FastColoredTextBox vs MaterialSkin

FastColoredTextBox

Fast Colored TextBox for Syntax Highlighting. The text editor component for .NET. (by PavelTorgashov)

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MaterialSkin

Theming .NET WinForms, C# or VB.Net, to Google's Material Design Principles. (by IgnaceMaes)

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FastColoredTextBox		MaterialSkin
	Project
1	Mentions	4
1,196	Stars	2,811
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
7 months ago	Latest Commit	7 months ago
C#	Language	C#
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

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FastColoredTextBox

Posts with mentions or reviews of FastColoredTextBox. 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

You can check on GitHub for some projects that have done the same, something like https://github.com/PavelTorgashov/FastColoredTextBox

MaterialSkin

Posts with mentions or reviews of MaterialSkin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-05.

How to make this Winforms App look more modern?
2 projects | /r/csharp | 5 Jan 2023
Searching for a free WinForms GUI library
2 projects | /r/csharp | 3 Aug 2021

I did a quick search and found a WinForms and WPF example of Material Design libraries. It's got some of the same philosophies your examples seem to be looking for.
I'm impressed Winforms can look like this! (check comments for a description of this tool)
4 projects | /r/csharp | 9 Apr 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing FastColoredTextBox and MaterialSkin you can also consider the following projects:

AvalonEdit - The WPF-based text editor component used in SharpDevelop

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

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

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

Eto.Forms - Cross platform GUI framework for desktop and mobile applications in .NET

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

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

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.

ObjectListView - git clone of https://objectlistview.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/objectlistview/cs/trunk

Ookii.Dialogs.Wpf - Awesome dialogs for Windows Desktop applications built with Microsoft .NET (WPF)

DockPanelSuite - DockPanel Suite - The Visual Studio inspired docking library for .NET WinForms