I am working on a c# add-in project and i want to compare two richtextboxes and highlight the differences.
but my code will highlight the whole content of the richtextbox. But I want to highlight only the differences in the richtextbox.
this is my code,
public void Compare_HighlightContent() { txtSourceBefore.Text = SharedObjects.CodeBefore; RichTextBox sourceBefore = txtSourceBefore; txtSourceAfter.Text = SharedObjects.CodeAfter; RichTextBox sourceAfter = txtSourceAfter; //int counter=0; string[] targetLinesAfter = sourceAfter.Lines; string[] destLineBefore = sourceBefore.Lines; List<string> result = targetLinesAfter.Except(destLineBefore).ToList<string>(); foreach (string str in result) { //get the line Index of 'str' value int lineIndex = Array.IndexOf(targetLinesAfter, str); int lineCount = 0; int index; for (index = 0; index < lineIndex; index++) { lineCount = lineCount + targetLinesAfter[index].Length; } sourceAfter.SelectionStart = lineCount; sourceAfter.SelectionLength = str.Length; // sourceAfter.SelectionColor = Color.Black; sourceAfter.SelectionBackColor = Color.Yellow; } }so please be kind enough to help me to solve this problem.