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Introduction to D3DImage

by Dr. WPF

.NET 3.5 SP1 is here! It's time to break out your DirectX skills. This article provides the information necessary to get started using a new DirectX interop feature in WPF called D3DImage.

Artificial Neural Network C++ Class

by Hatem Mostafa

Artificial Neural Network C++ class with two use cases: Counter and Handwritten Digits recognition

Cryptographic Interoperability: Keys

by Jeffrey Walton

Import and export Cryptographic Keys in PKCS#8 and X.509 formats, using Crypto++, C#, and Java.

XColorSpectrumCtrl - a non-MFC color picker control that displays a color spectrum

by Hans Dietrich

XColorSpectrumCtrl displays a color spectrum that allows user selection, and provides APIs for color based on RGB and HSL color models.

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A C++ Code Function Tracing Class

by PJ Arends

Trace your function calls to the Output window.

by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

Task Manager shows you the programs, processes, and services that are currently running on your computer. You can use Task Manager to monitor your computer’s performance or to close a program that is not responding.

Leveraging ChatGPT to Build an Automation Framework using the Page Object Model

by Mohammed Faci

How to leverage ChatGPT to Build an Automation Framework using the Page Object Model

Sorting and Removing Elements from the Structure of Arrays (SOA) in C++

by Igor Gribanov

C++ iterators and algorithms work well for containers, but can we sort the Structure of Arrays?

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"Browse For Folder" dialog alike with source

5 Sep 2001 by Marat Bedretdinov

Shell interfaces in use. IShellFolder, IEnumIDList, etc.

"ClassWizard" in VS.NET 2003

29 May 2003 by Nicolas Bonamy

Simulate the Class Wizard in VS.NET 2003

"Do not ask again" Message Boxes

4 Feb 2003 by Nicolas Bonamy

Two simple ways to add "Do not ask again" Message Boxes to your application.

"Hey! Is That My Car? How to Sharpen a QuickBird Satellite Image Using DotImage"

12 Nov 2007 by Lou Franco

Atalasoft leverages their DotImage toolkit to manipulate color channels for the purpose of image enhancement, in this case satellite images. The article is a tutorial on image enhancement and it includes all source code and test images.

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"Please Don’t Fail Me!" - Decorator Cries Out to Template Method

13 Sep 2009 by Sanjeev Venkat, kb-boxer

Are your classes that implement the Template Method Design Pattern "Decorator aware"?

"Protecting" Your Process with RtlSetProcessIsCritical

6 Nov 2009 by hxhl95

Escalating a process to system critical status using a Win32 kernel function

"Select Computer" Dialog

16 Apr 2001 by Igor Sukhov

The ATL and MFC versions of the class that implements a dialog for selecting users(computers) within the Windows Network.

"Skinned" UI control library (VC++)

27 Mar 2007 by vishalkmehta

This article demonstrates how to leverage the power of images and inheritance to achieve a "skinned" look for your Windows applications.

"Taskbar and Start Menu Properties Dialog" showing made easy

19 Sep 2006 by tanvon malik

This article shows you ways to run Control Panel applets from VC++, even those that don't have a cpl extension file.

'Class methods' for plain arrays and std::array and vector too.

4 Jan 2018 by john morrison leon

Class method emulation for plain arrays plus unified handling of plain arrays, std::arrays and std::vectors

'Copy To' & 'Move To' in Shell Context Menu.

7 Jan 2001 by Mumtaz Zaheer

This article is all about how to create a context menu shell extension. 'Copy To' & 'Move To' will be added to the files/folder context menu.

'Find Function headers' macro for Visual Studio .NET

28 May 2002 by Wooseok Seo

This macro will help you when you want to quickly move between function headers in your code.

(Memory and Resource) Leak Detection for WinCE

23 May 2012 by Sergeant Kolja

This is an alternative for "Memory leak detection for WinCE".

.NET - Localization using Resource file

15 Nov 2003 by Prakash Kumar Singh

This article explains and demonstrates various ways to implement localization in your .NET application.

.NET addins for Visual Studio 6.0

20 Dec 2005 by Johann Anhofer

Extend the VS6 IDE with .NET addins.

.NET and COM: The Complete Interoperability Guide

24 May 2003 by Erik Westermann

Book Review of .NET and COM: The Complete Interoperability Guide

.NET Asynchronous Design Pattern for Native C++

2 Nov 2010 by Daniel Ranger

Native C++ implementation of the .NET Asynchronous Design Pattern using Windows I/O Completion Ports

.NET Client Classes for openldap/winldap

11 Mar 2003 by Leon Finker

An example of using LDAP/OpenLDAP with .Net

.NET CLR Injection: Modify IL Code during Run-time

7 Aug 2014 by Jerry.Wang

Modify methods' IL codes on runtime even if they have been JIT-compiled, supports release mode / x64 & x86, and variants of .NET versions, from 2.0 to 4.5.

.NET Code Protection Solutions Review

3 Sep 2013 by michaelas

The article discusses .NET code protection methods.

.NET COM Interop using Postbuild

30 Sep 2013 by Florian Rosmann

COM Interop using a little post compiler. As a result, it is possible to use multithreading in combination with COM interfaces.

.NET Command Prompt Here

22 Aug 2003 by flipdoubt

Command Prompt Here for VS.NET Users

.NET Connector for Microsoft Outlook

19 Feb 2004 by Mathias Taylor

Export Microsoft Outlook data using XML DataSets and the Outlook COM Object Library.

.NET Console Password Input By Masking Keyed-In Characters

27 Aug 2004 by Lim Bio Liong

Demonstrates how to intercept .NET console keyboard input and display a * in place of each actual typed-in character.

.NET Diagnostics - II, A Threads Monitoring Application Using C#

4 Feb 2001 by Naveen K Kohli

Using the ProcessThread class to monitor the states of threads inside a process.

.NET Dynamic Software Load Balancing

9 Dec 2002 by Stoyan Damov

A Draft Implementation of an Idea for .NET Dynamic Software Load Balancing

.NET Framework 3.0 Buffet

27 Dec 2006 by Anil Kr. Sharma

.NET Framework 3.0 primer.

.NET Framework Checker

29 Oct 2018 by Leo Chapiro

List all available .NET Frameworks and check linked .NET components of installed apps

.NET Implementation of an Ogg Vorbis Player

4 Apr 2007 by Perry Marchant

An article on decoding Ogg Vorbis audio files in .NET.

.NET Internals and Native Compiling

30 May 2008 by Daniel Pistelli

An article about .NET internals and native compiling.

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.NET LCD MatrixControl and GDI+

19 Jun 2004 by Mikhail Cholokhov

Implementation of a LCD User Control in .NET using C#.

.NET like Delegates in Unmanaged C++

26 Sep 2002 by Jörgen Sigvardsson

This article describes a design pattern on how to implement generic delegates as found in .NET, but using ordinary/unmanaged C++

.NET Manifest Resources

28 Oct 2005 by Daniel Pistelli

An article on .NET Manifest Resources internal format.

.NET Namespace Toolbar

17 Sep 2004 by Nick Parker

A free IE toolbar that pulls up namespace and class documentation on the new MSDN site.

.NET Object Spy and InvokeRemote

5 Mar 2007 by bjarneds

A tool for browsing public and private members in any running .NET application (and a generic InvokeRemote method that wraps the code injection).

.NET Remoting Message Redirection Channel Sinks

20 Jun 2003 by zhi

An upper logic layer transparent way to redirect .NET remoting calls, enabling exposure of .NET remoting services behind firewall/NAT, to anywhere.

.NET Remoting Spied On

5 Feb 2001 by Naveen K Kohli

Microsoft's RemSpy sample's implementation has been explained and more remoting explanations.

.NET scripting, a new approach

15 Nov 2004 by Hugo Wetterberg

A new(?) approach to scripting in .NET applications.

.NET style delegates for VC++ 6

19 Aug 2003 by Ryan Binns

An implementation of synchronous .NET style delegates in non - .NET VC++ 6.

.NET Symmetric File Encryption Object

13 Aug 2002 by Bill Ferreira

File encryption object using Managed Extensions for C++

.NET Windbg Extension Development in Visual Studio

27 Apr 2011 by Mattias Högström

Develop Windbg extensions in Visual Studio and call .NET libraries

.NET wrapper for libbz2

14 Jul 2003 by leppie

.NET wrapper for libbz2, written in MC++

.NET Wrapper of FFmpeg Libraries

15 Jul 2022 by Maxim Kartavenkov

Article describes created .NET wrapper library

.NET's ThreadPool Class - Behind The Scenes

18 Mar 2003 by Marc Clifton

When to use .NET's ThreadPool class, and when to use something different.

.NET-like Reflection Support for Enums in C++

27 Sep 2010 by ZhaoRuFei

This article provides a macro + template solution to support .NET-like Reflection for enums such as ToString, IsDefined, Parse, GetValues, GetNames.

10 Even More Visual Studio Debugging Tips for Native Development

29 Dec 2012 by Marius Bancila

This article proposes a list of even more debugging tips for native development with Visual Studio.

10 Measures to Reduce Credit Card Fraud for Internet Merchants

28 Jan 2013 by fraudlabs

solution to prevent chargebacks and to reduce fraud for online merchants

10 Minutes to document your code

19 Jan 2003 by peterchen

Setting up doxygen, a free tool to document your code, in a few simple steps.

10 More Visual Studio Debugging Tips for Native Development

30 Dec 2012 by Marius Bancila

This article proposes a list of debugging tips for native development with Visual Studio.

10+ Powerful Debugging Tricks with Visual Studio

18 Apr 2012 by Ivan Shcherbakov

The article describes 10 time-saving debugging techniques available in Visual Studio.

27 Jul 2009 by Mohammad Shafieenia

Optimum algorithm for calculating factorial of large number

17 Channel Logic Analyzer

25 Feb 2020 by Elmue

A digital oscilloscope with serial analyzer for the parallel port

2-3 tree implementation in C++

1 Oct 2013 by Mohamed Kalmoua

2-3 tree implementation in c++

2-D Interpolation Functions

13 Sep 2021 by Mircea Neacsu

Various algorithms for 2D interpolation

24 Bit Color Icon in System Tray

15 Mar 2004 by Muhammad Asif Khan

An article on displaying icons with more than 256 colors in system tray

25 tips to design IVR applications with cloud computing considerations

5 Jan 2014 by Roy, Philippe

Cloud computing means opportunities as well as challenges. Here's an overview of cloud computing intersecting with the IVR world.

2ascii: Render JPGs PNGs, SVGs and text to ASCII

23 Oct 2023 by honey the codewitch

Create ASCII art from common image formats and text

2D Animated Charts

24 Jan 2005 by darkoman

An article on creating 2D animated charts using Windows GDI.

2D Blits in DirectX 9

19 Apr 2005 by Karel Donk

Describes how to do 2D Blits in DirectX 9 with direct surface access between various surface formats (using color conversion).

2D Drawing - Doc/View architecture

20 Jul 2012 by Sunil P V

This article is a simple geometry library for drawing lines, circles, arcs, text, etc.

computational-geometry

2D Drawing with an OpenGL Control

8 Feb 2010 by Ozgur Ozcitak

An article explaning how to create a user control for 2D shape drawing with OpenGL

2D Fast Wavelet Transform Library for Image Processing

19 Oct 2007 by Chesnokov Yuriy

This article demonstrates the use of 2D Fast wavelet transform for image processing

2D Graph ActiveX Control

5 Aug 2003 by Nikolai Teofilov

An ActiveX control for 2D data visualisation

2D Graph ActiveX Control in C++ with ATL (No MFC Dependency)

8 Mar 2012 by Marius Samoila

Plots multiple data sets, interactive tooltip info, zoom/pan, edit color/width/format, annotations, print/save

2D LUA Based Robot Simulator

14 Apr 2014 by auralius manurung

An article on designing your own robot simulator

2D Matrix Container with [][] indexing

5 Jun 2002 by Alex Chirokov

This article presents a 2D Matrix container with [][] indexing. Indexing works as if you had overloaded the mythical operator [][].

2D Multi-Parameter Pie Control

7 Jan 2003 by valgouss

A simple 2D Pie Control

2D Vector Class Wrapper SSE Optimized for Math Operations

20 May 2008 by Chesnokov Yuriy

The article demonstrates a 2D vector wrapper, optimized with SSE intrinsics, for math operations with floating point precision.

2D Water Effect in WTL

28 Apr 2011 by Tom Gee

A WTL control class to add water effect to an image, like what's done in the TortoiseSVN About dialog

2D Wrapper for ATL's CComSafeArray

8 May 2003 by mdgray

SafeArray Wrapper to simplify and speed up 2D CComSafeArray

2D-DFT for Color Image - VC++ GUI Implementation

10 May 2017 by Raghavendra Hosad

2D DFT for Color Image - GUI implementation

2DStatic

6 Apr 2005 by asef

An article for drawing a String formula at a static.

2Find Toolbar for IE - Yet Another Sample

15 Jun 2003 by Mike Melnikov

Google-like Toolbar with customization from xml file and update from web features

32-bit Assembler is Easy

30 Dec 2006 by akyprian

Maximum performance, reduced size applications using 32-bit assembly is easy

32-bit pointers in a 64-bit world

24 Aug 2008 by cppnow

64 bit pointers are wasteful if you don't need to access TBs of RAM

32-bit UDP Checksum

30 Nov 2003 by bob__0

An article on using 32-bit integers for checksum

3D Computer Graphics from Scratch

1 Feb 2024 by Orphraie

Study of 3D graphics in video games with minimal prior knowledge of mathematics

3D Cross-Platform 3rd Person Shooter - To Intel x86 Android

20 Mar 2014 by ashcairo

The process of porting our cross-platform 3D third person shooter game to support the Intel x86 Android environment.

3D Graph ActiveX Control

2 Aug 2003 by Nikolai Teofilov

An ATL/STL ActiveX control based on OpenGL library for 3D data visualization

3D Software Rendering Engine - Part I

18 Mar 2011 by darkoman

This article is about the 3D software rendering engine.

3D Studio Max like Slidable DialogBar

17 Feb 2002 by John Aspras

Ever seen 3D Studio 2.5 Slidable DialogBar? Want to know how they did it?

3DHelper

17 Feb 2009 by MikeTheDwarf

Helper class to display 3D data

3DStatic

6 Jun 2005 by asef

An article to draw a 3D math function on a static control.

3G Modem Internet Dialer

13 Jul 2011 by Amro Ibrahim

3G Modem Internet Dialer

4-Way LinkedList

3 Nov 2008 by Babu_Abdulsalam

This linked list allows to connect a node with four adjacent nodes and shows how a node can be navigated in multiple directions.

40 Basic Practices in Assembly Language Programming

29 Jan 2019 by Zuoliu Ding

A discussion on some basic practices highly recommended in Assembly Language Programming.

4350% Performance Improvement with the StringBuilder for C++!

10 Sep 2013 by Pablo Aliskevicius

Memory reallocation generated by string concatenations can create performance bottlenecks. .NET has System.Text.StringBuilder, JavaScript has Array.join, and we have string::reserve.

45 Day Series: CodeProject VC++ Forum Q&A - I

6 Jul 2005 by ThatsAlok

Collection of Q&A from VC++ forum between 10 Dec 2004 to 23 Jan 2005.

45 Day Series: Codeproject VC++ Forum Q&A - IV

31 Jul 2005 by ThatsAlok

Collection of Q&A from VC++ forum between 25 April 2005 to 8 June 2005

45 Day Series: CodeProject VC++ Forum Q&A - V

25 Jul 2010 by ThatsAlok

Collection of Q&A from VC++ forum

45 Day Series: CodeProject VC++ Forum Q&A - VI

15 Jul 2011 by ThatsAlok

Collection of Q&A from VC++ forum

45 Day Series: Codeproject VC++ Forum Q&A - VII

26 Jun 2012 by ThatsAlok

Collection of Q&A from VC++ forum

4db: A Dynamic File-based NoSQL Database for C++

22 Nov 2021 by Michael Sydney Balloni

Wanna add basic database functionality to your C++ app? Too lazy to use SQLite directly? Read on!

4K (2160p) resolution for PS1, PS2, PSP games

2 Aug 2020 by Evgeny Pereguda

Clone of PCSX/PCSX2/PPSSPP emulator for Windows 10 on WPF/C# with "touch" control

5 Ways to Optimize Your Code for Android 5.0 Lollipop

20 Jul 2015 by Android on Intel

In this paper, we introduce some of the new features in ART, benchmark it against the previous Android Dalvik* runtime, and share five tips for developers that can further improve application performance.

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50 OpenGL MFC Projects in One

10 May 2017 by Petrov Vladimir

Former NeHe OpenGL Lessons adapted to MSVS-15 pro MFC in INICODE and the samples of the Joystick implementation

50 OpenGL Win32 Projects in One

8 Jun 2017 by Petrov Vladimir

Former NeHe OpenGL Lessons adapted to MSVS-15 pro Win32 in INICODE and the samples of the Joystick implementation

64-bit Android and Android Run Time

1 May 2015 by Intel

64-bit Android and Android Run Time

64-bit Android* and Android Run Time

20 Jan 2015 by Android on Intel

64-bit Android* and Android Run Time

64-bit electronic key

20 Apr 2009 by Jakub Piwowarczyk

This article demonstrates the use of serial number DS1990 to obtain authorized access to the application.