Populate a DropDownList with the names of installed fonts with C#

Need to get a list of available fonts for your application?, this little gem will retrieve the font names of all installed fonts on your server (asp.net) and use them to populate a DropDownList.

These are the namesspaces you need to import to get this running.

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using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Text;

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Assuming your DropDownList has an ID of “ddl”

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<asp:DropDownList ID="ddl" runat="server" />

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Your codebehind just needs an installed font collection object created with a foreach loop to go through in your Page_Load event.

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      InstalledFontCollection fonts = new InstalledFontCollection();

      foreach (FontFamily family in fonts.Families)
      {
         ddl.Items.Add(family.Name);
      }

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