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OK, I’m getting ahead of myself here. But it’s impossible not to look past 2024’s .NETpad modernization work. There’s more work to do. The biggest being the long-awaited–but also long-dreaded–tabbed user interface.
Tabs. It was always going to be tab… Continue reading .NETpad 2025: Looking Ahead, Feeling a Little Tabby (Premium)
With .NET Conf 2024 and the release of .NET 9 behind us, I’ve finally had a chance to watch the relevant session videos from the show. And there is unexpectedly at least one other change to WPF’s support for Windows 11 theming, one that addresses a sho… Continue reading Modernizing .NETpad: WTF, WPF (Premium)
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)
As promised, Microsoft today released .NET 9, the latest version of its free and open-source application platform.
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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.
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)