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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.

Control Message Bar

by Paul Vickery

Code to add a message bar to virtually any existing Windows control.

Human-readable Enumeration Meta-data

by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Display names and descriptions for enumeration members: a non-intrusive, reliable, localizeable method.

XResFile - Files Stored in Resources: Part 2 - Zip Files

by Hans Dietrich

This series of articles is a step-by-step guide to reading files stored in your program's resources. Along the way I will present some non-MFC classes to assist you in reading text, binary, zip, and even encrypted files that have been compiled into your program as resources.

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Alternative to URLDownloadToFile function

by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

How to download files from an HTTP server.

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

LineNumbers for the RichTextBox

by nogChoco

LineNumbers that dock to a RichTextBox or show as an overlay on top of it

DataGridView Event Sequences

by Zasky

A useful tool to help you understand DataGridView events as you navigate the DataGridView

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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

LineNumbers for the RichTextBox

13 Apr 2019 by nogChoco

LineNumbers that dock to a RichTextBox or show as an overlay on top of it

DataGridView Event Sequences

3 Jan 2019 by Zasky

A useful tool to help you understand DataGridView events as you navigate the DataGridView

Computer Controlled Watering System with C# or VB.NET

30 Nov 2018 by Troy Simpson

Setup a simple and cheap computer controlled watering system using VB.NET or C# and a parallel port relay controller

XSL 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 in .NET

18 Oct 2018 by Gavin Sinai

Using the open source Saxon library, .NET programmers can benefit from XSL 2.0 and XQuery 1.0.

18 Oct 2018 by Emre Guldogan

A System for Simulation and Analysis of Logic Circuits

DataCube

24 Aug 2018 by darkoman

C# implementation of the serverless OLAP engine

Outline Text - Part 2

13 Aug 2018 by Shao Voon Wong

Outline Text Part 2

CHyperLink: A Simple MFC HyperLink Button Class with Any Size 32bpp Icons Support

19 Jul 2018 by Elia Sarti

A class which encapsulates a hyperlink control for web page redirection or normal button usage

DIY electronic RFID Door Lock with Battery Backup

7 May 2018 by Elmue

An electronic door lock that replaces a mechanic key by an RFID card or RFID token.

Exploring Computational Number Theory (Part 3)

26 Mar 2018 by William Hey

Factoring classic integers

Writing MATLAB to C converter: Parser and Code Generator created with Bison/Flex

21 Nov 2017 by Shmuel Safonov

Using Bison/Flex for creation of the code convertor from subset of MATLAB language to C code. The converter is used for building native applications and libraries from MATLAB code.

An FTP client library for .NET 2.0

17 Aug 2017 by Howard Richards

Provides a useful wrapper to the FtpRequest in .NET 2.0.

18 May 2017 by darkoman

Article about the 2D isometric game engine

Enumeration-based Command Line Utility

14 May 2017 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

An example the application of Enumeration class, third article of the series

MfcAdapter - not OLE .NET/WPF Container of MFC Applications

12 May 2017 by Alexey Shalnov

How to build Not OLE container of MFC applications based on hosting of MFC application from within WinForms and WPF applications

Enumeration Types do not Enumerate! Working around .NET and Language Limitations

10 Mar 2017 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Generic classes for enumeration-based iteration and array indexing

Wish You Were Here… Only Once

10 Mar 2017 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

A description of techniques based on context-sensitive conditions

Human-readable Enumeration Meta-data

8 Mar 2017 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Display names and descriptions for enumeration members: a non-intrusive, reliable, localizeable method.

ASP.NET Multiple Selection DropDownList with AJAX HoverMenuExtender

3 Jan 2017 by Bryian Tan

An article on how to build a multiple selection dropdownlist with the AJAX HoverMenuExtender.

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.

XML Visualizer v.2

16 Nov 2016 by Lars Hove Christiansen

XML Visualizer v.2 improves the standard XML Visualizer in Visual Studio 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2015.

Simple Ray Tracing in C# Part VII (Shadows)

15 Jul 2016 by andalmeida

Adding shadows to Simple Ray Tracing in C#

Simple Ray Tracing in C# Part VI (Vertex Normal Interpolation)

15 Jul 2016 by andalmeida

An approach to interpolate vertex normals on triangles

Simple Ray Tracing in C# Part V (Texture Mapping)

15 Jul 2016 by andalmeida

Simple Ray Tracing in C# Part V (Texture Mapping)

Simple Ray Tracing in C# Part II (Triangles Intersection)

15 Jul 2016 by andalmeida

Ray tracing and mapping in spheres

Simple Ray Tracing with Texture Mapping in C#

15 Jul 2016 by andalmeida

Simple Ray Tracing with texture mapping in C#

Simple Ray Tracing in C#

15 Jul 2016 by andalmeida

Simple Ray Tracing in C#

Basic Illumination Model in C#

15 Jul 2016 by andalmeida

Basic illumination model in C#.

Simple Ray Tracing in C# Part IV (Anti-Aliasing)

15 Jul 2016 by andalmeida

Simple Ray Tracing in C# Part IV (Anti-Aliasing)

Bernie’s Trackviewer

12 Jun 2016 by Bernhard Hiller

View and edit your GPS track records on a nice GUI with online maps and aerial views.

Semi-Prime Ordered Sequences (Part 2)

31 May 2016 by William Hey

Semi-Prime Ordered Sequences (Part 2) is the follow-on to “Exploring Computational Number Theory (Part 1)” and describes a process for ordering the semi-prime base sequences.

Exploring Computational Number Theory (Part 1)

31 May 2016 by William Hey

Classical number theories

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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Log Wizard - a Log Viewer that is easy and fun to use!

19 Apr 2016 by John Torjo

Monitoring Log files can be fun!

Getting All "Special Folders" via VB.NET

12 Apr 2016 by Jalapeno Bob

A VB.NET version of Ray Koopa's 21 Mar 2016 article, Getting All "Special Folders" in .NET

How to Use a Font Without Installing it

12 Apr 2016 by Shao Voon Wong

How to use a font without installing it first on user systems

Linq-To-XML Style of Node Creation for C++

12 Apr 2016 by Shao Voon Wong

Linq-To-XML Node Creation for Native C++

SequelMax: C++ XML SAX Parser

12 Apr 2016 by Shao Voon Wong

A new C++ SAX library to simplify parsing

SSE2 Vectorization of Alphablend Code

12 Apr 2016 by Shao Voon Wong

Using SSE2 to speed up alphablending.

Combinations in C++, Part 2

12 Apr 2016 by Shao Voon Wong

Introduce 4 new algorithms on finding combinations

Customisable WinForms Progressbar Control VB.NET

2 Apr 2016 by David Vanson

A progress bar control you can customize

Log Wizard - Make your Logs Look Pretty!

7 Mar 2016 by John Torjo

You can easily apply Pretty Formatting to your logs. Make the information that's relevant to you easily stand out!

How to Send, Receive and Delete SMS with IOT Devices (Arduino and GSM Shield)

2 Mar 2016 by Ranjan.D

Let us see how to send, receive and delete SMS using Arduino and GSM Sheild

Log Wizard - Viewing Windows Event Logs Can Be Fun!

21 Jan 2016 by John Torjo

You can do advanced searching through your Windows Event Logs. Even regex searching and filtering. No expert skills required.

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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LogWizard - Filter your Logs Inside out!

1 Nov 2015 by John Torjo

Meet the Log Viewer that makes monitoring log files a joy!

SMTP Client with SSL/TLS

22 Oct 2015 by David Johns, John_Tang

C++ SMTP client, support SSL and TLS encrypted connection to SMTP server

LogWizard - Talk About your Logs!

14 Oct 2015 by John Torjo

Create and Share Notes about your Logs like never before!

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)

Windows Service to block RDP attacks

28 Jul 2015 by Bjørn

A Service listening to Windows EventLog, recognizing attacker IPs and block them in the Windows Firewall.

EpServerEngine - A lightweight Template Server-Client Framework using C++ and Windows Winsock

16 Jul 2015 by Chris La

How to create a server-client network quickly using template server-client framework, EpServerEngine (C++ and Windows Winsock).

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.

EpServerEngine.cs - A lightweight asynchronous IOCP TCP Template Server-Client Framework using C# and Socket

1 Jul 2015 by Chris La

How to create a server-client network quickly using IOCP TCP template server-client framework, EpServerEngine.cs (C#).

Extend OpenFileDialog and SaveFileDialog the Easy Way

19 Jun 2015 by dmihailescu

Customize OpenFileDialog and SaveFileDialog using a User Control

Windows dialog design in C++ without dialog templates.

3 Jun 2015 by john morrison leon

An alternative approach in which dialogs are entirely specified as C++ code that requires neither IDE support to be written nor IDE generated resources to be executed. Powered by the C++ type system.

A Smart Card Framework for .NET

15 May 2015 by orouit

Describes a framework to use the PCSC Smart Card API with .NET.

A Vector Type for C#

11 May 2015 by R Potter

A guide through a Vector type in C# using Cartesian and Euclidian Geometry

Multi-Threading: Deadlock Tracer Utility

25 Mar 2015 by Chivate Atul

Tracing dead-locks in multi-threaded applications.

Custom Button Control with Gradient Colors and Extra Image (VB.NET)

19 Mar 2015 by SSDiver2112

This is a simple to use custom button control, but with a lot of visual design options.

Using Raw Input from C# to handle multiple keyboards

9 Mar 2015 by Steve Messer, Emma Burrows

Windows XP supports multiple keyboards, but by default, the .Net Framework will treat them all as one. This article explains how to use the Windows API Raw Input methods to support multiple keyboards from a C# application.

SQLite Compare Utility

21 Feb 2015 by liron.levi

Utility for comparing two SQLite database files for both structure and data

A printf implementation in C#

10 Feb 2015 by Richard Prinz

This article describes an implementation of printf using C#.

Using the Enterprise Library (June 2005) with Visual Studio 2005

5 Feb 2015 by Michael Schmitt

How to customize the Enterprise Library (June 2005) for Visual Studio 2005

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.

Embedding Java VM into C application and using JNI with JSON

21 Jan 2015 by Richard Chambers

Exploring how to embed a Java VM into a C application and developing a native library for a Java application using JNI.

An implementation of a list splicing and traversing library

7 Jan 2015 by Richard Chambers

Providing a C library with primitives for manipulating a list including splice, for each, and algorithms.

Avoiding Overflow, Underflow, and Loss of Precision

17 Dec 2014 by John D. Cook

Describes why the most obvious way of evaluating functions may be bad and how to do better

Basic Help on NxBRE (Rule Engine)

16 Dec 2014 by Suvabrata Roy

Here is a help on NxBRE (Rule Engine) for basic business rules

CoStream, A Bufferless Pipe Stream

15 Dec 2014 by Sergey Nozhenko

This is an alternative for "PipeStream, a Memory Efficient and Thread-Safe Stream"

2 Dec 2014 by PJ Arends

A CTreeCtrl derived control that has four checkbox states

Metrobutton

19 Nov 2014 by Louis van Alphen

Metrobutton

Simple .NET PDF Merger

17 Nov 2014 by Michael Ulmann

A simple .NET PDF merger that supports header and footer text.

Get Rid of EXE/DLL Locks by using ShadowCopyFiles Appropriately

15 Nov 2014 by Michael Ulmann

Get rid of EXE/DLL locks by using ShadowCopyFiles appropriately with .NET 2.0 and newer

Developing an ASP.NET page with MasterPage and Localization

15 Nov 2014 by Michael Ulmann

The MasterPage is derived from UserControl and thus, does not support the method 'InitializeCulture()'; a bit more coding is required in order to make the ASP.NET MasterPage localizable.

SmallPDFDesigner v1.0

5 Nov 2014 by darkoman

This article is about the simple .NET PDF generator and visual designer

C++ tCNode template: An Indexed Multi-node Data Tree using STL Containers

3 Nov 2014 by Ciro Sisman Pereira

tCNode template: An indexed multi-node data tree using STL containers

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

Delete Blank Scanned Image File

26 Oct 2014 by Igor Krupitsky

This application will tell you if a scanned image file is blank

PDF Merge

26 Oct 2014 by Igor Krupitsky

This Windows application lets you merge image and PDF files in a given folder into one PDF file.

C# Com

22 Oct 2014 by User-Rock

Accessing a C# .NET DLL in VB6 using Com+ or Com Interop

Custom TreeView Layout in WPF

12 Sep 2014 by Jan Bakker

This is an alternative for "Custom TreeView Layout in WPF"

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

A simple C# library for graph plotting

4 Sep 2014 by Zimmermann Stephan

An easy to use C# library for quick and simple graph plotting.

DBKeeperNet - Keeps Your DB Schema Up-to-date

26 Aug 2014 by voloda2

An article describing a simple .NET library which simply keeps your database schema up-to-date.

C# Script: The Missing Puzzle Piece

6 Aug 2014 by Oleg Shilo

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

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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Magic TabControl - VS.NET Style

3 Jul 2014 by L3CodeProject

This is an alternative for "Magic TabControl - VS.NET Style"

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?

Monitoring Unreliable Scheduled Tasks

26 Jun 2014 by Clift Norris, John D. Cook

This article describes RunAndWait, a program that provides monitoring and logging for scheduled tasks

Automated Extract and Build from Team System using PowerShell

26 Jun 2014 by Clift Norris, John D. Cook

We describe a PowerShell script to extract source code from Team System version control and automate the build process

Calculating Percentiles in Memory-bound Applications

26 Jun 2014 by John D. Cook

How to compute percentiles of a stream of data too large to fit into memory at once

EpOraLibrary - A lightweight C++ wrapper over Oracle's OCI library

2 Jun 2014 by Chris La

This is an alternative project of "OraLib - a lightweight C++ wrapper over Oracle's OCI library"

XONOR pointers: eXclusive Ownership & Non Owning Reference pointers

14 Apr 2014 by john morrison leon

A smart pointer system for safe application development in C++.

Five steps to using a logging utility in your projects using Application Blocks

5 Mar 2014 by Shivprasad koirala

Steps to use a logging utility in your projects using Application Blocks.

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ASP.NET Caching Interview Questions: Part 2

4 Mar 2014 by Shivprasad koirala

ASP.NET Caching Interview Questions Part 2

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Matrix Printer Class

24 Feb 2014 by PJ Arends

A C++ class that makes it easy to print text in clearly defined rows and columns

Another DataGridView Printer

6 Feb 2014 by aureolin

DataGridView printing encapsulated in a stand-alone object. Very easy to use! Updated to allow printing columns wider than one page.