How to show/hide installed fonts in Windows 7/XP using C#(WinForms)

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Can we show/hide installed fonts in Windows OS using C# in Windows Forms
Is there any class through which we can access a font say "Arial" and hide/show it.

We can manually show/hide a font by right click on the font in the Windows fonts folder

Posted 5-Dec-12 19:24pm

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John d. Bartels 15-Dec-12 12:08pm

There is a "FontDialog" class that will show the installed fonts

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Dr. GUI · Answer 1 · 2012-12-18T23:01:00

I don't know if I understand your question right.
If you just want to get the installed fonts, there is a class "InstalledFontCollection" derieved from "FontCollection"

C#

string familyName;
string familyList = "";
FontFamily[] fontFamilies;

InstalledFontCollection installedFontCollection = new InstalledFontCollection();

// Get the array of FontFamily objects.
fontFamilies = installedFontCollection.Families;

// The loop below creates a large string that is a comma-separated
// list of all font family names.

int count = fontFamilies.Length;
for (int j = 0; j < count; ++j)
{
    familyName = fontFamilies[j].Name;
    familyList = familyList + familyName;
    familyList = familyList + ",";
}

Hope this is what you wanted to know.