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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.

Latest Articles

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

<select> tag is removed from design by Binding dropdownlist

14 Jan 2016 by Member 7909353

I am Binding dropdownlist.My code is ...

VS2013

jQuery

<select> tag is removed from design by Binding dropdownlist

14 Jan 2016 by Member 7909353

Remove Update Panel. ...

VS2013

jQuery

.Gif viewer / Snipper Control

27 Jun 2015 by Pedram_Niloufari

C# .Gif viewer / Snipper control

.NET and Delphi Inter-Process Communication via Named Pipes

12 Dec 2014 by Yuriy Magurdumov

Calling native methods from .NET application via standard Windows Named Pipes

.NET Asynchronous Patterns

6 Jan 2014 by Assil

This article describes asynchronous patterns in .NET and how to do them.

.NET Canvas for Network visualization

4 Nov 2016 by Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

.NET language Canvas control for Interactive visualizing network data.

.NET Code Comment Utilities

19 Mar 2015 by Peter T. Ringering

A program that makes editing code comments and XML comments easier.

.NET CORE 1.0, MVC6 & ANGULARJS2 - STARTUP

24 Nov 2016 by Shashangka Shekhar

In this article we are going to explore .Net Core, Know how to use MVC6 & AngularJS2, how to manage client side dependencies with Node package manager (NPM).

.Net custom Culture with use case

6 May 2015 by Etienne Louise (974)

In this article I'll show how to create custom culture and then show an exemple of how to use it in an ASP.Net MVC application.

.NET Interprocess Communication using Named Pipe

25 Dec 2014 by Amir Hamza Md. Kayes

.NET interprocess communication using named pipe

.NET Remoting Events Explained for VB.NET

25 Oct 2015 by Greg Nutt

This is a VB.NET Version for ".NET Remoting Events Explained"

.NET to Hadoop Connection using Kerberos Ticket

26 Mar 2016 by Amit Kumar Tiwari

.NET to Hadoop connection using Keytab file

.NET Web API 2.0 Service with a Java Client

9 Oct 2014 by Louie Bacaj

Web API was introduced and was recently streamlined into Web API 2.0. This framework is heaven for C#/.NET services developers. It allows you to get a RESTful API in .NET up and running in less than an hour. As you'll see it's also just as easy to consume that API in another programming language.

.NET Works with Nest - Guide to calling Nest API from C#

14 Sep 2014 by padmore

How to call Nest API from .NET using FirebaseSharp

.NET XML Input Parameter to RESTful API & ByPassing SSL Certificate

23 Oct 2015 by Yaseer Mumtaz

XML input parameter to RESTful API using HttpClient and bypassing the SSL certificate

.NET ZLib Implementation

16 Feb 2018 by Alberto M.

Zlib compress / decompress implementation using .NET 4.5.1, with no external DLLs

.NET

VS2013

ZLib

.Sln file is not available in DNN 7.3.4

8 Dec 2014 by forccyy

Hi, I am new to DNN (DotNetNuke). I am trying to install and setup in my local. I have installed DNN community version 7.3.4 from http://dotnetnuke.codeplex.com/releases/[^] - Choosen option was : 7.3.4 - New InstallAlso I tried downloading from...

dotnet-nuke

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10 Tips to Improve Visual Studio Build Performance

24 Oct 2015 by Kailash Shastri

Tips and tricks to speed up your VS.NET builds

2 Options to Remove a Windows Service (and a Dummy do-nothing Windows Service for You to Play With)

24 Aug 2018 by simonp_ca

How to remove Windows service from Service List (not just stop/disable it, but to delete it from the list totally)

21st Card Magic in C#.NET

10 Nov 2016 by Mehedi Shams

Coding a simple magic with cards!

2D Character Design With F# And GDI+

2 Nov 2015 by Farhad Reza

We will design two interesting characters in this tip. The first one is Code Project Bob sticker and the second one is Magpie bird which is the national bird of Bangladesh.

3D L-System with C# and WPF

21 Dec 2014 by arussell

How to use C# to create WPF 3D graphics.

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

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

[tut 6] Line Drag & Drop & Line Selection

20 Jun 2016 by The Zakies

we will build an outline line around the drawn lines so we would test the mouse click on this outline to know which line is selected. and we would in the coming update build a select function inside the move tool

[tut 7] Drag & Drop points in lines

24 Jun 2016 by The Zakies

in this tut we will create a technique to enable the user to control points within a drawn line, by drawing circles around points of the line , when the user clicks a circle he would control the corresponding point.

[tut 8] Hand tool

29 Jun 2016 by The Zakies

we would create Hand_tool to pan through the drawing form, and we would use a custom cursor of open and closed hands

[tut 9] hand tool (part 2) navigator panel

3 Jul 2016 by The Zakies

we will continue the functionality of the hand tool with having a navigator panel which works as a map, we will also have a red rectangle which tells the user where he is actually viewing inside the whole form, also it can be moved to pan the form

[tut4] Draw Lines with Circle and Rectangle End

7 Jun 2016 by The Zakies

[tut4] how to draw lines & to draw different types on end shapes like rectangle and circle using C#

[tut5] form communication,multi tab program, custom cursor for each tool

20 Jun 2016 by The Zakies

Learn how to implement a tecnique of a parent form that createes and controls other forms , through the tecnique of using the tab control, also learn how to implement a menu for the tools, and how to add cutom cursor for each tool

A .NET Approach to EmguCV

25 Feb 2015 by saad_lah

Complete guide for beginner to setup EmguCV project and run first program in Visual Studio

A Barebones Implementation of the MVVM Pattern

31 Jul 2015 by Jesse Glover

Breaking down the MVVM pattern

A Basic MVC Application and UI Testing through Selenium Web Driver

30 Nov 2014 by SrikantSahu

This is a simple application developed using C# MVC and jquery for basic CRUD operations. The application can be unit tested using selenium web drivers.

A Beginner's CRUD Using WCF in ASP.NET

16 Jul 2015 by Math08avan

A simple example for CRUD actions using WCF service in ASP.NET

A Beginner's Tutorial For Understanding and Implementing Service Locator Pattern in C#

19 Jan 2016 by Rahul Rajat Singh

In this article we will try to understand the service locator pattern.

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Design

patterns

A Beginner's Tutorial On Understanding and Implementing Dependency Injection in ASP.NET Core

4 Oct 2018 by Rahul Rajat Singh

In this article we will look at how Dependency Injection works in ASP.NET Core.

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

A Class to Combine Slider Control and Progress Bar Windows

23 Jan 2018 by Cem KARACA

An article on how to combine Slider Controls and Progress bar into one class using custom draw

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 Concept for Fast & More Flexible Date Entry

8 Jun 2017 by Clifford Nelson

The DatePicker, in my mind, is a partial fix to many of the problems with a simple TextBox date entry. How would you like to be able to type “66” in a text box that takes a date and have it interpret it as “June 6th”? Or enter “FR” and have it interpreted as the previous Friday. Or enter “thanks” an

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A ContentDialog in a WPF Desktop Application

24 Feb 2017 by Dirk Bahle

In a dialog with WPF

A Converter (TryParse) Concept for Properties

15 Mar 2016 by Clifford Nelson

There is a Parse and TryParse for fields, but they cannot be used for properties. Here is a concept to create TryParse that will work for properties.

.NET

VS2013

A Convex Hull Algorithm and its implementation in O(n log h)

1 Mar 2018 by Omar Saad (IREQ), Eric Ouellet

A very fast Convex Hull algorithm and its implementation in O (n log h)

A Custom Message Box

2 Aug 2013 by Syed M Hussain

This article explains how to develop a custom message box in C#.

A Custom Model Binder for Passing Complex Objects with Query Strings to Web API Methods

17 Jan 2018 by Shenwei Liu

Custom model binder for passing query strings as nested objects or collections to Web API GET or POST methods, also updated for ASP.NET Core

A Custom TAUS Data Provider for Microsoft's Multilingual App Toolkit Using Google Translate

13 Mar 2016 by Gregory Morse

Custom TAUS Data Provider to allow increased multilingual support using Google Translate's web interface

A Dive into ASP.NET Page Life Cycle

26 Nov 2014 by Sambhav Yadav - Sam D Silva

ASP.NET page/master page/user control's life cycle from the perspective of Session and View State

A Drag and Drop ListLauncher with fold-able Groups

3 Mar 2017 by wim4you

Launch additionally a limited number of hand picked Programs, Documents or Folders from the taskbar

A Format Control String Surprise

12 Jun 2016 by David A. Gray

What happens when you have more items in your list than you have items in your control string?

A Fundamental Lock-Free Building Block - The Lock-Free Stack

31 Jul 2014 by Michael Gazonda

A Fundamental Lock-Free Building Block - The Lock-Free Stack

A Generic ADO.NET Overlay to Simplify DB Calls to SQL Server and Oracle

12 Jan 2016 by shijo joseph

An ADO.NET Layer for SQL Server and Oracle which makes it easier for interfacing with database

A generic Collection to DataTable Mapper

27 Apr 2015 by Jörgen Andersson

A high performance extension for creating a DataTable from a Generic collection.

A generic lattice noise algorithm, an evolution of Perlin noise.

20 Nov 2014 by Juan Ignacio Tel

Development of a new generic lattice noise algorithm that advances beyond perlin noise and expands the possibilities of textural noise creation.

A Generic, Fast implementation of a 2dimensional dense array in C#

17 Dec 2015 by webmaster442

A brief explanation of why 2d array is slow, and why not to use jagged array and howto overcome the problems using the dense array storage

VS2013

general

A GUI custom control with JavaScript OOP programming and jQuery

21 Jun 2016 by fede.net

The article describes the basic to build a custom HTML control with JavaScript OOP programming and jQuery

A Handy GPS Class

11 Oct 2016 by #realJSOP

A GPS class with a coordinate parser, distance calculation, and bearing calculation.

A Help Infrastructure For WinRT Phones and Apps

1 Sep 2015 by David Maw

A way to embed help pages within a Windows RT or Phone program

A High-Quality IconBitmapEncoder for WPF

11 Nov 2017 by Herbert Lausmann

An IconBitmapEncoder that produces high-quality icons, written in VB.NET and C#, WPF

A Highlightable WPF/MVVM TextBlock in C#/VB.Net

22 Jan 2018 by Dirk Bahle

Implementing text highlighting in a WPF TextBlock control with MVVM

A Journey to Factory Method Pattern

12 Oct 2018 by Vikas K Gupta

Illustration of factory method pattern among various approaches

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 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.

A Lightweight File Backup Manager

24 Jan 2015 by shijo joseph

A file backup manager with simple user interface and all the essential functionalities.

A lightweight HTML5 grid from scratch

19 Mar 2017 by marcel heeremans

An introduction as to how to create a semi-advanced extendible HTML5 grid from scratch. This really isn't as daunting a task as many think!

A Little Bit of Fun with Face Detection in Windows Phone 8

22 Oct 2014 by S.Prateek

This is a fun and short tutorial to try face detection on Windows Phone using FaceDetectionWP8 library.

Windows-Phone-8

VS2013

A Lock Free Doubly Linked List With Safe Memory Reclamation

3 Oct 2014 by SarmadAsghar

This is the second lock-free implementation (first is by H°akan Sundell) that only needs the single-word compare-and-swap atomic primitive.

A Low Maintenance XML Settings Mechanism

14 Mar 2015 by RickZeeland

An easy way to edit and exchange XML config settings

A master-detail view with Entity Framework

22 Jul 2016 by Mohamed Kalmoua

In this article, I will create a master-detail view using the Entity Framework.

A Micro Web Server Using WCF

7 Jul 2014 by Michael Bergman

Using Windows Communication Foundation to build a simple web server

A Minimalist Example of Using Html5 Canvas to Save Signature as Image Using Web API

31 Mar 2014 by Manas Bhardwaj

Here is a minimalist example of using Html5 Canvas to save signature as Image using Web API

A Month/Year Date Picker in VB.NET

3 Nov 2014 by Paul M Cohen

A month/year date picker in VB.NET

VS2013

A More Efficient AJAX Progress Bar for ASP.NET

27 Jan 2016 by wells cheung

AJAX Progress Bar for ASP.NET.

A Multi-Color, Multi-Font CheckedListBox

7 Dec 2015 by Tim Bomgardner

A CheckedListBox with dynamic foreground, background, and font

A Multiple and Selective Configuration Installer for Business Applications Using Visual Studio and WiX Toolset

14 Oct 2014 by Shenwei Liu

A sample shows approaches of creating WiX installers and a bootstrapper bundle for the deployment of business applications with multiple and selective configurations.

A multithreaded, OpenGL-enabled application.

26 Nov 2014 by Jeremy Falcon

Provides a base to use when programming OpenGL-enabled applications for the real world, rather than a simple hello world.

A n-level Nested Directory Tree WPF Demo

15 May 2015 by Lộc Nguyễn

Example of data binding for nested tree structure, and MVVM pattern.

A Navigation System for UWP Apps

20 Dec 2015 by Akash Gutha

This tip is aimed at providing a simple solution for simple page to page navigation system for your UWP apps.

A New Hash Function - ZobHash

25 Jan 2018 by KristianEkman

Can we write a new better hash function?

.NET

VS2013

A New Skin for Ye Olde GroupBox

13 Jun 2015 by RickZeeland

Creating a custom GroupBox in WinForms that supports skinning

Windows

VS2013

Dev

A Note on Angular 2 Bootstrap Multiple Apps

7 Mar 2017 by Dr. Song Li

This is a note on how to bootstrap multiple apps in a single HTML page.

A Note on Angular 2 Container Components

16 Jan 2017 by Dr. Song Li

This is a note on Angular 2 container components.

A Note on Angular 2 Deployment and Node_Modules

17 Dec 2016 by Dr. Song Li

This is a note on a stupid, brutal force, terrible, yet not very horrible method to deploy the big Angular 2's 42.8 MB "node_modules" folder.

A Note on Angular 2 Environment in Visual Studio

11 Dec 2016 by Dr. Song Li

This is a note on setting the environment for Angular 2 & Typescript in Visual Studio.

A Note on Owin Hosted Services

18 Jun 2017 by Dr. Song Li

This is a note on Owin (Open Web Interface for .NET) hosted services.

A Note on SignalR

27 Oct 2016 by Dr. Song Li

This is a quick note on SignalR.

A Plug and Play Logging Library for Dummies

20 Dec 2015 by shijo joseph

An easy to implement yet powerful logging library which requires absolute zero learning curve

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.

A PostgreSQL Notification Example

15 Oct 2020 by RickZeeland

PostgreSQL notifications Windows Forms application

A Powerful Chart Control

20 Dec 2015 by Blaž Umek

A control that displays multiple graphs simultaneously and automatically adds different scales

.NET

VS2013

A Problem-Solution Approach to Design Patterns: Extension on Demand with Decorator Pattern

10 Jan 2016 by debashishPaul

This article discusses the Decorator Design Pattern. The approach taken in this series is how a pattern of problem can be identified, analysed and solved with a suitable design pattern.

A Quick and Dirty Extension Method to Get the Full Exception Details, Including Inner Exceptions

1 Apr 2017 by Marco Bertschi