Using Silverlight Controls within WPF application

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I was looking for a rich text editor with support for export/import to Html. All the available controls I found are Silverlight controls.

Someone asked in StackOverflow about WPF text editor, and the selected answer was:

A possible place to start, given the overlap between WPF and Silverlight is the Silverlight Rich Text Editor.

As far as I know, it is not possible to use Silverlight controls inside WPF application. Using browser control to host the Silverlight control seem to me like a really bad option.

Is it possible to use Silverlight in WPF application? Otherwise, is there any descent WPF rich text editor out there?

The CodeProject WPF RichText is not sufficient for my needs codeproject.com/KB/WPF/wpf-richtexteditor.aspx — Elad
– Elad, Commented Aug 20, 2009 at 15:29

Kent Boogaart · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-28 00:54:49Z

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I think the poster on the Stackoverflow question was suggesting recompiling the source to target WPF. This might imply fixing up / replacing certain bits of code, but having the source to a SL control makes it conceivable to port it to WPF.

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answered Aug 20, 2009 at 15:33

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Charlie · Accepted Answer · 2009-08-20 15:35:25Z

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No, it is not possible to use Silverlight in a WPF application. They are very different technologies.

As for a "decent" rich text editor, there are plenty of decent ones (the RichTextBox that is built into WPF is more than decent). It sounds like what you really need is a rich text editor that has HTML support. If import/export of HTML is all you need, then it sounds like something you could easily add by inheriting from RichTextBox and adding some functionality.

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Elad Over a year ago

To be more specific, I need to give the user all the basic text editing capabilities, such as: select font, adding bullets, copy-paste while maintaining the formatting as-is, and so on. WPF's RichTextBox, for example doesn't support most of these features

Elad Over a year ago

And by the way, adding support for Html is far from easy. Even Microsoft's Xaml to Html converter fails to handle many simple cases. msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa972129.aspx

Charlie Over a year ago

Well that's quite a bit of functionality but none of it is rocket science. Check out this article: michaelsync.net/2009/06/09/…

Jon Galloway · Accepted Answer · 2009-08-20 17:15:19Z

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Here's a WPF text editor component if you can't get the Silverlight one to work:

WPF Text Editor

answered Aug 20, 2009 at 17:15

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Mehryar Jafari · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-12 10:25:11Z

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There is a great PersianDate picker for WPF. Search it in CodeProject website I am using it. However there is no Scheduler I have found one which is in SilverLoght but not in WPF How can I convert it? I have full access to the SL source code

answered Feb 12, 2011 at 10:25

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