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Assemblies and Add-on Licensing

SyntaxEditor is a bit unique in relation to our other WPF control products in that it requires several assemblies depending on which features and add-ons you use.

What is an Add-on?

An add-on is simply a term used to describe some sort of functionality that can optionally be added onto the main product.

Add-ons may include very advanced syntax language implementations that have features such as automated IntelliPrompt, etc. These sorts of add-ons are generally sold separately from SyntaxEditor or its containing bundles.

Two add-ons we include with SyntaxEditor are free assemblies for integrating SyntaxEditor with parsers created using Irony and ANTLR parsing frameworks. These add-ons are optionally installed during setup.

Add-on Packaging

Add-ons can come in one or more assemblies. Often add-ons for a syntax language implementation involve two assemblies. One contains the core text/parsing (non-UI) implementation for language and the other provides UI-related functionality such as working with IntelliPrompt.

The reason add-on assemblies are split up in this way is that we have designed this SyntaxEditor framework to be multi-platform capable. This means that the core text/parsing assembly could be used in WPF, Windows Forms, ASP.NET, etc. Then each platform would have their own UI-related assembly that interacted with the user interface.

Assemblies and Cost

This list of assemblies indicates all of the assemblies related to SyntaxEditor, if they are required or optional, the related add-on (if any), and if they are included for free or sold separately from SyntaxEditor and its containing bundles.

Assembly Required Add-on Cost Description
ActiproSoftware.Shared.Wpf.dll Yes - Included Core framework for all Actipro WPF controls
ActiproSoftware.Text.Wpf.dll Yes - Included Core text/parsing framework for SyntaxEditor
ActiproSoftware.Text.LLParser.Wpf.dll Yes - Included Framework for building top-down text parsers that parse input left-to-right and construct a leftmost derivation.
ActiproSoftware.SyntaxEditor.Wpf.dll Yes - Included SyntaxEditor for WPF control
ActiproSoftware.Text.Addons.Antlr.Wpf.dll No

ANTLR

Included Integrates ANTLR-based parsers with syntax languages
ActiproSoftware.Text.Addons.Irony.Wpf.dll No

Irony

Included Integrates Irony-based parsers with syntax languages
ActiproSoftware.Text.Addons.DotNet.Wpf.dll No

.NET Languages

Sold Separately Core text/parsing for .NET languages
ActiproSoftware.Text.Addons.DotNet.Roslyn.Wpf.dll No

.NET Languages

Sold Separately Optional extensions to load binary assembly reflection data with Roslyn
ActiproSoftware.SyntaxEditor.Addons.DotNet.Wpf.dll No

.NET Languages

Sold Separately SyntaxEditor for WPF advanced C# and VB syntax language implementations
ActiproSoftware.Text.Addons.JavaScript.Wpf.dll No

Web Languages

Sold Separately Core text/parsing for the JavaScript and JSON languages
ActiproSoftware.SyntaxEditor.Addons.JavaScript.Wpf.dll No

Web Languages

Sold Separately SyntaxEditor for WPF advanced JavaScript and JSON syntax language implementations
ActiproSoftware.Text.Addons.Python.Wpf.dll No

Python Language

Sold Separately Core text/parsing for the Python language
ActiproSoftware.SyntaxEditor.Addons.Python.Wpf.dll No

Python Language

Sold Separately SyntaxEditor for WPF advanced Python syntax language implementation
ActiproSoftware.Text.Addons.Xml.Wpf.dll No

Web Languages

Sold Separately Core text/parsing for the XML language
ActiproSoftware.SyntaxEditor.Addons.Xml.Wpf.dll No

Web Languages

Sold Separately SyntaxEditor for WPF advanced XML syntax language implementation

Although the add-ons that are marked as sold separately are included with the WPF controls sample for demo purposes, licenses for them must be purchased separately if you would like to use them. However, the pricing on the add-ons is very affordable and licenses are all Enterprise licenses, meaning they cover your entire organization.