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Introduction to D3DImage

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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Windows Vista

Rich OutlookBar in XP and Vista Style

31 Mar 2021 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

12 May 2020 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.

A Framework in C# for Fingerprint Verification

2 Jan 2019 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.

AvalonDock [2.0] Tutorial Part 1 - Adding a Tool Window

6 Nov 2018 by Dirk Bahle

How to create a new tool window in AvalonDock [2.0]

Splitter Control for Dialog

29 Sep 2018 by libbyliugang

A splitter control for dialog can auto change the linked window's position

PSAM WPF Control Library

19 Jul 2018 by Ajcek84

PSAM Control Library ported over to WPF

PSAM Control Library

19 Jul 2018 by Ajcek84

WinForms library containing the IncipitViewer control for drawing musical notes

Get HDD Serial Number with C#

10 Jun 2018 by hasan bozkurt

How to obtain HDD information with C#

Bug Finder, A Real Win32 Extensible Passive Debugger

28 Feb 2018 by Antonio Petricca

Win32, compiler independent, and extensible passive debugger

PracticeSharp (or Practice#) - A Utility for Practicing your Musical Instrument with Playback

12 Jan 2018 by Yuval Naveh

A playback practice tool for musicians that allows slowing down, changing pitch, defining presets and loops on music files.

A Simple Windows Vista/7 Gadget to Preview CodeProject's Featured Articles

1 Aug 2017 by Arthur V. Ratz

Use HTML/CSS/JavaScript/Ajax for creating a simple lightweight Windows Vista/7 sidebar desktop gadget

How to Use Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) in C++ with gSOAP

13 Jul 2017 by Chris Moutsos

How to connect to Amazon S3 with gSOAP to store and retrieve data

Event Tracing for Windows: Reducing Everest to Pike's Peak

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.

Visual Studio Design Patterns Add-in/Extension

3 May 2017 by dmihailescu

A Visual Studio add-in that inserts some commonly known OO patterns into your working project and searches your highlights online.

Consuming a Web Service .NET with VB6.0 App

25 Apr 2017 by Rene Bustos

I will show you how to get a response from a Web Service developed over .NET (version does not matter)

11 Dec 2016 by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

Did you spot any bugs today? Than this tool might save some of your time

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

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.

Searchable WPF TreeView

13 Oct 2016 by Fredrik Bornander

Showing how to prune nodes of a TreeView as a means of searching

Automatically Create Data Access Layers and Business Layers From Microsoft Access or SQL Server Databases

27 May 2016 by icemanind

How to automatically create data access layers and business layers from a Microsoft Access or a SQL Server database

SQL-Server-2005

SQL-server-2000

PolyHook - The C++11 x86/x64 Hooking Library

17 May 2016 by stevemk14ebr

A modern, universal, c++ hooking library.

Using the Windows MIDI SYSEX API in .NET

13 Apr 2016 by Steve Grundy

This article describes using the Windows MIDI API functions in a managed environment.

SSE2 Vectorization of Alphablend Code

12 Apr 2016 by Shao Voon Wong

Using SSE2 to speed up alphablending.

To And From Binary Literals

5 Apr 2016 by Mark Kruger

To And From Binary Literals for all standard .net numeric value types.

My remote debugging ideas with Visual Studio

20 Mar 2016 by Michael Chourdakis

My ideas about remote debugging and my implementation.

Extending MFC shell controls functionality

24 Jan 2016 by Vladimir Misovsky

Overriding CMFCShellTreeCtrl and CMFCShellListCtrl classes

Speech recognition, speech to text, text to speech, and speech synthesis in C#

8 Dec 2015 by Thomas Daniels

This article explains speech recognition, speech to text, text to speech and speech synthesis in C#.

WPF/XAML NotifyIcon and Taskbar (System Tray) Popup Window

4 Nov 2015 by Murray Foxcroft

Integrating WPF and XAML with the Windows forms NotifyIcon control to produce a slick, styled popup window when the mouse is moved over the NotifyIcon

LayerGenMMX

2 Nov 2015 by icemanind

Easily create Business and Data Layers!

SQL-Server-2005

SQL-server-2000

Highlight GridView rows in JavaScript and CSS

6 Oct 2015 by Fandango68

Use JavaScript to manage control layouts, formatting and highlights, without the need for Postback which is not so clean.

Undocumented List View Features

30 Sep 2015 by Timo Kunze

Use undocumented parts of the Windows Vista list view API to enhance your application.

Most Recently Used (MRU) File Manager Component

21 Aug 2015 by David Hall

An MRU Manager Component that can be dropped on a Windows Form or WPF Window and integrates with Menu, MenuStrip, Application Settings, Registry, and Windows Recent Files.

Parallel fast compression unleashing the power of multi-core machines using the .NET TPL (Task Parallel Library)

16 Aug 2015 by Bharath K A

Parallel fast compression uses TPL to achieve complete usage of a multi-core system. Fast compression compresses files nX times faster, where n = the number of processors in the machine.

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File Compare And Hash extension for Windows explorer

4 Aug 2015 by dmihailescu

A windows explorer extension for easy binary/text file comparisons and calculating the MD5, SHA1, SHA256 hashes.

Extend OpenFileDialog and SaveFileDialog Using WPF

16 Jun 2015 by dmihailescu

Customize OpenFileDialog and SaveFileDialog using a WPF Window

M3U-Copy a tool for playlists

7 May 2015 by Winfried Wille

M3U-Copy copies the entries of a playlist in the M3U format to a target directory or rewrites the playlist

Multi-Threading: Deadlock Tracer Utility

25 Mar 2015 by Chivate Atul

Tracing dead-locks in multi-threaded applications.

A Customizable Architecture for 3D Graphics Applications

24 Mar 2015 by Carlos Jiménez de Parga

Explanation of a consistent 3D graphics software architecture through a basic OpenGL application

MinHook - The Minimalistic x86/x64 API Hooking Library

17 Mar 2015 by Tsuda Kageyu

Provides the basic part of Microsoft Detours functionality for both x64/x86 environments.

Using Raw Input from C# to handle multiple keyboards

9 Mar 2015 by Steve Messer, Emma Burrows

Windows XP supports multiple keyboards, but by default, the .Net Framework will treat them all as one. This article explains how to use the Windows API Raw Input methods to support multiple keyboards from a C# application.

Customize the built-in Outlook Select Names dialog (or any other)

14 Jan 2015 by Helmut Obertanner

In this article, you will learn how to customize the built-in Select Names dialog and use different external data sources for your own dialog.

SQL-Server-2005

Wpf-Tabcontrol, saving its visual TabItem-States (Alternative)

12 Dec 2014 by Mr.PoorEnglish

Understanding Tabcontrol right enables a lightweigth solution

Web Ink/Drawing Control

8 Dec 2014 by daluu

An article on creating and using a web browser (IE only) compatible ink or drawing control using the Microsoft Tablet PC SDK version 1.7. A sample pre-built control is provided for use and demonstration.

Calling All Stations

5 Dec 2014 by KarstenK

Interoperability: Calling C++ from C#

Basic Calculating TextBox in VB.NET

27 Nov 2014 by Member 10951710

A simple extension to the original TextBox, allowing simple calculations (+, /, *, -)

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.

Extract icons from EXE or DLL files

10 Nov 2014 by Tsuda Kageyu

Extract all the variations of an icon, including the ones ExtractIconEx() can't extract.

Recursive VBA JSON Parser for Excel

24 Oct 2014 by Tim Ski

JSON parser for VBA class module, allows recursive data

A USB Library to Detect USB Devices

21 Sep 2014 by slelong

A USB library to detect USB devices, and manage Attach and Detach events

Book review : “MCSD Certification Toolkit (Exam 70-483): Programming in C#”

8 Sep 2014 by Pragmateek

"MCSD Certification Toolkit (Exam 70-483): Programming in C#” - book review

A simple C# library for graph plotting

4 Sep 2014 by Zimmermann Stephan

An easy to use C# library for quick and simple graph plotting.

Storing and Retrieving Images from SQL Server Using Strored Procedures and C#

12 Aug 2014 by Thilina Chandima

An introduction on how to store and retrieve images from SQL Server 2008 by using Stored Procedures and C#.

Wix# (WixSharp) - managed interface for WiX

6 Aug 2014 by Oleg Shilo

An article on C# interface to the WiX toolset

Save Zip File in Access Database With File Encryption in C#

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 . . .

Using the AWS SDK

31 May 2014 by netfed

A Winforms application for configuring EC2 security groups - a future winforms ec2 console

WPF: Using Color Canvas and Color Picker from Extended WPF Toolkit

29 May 2014 by Shemeer NS

Sample WPF application to demonstrate Color Canvas, Color Picker using Extended WPF Toolkit

WPF-Extended-Toolkit

Simple Web Server in c#

6 May 2014 by Pritesh Dhokchaule

T-Rex animation

23 Apr 2014 by zapsolution

Self contained EXE animation

Secure String Handling in Windows Applications

9 Mar 2014 by Selvam R

This article explains about Strsafe, Secured C run time library (CRT) and safe STL functions.

The Loyc LL(k) Parser Generator: Part 3

25 Feb 2014 by Qwertie

Lots of new stuff this time, including an (almost) complete C# parser demo

The Loyc LL(k) Parser Generator: Part 4

25 Feb 2014 by Qwertie

The ambivalent world of ambiguity, the slash, greedy and nongreedy. At the end, in lieu of refreshments, there will be an API reference.

WinForms Tab Control with properly drawn bottom tabs

20 Feb 2014 by Vladimir Svyatski

How to correctly draw WinForms Tab Control with bottom alignment when visual styles are enabled

Wake the PC from standby or hibernation

3 Feb 2014 by Daniele Di Sarli

How to automatically wake up the PC at some time in the future.

AvalonDock [2.0] Tutorial Part 4 - Integrating AvalonEdit Options

31 Jan 2014 by Dirk Bahle

Integrate AvalonEdit with text editing options into AvalonDock [2.0]

AvalonDock [2.0] Tutorial Part 3 - AvalonEdit in AvalonDock

31 Jan 2014 by Dirk Bahle

How to integrate AvalonEdit into AvalonDock [2.0] using MVVM

AvalonDock [2.0] Tutorial Part 2 - Adding a Start Page

31 Jan 2014 by Dirk Bahle

How to create a start page based on AvalonDock [2.0].

How to Inspect the Content of a Program Database (PDB) File

14 Jan 2014 by marc ochsenmeier

Get to know the files you use on a daily basis when debugging your application with Visual Studio or WinDbg.

Visual Basic 6.0: A giant more powerful than ever

14 Jan 2014 by ISpliter

When discussing VB6, we should look at the reality of the situation and not on preconceived opinions. New source code projects are made daily in Visual Basic 6.0. The paper proposes the reintroduction of Visual Basic 6.0 on the market, in parallel with Visual Studio line.

Autoshutdown Service in C#

10 Jan 2014 by Kees van Spelde

This is an alternative for "AutoShut, my first program in C#"

ExpTreeLib Version 3 - Explorer-like Navigation and Operation for your Forms

9 Jan 2014 by Jim Parsells

A Class Library for building Forms with a folder navigation TreeView and form specific ListViews that can be tailored for your application and behave like Windows Explorer. Full documentation.

Version Helper API for .NET

7 Jan 2014 by Petr Alexeev

Version Helper API for .NET – checking version of Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012 R2 without Environment.OSVersion or application manifest

C# Project on Database for Beginners

6 Jan 2014 by Hasan Habib Surzo

Class, Database Connection, Login Winform

SQL-Server-2005

An MFC-CListCtrl derived class that allows other ‘controls’ to be inserted into a particular cell

5 Jan 2014 by Christopher Camacho

A class derived from CListCtrl that allows edit controls, combo boxes, check boxes, date pickers, and color pickers to be inserted into or removed from particular cells extremely easily. The inserted 'controls' are not CWnd-derived.

HUD window 64-bit (DWM composition)

2 Jan 2014 by zapsolution

DWM composition

SqlMetalPlus- A VS Add-in to Manage Custom Changes to DBML

6 Dec 2013 by Azeet Chebrolu

This add-in adds easily accessible context menu commands to your DBML files to either apply custom changes or to refresh the whole DBML file with the latest changes from the database.

Get Full Shamsi Date in String Format with C# Class

2 Dec 2013 by A. Najafzadeh

Class used to display date in complete string format in Shamsi

Karnaugh Map Minimizer (Three Variables)

26 Nov 2013 by Muhammad M. Osama

Karnaugh Map Minimizer (three variables) using Quine-McClusky algorithm and Petrick's method.

Programming Without Coding Technology (PWCT)

23 Nov 2013 by Mahmoud Samir Fayed

Introduction to Programming Without Coding Technology

Printing the .NET TreeView Control

14 Oct 2013 by Mark Pitman

A class to handle printing a .NET TreeView control.

Extended Windows Service Controller

3 Oct 2013 by Antonio Petricca

.NET ServiceController class extension

WPF DataGrid With Excel Style Column Filter

24 Sep 2013 by Nayan Choudhary

WPF DataGrid with columns having drop down filter option (Excel style)

IRTB2

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!

Lucene.Net – Custom Synonym Analyzer

10 Sep 2013 by AndrewSmith

How to use Lucene.net search to work with synonyms

Keyword Extraction Based On Entropy Difference

9 Sep 2013 by BjutCS

Here ,we provide simple and practical keyword extraction software and dll for long text

SmartObject Class (Objective-C like Memory Management) for C++ (A substitute for Smart Pointer maybe?)

22 Aug 2013 by Chris La

This article explains Objective-C like C++ memory management class, SmartObject.

Explore 3D

15 Aug 2013 by Chris Boss

OpenGL based 3D learning software

A Simple Gateway - Proxy Pattern

12 Aug 2013 by Johan Vorster

An example of a simple payment gateway.

A Fast Priority Queue Implementation of the Dijkstra Shortest Path Algorithm

4 Aug 2013 by Tolga Birdal

Anyone needs a fast, efficient algorithm to compute the shortest path in C#? This article provides one.

An Introduction to Disqus (Pluggable Commenting System) with ASP.NET MVC 3

31 Jul 2013 by Karthik. A

This article discusses ways by which you could utilize Disqus in your web applications.

Digital Thermometer Using C# and ATmega16 Microcontroller

1 Jul 2013 by HiteshSharma

Hardware interfacing through serial port using C#

Custom Role Providers

19 Jun 2013 by Karthik. A

An introduction to custom role providers in an ASP.NET MVC 3 application using the Entity Framework for ORM.

DataGridVewTextBoxCell with Span Behaviour

18 Jun 2013 by Sergey Semyonov

DataGridViewTextBoxCell derived cell that can be merged with cells of the same type

MONGO is as SWEET as a MANGO

10 Jun 2013 by KK Kod

Developing .Net application with Mongo Db as Back end

An introduction to #SNMP, an Open Source SNMP implementation

9 Jun 2013 by Lex Li

This article introduces #SNMP and how to use it to accomplish SNMP operations such as managing SNMP enabled devices.

Fire and Forget Web Method in ASP.Net

1 Jun 2013 by KK Kod

Document describes about One way web Method creation and consumption in Traditional ASP.net Web Service.

Reflection optimization techniques

29 May 2013 by Jain, Ajay

The article presents some .NET techniques for using Reflection optimally and efficiently.

Search User in SAP and LDAP Databases or Create User in SAP

14 May 2013 by snp157

Use Bapi in C#

NetDasm - A tool to disassemble and patch .NET assemblies

22 Apr 2013 by Fco. Javier Marin

Disassemble and patch .NET assemblies using the Mono.Cecil library.

Querying Wireless Settings and Decrypting Wireless Key

14 Apr 2013 by Jithesh Chandrasekharan

This article explains how to get the wireless settings and decrypting the wireless key using the Crypto APIs.

Line Fitting in Images Using Orthogonal Linear Regression

12 Apr 2013 by Jonathan Nethercott

Describes an algorithm for calculating the equation of a line in an image using orthogonal linear regression.

Using Network List Manager (C++)

8 Apr 2013 by Jithesh Chandrasekharan

This article explains how to use Network List Manager service to identify and retrieve properties of each network that PC Connects to.