# TX Text Control .NET for WPF > A word processing control for WPF: rich text editing, tables, images, mail merge and PDF, with ribbon tabs, toolbars and dialogs built for XAML. - **Product:** TX Text Control .NET for WPF - **Kind:** Topic - **Path:** TX Text Control .NET for WPF - **1041 words** - **Web URL:** https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/ - **LLMs URL:** https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/llms.txt - **LLMs-Full URL:** https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/llms-full.txt --- TX Text Control .NET for WPF is a word processing control you place in a XAML window. It gives your application a complete editor — formatted text, paragraph and character styles, tables, images, headers and footers, footnotes, form fields and merge fields — and it reads and writes the formats your users already work in, including DOCX, DOC, RTF, HTML and PDF. The same document engine is available without a user interface, so the documents your users edit on screen are the documents your code creates, merges and converts. Nothing else has to be installed on the machine: TX Text Control handles the formats itself, with no Microsoft Word and no Adobe Acrobat involved. ### What It Gives Your Application Your users get a word processor in a window, driven by ribbon tabs, toolbars, rulers, sidebars and a status bar, and your code gets the same documents without a user interface: it creates and converts them with `ServerTextControl` and fills templates with data through `MailMerge`. [What You Can Build](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/overview/introduction/#what-you-can-build) lists the tasks with the classes behind them. Documents are loaded and saved through one set of stream types, so a file a user opens as DOCX can be saved as PDF, PDF/A, RTF, HTML or plain text without any other component. The ribbon tabs ship as WPF controls you place in your own ribbon, and the dialogs users expect — font, paragraph, tabs, tables, styles, images, hyperlinks, bookmarks, comments and tracked changes among them — are built in. ### Who This Documentation Is for It is written for .NET developers building WPF applications, and it assumes you know C# or Visual Basic, XAML and the WPF data binding model. It does not assume you know anything about TX Text Control. ### How This Documentation Is Organized - **[Overview](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/overview/llms-full.txt)** explains what the control is, how the editor and the engine relate, and what a document is made of. - **[Installation Guide](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/installation/llms-full.txt)** covers the requirements, the packages and the licensing you need before you write any code. - **[Getting Started](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/getting-started/llms-full.txt)** puts the control in a window and builds a working editor step by step. - **The feature sections**, [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), [Mail Merge and Reporting](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/mail-merge/llms-full.txt), [PDF Processing](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/pdf/llms-full.txt) and [Digital Signatures](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/digital-signatures/llms-full.txt), cover each feature in detail, in the editor and in code. - **The application around the editor** is the subject of the [Integration Guide](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/integration/llms-full.txt), with XAML, data binding and MVVM, and of the [Deployment Guide](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/deployment/llms-full.txt), [Security](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/security/llms-full.txt) and [Performance](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/performance/llms-full.txt). [What's New](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/whats-new/llms-full.txt) lists the changes of each version. - **[API Reference](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/reference/llms-full.txt)** documents every class, property, method and event of the .NET API. ### The .NET API The [.NET API](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/reference/dotnet-api/llms-full.txt) divides the classes into namespaces: `TXTextControl.WPF` holds what belongs to WPF alone, such as the editing control and the ribbon tabs, `TXTextControl` the document engine and everything a document is made of, and `TXTextControl.DocumentServer` mail merge and reporting. Its overview lists every namespace with the classes to open first. ### Where to Start 1. [Overview](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/overview/llms-full.txt): what the control does and how its parts fit together. 2. [Installation Guide](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/installation/llms-full.txt): what has to be in place first. 3. [Getting Started](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/getting-started/llms-full.txt): a working editor in a window. 4. [TextControl](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/reference/txtextcontrol-wpf/textcontrol/llms-full.txt): the class you will spend the most time in. ### Getting Help - **Something does not work.** [Troubleshooting](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/troubleshooting/llms-full.txt) collects common problems with the installation, the toolbox, licenses, native libraries, fonts, data binding and printing, and how to fix them. - **You need working code.** [Examples](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/examples/llms-full.txt) lists the samples installed with the setup and the sample repositories of [Text Control on GitHub](https://github.com/TextControl), which receive new samples regularly, including samples that the setup doesn't install. - **You need Text Control's support team.** Registered users and developers who evaluate the trial version get free technical support. Open a ticket in the Support Center of your Text Control account; the support engineers answer in English and German. A subscription adds support by email, telephone and chat with no limit on the number of incidents, as described in [Licensing](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/overview/licensing/#subscription-and-updates). - **You have a question about licenses or prices.** [Contact the Text Control sales team](https://www.textcontrol.com/contact/). --- ## In This Section - [Deployment Guide](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/deployment/llms-full.txt): Deploy a WPF application with TX Text Control: TXTextControl.WPF.dll and native libraries, Visual C++ runtime, platforms, publishing, MSIX, CI/CD and licensing. - [Digital Signatures](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/digital-signatures/llms-full.txt): Add PDF signing to a WPF application: DigitalSignature and SaveSettings, certificates from PFX files or the Windows store, signature fields and timestamps. - [Document Editor](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/document-editor/llms-full.txt): Add editing features to the WPF TextControl in XAML and code-behind: Loaded, formatting, tables, barcodes, review, ribbon tabs connected by name, and events. - [Document Processing](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/document-processing/llms-full.txt): Work with documents in WPF code-behind: object model, loading and saving, tables, sections, fields, forms, comments, XML, printing and ServerTextControl. - [Examples](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/examples/llms-full.txt): Samples of TX Text Control .NET for WPF by topic: TX Words, GitHub, the editor, ribbon, XAML and data binding, MVVM, processing, mail merge, PDF and signatures. - [Getting Started](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/getting-started/llms-full.txt): 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. - [Installation Guide](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/installation/llms-full.txt): Set up TX Text Control .NET for WPF: requirements, the setup, the WPF.SDK NuGet package, the toolbox, XAML namespaces, licenses, build servers and upgrades. - [Integration Guide](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/integration/llms-full.txt): Fit the WPF TextControl into your application: XAML, code, UserControls, data binding, MVVM, commands, layout, styles, TX Spell .NET, DPI and accessibility. - [Mail Merge and Reporting](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/mail-merge/llms-full.txt): Create documents from templates in WPF: the Reporting ribbon tab, MailMerge in code, data sources, merge fields and blocks, preview, styling and events. - [Overview](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/overview/llms-full.txt): Plan a WPF application with TX Text Control: the editor and its XAML controls, ServerTextControl, MailMerge, platforms, formats, editions and licenses. - [PDF Processing](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/pdf/llms-full.txt): Write and read PDF in WPF applications with the TextControl: conversion, PDF import, PDF/A, fonts, forms, attachments, text extraction, metadata and passwords. - [Performance](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/performance/llms-full.txt): Keep WPF windows responsive with TX Text Control: the dispatcher, ServerTextControl on background threads, large documents, memory, conversion and mail merge. - [API Reference](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/reference/llms-full.txt): Look up WPF.TextControl, the WPF ribbon tabs, ServerTextControl and MailMerge: C# and Visual Basic syntax, parameters and the version each member was added. - [Security](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/security/llms-full.txt): How WPF applications with TX Text Control protect documents: editable regions, received files, encrypted PDF output, signing certificates and release checks. - [Troubleshooting](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/troubleshooting/llms-full.txt): Solve problems with TX Text Control .NET for WPF: packages, the XAML Designer, initialization, binding, licenses, native libraries, fonts and deployment. - [What's New](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/whats-new/llms-full.txt): The versions of TX Text Control .NET for WPF from 10.1 to 34.0: new features, service packs, breaking changes, obsolete members and where an upgrade starts. --- ## Nearby - **Next:** [Overview](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/overview/llms-full.txt)