The WinForms Notepad Project (2022): It’s (A)live! (Premium)

Well, this is rather scary: my C#/WinForms/.NET Framework 4.x version of .NETpad is now available on GitHub. That means that you can---or anyone---can pull it from GitHub into Visual Studio and create a local copy of the application that can be installed and used (and uninstalled) normally. You can also follow along as I modernize this version of .NETpad in the coming weeks. Or you can fork .NETpad, make your own modifications, and create your own unique version of the app.

For those unfamiliar with all or most of what I wrote above, no worries. Here’s how you can get started.
Download and install Visual Studio Community 2022
You do so by navigating to the Visual Studio website, choosing Download Visual Studio, and then Community 2022. Visual Studio will eventually require you to sign in with your Microsoft account, and when prompted to choose from the available Visual Studio workloads, choose “.NET desktop development” under “Desktop & Mobile.”
Clone my .NETpad repository from GitHub
When Visual Studio first runs, you can choose from an existing project or a set of options under “Get started.” Choose “Clone a repository.”

Here, you will paste the following URL into the Repository location field:
https://github.com/thurrott/NotepadWF-CS.git
(You can also find this URL by navigating to my project in GitHub using your web browser. Choose Code > Clone > Copy.)

Then, click the Clone button.

Visual Studio will do its thing, meaning it will clone the repository and create a local copy of the .NETpad project folder on your PC. (You can find this in File Explorer by navigating to C:\Users\your-user-name\source\repos\NotepadWF-CS by default, unless you changed the location for Visual Studio projects and/or the name of the project.)

Visual Studio doesn’t open this project in a way that makes sense to me, and maybe someone out there has a better way to do this. But here’s what I do now:

Double-click NotePadWF-CS.sln in the Solution Explorer pane. This displays the project in a more standard way, and you can expand NotePadWF-CS now in the Solution Explorer to see all the files in the project.

Select File > Close Solution. Visual Studio will close and redisplay that initial window where you can choose from recent projects or the Get started list. You will see a folder named NotepadWF-CS in the Open recent list, but you don’t want that. Instead, select “Open a project or solution” under “Get started.”
An Open Project/Solution dialog will appear. Navigate to the project’s location in the file system (again, C:\Users\your-user-name\source\repos\NotepadWF-CS by default) and open NotePadWF-CS.sln. Visual Studio will open and display the project normally.

Build and run .NETpad
To build the project and run the application, select the Start button (with the green arrow) in the Visual Studio toolbar. Unless I’ve completely screwed this up, .NETpad should run normall...