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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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by Star Vega
Creating a rich OutlookBar in XP or Vista style
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.
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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19 Oct 2010 by "Fish" (David B. Trout)
Simple parsing of VS_VERSIONINFO version information strings displayed in an XP-style file-properties "Version" tab
11 Dec 2010 by #realJSOP
Scrape the My Articles page here on CodeProject to keep an eye on your articles.
8 Mar 2009 by Đonny
This article introduces and describes a framework that allows the creation of managed plug-ins for the Total Commander file manager.
22 May 2005 by .rich.w
An MFC implementation of a DNS class, it can retrieve multiple IPs and hostnames.
15 Nov 2010 by 10Tec, Sergey Gorbenko
Tool for creating MS Visual Studio documentation files - XML Summaries, HxS/MSHC help solutions and manuals.
23 Sep 2007 by [ICR]
How to create an application that consists primarily of a tasktray icon
26 Feb 2007 by _oti
A gadget that helps you control your breathing and water consumption
2 Dec 2013 by A. Najafzadeh
Class used to display date in complete string format in Shamsi
7 Jun 2014 by A. Najafzadeh
Saving zip files in access database with encrypting bytes when file saved in access database and decrypting bytes when extracting files from database . . .
13 Sep 2004 by aakaab
OOP aspects of JavaScript programming language.
13 Feb 2007 by Aaron Sulwer
Code and example showing how to update the Assembly Version.
29 Oct 2008 by Abd Allah Diab
A library that lets you easily manipulate your drawings
9 Nov 2012 by Abdul Quader Mamun
To develop scalable applications, effective paging is essential. Devoid of smart and effective paging and sorting to handle thousands of thousand data takes extra time and system resources.
16 Aug 2012 by Abdul Quader Mamun
Framework makes application more organized and efficient way to coding. It is helpful for newly assigned developer to understand code structure within a short time. It is essential for large application.
29 Nov 2009 by Abhijit Jana
This article describes details of IIS configuration, Virtual Directory creation, Application Pool creation, Application Pool settings, IIS request processing for ASP.NET, etc.
6 May 2010 by Abhijit Jana
Describes all debugging features like Breakpoints, DataTips, Watch Windows, Multithreaded Debugging, Parallel Program Debugging and IntelliTrace Debugging
3 Nov 2009 by Abhishek Sur
Using this article you will get the basic idea of how you could use NDepend to control/analyze your application. It allows to apply design rules and refactor code.
14 Nov 2004 by ACorbs
A fully customizable ListView control, where each row is a control.
17 Jul 2008 by Adam Berent
How to disable Windows themes to ensure uniform application appearance acrross all versions of Windows.
5 Jul 2008 by AdamNajmanowicz
The article describes how to get a thumbnail of a Website in .NET Framework 2.0+ without launching a fully interactive WinForms application.
18 Jan 2008 by Adnan Aman
Callback is a lightweight technique used to call server side methods asynchronously from JavaScript without any postback and reloading/rendering of unnecessary parts of page and unnecessary code.
2 Apr 2011 by Adrian Alexander
Make your life easier by inserting a Presentation Model layer (aka ViewModel) between your domain-model collection contents and template-generated WPF objects.
28 Oct 2008 by Adrian Pasik
This article will get you started in building your own multi-control components without using the UserControl class.
10 Feb 2009 by Adrian Pasik
In this article, I will show you a technique for building multi-control components using the IExtenderProvider.
18 Apr 2006 by Adrian_Moore
An introduction to Microsoft's Peer-to-Peer Collaboration technology in Windows Vista.
1 May 2006 by Adrian_Moore
Inviting People Near Me using Microsoft's Peer-to-Peer Collaboration technology in Windows Vista.
24 May 2006 by Adrian_Moore
Contact Management using Microsoft's Peer-to-Peer Collaboration technology in Windows Vista.
3 Mar 2009 by afoxster
A VB version plus enhancements to "Manual reordering of items inside a ListView".
9 Oct 2008 by AFSEKI
This library provides XML based dynamic object mapping which can be used while designing dynamic data, configuration and business layers.
18 Feb 2007 by AhmedEssamNaiem
Using Vector and double linked list to create trees
24 Aug 2006 by AhmedEssamNaiem
external.menuArgument is very useful property but it can be used as a tool to help hacker to get quick information about your page and application
14 Nov 2009 by Aidan Follestad
Allows you to quickly create, edit, and delete file associations in your registry. A file extension's default icon, description, executable application, etc.
13 May 2008 by aisha.ansari
post office protocol to retrieve mails
12 Jan 2008 by ajalilqarshi
This article covers calling Java functions from C using JNI. It also covers passing/returning simple parameters, arrays, and structure arrays in Java functions.
19 Jul 2018 by Ajcek84
WinForms library containing the IncipitViewer control for drawing musical notes
19 Jul 2018 by Ajcek84
PSAM Control Library ported over to WPF
15 Jan 2009 by akshayswaroop
This article explains the intricacies of implementing a custom tracking service in Windows Workflow Foundation.
11 Jul 2006 by Al Alberto
Communication options with WCF - Part 1.
13 Sep 2004 by Al Gardner
Making your application Power Aware, in .NET.
5 Jun 2007 by Alain Rist
Enable Aero glass with your native (WTL) applications and keep backwards compatibility
11 Nov 2007 by Alain Rist
Featuring cell menu, in-place editor, single control and split dialogs, Vista shell and Mobile file controls and selection dialogs
18 Feb 2009 by Alain Rist
OOo::DocWindow and WTL::COOoCtrl classes to work on any Microsoft-Office document, and Open Office SDK integration in Visual Studio/VCExpress 2005/2008
12 Apr 2010 by Alain Rist
Including a Ribbon UI Implementation Guide with examples and a dual UI enabled legacy application
28 Feb 2010 by Alan Burkhart
A thesaurus based on data from the WordNet database, easily implemented
9 Jul 2012 by Alan Burkhart
Quick and dirty Accordion control for WinForms in about 50 lines of code.
9 Jan 2013 by Albara Hakami
A Windows Forms application to share a whiteboard with many clients with only one drawer, in a gamy way.
7 Jan 2008 by alberich123
Remote control startup and shutdown of a server automatically by several clients, to have the server running only if the clients are active. Uses Wake On Lan, Windows Services, and .NET Remoting.
20 Jul 2005 by Albert Pascual
I wrote this short article to improve your ASP.NET application Sessions using Cache.
3 Mar 2009 by Alden John Snow
This project demonstrates what is likely the fastest way to upload one of those fixed width reports from a mainframe to a SQL server table.
22 May 2008 by Alex C. Punnen
The Command Pattern and Chain of Responsibility for implementing a plug-in Thread Pool library.
1 Sep 2007 by Alex Flood
Using the Speex speech codec with the .NET framework
12 Aug 2012 by Alex Fotios
How to enumerate and mute all audio capture endpoints using Core Audio API
16 Feb 2007 by alex turner
Exsead Service Manager is an Open Source (BSD Style License) Windows Service which launches anything via the use of scripts, it is just being released as Open Source, here is more about it.
17 Dec 2007 by alex turner
Excel 2007 does not seem to support DBF files, here is a VBScript workaround.
14 Mar 2008 by Alex_1
A command line GAC installer that removes assemblies even if they are installed by an MSI.
1 May 2008 by alexander suresh
NDIS 6.0 miniport driver for realtek 8168/8169/8111/8110 family of gigabit ethernet controllers
11 Dec 2012 by Alexander Wieser
The Spectre Framework is an attempt to introduce HTML5 as a first class citizen UI language for CLR based applications.
10 Apr 2005 by Alexandru Ghiondea
Describes how to build forms that fade-in when they load.
31 Oct 2005 by Alexandru Ghiondea
A histogram control for displaying your data.
2 Dec 2008 by alexdresko
A simple two line technique that can be used in just about any application
22 Jul 2009 by Alexei Prokudin
This is an implementaion of SL 3.0 DropDown Menu like Application MainMenu
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.
9 Oct 2008 by alexlevocitakahashi
This is a 3 step sample to include a Smart-Tag in your UserControl
24 May 2007 by alhokail
This is a control that takes a starting point and an ending point as objects and draws a line between them
24 Jul 2008 by Ali Daneshmandi
Persian Date Calendar Gadget for Windows Vista!
6 Dec 2007 by Ali Ozgur
Describes making of an external tools add-in using ProcessStartInfo and Process classes in System.Diagnostics
13 Feb 2008 by Ali Ozgur, Tolga Kurkcuoglu
Describes how to develop a custom Jira client by using PragmaSQL add-in support
15 Jan 2009 by Ali Ozgur
Writing NHibernate Level 2 caching related tests by utilizing a custom log4net appender.
27 Feb 2008 by Ali Rafiee
Using this class, you can broadcast a message to windows without having to know their handle. You can also broadcast the same message to multiple windows at the same time.
24 Sep 2007 by Ali Tavakol
This article describes the CJalaliCalendar class, which is useful for working with the Iranian Jalali (Shamsi) calendar.
1 Nov 2009 by Ali Tavakol
Fast, real, and easy to connect to your application.
7 Nov 2009 by Ali Tavakol
Fast, beautiful, real and easy to connect to your application
19 Mar 2008 by Alireza . Shirazi
An article to demonstrate how to get system hardware information such as CPU ID, Hard Disk serial number and so on
7 Aug 2009 by Allen _ Wang
Calculating the workload for speech language pathologists is a very complex process. A systematic approach has to be developed in order to calculate the workload and setup a standard.
12 Oct 2010 by Allen C. Copeland Jr
Gives an example of code to arbitrarily iterate through the elements of a .NET Array using an iterator in C#
8 Apr 2009 by alrh
A WPF TaskDialog control written in C# that simulates the Vista TaskDialog
8 Apr 2009 by Altaf Al-Amin
Application Virtualization provides a method to deploy and manage applications on client computers without needing to install the applications locally on each client computer.
8 Dec 2008 by Amarnath S
An article on how to use GDI+ methods for displaying 16-bit raw images.
13 Jul 2009 by amatecki
The article describes how to use the Microsoft's UPnP Control Point API for finding and controlling UPnP devices, and includes a description of simple library to facilitate the application of Control Point API in your own programs, together with an example of MFC and WinForms applications.
13 Feb 2009 by amattice
Date Format function for VBScript / Classic ASP
28 May 2008 by Ameet Parse
How to use SMO to copy database schema and data using C#.
30 Dec 2007 by Amer Chaudhry
.NET and J2EE interoperability for .Net Developers
1 Aug 2007 by Amir Emamjomeh
Helpfull control for solving a shared equation in textboxes.
4 Aug 2008 by Amir Emamjomeh
A simple example of how to classify data using genetic algorithm and VB.Net
20 Dec 2010 by Amit Kumar Dutta
Providing a ControlTemplate so that the Tab Header can be editable
2 Nov 2010 by Amit Ranjan
Displays process details and modules attached .
14 Sep 2008 by AmitDey
A Tutorial to develop a driving simulator using XNA Game Studio 2.0
15 Dec 2007 by ammar_shaker
7 May 2006 by Amol Malpani
Deploy windows application without VS IDE using ClickOnce
9 Oct 2010 by amr azab
Simple animated loading text, like last MSN messenger, show animation and transparent mask in WPF
22 Dec 2012 by Anders Dalvander
An introduction to RPC programming. A simple RPC client/server application is explained.
30 Dec 2007 by Anders Revsgaard
No matter how well you design your system, a distributed SOA application is always complex. When a SOA application fails, it can be difficult to track down the cause of the problem and the Web service where the error occurred. To handle this difficulty, you need a logging system such as UptoLog.
30 Dec 2007 by Anders Revsgaard
No matter how well you design your system, a distributed SOA application is always complex. When a SOA application fails, it can be difficult to track down the cause of the problem and the web service where the error occurred. To handle this difficulty, you need a logging system such as UptoLog.
8 Aug 2007 by Andre Ladeira
A class to create a NT service with a few lines of code
2 Jun 2008 by Andrea_86
A small introduction to load Virtual Earth Maps into C#
21 Dec 2006 by Andreas Loeffler
How to check for new program versions using XML / PAD files.
27 Feb 2007 by Andrei Belogortseff
How to control the execution level of Vista applications
25 May 2007 by Andrei Belogortseff
A reusable DLL that uses code injection to launch a non-elevated application from an InnoSetup script
29 Oct 2007 by Andrei Smolin
This article describes the ways a VB.NET developer can create a COM Add-in for Microsoft Office 2000, 2002 (XP), 2003, and 2007 in order to customize Office applications including adding UI elements and event handling.