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Desktop Programming
Win32	How to Burn Optical File Images with IMAPI 2.0 from Managed Code 16 May 2008 Updated: 30 May 2008 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.15 Licence: CPOL Views: 104,166 Bookmarked: 67 Downloaded: 4,378 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Burn ISO files using IMAPI v2.0 and C#
	Monitoring desktop windows from a Windows service 28 Nov 2007 Updated: 2 Jan 2008 Rating: 4.72/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.81 Licence: CPOL Views: 85,130 Bookmarked: 115 Downloaded: 7,197 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Capture and save desktop windows from a Windows service.
WPF	Extend OpenFileDialog and SaveFileDialog Using WPF 1 Sep 2009 Updated: 16 Jun 2015 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 6.48 Licence: CPOL Views: 188,382 Bookmarked: 71 Downloaded: 6,335 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Customize OpenFileDialog and SaveFileDialog using a WPF Window
	Benchmark start-up and system performance for .Net, Mono, Java, C++ and their respective UI 8 Jul 2010 Updated: 2 Sep 2010 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 44 Popularity: 8.06 Licence: CPOL Views: 159,319 Bookmarked: 67 Downloaded: 1,311 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. What is the start-up and system performance overhead for .Net, Mono, Java versus C++ and Forms, WPF, Swing versus MFC
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C#	Extend OpenFileDialog and SaveFileDialog the Easy Way 11 Jul 2007 Updated: 19 Jun 2015 Rating: 4.82/5 Votes: 81 Popularity: 9.17 Licence: CPOL Views: 1,500,306 Bookmarked: 287 Downloaded: 13,312 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Customize OpenFileDialog and SaveFileDialog using a User Control
	How to Create Optical File Images using IMAPIv2.0 15 Feb 2008 Updated: 29 Feb 2008 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 32 Popularity: 7.24 Licence: CPOL Views: 166,275 Bookmarked: 98 Downloaded: 4,501 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Create disk ISO images using IMAPI 2
	'Extending' the Enum Class to Validate the Enum Values with the Flags Attribute 28 Dec 2007 Updated: 4 Jan 2008 Rating: 4.58/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.20 Licence: CPOL Views: 62,123 Bookmarked: 41 Downloaded: 297 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Use extension methods to augment the enums to validate the values and more
	Get Logical Drives Information 10 May 2005 Updated: 10 May 2005 Rating: 3.96/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 4.27 Licence: Not specified Views: 65,694 Bookmarked: 46 Downloaded: 2,844 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Retrieves serial number, size, mapping, description and network share.
	Marshal an Array of Zero Terminated Strings or Structs by Ref 1 Feb 2007 Updated: 1 Feb 2007 Rating: 4.32/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 4.81 Licence: CPOL Views: 79,701 Bookmarked: 29 Downloaded: 956 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Marshal an array of zero terminated strings or structs by reference
	How to capture a Window as an Image and save it 15 Jun 2007 Updated: 15 Jun 2007 Rating: 4.43/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 4.62 Licence: CPOL Views: 142,885 Bookmarked: 91 Downloaded: 6,384 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Take a snapshot of the main Window of any UI application
	.NET asynchrony in the UI context 4 Nov 2011 Updated: 21 Nov 2011 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 6.78 Licence: CPOL Views: 65,584 Bookmarked: 112 Downloaded: 2,083 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. UI and concurrent programming using IAsyncResult, BackgroundWorker, TPL, and ‘async’ syntax.
	Add a context menu to the Windows Explorer 12 Apr 2005 Updated: 12 Apr 2005 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 39 Popularity: 7.21 Licence: Not specified Views: 368,131 Bookmarked: 148 Downloaded: 13,083 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Add a context menu to the Windows Explorer using Registry only.
	Wildcard Manipulation for Text 18 May 2005 Updated: 18 May 2005 Rating: 2.10/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 1.77 Licence: Not specified Views: 30,792 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 555 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Searches and replaces text based on a pattern that uses wildcards.
	Get the calling module that invoked your function 29 Jan 2007 Updated: 29 Jan 2007 Rating: 4.38/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.41 Licence: CPOL Views: 39,193 Bookmarked: 20 Downloaded: 846 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to get the calling module that invoked your function as an entry point.
	How To Build an Assembly that Exposes Win32 APIs and Native COM Objects 16 May 2007 Updated: 18 Jun 2007 Rating: 3.69/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 3.33 Licence: CPOL Views: 35,870 Bookmarked: 24 Downloaded: 485 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Make managed and unmanaged calls into a DLL library
	Get Physical HDD Serial Number without WMI 29 Dec 2006 Updated: 6 May 2008 Rating: 4.79/5 Votes: 63 Popularity: 8.38 Licence: CPOL Views: 959,105 Bookmarked: 178 Downloaded: 62,737 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Retrieve the physical Hard drive ID and other info using low level APIs like DeviceIOControl
C# 3.5	File Compare And Hash extension for Windows explorer 4 Aug 2015 Updated: 4 Aug 2015 Rating: 4.97/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 6.11 Licence: MIT Views: 21,157 Bookmarked: 28 Downloaded: 957 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A windows explorer extension for easy binary/text file comparisons and calculating the MD5, SHA1, SHA256 hashes.
C++	Get the UpTime on a Windows System 6 Apr 2005 Updated: 12 Apr 2005 Rating: 2.48/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 2.48 Licence: Not specified Views: 88,515 Bookmarked: 23 Downloaded: 1,329 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Get the uptime on a Windows system.
	User authentication using SSPI and AutoLogOn 30 Mar 2005 Updated: 30 Mar 2005 Rating: 1.44/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 1.12 Licence: CPOL Views: 48,133 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 1,253 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An AutoLogOn program with user authentication check.
	Get Parent Process PID 20 Mar 2005 Updated: 22 Mar 2005 Rating: 3.19/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 3.55 Licence: Not specified Views: 239,842 Bookmarked: 21 Downloaded: 3,562 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to get the parent process PID, and how to use it in the child process.
XML	Zip/Unzip using the java.util.zip .NET namespace and more 20 Feb 2007 Updated: 12 Feb 2013 Rating: 4.49/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.28 Licence: CPOL Views: 162,228 Bookmarked: 70 Downloaded: 3,047 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Zip/Unzip using java.util.zip from managed code.
Web Development
HTML	Visual Studio Design Patterns Add-in/Extension 7 May 2014 Updated: 3 May 2017 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 182 Popularity: 11.08 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 318,393 Bookmarked: 456 Downloaded: 9,458 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A Visual Studio add-in that inserts some commonly known OO patterns into your working project and searches your highlights online.