This post is in keeping with my two SharePoint and UX blogging traditions (1: posting almost never, and 2: posting about non-SharePoint-or-UX-related stuff… maybe someday).

I was showing off the latest version of my Bassic program (now at version 2.1, with a UX specifically designed for tablet computing on my shiny new HP EliteBook 2730p! I’ll be posting that soon…). Our music director at church was taken with the ability to transpose chords programmatically instead of by hand, but wanted the ability to save transposed chords – and Bassic is a screen-only app. So… thus was born ChordPad!

UX is nothing to speak of, basically a rip-off of Notepad (Get it? “Notepad” = notes, “ChordPad” = chords! Clever, neh?). But it seems to get the job done, it’s lightweight, and best of all, it’s my first real app developed using the Visual Studio 2010 beta on the Windows 7 Release Candidate. It’s still WinForms rather than WPF, but – come on… a Notepad clone in WPF?

Here is the VS Project source (yes, it’s VS 2010, but if you want to compile on older versions of VS, you should know what to do. The app is geared toward .NET 2.0 rather than 4.0 for that reason).

And, here is the compiled application, ready to roll.