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When the user clicks on an UltraGrid cell that contains multiple lines of text, the selected text loses the CRLFs

I have a C# program that uses an Infragistics UltraWinGrid to display comments. A comment can be multiple lines. That is, it can contain carriage return/line feeds (CRLFs). (See the upper portion of the attached screenshot.) But when the user selects the text of the comment by clicking on the cell, it loses the CRLFs. (See lower portion.) This is a problem, because comments can be very long and the user may want to copy and paste a comment somewhere else without losing the formatting.
From what I understand, this problem results because the grid uses a Windows textbox as an editor when the user clicks on a cell. Is there some way that I can either make the textbox keep the CLRFs or replace the textbox with an editor that does? Thanks.

Turns out there are a few stars that need to align for this.
Of course CellMultiLine needs to be set for the column like wnvko pointed out.
But also, you must make sure your Column Style is NOT FormattedText or FormattedTextEdit. (If that's required for editing i think you are out of luck). Just use Default style.
And finally make sure you CRLFs are actually truly CRLFs. My best suggestion is to use Environment.NewLine. If you are pulling the data from the DB, make sure you use CHAR(13) + CHAR(10) in that specific order. See Differences Between vbLf, vbCrLf & vbCr Constants
Hope this helps 4 years later. :-) But wanted to share for others since i found no solution elsewhere.

My suggestion is to use Templates. Have a look at the official Infragistics UltraWebGrid help book that is explaining in depth how to configure features like Row and Column Templates.
Go to page 74 for more information regarding the templating.

You should set CellMultiLine of the column to True. Here is how it is working when I set it in my grid

I never found a real answer to this question, but I was able to do a workaround by capturing the click event and having it open a small dialog box containing the cell text. I had the dialog box open at the point the user clicked, so that it appeared over the cell. After a few minor adjustments to take care of border conditions, it worked surprisingly well, so I'm calling this one solved. Thanks, everyone, for your suggestions.

Compare word documents(.docx) with a document template(.dotx)

Is there any way I can compare a word document(.docx) with a document template(.dotx) generated in microsoft word.
I want to do this comparison programmatically using c#.
I want to compare both documents word to word so that I can determine to which template the document belongs. I don't just want to compare the size of both but I want to compare the contents also.
By this comparison I want get the following results.
From which document template the document is generated.
In the document template, I want to check that at which place a particular information is stored.
Say for example I want to search for the communication information of a person, then I want to traverse the document and check that At which position the template has the area/section for Address.(i.e. Top left corner, top center, In a paragraph, In body etc)
In same way I want to extract other information too, Like Link to other documents etc.
After getting those positions I want to get that Information from the .Docx file.
Say, If I found that the Address in the top-left and there are five links referring to other documents in five different paragraphs. Then what I want is to get the Address and save it to a variable. After that I want to replace those link contents from placeholders to Actual hyperLinks. i.e If a Link is referring to Doc-A then Instead of just showing a Plain text I want replace it with A hyperlink to Doc-A.
Any suggestions?
Thank You.

Your question is rather too vague and involved to give a really good answer, however...
To find out from which template a document was generated the object model provides the property: Document.AttachedTemplate with will return the full file name. This is certainly better than comparing word-by-word (which is also very time-consuming)
The Word object model also provides the method CompareDocuments (belongs to the Word.Application class). This will "highlight" differences in the text content of two documents.
Links will be found in the Document.Hyperlinks collection
Getting the position of things is a bit chancy with Word and it depends on what you really mean by "top-left", etc. Better would be to construct the templates using content controls, form fields and/or bookmarks so that you can uniquely identify important sections. However, Word does provide the Range.get_Information method that can return relative and absolute positions on the page if that's what you really want.

Spell check merge fields in MS Word programmatically in C# using word interop

I have been trying to enable spell check for mergefields after they have been resolved to text (after mail-merge). By default Word does not do it. The workaround is to set the proofing language in Word and un-check the "Do not check spelling or grammar" tick box, however, I want to do this programmatically. I have tried setting Range.LanguageID and other options using Word Interop with no results. The text that comes from mergefields is not spell checked (spelling errors are not underlined). Can you please advise how this could be resolved? Thanks

In the end I modified the rtf document. I realised that there were \noproof tags in the rtf document and after finding out what they meant I decided to remove them. I've also removed \lang1024 and \langfe1024 which seemed to appear before each \noproof tag. Apparently they store information about the language of the formatted field/paragraph. The end result is that the text that comes from merge fields is now spell checked, which is what I wanted. I haven't been able to find any other solution. I hope this post helps someone else as well.

Creating custom RichTextBox control

I believe am in need of creating custom RichTextBox in C#. One kind of like that:
I admit it might not even have to be RichTextBox, but after some research I decided it's gonna be the easiest way. Functionality I need are icons at each row, checkboxes and text formatting. My program will process each line of the text and mark lines that are correct, incorrect, and strike out lines not necessary in further work, while showing line that's currently processed and allowing user to edit some lines freely (here: lines before Around 3 000 won't be editable, but those under the line will).
What's the problem then? I have no idea how to get it done. I've seen tutorial on how to make single-line textBox with icon or checkbox nearby, but I have no idea how to make both, and for multiline textBox (so I could freely scroll and everything would work fluently). I've read some questions on SO as well, but neither helped me.
I just don't know how to get started, I realize it won't be 5 min work, but I'm willing to do it. Until now I've been only able to create custom control deriving from RichTextBox, but I have no idea which methods and how to override. Any help appreciated.

Try to use WebBrowser control instead RichTextBox.
You can add CheckBoxes and editable content by setting a correct HTML code to it.
Set each TextBox or CheckBoxes ids and use GetElementsByTagName or GetElementById to access inner elements to get or set its attributes or values.

How to build a "word-by-word" autocomplete in WPF?

I already did some research and ended up with several autocomplete boxes which have one thing in common: they all match the whole expression which has been entered. Sometimes, they seem to be easily expandable, but at the end, they aren't.
However, I need a Textbox which allows the user to enter a word (e.g. "tag1"), displays a popup with some suggestions based on this single word, accept the suggestion with the return key and type in a new word (e.g "tag1 tag2") in the same textbox, with the popup popping up again. (I like the way CintaNotes handles this)
I need this for a tagging interface. It's often faster for the user to write the tags into a simple box, but sometimes, he needs assistance. This is what the autocomplete is for.
I've found some results, which don't work for my purpose (imho):
http://www.wpfpedia.com/item/details/743/wpf-autocomplete-textbox-control
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/WPF_Autocomplete.aspx
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/autocomplete_textbox.aspx
http://weblogs.thinktecture.com/cnagel/2011/01/autocomplete-textbox-with-wpf.html
Btw, I really like the way the Tag-Box for SO operates.
Does anyone have an idea? Is there a "out-of-the-box" - solution somewhere, which suits my needs but I didn't find? Or do I have to build one myself?
Thanks! :)

I think you mean a textbox which autocomplete for multiple words.
Like TokenizedTexbox on WPF Extended Toolkit.
this is the page: http://wpftoolkit.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=TokenizedTextBox&referringTitle=Home

Probably you would need to create your own Dictionary object of Key and Value pairs and hook that Dictionary to the textbox events and popup a suggestions dialog that displays the Value(s) from your Dictionary

Check this implementation out: http://code.google.com/p/kocontrols/downloads/list
You may inject your own Search algorithm and your own converter which converts the selected element to text, which you display in the TextBox. You will have to modify it slightly but I think that you might be able to solve your problem by basing your control on this implementation.
I never thought about this type of use case.
Can't you use different textboxes for the different tags? Something similar to how goole code does it?

If you have time, you can use the RichEditControl or TextBox and apply the same pattern used in Intellisense engine or Code Completation enabled editors: Hook the text changes events, Recogize context (last/current word) and display the options list on popup control. And optionally, on commit (detect acceptation or space key), apply the format to the word.