Category Archives: The WinForms Notepad Project

Taking a step back for a moment, I wanted to see whether using a RichTextBox control would improve our app.
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Let’s improve the scrollbars, clean up the status bar, and see what it looks like to publish our app to other computers.
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In this 11th installment of our start programming project, lets fix zoom and implement several of the Edit menu commands.
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OK, I have time for two more small but fun changes: We can persist all of the user’s settings changes and add a starter About box.
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I was expecting to take a bit of time off from this project because of my Ignite trip, but this was too easy to pass up.
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With basic file save capabilities out of the way, let’s do a bit of fit and finish work and add some more new features.
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The big day is finally here: We’re going to add file save functionality to our Notepad clone. Plus, a starter status bar.
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I’ve wanted to add high-DPI support to our beginner Windows Form application for a while now. So let’s get that out of the way.
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Thanks to several useful suggestions from readers, let’s improve our Notepad clone before moving on to add more new features.
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