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In this final phase of this year’s .NETpad modernization project, we’ll clean up the code a bit and make a few minor UI changes.
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Even I sometimes forget what the point of this app was originally. But if you go back to the OG version of the app, the… Continue reading Modernizing .NETpad Step-By-Step, Part 7: Clean-Up in Aisle WPF (Premium)→

In the previous article, we created a modern interface for Find/Replace and implemented Find, Find next, and Find previous. This time, we’ll wrap up the Find/Replace work by implementing Replace and Replace all, and migrating all the new Find/Replace c… Continue reading Modernizing .NETpad Step-By-Step, Part 8: Replace and Replace All (Premium)→

In this phase of the .NETpad modernization project, we will implement a Find/Replace interface and its Find-related commands before forging ahead and tackling its Replace-related commands. As I explained recently, we will create the interface in a non-… Continue reading Modernizing .NETpad Step-By-Step, Part 7: Find, Find Next, and Find Previous (Premium)→

It’s time to take a step back to explain what’s going to happen next: The way that Microsoft implements Find/Replace in Notepad today is non-standard and would be difficult to recreate using WPF. Complicating matters, my original implementation of Find… Continue reading Modernizing .NETpad: Decision Time on Find/Replace (Premium)→

In the previous installment, we created a custom Content dialog because WPF doesn’t support the native control in Windows. And then we built out our first dialog, Save confirmation, using that as a base. This time, we’ll use it to create more dialogs. … Continue reading Modernizing .NETpad Step-By-Step, Part 6 More Custom Dialogs (Premium)→

If you kept up with my series on modernizing .NETpad this past summer, you know I came full circle on creating custom dialogs for the app. I’m not happy with the custom dialogs I created for the OG WPF version of this app–they look horrible in Windows… Continue reading Modernizing .NETpad Step-By-Step, Part 5: Custom Dialogs (Premium)→