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by Dr. WPF

.NET 3.5 SP1 is here! It's time to break out your DirectX skills. This article provides the information necessary to get started using a new DirectX interop feature in WPF called D3DImage.

Cryptographic Interoperability: Keys

by Jeffrey Walton

Import and export Cryptographic Keys in PKCS#8 and X.509 formats, using Crypto++, C#, and Java.

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.

Conceptual Children: A powerful new concept in WPF

by Dr. WPF

This article describes a new approach by which an element can remove its visual and logical relationships to its children while maintaining a conceptual parental relationship with those children.

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Rich OutlookBar in XP and Vista Style

by Star Vega

Creating a rich OutlookBar in XP or Vista style

Multi RDP Client .NET - A Simple and Friendly User Interface for You to Work and Navigate Easily Through a Tabbed RDP Remote Window

by Jayson Ragasa

Multi RDP Client .NET is used for managing your RDP connections. It allows you to Import/Export .RDP files, disconnect all connection at one click, and connect all your servers at one click as well.

Yet Another Fully Functional ownerdraw Menu

by Steffen Ploetz

Another fully functional ownerdraw menu with minimal effort - this time based on Win32, with icons instead of bitmaps, with accelerators and tested for ReactOS and WinNT 4.0 to Windows 10

A Framework in C# for Fingerprint Verification

by Octavio Loyola-González, Miguel Angel Medina-Pérez, Andres Eduardo Gutierrez Rodriguez, Milton García Borroto

In this article, we introduce a framework in C# for fingerprint verification, we briefly explain how to perform fingerprint verification experiments and how to integrate your algorithms to the framework.

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Why it's not crashing?

10 Sep 2010 by Andrey Permamedov

Why an exception raised in timer callback function doesn't leads to process termination.

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Creating Transacted Files in Windows Vista

18 Mar 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

Learn how to create transactional vista using C# and Windows Vista (and higher) SDK.

Defining Document Compatibility In Internet Explorer 8

15 Apr 2010 by Paulo Morgado

The procedures to define document compatibility in Internet Explorer 8 are well documented here, but I’ve seen many developers and system administrators that are not aware of this...

Windows Vista File and Registry Virtualization

20 Mar 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

See in action how Windows Vista and higher versions (where UAC is enabled) virtualizes file and registry access.

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Leverage the .NET framework classes from VBA

24 Apr 2014 by Pragmateek

Introduction Following my previous article on a similar subject, Extend your VBA code with C#, VB.Net or C++/CLI, I’ve received an interesting feedback from a VBA developer who wanted to leverage the advanced support of the .Net framework for regular … Continue reading →

Requesting Admin Approval at Application Start

18 Mar 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

Learn how to request UAC elevation at application start

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Advanced Control of UAC

18 Mar 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

How to have advanced control over UAC

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GetFinalPathNameByHandle API Hangs

8 Apr 2009 by Naveen

GetFinalPathNameByHandle is an new API introduced in Windows Vista. We will look at how to resolve an issue related to its usage.

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Updating the Command Line Parser

23 Aug 2009 by Martin Hinshelwood

Staring from the original Command Line Parser v1.0 code, I wanted to be able to add multiple commands, or even nest commands. The result is a nice simple commanding architecture conducive to creating multiple commands.

A non-generic IList implementation without any Boxing and Unboxing

18 May 2009 by gUrM33T

A simple workaround to avoid boxing and unboxing while still using a non-generic IList implementation