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9.7 7.1 L2 FastColoredTextBox VS MahApps.Metro

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9.5 6.1 L3 FastColoredTextBox VS Xamarin.Forms

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9.3 3.4 L3 FastColoredTextBox VS UWP Community Toolkit

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9.2 7.3 FastColoredTextBox VS Windows UI Library

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8.7 0.0 FastColoredTextBox VS Modern UI for WPF - MUI

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8.6 2.6 L2 FastColoredTextBox VS MaterialSkin

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8.5 8.8 L3 FastColoredTextBox VS Eto.Forms

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Fluent.Ribbon

8.2 8.7 L3 FastColoredTextBox VS Fluent.Ribbon

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8.1 4.5 L2 FastColoredTextBox VS DockPanelSuite

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metroframework-modern-ui

7.7 0.0 L2 FastColoredTextBox VS metroframework-modern-ui

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7.6 4.4 L3 FastColoredTextBox VS AvalonEdit

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7.1 0.0 FastColoredTextBox VS Ooui

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5.4 0.0 FastColoredTextBox VS QtSharp

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4.8 0.0 L3 FastColoredTextBox VS Callisto

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Office Ribbon

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FastColoredTextBox

Fast Colored TextBox is text editor component for .NET. Allows you to create custom text editor with syntax highlighting. It works well with small, medium, large and very-very large files.

It has such settings as foreground color, font style, background color which can be adjusted for arbitrarily selected text symbols. One can easily gain access to a text with the use of regular expressions. WordWrap, Find/Replace, Code folding and multilevel Undo/Redo are supported as well.

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