Copyright © 1999-2026 Actipro Software LLC. All Rights Reserved. Mon, 29 Dec 2025 14:10:17 Z 60 f5295211-1779-4bdc-b06a-1955f3ae01e4-123394 Hello, Thank you for providing the details on your requests. We agree with them, but unfortunately our hands are tied due to the security limitations caused by Microsoft's sandboxing of UWP appli... 2025-12-29T14:10:17Z f5295211-1779-4bdc-b06a-1955f3ae01e4-123393 ## Summary This request proposes a small set of targeted changes that would significantly improve Code Writer’s integration with Windows and modern developer workflows. The primary goal i... 2025-12-23T20:43:16Z 8a732a8d-f51d-4982-af4b-cc01302f3819-122760 Hello, We are seeing that as well. Unfortunately until the Microsoft Store accepts Azure Code Signing certificates to sign applications submitted to it, we are unable to publish any updates for ... 2025-01-21T16:03:20Z 8a732a8d-f51d-4982-af4b-cc01302f3819-122759 Windows 11 environment. When I open a bunch of documents, then quit the program and reopen, it forgets the documents even though I have the setting to remember set to the affirmative 2025-01-17T23:27:40Z 59092827-ecdf-439a-afd3-77a03601d212-122738 Thanks! Your reply worked for me too! 2024-12-09T16:51:03Z 59092827-ecdf-439a-afd3-77a03601d212-122737 Hello, When I held Shift+RightClick on the CodeWriter.exe in that folder and selected "Create Shortcut" it asked to put it on the desktop and I selected Yes. Then the shortcut worked for me when... 2024-12-09T13:51:43Z 59092827-ecdf-439a-afd3-77a03601d212-122736 I just installed CODE WRITER but prefer not to have it in my system tray and I want to create a DESKTOP shortcut instead. When I go to the library (C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\ActiproSoftwareLLC... 2024-12-07T00:23:05Z 98f95d9f-35fd-4c04-9863-366cd0af8b7b-122576 Time to uninstall then. Too bad. 2024-09-18T02:53:59Z 98f95d9f-35fd-4c04-9863-366cd0af8b7b-122573 Hello, Unfortunately due to Visual Studio's UWP app publishing inability to support modern Azure-based code signing certificates, we have been unable to release newer versions. 2024-09-17T21:19:45Z 98f95d9f-35fd-4c04-9863-366cd0af8b7b-122572 hi, The latest version of Code Writer was released in 2021. Is there going to be a new version some time soon which includes the fix that would make this feature work? 2024-09-17T06:08:12Z 719a8afe-f29f-4efd-ba4f-66a2a095a210-122315 I would also like to see .bat/.cmd files added as well. Windows/DOS batch files .bat/.cmd from another editor that I use /L15"Batch" Nocase Line Comment Num = 4rem Line Comment Alt = :: L... 2024-05-03T20:07:16Z c17097e1-d351-43b9-b642-e16247de9bd0-121898 Good question, I will check. Thank you for reply. 2023-11-06T18:40:40Z c17097e1-d351-43b9-b642-e16247de9bd0-121892 Hi Lee, Are you sure the files have the proper line ends for Windows, such as \r\n (carriage return, line feed) sequences of characters? 2023-11-06T18:28:35Z c17097e1-d351-43b9-b642-e16247de9bd0-121891 I have a couple of files that the Code Writer does not perform line breaks. It shows as one continuous sentence (i.e. one row: very very long). Any advice? 2023-11-03T22:35:20Z d19f6f3d-59e9-417d-8547-787537dd7828-121667 Hi. Thanks for the prompt response! I think the issue is the cron file I was opening is 10Mb in size and was not 'beautified', so it seems Code Writer is trying to beautify it on the fly while ... 2023-07-03T22:05:46Z d19f6f3d-59e9-417d-8547-787537dd7828-121664 Hi Matt, That message comes up when it's starting to try and reload previously opened documents. Perhaps something is preventing that from working in this particular scenario. If that's the onl... 2023-07-03T21:13:09Z d19f6f3d-59e9-417d-8547-787537dd7828-121663 It seems to only happen when I attempt to open a .cron document by double-clicking. 2023-07-02T22:46:57Z d19f6f3d-59e9-417d-8547-787537dd7828-121662 Sometimes Code Writer takes minutes to start on my Windows 11 PC. It sticks for ages with a red window and the message "Preparing to reload previously open documents..." Eventually it exits. On... 2023-07-02T22:45:41Z 249f4f95-c409-43d1-ad36-d2455b082832-121576 Yes, we have an update with some new features ready to go but are currently blocked from deploying it until we get some assistance from Microsoft. We emailed them over a month ago and followed up ... 2023-05-23T19:08:48Z 249f4f95-c409-43d1-ad36-d2455b082832-121575 So basically the developent is on hault if I understand you correctly 2023-05-23T18:46:28Z 249f4f95-c409-43d1-ad36-d2455b082832-121571 We don't have the new logo published anywhere yet. It was intended to be part of a future Code Writer update (it's not yet integrated into the app yet either) but since we can't currently publish ... 2023-05-23T11:23:56Z 249f4f95-c409-43d1-ad36-d2455b082832-121570 Oh that sounds great! Also, before Microsoft fixes their signing could you please provide a download link to the new version? 2023-05-23T11:06:33Z 249f4f95-c409-43d1-ad36-d2455b082832-121567 Hello, Heh, the logo was made back in the Windows 8.x days when it fit in very well. We have designed a newer more fluent logo, however we are currently unable to deploy updates to the applicati... 2023-05-23T10:57:44Z 249f4f95-c409-43d1-ad36-d2455b082832-121564 Not to be rude but I don't think anyone likes it. Something more modern and native to Windows 11 design would've been cool. The only reason I don't pin this app in to my taskbar is the icon that ... 2023-05-22T18:47:38Z c6e16ec1-e442-4a70-8729-b4d3a8c18ed9-121547 Hello, Code Writer is a simple text editing application with enhancements for basic code editing that only works on Windows at this time. It's not a full-fledged IDE though, which it sounds like... 2023-05-15T19:44:50Z c6e16ec1-e442-4a70-8729-b4d3a8c18ed9-121546 can i use your code writer to create a cross-platform UI (windows linux unix) that will help me to get information from SQLite DB and will show it as statistics, graphs, and will have more options?... 2023-05-15T07:32:51Z 98f95d9f-35fd-4c04-9863-366cd0af8b7b-121437 Hi Actipro Software Support, Thanks for the following up on this so promptly and for investigating + identifying a fix so soon! (while not completely app-breaking, if it had gone on for months it... 2023-03-31T21:20:00Z 98f95d9f-35fd-4c04-9863-366cd0af8b7b-121434 Hi Martin, We've been able to find a fix for the issue, and it will roll out in the next app update. We will try and get it out soon. 2023-03-31T18:44:05Z 98f95d9f-35fd-4c04-9863-366cd0af8b7b-121431 Hi Martin, Thanks for reporting this. We are seeing the same and after debugging it, it seems that the code we have to persist open documents on app close is running. But when it gets to a plac... 2023-03-30T21:42:09Z 98f95d9f-35fd-4c04-9863-366cd0af8b7b-121430 Hi Actipro Support Team, I have been using Actipro Code Writer for a while (several years) however I recently re-installed it following a clean install of Windows 11 on my laptop and the newly-in... 2023-03-29T09:39:10Z a73b233d-366b-4a1b-be25-230ce9bd955c-121210 Hi Detlev, The UWP framework that Code Writer uses for all its core UI services is written by Microsoft. We are unfortunately stuck in this situation unless they update UWP so that the event we ... 2023-01-04T20:12:17Z a73b233d-366b-4a1b-be25-230ce9bd955c-121208 Will an update be planned for the framework and code writer in the future ? 2023-01-04T08:36:47Z a73b233d-366b-4a1b-be25-230ce9bd955c-121201 We were able to replicate the issue you were describing. Unfortunately, the issue appears to be related to the UWP framework. When those keys are pressed on the touch keyboard, our window is not be... 2023-01-03T20:47:47Z a73b233d-366b-4a1b-be25-230ce9bd955c-121194 Hi, i tried to use code writer with on screen keyboard on surface pro 9 with Win 11 22H2. German langugage and keyboard layout used. Characters []{} ... can not be entered in code editor (jav... 2023-01-03T08:41:54Z 9488d268-b58c-47f5-afa5-49b031e57db5-120999 Thanks for writing back and I'm sorry that it's taken me so long to write back as well. I tried doing some searching as well and also didn't come up with anything useful from the user's end that ... 2022-10-16T22:14:09Z 9488d268-b58c-47f5-afa5-49b031e57db5-120957 Hi Matt, Sorry but I don't think anything has changed on our end that would have caused this. Unfortunately it seems to be a lower level framework issue in Windows or UWP than what our code real... 2022-10-03T20:23:41Z 9488d268-b58c-47f5-afa5-49b031e57db5-120956 Hi there, Just wondering if you ever came up with a resolution to this issue, even though it was posted a while ago. It just started happening to me as well and I can't explain why it happened. ... 2022-10-02T23:45:15Z 03443bdb-ef57-4282-8450-ab49f6b00c05-120707 Hello, Thank you for your feedback. We appreciate your praise! Unfortunately the app is written in the Universal Windows platform which doesn't port to non-Windows platforms. Perhaps in the fu... 2022-07-17T16:29:23Z 03443bdb-ef57-4282-8450-ab49f6b00c05-120705 Greetings!I just wanted to share the idea (basically need) of having this app supported for Linux. Please Codewriter Devs, we really need this app for Linux. At least please provide the Appimage ... 2022-07-16T10:33:07Z b41eadb5-97fe-47e0-b6d8-67844153513a-120555 Hello, I followed a suggestion on another post and printed using Microsoft print to PDF and that did the trick. Thanks for your time! 2022-05-26T21:08:57Z b41eadb5-97fe-47e0-b6d8-67844153513a-120553 Hi Andrew, I'm not sure what would cause that. I just opened a very large document and saw 71 pages show up in the Print dialog. If you want to email our support address with the text file, we ... 2022-05-26T20:23:20Z b41eadb5-97fe-47e0-b6d8-67844153513a-120551 I am trying to print plain text files to PDF that are all about 9-10 pages long in PDF form. However, when I print the files they are all cut down to 3-page documents (the last page is numbered 3 o... 2022-05-26T14:40:53Z 9488d268-b58c-47f5-afa5-49b031e57db5-120424 No problem. I can't think of any other reason why it would cause issues. Any other program I use to open the file works and Code Writer opens it fine if it's off of another computer on the domain... 2022-04-20T19:41:17Z 9488d268-b58c-47f5-afa5-49b031e57db5-120423 Hi Brandon, Hmm, that's odd. I was able to go to a network share "\\mycomputername\folder" and right click on a HTML file and say Open With / Code Writer. Code Writer opened the file successful... 2022-04-20T16:52:02Z 9488d268-b58c-47f5-afa5-49b031e57db5-120422 When trying to open a HTML document on a network drive in Win 11 by double clicking, it gives a No such interface supported error. If I go through Code Writer and open it, no problems. If I chang... 2022-04-19T19:06:48Z 5800152d-b8eb-4c41-b752-bcc56c0af458-120260 Hello, If you mean when you press the mouse button down over the text area and drag around, it should normally do snaking continuous selection. However if you hold Alt while doing that, it will ... 2022-03-14T16:59:52Z 5800152d-b8eb-4c41-b752-bcc56c0af458-120256 So, an oddity. When I'm trying to select a block of text, instead of actually selecting the lines, it will select just a basic rectangle, not the lines. Meaning, if I hit delete, it will only del... 2022-03-13T18:58:37Z 1de0dfd0-ffa9-4509-ac26-48d5050737ab-120122 Hello, We have the feature implemented to support selection of any system-installed font. We just haven't had time to finish up a couple other things before deployment. We will try and push v4.... 2022-02-17T20:27:18Z 1de0dfd0-ffa9-4509-ac26-48d5050737ab-120115 I'm a big fan of Cascadia Code (Microsoft's new font) and even bigger fan of Caskaydia Cove NF (nerd font). The last post about this was 2 years ago but it hasn't been implemented. I know it can be... 2022-02-17T04:19:07Z 5cf2db8c-8226-45df-8ee1-2cdd796db24a-119877 I think I have discovered (and now solved) the problem. My laptop was set up to index way too many files. This was robbing too many resources while attempting to open files for Code Writer. I ha... 2022-01-01T14:49:04Z 5cf2db8c-8226-45df-8ee1-2cdd796db24a-119871 I too am baffled. However, I have come up with a new hypothesis: it is the Run Time Broker causing the delay. I will run further tests to see if Run Time Broker is the culprit. 2021-12-27T20:55:04Z 5cf2db8c-8226-45df-8ee1-2cdd796db24a-119868 Hi Lee, That's odd, we haven't heard of that happening and it all opens right away for us. The API we call there to show the file open dialog is a standard Microsoft API. This is immediately se... 2021-12-27T20:46:34Z 5cf2db8c-8226-45df-8ee1-2cdd796db24a-119867 When I try to open a file there is an long delay (approx 2 minutes) to populate the screen with a folder (Explorer) to select a file. This is just happened in the past few months. I usually exper... 2021-12-25T17:46:28Z b73e7730-4a10-4907-b019-0eb79095c26e-119739 Hello, Thank you for the suggestion. We will work on adding optional comment lexing in the next major version of our SyntaxEditor product that Code Writer uses. Then that feature could flow in... 2021-11-01T20:24:29Z b73e7730-4a10-4907-b019-0eb79095c26e-119734 Hi Actipro, First of all, I want to say that I really like the Code Writer App. It's a really nice editor with a clean, unintrusive UI and useful (but seemless features) like document formatting,... 2021-10-31T13:29:16Z a0967276-66f3-4743-a5af-f0566fdf4a2d-119587 Hi Joe, Thanks for writing. Yes, the JavaScript parser is still on an older version of the ECMAScript standard where those syntax mechanisms weren't valid yet. We have a TODO item to update the... 2021-08-27T17:23:19Z a0967276-66f3-4743-a5af-f0566fdf4a2d-119586 Code Writer red-underlines things like "await", "async" and for-of loops, and indents after a line which doesn't end with a ; 2021-08-26T13:50:50Z d897819d-a790-4e90-9ccd-933aebc02716-119158 Hello, Do you mean based on these specifications? https://json-schema.org/ 2021-03-15T17:33:15Z d897819d-a790-4e90-9ccd-933aebc02716-119157 Any chance you could add support for JSON schema files to support key suggestions and value information? Best example of a JSON file with schema defined would be settings.json from Windows Terminal. 2021-03-13T18:54:31Z 64a15aab-8378-4264-8b1e-e19b3d71e8f8-118907 Hello, Thanks for reporting this. We were able to find a workaround for the problem and will roll the change in the next build. 2020-12-18T20:23:13Z 64a15aab-8378-4264-8b1e-e19b3d71e8f8-118902 When using with Narrator, the app crashes immediately when using the code editor page 2020-12-18T07:31:07Z 0a8e0b2b-31ae-40ee-acdf-8450677343ae-118876 Hi Richard, I'm sorry but we haven't gotten a new build pushed out yet. I'll know that getting this bug fix out is important and will bump the priority on that. 2020-12-11T20:23:51Z 0a8e0b2b-31ae-40ee-acdf-8450677343ae-118867 I'm experiencing the same issue. I'm running version 4.1 build 39. Has the updated build been released yet? If not, any idea when it might be? It would be useful as otherwise I think it's diffi... 2020-12-07T19:27:22Z 122d034f-a68b-45c4-8e65-c7a76ad57067-118838 Hello, Thank you for the feedback, we will mark down your suggestion. Unfortunately we don't have auto-complete for those file types at this time. 2020-11-25T14:09:01Z 122d034f-a68b-45c4-8e65-c7a76ad57067-118837 Hello! Why in the C language (and others as well, like c++, java, python), there is no autocomplete option. And also the names of the variables must be written manually. And if there is this opti... 2020-11-24T16:42:06Z a5f4ac1a-fe7f-483d-aaa7-3125a34bc3f8-118778 Hello, I'm sorry but the problem with Windows Store apps like Code Writer is that unless a compiler is written to specifically support UWP, it can't be used natively since the app is completely s... 2020-10-29T20:41:38Z a5f4ac1a-fe7f-483d-aaa7-3125a34bc3f8-118777 Compiled languages like java and c++ doesn't work while Compiling, could you add it. 2020-10-29T08:37:14Z f18576c5-a209-4e4d-951e-c8f045b8e9d0-118759 That's too bad. I see this question was aked 7 yrs ago ( https://www.actiprosoftware.com/community/thread/21260/highlight-closing-tags-in-html ) I guess if I want this feature I'll have ... 2020-10-22T20:22:03Z f18576c5-a209-4e4d-951e-c8f045b8e9d0-118757 Hi Domenic, Unfortunately since we don't have a parser in place for the HTML file type at this time, we don't have a way to locate the end of the tag block. 2020-10-22T20:09:05Z dbc26664-8e49-4e46-a881-e27ee69e0041-118756 I was just searching on this. I second the notion. I know Notepad++ does it but I perfer to use codewriter 2020-10-22T15:21:04Z f18576c5-a209-4e4d-951e-c8f045b8e9d0-118755 I'm not sure I'm asking the question correctly and I did search highlighting but I got lost. So I would like it if I could have code writer highlight HTML section of code so I can find the beginn... 2020-10-22T15:19:03Z 1127db1a-488c-4f6a-b1d6-892bc55f1a0a-118721 Okey i understand i hope microsoft allows UWP to intereacts with .exe files and more formats thank you for your time and Patience, I'll be using this editor, is easy to use and more practical than ... 2020-10-09T21:31:28Z 1127db1a-488c-4f6a-b1d6-892bc55f1a0a-118718 Hi Noel, It used to be that Universal Windows Platform applications like Code Writer were completely sandboxed and didn't have access to do things like this. For instance, this article explains ... 2020-10-09T16:52:07Z 1127db1a-488c-4f6a-b1d6-892bc55f1a0a-118716 For example i am editing a file.txt, that file directory is c:\users\user\desktop when i open the command prompt("cmd") after i click an option in the software or the editor... that is already set ... 2020-10-08T20:37:10Z 1127db1a-488c-4f6a-b1d6-892bc55f1a0a-118712 Hello, Are you asking for a way to run a command line process (like an executable), or do you mean you simply want to open a command line (e.g. "cmd" from the Windows Run menu) that is already se... 2020-10-08T16:42:54Z 1127db1a-488c-4f6a-b1d6-892bc55f1a0a-118709 Not equal to visual studio code but a button or something to open a command prompt in the directory where my file is there to *for example* execute an a compilerNote.: My english is super bad sorry xd 2020-10-07T18:26:48Z d19384c7-73ae-45c9-abc9-8b3830330b00-118705 Hi John, I'm sorry but the Windows Store is the only distribution we have at this time. 2020-10-07T11:54:34Z d19384c7-73ae-45c9-abc9-8b3830330b00-118704 Is there any possibility to download this outside the windows store? Thanks 2020-10-06T22:24:12Z ecc97514-55d0-4bf9-af40-3f6dcdfc83ce-118695 Hello, The editor caret should generally be a thin vertical line, unless you press Ins to enter overwrite mode. In that case, it will be a rectangle that covers the current character. If you ar... 2020-10-05T19:21:26Z a65507b7-71fb-4010-9c52-b688903b1b74-118693 Hello, I'm sorry but nothing to report on this yet. 2020-10-05T15:06:26Z ecc97514-55d0-4bf9-af40-3f6dcdfc83ce-118694 so i went to code writer version 4.1 build 39 and i started to type some words in C# but then soon the typing cursor (the on that shows when typing words) became thicker 2020-10-05T12:44:12Z a65507b7-71fb-4010-9c52-b688903b1b74-118687 Hi, any updates on it? Code Writer 4.1 still cannot use input method. 2020-10-03T15:19:37Z 0a8e0b2b-31ae-40ee-acdf-8450677343ae-118476 Hi Michael, Yes, thanks for reporting this. We already have it fixed but haven't had a chance to release an updated build yet. We'll try and get that out soon. 2020-08-07T13:18:15Z 0a8e0b2b-31ae-40ee-acdf-8450677343ae-118475 In Settings -> File Types -> add custom extension, when clicking + code writer immediately crashes. This occurs for all file types, and it does not matter if the field is blank or has a valid... 2020-08-06T22:42:33Z 1dad0b7e-a4f2-43a5-b760-a680653331de-118394 Hi Howard, Thanks for reporting this. I believe we've fixed it for the next build. 2020-07-13T15:11:52Z 1dad0b7e-a4f2-43a5-b760-a680653331de-118387 Hi, My version is the latest available from the store (4.1 build 29). I've encountered a bug leading to the app crashing when trying to move multiple selected lines up (Alt+Up). Conditions to... 2020-07-11T12:59:41Z 4523130f-ce21-4de2-8899-1e5f1254534e-118310 Hello, Thank you for the suggestion. We'll add that to the TODO list. 2020-06-23T18:27:23Z 4523130f-ce21-4de2-8899-1e5f1254534e-118309 In Visual Studio Code, I can use the open folder option to select a folder and it would load all the files. However, such an option isn't present in Code Writer and I need to open select all the fi... 2020-06-23T10:05:18Z 0dcfb9c7-6761-4969-87f4-50ee65af9592-118308 There's no built-in font API in UWP even today, however, you can use Win2D for enumerating fonts. 2020-06-23T09:59:37Z 0dcfb9c7-6761-4969-87f4-50ee65af9592-118300 Hi Karl, Microsoft's UWP originally didn't offer a way to enumerate fonts but I believe that is now available to us in new versions of the API. We haven't updated the application yet to support ... 2020-06-18T17:19:43Z 0dcfb9c7-6761-4969-87f4-50ee65af9592-118299 I like to use Hack font for code printing. I have it installed on my Windows 10 pc. It appears in all Microsoft 365 products but not in CodeWriter. Is there any way to select it in CodeWriter? ... 2020-06-17T17:32:39Z f27fb0f1-dab1-4eb9-9d7f-aaa67789f152-118172 Hi Lars, I'm sorry but there isn't a feature for that at this time. I will log your suggestion. It would be possible however would take a lot of UI and code-behind to be added since Code Writer... 2020-05-20T19:50:14Z f27fb0f1-dab1-4eb9-9d7f-aaa67789f152-118171 Hi, I'm using Code Writer (v4.1, build 39) to edit my work log and would love to have highlighting of specific keywords (e.g. TODO, NOTE, CMD...) and patterns (e.g. issue numbers, date/timestamps).... 2020-05-20T09:44:15Z bb1050a9-598f-465a-ba62-47b04ddbde3f-118061 You're right, Thanks! 2020-04-01T12:46:56Z bb1050a9-598f-465a-ba62-47b04ddbde3f-118053 Hello, It appears to work when I test it but please note it only affects the actual text editor portion of the app. That setting doesn't affect the rest of the app chrome. 2020-03-31T13:47:23Z bb1050a9-598f-465a-ba62-47b04ddbde3f-118052 Theme does not work. Always in Dark (default), Light and Obsidian does not work 2020-03-30T18:57:34Z ac723b8d-c711-4eb4-9f03-151648a62886-117711 It would be great if you'll add at least some basic scripting functionality. I know it's not LinqPad but it will not be superfluous. 2019-12-04T17:53:07Z 0829e809-c13e-4360-8133-fc7c70539248-117676 Hello, That's odd... do you see all the pages in the print preview dialog? What happens if you try to print to a PDF using the "Microsoft Print to PDF" printer? 2019-11-24T14:51:17Z 0829e809-c13e-4360-8133-fc7c70539248-117673 I opened a js.query file and I want to print it. It is 1608 line but I can't get it to print more than 2-5 pages. I keep trying but it is not getting better. 2019-11-22T22:56:49Z a1a20351-a934-4c5a-aa15-e995e643e256-117649 Agree 1000% with Jack. I made an account just to post this. 2019-11-13T21:18:33Z