Text editor with syntax highlighting in C#

All of us have used the famous text editor, the plain vanilla ….. < more intro > <get features from the scintilla net website >

You can use this component to highlight lines and also parts of sentences

Now comes ScintillaNET. Very powerful editor component

Download the files from here,

1. Go to   http://scintillanet.codeplex.com
2. Click on the download tab
3. Look under the heading, Recommended Download and click on the link ‘ScintillaNET v2.6 (Binaries)’

To include the required DLLs in your project’s output add the SciLexer.dll and SciLexer64.dll to your project.

1. Right-click on your output project and hover over the “Add” option.
2. Select the “Existing File…” option and a dialog window will appear.
3. Navigate to where you unzipped the binaries and select the SciLexer.dll and SciLexer64.dll files and click Add

Now its time to add the reference

1. Right-Click on your project and select “Add Reference”.
2. Click on the browse button and navigate to where you stored the ScintillaNET binaries.
3. Click on the ScintillaNET.dll.

Now you have the ScintillaNET included in your project.

You can read more about syntax highlighting and lexers here  :   http://dubreville.wordpress.com/2013/03/03/scintillanet-getting-started-tutorial-syntax-highlighting-and-lexers