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How to comment and uncomment selected text programmatically in WinForms SyntaxEditor (EditControl)?

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Selection methods

The CommentSelection() and UncommentSelection() methods in WinForms EditControl is used to comment and uncomment the selected text programmatically in EditControl. But these methods comments and uncomments the text using the value specified in StartComment attribute in configuration file.

C#

//Comments the text
EditControl1.CommentSelection();
//Comments the text
EditControl1.UncommentSelection();

 

VB

'Comments the text
EditControl1.CommentSelection()
'Uncomments the text
EditControl1.UncommentSelection()

 

Sample: https://help.syncfusion.com/support/samples/kb/edit.win/kb_commentuncomment/Edit_WF_KB_CommentUnComment.zip

Reference link: https://help.syncfusion.com/windowsforms/syntax-editor/editing#comment-out-lines

Conclusion

I hope you enjoyed learning about how to comment and uncomment selected text programmatically in WinForms SyntaxEditor (EditControl).

You can refer to our  WinForms EditControl feature tour page to know about its other groundbreaking feature representations. You can also explore our WinForms EditContro documentation to understand how to create and manipulate data.

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