I was pushing for this release when I was at Microsoft and while I can’t explain what took so long I’m just happy that the code has finally been released. Building a Rich Text Editor control is not for the faint of heart, but now you have a starting point on Codeplex if you’d like to build your own. BTW – This is currently being used on the MSDN Forums. 🙂
I am super excited to announce that Kannan Sundararajan, my colleague at Microsoft, has written a Rich Text Editor control using ASP.NET and JavaScript and shared it under the MS-PL license on CodePlex. It has a very rich feature set and Kannan hopes to enhance it further in the future. Since it is a CodePlex project you can report issues and make feature requests.