RichTextBox.Rtf property argument exception

[partyganger]

Hey all, I'm trying to programmatically fill RichTextBox's Rtf property, I have an Xml file thats built like CP breaks the XML, so here's a tree representation:

Paragraphs
Paragraph
Header
Content

I then iterate through all paragraphs and if the header isn't empty, i add it like so: string rtbContent += "\b" + headerNode.InnerText + "\b0"; but when I set the RichTextBox's Rtf Property to rtbContent, it throws an ArgumentException stating the string is in the wrong format... Why, the Rtf property is a string, and so is my variable...

[LongRange Shooter]

You probably do not have the entire text wrapped with RTF formatting strings. For example, below is just a string of text typed into wordpad then viewed in Notepad.

{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}}
{\*\generator Msftedit 5.41.15.1503;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs20 This is RTF text\par
}

[Heath Stewart]

When assigning the Rtf property, you must include all necessary RTF information, including the RTF headers. See the RTF 1.6 Specification[^] on MSDN for more information.

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