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With our Notepad clone getting more mature, the remaining commands are, by nature, the most difficult to implement.

Microsoft today delivered .NET Core 3.1, the latest version of its cross-platform SDK and runtime environment.

I decided to take a look at adding some features that aren’t available in the real app. First up: Theme support.

Windows Terminal now lets you have multiple terminal windows open side-by-side with the latest update.

As it turns out, the little code experiment we engaged in yesterday can be added to our project as-is to display the caret position.

The latest Twitter and Facebook breach was caused by two malicious SDKs that paid developers to secretly collect user data from the social networks.

It’s finally happening: Microsoft’s web-based email app for commercial Office 365 customers is becoming a PWA.

One of the big questions around Surface Neo and Surface Duo is how developers can target these devices with apps.

Taking a step back for a moment, I wanted to see whether using a RichTextBox control would improve our app.

Let’s improve the scrollbars, clean up the status bar, and see what it looks like to publish our app to other computers.

Facebook makes the switch to Visual Studio Code as the IDE of choice at the company, announces new partnership with Microsoft to improve VSCode's functionality.

Apple is rebranding its WWDC as Apple Developer, with new functionality and the ability to get a developer account from your phone.

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear Google’s appeal in the Oracle court case concerning its use of Java.

The Windows Community Toolkit 6 includes a XAML Islands update, ARM64 support, new controls, and more.

GitHub is soon going to have an official mobile app, which means you can now review your code and pull requests on the go.

After using NotePadWF extensively at Ignite 2019, I’m ready to make a few bug fixes and fit and finish improvements.

The Google Stadia app can be downloaded now from the Google Play Store. But you need an invite code to use it now.

Microsoft has created a central repository for all of the keynote and session videos it recorded at its recent Ignite 2019 conference.

Microsoft is evolving the Windows 10 app development platform by turning its back on its original strategy.

With the quiet death of Daydream View, Google is open-sourcing its earlier Cardboard effort to prop up its VR platform.

Microsoft says that WinUI 3.0, its upcoming user interface framework for Windows 10, is now available in an early alpha preview release.

In this 11th installment of our start programming project, lets fix zoom and implement several of the Edit menu commands.

OK, I have time for two more small but fun changes: We can persist all of the user’s settings changes and add a starter About box.

Microsoft is announcing an improved Visual Studio Code extension and some new Azure-based solutions that will enable improved robotics development in Windows.

I was expecting to take a bit of time off from this project because of my Ignite trip, but this was too easy to pass up.

With basic file save capabilities out of the way, let’s do a bit of fit and finish work and add some more new features.

The big day is finally here: We’re going to add file save functionality to our Notepad clone. Plus, a starter status bar.