Question

What is the best way to read all windows fonts into ComboBox?
Basically, I’m tried do this:

equal to the Microsoft Word

I can do:

 string[] fonts = Directory.GetFiles(@"C:\windows\fonts");

and show each file into ComboBox, but this is correct? Have not an component that do this work?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Try this:

using System.Drawing.Text;

InstalledFontCollection myFonts = new InstalledFontCollection();
foreach (FontFamily ff in myFonts.Families)
  comboBox1.Items.Add(ff.Name);
}