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The WinForms Notepad Project (2022): Coming to Terms with the Status Bar (Premium)

In an ideal world, .NETpad’s status bar would adapt its layout similarly to the real…

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The WinForms Notepad Project (2022): Fix the Themes Bug (Premium)

Here’s another quick fix for one of the bugs in .NETpad: It doesn’t correctly identify…

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The WinForms Notepad Project (2022): Fix the Maximize Bug (Premium)

Here’s a quick fix for one of the bugs in .NETpad: It doesn’t correctly remember…

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The WinForms Notepad Project (2022): Fork Me (Premium)

When I made the C#/Windows Forms version of .NETpad available on GitHub in late January,…

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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…

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The WinForms Notepad Project (2022): Reviving a Classic (Premium)

For my January 2022 programming project, I’m reviving the Windows Forms (WinForms) version of .NETpad…

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.NETpad Resurrections (Premium)

With .NET 6 now available, I’ve been looking over the four versions of .NETpad that…

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What I Learned Porting .NETpad to … UWP? (Premium)

The Universal Windows Platform (UWP) isn’t particularly well-suited to traditional productivity applications. Naturally, I was…

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

For much of the past year, I’ve been researching Microsoft’s previous-generation developer technologies, in part…

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The WinForms Notepad Project: Word Count (Premium)

I was looking at Microsoft Word to see whether there were any obvious features that…

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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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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)

As our Notepad clone becomes more feature complete, we’re going to need a final name…

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