The WinForms TextBox has an 'Undo' command but has not a 'Redo' command - Why?
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Because the native Windows Edit control, the base for TextBox, has WM_UNDO but not WM_REDO. It has lots of quirks, dating back from Windows 1.0 and a gazillion app compat patches.

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