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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.
by Jeffrey Walton
Import and export Cryptographic Keys in PKCS#8 and X.509 formats, using Crypto++, C#, and Java.
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.
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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Creating a rich OutlookBar in XP or Vista style
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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.
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
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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11 Aug 2008 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.
5 Jun 2008 by Jeffrey Walton
Import and export Cryptographic Keys in PKCS#8 and X.509 formats, using Crypto++, C#, and Java.
19 Jul 2007 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.
6 Apr 2008 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.
23 Mar 2009 by Jeffrey Walton
Perform authenticated encryption with Crypto++.
1 Aug 2017 by Arthur V. Ratz
Use HTML/CSS/JavaScript/Ajax for creating a simple lightweight Windows Vista/7 sidebar desktop gadget
6 Aug 2009 by Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira
Demo for a math puzzle board game
31 Jan 2010 by Arik Poznanski
The question this posts tries to address is: Where to put value converters?
1 Jul 2009 by Muhammad Akhtar Shiekh
An article on "How to authenticate windows user using form authentication in ASP.NET?"
19 Jul 2018 by Ajcek84
PSAM Control Library ported over to WPF
10 Sep 2010 by logicchild
An article that explains how to use this library
20 Mar 2009 by SBJ
A Model-View-Controller Framework that integrates with the MFC Doc/View architecture
31 Jan 2014 by Dirk Bahle
How to create a start page based on AvalonDock [2.0].
10 Jan 2014 by Kees van Spelde
This is an alternative for "AutoShut, my first program in C#"
29 Dec 2006 by Michael Dunn
How to use power status notifications to make your applications conserve power when necessary.
10 May 2009 by DaveyM69
Allows changing of the default MIDI out device in Vista and Windows 7
17 Aug 2009 by vic_ch2000
A nullable datetime column in .NET DataGrid with DateTimePicker.
8 Oct 2009 by Syed Hasan Hyder
This article focuses on internal supply chain management systems visibility via chart reports, and provides assessment apparatus to manage and monitor activities spawned during business processes, hence paves the way for timely and precise business decisions.
15 Mar 2010 by Arik Poznanski
In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon drop down color picker control.
23 Mar 2010 by Arik Poznanski
In this article, I'll present how to work with the ribbon quick access toolbar.
4 Mar 2009 by Derek Viljoen
How to leverage LinFu (or any other Dynamic Proxy implementation) for Fault Tolerance and Failover
19 Jul 2009 by Jammer
An article showing an extremely simple implementation of CompositeWPF.
9 Mar 2010 by Arik Poznanski
In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon combo box control.
22 Mar 2010 by Arik Poznanski
In this article, I'll present how to work with ribbon context popup.
6 Mar 2010 by Arik Poznanski
In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon application menu with ribbon split button and ribbon drop button controls.
18 Dec 2012 by Lars [Large] Werner
Windows has built inn support for a lot of keyboard languages, this class makes it possible to extract that info in an easy manner and present it to screen.
21 Dec 2007 by Bruno Sonnino
This article will show how to use data binding and styles to show data coming from a Microsoft SQL database using the new object-relational model introduced in Visual Studio 2008, LINQ to SQL, allowing grouping, sorting and filtering of data with almost no code.
19 Mar 2010 by Arik Poznanski
In this article, I'll present how to load ribbon resources from external DLLs.
20 Mar 2010 by Arik Poznanski
In this article, I'll present how to work with ribbon application modes.
7 Mar 2010 by Arik Poznanski
In this article, I'll present how to use ribbon tabs, groups and the ribbon help button control.
16 Sep 2007 by Rajasekharan Vengalil
How to switch the thread that a routine is running on.
6 Oct 2008 by Modesty Zhang
Port Cairngorm 2.2.1 to Silverlight 2 Beta 2. Includes all source code and a sample application.
7 Sep 2009 by Christian Graus
I wanted to use AJAX in my VB application, under Vista.  I think it will make my charts work faster.  I don't know where to start.  How do I import the AJAX library into a windows application ? Where should I put my AJAX code ? Help, please, it's URGENTZ !!!!!
14 Feb 2010 by Irfan alam
A library for creating a voice and text conferencing application
14 Mar 2010 by Arik Poznanski
In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon check box and toggle button controls.
21 Mar 2010 by Arik Poznanski
In this article, I'll present how to work with ribbon contextual tabs.
23 Mar 2010 by Arik Poznanski
In this article, I'll present how to work with the ribbon recent items control.
4 Mar 2010 by Arik Poznanski
In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon application menu.
8 Nov 2010 by Versile
A How-To Guide for replacing the integrated ClickOnce technology built into Visual Studio, and control the install/update process using Visual Studio tools
19 May 2015 by Yohamnes Hernandez
How to free blocked files, inclusive if they are mapped in memory. Something that many tools are missing.
8 Jun 2017 by David A. Gray
Historically, ETW has been portrayed as having a very steep learning curve, along the lines of the effort required to summit Everest. Realizing its potential value, I set about to reduce the effort to that required to summit Pike's Peak.
23 Jan 2020 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
16 Mar 2010 by Arik Poznanski
In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon font control.
25 Jun 2012 by Matthew Searles
Similar to KAXAML's.
12 Jul 2009 by Eric J. Smith, Shannon Davidson
Easily detach entities when using LINQ to SQL
1 Sep 2009 by PARK Youngho
A tool that enumerates all fonts installed on Windows, and shows you the preview so as to help you code conveniently.
31 Jan 2014 by Dirk Bahle
Integrate AvalonEdit with text editing options into AvalonDock [2.0]
8 Apr 2009 by joseangelmt
We are going to enable your application to write entries in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, elevating your application when necessary.
12 Apr 2013 by Jonathan Nethercott
Describes an algorithm for calculating the equation of a line in an image using orthogonal linear regression.
30 Nov 2015 by Mohammad Dayyan, VahidJafari
A library for creating .Net Serializable Expressions to send via WCF services
10 Jan 2015 by dietmar schoder
Poisson disc algorithm: fundamental C# classes and methods for the artwork production in the area of generative art.
20 Jan 2009 by Valery Grebnev
This article describes testing the results of reader/writer locks on Windows XP/Vista Uniprocessor and Multi-core PCs.
10 Sep 2010 by Andrey Permamedov
Why an exception raised in timer callback function doesn't leads to process termination.
20 Sep 2012 by Palavos
A paradigm of Noiseless Steganography for secretely transmitting messages via Excel graphs.
20 Mar 2016 by Michael Chourdakis
My ideas about remote debugging and my implementation.
24 Nov 2009 by DABBee
Liquid Nitrogen. (he's cracked, I knew he would)
26 Aug 2009 by Martin Hinshelwood
WPF drag and drop behaviour
4 Jan 2010 by Athar Raza Faridi
Dont get upset dude [over the remark made so far].Actually ,the only thing which they are trying to tell you is to clear the concepts of AJAX [what,where and how],before even thinging to impliment it.No WORRIES... :)
22 Aug 2011 by Vladimir Ivanovskiy
This article shows how to compile and run F# code during runtime.
16 Oct 2012 by Lex Hegt
This article describes how BizTalk360 fills the gaps left by the BizTalk Server Administration Console and the capabilities of BizTalk360 V5.
27 Mar 2013 by nick.p.everdox
Usage of Intel/AMD extended processor features.
10 Jun 2014 by Anamera
This XSLT will output an Excel worksheet containing a CSV type of record collection in a more usable XML format.
2 Jan 2015 by dietmar schoder
Image sections and images: fundamental C# classes and methods for the artwork production in the area of generative art.
4 Oct 2008 by freedeveloper
Part V: Intercommunications with a Workflow instance using Correlation parameter
21 Jul 2009 by marc ochsenmeier
This article shows how to leverage a component Vista uses when showing the performance lines and histograms.
11 Sep 2013 by Globin
This is an alternative for "Improved RichTextBox - IRTB". 2.3 is out! Finnaly with some Regex Fixing and Alpha of Alphas in identing!
15 Aug 2013 by Chris Boss
OpenGL based 3D learning software
28 May 2014 by Thava Rajan
Copy and insert data at any postion in your datagridview
13 Apr 2016 by Steve Grundy
This article describes using the Windows MIDI API functions in a managed environment.
8 Dec 2016 by rerhart585
Using SQLite, leverage the create_aggregate(), and SQL's Between Operator to create a Normal Probability Distribution Histogram, or what is more commonly referred to as a Bell Curve.
11 Sep 2016 by Avatar2400
This is a simple class that allows you to have message box with checkbox and other small features.
17 Dec 2007 by alex turner
Excel 2007 does not seem to support DBF files, here is a VBScript workaround.
12 May 2010 by Pete O'Hanlon
As long as you don't live in a country which is banned under the US export regulations then you should be OK. The list of current embargo countries can be found here[^]. Code Project provides a discounted code signing certificate, available here[^].
1 Mar 2011 by Reto70
if you want to run the script in the folder where the script is store you can add the following code@ECHO %0 %*@pushd@cd /D "%~dp0"@cd....@pause@popdin most case %0 is the name of the script including the full path%~dp0 is only the drive and the path of the scriptcd...
17 Aug 2011 by Ger Hayden
This is a working example of a BLOB column on a DataGridView for a Windows Form using C++/CLI where data is drawn from an XML document.
19 Nov 2011 by User008
Drag 'n Drop asynchronous files from an external server or device
15 Apr 2012 by andrewbb@gmail.com
Includes most API functions except for graphics.
8 Jun 2012 by pdoxtader
Use DeviceIoControl, QueryDosDevice and WNetOpenEnum to get information about your system.
20 Sep 2012 by Sreedhar Puligundla
Simple steps to create SQL joins by using SQL Server 2008 Management Studio
4 Nov 2012 by AlexKven
PresentationWindows is a WPF class library that introduces three new types derived from the Window class, enabling many previously difficult to access features of windows.
22 Jul 2013 by Ron Beyer
The only solution is to turn UAC off, there's nothing you can do in code to get around this.UAC exists to protect the user from the code. For that reason the code can't bypass the user. If there was a way around this in code, then viruses or malware could bypass UAC without telling the user,...
11 Oct 2013 by heemanshubhalla
How to use Masked Textbox control in .NET
15 Mar 2014 by XSON-NEON
Hello all :)(Sorry for my bad English)Recently I've started a small application that can show live window previews using DWM. One of the features is to render only part of source window. That can be achieved using DWM API, and that is all working... End-user can enter the RECT values (X,...
14 Apr 2014 by Ankur .K. Vishwakarma
This tip shows you a T/SQL function to split a string concatenated by a delimiter.
31 Jul 2014 by Dave Kreskowiak
Sadly, this "question" is indistinguishable from any of the real ones asked nowadays. :(
27 Apr 2009 by davehamdan
A re-write of a previous article. Still using LINQ, but incorporating much more in this iteration 2 version.
18 Aug 2009 by sravan kumar surabhi, Ken Hadden
A step-by-step guide to help solve a common authentication problem faced by .NET multi-tier developers.
29 Nov 2009 by AspDotNetDev
WinZip has the ability to encrypt files and folders, and it's free. There are also other ZIP programs that will do the same. These encrypted files/folders will be kept in a ZIP file and you must enter a password to get them out. Depending on your version of Vista, you can also encrypt your file...
22 Apr 2010 by Arik Poznanski
Crash while closing application that uses Windows Ribbon Framework
21 May 2010 by Nuri Ismail
See this[^] thread. Some of the answers contain the C# version of your C++ code. You can also find different approaches there: using WMI, using shotdown.exe, etc. :)
18 Apr 2011 by Dylan Morley
Bound to be a permissions issue with Vista not allowing access to \YourProjectPath\App_Data1) Make sure App_Data directory or any contained files does not have file system attribute Read-only set. 2) Make sure the user account you are attempting to connect with has modify control over...
7 Aug 2011 by Dalek Dave
In order to remove this question from the Unanswered list...Here[^] is a Tip/Trick for the solution.
15 Aug 2011 by Caner Korkmaz
How to open the Internet browser from code.
18 Aug 2011 by thatraja
Given below is code for opening the Internet browser programmatically in VB 6 and VB.NET.VB 6Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias _ "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, _ ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As...
6 Mar 2012 by Tejas Vaishnav
I think you need to update your .net framework version same as your windows 7 have.it might solve your problem.