Creating Your First Notepad++ Plugin Using Visual Studio 2019 And C#
Hello, In this blog post, I'll demonstrate on how to develop a Notepad++ Plugin (64 Bit) using Visual Studio 2019 and C# assuming that you have installed a 64 Bit version of the latest Notepad++ Editor. This tutorial is based from kblisted Notepad++ Plugin Package in GitHub . The plugin's architecture can communicate with the Notepad++ or the underlying Scintilla engine using NotepadPlusPlusGateway and ScintillaGateWay and Win32 API. To start with, download the Notepad++ Plugin Pack from the GitHub page and copy the zip file to the Project Templates folder of your Visual Studio 2019 IDE. In my laptop, the path is "C:\Users\my_username\Documents\Visual Studio 2019\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#" . Open your Visual Studio 2019 IDE and create a project using the Notepad++ Plugin template. Change the Platform Target to x64. (Our OS is Windows 10 64 bit) Create a function called SetFirstCharAllWordsCap inside Main.cs that get's the entire string content