# Getting Started > First tutorials for WPF developers new to TX Text Control: an editor window in XAML, documents built in code, mail merge templates, PDF forms and signatures. - **Product:** TX Text Control .NET for WPF - **Section:** Documentation - **Kind:** Topic - **Path:** TX Text Control .NET for WPF > Getting Started - **750 words** - **Web URL:** https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/getting-started/ - **LLMs URL:** https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/getting-started/llms.txt - **LLMs-Full URL:** https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/getting-started/llms-full.txt --- If TX Text Control .NET for WPF is new to you, the tutorials of Getting Started are the shortest way to working code. They begin with an empty Visual Studio project and a window that contains a word processor, and continue with documents that your code creates, merges with data, prints and exports as PDF. Each tutorial is a short sequence of steps with XAML and C# that compile, written for WPF developers who haven't used TX Text Control before. ### Before You Begin Every tutorial assumes the following setup: - **The setup on your development machine.** Install the full or the trial version of TX Text Control .NET for WPF 34.0. It provides the toolbox tab **TX Text Control 34.0**, the XAML Designer support and the local package source **Text Control Offline Packages**. See [Installing the Product](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/installation/setup/llms-full.txt). - **Visual Studio and .NET.** The tutorials use Visual Studio, C# and .NET 8 or higher, for example .NET 10, with the package `TXTextControl.TextControl.WPF.SDK`. One tutorial shows a .NET Framework 4.8 project. See [System Requirements](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/installation/requirements/llms-full.txt). - **An edition with the features you try.** The Standard edition covers the editor with its toolbars, rulers and status bar. The ribbon tabs, DOCX, mail merge and PDF export need the Professional or Enterprise edition, and PDF/A and form fields the Enterprise edition. See [Editions and Feature Availability](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/overview/editions/llms-full.txt). ### Choose Where to Start | If you want to | Start with | |---|---| | Put a word processor in a window, with toolbars or a ribbon and sidebars | [Document Editor](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/getting-started/document-editor/llms-full.txt) | | Build, convert, save or print documents in code | [Document Processing](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/getting-started/document-processing/llms-full.txt) | | Fill templates with data, such as invoices and letters | [Mail Merge](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/getting-started/mail-merge/llms-full.txt) | | Create PDF documents, PDF forms and signed PDFs | [PDF Processing](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/getting-started/pdf/llms-full.txt) | If you are new to TX Text Control, begin with [Create Your First WPF Application](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/getting-started/document-editor/first-application/llms-full.txt): it installs the package and builds the window that the other tutorials start from. ### The Tutorials - [Document Editor](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/getting-started/document-editor/llms-full.txt): a first .NET and .NET Framework application, the controls in XAML, a button bar or a ribbon with sidebars, and loading and saving documents. - [Document Processing](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/getting-started/document-processing/llms-full.txt): build a document in code, save it as DOCX and PDF, and print it. - [Mail Merge](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/getting-started/mail-merge/llms-full.txt): design a template, merge data into its fields and repeat rows with merge blocks. - [PDF Processing](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/getting-started/pdf/llms-full.txt): create PDF documents and PDF forms, and sign them digitally. ### After Getting Started - [Overview](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/overview/llms-full.txt): what the controls and components are and how they work together. - [Document Editor](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/document-editor/llms-full.txt), [Document Processing](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/document-processing/llms-full.txt) and [Mail Merge and Reporting](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/mail-merge/llms-full.txt): every feature in detail. - [Integration Guide](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/integration/llms-full.txt): XAML, data binding and MVVM with the WPF controls. - [Deployment Guide](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/deployment/llms-full.txt): ship your application to your users. --- ## In This Section - [Document Editor](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/getting-started/document-editor/llms-full.txt): Seven WPF tutorials for the TextControl editor: .NET and .NET Framework projects, XAML, button bar, ribbon tabs, sidebars, and opening and saving files. - [Document Processing](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/getting-started/document-processing/llms-full.txt): Build, convert and print documents in a WPF window with ServerTextControl and TextControl: a DOCX report, DOCX and PDF files and printing with PageRange. - [Mail Merge](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/getting-started/mail-merge/llms-full.txt): Design an invoice template with the Reporting tab of the WPF ribbon, merge JSON data into merge fields with MailMerge and repeat table rows with merge blocks. - [PDF Processing](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/getting-started/pdf/llms-full.txt): Save a WPF TextControl document as PDF or PDF/A, build a fillable PDF form with form fields and sign a PDF with an X.509 certificate, in three short tutorials. --- ## Nearby - **Previous:** [Breaking Changes](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/installation/upgrading/breaking-changes/llms-full.txt) - **Next:** [Document Editor](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/getting-started/document-editor/llms-full.txt)