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Using AvalonEdit (WPF Text Editor)

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AvalonEdit is an extensible Open-Source text editor with support for syntax highlighting and folding.
// Copyright (c) AlphaSierraPapa for the SharpDevelop Team (for details please see \doc\copyright.txt)
// This code is distributed under the GNU LGPL (for details please see \doc\license.txt)

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Collections.ObjectModel;
using System.Collections.Specialized;

namespace ICSharpCode.AvalonEdit.Xml
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Two collections in sequence
	/// </summary>
	public class MergedCollection<T, TCollection> : ObservableCollection<T> where TCollection : INotifyCollectionChanged, IList<T>
	{
		TCollection a;
		TCollection b;
		
		/// <summary> Create a wrapper containing elements of 'a' and then 'b' </summary>
		[System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Naming", "CA1704:IdentifiersShouldBeSpelledCorrectly")]
		public MergedCollection(TCollection a, TCollection b)
		{
			this.a = a;
			this.b = b;
			
			this.a.CollectionChanged += SourceCollectionAChanged;
			this.b.CollectionChanged += SourceCollectionBChanged;
			
			Reset();
		}
		
		void Reset()
		{
			this.Clear();
			foreach(T item in a) this.Add(item);
			foreach(T item in b) this.Add(item);
		}

		void SourceCollectionAChanged(object sender, NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs e)
		{
			SourceCollectionChanged(0, e);
		}
		
		void SourceCollectionBChanged(object sender, NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs e)
		{
			SourceCollectionChanged(a.Count, e);
		}
		
		void SourceCollectionChanged(int collectionStart, NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs e)
		{
			switch(e.Action) {
				case NotifyCollectionChangedAction.Add:
					for (int i = 0; i < e.NewItems.Count; i++) {
						this.InsertItem(collectionStart + e.NewStartingIndex + i, (T)e.NewItems[i]);
					}
					break;
				case NotifyCollectionChangedAction.Remove:
					for (int i = 0; i < e.OldItems.Count; i++) {
						this.RemoveAt(collectionStart + e.OldStartingIndex);
					}
					break;
				case NotifyCollectionChangedAction.Reset:
					Reset();
					break;
				default:
					throw new NotSupportedException(e.Action.ToString());
			}
		}
	}
}

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