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H.264 CUDA Encoder DirectShow Filter in C#

by Maxim Kartavenkov

Article describes how to make H.264 Video Encoder DirectShow Filter using NVIDIA encoder API in C#

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Shell Extensions - Part VII

by Michael Dunn

A tutorial on using owner-drawn menus in a context menu shell extensions, and on making a context menu extension that responds to a right-click in a directory background.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 0 – Table of Contents

by Arik Poznanski

Complete Library for using the Windows 7 Ribbon from C#, including 18 samples and 21 blog posts documenting the Ribbon features

DirectX and Pure Assembly Language: Doing What Can't be Done - Part I

by CMalcheski

How to Create a Complete DirectX Game in Assembly Language

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ScreenCapture: Single Header DirectX Library with HDR ability

by Michael Chourdakis

DirectX hardware screen capture and encoding with audio mixing capabilities. H264/H265/VP80/VP90/FLAC/MP3. HDR supported.

Run Client in Lua Script Completely

by flyhigh

By implementing a UI library and exporting its necessary components to lua script, we can create a beautiful UI and implement relevant logic in Lua script completely.

Multiple Precision Arithmetic: A Multiplication Algorithm

by Andrea Simonassi

The first and simplest of the multiplication algorithms, fast enough to multiply not too large numbers

How to Use GPU in VBA/Excel

by Excel-lent

This article shows how to compile and execute OpenCL code from VBA.

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H.264 CUDA Encoder DirectShow Filter in C#

16 Jul 2012 by Maxim Kartavenkov

Article describes how to make H.264 Video Encoder DirectShow Filter using NVIDIA encoder API in C#

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Shell Extensions - Part VII

30 May 2006 by Michael Dunn

A tutorial on using owner-drawn menus in a context menu shell extensions, and on making a context menu extension that responds to a right-click in a directory background.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 0 – Table of Contents

31 Jan 2010 by Arik Poznanski

Complete Library for using the Windows 7 Ribbon from C#, including 18 samples and 21 blog posts documenting the Ribbon features

DirectX and Pure Assembly Language: Doing What Can't be Done - Part I

8 Jun 2017 by CMalcheski

How to Create a Complete DirectX Game in Assembly Language

A GAC Manager Utility and API

30 Jul 2012 by Dave Kerr

Manage the Global Assembly Cache with this handy tool - or roll your own with the provided API!

Interoping .NET and C++ through Registration-free COM

2 Aug 2017 by Marius Bancila

Using managed COM objects in C++ without registering the server in Windows Registry

A Simple XML Validator, using VOLE

16 Apr 2007 by Matt (D) Wilson

A simple command-line utility that validates XML files, implemented using MSXML via the VOLE COM/Automation driver library

ATL Windowless ActiveX Media Container

5 Mar 2009 by Ernest Laurentin

Full-fledged ATL Windowless ActiveX Container. Ideal for hosting Windows Media Player, Transparent Flash and Silverlight Animations.

ScreenCapture: Single Header DirectX Library with HDR ability

20 Mar 2024 by Michael Chourdakis

DirectX hardware screen capture and encoding with audio mixing capabilities. H264/H265/VP80/VP90/FLAC/MP3. HDR supported.

Web Application - Advanced Hosting of WebBrowser Control with ATL

14 Oct 2009 by Alex Blekhman

Example of handling real-life challenges when hosting WebBrowser control: separate creation of hosting window and the control, keyboard shortcuts, control's dimensions, etc.

DCOM D-Mystified: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 6

8 May 2005 by Brian C Hart

We build our new server and install it on the server machine.

COM Macro Architecture Topology - Servers

24 Jul 2001 by Joao C. Morais

An article about COM Architecture, COM Servers, COM DLL Servers and the Registry

Windows 7 Goodies in C++: Adding Custom Tasks to Jump Lists

29 Jun 2009 by Michael Dunn

Create custom tasks in your app's jump list on Windows 7

COM in plain C, Part 7

8 Aug 2006 by Jeff Glatt

An ActiveX Script Host with custom COM objects. This allows a script to call C functions in your app.

Adding Macro Scripting language support to existing MFC Application

18 Jul 2003 by Ernest Laurentin

Introduction to Microsoft Script Hosting and Adding Macro Scripting language support to existing MFC Application

Numerical Methods with C++ Part 3: Root Approximation Algorithms

10 Jun 2019 by thoughts-on-coding

Implementation of Root Approximation Algorithms such as Bisection, Newton, Dekker and Brent

Protect word document using C# and Word Automation

24 Nov 2015 by koolprasad2003

This article explain you How to protect word document using C# and Word automation

Extending Classic (6.0) Visual Basic – Part 1

4 Sep 2019 by Chris Boss

Visual Basic 6.0 just doesn’t want to disappear. Why ? Likely many have written vital applications using VB 6.0 and Visual Basic dot.net is so different that it is not a viable option.

Video Effects in Direct3D. Part 1

20 Nov 2012 by Maxim Kartavenkov

Article shows how easy to make various video effects using PixelShaders in Direct3D.

Microsoft Interop API to convert the .doc, .docx, .dot, .dotx and .xls,.xlsx, .rtf to HTML

13 Dec 2012 by Vijay Tanwar

Convert Word documents, Excel sheets to HTML files using Microsoft Office Interop API and render the result back to a client browser.

Get a Collection of All Running Excel Instances

26 Nov 2016 by JamesFaix

Get a collection of all running Excel interop Application objects (not just the active one)

Writing DirectShow Demultiplexors in C#. Part 1 - Windows Media Splitter example.

7 Oct 2012 by Maxim Kartavenkov

Article describes basic task which are requre to solve for developing your own DirectShow Splitter filters.

VMR9 Allocator Presenter in C# with Direct3D Video Rendering

10 Jul 2012 by Maxim Kartavenkov

Articles describes how to make pure C# rendering video on VMR9 with custom allocator presenter over Direct3D in .NET

DCOM D-Mystified: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 5

11 Aug 2000 by Brian C Hart

We look at connection points and set up the server's end of one. We'll also finish implementing our SayHello() method.

COM Mailslots - Designing asynchonous COM components for VB

10 Apr 2002 by Len Holgate

This example COM component provides 3 COM objects for using the Win32 Mailslot IPC mechanism. The component may be useful if you need to communicate from VB using Mailslots.

Pluggable Components using Component Categories - Part II

18 Sep 2003 by Zac Howland

An article on using component categories to create pluggable components

JException - Have Meaningful Exceptions in C++

31 Aug 2009 by Yalon Lotan

C++ exceptions with embedded stack trace and cause.

Running Any Command Line exe Remotely Using the Process Class

23 Dec 2011 by Dan Randolph

Builds on the existing RunRemote project to run commands on a remote server.

Elevating your application for dummies: A step-by-step guide to elevate and write in the Registry

8 Apr 2009 by joseangelmt

We are going to enable your application to write entries in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, elevating your application when necessary.

Music Notation in Blazor - Part I

1 Aug 2018 by Ajcek84

Client-side music notation rendering in Blazor

Regsvr32 can’t “see” DllUnregisterServer function.

25 Mar 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Probably this is because you did not indicate this entry point should be exported from the DLL.Consider__declspec(dllexport) STDAPI DllUnregisterServer(void) { /*...*/ }I suggest you check up what's exported using some binary dump utility such as dumpbin.exe,...

Writing DirectShow Demultiplexors in C#. Part 2 - AVI File Source example

13 Oct 2012 by Maxim Kartavenkov

Article describes basic tasks for implementing your own File Source DirectShow filters.

Using C# .NET User Defined Functions (UDF) in Excel

13 Jun 2013 by Adam Tibi

Exposing .NET functions to be consumed as Excel functions, otherwise known in Excel as "User Defined Functions" . Those .NET exposed functions can be easily used from Excel's cells. This article presents two ways to achieve this and the pros and cons of each.

Create Word table using OpenXML and C# Without Automation/Interop

8 Nov 2015 by koolprasad2003

This article help you to create word table using OpenXML without interop object

Store COM+ administration details as XML files to help with source control

8 Apr 2002 by Len Holgate

There's no standard way to save complex COM+ application configuration in a form that can be placed under version control. This article presents 2 scripts that take advantage of the COM+ Catalog accessibility via script to provide functionality that should really come as standard.

Native (Delphi) callbacks in .NET (C#) COM assembly

26 Apr 2012 by Issam Ali

How to pass native (Delphi) callback pointer to a .net COM assembly

Java: Retrieving User's Information, Such As Email and Position, from Active Directory Using COM4J

3 Jul 2013 by Ohad Redlich

This article shows how Java application can retrieve user's data from the Active Directory

Word Automation using C#: Create a Word Table Programatically

13 Sep 2014 by koolprasad2003

This tip gives you an idea about how to create Word table using C# (Word automation)

Creating a Side Menu for ASP.NET Core using a View Component

11 Dec 2018 by Chris A. Johnson

This article is about creating a dynamic menuing system for ASP.NET core.

Installing a Free SSL Certificate on Azure

14 Jan 2020 by Chris A. Johnson

This article explains exactly how to setup an SSL certificate for FREE on your Azure account. The existing free SSL with Azure only works on 'non-naked' domains, making it pretty much worthless. This is a 100% free method which ensures your site will be 100% secure.

Manipulate network adapter via WMI in plain C and C++

18 Dec 2021 by Kai Schtrom

Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration WMI class in plain C and C++

DCOM D-Mystified: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 4

11 Aug 2000 by Brian C Hart

Here we add a method to our DCOM-remoted object, and start on implementing its functionality.

creating a transparent window

26 Feb 2010 by Eugen Podsypalnikov

There are two steps:// Set WS_EX_LAYERED on this window SetWindowLong(hwnd, GWL_EXSTYLE, GetWindowLong(hwnd, GWL_EXSTYLE) | WS_EX_LAYERED);// Make this window 70% alphaSetLayeredWindowAttributes(hwnd, 0, (255 * 70) / 100, LWA_ALPHA);Here is only one variable hwnd - handle...

How can i use Component?

29 Nov 2010 by #realJSOP

You have to install (and/or register) the COM component on that computer.

Creating an Outlook 2010 Add-In with a Custom Send Button

22 Dec 2014 by Turay Melo

This is an alternative for "Creating an Outlook 2010 Add-In"

Protocol Association Enumerator

6 Oct 2015 by Maxim Komlev

.NET classes to enumerate applications associated with protocol

How to create a Titled and Labeled Excel Pie Chart with C#

21 Mar 2016 by B. Clay Shannon

Creating a simple sample Excel Pie Chart, with labeled slices using C# and Excel Interop

Braintree Payment - ASP.Net Core2.1

16 Aug 2018 by Shashangka Shekhar

In this post, we are going to implement braintree payment gateway with ASP.NET Core 2.1

Modal Analysis of Plane Truss using Python

3 Sep 2018 by Bhairav Thakkar

Basic modal analysis for dynamic response of structures in Python

C#: Scheduling with Quartz, My First Desktop Schedule Job!

30 Jul 2020 by DiponRoy

Making schedule jobs exe using Quartz scheduler

COM Interface Implementation Inheritance

24 Feb 2011 by Nish Nishant

You should be good, this is what a lot of the ATL base/template classes do. Example, IDispatchImpl provides an IDispatch implementation base.

COM Interface Implementation Inheritance

24 Feb 2011 by Espen Harlinn

Just use ATL[^] - If I understood your question correctly - it does what you want to do.Having said that - I'd just drop the whole DCOM idea - and go for a mixed mode C++/CLI wrapper aound your 32-bit dll's and expose their services through a 32-bit self hosting WCF service.I've provided...

using COM dll in a c++ console application

26 May 2011 by barneyman

if it's got a type library embedded in it, it's fairly easy// get ATL's client templates#include // import the typelibrary direct from the dll#import "" raw_interfaces_only no_namespaceThat will create a .tlh file in your output directory...

How to get rid of the XAML Design view inside Visual Studio IDE?

7 Aug 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to get rid of the XAML Design view inside Visual Studio IDE?

Generating IDL and Manifest Files with TypeLibInfoTool

1 Nov 2011 by Federico Aponte

An application to inspect a COM TypeLib and generate IDL and .manifest files. The tool is made as an HTML application using JavaScript for the logic.

Outlook add-in using VC++ ATL/COM

5 Feb 2013 by Gokulnath007

To get instant control over Outlook and various operations of outlook.

COM Forward compatibility ?

17 Apr 2013 by CPallini

COM has strict rules: Interfaces must be immutable. You must never, ever change the interface in a new version of a COM DLL. You may add interfaces, however.Now, supposing you have (strictly) followed the COM rules, the new DLL, supports the old interface and possibly new ones. IF object B...

Extracting Table Data from Word Document using Aspose Words

10 Aug 2013 by Manas Bhardwaj

How to extract table data from Word document using Aspose Words

Using C com object in C#

19 Aug 2015 by Maciej Los

As CPallini[^] mentioned in the comment to the question, you have to fix it. Try this: How to use the Regsvr32 tool and troubleshoot Regsvr32 error messages - Common solutions for Regsvr32 errors[^].This might be helpful in case of necessity of changes in COM component: Exposing native to...

Launching a VB.NET Class Library from an MS-Office Excel Ribbon

9 Nov 2015 by veen_rp

A simple, step by step tutorial to set up an MS-Office Excel Ribbon, launch your own .NET applications from Excel and interact with the spreadsheet values.

Command Line Tool and C# Class for Uploading Videos on Vimeo

23 Aug 2019 by Andreask84

A command line tool and a simple C# class with a complete set of functions to easily upload videos on Vimeo

Consume SOAP Service with COM Component

12 Dec 2016 by Leo Chapiro

This article explains how to consume a WebService (SOAP) from plain VisualBasicScript by using a COM DLL written in C#.

How to Migrate SQL Database to Azure SQL Database using SSMS Export/Import

19 Nov 2018 by Vivek Johari

Migrating SQL Database to Azure SQL Database using SSMS Export/Import Contents

LED Candle Light with Timer

25 Feb 2019 by hjgode

LED candle light with timer

WPF UIAutomation test suite development

26 Sep 2019 by Wang Ruofeng, Dirk Bahle

A guide to UIAutomation testing with WPF. Make test code easy to write and maintain.

test-automation

Run Client in Lua Script Completely

31 Oct 2022 by flyhigh

By implementing a UI library and exporting its necessary components to lua script, we can create a beautiful UI and implement relevant logic in Lua script completely.

Is there a way to find which COM pointers are not released?

23 Feb 2024 by CPallini

With objects you do not control (e.g. COM objects internal to the libraries) there's nothing you can do. On the other hand, with objects you do control, you may check the return value of the Release method, at least to inspect the updated...

ObjectLookup Utility

31 Jan 2001 by Christian S Andersen

A small utility for looking up an object based on a CLSID or progid

COM Automation in C++

20 Apr 2012 by Espen Harlinn

You should take a look at:Excel 2010 SDK: Excel 2010 XLL Software Development Kit[^]There is also XLW - A Wrapper for the Excel API[^].Best regardsEspen Harlinn

Problem with COM Port with Windows

3 Jul 2012 by barneyman

As others have said, I'd suspect that the code is currently polling the receive queue, rather than having a dedicated thread sucking it dry, and pushing it into a buffer somewhere20 years ago, I was comfortably getting 115k2 out of a 30Mhz DOS machine with a 16550UART, so these days it's not...

PowerPoint timer (addin)

27 Oct 2012 by hevesir

Timer clock for PowerPoint 2007 (PPT add-in).

List Local Admins recursively

5 Mar 2013 by jan.mach71

A small tool listing Administrators group members recursively using the ActiveDS library.

How to instantiate a COM dll

3 Apr 2013 by Matthew Faithfull

There's no really sensible or safe way but there is a way. Essentially you can do what CoCreateInstance does by yourself. There are a number of steps and I don't know them all by heart but they will include.Load the Dll with LoadLibraryGet one or more function pointers to the functions...

ActiveX Inception Drawing Issue

8 Apr 2013 by The_Inventor

You need a member and method(s) that point to the mschrt20.ocx functions within the mschrt20.ocx module within your module's code. Also you will need to include mschrt20.h in your header file for you module. Then in your OnDraw() use the methods and member, that is in your header file of your...

How to resolve error C2059

2 May 2013 by Ian A Davidson

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/t8xe60cf(v=vs.80).aspx[^]

How to use .NET in Borland C++?

3 Sep 2013 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

This is not so easy. First of all, I would think about using migrating to .NET or using something else. However, the problem is solvable.Please see my past answers:loading C# DLL in MFC[^],How can I use a dll created in Visual Basic 2008 in Visual Basic 6.0[^],Call Managed DLL written in...

Procedural Smiles - Animating SVG with Pure JavaScript

30 Jul 2018 by Dave Kerr

How to animate SVG with pure JavaScript

Sentiment Analysis using ANNdotNET

17 Oct 2018 by Bahrudin Hrnjica

Sentiment analysis using ANNdotNET

Azure Storage Account Part 1: What is Blob?

5 Jan 2019 by Arkadeep De

Azure Storage Account - what is blob?

Introduction into an Automated C++ Build Setup with Jenkins and CMake

26 Mar 2019 by thoughts-on-coding

Introduction into an Automated C++ Build Setup with Jenkins and CMake

Numerical Methods in C++ Part 2: Gauss-Legendre Integration

25 Apr 2019 by thoughts-on-coding

Implementation of Numerical Integrations with Trapezoidal and Simpson Rule Approach.

Blazor and WebAssembly

20 Nov 2019 by Jeremy Likness

Blazor and WebAssembly examples (part of a Blazor presentation)

The Kindergarten, the Construction site, and the Assembly Line

26 Feb 2020 by Lukasz Szyrmer

Experimenting with output using three different alternative ways of working

Internet Connection Sharing (ICS). Console Application to Share Internet Connection to Other Network Interface

9 Mar 2022 by SiretT

Console app to share internet connection with other network interface

How to raise Performance of COM Server of external API ?

12 Jul 2009 by Baltoro

You don't say how you instantiate the COM Server, but if it's an out-of-process server, or a component that you access from a remote machine, and you are a client of that server, then the COM library uses the RPC protocol to transfer the data...

Dll Registration Problem

13 Jul 2009 by «_Superman_»

Take a look at the tutorial - How to add ActiveX content to your web pages[^]By automatically register, if you mean the component must be registered without notifying the user, that is a matter of security settings at the client. «_Superman_»I...

Low Level Drive Hooks

15 Jul 2009 by Randor

I believe you are looking for the WM_DEVICECHANGE Message[^]. Note that your application will not recieve this message by default. You will need to call the RegisterDeviceNotification Function[^] to register to receive device change...

About Wmp(Windows Media Play) Plug-in

3 Apr 2010 by Rod Kemp

To learn how to create plug-ins for Windows Media Player, see the Windows Media Player SDK[^].This should outline what you can and can't do with a plug-in in WMP.

Universal COM Callable Wrapper

15 Oct 2010 by 401unauthorized

Allows working with most .NET classes in any COM-aware programming or scripting language

How to read a word document in correct word document format in asp .net website

17 Jan 2011 by OriginalGriff

If you are saying that you want to build a web site that can read a word document, and display (and presumably edit) it exactly as it would be in word, then I'm afraid you have a lot of work to do. And I do mean a lot. As in a couple of million man-hours (that is an educated guess, but it won't...

web_development

C# An Example of a COM Parser, Embed COM Interface DLLs in a *.cs file

24 Jan 2011 by Darki699

Another way to use the code above is to create dynamic "dynamic linking", to download dlls and embed them during runtime!How to do this:1. Add a project reference to a COM object, but DO NOT include the DLL in the executable folder2. Do not call any of the functions from the COM ref...

Programmatically changing a COM port number

2 Feb 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Well, first and best advice would be to trash your "commercial application" and blacklist the company which develop this stuff :). Well, beyond the jokes...If you cannot afford that step, there is a class of utilities called "COM Port Redirector"; it will do the trick....

VBA Composite Control Object Model

25 Feb 2011 by Joel C Graff

A method for managing complex, event-driven interactions between controls

Regsvr32 can’t “see” DllUnregisterServer function.

25 Mar 2011 by Single Step Debugger

He guys I’m banging my head over this the entire day and so far no joy. The facts:I have a rather big COM object (> 1M LOC) which fails to unregister and is living a huge fingerprint in the registry. In the beginning there was no DllUnregisterServer entry point so I added it, but for some...

Regsvr32 can’t “see” DllUnregisterServer function.

25 Mar 2011 by Wendelius

Are you missing the entry point in order to export the function? Additional info about the messages: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/249873[^]

UserDump.exe "enable Dump on process termination" feature

15 Apr 2011 by JF2015

Hi,have a look at the Sysinternals "Procdump" tool. This tool should be able to create crash dumps in 64Bit mode:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dd996900[^]

Populating a list of variables with User account names

26 Jun 2011 by SCraw2855

Greetings all,First of all, let me apologize for newbingly not knowing where to address this question properly, as I'm somewhat "green" behind the ears when it comes to coding. I have a feeling that the answer to my question is very easy, but I'm tired of fighting it. A friend gave me a few...

Detect a dead COM client

12 Jul 2011 by Richard MacCutchan

As far as I am aware the only way to have any communication with the client, is if the client provides a callback link to the server. However, even then it would be difficult to determine the state of the client without some predefined protocol.

SCCM 2007 User Interactive Task Sequence

31 Aug 2011 by Joshua Lunsford

This is a tutorial on expanding the behavior of a SCCM 2007 Task Sequence to interact with a user

Bluetooth in WP7 [By importing COM Dll in Windows Phone 7]

8 Sep 2011 by Malli_S

I'm trying to develop a bluetooth application in Windows Phone 7. I found WP7 doesn't provide bluetooth SDK. So I thought to implement the required functionality in C# assembly and import it in phone application. But WP7 even doesn't allow this importing as well. So thought of to develop a COM...