Image Control for viewing most common image formats with advanced features included (Import Image, Preview, Resize, Position, Pan, Zoom, Export Image, Extract Resource Icon).

VisualC++

C++

Windows

MFC

Alternative to MFC for GDI Programming

19 Jun 2007 by lano1106

Exploring the MFC GDI classes' inner working and proposing an alternative

An Alpha Channel Composited Windows Form with Designer Support

5 Oct 2009 by Jeff J Anderson

An alpha channel composited form for image based Window frames

An Apple Style Docking Bar Implemented by eGui lib

22 Dec 2007 by YangXiaoWang

An apple style docking bar implemented by eGui lib

An HTML5 Remote Desktop - Part I

11 May 2010 by Gustavo Ricardi

A Remote Desktop software built on AJAX, JSON and HTML5

An Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements

4 Oct 2003 by Terry O'Nolley

An article using GDI to create a scalable periodic table of the elements

Animated Dialog Windows

17 Apr 2000 by Anton Stuck

A class that provides some simple, yet spectacular window animation effects. Try the demo!

Animated Image Slide Show

28 Jan 2015 by syed shanu

Animated Image Slide Show for Winforms using C#

Another Flexible ListView Control

17 Jul 2010 by Hoang Khanh Nguyen

A highly object-oriented ListView control with varying-height items and support of complex data types

Antialiasing Using Windows GDI

1 Dec 2007 by darkoman

An article on a simple but efficient method to do antialiasing using plain Windows GDI

Antialiasing: Wu Algorithm

6 Nov 2007 by .Suchit

Generating smooth lines with antialiasing; sample code for animation is included

Article on Screen Resolution

17 Apr 2003 by Barretto VN

Article on changing screen resolution

ASCII Animation (Just for Fun)

20 May 2002 by Jason Henderson

Draw and animate ASCII characters to a window using this COM object.

Audio Book Player

11 Jun 2009 by brochpirate

Audio player designed specifically for listening to audio books

Automatic Font Handling Class

14 Aug 2014 by Jamie Nordmeyer

A class to make working with LOGFONTs easier

Autopanning All Windows, Views and Controls

19 Nov 1999 by Maximilian Pasternak

Autopan within your own application

Barry's Screen Capture

11 Jan 2003 by Barretto VN

An article showing methods of screen capture

Beginners - Starting a 2D Game with GDI+

25 Jun 2012 by codiemorgan

Basics for setting up a 2D Game using GDI+, Renderloop, and Threading. And a few tips.

boost 2: shared_ptr wraps resource handles

16 Nov 2004 by peterchen

Using boost, we can write "almost perfect" wrappers for GDI and other resource handles, in a few lines of code.

Burn the Edges of Your Windows to Give Them Character

31 Mar 2008 by Michael Dunn

No, that's not a typo

C# \ VB.NET Camera Communication Libraries

15 Dec 2011 by shynet

Stream a live camera video stream or single images between applications using the TCP protocol.

C# Rubber Rectangle

30 Jun 2008 by Giawa

Implements a Rubber Rectangle in C#.

Calendar DayView Control

20 Jun 2006 by Ertan Tike

A calendar DayView control.

CAP_FontInstaller - A basic (un)installer class for application specific fonts

24 Apr 2006 by Franc Morales

A simple wrapper to dynamically install/uninstall application specific fonts from compiled resources.

Capturing the Mouse

3 Mar 2000 by Chris Becke

Notes on TrackMouseEvent, and SetCapture on Win32

CAutoPen Class - A CPen that IS Correctly Destroyed

24 Nov 1999 by Anneke Sicherer-Roetman

CAutoPen Class - a CPen that is correctly destroyed

CBitmapEx - Free C++ Bitmap Manipulation Class

11 Feb 2009 by darkoman

An article on a free C++ bitmap manipulation class

CBufferDC: A Simple MFC Class for Automatic Flicker Free Drawing

3 May 2007 by Elia Sarti

A CPaintDC replacement in OnPaint painting. Simply change CPaintDC dc(this) in CBufferDC dc(this), and you're done.

CCanvas - A Reusable Class to Draw a Simple Graph

26 Feb 2009 by auralius manurung

A reusable class for drawing a simple graph

CCustomBitmapButton - MFC Bitmap Button

17 Sep 2004 by Andrzej Markowski

An owner-draw bitmap button and a frame for the caption bar, in one class.

CFontListBox

29 Jan 2006 by lgaudouen

A ListBox which could display and allow selection of fonts, with special features.

Choose Color Dialog

7 Aug 2001 by PPresedo

This article demonstrates a tool for previewing foreground and background color combinations.

Color class with support for named colors and HSV values

22 Oct 2001 by David Hall

An article describing the CColor class - an RGB encapsulation which supports named colors, system colors and translation to HSV values.

Color gradient in fullscreen window

15 Nov 2005 by Emmanuel Arun Vinod

Creates a full screen window and shows a color gradient on it

ColorTextBox

25 Mar 2007 by Chrisi476

This article describes ColorTextBox, a customizable User Control which was written completely from scratch and is intended to fill the gap between the TextBox and RichTextBox controls found in the .NET 2.0 library.

Colorz - The RGB Assistant

28 Aug 2006 by Jeremy Falcon

Aids developers with color intensities

Comboling

14 Feb 2005 by Alberto_Martinez

Very addictive game that demonstrates some GDI, sound, and 100% solvable puzzle creation (from all the testing so far).

Comparing Two Bitmaps for Equality

19 Dec 2006 by PJ Arends

Code snippet that compares two HBITMAP handles to see if the bitmaps they contain are the same

Control Chart Using .NET

27 Jan 2015 by syed shanu

USL/LSL Control Chart using .NET for Quality Control

Controlling Drawn Shapes in C#

15 Mar 2011 by rld1971

How to draw and manage shapes onscreen via mouse gestures

Create a Convenient Toolbar Assistant Using WTL

11 Mar 2008 by Rocom

A more easy to generate toolbar images.

Create animation in dotNet with alpha-blending PNG images by calling API

6 Jul 2007 by nguyenthanhtungtinbk

This article shows you the advantage of PNG images with alpha-blending feature in creating animation and demonstates how to use PNG images in Framework.NET application by calling API

CreateGrayscaleIcon which supports 24 and 32 bpp icons

3 May 2007 by Elia Sarti

A c++ function which uses GDI to create a channel based version of an icon. Using all the channels you can create a gray scale one

CreateRegionFromFile

10 Dec 2001 by Yuriy Zaporozhets

Very primitive function that creates region from *.bmp files

Creating a True Dotted Pen

23 Jun 2004 by MaxHacker

A fix for creating pens using PS_DOT.

Creating Alternate GUI using Vector Art

6 Feb 2000 by Keith Rule

Create visually complex, yet programmatically simple, non-rectangular GUIs

Creating Holes in a Window

6 Feb 2000 by Amir Zalzberg

How to create a window with holes in it

Creating Semi-Transparent Watermarks for Images in VB.NET

9 Feb 2005 by Paul C Smith

Apply a translucent watermark to a JPEG image using VB.NET.

CRoundButton2 - A fancy graphical button

29 Sep 2005 by JtR1977

A self drawing, round button for different styles and usages.

CStatic derivative CSpeedoMeter class

22 Jan 2005 by Henry Tan Setiawan

A simple SpeedoMeter class based on CStatic base class.

CTGraphics - Anti-Alias C++ Drawing

13 Dec 2006 by darkoman

An article on anti-aliased C++ drawing.

Curve representation by ICAS (Inner Centered Arcs)

13 Nov 2011 by T.Kojima

Suggestion about another curve representation

C++

Windows

GDI

Custom Captions (Including Multi-line Captions)

15 Jul 2000 by Dave Lorde

Simple customised Window captions, including multi-line captions

Custom Light-weight Regions

11 Jun 2004 by valdok

Regions encapsulation in light-weight C++ objects.

Custom ToolTips for MFC Projects

12 Apr 2007 by kenearle

Put anything you want in a ToolTip

Customizing the Appearance of CSliderCtrl Using Custom Draw

6 Dec 2004 by Mike O'Neill

How to use custom draw to change the appearance of a Track Bar control and CSliderCtrl.

CWebImageDC

27 Aug 2000 by Randy More

Provides a memory based DC into which an image may be drawn using standard GDI calls.

Design WinForms Controls using Photoshop

2 Nov 2019 by Alaa Ben Fatma

Use your skills as a designer to create gorgeous control

.NET

.NET-Compiler-Platform

Desktop Puzzle Game

12 Sep 2006 by Hadi Dayvary

A Desktop puzzle game.

Detecting the Display Font Size

25 Oct 2002 by Chen Su

Simple function to enable you to programmatically detect the user-selected font at runtime

Device Context Utilities

24 Jan 2001 by Jason Troitsky

A class that encapsulates some useful, GUI related, static functions

Different Resolutions for Different Users

6 Jan 2004 by maciejr

A resolution changer to get per-user resolution settings

Digital Analog Clock

17 Aug 2002 by Barretto VN

Digital analog clock

Digitizer interface in C# using VBTablet

4 Dec 2009 by Dr. Vinayak Ashok Bharadi

Digitzer device interface using VBTablet in C#.

Display Animated Cursors stored in Resources

14 Dec 1999 by Bernd Wißler

Demonstrates how to use an animated gif stored in your resource file as an animated cursor

Do a Flicker-free Drawing using MFC Methods

13 Jun 2002 by lucy

How to achieve flicker-free drawing when using the methods MFC provides

Double Buffered DC Class

15 Jan 2004 by Alex Kolesnichenko

CDC descendant with double buffering abilities

Download a Google Map with Win32, C++ and WinInet

19 Apr 2011 by Paula Scholz

Using pure Win32, WinInet, and STL Vectors, we open an Internet connection, download, and display a Google map on a Windows Mobile phone.

Draw Behind Desktop Icons in Windows 8+

22 Dec 2014 by Gerald Degeneve

Draw or render a Windows Form directly over the Wallpaper, behind the Desktop Icons in Windows 8+10

Draw Your Control's Skin using a Pattern Brush

21 Jun 2001 by Wooseok Seo

You can implement skin control by returning a brush from the OnCtlColor() method.

DrawHTML

28 Oct 2004 by Ukkie9

A drop-in replacement for the DrawText() SDK function with minimal HTML support

Drawing Arrows

30 Nov 2002 by Jamie Hale

How to draw arrows (with arrowheads) to an arbitrary DC

Drawing Images With Sizing Paddings

22 Jul 2014 by Ray K

Visual Style-like image stretching for custom skinning

Drawing Lines, Shapes, or Text on Bitmaps

12 Apr 2002 by Davide Pizzolato

Quick reference to draw lines, shapes, or text on bitmaps

Drawing Qubic Bezier-splines on Pocket PC

16 Mar 2005 by Henrik Pettersson

Functions for drawing Bezier splines on Pocket PC. Since they are missing in GDI for Pocket PC.