Simple Windows Apps in Dot Net
October 12, 04 by kenrichI have been writing some small windows applications in Dot Net (using the C# programming language.) I started working on a password manager that will live in the system tray and allow you to have a handy storage for all of your passwords in one place. Not exactly the most secure of applications but it gives me a good introduction to the file system classes and doing encryption and authentication.
My second project is to develop a “word search” puzzle generator that will generate simple word searches. This will simply generate a grid and randomly place words within the grid. Eventually, I will make it so that you can actually circle words and save puzzles. Of course I will also allow you to print out puzzles.
This second project was a good introduction to the drawing routines and event handlers. I needed to add a special event handler to draw the word search. The user may re-generate a word search simply by hitting a button on the top of the screen. Eventually, I will
create a dictionary of random words and probably store this in an XML file for easy manipulation. The word search can randomly pick words from this file to build a different puzzle every time.
I noticed that certain fonts take longer to render (most like True-Type fonts or maybe this is due to font smoothing). I will have to do a little research on this to get it working perfectly. If either of these programs ever gets to a stable state, I will be contributing them to the open-source community via SourceForge.
