Collaborate Disseminate
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)
In this first phase of modernizing the WPF version of .NETpad, we’ll take the original project, apply Windows 11 theming, and make some other basic updates.
For those unfamiliar, .NETpad is my basic clone of Notepad, an update I created–and then recre… Continue reading Modernizing .NETpad Step-By-Step, Part 1: The Basics (Premium)
This year, Microsoft seemed to bring the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) back from the dead, cheering those who still support this powerful but aging app framework. This was personally exciting to me because WPF is my favorite Microsoft app frame… Continue reading Modernizing .NETpad: The Way Forward (Premium)
I’m getting ahead of myself here, but in writing up Win11Debloat yesterday after a week or so of testing, a thought occurred. When I finish up this year’s .NETpad modernization project, perhaps my next coding project could be a Windows 11 de-enshittifi… Continue reading The Next Coding Project (Premium)
Developers often utilize design patterns that logically separate an app’s presentation and business logic and use a third component to mediate between the two. The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) straddles the evolution of these design patterns. … Continue reading Modernizing .NETpad: Application State (Premium)
In addition to implementing a tab-based user interface, the modern Notepad also does something that’s a bit tricky to do well with WPF: It hides the old-school window title bar and implements its own versions of the some of the buttons that usually app… Continue reading Modernizing .NETpad: Title Bar Customization (Premium)
It’s been a frustrating week for the .NETpad modernization project. Some of it was self-inflicted. And some was Microsoft’s fault.
I take exception
Let me address the latter first, as it’s a quicker conversation: Earlier this week, Microsoft made three… Continue reading Modernizing .NETpad: (More) Dialog about Dialogs (Premium)
Last week, a reader asked me why I wasn’t posting the source code for the .NETpad modernization work I’m working on and writing about. This is by design, but I didn’t explain this well (or at all). So that’s on me, apologies. This initial phase of the … Continue reading Modernizing .NETpad: Project Update (Premium)
Last night, Microsoft delivered its sixth preview version of .NET 9 ahead of the platform’s public release.
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Build 2024 delivered many surprises, but among the most interesting to me was the unexpected reemergence of the decades-old WPF.
This takes the concept of What’s Old is New Again to all-new heights. That article was triggered by the many strange refere… Continue reading Welcome Back, WPF (Premium)