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Guide to WIN32 Regions

by Paul M Watt

Guide to understanding how to create and use regions with the WIN32 SDK

Create An Awesome WPF UI for Your C++/QT Applications

by The Ænema

This article will teach you how to create an amazing, clean and smooth WPF/Winform UI for your native application without using any complex, unsafe, ActiveXish methods, etc.

Using C Calling Convention Callback Functions in C# and VB - The Easy Way

by Jecho Jekov

Provides an easy way to use C calling convention callback functions in C# and VB

CppEvent - How to Implement Events using Standard C++

by Shmuel Zang

This article shows how we can implement a thread-safe events (similar to .NET events) mechanism using the standard C++ library.

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Customize List View Column Headers

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Show or hide, reorder, save and restore list view column headers

Universal implementation of BFS, DFS, Dijkstra and A-Star algorithms

by optiklab1

I demonstrate with an actual implementation that well-known algorithms BFS, DFS, Dijkstra, and A-Star are essentially variations of the same algorithm.

Converting between NSString and C Strings in an iOS Project

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How to convert between NSString and C strings in iOS project

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Objective C

'Hello World, Goodbye .XIB!' -- A .XIB'less Hello World Application

14 Sep 2010 by Ohmu

An article that creates a simple iPhone application that displays a graphic then cuts out the .XIB, and completes this just from the code.

2D Animated Charts

24 Jan 2005 by darkoman

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

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

10 May 2017 by Raghavendra Hosad

2D DFT for Color Image - GUI implementation

A Basic Icon Editor Running on ReactOS (and Consequently on Windows XP and Newer Versions)

31 Jan 2021 by Steffen Ploetz

Creation of a basic icon editor with as little code as possible, that is running on ReactOS and Windows, to check out the stability of application development capabilities on ReactOS

A Better Bitmap Button Class

14 Oct 2001 by Joseph M. Newcomer

An improvement on the CBitmapButton class.

A Bridge From Fortran to C#

21 Feb 2017 by Member 1895422

This article discusses bridging from Fortran to the .NET language C#.

A C ATM Console App

28 Apr 2014 by Andre' Gardiner

A c banking atm concept console application

A Checkbox Tree Control for Use in Filtering Selections

23 Feb 2003 by Magerusan Grigore Cosmin

An ATL filter control

A Class for Selecting a Profile Image

7 Mar 2016 by Will J Miller

Using UIImagePickerController to replicate the profile selection features found in the contacts app requires solving some vexing problems. This article presents one approach for a class that replicates the functionality using the UIImagePickerController.

A Cool GDI Pattern Brush Tool with C++ Source Code

27 Aug 2003 by ucc801

A cool GDI pattern brush tool with C++ source code. You can create a new office XP style pattern fill mode quickly.

A Custom TextBox with Regular Expression Validation Using MC++

4 Oct 2004 by liyang yu

A custom TextBox with input validation written in VC++.NET, also walks you through the steps needed to build your own custom controls

A drop-in replacement for MessageBox()

4 Jan 2005 by Chris Hills

Other articles describe replacements for MessageBox() with extra buttons for "Yes to All" and "No to All", but you still have to write the code to handle those buttons. This article presents a class that does all the work for you.

A Faster Tree Control

16 Dec 2003 by Tibor Blazko, René Greiner

An article about an open source and free fast tree control

A Few Classes to Work With Date, Time, Datetime and Timezone Data

9 Oct 2002 by Alex Mol

Classes to make working with time and date data in different timezones easier.

A Flat Splitter Window

30 Jan 2003 by Marc Richarme

A small class that gives splitter-windows a flat look

A Float Tree Control like the Parameter List Control in Visual Studio

9 Apr 2002 by Johnson Zhou

In Visual Studio, you will find an auto-completion list when you type your code in the IDE. This is a similar control but using a tree.

A Guide to WIN32 Clipping Regions

9 Apr 2002 by Paul M Watt

Guide to understand the three different types of clipping regions, and how they relate to the Device Context

A Handy Idle-Processing Class for Long Procedures

31 Dec 2018 by Craig Muller

This article introduces a convenient class for hooking into idle processing.

A High Performance TCP/IP Socket Server COM Component for VB

25 Jun 2002 by Len Holgate

Although socket based TCP/IP servers using IO Completion Ports are often written in C++, it's sometimes useful to write such a server in Visual Basic.

A Lazy Stream Implementation in C++11

25 Jun 2018 by David Serrano Martínez

A lazy stream has been implemented in C++11, so as to highlight the functional capabilities of this new specification

A Memory DC for WTL

10 Mar 2002 by Paul A. Howes

An article detailing a simple memory-based device context for the WTL, to be used when flicker-free double-buffered drawing is desired

A Monitored, Memory Mapped std::allocator for Mass Data Storage in STL Container

26 May 2020 by stefan stammberger

A novel allocator implementation for managing huge sets of data in STL's std:: containers for Windows operating systems

operating-systems

A Powerful and Flexible Text Drawing Function which has Simple Markup Tags

1 Sep 2004 by YoungJin Shin

This function makes for you to draw a fancy text easy.

A Prelude to Pointers

23 Jul 2003 by Nitron

A quick reference to pointers and pointer operations

A Programming Model to Use a Thread Pool

30 Sep 2000 by Sherwood Hu

A class to manage the thread pool

A Reusable, High Performance, Socket Server Class - Part 1

17 Aug 2002 by Len Holgate

Writing a high performance server that runs on Windows NT and uses sockets to communicate with the outside world isn't that hard once you dig through the API references. What's more, most of the code is common between all of the servers that you're likely to want to write.

A Simple Class to Encapsulate VARIANTs

27 Mar 2004 by Rob Manderson

Using Variants in your C++ code

A Simple Class To Handle Dates

12 Dec 1999 by Richard Stringer

A class that simplifies common date handling tasks

A Simple HTML Drawing Class

5 Aug 2003 by BadJerry

Drawing HTML text onto a device context

A Simple Prototype for Demonstration of Voice Communication via Network/Internet

14 Jun 2000 by Zhaohui Xing (Joey)

Voice communication

A Simple Windows Forms Properties Spy

19 Aug 2003 by Rama Krishna Vavilala

A utility that can be used to spy the properties of any Windows forms control in the system

A Simple XML DOM Viewer/Navigator Using MC++

23 Sep 2004 by liyang yu

A simple GUI written in MC++ providing a DOM tree and XPath navigator for XML files

A Slice of Cucumber

9 Oct 2019 by Zebedee Mason

Visual C++ tests are created from Gherkin DSL feature files using a Python 2.7 script

A Static Splitter with the Ability to Hide/Show Multiple Columns/Rows

6 Aug 2002 by Alexander Kuzmin

A static splitter with the ability to hide/show multiple columns/rows

A Tree List Control

19 Sep 2002 by TigerX

A Tree List Control

A TreeList Control

1 Dec 1999 by David Lantsman

A tree control / list control hybrid

A View Class for Cropping Images

25 Jun 2016 by Will J Miller

This article describes the implementation of a custom class called MMSCropImageView. The class gives the feature of drawing and moving a rectangle over an image to identify the crop region and return it in an UIImage. It explains the considerations and solutions for cropping a bitmap.

image-processing

Add Serialization Support to CMenu

4 Dec 2001 by Sidney Chong

The CMenu class is a great help when it comes to manipulating menus, but unfortunately it doesn't implement serialization. CSerializableMenu is a subclass of CMenu that provides serialization support.

Adding Object Detection with TensorFlow to a Robotics Project

28 Apr 2019 by Phil Hopley

In this article, we will add AI to an existing ROS (Robot Operating System) House Bot.

machine-learning

All About MFC Serialization

9 Jan 2019 by steveb

Describes all aspects of MFC serialization mechanism

Alternative to MFC for GDI Programming

19 Jun 2007 by lano1106

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

An Easy to Use Observer Pattern Implementation (No Inheritance Required)

26 Jan 2004 by Corneliu Tusnea

Observer Pattern implemented in a nice template model, easy to use as it does not require the classical inheritance and can easily decouple Subject and Observer

An Enhanced CCheckComboBox

10 Dec 2002 by Magerusan Grigore Cosmin

Hybrid control simulating a combo box with checkboxes on a dropdown tree

An Idea How to Use Google Maps

29 Oct 2015 by minor_28

Web Control - Google Maps

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

An ISAPI Project to Send a Page with an Image to the Browser

6 Dec 1999 by Jorge Lodos

This article describes an ISAPI project to send a page containing an image to the browser.

An ISAPI Project to Show Database Information (including images)

6 Dec 1999 by Jorge Lodos

This article describes an ISAPI project to show database information.

An ISAPI Project to Show Database Information (including images) in Frames

6 Dec 1999 by Jorge Lodos

This article describes an ISAPI project to show database information in frames.

An ISAPI Project to Show Frames

6 Dec 1999 by Jorge Lodos

This article describes an ISAPI project to send a page containing two frames to the browser.

An MFC Process Class

25 Oct 2001 by Joseph M. Newcomer

This class allows you to create a child process and receive notification of its output.

Android + iOS Torch sample

12 Dec 2013 by Cloud Hsu

Samples for present Android and iOS to control torch.

Animated Dialog Windows

17 Apr 2000 by Anton Stuck

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

Another Splitter Control for Dialog

12 Jul 2002 by Hung Nguyen

A very simple splitter control for dialogs

Antialiasing: Wu Algorithm

6 Nov 2007 by .Suchit

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

Any Day of the Week Using the Doomsday Rule

27 Jun 2002 by Paul J. Weiss

C++ implementation of the Doomsday Rule to determine the weekday

Applying Observer Pattern in C++ Applications

8 Jan 2001 by T. Kulathu Sarma

This article explains how to avoid object dependencies using the Observer Pattern with a simple example.

Applying Strategy Pattern in C++ Applications

8 Jan 2001 by T. Kulathu Sarma

When it is possible to have several different algorithms for performing a process, Strategy Pattern can be used to determine the best solution.

Arduino Multitasking Using Loops

13 Dec 2018 by Tareq_Gamal

Simple way to create a Multitasking code for your Arduino project without using any external library.

Arduino Scheduler

16 Sep 2020 by Member 4206974

A function that works on event of Arduino and ESP32 boards

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.

Asynchronous IO within ISAPI Modules

3 May 2000 by Mike Junkin

How to use asynchronous IO to send data from an ISAPI module

Asynchronous Multicast Callbacks with Inter-Thread Messaging

25 Jan 2019 by David Lafreniere

Simplify passing data between threads using this multithreaded, portable C++ asynchronous callback framework

multi-threading

Asynchronous TCP Part 1

14 Sep 2018 by bkelly13

Goal: Describe how asynchronous or non-blocking TCP code works

Asynchronous TCP Part 2

29 Mar 2013 by bkelly13

Goal: Describe how asynchronous or non-blocking TCP code works

Asyncsocket Part 4: The Client

26 May 2013 by bkelly13

Microsoft Class ASyncSocket

Atalasoft MobileImage SDK Review

29 Jan 2016 by Chris_Riley

In this post I will explain how quality imaging is the most critical element for an application I’m working on to support both OCR and NLP.And how I’m using the MobileImage SDK to do it.

Audio streaming and caching in iOS using AVAssetResourceLoader and AVPlayer

11 Feb 2015 by leshkoapps

How you can use AVAssetResourceLoader and AVPlayer in your apps

Audiobook Player for iPhone

8 Sep 2010 by brochpirate

An iPhone media player designed specifically for listening to audiobooks

Autopanning All Windows, Views and Controls

19 Nov 1999 by Maximilian Pasternak

Autopan within your own application

AVL Binary Tree for C++

4 Jan 2006 by Dimiter Georgiev

Using the HeightBalancedTree C++ template as an array or as a sorted sequence

Barry's Screen Capture

11 Jan 2003 by Barretto VN

An article showing methods of screen capture

Basic Cryptographic Protocols: Key Exchange

25 Aug 2018 by Kewin Rausch

Introduction to protocols to manage Key Exchange in secure channels communication

Beating the Daylight Savings Time Bug and Getting Correct File Modification Times

28 May 2001 by Jonathan Gilligan

Windows reports erroneous file modification times, which change according to daylight savings. This article describes why this is so and how to determine correct file modification times and avoid the DST bug.

Beginning a Navigation-Based App

8 Jul 2010 by mattz32

A simple tutorial on how to create a navigation-based application and transitioning between views.

Binary Coded Decimal

19 Dec 2019 by Edwig Huisman

A binary-coded-decimal class and the ODBC Interface

Binary Tree Introduction

12 Mar 2007 by tonim

Description of binary trees and fast search in one-dimensional data

25 Apr 2002 by Nicolas Gazelle

This is my attempt to create a simple toolbar class that allows to set a bitmap in the background of a toolbar.

Building Client/Server Applications with VC for Secure Private File Sharing

9 Nov 2005 by Ganyob

How to build secure private file sharing client/server using a freeware SDK

Building Simple Reader Application for iPhone based on UIWebView

30 Jun 2010 by deluizon

Learning the basic of developing application on iPhone by developing simple reader app

C Language Dynamic String

20 Dec 2019 by steveb

Dynamic string for the C language

C++ 11 S/MIME: A Simple MIME Parser and Builder with Security Features

3 Sep 2018 by Michael Chourdakis

Easy to use simple parser with S/MIME Support. Version 2.

C++ audio mixing and WAV file & AudioFile classes

8 Dec 2018 by CalicoSkies

Mixing audio from multiple WAV files to a single WAV file. Includes a C++ class for reading and writing WAV audio files, derived from an AudioFile class for future support of other audio file formats.

C++ Calendar Alarm Class with Repeat Capability

23 Mar 2006 by DaveeCom

CAlarmClock is a C++ class that can generate repeating asynchronous alarms

C++ Object Relational Mapping (ORM)- Eating the Bun - Part 1 of N

20 Apr 2019 by BrainlessLabs.com, sibani.p

Creating a simple ORM for C++ on-top of SQL database

C++ on the iPhone: Test Driven Development

2 Jun 2009 by Craig Giles

I have been learning quite a few development strategies as of late, and the newest one that I’ve taken a peek into is Test Driven Development (TDD), or Unit Testing.

C++ State Machine with Threads

26 Jan 2019 by David Lafreniere

A framework combining state machines and multicast asynchronous callbacks

C++0x Dynamic Message Passing

26 Nov 2010 by Achilleas Margaritis

C++0x Dynamic Message Passing Ala Objective-C

C++17: string_view Conversion to Integral Types

5 Jun 2018 by Shao Voon Wong

Implementing string_view conversion to integral types using Boost Spirit Qi v2

Calculating Easter Sunday

23 Nov 2001 by Oskar Wieland

How to find Easter Sunday and Ash Wednesday

Call Distribution Parameters using Combined Data Points Splicing

31 Mar 2021 by Fedor Naumenko

Find type of distribution and parameters from set of distributed physical values

Car Distance Sensors Using an Ultrasonic Transducer

28 Jun 2018 by Florian Rappl

A car distance sensor using the Arduino with an ultrasonic transducer

CBrowseCtrl - Adding File/Folder-Browse Features to Your Projects Easily

25 May 2004 by Abin

A file/folder browsing control that integrates an editbox and a button with built-in images

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.

CDeviceTree

2 Apr 2004 by Abbas_Riazi

A tree control to show installed devices like Device Manager

CDibData

22 Dec 2003 by John R. Shaw

CDibData is a utility class for: loading, saving, and manipulating bitmaps

CEstimateTimeStatic - A Class for Estimating Remaining Time

6 Feb 2003 by Doru Cioata

A simple but effective class for estimating remaining time in the execution of a process

CGroupCheck - Checkbox Associated with a groupbox

16 Aug 2002 by Ming Liu

CButton-derived control associated with a groupbox to enable/disable controls inside

Chat With US DI

7 Aug 2002 by DCUtility

Chat (Client/Server) project build with code found at Code Project.

Chatbot Tutorial

24 Apr 2019 by Gonzales Cenelia

Tutorial on making an artificial intelligence chatbot