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Using Font Dialog In Windows Forms

INTRODUCTION
 
In this article, I am going to explain how to use a FontDialog box in a Windows Forms app using Visual studio 2017.
 
 
STEP 1: Start the Project
 
Let's create a new project using Visual Studio 2017. 

Select New Project--->Visual C#-->Windows Forms App (.NET Framework), give your project a name and click OK. 

 
This action creates a WinForms project with a default form and you should see the Windows designer. 
 
STEP 2: Drag and Drop Control
 
Let's add a FontDialog control to the form by dragging it from Toolbox and dropping it to the form. You will see a FontDialog 1 is added to the form. This control is now availabe to you in the code behind.
 
FontDialog Control
 
FontDialog represents a common dialog box that displays a list of fonts that are currently installed on system. The FontDialog box allow the user to choose attributes like logical font, font style, point size, effects and Scripts. FontDialog presents a Font selection dialog box that allows the user to select a font from the list of installed fonts. By the FontDialog control, we can quickly add an ability for users to select their favorite fonts. 
 
Show FontDialog
 
Now, let's add a other control to the form by dragging a other control from Toolbox to the form. You may also want to change the properties of the other controls. 
 
Let's add a Label and a Button control to the form. We will launch Font Dialog on click on the button, select a font, and the selected font will be the font of the Label control. 
 
 

Change the text of button and Label controls to what you like.

 
STEP 3: Coding for Button Click Event
 
You can add a button click event handler by simply double clicking on the buttoon control. On this button control event handler, we can change the font of the text displayed in label. 
  1. public partial class Form1 : Form  
  2.    {  
  3.        public Form1()  
  4.        {  
  5.            InitializeComponent();  
  6.        }  
  7.   
  8.        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)  
  9.        {  
  10.            DialogResult fontResult = fontDialog1.ShowDialog();  
  11.            if (fontResult == DialogResult.OK)  
  12.            {  
  13.                label1.Font = fontDialog1.Font;  
  14.            }  
  15.        }  
  16.    }  
 
STEP 4: Compile and Run

Now simply compile and run the aplication.

Once you click on the Change the Font button, the font dialog will open where you can select a font. Select a font and click Ok, the selected font will be updated as the font of the text in the label.
 
 
 
 
Summary
 
In this basic article, you saw how to use a FontDialog control to choose a font. Hope you found this article intresting. For any feedback, please post it as a comment at the bottom of this article. Thank you!
 
 
 
 
 


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