Simply the Best - WinForms Text Editors

WinForms Text Editors

The DevExpress WinForms Data Editors Library includes a massive set of UI controls –designed to help you deliver solutions that amaze. The library includes the following text input controls:

• Text Box
• Button Edit
• Hyperlink
• Memo (Multi-line) Editor
• RTF Editor

WinForms Text Edit UI Elements

Our Windows Forms Text editors are a powerhouse of functionality and configurable UI elements. Unlike competing products, we continue to deliver innovative new features, including an entirely a new way to display labels within the text control itself.

Read the following blog post for more information – or simply glance to the right and see what's possible with DevExpress WinForms Text Edit controls. Built-in elements include:

• Container (text box)
• Embedded Label or Placeholder (Null text)
• Leading or Trailing Icon (context image)
• Embedded Buttons
• Tooltip (helper text) and Error Text

Floating Labels & Emojis

Yup – it's here if you need. Our Windows Forms Text Edit components support use of floating labels so you can eliminate field labels from all your forms.

Oh, and when users insert a string that contains an emoji, or press the Win+. hotkey to generate an emoji from the Windows library, DevExpress WinForms Text Editors can display them automatically (or should we say automagically).

WinForms Input Masks

Our mask engine is simply amazing. Download our free 30-day trial and compare our implementation to our competition. We think you'll agree with our assessment.

Masks help define the way in which data can be entered within an application and help ensure data consistency and information reliability. DevExpress WinForms Mask options include: autocomplete, character casing, beep on error, use mask as display format, etc. Our fully integrated WinForms Mask Editor for Visual Studio makes design-time mask configuration a breeze.

We fully support the following mask types:

• Simple
• Numeric
• Date-Time / TimeSpan
• Simplified & Extended Regular Expressions (RegEx)

Data Validation & Error Indication

Yes, you guessed it - Our WinForms Data Editors Library ships with a powerhouse data validation engine so you can reduce data entry errors and improve the overall usability of your application with meaningful error indicators and text-based feedback.

Data validation options include:

• Automatic Validation via Masks
• Manual (Event-based) Validation
• Conditional Validation
• Validate against another Control
• Validate on Enter Key
• Error Icons and Tooltips

Value Formatting & Parsing

With our WinForms Text and Data Editors, your users can view and manipulate data on-screen while giving you total control over data validation and value formatting. With the following built-in options, app data will always be clear, concise, and accurate:

• Composite Formatting
• HTML Text Formatting
• Custom Formatting
• Standard and Custom Format Specifiers
• Convert Text Input (event-based value parsing)

Text Selection on Steroids

WinForms data editing will never be easier. From word to paragraph selection and everything in between, our WinForms Text Editors support all common text selection behaviors. Text selection options include:

• Copy-Cut-Paste Selection
• Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts
• Select All via Context Menu
• Skin-based Text Selection Color
• Smooth Caret Movement
• Hide Selection
• Selection Management API

Context Menu

DevExpress WinForms Text Editors include a built-in context menu. This menu offers easy access to frequently used commands (such as Undo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, Select All). And yes, like so many of our the features within our WinForms package, you can customize our default context menu, provide a custom menu as needed, or bind a shortcut menu (ContextMenuStrip) to your text editor.

Super Tooltips & Hints

Super-duper might be an understatement for our tooltips. The DevExpress WinForms Text and Data Editors Library can display informative text when users hover over or focus individual controls. You can choose between simple hints and advanced infotips (Super Tooltips). Simple hints include an icon and text label. Super Tooltips allow you to display graphics and multi-line content as needed. Super Tooltip features include:

• Title
• Content
• Separators
• Footer
• Images and Icons
• HTML Tags Support
• Appearance Options (BackColor, ForeColor, Font, etc.)
• Visual Studio Tooltip Editor with Live Preview