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Custom Controls in Win32 API: Scrolling

by Martin Mitáš

How to support scrolling within your controls.

Understanding the Insides of the SMTP Mail Protocol: Part 1

by Higty

This article describes the mail sending process using the SMTP mail protocol.

by David Rogers Dev

Learn how to load related entities using the Entity Framework with simple examples

The Impossibly Fast C++ Delegates, Fixed

by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Derived work based on the article by Sergey Ryazanov "The Impossibly Fast C++ Delegates": this good solution is fixed and further developed using C++11.

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FingerPrintf: A Small Library for Quick Usage of the Biometric API, Fingerprint and Camera

by Michael Chourdakis

Use your sensors for identification and verification

Pathfinding Algorithms in C#

by KristianEkman

A comparison of Dijkstra and Astar

Visual Studio Extensibility (Day 2): Deploying Visual Studio Extension on Staging Server and GIT via Continuous Integration

by Akhil Mittal

Directly check in VS extension to Git repo and automatically deploy to staging server via continuous integration

Making HTTP REST Request in C++

by Shao Voon Wong

Example of making HTTP REST Request in C++

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Visual Studio 2013

Custom Controls in Win32 API: Scrolling

26 Feb 2018 by Martin Mitáš

How to support scrolling within your controls.

Windows

Win64

Visual-Studio

Understanding the Insides of the SMTP Mail Protocol: Part 1

9 Dec 2012 by Higty

This article describes the mail sending process using the SMTP mail protocol.

.NET

VS2013

Dev

24 Jul 2014 by David Rogers Dev

Learn how to load related entities using the Entity Framework with simple examples

The Impossibly Fast C++ Delegates, Fixed

11 Mar 2017 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Derived work based on the article by Sergey Ryazanov "The Impossibly Fast C++ Delegates": this good solution is fixed and further developed using C++11.

C++

VS2013

delegates

Always run Visual Studio as Administrator with no UAC prompt

30 Jul 2015 by Tom Chantler

UPDATE: 2015-07-30 - Works correctly in Windows 10 RTM (10.0.10240) with VS2013 and VS2015 - If you're running Windows 7, 8, 8.1 or 10 and you don't want to disable User Account Control (UAC) - which you shouldn't and quite possibly can't in a corporate environment - then you get an annoying prompt

Greg The Robot - Game Dev with TypeScript

26 Nov 2017 by Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

A shoot'n'up HTML5 game made with Phaser game framework

C#.NET Implementation of K-Means Clustering Algorithm to Produce Recommendations

25 Dec 2016 by Arthur V. Ratz

In this article we'll demonstrate the implementation of k-means clustering algorithm to produce recommendations.

Create and Send An Email Reply in C# / VB.NET

15 Jun 2016 by JosipK, Marko Kozlina

C# and VB.NET console applications that demonstrate how to create and send an email reply with IMAP and SMTP protocols in .NET Framework

Many Questions Answered At Once: Interactive Animated Graphics with Forms

22 Mar 2017 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Addresses questions on graphics, threading with UI, form development, printing and more

Music Notation in .NET

15 Jul 2018 by Ajcek84

Open source library for music engraving in desktop, mobile and web applications

PowerJSON - A Powerful and Fast JSON Serializer

2 Feb 2018 by wmjordan

This is a fork of "fastJSON" with new power to control many aspects in JSON serialization and deserialization, such as, serializing interface instances (polymorphic serialization) and private types, including or excluding members, performing data conversions, conditional serialization, etc.

Generating RDLC Dynamically for the Report Viewer Local Report

2 Jan 2014 by tetsushmz

This article explains how to dynamically create RDLC.

Lightning-Fast Nested User Groups in C#

5 Dec 2015 by Daniel Miller

This article describes the C# implementation for a high-performance user/role security principal hierarchy.

Vash - A GDI+ Flash-Like Vector Animation Program

27 Apr 2016 by Clayton Rumley

There are those who think I am crazy, and this just might be the proof.

Aspect Oriented Programming using Interceptors within Castle Windsor and ABP Framework

21 Feb 2018 by Halil ibrahim Kalkan

In this article, I'll show you how to create interceptors to implement AOP techniques. I'll use ASP.NET Boilerplate (ABP) as base application framework and Castle Windsor for the interception library.

ANNT : Convolutional neural networks

28 Oct 2018 by Andrew Kirillov

The article demonstrates usage of ANNT library for creating convolutional ANNs and applying them to image classification tasks.

artificial-intelligence

Threads, Processes, Memory Allocation, and Workstation Mode vs. Server Mode

15 Mar 2015 by Marc Clifton

What you may not realize about memory allocation and threads, and a little known thing called "Server Mode"

CppEvent - How to Implement Events using Standard C++

13 Aug 2018 by Shmuel Zang

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

Windows-Service for Multithreading with Remote Control GUI

25 Feb 2016 by J.Starkl

A windows-service which can handle different operations in separate threads and which can be controlled by a small GUI program

Real-Time Gauge with ChartJS and Spike-Engine

23 Jun 2015 by Kel_

Presents a real-time gauge implementation that can be used for building dashboards

Understanding and Implementing Factory Pattern in C#

9 Feb 2015 by Rahul Rajat Singh

In this article, we will try to understand what is Factory Pattern, what are the benefits of this pattern and how we can implement this pattern using C#.

WFTools3D: A Small WPF Library To Build 3D Simulations Very Easily

24 Mar 2016 by Wolfgang Foerster

3D Tools for the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)

Hashcash or "Proof of Work"

24 Feb 2017 by Marc Clifton

Hashcash is a proof-of-work system used to limit email spam and denial-of-service attacks, and more recently has become known for its use in bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) as part of the mining algorithm.

50 OpenGL MFC Projects in One

10 May 2017 by Petrov Vladimir

Former NeHe OpenGL Lessons adapted to MSVS-15 pro MFC in INICODE and the samples of the Joystick implementation

Server-side Data Filtering, Sorting, and Paging with AngularJS, trNgGrid, ngTable, and Web API

31 Mar 2015 by Shenwei Liu

A complete sample application using AngularJS, trNgGrid, ngTable, and ASP.NET Web API to access and display data with server-side data filtering, sorting, and paging.

WPF Custom Visualization Part 2 of some: Triggers

24 Aug 2016 by Serge Desmedt

(Yet Another) Investigation of WPF triggers

Introduction to FORTRAN Interoperability with .NET

16 May 2016 by Christ Akkermans

An introduction to the strange world of mixed language programming with FORTRAN and C# .NET code

ASP.NET Core and Angular 2 Code Venture - Part 1

13 Oct 2016 by Vincent Maverick Durano

This article will walk you through on building a data-driven web app from scratch within the context of ASP.NET Core 1.0 using Angular 2 and Web API 2.

Wheel-Road couple

20 Feb 2018 by Christian Dalle

Calculate a wheel profile matching a road profile.

Windows

VS2013

Visual-Studio

Office 2013 Style Splash Screen

5 Aug 2014 by Magyar András

How to create Office 2013 style splash screen for Windows Forms

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

SMTP Client Supporting Implicit SSL Secure Sockets Layer with OAuth2 Open Authorization or Password Authorization (2.0)

20 Jun 2019 by Uzi Granot

The attached open source C# .NET library is an SMTP client implementing implicit SSL and OAuth2 protocols. The library answers the question: how to send email message using Gmail as a server. Or, how to send email message using email server that implements implicit SSL and port 465.

Simple Event Sourcing Demo in C#

24 Oct 2017 by Emmanuel Nuyttens

Example on how to use Event Sourcing in C#

VS2017

VS2013

TCP Socket Off-the-shelf - Revisited with Async-Await and .NET Core

8 May 2018 by Igor Ladnik

Handy component for asynchronous TCP connection. With the same code it is available in .NET Core and Desktop versions.

.NET-Core

.NET

VS2013

Manipulating GIF Color Tables

10 Nov 2018 by Bjørn

Editing GIF colors without touching the image data within

3D Plaza in C# with opengl Exploration

15 Jul 2014 by Vasily Tserekh

A simple 3D exploration of a plaza in OpenGL and C#

VS2013

OpenGL

A WinRT CollectionView class with Filtering and Sorting

30 Sep 2014 by Bernardo Castilho

The article presents an ICollectionView class that supports filtering and sorting.

Using the Article Editor (without losing your hair in handfuls)

17 Jun 2014 by OriginalGriff

The Article editor does work - but sometimes it does do things the hard way, and tries to frustrate you on purpose, I'm sure...

VS2013

Hadoop For .Net & AngularJS Developers

29 Dec 2015 by Bert O Neill

Query Hadoop using Microsoft oriented technologies (C#, SSIS, SQL Server, Excel etc.)

Javascript

.NET-Compiler-Platform

Improve SPA Web Page Performance

6 Mar 2016 by DataBytzAI

Get on top of memory leaks and improve user experience when using JQuery/KnockoutJS in a SPA or SPA based Hybrid Mobile Application

Held–Karp algorithm implementation in C#

2 Dec 2014 by Omar Gameel Salem

Implementation of the dynamic programming solution for the Travelling salesman problem

VS2013

Improving on .NET Memory Management for Large Objects

8 Apr 2015 by Michael Sydney Balloni

How to improve on .NET memory management for large objects

.NET

VS2013

C# Lectures - Lecture 10: LINQ introduction, LINQ to 0bjects Part 1

19 Jul 2016 by Sergey Kizyan

10th article from my series. We will talk about LINQ in general and LINQ to objects deferred operators

WIA Scanner in C# Windows Forms

4 Jul 2014 by Chakravarthi Elchuri

How to use WIA supported scanner using C#

Automatically Translate makefile C/C++ Project for Visual Studio

25 Feb 2015 by Kewin Rausch

A tool for translating C/C++ makefile projects in Visual Studio compatible ones

VBScript

Windows

VS2013

OperationResult Class in Support of Multiple Return Values from a Method

14 Dec 2015 by Darek Danielewski

Sometimes, you just must return multiple values from a method. Instead of specifying out or passing arguments by reference, consider an OperationResult class.

A Real MVVMLight Example

1 Mar 2017 by Clifford Nelson

This is a more comprehensive example of how to implement a project with MVVMLight

How to Control TP-Link Smart Plug HS1XX

27 Dec 2017 by Alberto M.

How to control TP-Link Smart Plug (HS100 or HS110) with C#

C# Poisson Cumulative Distribution for large Lambdas

8 Apr 2020 by Gunnar S

Implementation of the Poisson Cumulative Distribution function for large Lambdas

CRUD Many-to-Many Entity Framework

4 Apr 2015 by Jean Carlo S. Passos

CRUD over Association Entity that maps to association tables

Deployment, because WPF desktop applications aren't dead yet

18 Dec 2015 by Mohamed Kalmoua

This article describes how you can deploy your application using ClickOnce and Windows Installer technology.

A Lean and Mean Un-opinionated Templating Engine

21 Mar 2016 by Marc Clifton

Based on Razor template engine syntax, a straightforward, extensible, easy to maintain implementation of a templating engine.

Creating a Cursor from a Font Symbol in a WPF Application

2 Apr 2018 by Clifford Nelson

This gives the code to create a cursor from a character in a font.

C# System.Random extensions

29 Jul 2016 by Igor Krein

A library of simple extension methods that could be useful for data generation tasks

Easy ToolStrip - Let your UserControl display beyond the Containers/Form limits (C# and VB.NET)

3 Aug 2016 by Avelino Ferreira

The easiest way to implement the ToolStripControlHost and ToolStripDropDown classes, in a UserControl, in order to display a Container/Control beyond the limits of its Parent Container and Parent Form, with very few lines of code. Let's uncomplicate ...

In Search of the Ultimate DataTable Serializer

28 Sep 2016 by Massimo Fabiano

I know that "returning DataSets from WebServices is the spawn of Satan" but...

Create Desktop UX With ASP.NET MVC (Part 1 of 3)

22 Mar 2017 by raddevus

Part 1: Master the ASP.NET MVC Project Template & Technologies (Razor, jQuery, JavaScript, Bootstrap, CSS). Part 2: Build an ASP.NET MVC app which runs in the browser but feels like using a desktop app.

Application Architecture - Grab Fried Onion Rings And Throw Spear Into Onion Architecture And Domain Driven Design

5 May 2017 by Habibur Rony

This will cover how to use Domain Driven Design in your application according to the Onion Architecture. There are short descriptions about architecture Category / Style, N-Layer / N-Tier Architecture, Template Method Pattern and Facade Design Pattern.

The Secrets of Google Chrome Credentials

30 Jan 2017 by Michael Haephrati

Chrome stores all passwords and other credentials in an encrypted database but guess what: they can be retrieved by anyone with the proper knowledge. This article will show you how.

Drawing a Basic 3D Cylinder Chart in WPF

4 Oct 2014 by Marco Bertschi

A really basic 3D Cylinder chart, drawn on a WPF canvas

.NET

VS2013

WPF

MessageBoardApp using MVC 5

23 May 2015 by Mostafa Asaduzzaman

Simple Message/Reply app using MVC 5

Cross Cutting Concerns in .NET Applications

27 Nov 2015 by Christian Vos

How to use Microsoft Unity Interception as a solution for cross cutting concerns in a .NET application

YouCar-Intel Edison Multi Modality Live Youtube Streaming Smart Car

5 Aug 2016 by Grasshopper.iics

Live Streaming Multi Modality Controlled Intel Edison Smart RC Car

Real Time Collaboration: A Quick C++ Windows Library with RDC Support

13 Feb 2019 by Michael Chourdakis

Create collaborating projects easily

C++

VS2013

Win32

Adventures in Debugging: Hosting Processes, Windows Subsystems, and Other Magical Things

1 Aug 2021 by David A. Gray

Though useful and mostly harmless, pitfalls can lead unwary developers astray.

Angular 4 Data Grid with Sorting, Filtering & Export to CSV

10 Jul 2017 by Yaseer Mumtaz

This article helps to understand the architecture and use of simple data grid developed in Angular 4.

Simple Service-Based System for Massive Data Processing with ZooKeeper-Kafka and Redis

15 Feb 2018 by Igor Ladnik

Basic infrastructure for massive continuous data acquisition and processing using ZooKeeper-Kafka and Redis

Custom Code-Generator Using ASP.NET Core

1 May 2018 by Shashangka Shekhar

In this post, we will get an overview and generate a basic level code using our database table column that will help in development.

ASP.NET Core and Web API: A Custom Wrapper for Managing Exceptions and Consistent Responses

4 Jun 2020 by Vincent Maverick Durano

This article will talk about how to implement a custom wrapper for your ASP.NET Core and Web API applications for managing exceptions, providing meaningful and consistent responses to consumers.

Smooth Zoom & Round Numbers in MS Chart

11 Oct 2018 by JL Doty

Overriding the quirky zoom in MS Chart, and scaling axes with nice round numbers

Changing Databases at Run-time using Entity Framework

18 Jul 2014 by Matthew Givens

How to change databases at run-time in a user-friendly manner.

Implementing a Basic REST Based ASP.NET Web API Service with Multiple GET Methods and its Consumption using JQuery Client

22 Oct 2014 by Mathew Soji

This tip guides through implementing a basic REST based Web API service with multiple GET methods and its consumption using JQuery client

Using Microsoft Chart in WPF

2 Jul 2015 by Bharat Mallapur

Sample project to host MS-Chart in your WPF application

Evaluation of .NET Testing

19 Aug 2015 by Ganesan Senthilvel

Stimulating journey on evaluation of .NET Testing over the years

Composite Applications with Prism in WPF - Part 3

5 Dec 2015 by Snesh Prajapati

In this article we will learn about EventAggregator and IActiveAware interface and its uses in WPF application using Prism. This is continuation of second part of article series having total three parts.

Creating A Facebook Bot Using Microsoft Bot Framework

2 Jul 2016 by defwebserver

You can easily create a Bot and deploy it on Facebook.

Visual Studio Extensibility (Day 2): Deploying Visual Studio Extension on Staging Server and GIT via Continuous Integration

13 Dec 2022 by Akhil Mittal

Directly check in VS extension to Git repo and automatically deploy to staging server via continuous integration

VS2013

Visual-Studio

Git

A C# System Tray Application using WPF Forms

17 Mar 2017 by Leif Simon Goodwin

How to create a basic system tray app in C# and WPF

Creating a Simple "scratch card" Control in WinForms

21 Oct 2015 by OriginalGriff

A simple "scratch card" like control for Winforms, where the user can reveal the image by "scratching off" a cover

.NET

VS2013

Dev

WPF TextBlock Highlighter

9 Feb 2018 by Meshack Musundi

How to highlight TextBlock text using attached properties

VS2013

WPF

Excel Add-in for Exporting Data to XML

21 Jan 2015 by Syed Umar Anis

ExcelXMLExport is a Microsoft Excel 2010 / 2013 Add-in that generates XML data from Excel sheet.

Using Task Factory to increase the performance of your web app plus using Websockets through SignalR to broadcast data from Server to Client

15 Dec 2014 by Hassan Mokdad

In this article I will demonstrate two things: First a very basic and simple code snippet to show how we can use task factory to make our web applications more responsive, the next part will be on how to use the SignalR to broadcast messages from the Web Server to all the clients connected.

WuffProjects.CodeGeneration

28 Feb 2016 by WuffProjects

WuffProject.CodeGeneration is an easy to use, reliable and powerful code generation framework

ASP.NET MVC Localization using a Database

13 Apr 2016 by Simon B.

How to localize an ASP.NET MVC application and read all text from a database while still using DataAnnotations.

Tutorial | Quick start-up for .NET core on Windows and Linux

21 Jul 2016 by Gourav Jain MCTS®

This article will give a kick off start to build an application using .NET core on Linux and Windows

C#.NET: Implementing SVD++ AI Data Mining Algorithm To Produce Recommendations Based On Ratings Prediction

1 Feb 2017 by Arthur V. Ratz

In this article, we will discuss about the implementation of the SVD++ AI data mining algorithm to produce recommendations based on ratings prediction

Dynamically Querying Entity Framework with ASP.NET

15 May 2017 by Charles d'Avernas

A ready-to-use solution for dynamically querying an Entity Framework DbContext in ASP.NET

Authoring CodeProject Articles in Markdown

27 Aug 2017 by Daniel Vaughan

Use, and learn how to build, a Markdown Monster add-in that outputs HTML compatible with CodeProject's article submission wizard.

A PostgreSQL Notification Example

15 Oct 2020 by RickZeeland

PostgreSQL notifications Windows Forms application

Weiler-Atherton Algorithm in MFC

25 Feb 2018 by Petrov Vladimir

Weiler-Atherton algorithm in MFC codes demo implementation

Enumerating All Cycles in an Undirected Graph

9 Sep 2018 by Philipp Sch

Finding a fundamental Cycle Set forming a complete basis to enumerate all cycles of a given undirected graph

UnitParser

1 Jun 2018 by User 6679439

Comprehensive unit parsing library

Recording Audio to WAV with WASAPI in Windows Store Apps

19 Jan 2013 by padmore

Getting started recording audio to WAV with WASAPI in Windows Store apps

Mouse and Keyboard Tracking and Simulator

21 Nov 2014 by CodeFate

Revision of the Global Mouse and Keyboard Library from Brian Geiman

Simple Demo WCF RESTful Web Service

20 Apr 2015 by Rahul Pawar LogicMonk

A quick look at a Simple WCF RESTful Web Service!

Windows

VS2013

WCF

Getting Started with MahApps.Metro

16 May 2015 by Mark Heath

Learn how to get started with MahApps.Metro, an open source library for giving your WPF applications a modern look and feel.

TcpComms Communications Library

27 Jul 2015 by dgb77

Library to enable simple & secure client/server communications

WPF SQL Replication Tool (Part 2)

12 Nov 2015 by Fred Song (Melbourne)

In this article, we started from Generate Inserts procedure, then go through how generates inserts SQL files with this procedure and runs these inserts SQL files to import data.

Random Name Generation Using Markov Chains

31 Oct 2016 by phil.o