c# visual studio - Better tool to use with formatted text

Question

I'm looking for a tool to replace richtextbox with.

Is there anything that I could use which makes it easier to format text entered at runtime?

(I.E: I'd like to change the text color/style of the text the user writes in the control.)

Edit:

I want to be able to easily change the color/font/style/size of any string or part of a string with out having to dabble in too much rtf coding.

Answer 1

Check out AvalonEdit from SharpDevelop project. It has declarative formatting with 'out-of-the-box' support for many languages. And it can control any formatting by code as well.

https://github.com/icsharpcode/SharpDevelop/wiki/AvalonEdit

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/42490/Using-AvalonEdit-WPF-Text-Editor

And it's even available in NuGet https://www.nuget.org/packages/AvalonEdit