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Average article rating: 4.16

Desktop Programming
MFC
29 Aug 2001   Updated: 4 Dec 2001   Rating: 4.20/5    Votes: 8   Popularity: 3.79
Licence: CPOL    Views: 315,035     Bookmarked: 72   Downloaded: 6,933
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An owner-drawn, flat, menu button that correctly handles the default state
18 Apr 2002   Updated: 18 Apr 2002   Rating: 3.61/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 3.45
Licence: Not specified    Views: 209,794     Bookmarked: 39   Downloaded: 5,416
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An extension to CRichEditCtrl to illustrate simple syntax highlighting
20 Sep 2001   Updated: 2 Oct 2003   Rating: 4.90/5    Votes: 85   Popularity: 9.29
Licence: CPOL    Views: 1,070,332     Bookmarked: 156   Downloaded: 17,990
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An extended tab control that allows tab pages to be added from dialog resources
16 May 2001   Updated: 27 Nov 2001   Rating: 4.82/5    Votes: 8   Popularity: 4.35
Licence: Not specified    Views: 239,432     Bookmarked: 45   Downloaded: 4,058
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How to get a list of users and their details from a specified server.
19 Dec 2001   Updated: 1 Jan 2002   Rating: 3.82/5    Votes: 7   Popularity: 3.23
Licence: Not specified    Views: 101,664     Bookmarked: 34   Downloaded: 1,466
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A Visual Studio Add-in that allows the current file, or it's containing folder to be compared using WinDiff
28 May 2001   Updated: 28 May 2001   Rating: 4.39/5    Votes: 13   Popularity: 4.74
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This article shows you how to subclass CWinThread to create a class that allows multiple instances to effectively use the same thread function, safely.
WPF
1 Apr 2009   Updated: 14 Apr 2010   Rating: 4.95/5    Votes: 14   Popularity: 5.51
Licence: CC (Attr 3U)    Views: 94,953     Bookmarked: 34   Downloaded: 0
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Shows how to set the initial focus in XAML
1 Apr 2009   Updated: 14 Apr 2010   Rating: 2.33/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 0.70
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After my initial successes in moving to a Prism-style bootstrapper in Part 1, it was time to move onto the next step. But in the case of a legacy application, what's the next step?
14 Apr 2009   Updated: 14 Apr 2010   Rating: 4.50/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.15
Licence: CC (Attr 3U)    Views: 38,191     Bookmarked: 11   Downloaded: 0
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Default style for a lookless control
1 Apr 2009   Updated: 14 Apr 2010   Rating: 3.22/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 1.94
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How to bind to enumerations
1 Apr 2009   Updated: 14 Apr 2010   Rating: 4.60/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.38
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How to migrate a legacy WPF application to Prism
1 Apr 2009   Updated: 14 Apr 2010   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
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Change notification for dependency properties
1 Apr 2009   Updated: 14 Apr 2010   Rating: 4.00/5    Votes: 7   Popularity: 3.38
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How to move a WPF Window with a WindowStyle of None
Mobile Apps
Windows Phone 7
25 Oct 2010   Updated: 25 Oct 2010   Rating: 0.00/5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.00
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An application for Windows Phone 7 that integrates with Facebook
Operating Systems
Windows
12 Jun 2009   Updated: 14 Apr 2010   Rating: 0.00/5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.00
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Cloud-Based Source Control using Live Mesh and Git
Programming Languages
C#
16 Oct 2002   Updated: 20 Dec 2002   Rating: 4.83/5    Votes: 63   Popularity: 8.48
Licence: CPOL    Views: 668,862     Bookmarked: 301   Downloaded: 36,754
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Extended System.Windows.Forms.Panel classes for a collapsible panel and a panel bar to contain them, in a Windows XP style.
1 Apr 2009   Updated: 14 Apr 2010   Rating: 0.00/5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.00
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HyperlinkButton Gotcha
24 Jun 2003   Updated: 15 Sep 2003   Rating: 3.33/5    Votes: 21   Popularity: 4.41
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A Visual Studio .NET add-in to provide instant integrated access to an online repository of .NET components.
12 Jun 2009   Updated: 14 Apr 2010   Rating: 4.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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How to test private members in Visual Studio

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All Topics
24 Oct 2010   Updated: 25 Oct 2010   Rating: 0.00/5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.00
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Checking Your WP7 Application Capabilities
Desktop Programming
WPF
1 Apr 2009   Updated: 7 Apr 2009   Rating: 3.36/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 2.03
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Changing the Caret Colour in WPF
1 Apr 2009   Updated: 14 Apr 2010   Rating: 4.50/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.35
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Creating a Custom View Mode that Supports a Template Selector
20 Oct 2011   Updated: 20 Oct 2011   Rating: 4.83/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 2.91
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Implementing Application.DoEvents in WPF.
1 Apr 2009   Updated: 6 Apr 2009   Rating: 4.20/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 2.53
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I'll show you how to implement a custom Style by implementing a custom message box.
Mobile Apps
Windows Phone 7
20 Oct 2011   Updated: 20 Oct 2011   Rating: 4.00/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 2.41
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Additional MessageBox features on Windows Phone 7.

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