is primarily programmed in the C# programming language.

According to the developer, this was done to enable the users to contribute to the development with more convenience, even though the old avenue of donation was not closed. Another edition, however, is published to Microsoft Store under a trialware license and is available to purchase for US$7. Starting with version 4.0.18, is published in two editions: A classic edition remains freeware, similar to all other versions since 3.5. In November 2009, the software was made proprietary, restricting the sale or creation of derivative works of the software. However, citing issues with the open source code being plagiarized by others that had rebranded the software as their own and bundled user content without their permission, the availability of the source code was restricted, in December 2007 Brewster announced his intent to restrict access to components of the program (including its installer, resources, and user interface). Initially, was released under a modified version of the MIT License, with the exclusion of the installer, text, and graphics.

As of May 2006 the program had been downloaded at least 2 million times, at a rate of about 180,000 per month. The project continued over the summer and into the autumn 2004 semester for both the version 1.1 and 2.0 releases.ĭevelopment continues with one programmer who worked on previous versions of while he was a student at WSU. In contrast, version 3.35 has approximately 162,000 lines of code. Version 1.0 consisted of 36,000 lines of code and was written in fifteen weeks. originated as a computer science senior design project during spring 2004 at Washington State University.

was originally created by Rick Brewster as a Washington State University student project, and has evolved from a simple replacement for the Microsoft Paint program into a program for editing mainly graphics, with support for plugins. (stylized as Paint.NET or ) is a freeware raster graphics editor program for Microsoft Windows, developed originally on. English, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Catalan, Corsican, Thai

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