I want to contribute, but never write windows software before. so how?

[zzm88]

dear kvakulo, i like this product very much, and it's even free.
I love it so much, so i want to do something for this project. I would like to make the ui scalable to adapt to a 4k mon. also i make a trigger to toggle process title.

But i never wrote a windows software before. I tried to setup developing evironment but failed.
Could any veteran give me a small instruction how to prepare this developing evironment for switcheroo? Just a few keyword I can do my own research. That would be more than helpful.

Happy new year to all of you.

Thank you for building this great product.

[rawbeans]

I just set up a dev environment yesterday to add some features to this application. Here is what I did:

• Installed Visual Studio Community. I only checked the box for Windows Desktop C# development (about 8 GB)
• Cloned the most active fork (in my opinion): https://github.com/elig0n/Switcheroo
• Loaded the solution in VS. It prompted me to Reload some projects for .NET 4.8 (was set up for 4.5). I chose Reload All
• The resulting app had build errors. The reload removed some necessary code. I added this back in, and only kept the changes that incremented build/version numbers in the project files.
• At this point, building the solution (ctrl+shift+b) worked fine. I could build a release, and the output binaries would be created properly. From here I could either just run the exe, or copy the files over to the Program Files install location.
• However, if I tried to run the application in the debugger, it gave me an error A project with an Output type of Class Library cannot be started directly. To fix this issue, I updated "Startup Project" in the solution's properties to Switcheroo from Switcheroo.Core

[leondatamatic]

Thanks a lot for the question zzmm88 and the same for the answer rawbeans! I love switcheroo; all keys and no distraction.