Problem with RichTextBox's .rtf property

Hi all,

I am having a problem with the Richtextbox's .rtf property.

In my form, I am having a dropdownlist and a Richtextbox. I am getting the items of Dropdownlist dynamically and these values are in fact the elements of an xml file. whenever i select any item, corresponding value of that item(element in xml) is to be displayed in RichText box.

for that i had coded like this:

XDocument xmlDocument = XDocument.Parse(xmlPath);
var DropDowns = from DropDown in xmlDocument.Descendants("Item")
select new
{
Item = DropDown.Element("Text").Value,
Value = DropDown.Element("Value").Value
};
foreach (var DropDown in DropDowns)
{
if (selectedText == DropDown.Item)
{
rtbReuseData.Rtf= xElement.Element(DropDown.Value).Value;
}

Now, I am getting a message such that "Invalid File Format". Here I can also take .text instead of .Rtf, but i want exact format of Text.

PLease help me in solving this.....

Thanks & Regards,
K.S.R. Prasad.

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Vulpes15y ago
Well, I'd imagine that xElement.Element(DropDown.Value).Value gives the name of an RTF file in which case you need to load the file into the RTB, and not set its Rtf property:

if (selectedText == DropDown.Item)
{
rtbReuseData.LoadFile(XElement.Element(DropDown.Value).Value, RichTextBoxStreamType.RichText);
}