VietPad.NET Change Summary

    15 February 2015 - VietPad.NET v2.4

• Add program icons
• Add logging; implement a facade to avoid hard dependency on log4net

    5 March 2011 - VietPad.NET v2.3

• More refactoring
• Add support for inline spellcheck suggestion in context menu

    13 February 2011 - VietPad.NET v2.2.4

• Fix an issue with ampersand characters '&' used for mnemonics erroneously appearing in the tooltips of some toolbar buttons

    17 January 2011 - VietPad.NET v2.2.3

• Correct some mnemonics in Edit menu
• Remove unused localized strings
• Unescape newline and tab characters from Replace With text field
• Fine tune VietComparer

    8 January 2011 - VietPad.NET v2.2.2

• Refactor (by breaking up large classes) to conform to Single-Responsibility Principle

    15 December 2010 - VietPad.NET v2.2.1

• Improve accessibility by incorporating keyboard mnemonics

    4 April 2010 - VietPad.NET v2.2

• Refactor
• Add Recent Files submenu
• Add support for Regular Expression in text Find/Replace operations
• Add unit tests

    20 December 2008 - VietPad.NET v2.1

• Refactor using generics
• Replace RTF-based help form with HTML-based
• Add (combined) Auto input method

    28 March 2008 - VietPad.NET v2.0

• Upgrade to .NET 2.0
• Redesign using .NET 2.0's new controls
• Add NetSpell spell checker with Vietnamese phonetic code rules
• Improve sorting algorithm (the result is still slightly off due to errors with Vietnamese collation in Windows)

    26 June 2007 - VietPad.NET v1.2.1

• More refactoring and various minor improvements

    22 November 2005 - VietPad.NET v1.2

• Refactor using Design Patterns to improve code reusability, program extensibility and maintainability
• Change the letter case of namespaces and methods to following the naming convention as described in .NET Framework Naming Guidelines

     22 July 2005 - VietPad.NET v1.1.1

• Fix a bug with Add Diacritics function, which skipped the first word if the text began with non-alphanumeric characters
• Minor improvements

     12 July 2005 - VietPad.NET v1.1

• Add Normalize Diacritics function, which shifts tone marks to proper positions according to rules described in http://www.vietlex.com/vietnamese/quytacbodau.html. Both modern and classic styles are supported
• Fix a NCR conversion bug
• Fix bugs with text replace operations
• Enhance Find/Replace dialog with memory for search words
• Use UTF-8 without byte-order-mark (BOM)

     8 October 2004 - VietPad.NET v1.0.4

• Improve VISCII, VPS, UTF-8, and VIQR conversion
• Add support for conversion of Unicode Composite (Decomposed or NFD)
• Make the Keyboard Mode label clickable

     18 June 2004 - VietPad.NET v1.0.3

• Add the ability to add diacritical marks to unmarked Vietnamese text. This feature uses a user-modifiable list (originally from http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~duc/software/) containing common Vietnamese words and phrases
• Enhance Find/Replace dialog, adding a Match Diacritics option
• Improve UTF-8-to-Unicode conversion
• Add Vietnamese date/time format

     1 May 2004 - VietPad.NET v1.0.2

• Localize VietPad.NET
• Fix a minor keyboard engine bug related to entry of  and Ô letters in Telex mode
• Add support for left-to-right sorting
• Fix focus problems when closing dialogs

    22 August 2003 - VietPad.NET v1.0.1

• Optimize input engine performance:
  • add diacritical mark removal mechanism
  • more efficient key input processing
• Add Vietnamese word sorting
• Add context menu
• Add change case
• Add join paragraphs (removing line breaks)
• Add shorthand
• Add preferences
• Improve Find/Replace function

    24 January 2003 - VietPad.NET v1.0

• Incorporate Vietnamese input engine with IntelliMark capability which enables entering diacritical marks at word ends, besides the tradition method
• Add Unicode conversion support for Vietnamese legacy, Numeric Character References (NCR), and UTF-8 formats
• Add support for ANSI, UTF-8, UTF-16 file encoding
• Adapt and extend NotepadClone © 2001 by Charles Petzold, author of Programming Microsoft Windows with C#