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.NETpad 2025: Finalizing the Tabs Layout
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.NETpad 2025: Finalizing the Tabs Layout (Premium)

After weeks of experimentation, I've finally arrived at what I feel is an acceptable compromise…

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Hands-On: Coding to the Windows Copilot Runtime (Premium)

9 long months after it announced the Windows Copilot Runtime, Microsoft finally made some preview…

Thinking about layout
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.NETpad 2025: Thinking About Layout (Premium)

I've made remarkable progress on the important, low-level code to manage multiple tabs and documents…

Early WPF plans for .NET 10
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.NETpad 2025: A Look Ahead to .NET 10 (Premium)

Microsoft added basic but buggy and incomplete support for Windows 11 theming to WPF as…

Preventing custom dialog resizing
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.NETpad 2025: Preventing Custom Dialog Resizing (Premium)

Taking another break from the multiple tabs support, here's a quick and dirty fix for…

More tabs in .NETpad
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.NETpad 2025: Tabs Next Steps (Premium)

The way that WPF implements tabs is old-fashioned, non-optimal, and in no way ideal for…

A custom MessageBox dialog
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.NETpad 2025: A Custom MessageBox Dialog (Premium)

Taking a break from the brutally difficult session state management and tabs work, I checked…

Basic tabs with WPF
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.NETpad 2025: Tabs First Steps (Premium)

.NETpad will require some complex coding for tabs and state management. This is just the…

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.NETpad 2025: .NET 9.0.1 Fixes the App Crashing Bug (Premium)

Microsoft released .NET 9.0.1 today, and it includes the hoped-for fix for the bug that…

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.NETpad 2025: Settings Auto Flow (Premium)

Looking over the to-do list for .NETpad in 2025, I decided to start small and…

.NETpad 2025: What Comes Next
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.NETpad 2025: What Comes Next (Premium)

I want to transition .NETpad to a tabs-based user interface in 2025. But that's not…

Modernizing .NETpad: New App Version is Available on GitHub
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Modernizing .NETpad: New App Version is Now Available on GitHub (Premium)

The source code for .NETpad 3.0 for Windows 11 is now available on GitHub for…

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Modernizing .NETpad: It’s a Wrap (Premium)

It took 7 months, but today I finished coding my 2024 .NETpad modernization project. I…

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Modernizing .NETpad: Late Breaking Structural Changes (Premium)

I sometimes have trouble focusing. No, that's not exactly right. Sometimes, the problem is that…

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.NETpad 2025: Looking Ahead, Feeling a Little Tabby (Premium)

OK, I'm getting ahead of myself here. But it's impossible not to look past 2024's…

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Modernizing .NETpad: WTF, WPF (Premium)

I discovered another small but useful improvement to WPF in the final version of .NET…

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