Collaborate Disseminate
I was excited to see Microsoft bring the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) back from the dead this past year: At Build 2024 back in May, it announced that it would continue investing in this 20-year-old technology, starting with support for Windows… Continue reading Modernizing .NETpad: .NET 9 Arrives with a Few Small Improvements for WPF (Premium)
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.
Why
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)
I probably should have realized that there was no way to document the new settings interface in just a single article. But let’s wrap that up now.
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In this phase, we’ll add a modern settings interface to .NETpad that mimics the similar user interface in Notepad. This is among the modernization changes I’m most proud of, though in going through the code again for this write-up, I see some obvious i… Continue reading Modernizing .NETpad Step-By-Step, Part 3: Settings (Premium)
This time, we’ll look at some basic code refactoring, add a few small features and other changes, and redesign .NETpad’s menu system.
Separate application state variables from MainWindow
I wrote about my code refactoring efforts twice this past summer,… Continue reading Modernizing .NETpad Step-By-Step, Part 2: Next Steps (Premium)