RichTextBox WPF does not have string property Text

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I am trying to set get the text of my RichTextBox  but Text is not among list of its properties when I want to get test Text     I am using code behind in C    net framework 3 5 SP1   RichTextBox test   new RichTextBox      cannot have test Text     Do you know how come it can be possible

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to set RichTextBox text   richTextBox1 Document Blocks Clear    richTextBox1 Document Blocks Add new Paragraph new Run  Text        to get RichTextBox text   string richText   new TextRange richTextBox1 Document ContentStart  richTextBox1 Document ContentEnd  Text

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RichTextBox rtf   new RichTextBox    System IO MemoryStream stream   new System IO MemoryStream ASCIIEncoding Default GetBytes yourText     rtf Selection Load stream  DataFormats Rtf     OR  rtf Selection Text   yourText

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Using two extension methods  this becomes very easy   public static class Ext       public static void SetText this RichTextBox richTextBox  string text                richTextBox Document Blocks Clear            richTextBox Document Blocks Add new Paragraph new Run text                public static string GetText this RichTextBox richTextBox                return new TextRange richTextBox Document ContentStart              richTextBox Document ContentEnd  Text

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According to this it does have a Text property  http   msdn microsoft com en-us library system windows forms richtextbox members aspx  You can also try the  Lines  property if you want the text broken up as lines

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string GetString RichTextBox rtb        var textRange   new TextRange rtb Document ContentStart  rtb Document ContentEnd       return textRange Text

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The WPF RichTextBox has a Document property for setting the content a la MSDN      Create a FlowDocument to contain content for the RichTextBox          FlowDocument myFlowDoc   new FlowDocument                Add paragraphs to the FlowDocument          myFlowDoc Blocks Add new Paragraph new Run  Paragraph 1              myFlowDoc Blocks Add new Paragraph new Run  Paragraph 2              myFlowDoc Blocks Add new Paragraph new Run  Paragraph 3              RichTextBox myRichTextBox   new RichTextBox                Add initial content to the RichTextBox          myRichTextBox Document   myFlowDoc    You can just use the AppendText method though if that s all you re after   Hope that helps

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How about just doing the following    richTextBox SelectAll    string myText    richTextBox Selection Text

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There was a confusion between RichTextBox in System Windows Forms and in System Windows Control  I am using the one in the Control as I am using WPF  In there  there is no Text property  and in order to get a text  I should have used this line   string myText   new TextRange transcriberArea Document ContentStart  transcriberArea Document ContentEnd  Text     thanks

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Extended WPF Toolkit  now provides a richtextbox with the Text property   You can get or set the text in different formats  XAML  RTF and plaintext    Here is the link  Extended WPF Toolkit RichTextBox

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There is no Text property in the WPF RichTextBox control  Here is one way to get all of the text out   TextRange range   new TextRange myRTB Document ContentStart  myRTB Document ContentEnd    string allText   range Text

[c#] RichTextBox (WPF) does not have string property "Text"

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