.NET Notepad

.NET Notepad is an application dedicated to programmers, which offers an alternative to the classical Windows Notepad when it comes to editing code.
It supports multiple tabs, syntax highlights for programming and scripting languages like C#, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, C++, Java, PHP, VBNET, XML and SQL, as well as code completion.

Requirements and tabbed interface

The tool's not wrapped in a setup kit, so you can copy the downloaded files to a custom directory on the disk or save them to a removable storage unit, in order to seamlessly run it on any computer with as little effort as possible.
It doesn't add new entries to the system registry or create other files on the disk. However, you must have .NET Framework installed to get this program up and running without errors.
When it comes to the interface, .NET Notepad adopts a simple window with a well-structured layout, where you can open multiple tabs to be able to work on multiple files at the same time and easily cycle through them.

Syntax highlights and code completion

You can choose the language to take into account for the syntax highlights, write only a small part of a header if you don't remember the rest to get a list of suggestions, display the end of lines, hide line numbers, as well as undo and redo actions.
Standard text operations are available, so you can select, cut, copy, paste and delete text. Modifications can be overwritten to the original file or saved to a new one by specifying the output directory and file name.

Evaluation and conclusion

It didn't put a strain on the machine's performance in our tests, using a low amount of CPU and RAM to work properly. No error dialogs popped up and it didn't hang or crash. Although it hasn't received updates for a long time, we haven't experienced compatibility issues on newer Windows models.
.NET Notepad may not have a particularly rich set of features, but it delivers a straightforward solution for editing code in a user-friendly workspace.