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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.

XQueue - a non-MFC C++ class to manage an interprocess queue

by Hans Dietrich

XQueue implements a shared-memory first-in first-out (FIFO) queue, based on memory-mapped files, that works on all versions of Windows.

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.

Window Tabs (WndTabs) Add-In for DevStudio

by Oz Solomon

Window and File Management add-in for Visual C++

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C Language Dynamic String

by steveb

Dynamic string for the C language

decode multiPage rotate tif.zip

by LeisureBamboo

The decode and encode of multiPage rotate tif.zip

Dynamic Class Factory

by mimicry

An article about class factory with dynamic subscription / auto registration

by Emre Guldogan

A System for Simulation and Analysis of Logic Circuits

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Visual Studio 6

"Browse For Folder" dialog alike with source

5 Sep 2001 by Marat Bedretdinov

Shell interfaces in use. IShellFolder, IEnumIDList, etc.

"Do not ask again" Message Boxes

4 Feb 2003 by Nicolas Bonamy

Two simple ways to add "Do not ask again" Message Boxes to your application.

"Select Computer" Dialog

16 Apr 2001 by Igor Sukhov

The ATL and MFC versions of the class that implements a dialog for selecting users(computers) within the Windows Network.

'Copy To' & 'Move To' in Shell Context Menu.

7 Jan 2001 by Mumtaz Zaheer

This article is all about how to create a context menu shell extension. 'Copy To' & 'Move To' will be added to the files/folder context menu.

.NET Appications Automation

22 Jul 2007 by Yuriy Kyyan

An article on creation automated interface for .NET applications.

.NET CLR Injection: Modify IL Code during Run-time

7 Aug 2014 by Jerry.Wang

Modify methods' IL codes on runtime even if they have been JIT-compiled, supports release mode / x64 & x86, and variants of .NET versions, from 2.0 to 4.5.

.NET COM+ Interop Component with Classic ASP (Part I)

25 Sep 2008 by tomcat1

Call a .NET COM+ Interop component with Classic ASP.

.NET Namespace Toolbar

17 Sep 2004 by Nick Parker

A free IE toolbar that pulls up namespace and class documentation on the new MSDN site.

.NET style delegates for VC++ 6

19 Aug 2003 by Ryan Binns

An implementation of synchronous .NET style delegates in non - .NET VC++ 6.

24 Bit Color Icon in System Tray

15 Mar 2004 by Muhammad Asif Khan

An article on displaying icons with more than 256 colors in system tray

2D Animated Charts

24 Jan 2005 by darkoman

An article on creating 2D animated charts using Windows GDI.

2D Graph ActiveX Control

5 Aug 2003 by Nikolai Teofilov

An ActiveX control for 2D data visualisation

2D Graph ActiveX Control in C++ with ATL (No MFC Dependency)

8 Mar 2012 by Marius Samoila

Plots multiple data sets, interactive tooltip info, zoom/pan, edit color/width/format, annotations, print/save

2D Matrix Container with [][] indexing

5 Jun 2002 by Alex Chirokov

This article presents a 2D Matrix container with [][] indexing. Indexing works as if you had overloaded the mythical operator [][].

2D Multi-Parameter Pie Control

7 Jan 2003 by valgouss

A simple 2D Pie Control

2DStatic

6 Apr 2005 by asef

An article for drawing a String formula at a static.

2Find Toolbar for IE - Yet Another Sample

15 Jun 2003 by Mike Melnikov

Google-like Toolbar with customization from xml file and update from web features

3D Graph ActiveX Control

2 Aug 2003 by Nikolai Teofilov

An ATL/STL ActiveX control based on OpenGL library for 3D data visualization

3D Studio Max like Slidable DialogBar

17 Feb 2002 by John Aspras

Ever seen 3D Studio 2.5 Slidable DialogBar? Want to know how they did it?

3DStatic

6 Jun 2005 by asef

An article to draw a 3D math function on a static control.

64-bit electronic key

20 Apr 2009 by Jakub Piwowarczyk

This article demonstrates the use of serial number DS1990 to obtain authorized access to the application.

8 Queens Solution with Genetic Algorithm

19 Oct 2005 by asef

Using Genetic Algorithm to solve the 8 Queens problem.

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A Simple Vector Editor

5 Jun 2002 by Joseph M. Newcomer

A simeple editor to make my polygon class a bit more usable.

A 2D data visualisation class

20 Mar 2000 by Paul Barvinko

A comprehensive set of classes for displaying 2 dimensional data

A 3D-Enabled View Base Class for SDI Direct3D Development

6 Feb 2005 by Bob Ciora

Definition of the CDSSD3DView8 class, a CView-derived class to facilitate Direct3D development with SDI.

A Basic Undo/Redo Framework For C++

27 Jun 2002 by Yingle Jia

An article on implementing undo/redo functionality in C++.

A Beginner tutorial for writing simple COM/ATL DLL

6 Nov 2004 by ThatsAlok

An article touching simple issues like events, methods and properties.

A beginner's guide to Object Orientation

6 Apr 2004 by Guido Loupias

Explains Object Orientation in C++. And a little something about templates.

A Beginner's Guide to the Linked List

31 Jul 2000 by Andrew Peace

An article showing the basics of the linked list, and how the CList class operates

A beginning DirectX application using MFC.

29 Mar 2004 by BlackDice

Lets user create and manipulate 3D DirectX models.

A Better Bitmap Button Class

14 Oct 2001 by Joseph M. Newcomer

An improvement on the CBitmapButton class.

A Better CenterWindow() Function

3 Oct 2000 by Brian C Hart

This is a good replacement for CWnd::CenterWindow() that works.

A better front end to WinDiff

18 Oct 2000 by Chris Maunder

A GUI front end to a handy utility

A better Zoomin utility

17 Jun 2005 by Joseph M. Newcomer

A better Zoomin utility.

A Better(?) (Hyper)Link Control

21 Jan 2003 by James R. Twine

An article that describes yet another hyperlink control

A border for the Frame window

17 Jul 2002 by Dave Matrix

How to draw/redraw a rectangle along the window rect, when the window is activated or deactivated.

A brief discussion on how to use three of the network management functions

2 May 2004 by David Crow

A brief discussion on how to use NetShareEnum, NetConnectionEnum, and NetFileEnum

A BSTR Wrapper for Operations with Binary Data

10 Dec 2002 by George Anescu

Presenting a C++ class for correct operations on BSTR strings with binary data contents

A Button Group Control

12 May 2001 by Andrew Peace

An article showing a button group control used to create toolbar-type groups as seen in the Visual Studio options dialogs.

A Button with Rollover Behavior using C++

7 Jan 2003 by datenkabel

This class provides a button with rollover behavior

A C++ Breakout Game Clone in Less than 64 Lines

23 Feb 2007 by Ronounours

I propose a simple version of a Breakout (or Arkanoid) game in few C++ lines.

A C++ class for more precise time interval measurement

17 Oct 2001 by George Anescu

A C++ class capable to measure time intervals in microseconds under Windows OS

A C++ implementation of Douglas-Peucker Line Approximation Algorithm

3 Mar 2003 by Jonathan de Halleux

DP Line approximation algorithm is a well-known method to approximate 2D lines. It is quite fast, O(nlog_2(n)) for a n-points line and can drastically compress a data curve. Here, a fully OOP implementation is given.

A C++ Implementation of the Blowfish Encryption/Decryption method

26 Sep 2001 by George Anescu

An article presenting a C++ implementation of the Blowfish encryption/decryption method

A C++ Implementation of the Rijndael Encryption/Decryption method

7 Nov 2002 by George Anescu

An article presenting a C++ implementation of the Rijndael (AES) encryption/decryption method.

A C++ OCX for drawing pictures on any window of your Application

7 Nov 2002 by Romout

The control overwrites the windows event handler to overtake the paint event.

A C++ STL String Tokenizer

13 Oct 2001 by George Anescu

A C++ STL Tokenizer class capable to tokenize a string when the set of character separators is specified by another string

A C++ Win32 GUI library for Java-AWT-like source code

15 Dec 2005 by Gabriel Bizzotto

This library provides a simple set of classes for creating GUIs. It uses only the Win32 API with some common controls. The development is at the beginning and many changes are to be done.

A C++ Wrapper for TWAIN

7 Feb 2000 by Rajiv Ramachandran

A C++ wrapper for TWAIN. Allows you to implement a scanning interface.

19 Jan 2000 by Zoran M. Todorovic

An auto-sizing dialog used to store and display smaller child dialogs.

A Case Study about InterProcess Synchronization

5 Jan 2001 by Gert Boddaert

An application demonstrating process synchronisation and interprocess communication

A chat control based on the Rich Edit control

6 Dec 2003 by Rob Manderson

Using the Rich Edit control as a chat window.

A Checkbox Tree Control for Use in Filtering Selections

23 Feb 2003 by Magerusan Grigore Cosmin

An ATL filter control

A CHexEdit Control - For HEX and DEC number input

15 Aug 2005 by Luo Pei'en

An article on how to write an Edit control used for HEX and DEC number input.

A circular character buffer

9 Dec 1999 by David Hubbard

A circular, thread-safe read/write character buffer

A class for child dialogs

3 Nov 2003 by Chris Hills

How to put a child dialog in a dialog box

A Class for Creating a Trace Log

17 Nov 1999 by Robert Pittenger, MCPD-EAD

A class for creating a Trace log

A Class for Getting NetCard Adapter Information

10 Sep 2002 by YangTze

This class can be used to get netcard adapter information such as MAC,IP,DHCP

A class for operations with Large Integer Numbers

26 May 2003 by George Anescu

Presenting some algorithms for operations with large integer numbers in a C++ class using the STL vector container

A Class of Accessing inifile in UNICODE

25 Sep 2006 by aaa_xxx_aaa

The Win API cannot access inifile in UNICODE, sometimes, we may want to add some wide characters into INI file, so I wrote a class to access INI file in UNICODE

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 download files from the net

16 Apr 2002 by Chris Maunder

A simple class to ease the task of downloading files from the net

A class to easily generate AVI video with OpenGL and Video for Windows

26 Oct 2002 by Jonathan de Halleux

If you want to generate an AVI video from your OpenGL application, this is the class you need.

A class to make it easy to work with file names

26 Dec 2003 by Rob Manderson

Working with filenames

A class to synchronise thread completions

15 Oct 2004 by Rob Manderson

Synchronising thread completion the easy way

A class wrapper for Matlab(c) ActiveX Control

21 Oct 2002 by Jonathan de Halleux

Eases up the use of the Matlab(c) COM server...

A CListBox with automatic HSCROLL maintenance

27 Jun 2001 by Joseph M. Newcomer

Taking the pain out of adding a horizontal scrollbar to a listbox.

10 May 2005 by GauravCreations.com

Create an analogue clock with a game !!

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 color picker button

4 Sep 2000 by James White

A simple modification to Chris Maunder's "Office 97 style Colour Picker" control

A color picker dialog with a color dropper like Photoshop and Frontpage 2000

23 Jan 2002 by jack Mesic

A color picker and dropper that extends the standard Windows dialogs to behave like Photoshop or Frontpage 2000

A COM component offering Internet download utilities

22 Dec 2002 by Philipos Sakellaropoulos

A COM component written in C++ that offers functions for multiple parallel downloads, Internet cache access, URL and path resolving.

A Combobox with bitmaps

24 Nov 1999 by Anneke Sicherer-Roetman

A combo box that can be used to display bitmaps

A compact filename edit control

4 Feb 2003 by Martyn Pearson

An edit control that encapsulates compacting of filenames

A Complete Screen Saver Framework Using MFC

25 Oct 2002 by Chen Su

complete screen saver framework with an installation program.

A Comprehensive CE Class Library to Replace ATL and MFC

4 Oct 2000 by Kenny G

A collection of classes for CE that do not use ATL or MFC, plus an FTP client, database viewer, and sample application that solves beam deflection equations.

A compressed bitset class

20 Jun 2004 by Martin Walker

A plug in enhancement to the STL bitset class.

A cool bitmap slider like Media Player's...

23 Jul 2004 by jackey_xp

A cool bitmap slider like Windows Media Player's.

A Cool GDI Pattern Brush Tool with C++ Source Code

27 Aug 2003 by ucc801

A cool GDI pattern brush tool with C++ source code. You can create a new office XP style pattern fill mode quickly.

A CStatic derived class using Direct3D Retained Mode

2 Apr 2001 by Jason Troitsky

A CStatic derived class that can be dropped into an application to provide the ability to load and display 3D objects

A custom-drawn TreeList Control

17 Mar 2000 by Gerolf Reinwardt

A custom-drawn tree-list hybrid, with explanations on how the control was developed.

A Desktop Performance Monitor

31 Oct 2002 by Chad Busche

How to implement an Explorer Desktop Band that uses the Microsoft’s Performance Data Helper interface to display current performance data about activity such as memory, disk, and processor usage.

A DIBSection wrapper for Win32 and WinCE

21 May 2001 by Chris Maunder

A class that makes using DIBSections as simple as using a CBitmap

A DirectX Game: Quadrino

16 Oct 2008 by Paul M Watt

An interpretation of a popular falling block game implemented with DirectX that attempts to avoid any copyright infringement.

A DirectX Wrapper

18 Jul 2003 by arussell

A DirectX Wrapper

A Doc/View Dialog, supports Dynamic Split

21 Aug 2003 by shudingbo

You can arbitrarily add DOC/View, and all the view can be resized.

A dockable, pinnable and skinnable OutlookBar

31 May 2005 by Tony. Smith

This article is based on Ziran Lin 's Pinnable ControlBar.

A Document-View foundation for WTL. Part 1

9 Mar 2000 by Sandu Turcan

A library that provides the easiest way to get loosely coupled components.

A DOM based XML Parser that Fires Events as SAX based XML Parsers do

10 Oct 2004 by Muhammad Azam

A simple ActiveX control which parses XML documents and fires events when it encounters Elements (Root, Nodes, Leaves, Body) in an XML Document.

A drop in class for saving and restoring window position

12 Mar 2003 by Jan S. Yoder

This article describes how to save and restore the size and position of your dialog-based application.

A drop-in replacement for MessageBox()

4 Jan 2005 by Chris Hills

Other articles describe replacements for MessageBox() with extra buttons for "Yes to All" and "No to All", but you still have to write the code to handle those buttons. This article presents a class that does all the work for you.

A Fast CSV Writer Using ATL

7 Jun 2007 by callmepls

A Fast CSV Writer Using ATL

A Fast Mostly User Mode Inter-Process Mutex

26 Feb 2003 by Olan Patrick Barnes

Win32 Mutexes are slow and cumbersome, this is a fast and nifty alternative!

A Faster Tree Control

16 Dec 2003 by Tibor Blazko, René Greiner

An article about an open source and free fast tree control

A Few Classes to Work With Date, Time, Datetime and Timezone Data

9 Oct 2002 by Alex Mol

Classes to make working with time and date data in different timezones easier.

a File Switch Tabbar for Source Insight

4 Jan 2009 by Simon.W

Inject a File Switch Tabbar to Source Insight, which like uEdit or Visual Studio

A Flat Splitter Window

30 Jan 2003 by Marc Richarme

A small class that gives splitter-windows a flat look

A flicker issue in MDI applications

23 Aug 2005 by Andrzej Markowski

Provides a fix to the flicker problem in MDI applications.

A focus-sensitive EditBox Class

19 May 2003 by DavidRipple

Change the back color of an edit box when it gets the focus, and back to another color when focus is lost

A free Spell Checker with a dictionary editor program

6 Jan 2001 by Peter Pearson

An article on adding a spell checker to your application.