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by DrABELL

5-in-1 educational software package for Tablet PC/Win8: Fraction Calculator, Prime Factoring, Linear, Quadratic and System of Equation solvers (AIC-2013)

Doodle Riddle - A JavaScript Windows 8 Game

by Matthias.Fischer

A riddle game for Windows 8 using JavaScript and HTML5

How to conduct an SMS survey using a cell phone connected SMS gateway and MS Access

by Adam Page

Setting up an SMS gateway to conduct an SMS survey and storing the survey results in an MS Access database, from which you can generate/print out reports.

Explore 3D

by Chris Boss

OpenGL based 3D learning software

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Win10 TabletMode & WinForms.Net Form Event Order

by B.O.B.

Win10 TabletMode alters the order of Form events in WinForms.Net - this article describes how to correct the event order

Numeric TextBox for Universal Windows App (UWP)

by Piyush Manharlal

Numbers only textbox for Universal Windows App with options to allow negative numbers and set custom numeric pattern.

Convert RTF to Plain Text (Revised Again)

by NightWizzard

Handling for hex expressions and the trailing '}'

WPF/XAML NotifyIcon and Taskbar (System Tray) Popup Window

by Murray Foxcroft

Integrating WPF and XAML with the Windows forms NotifyIcon control to produce a slick, styled popup window when the mouse is moved over the NotifyIcon

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Windows XP Tablet Ed.

.NET and J2EE interoperability for .Net Developers

30 Dec 2007 by Amer Chaudhry

.NET and J2EE interoperability for .Net Developers

UML

Win2003

Vista

TabletPC

.NET Mail Composer

6 Aug 2008 by SHRIDHAR TL

Compose mail messages and send them through your mail account provider.

10 Steps to Creating a Windows Mobile Database Application Using .NET and SQL Anywhere 10

24 May 2007 by Liam Cavanagh

The purpose of this article is to help get a user started in building a mobile database application using SQL Anywhere and Visual Studio .NET (C#)

A (working) implementation of API hooking (Part I)

24 Mar 2005 by xryl669

This article provides a very simple but efficient base code for hooking API functions in any application.

A closer look at XML Data Binding, including a product appraisal

18 Aug 2004 by Sprotty

An introduction to XML Data Binding, and a review of a number of leading products.

A method for providing software unlock keys

23 Feb 2009 by Rick Hansen

Here is a very simplified method for selling relatively secure unlock keys to your customers. The unlock key you provide will only unlock that specific customer's download instance for a specific feature set or product.

A shiny orb button in GDI+

1 Jan 2008 by Steve-Low-NextwaveSoft

A button with a shiny orb effect on mouse hover.

A simple C++ implementation of Elliptic Curve Cryptography

7 Jan 2008 by Jarl Ostensen

A finite field EC and simple ECC scheme in C++ to help understand the principles.

A Simple Class to Read and Write INI Files

30 Nov 2006 by Nick Alexeev

This class is a thin MFC wrapper around Win32 API for reading/writing INI files.

A simple histogram displaying control

31 Oct 2005 by Alexandru Ghiondea

A histogram control for displaying your data.

A Study In Equality

26 Dec 2007 by Marc Clifton

Understanding value and ref types for equality tests and as keys in collections

Address Book and Events Reminder

13 Feb 2009 by SHRIDHAR TL

Allows to maintain and backup your contacts and also maintains a reminder. You can store data in any of the three different databases like Microsoft SQL Server, MySql, Microsoft Access

All about PrintForm component 1.0

30 Jun 2007 by vridhichowdhry

How to print a Form in VB.NET using the Printform Component. Describes the various ways with examples on how to customize the printed output according to your need.

Alphanumeric increment in C#

11 Jun 2006 by Sandip Dalvi Tung

This code is very useful when you want to auto increment number using A-Z and 1-9 with possible combinationYou can pass any string and system will return next possible number e.g. You can Pass number "PRO01A9" then You will get "PRO01B1"

AlphaView

13 Jun 2008 by Noel Frankinet

A virtual WTL ListView control on an SQLite3 table or view.

Alternative to the C# out keyword using Generics, Anonymous methods and Type converters

12 Jul 2006 by Steve Ward UK

This article will demonstrate an alternative to the C# out parameter for those times when you need to get a value back from a method plus some additional information. I'll show you how generics and anonymous methods can be used together to help you write cleaner resuable code.

An Apple Style Docking Bar Implemented by eGui lib

22 Dec 2007 by YangXiaoWang

An apple style docking bar implemented by eGui lib

An Aqua Button Control Written in C# for .NET

17 Oct 2006 by Rad1cal

I have written a number of applications and have always been a little disappointed at how drab they look using the standard VS controls. I had been looking for an easy way for brightening up these apps and in the end resorted to writing my own button control.

Applied Crypto++: Block Ciphers

6 Apr 2008 by Jeffrey Walton

Encrypt data using Block Ciphers with Crypto++.

Arcball OpenGL in C#

28 Mar 2008 by Kam

An Arcball module using CsGL in C#.

ASP.NET Caching

11 Dec 2007 by James Sullivan

In this article, I would like to share my experience and knowledge about ASP.NET Caching and how it can improve your website performance.

Assigning an application’s icon to all forms in the application

5 Oct 2008 by Sergiy Stoyan

It is a handy thing if all the windows in an application, by default, have the same icon like the application’s executable. Here is a tip: how to easily assign your application’s icon to all the hosted forms.

Attacks using external.menuArgument

24 Aug 2006 by AhmedEssamNaiem

external.menuArgument is very useful property but it can be used as a tool to help hacker to get quick information about your page and application

Automated Desktop Background Changer

15 Dec 2007 by Joss

This project will show you how to make a program that randomly chooses a background image when you log on, and either lets you simply select a background, or randomly chooses one for you every minute to an hour.

Automatic resizing controls

27 Jan 2005 by drice

Mechanism to automatically dock/anchor your controls in a window or dialog.

Book review : “MCSD Certification Toolkit (Exam 70-483): Programming in C#”

8 Sep 2014 by Pragmateek

"MCSD Certification Toolkit (Exam 70-483): Programming in C#” - book review

Build Dynamics CRM Mobile Apps that Work on WM, TabletPC, iPhone or iPad

31 Aug 2010 by Resco Developer Tools

No doubt, Microsoft Dynamics CRM is one of the world's most popular CRM systems. It's unique because of its customization capabilities allowing enterprises to adjust it to their specific needs whether their main focus is selling goods, providing services, or something completely different.

Building COM Objects in C#

2 Aug 2004 by Mubbasher Adeel

Building COM Objects in C#.

C-like Exports between VB6 and VB.NET

26 Jun 2007 by venom00

In this article, we'll talk about VB6-.NET interoperation without involving COM. How? Making C-like exports of some functions from a VB.NET DLL. First, I'll introduce the technique used with a very simple sample and then it will be explained how to set a global hook just using VB (6 and .NET).

Calling web service using ASP.NET

27 Dec 2007 by Asya Alshaikh

show how to call a web services inside ASP.NET web project. using a test published web services; Extentrix Web Services 2.0 Application Edition

Cardar™, credit cards metadata organizer

17 Feb 2015 by DrABELL

Store securely credit cards' structured meta-data, like contact info, PIN, APR on balance transfer/purchase/cash advance, and other terms/conditions

Centurion LINQ - Integrating eHealth Community Care

11 Feb 2015 by UmarSiddiqui

Help us help you improve community health

Change Over All Georgian(Miladi) Dates that Exist in Dataset to Shamsi Date

13 Jan 2008 by SirAsad

This Control can change the Georgian dates in Dataset to Shamsi date (For Report)

ClipSpy+

5 Jan 2008 by Mike Hankey

A utility to uncover the mysteries of the Clipboard, now with a data injector that allows you to pass various data formats to the Clipboard.

Coding an N-Tier Application in C# Without Any Wizard: Part II

5 Jan 2013 by Vimalsoft(Pty) Ltd

Coding an N-Tier application in C# without using Wizards.

Console User Information Creater

7 Dec 2007 by sdk_codemaker_2005

Creates User Information from Input into a Text File - C#

Create a Setup Project to Install Your PowerShell SnapIn

22 Oct 2007 by Shahar Gvirtz

In this article, you'll learn how to create a setup project to deploy your code with 0 lines of code.

Create an Outlook 2007 Form Region by using VSTO 2008

1 Jan 2008 by Helmut Obertanner

In this article, we will create a form region that shows all contacts within the same category.

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

Creating a 3D book-shaped application with speech and ink using WPF 3.5

21 Dec 2007 by Roberto Sonnino

A text editor with interactive 3D, speech, and ink using WPF 3.5.

Creating a Glass Button using GDI+

26 Mar 2013 by Lukasz Swiatkowski

How to create an animating glass button using only GDI+ (and not using WPF)

Creating Movable Child Window Controls

25 Sep 2007 by saud_ad

A walkthrough on building a Windows control that can be moved by the user at runtime.

CThread

23 Aug 2005 by PEK

CThread simplifies the process to start, run and stop threads. You can use it to work with threads in the same way as you do in C# or Java.

Custom C# .NET Settings Class

26 Jun 2008 by chmod2222

Having problems changing app.config and web.config? Use your own settings class. Easy to add new keys and save to disk.

DAL Class and Transact-SQL Generator for C# and VB.NET

8 Dec 2007 by Hamidreza-Ghasemkhah

Automatically generates the required class and stored procedure to work with SQL databases

Dashboards Are For Driving

14 Sep 2008 by Steven A. Lowe

Dashboards are immensely useful not only for business data but also for business applications, but only if they display metrics that can be used to "drive" (or "steer") in real-time.

Database Schema Comparison Utility

16 Oct 2006 by Sean Goodpasture

An article describing a way to find the differences between two database instances

Database Utilities for C#

30 Dec 2007 by Redskin9

A series of Database utilities for lookup and data manipulation written in C#

Different Methods of ClickOnce Deployment

10 Dec 2007 by MSDN_MCP

An article that discusses different ways of deploying ClickOnce

DirectX Lessons, Lesson 2 (Direct3D Device Initialization)

28 Aug 2004 by Mohamed Meshref

The second lesson in the DirectX lessons in C#

Display an Internet Connection status icon using .NET Framework 2.0

20 Jul 2005 by Juan Roman

This article explains how to use a BackgroundWorker and a StatusStrip to display an Internet connection status icon on a StatusStrip using .NET Framework 2.0.

Distance using Longitiude and latitude using c++

27 Dec 2007 by chhibs

exactly what the title says

Doodle Riddle - A JavaScript Windows 8 Game

22 Oct 2012 by Matthias.Fischer

A riddle game for Windows 8 using JavaScript and HTML5

Driving or Automating GUI Applications

14 May 2008 by daluu

GUI automation for the purpose of driving or controlling an application via its GUI

Drop and Forget Dialog Buttons

7 Sep 2006 by PRMan!!!

OK, Cancel, Yes and No buttons that set their own Text, Name, DialogResult and Accept/Cancel status

Dynamic Linked List Tree

18 Feb 2007 by AhmedEssamNaiem

Using Vector and double linked list to create trees

Dynamic Table using html and javascript

17 Apr 2008 by sathesh pandian

The users can add new rows with values without using any databases

Dynamically adjusting the size of a drop-down list and adding color to the back-ground and fore-ground of the list items

11 Mar 2008 by Sushant Joshi

To adjust the size of the drop-down list dynamically at the client-side and adding back-ground and fore-ground color to the drop-down list.

Edumatter-MT

17 Feb 2015 by DrABELL

5-in-1 educational software package for Tablet PC/Win8: Fraction Calculator, Prime Factoring, Linear, Quadratic and System of Equation solvers (AIC-2013)

Efficient data processing with ADO in C++: Method GetRows

6 Jul 2005 by Vitaly Tomilov

Demonstrates effective data processing of ADO recordset objects in C++ via Safe Arrays provided by method GetRows.

eGUI, a anmiated UI develop kit

16 Dec 2007 by Yang XiaoWang

A easy-to-use widget libary to develop the animation GUI based on Windows GDI

Embedding Controls in a ListView

30 Dec 2004 by mav.northwind

How to use arbitrary controls in ListView cells.

Embedding Google Earth in a C# Application

8 Dec 2008 by Joseph Armbruster

How to embed the Google Earth scene in a C# application.

Empty Template Text Box

4 Oct 2012 by stebo0728

This guide shows how to extend a standard TextBox to have an "empty value" template

Enabling Anonymous Access in SharePoint Surveys

26 Dec 2007 by S.S. Ahmed

Surveys are an excellent way of collecting information from the users. Learn how to enable anonymous access in SharePoint surveys.

Enhanced version of VB.NET GetFiles

21 Nov 2008 by LeeBear

This is an inline enumeration of files instead of building an array first.

Erasing data on free space on NTFS partitions

19 Sep 2004 by Dennis C. Dietrich

A VBScript that overwrites free disk space to prevent file recovery on a NTFS partition, by creating a file with random data and (mostly) the size of the free space.

Excel Data Manipulation Using VB.NET

11 Dec 2007 by Wahab Hussain

This will help you manipulate an Excel file through your code. You can update the Excel file as well.

Explore 3D

15 Aug 2013 by Chris Boss

OpenGL based 3D learning software

Extending ObjectBuilder: Making dependancy injection inheritance aware

17 Jul 2008 by steve_hocking

An article on extending the dependency injection framework provided by the ObjectBuilder from the Microsoft Patterns and Practices group.

External tools add-in with ProcessStartInfo and Process classes

6 Dec 2007 by Ali Ozgur

Describes making of an external tools add-in using ProcessStartInfo and Process classes in System.Diagnostics

Fade-in forms using .NET and C#

10 Apr 2005 by Alexandru Ghiondea

Describes how to build forms that fade-in when they load.

Fast and Compact HTML/XML Scanner/Tokenizer

10 Oct 2007 by c-smile

HTML/XML scanner/tokenizer, also known as a pull parser

Fast Drawing of Non-32bpp Images with System.Drawing

5 Jun 2007 by J. Dunlap

Avoid the unnecessary pixel format conversion that normally happens when drawing a portion of an image to the screen with System.Drawing

Fast IPC Communication Using Shared Memory and InterlockedCompareExchange (updated!)

28 Sep 2006 by studio_ukc

Guide to writing a very fast interprocess communication class. This article describes a method of IPC that requires no locking or thread sync.

Fast Readers/Writer Lock

5 Mar 2007 by Ultrano

Optimized implementation of a readers/writers-lock sync object.

Find and Minimize or Maximize or Restore a Window

19 Dec 2007 by Mohan Kumar

Find and minimize or maximize or restore a window.

Friends Radar - A geo-location based friend discovery app for Windows 8

25 Nov 2012 by imgen

This article describes an app that finds friends nearby. It's an App Innovation Contest entry.

FTP-based Replication with Sharp FTP Server

25 Jun 2004 by InActive

This article explains how to do FTP-based replication through the example of the Sharp FTP Server.

Fun with the Console, Animating the American Flag (Visual C++ 6.0)

5 Jun 2010 by Software_Developer

Have some fun with the console, animate the American flag

Get icons from Exe or DLL the PE way

14 Jan 2005 by ejor

Get icons from Exe or DLL the PE way or how to emulate PrivateExtractIcons.

Gmail Image Viewer

15 Dec 2004 by Nir Levy

How to add a context menu to IE that does some neat stuff in Gmail.

Google Site Map Crawler

13 Dec 2007 by Summer_son

Console application that chacks all URLs listed in sitemap.xml file

Graphic Calculator

10 Jun 2008 by pechan00000

Software tool that interactively displays a graphical view of mathematical functions

GraphicsBuffer Class - Buffering of Dynamic Visual States for Controls

2 Aug 2004 by Rhy Mednick

This article discusses the usage of a custom class that caches custom images. The class, GraphicsBuffer, is best used to cache visual states for controls without concern for control flicker and unnecessary processor usage.

Helper Class for Resizable MFC Dialogs

19 Mar 2009 by Gernot Frisch

This class takes care of the child window placement when you resize an MFC dialog. Also stores the size in the Registry for the next call.

High Efficient Dynamic Array and a Simple Demo

24 Sep 2008 by flyhigh

Help you manager dynamic array

How Events Work Under the Surface

1 Jan 2007 by J. Dunlap

Shows what goes on behind the "magic" that the compiler does when you declare a simple event member in a class.

How to calculate difference between two dates using JavaScript

8 Apr 2007 by Nilesh Surve

This code will give you the diffrence between the two dates in days.Some time it is required in the program to get diff. between two dates.It is so small and very efficient code.

How to check for user inactivity with and without platform invokes in C#

22 Dec 2004 by Dennis C. Dietrich

Within the last month, two fellow programmers asked how to implement a timeout after a certain interval of inactivity. This article features four and a half ways of doing this.

How to conduct an SMS survey using a cell phone connected SMS gateway and MS Access

16 Oct 2007 by Adam Page

Setting up an SMS gateway to conduct an SMS survey and storing the survey results in an MS Access database, from which you can generate/print out reports.

How to Create a Random Joke Generator in Java

14 May 2010 by Software_Developer

How to create a Random Joke Generator in Java

How To Get A Website Thumbnail in a C# Application Without Creating A Form (console)

5 Jul 2008 by AdamNajmanowicz

The article describes how to get a thumbnail of a Website in .NET Framework 2.0+ without launching a fully interactive WinForms application.

How to Harness the Power of XHTML and XForms in your .NET Applications

11 Feb 2009 by Phil Booth

XForms is an important recommendation from the W3C that enables complex XML-handling applications to be defined in a simple, declarative syntax. This article demonstrates how you can leverage this power in your own applications.

How to reverese a string in C#/.NET with almost one line of code using P/Invoke

4 Jan 2013 by Kerem Guemruekcue

How to reverese a string in C#/.NET with almost one line of code using a build in Windows library function which is available on any Windows system.

How to serialize data effectively? Custom serialization of Bitmap, Cursor, Icon, Font, and other objects without a default constructor with sharpSerializer

14 Aug 2011 by Pawel idzikowski

Is it better to serialize types without default constructor with Custom Serializer or a Substitute Pattern? Example of serialization of FontFamily into isolated storage in WP7.

How to Set the Maximum Memory a Process can Use at the OS Level

1 Mar 2007 by schizoidboy

Describes how to use WIN32 methods, and the concepts of Jobs to set a hard limit on the amount of memory a process can use. Also, provides a C# wrapper around the PInvoke calls.

How to use NUnit to test native C++ code

18 Jan 2010 by Kenneth Kasajian

Because NUnit is designed to unit test managed code, it does not lend itself to test unmanaged C++ code as easily as for C#, until now!