An HTML/Text Editing Control/Component by Syncfusion, Inc.

Configuration files can be used to specify outlining blocks and syntax highlighting of embedded scripts, as well. Essential Edit has rich text editing features in addition to the code highlighting abilities that make it a highly efficient text editor, too.

Advanced Editor Functions
Essential Edit can be used as a stand-alone text editing control capable of performing advanced functions like find-replace, line numbers, font customization, clipboard operations, text highlighting, and user margin operations. It also supports a highly customizable, built-in context menu. All of these features make Essential Edit an extremely useful control - even if syntax highlighting is not required in the application.

Syntax Highlighting and Code Coloring
Syntax highlighting and code coloring enhances the readability of code, and Essential Edit fully supports this functionality. Essential Edit supports highlighting of embedded scripts as well as plain text. XML-based configuration files are used for syntax highlighting purposes, and Essential Edit offers out-of-the-box support for syntax highlighting some commonly used languages. The configuration files are extensible and can be configured to highlight any desired language.

Text Export
Essential Edit supports exporting its contents into commonly accepted universal formats like HTML, XML, and RTF. The exported files can be then opened in standard editors, like Visual Studio or Microsoft Word, and edited as required.

Text Formatting
Essential Edit has text formatting support to layout its contents. Common text formatting techniques like WordWrap, Indentation-Outdentation, Outlining, Content Dividers, and so on are available in Essential Edit.

Text Navigation
Essential Edit has extensive support for navigation through its contents. Apart from standard navigation techniques using the keyboard, it also supports bookmarks navigation, bracket highlighting, indentation guidelines, and text drag drop.

Localization and Globalization
In the age of globalization the markets for all goods become more and more internationalized enforcing the need to provide information in a variety of languages.EditControl supports complete localization of all the dialogs and strings associated with it to any desired language.

Graphics Support
The EditControl has the ability to generate a bitmap image of itself. The bitmap image looks exactly like an actual snapshot of a live instance of EditControl.

Advanced Keyboard Interaction
Essential Edit supports extensive interaction with the keyboard through the use of shortcuts keys to perform certain pre-defined or custom bound actions. The insert state of Essential Edit can also be toggled using the Insert key.

Advanced Mouse Interaction
Essential Edit fully supports mouse interaction. It supports intelli-mouse functionality in addition to the standard mouse operations like mouse click, up/down, enter/leave, move/hover, text drag-drop, and scrolling.

Appearance
Essential Edit provides support for customizing its appearance through the use of gradient background, wordwrap and user margins, and Windows XP-themed look and feel. It also supports multiple views of the same file through the use of vertical and horizontal splitters.

Visual Studio Designer Support
Visual Studio fully supports Essential Edit as a developer component. It can be hosted in the toolbox, dragged-dropped onto the form / user control, and customized at design-time in the Visual Studio designer.

Files and Streams
Essential Edit offers complete support for all standard file and stream handling operations. The syntax highlighting also automatically reconfigures itself based on the extension of the file that was loaded. For example, when a SQL file is loaded into Essential Edit, automtically, SQL configuration settings will be used to highlight the contents of the file.

Intelli-sense Functions
The intelli-sense support in Essential Edit consists principally of the Context Choice, the Context Prompt, and the Context Tooltip features. These features are analogous to the List Members, Parameter Info, and Quick Info intellisense features in Visual Studio.NET, respectively.

Printing Support
Essential Edit provides complete support for printing its contents. There are options to print the entire document, just the current page, specific pages, or just certain selected text. The printing implementation is very similar to the ones available in standard applications such as MS Office or Visual Studio.NET.