How to get document contents of SfRichTextBoxAdv as text without formatting in WindowsPhone ?

How to get document contents of SfRichTextBoxAdv as text without formatting?

The SfRichTextBoxAdv control supports exporting the document contents to text files. With the help of this functionality, you can retrieve the document text without formatting.

The following Xaml code denotes how to initialize SfRichTextBoxAdv control.

Xaml

<RichTextBox:SfRichTextBoxAdv x:Name="richTextBoxAdv" xmlns:RichTextBox="using:Syncfusion.UI.Xaml.RichTextBoxAdv"/>

The following sample code snippet demonstrates to retrieve the document text of SfRichTextBoxAdv.

C#

// Initializes a stream
Stream stream = new MemoryStream();
// Saves the SfRichTextBoxAdv content as Text format into the stream
richTextBoxAdv.Save(stream, Syncfusion.UI.Xaml.RichTextBoxAdv.FormatType.Txt);
stream.Position = 0;
// Reads the text bytes from the stream
byte[] textBytes = new byte[stream.Length];
stream.Read(textBytes, 0, textBytes.Length);
// Gets the string from text bytes
string text = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("ASCII").GetString(textBytes, 0, textBytes.Length);

VB

' Initializes a stream
Dim stream As Stream = New MemoryStream()
' Saves the SfRichTextBoxAdv content as Text format into the stream
richTextBoxAdv.Save(stream, Syncfusion.UI.Xaml.RichTextBoxAdv.FormatType.Txt)
stream.Position = 0
' Reads the text bytes from the stream
Dim textBytes As Byte() = New Byte(stream.Length - 1) {}
stream.Read(textBytes, 0, textBytes.Length)
' Gets the string from text bytes
Dim text As String = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("ASCII").GetString(textBytes, 0, textBytes.Length)

Conclusion

I hope you enjoyed learning about how to get document contents of SfRichTextBoxAdv as text without formatting in WindowsPhone.

You can refer to our WindowsPhone SfRichTextBox featuretour page to know about its other groundbreaking feature representations  and how to quickly get started for configuration specifications. You can also explore our example to understand how to create and manipulate data.

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