extensive Table Support The DevExpress Silverlight Rich Text Editor fully supports tables - you can nest tables, split and merge table cells, insert and remove rows, and apply borders and shading to individual cells. End-users have access to a Microsoft Word® style table management UI, thus supporting many of the table management features you expect from a text editor. Additionally, a table API is available so that you can create and modify tables from code. Help Topic: Tables | Examples: Table API |
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Extended Text Formatting The DevExpress Silverlight Rich Text Editor supports all text formatting features you expect from a Text Editor, including Character Formatting, Paragraph Formatting, Bulleted-Numbered Lists, and Styles. The DXRichEdit Suite for Silverlight ships with complete set of pre-built text formatting dialogs so that all these features are available to your end-users without the need to write a single line of code. In addition to basic text formatting, you can enable live syntax highlighting so that text formatting is applied based on your document content/syntax similar to Visual Studio's code editor. Help Topic: Styles |
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Rich Text Editing Options Built-in UI for Find and Replace operations with regular expression support ● Unlimited Undo and Redo Operations ● Built-in UI for inserting characters and images ● Microsoft Word® style Hidden Text functionality |
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Document Views and Layout Microsoft Word® style predefined document views ● Zooming Documents In and Out ● Built-in UI for dividing a document into sections and specifying different page settings, columns, headers and footers for each particular section ● Quickly set document margins, customize paragraph indents, change size of table columns and rows using editor rulers ● Built-in UI for adding line numbering to document margins. Help Topic: Document Layout | Help Topic: Line Numbering |
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Bookmarks and Hyperlinks The DevExpress Silverlight Rich Text Editor fully supports bookmarks and hyperlinks. Bookmarks can help users navigate within large documents (instead of scrolling). Hyperlinks allow you to insert links to external resources, such as a file on disk or a web page. The DXRichEdit Suite for Silverlight provides a complete bookmark and hyperlink management end-user UI. Help Topic: Hyperlinks and Bookmarks |
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Full Localization Support The DevExpress Silverlight Rich Text Editor has complete support for localization. This enables you to translate every UI element into any other language by translating the application's resources, so that your application is ready to be utilized world-wide. Help Topic: Localization |
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Integrated Spell Checker The DevExpress Silverlight Spell Checking UI is built-in and does not require any code on your part. Two functional modes are available to end-users using either toolbar buttons or the editor's Tools menu. The first option is to enable "Check as You Type" which displays a wavy red line under misspelled words. A second option is to start a Microsoft Office® style spell checking process that enumerates all words and invokes error correction dialogs for those that are misspelled. Examples: Spell Checker |
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