We’re very happy to have reached the first major milestone for the SyntaxEditor for WPF product, the beginning of alpha testing! SyntaxEditor for WPF is a syntax-highlighting code editor control similar to the Visual Studio code editor.
Yesterday we began a closed alpha test for WPF Studio customers who plan on using SyntaxEditor once it is released.
How to apply for alpha testing
If you are a WPF Studio customer and would like to apply to be an alpha tester, please e-mail us with your name, e-mail address, and the organization name under which you own WPF Studio licenses (same as your WPF Studio license’s Licensee). Only existing WPF Studio customers may apply. Additionally, provide a brief description of what you plan to do with SyntaxEditor, and how much time you’ll have to start working with the product.
A requirement of being an alpha tester is that you must provide feedback on the product. If you don’t think you’ll have the time to do so, then please don’t apply.
Again this is the first alpha test so while there is a huge amount of work already completed, there will be missing/incomplete features. As we progress towards a beta and later an RTM, we will be adding more and more features.
SyntaxEditor for WPF current codebase size
A lot of people have asked why it’s taking so long to complete the product. As mentioned in past blog posts, we are not just making something to get it out and selling. We are really trying to design a next generation editor that will be the definitive standard for this type of control, mostly on par with VS 2010’s editors capabilities.
We did a quick scan this morning and our current codebase size for the SyntaxEditor and Text assemblies (the two pieces of this product) are already a total of 70,000 lines in the C#, VB, and XAML code files. That should give you an idea of the scope of this product.