#GET PLAIN TEXT HOW TO#

' representing the plain text content of the TextRange. ' The Text property on a TextRange object returns a string ' TextPointer to the end of content in the RichTextBox.ĭim textRange As New TextRange(, ) ' TextPointer to the start of content in the RichTextBox. Private Function StringFromRichTextBox(ByVal rtb As RichTextBox) As String representing the plain text content of the TextRange. The Text property on a TextRange object returns a string TextPointer to the end of content in the RichTextBox. TextPointer to the start of content in the RichTextBox. string StringFromRichTextBox(RichTextBox rtb) PLAIN TEXT : Plain text is a text with no styles attached or embedded with it. TextRange provides a Text property, which returns the plain text portions of the TextRange as a string. It is clear from the above two types of text that what we are dealing with now lets see them one by one in detail and the difference between them. ContentStart and ContentEnd properties each return a TextPointer, and are accessible on the underlying FlowDocument that represents the contents of the RichTextBox. You can activate the feature manually, or check Automatically remove formatting to make the app take care of it every time you copy something. The method creates a new TextRange from the contents of the RichTextBox, using the ContentStart and ContentEnd to indicate the range of the contents to extract. Get Plain Text will convert any bit of text into plain text, no matter where you copied it from (a website, PDF document or elsewhere). The following code implements a method that takes a RichTextBox as an argument, and returns a string representing the plain text contents of the RichTextBox.

Ĭode example with RichTextBox as an argument The following Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) code describes a named RichTextBox control with simple content.

#GET PLAIN TEXT HOW TO#

This example shows how to extract the contents of a RichTextBox as plain text.

Get plain text