# Microsoft Notepad Clone

This was a clone of Microsoft Notepad that I wrote in Visual Basic for my Computer Science 30 class in 2012. I fleshed it out, getting the base functionality of Notepad down, and then open sourced it uploading it to the Visual Studio Gallery and other code sharing sites. In 2014, I uploaded it to GitHub as well. No work has been done on it since then, but I do plan on returning to it eventually to bring it up to date with more modern versions of Visual Basic.

This project was really interesting for me, as I just uploaded it to the [VS Gallery](https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/130d845d-6b91-45db-993a-1f6e004ff095) and then forgot about it. When I was looking back into it in order to add it to this portfolio, I found that it had achieved some small measure of success, being downloaded approximately ~50,000 times from various sites. I also found that it had been featured in [an article](https://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Want-to-write-a-new-Notepad-Heres-a-Notepad-Clone-Project-Template-to-get-you-started) by the [Coding4Fun blog](https://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog), along with re-uploaded to a couple of other code-sharing sites.

**Project URLs:**

- [https://github.com/LukeTowers/Microsoft-Notepad-Clone](https://github.com/LukeTowers/Microsoft-Notepad-Clone)
- [http://www.a1vbcode.com/app-5486.asp](http://www.a1vbcode.com/app-5486.asp)
- [https://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Want-to-write-a-new-Notepad-Heres-a-Notepad-Clone-Project-Template-to-get-you-started](https://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Want-to-write-a-new-Notepad-Heres-a-Notepad-Clone-Project-Template-to-get-you-started)
- [https://coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com/2012/06/writing-notepad-app-don-start-at-zero.html](https://coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com/2012/06/writing-notepad-app-don-start-at-zero.html)
- [http://projects.students3k.com/notepad-clone.html](http://projects.students3k.com/notepad-clone.html)
- [http://freesourcecode.net/vbdotnetprojects/31204/MS-Notepad-Clone(Complete)-in-VB.net](http://freesourcecode.net/vbdotnetprojects/31204/MS-Notepad-Clone(Complete)-in-VB.net)
- [https://sites.google.com/site/heart2project/Downhome/Topic1/notepadcloneminiproject](https://sites.google.com/site/heart2project/Downhome/Topic1/notepadcloneminiproject)
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5RCVmBUNHA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5RCVmBUNHA) – Tutorial based on earlier version of the main application code Notepad.vb file.

**Other Visual Basic projects that I worked on:**

- [http://www.a1vbcode.com/author.asp?name=Luke+Towers](http://www.a1vbcode.com/author.asp?name=Luke+Towers)
- [http://www.a1vbcode.com/author.asp?name=Cube+Labs](http://www.a1vbcode.com/author.asp?name=Cube+Labs)