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Document Processing Part II: Request Driven OCR

by Martin Welker

To get qualified access to paper based information, sometimes more than plain OCR is needed. This article shows why, and offers a solution to increase OCR quality by semi-automatic table extraction.

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

by Michael Dunn

A tutorial on writing a shell extension that can be used on the Send To menu.

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.

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

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Writing Microsoft CRM 3.0 Callouts – Sample Code: Turkish Citizen Number Validator

by Alen M

This article focuses on callout development for MS CRM 3.0. As an example Turkish Citizen Number Validator code is written.

XSL Transform Code Generator for Visual Studio .NET

by Chris Stefano

A custom tool for Visual Studio .NET which runs an XSL transformation to generate code

Serialize Custom Collections of CollectionBase

by Eric P Schneider

Basic demo on how to serialize and deserialize custom collections

by Emre Guldogan

A System for Simulation and Analysis of Logic Circuits

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Writing Microsoft CRM 3.0 Callouts – Sample Code: Turkish Citizen Number Validator

29 Aug 2023 by Alen M

This article focuses on callout development for MS CRM 3.0. As an example Turkish Citizen Number Validator code is written.

XSL Transform Code Generator for Visual Studio .NET

13 Feb 2021 by Chris Stefano

A custom tool for Visual Studio .NET which runs an XSL transformation to generate code

Serialize Custom Collections of CollectionBase

31 Jan 2019 by Eric P Schneider

Basic demo on how to serialize and deserialize custom collections

18 Oct 2018 by Emre Guldogan

A System for Simulation and Analysis of Logic Circuits

DaReport PrintDocument - A Printing Utility for .NET

7 Jun 2018 by Predrag Dukanac

A printing utility for .NET

DecompressLibrary - A General Library to Decompress a zip, gz, or tar.gz File into a Memory Buffer

21 Feb 2018 by Marius Daniel Ciorecan

A library that provides an easy to use class (CDecompressLibrary) that will detect and decompress into memory buffers an archive file (zip, gz, tar.gz).

FreeCal - GPIB Instrument Automation for Metrology Test and Measurement

4 Sep 2017 by Scott Page

FreeCal is a free 100% .NET suite of utilities and instrument drivers for controlling multiple instruments in a Test and Measurement environment.

A Portable and Efficient Generic Parser for Flat Files

2 Aug 2017 by Andrew Rissing

GenericParser is a C# implementation of a parser for delimited and fixed width format files.

Circular Reference-proof ATL Object Collections

13 Jul 2017 by Midi_Mick

Using ATL and STL to create collections of COM objects without circular references

Developing a SOHO web filter step by step

9 Jun 2017 by Reza Shademani

The main goal of this article is to explain the practical details of low level network security programming.

Shape Control for .NET

23 Mar 2017 by Yang Kok Wah

Implementing shape control that supports transparency, custom design-time editors and simple animation

Build My Own 3D Graphics Engine Step By Step

1 Feb 2017 by Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

How to build my own 3D graphics engine from ZERO step by step

TraceTool 12.7: The Swiss-Army Knife of Trace

20 Nov 2016 by Thierry Parent

A C#, C++, Delphi, ActiveX , Javascript , NodeJs and Java trace framework and a trace viewer: Tail, OutputDebugString, event log, and with Log4J, Log4Net, and Microsoft Enterprise Instrumentation Framework (EIF) support. This also comes with full support for Pocket PC, Silverlight, and Android.

Matrix Transformation of Images using .NET GDI+

1 Jul 2016 by Yang Kok Wah

Use of GDI+ Matrix class to perform image transformation.

Automatically Create Data Access Layers and Business Layers From Microsoft Access or SQL Server Databases

27 May 2016 by icemanind

How to automatically create data access layers and business layers from a Microsoft Access or a SQL Server database

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DayPilot - Building an Outlook-Like Calendar Component for ASP.NET

8 May 2016 by Dan Letecky

A good-looking ASP.NET control that shows events visually arranged in a day calendar. Includes design-time support and data binding.

How To Send and Receive SMS using GSM Modem

2 Mar 2016 by Ranjan.D

SMS Client - Server Software is used for sending, reading, deleting messages. It uses GSM modem for sending SMS. It listens for incoming messages to arrive, processes the read message and takes action accordingly. This SMS software requires GSMComm Library which you can also download.

A Class to Print and Print Preview a DataGrid or DataGridView Control

24 Jan 2016 by Duncan Edwards Jones

A class to add to your application to generate nicely formatted prints from a DataGrid.

A Fast CSV Reader

13 Jan 2016 by Sebastien Lorion

A reader that provides fast, non-cached, forward-only access to CSV data.

GLFW: A (Simple) OpenGL Framework Library

23 Dec 2015 by Simone Serponi

An easy to use library to quickly setup and run OpenGL applications.

LayerGenMMX

2 Nov 2015 by icemanind

Easily create Business and Data Layers!

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FileHelpers v3.1 - Delimited (CSV) or Fixed Data Import/Export Framework

17 Aug 2015 by Marcos Meli

An easy to use .NET library to read/write strong typed data from files with fixed length or delimited records (CSV). Also has support to import/export data from different data storages (Excel, Acces, SqlServer, MySql)

Implementing AI Evolutionary binary distribution algorithm for solving the numeric approximation problem

14 Jul 2015 by Arthur V. Ratz

This article demostrates the C++ code that implements AI binary distribution evolutionary algorithm for finding the "nearest" neighbor values of the given value of x in the array of N elements.

Converting PDF to Text in C#

19 Apr 2015 by Dan Letecky

Parsing PDF files in .NET using PDFBox and IKVM.NET (managed code).

A Study of Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility for Automated Measuring Systems using VB.NET

24 Jan 2015 by syed shanu

Gage R&R using VB.NET.

Fully Customizable XP Progress Bar (with examples)

20 Jan 2015 by Marcos Meli

A progress bar like the WinXP progress bar control, but completely customizable.

Web Ink/Drawing Control

8 Dec 2014 by daluu

An article on creating and using a web browser (IE only) compatible ink or drawing control using the Microsoft Tablet PC SDK version 1.7. A sample pre-built control is provided for use and demonstration.

Optical Flow or Motion Estimation Using the Watson-Ahumada (WA) Algorithm

24 Nov 2014 by SIDDHARTH_JAIN

Optical Flow or Motion Estimation Using the Watson-Ahumada (WA) Algorithm

Using HttpModules with URL Re-writing to Handle Fake Directory Requests

30 Oct 2014 by Terrence Sheflin

Explains how to use HttpModule in conjunction with IIS to handle requests to fake directories

CRUD with SPA, ASP.NET Web API and Angular.js

26 Oct 2014 by mdshohelrana

CRUD with SPA, ASP.NET Web API and Angular.js

VJHandShaker1.0: A Tool For Making Easy Java (Core) Interface Design From Visual Basic 6.0

23 Sep 2014 by Niladri_Biswas

VJHandShaker1.0 is an attempt to make an easy Java (Core) interface from VB.

C# Script: The Missing Puzzle Piece

6 Aug 2014 by Oleg Shilo

An article on a "scripting engine" for the C# language

Extending C# to Support SQL Syntax at Compile Time

23 Jul 2014 by Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu

Ever wished you could truly embed SQL functionality in your C# code without using strings or late binding? Imagine being able to write complex Where clauses purely in C#.

How to Validate ASP.NET and MVC Web Forms Using Business Rules Engine

14 Jul 2014 by Misha1964

Learn how to validate complex web forms using business rules engine

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Picture Chat for .NET

10 Jul 2014 by Yang Kok Wah

A chat program that supports Unicode input and picture transfer.

Falling Blocks Board and Shape Control

2 Jul 2014 by Yang Kok Wah

Implementing the all time favourite game as .NET custom controls, complete with animation and sound for full gaming experience

Adding COM Automation Support To Win32 Applications

2 Jul 2014 by Mohammed El-Afifi

Given an existing win32 application, how to provide COM automation capability to it?

A Pretty Good Splash Screen in C#

28 Jun 2014 by Tom Clement

A splash screen with some neat predictive progress bar features

Structured Print Document Utility

14 Jun 2014 by Duncan Edwards Jones

A set of classes for creating structured documents

Monitoring a Printer Queue from VB.NET

2 May 2014 by Duncan Edwards Jones

How to monitor a printer queue from Visual Basic .NET

License Key Generation

7 Mar 2014 by Adamanteus

This is an alternative for "License Key Generation"

ASP.NET Caching Interview Questions: Part 2

4 Mar 2014 by Shivprasad koirala

ASP.NET Caching Interview Questions Part 2

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Versioning Controlled Build

8 Dec 2013 by Julijan Sribar

A Visual Studio add-in and command-line utility that automates versioning of .NET and VC++ projects

Machine Solution to Einstein's Riddle Revisited

29 Oct 2013 by Dezhi Zhao

This article shows a fast solution to Einstein's Riddle by using brutal search.

The Essence Pattern in C#

7 Oct 2013 by Dr Herbie

An implementation of the Essence Pattern in C#

Task List Feature of Visual Studio Framework

30 Sep 2013 by Sandesh M Patil

This is all about Task list window which is helpful in managing our comments within the code.

Code generation at runtime

28 Aug 2013 by Software Developer's Journal

The .NET platform contains no extensions which would allow for the use of advanced aspect oriented programming. But it does contain mechanisms which makes it possible to build components which provide similar functionality. We will find out how to achieve this in this article.

Remote Scripting in ASP.NET

28 Aug 2013 by Software Developer's Journal

A remote scripting system performs remote server function calls from the browser level. This allows to save the time necessary to completely resend and build a page due to a query working somewhere in the background and supplying small amounts of data at a time.

Artificial Neural Networks made easy with the FANN library

28 Aug 2013 by Software Developer's Journal

Neural networks are typically associated with specialised applications, developed only by select groups of experts. This misconception has had a highly negative effect on its popularity. Hopefully, the FANN library will help fill this gap.

SourceGrid - Open Source C# Grid Control

4 Aug 2013 by Davide Icardi

SourceGrid is a free open source grid control. Supports virtual grid, custom cells and editors, advanced formatting options and many others features

Protecting an Application's Unauthorized Copy

2 Aug 2013 by Manish K. Agarwal

To protect your application's unauthorized copy by using image integrity functions (Platform SDK's ImageHlp APIs) and to manage certificates in a portable executable (PE) image file.

Architecture FAQ for Localization and Globalization: Part 2

18 Jun 2013 by Shivprasad koirala

Architecture FAQ for localization and globalization: Part 2.

Querying a SharePoint Portal Server (SPPS) Index using a WebDAV request

6 Jun 2013 by Naveen Karamchetti

An article on querying a SharePoint Portal Server (SPPS) Index using a WebDAV request.

Enhanced BrowseForFolder Styled TreeView

27 May 2013 by Chris Richner

Supports Explorer, SingleChecked and RecursiveChecked mode (checkboxes). Lets you specify the displayed drive types, etc...

Magic Library Docking Manager Designer

16 May 2013 by Chris Richner

Provides docking support without writing one line of code.

Y(et)A(nother)TabControl: A Custom Tab Control With Owner Drawn Tabs

6 May 2013 by Curtis Schlak.

A foray into the world of creating composite custom controls with design-time support.

Assembly Manipulation and C# / VB.NET Code Injection

26 Apr 2013 by Sebastien Lebreton

Reflexil is an assembly editor and runs as a plug-in for Reflector or JustDecompile. Reflexil is able to manipulate IL code and save the modified assemblies to disk. Reflexil also supports "on-the-fly" C#/VB.NET code injection.

Create an SQL Server Database Using C#

24 Apr 2013 by Phuong Thanh Nguyen

Create a SQL Server database using C#.

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Pragmatic Unit Tests using "yield return" for providing test cases

5 Feb 2013 by Pawel idzikowski

How to gain better control over the testing process reducing the amount of test methods in a unit test.

Persistence is the Key

24 Jan 2013 by Jay Kint

Tutorial for using the Calvin C++ persistence library.

Ajaxion - Standalone AJAX - Part 2 of 2 - C# and Java Example

22 Jan 2013 by radumi

An article about how to keep AJAX simple as it is and get the most out of it.

RSS 2.0 Framework

19 Jan 2013 by Chris Richner

RSS 2.0 framework implements the RSS 2.0 specification in strongly typed classes. The framework enables you to create and consume valid RSS 2.0 feeds in your code in just a few minutes.

Guess My Drawing!

9 Jan 2013 by Albara Hakami

A Windows Forms application to share a whiteboard with many clients with only one drawer, in a gamy way.

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.

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Building professional .NET applications using asynchronous message communication based on MCM-Framework.Net

4 Jan 2013 by Pawel idzikowski

How to effectively build modular .NET applications of any size using messages, commands and components of MCM-Framework.Net?

A simple TFTP client using C#

2 Jan 2013 by Matthias.Fischer

An article about creating a TFTP client with C#.

Fast LZW Compression Using Binary Tree

17 Dec 2012 by Hatem Mostafa

Fast LZW implementation using Binary Tree as a dictionary

FTP Client Class

8 Dec 2012 by otom

A non-MFC class to encapsulate the FTP protocol.

Drag and Drop Persisting TreeView Control (VB.NET)

29 Nov 2012 by Tom John

Extending the TreeView control to support drag and drop and persistance.

Comparing Values for Equality in .NET: Identity and Equivalence

21 Nov 2012 by richnewman

An article clarifying the various ways of comparing two values for equality in .NET

Using XNA to Access an Xbox 360 Joystick

11 Nov 2012 by Joel Ivory Johnson

This article demonstrates how to use the Microsoft XNA Framework to read the state of an Xbox 360 controller

Toolbar Editor for Visual Studio

31 Oct 2012 by Francesco Aruta

A toolbar editor for Visual Studio. It can modify, add and create buttons, images and all that is needed for a toolbar.

Converting PDF to Text in C#

22 Oct 2012 by hatman70

This is an alternative for "Converting PDF to Text in C#"

An expression evaluator written in VB.NET

14 Oct 2012 by Pascal Ganaye

An expression evaluator written in VB.NET.

IMAP Client library using C#

20 Sep 2012 by Rohit Joshi

IMAPLibrary supports the basic IMAP protocol functions to fetch messages from the mailbox.

Zip Utils - Clean, Elegant, Simple, C++/Win32

19 Sep 2012 by ljw1004

Adding zip/unzip easily, no LIBS or DLLs, with an elegant and powerful API

Implementing multi-level trees in MS SQL Server

14 Aug 2012 by Duong Ba Hong Minh

A good way to setup and install a multi-tree level structure by using a MS SQL Server database.

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9 Jul 2012 by ledtech3

This is an alternative for "JumpTo RegEdit"

A Complete Read Only ComboBox

18 Jun 2012 by Thomas Wells

A ComboBox with a read-only property that allows text copy and drop-down viewing

Building an N-Tier Application in VB.NET, in 8 Steps

24 May 2012 by Vimalsoft(Pty) Ltd

This article will show you how to build an N-Tier application in VB.NET.

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Adding Drag and Drop to an Explorer Tree Control

17 May 2012 by Jim Parsells

ExpTree part 2: Adding drag and drop to the ExpTree control.

Merge DataGrid Header

4 May 2012 by OhioBorg

This is an alternative for "Merge DataGrid Header"

PDF Writer

26 Apr 2012 by Navraj

This is an alternative for "PDF Writer"

Sample Pamper Series - Part 4: 2/3D Space Game, Simple Sounds, and Threads

4 Apr 2012 by Windmiller

This article is the final one in the series, and it will give you a 2/3D space game out of what we have learnt from previous articles. We will also apply simple sounds to it played in threads.

System Tray Icons

1 Apr 2012 by Prateek Kaul

An article on creating, manipulating and showing popup balloons on system tray icons.

Cabinet File (*.CAB) Compression and Extraction

23 Mar 2012 by Elmue

How to implement creation and extraction of Microsoft CAB files

Save and Load the whole content of a ListView Control

23 Feb 2012 by User 7592706

Sometimes you have to save the content of a ListView to the user's filesystem. That's very easy to manage with the XmlText-Writer and Reader from the .Net Framework 2.0.

Memory Leak Finder

22 Feb 2012 by Erik Rydgren

Custom memory handler with memory leak reporting and no-mans-land checking. Leaks are reported with call stack of allocation.

Split large XML files into small files

9 Jan 2012 by Slava Khristich

Read any size XML docuement and split it into small supporting files.

Screen Snaper SideBar Gadget

1 Dec 2011 by DCUtility

Screen Snaper is perfect to quickly share a picture-perfect representation of anything on your screen.

RCF - Interprocess Communication for C++

25 Oct 2011 by Jarl Lindrud

A server/client IPC framework, using the C++ preprocessor as an IDL compiler.

Property Sheet Shell Extension in C#

21 Oct 2011 by Hadi A

A managed .NET user-control that implements Win32 (COM) property sheet shell extensions.

A developers guide to handling exceptions in BizTalk Server 2006/2009/2010

10 Sep 2011 by Naveen Karamchetti

This article explains how to handle exceptions in BizTalk Orchestrations

Processing Global Mouse and Keyboard Hooks in C#

31 Aug 2011 by George Mamaladze

This class allows you to tap keyboard and mouse and/or to detect their activity even when an application runs in the background or does not have any user interface at all.

BooProd.BMail - Sending dynamically generated emails

22 Aug 2011 by Boo!

This package will help you send all kinds of emails like account creation, order, mailing, reports, ... everything containing dynamic fields. You can configure your own SMTP server, use notification, and add attachments.

CppSQLite - C++ Wrapper for SQLite

24 Jun 2011 by Rob Groves

A C++ wrapper around the SQLite embedded database library.

HRESULT Error Check Simplifier

12 Jun 2011 by Wanderley Caloni

Exception based error check that automates the FAILED() comparison.

A Chat Server/Client Solution for Local Networks

31 May 2011 by Evren Daglioglu

A chat server/client solution for local networks, terminal server/terminal client environments

Using RichEditCtrl to Display Formatted Logs

26 May 2011 by typke

A simple demo to show you how to use the standard RichEditCtrl to print formatted text to a message/log window.

How to Print Invoice using C#?

15 May 2011 by Mostafa Kaisoun

This is a trial to print Invoice with C#