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

Platform: WinForms |
Control: EditControl |
Published Date: April 30, 2011 |
Last Revised Date: December 11, 2019

Selection methods

The CommentSelection() and UncommentSelection() methods 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: http://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

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