WpfHexEditorIDE

<div align="center"> <a href="Images/Logo2026.png"><img src="Images/Logo2026.png" width="600" height="250" /></a> <br/><br/> <h3>🖥️ A full-featured open-source IDE for .NET — Binary analysis, reverse engineering & build tooling</h3>

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🚧 Active Development — New features, editors and panels are being added regularly. The IDE application is under active construction. Contributions and feedback welcome!

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<a href="Images/App-Editors-Welcome.png"><img src="Images/App-Editors-Welcome.png" alt="WPF HexEditor IDE" width="900"/></a> <br/> _{<i>WpfHexEditor — Full IDE with VS-style docking, project system, and multiple editors</i>}

<p> <a href="#-the-ide-application"><b>The IDE</b></a> • <a href="#-editors"><b>Editors</b></a> • <a href="#-controls--libraries"><b>Controls</b></a> • <a href="#-analysis--ide-panels"><b>Panels</b></a> • <a href="#-quick-start"><b>Quick Start</b></a> • <a href="#-documentation"><b>Docs</b></a> • <a href="CHANGELOG.md"><b>Changelog</b></a> </p> </div>

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🖥️ The IDE Application

WpfHexEditor is a full-featured binary analysis IDE for Windows, built entirely with WPF and .NET. It goes far beyond a simple hex editor — think Visual Studio for binary files.

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🏗️ Project System

• Solution & Project management (.whsln / .whproj)
• Visual Studio .sln / .csproj / .vbproj — open and build VS solutions directly (#101–103 ✅ in progress)
• MSBuild integration — build, rebuild, clean with output routed to the Build channel
• Virtual & physical folders (like VS Solution Explorer)
• Format versioning with auto-migration
• Per-file state persistence (bookmarks, scroll, encoding)

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🪟 VS-Style Docking (🔧 100% in-house engine)

• Float, dock, auto-hide any panel
• Colored tabs with per-document customization
• 18 built-in themes (Dark, Light, VS2022Dark, DarkGlass, Minimal, Office, Cyberpunk, VisualStudio...)
• Tab placement left / right / bottom

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📋 IDE Infrastructure

• IDocumentEditor plugin contract — every editor is pluggable
• Shared UndoEngine — coalescing (500 ms), transactions, save-point tracking; Ctrl+Z/Y/Shift+Z across all editors
• Rectangular selection (Alt+Click) + drag-to-move — CodeEditor & TextEditor
• VS2022-style status bar (edit mode, bytes/line, caret offset, LSP server state)
• Output panel + Error/Diagnostics panel + Dockable Search Panel (Ctrl+Shift+F)
• VS2026-style Options — document tab, auto-save, live theme preview
• Integrated Terminal (Ctrl+`` ) — 31 built-in commands, panel/plugin/file management
• Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) — 9 modes: commands, LSP symbols, go-to-line, files, content grep, and more
• Command System — CommandRegistry (~45 commands), KeyBindingService, KeyboardShortcutsPage, TitleBar launcher
• Plugin System — WpfHexEditor.SDK open API, .whxplugin packages, Plugin Manager, IDE EventBus (39 types), Capability Registry, Extension Points, Dependency Graph, plugin signing
• NuGet Solution Manager — Browse/Installed/Consolidate/Updates across all projects
• DI Infrastructure — AppServiceCollection (Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection)

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🔍 Binary Intelligence

• 400+ file format auto-detection with format-aware editor routing
• Parsed Fields Panel with structure overlay
• Data Inspector — 40+ type interpretations
• Assembly Explorer — .NET PE inspection, types, methods, fields; C# decompilation to Code Editor tab; Extract to Project; Collapse/Close All; Ctrl+Click external symbol decompilation (AppDomain + runtime + NuGet resolution) (#104-106 — in progress)
• HexEditor control — 19 languages with instant switching (IDE UI is English only — full localization engine coming soon)

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📝 Editors

WpfHexEditor uses a plugin architecture (IDocumentEditor) — every editor is a standalone, reusable component hosted in the docking system.

| Editor | Status | Progress | Description | |--------|--------|----------|-------------| | Hex Editor | ✅ Active | ~75% | Binary editing — insert/overwrite, 400+ format detection, search, bookmarks, TBL, status bar contributor | | TBL Editor | ✅ Active | ~80% | Character table editor for custom encodings and ROM hacking | | Code Editor | ✅ Active | ~85% | Multi-language code editor — VS-like navigation bar, 55+ language definitions (incl. F# + VB.NET), URL hover/click, find/replace, split view; Ctrl+Click cross-file nav + external symbol decompilation; Alt+Click rect selection; drag-to-move; shared UndoEngine; #region colorization; data-driven folding (4 strategies); word wrap; multi-caret (Ctrl+Alt+Click, Ctrl+D); gutter diagnostics + scrollbar markers; auto-close brackets/quotes + skip-over + wrap-selection; end-of-block hover hint (} / #endregion / </Tag>); word highlight (VS Code style); sticky scroll with line numbers (#160); Find All References (Shift+F12) + dockable panel + F8 nav; LSP breadcrumb bar, inlay hints, code lens, semantic tokens, code actions (Ctrl+.), rename (F2), signature help, workspace symbols | | XAML Designer | ✅ Active | ~70% | Full split-pane XAML designer — live WPF rendering canvas with bidirectional sync (canvas↔code, ~95%); move/resize/rotate handles; property inspector (F4); multi-select + alignment guides; snap grid; #region colorization; error card overlay; 4 split layouts (Ctrl+Shift+L); zoom/pan; VS-like Ctrl+Z/Y undo/redo with DesignHistoryPanel; Toolbox, Resource Browser, Design Data and Animation panels; right-click context menu; Ctrl+1/2/3 view modes | | Text Editor | ✅ Active | ~50% | Text editing with 26 embedded language definitions, auto-detection by extension, encoding support | | Script Editor | 🔧 Active | ~10% | .hxscript editor with syntax highlighting, run-in-terminal integration, HxScriptEngine backend (#177) | | Image Viewer | 🔧 Active | ~50% | Binary image viewer — zoom/pan, transform pipeline (rotate/flip/crop/resize), FileShare.ReadWrite for concurrent open | | Tile Editor | 🔧 Stub | ~5% | Tile-based graphic editor for ROM/binary assets — palette, zoom, pixel grid (#175) | | Structure Editor | 🔧 Active | ~40% | .whfmt binary template editor — block DataGrid, type/offset/length editing, live save | | Entropy Viewer | 🔧 Active | ~45% | Visual entropy graph of binary sections — detect encryption, compression, and packed regions | | Diff / Changeset Viewer | 🔧 Active | ~70% | Side-by-side binary comparison and changeset replay | | Audio Viewer | 🔧 Stub | ~5% | Audio binary viewer — waveform display (#174) | | Disassembly Viewer | 🔧 Active | ~30% | x86/x64/ARM binary disassembler — decompiler integration stub (#178) | | Decompiled Source Viewer | 🔜 Planned | ~0% | C# skeleton + full IL view via ILSpy backend; "Go to Metadata Token" navigation (#106) | | Memory Snapshot Viewer | 🔜 Planned | ~0% | Load Windows mini-dump .dmp / Linux core-dump; display memory regions, thread stacks, modules (#117) | | PCAP / Network Capture Viewer | 🔜 Planned | ~0% | Load .pcap / .pcapng; packet list, layer breakdown (Ethernet/IP/TCP/UDP/TLS), raw payload (#136) |

Implementing a new editor? See IDocumentEditor contract and register via EditorRegistry.

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🧩 Standalone Controls & Libraries

All controls are independently reusable — no IDE required. Drop any of them into your own WPF application with a simple project reference.

UI Controls

| Control | Frameworks | Progress | Description | |---------|-----------|----------|-------------| | HexEditor | net8.0-windows | ~80% | Full-featured hex editor UserControl — MVVM, 16 services, insert/overwrite, search, bookmarks, TBL, 400+ format detection | | HexBox | net8.0-windows | ~80% | Lightweight hex input field — zero external dependencies, MVVM-ready | | ColorPicker | net8.0-windows | ~95% | Compact color picker UserControl with RGB/HSV/hex input | | **[BarChart](Sources/WpfHexEditor.BarChart/README.md