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What I Learned Porting .NETpad to C# (Premium)

I decided to port .NETpad from Visual Basic to C# in order to get up…

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Thinking (Again) About UWP and the Microsoft Store (Premium)

So, we need to discuss this week’s news about the end of ad-based UWP app…

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What I’ve Learned About C#, Visual Basic, Windows Forms, XAML, and WPF (Premium)

For much of the past year, I’ve been researching and working with Microsoft’s previous-generation developer…

Google to Have a Big Presence at GDC 2020

Google will announce new products and services for game developers during its keynote at the…

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The WinForms Notepad Project: Word Count (Premium)

Here’s a useful new feature from Microsoft Word that can be added quickly and easily…

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The WinForms Notepad Project: More Fit and Finish (Premium)

Here are a few minor changes and fixes to .NETpad related to the status bar,…

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Surface Duo SDK Isn’t (Just) for Developers (Premium)

OK, it’s partially for developers. But this is really a coming-out party for Microsoft’s 2020…

Microsoft Releases Preview SDK for Surface Duo

The software giant also plans a similar preview SDK for Windows 10 X and will…

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The WinForms Notepad Project: What’s Next? (Premium)

It’s time to think about what’s next for .NETpad, a project I had originally hoped…

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The WinForms Notepad Project: Page Setup and Printing (Premium)

After months of work on .NETpad’s printing functionality, I think I’ve finally arrived at a…

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The WinForms Notepad Project: Replace, Go To, Fit and Finish, New Name (Premium)

Today, we implement the Replace, Replace All, and Go To commands, improve the fit and…

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The WinForms Notepad Project: Application Name Ideas (Premium)

In this quick sidetrack, I make a few changes in anticipation of the final branding…

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The WinForms Notepad Project: Find, Find Next, and Find Previous (Premium)

A reader has graciously pointed me in the right direction towards solving some of the…

Google Files Opening Brief with U.S. Supreme Court in Java Case

Two months after the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Google’s appeal in the Java…

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Programming Windows: Hello, C# (Premium)

Originally called COOL, for C++ Object-Oriented Language, this new language would very closely resemble Java.

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The WinForms Notepad Project: Auto Save Improvements (Premium)

Our quick and dirty Auto Save functionality was perhaps a bit too quick and too…

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