AvalonEdit VS HandyControl

Compare AvalonEdit vs HandyControl and see what are their differences.

AvalonEdit

The WPF-based text editor component used in SharpDevelop (by icsharpcode)
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AvalonEdit HandyControl
3 3
1,751 5,556
1.6% 3.0%
5.1 8.1
8 days ago about 10 hours ago
C# C#
MIT License MIT License
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AvalonEdit

Posts with mentions or reviews of AvalonEdit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-28.
  • How should i go about making a library to color code (syntax highlighting) a user has written?
    4 projects | /r/csharp | 28 May 2023
    For the most part it's best to just use something like AvalonEdit that already implements it for you. There's some documentation and if you dig a long time ago there was a book about how it was made (along with SharpDevelop) that may still be findable.
  • I made a thing
    4 projects | /r/csharp | 21 Mar 2023
    Not OP, but at work I recently implemented an HTML/CSS/JS code editor and used AvalonEdit to great effect for syntax highlighting in a large multi-line textbox. I was also able to add custom linting via regexs and it's got custom theming capabilities. Super happy with it.

HandyControl

Posts with mentions or reviews of HandyControl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-03.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing AvalonEdit and HandyControl you can also consider the following projects:

FastColoredTextBox - Fast Colored TextBox for Syntax Highlighting. The text editor component for .NET.

ScintillaNET - A Windows Forms control, wrapper, and bindings for the Scintilla text editor.

MaterialDesignInXamlToolkit - Google's Material Design in XAML & WPF, for C# & VB.Net.

MahApps.Metro - A framework that allows developers to cobble together a better UI for their own WPF applications with minimal effort.

Avalonia - Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET Foundation community project.

UWP Community Toolkit - The Windows Community Toolkit is a collection of helpers, extensions, and custom controls. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks building .NET apps with UWP and the Windows App SDK / WinUI 3 for Windows 10 and Windows 11. The toolkit is part of the .NET Foundation.

Xamarin.Forms - Xamarin.Forms Official Home

Dragablz - Dragable and tearable tab control for WPF

metroframework-modern-ui - My humble attempt to bring the new Modern UI alias Metro UI of Windows 8 to .NET Windows Forms applications.

Bunifu UI Framework - Social App dark UI built with Bunifu UI Framework Ultimate Bundle