<p>Trying to avoid the .net WebBrowser control (I don't need to navigate to a url, print rendered html or any of the other inbuilt goodies).  Wrapping the IE dll seems a bit heavyweight.</p>

<p>I simply require something that can display basic html marked up text - an html equivalent of <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.controls.richtextbox.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">RichTextBox</a> in effect.  Anyone have any experiences / recommendations / war stories?</p>

[{'answer_id': 17961, 'author': 'samjudson', 'author_id': 1908, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1908', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>While it takes a bit of effort, you can disable almost all of the 'extra' functionality of the built in WebBrowser control.</p>\n\n<p>If the built in web browser provides all the functionality you need why look elsewhere?</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 41098, 'author': 'Garo Yeriazarian', 'author_id': 2655, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2655', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Lutz Roeder (of Reflector fame) has a WYSIWYG HTML editor in .NET on his site here: <a href="http://www.lutzroeder.com/dotnet/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.lutzroeder.com/dotnet/</a>.  Check out the download called "writer".  I haven\'t used it myself, but it was the first thing that popped into my mind.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 850588, 'author': 'Vinko Vrsalovic', 'author_id': 5190, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5190', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p><a href="http://htmlrenderer.codeplex.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">J. Menendez Poo\'s fully managed HTML renderer</a> isn\'t complete, but it\'s by far the best I\'ve found. </p>\n\n<p>I still have to try it in depth, but looks a lot more promising than the other alternative:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href="http://www.bruceshankle.com/_mgxroot/page_10764.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Bruce Shankle\'s Anole</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>This assuming you don\'t actually need the editing capability\'s of <a href="http://www.lutzroeder.com/dotnet/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Lutz Roeder\'s Writer</a>.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 3672519, 'author': 'ChrisW', 'author_id': 49942, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/49942', 'pm_score': 4, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>I developed this <a href="http://www.modeltext.com/html/" rel="noreferrer">HTML control for .NET</a>, which does what you were asking: i.e. display basic html marked up text.</p>\n\n<p>It doesn\'t use IE or any other unmanaged code (except for the .NET framework itself).</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 8475905, 'author': 'Jake Almer', 'author_id': 59381, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/59381', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Might want to take a look at <a href="http://awesomium.com/" rel="nofollow">Awesomium</a>. I\'ve had success with it in .net apps.</p>\n'}]
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