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C# USB HID Interface

by Szymon Roslowski

Just another approach to understanding communication between HID devices and C#.

Custom Controls in Win32 API: Scrolling

by Martin Mitáš

How to support scrolling within your controls.

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.

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SequelMax: C++ XML SAX Parser

by Shao Voon Wong

C++ SAX library to simplify XML parsing

Atata - C# Web Test Automation Framework

by Yevgeniy Shunevych

An introduction to Atata C#/.NET web UI test automation full-featured framework based on Selenium WebDriver

Saving Visual Studio Settings for All Your Projects

by PJ Arends

How to use a .props file for your custom user settings across all your projects

JavaScript Event Calendar for Resource Scheduling

by Dan Letecky

Weekly HTML5 event calendar with CSS themes, drag and drop support, date navigator. PHP and ASP.NET Core REST API backends.

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Visual Studio

*.pch file missing!

15 Feb 2010 by The Zetta

Sometimes, Visual c++ users see a pretty confusing error message when they compile or build their projects. the error message says :fatal error C1083: Cannot open precompiled header file: 'filename.pch': No such file or directorymy solution was :In VS, go to Project->Options, set the...

.Gif viewer / Snipper Control

27 Jun 2015 by Pedram_Niloufari

C# .Gif viewer / Snipper control

.git and Dropbox Integration within Visual Studio

23 Sep 2013 by sumit_kapadia

Simple and free approach to manage your code on cloud with git-SCN and dropbox

.NET Code Comment Utilities

19 Mar 2015 by Peter T. Ringering

A program that makes editing code comments and XML comments easier.

.Net custom Culture with use case

6 May 2015 by Etienne Louise (974)

In this article I'll show how to create custom culture and then show an exemple of how to use it in an ASP.Net MVC application.

.NET Important Topics Summary - Code Examples

31 May 2016 by Yaseer Mumtaz

.NET interview questions and answers with real world examples and code snippets

.NET Interop Revisited

19 Jan 2011 by GPUToaster™

.NET Interop Revisited

.NET Interprocess Communication using Named Pipe

25 Dec 2014 by Amir Hamza Md. Kayes

.NET interprocess communication using named pipe

.Net Progress Bar - Single or Multi-Threaded

15 Jul 2014 by AlexF185

A dynamic progress bar control easy to use and literally plug and play

.NET Reporting Tool Tutorial - 1

28 Apr 2013 by emadns

A basic tutorial for ReportMax tool

.NET Reporting Tool Tutorial - 3

23 Apr 2013 by emadns

Using the Chart control in ReportMax

.NET WinForms ReportViewer: Non-printable Report Background (Elements)

14 Mar 2014 by Nikita D. Sinelnikov

HowTo: make the report background (elements) of Microsoft .NET Report (.rdlc) non-printable

.NET WinForms Tray Icon Implemenation with Win7 and Vista Features

23 Oct 2014 by BrokenEvent

.NET WinForms Tray icon implemenation with Win7 and Vista features: GUID identification, large custom icons, custom UI instead of the hint, etc.

2D Drawing on Windows Forms and the Use of Transformation Matrices While Demonstrating the Trapezoid

18 Dec 2014 by charles922

Use of the Trapezoidal Rule to integrate a function

3-D's of Windows 8.1 Store Background App

11 Mar 2014 by Prasanna Venkatesh . K

Writing a Windows store background app from the scratch

3D Puzzle with OpenGl and C#

20 Jan 2015 by charles922

3D programming with OpenGl and C# to create an interactive puzzle

7-Segment Time Display Widget in WPF

19 Jul 2015 by Revanth Ramesh

Futuristic Talking 7-Segment Time Display Widget in WPF

[Solved] Process With An Id Of ... Is Not Running

16 Sep 2015 by XyedBilal

URL binding failure

[tut 7] Drag & Drop points in lines

24 Jun 2016 by The Zakies

in this tut we will create a technique to enable the user to control points within a drawn line, by drawing circles around points of the line , when the user clicks a circle he would control the corresponding point.

[tut 8] Hand tool

29 Jun 2016 by The Zakies

we would create Hand_tool to pan through the drawing form, and we would use a custom cursor of open and closed hands

[tut 9] hand tool (part 2) navigator panel

3 Jul 2016 by The Zakies

we will continue the functionality of the hand tool with having a navigator panel which works as a map, we will also have a red rectangle which tells the user where he is actually viewing inside the whole form, also it can be moved to pan the form

A .NET Approach to EmguCV

25 Feb 2015 by saad_lah

Complete guide for beginner to setup EmguCV project and run first program in Visual Studio

A 64 Bit Version of ODBCTracer

7 Sep 2012 by zippy1981

This is an alternative for "ODBCTracer"

A computational statistics class

19 Nov 2013 by YOSSI ROZENBERG

A computational statistics class in C#

A Custom Numeric UpDown Control

24 Jan 2023 by RickZeeland

A Custom Flat-style Numeric UpDown Control with a simple demo application written in .NET 6

A fast and simple DataGridView analogue

18 Jan 2013 by Andrey Sitaev

Here I placed source files, binaries and brief instructions for FastGrid control.

A Few Points to Consider While Working with Literal String in ASP.NET

28 Feb 2015 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This tip is to provide an overview of writing strings in ASP.NET web applications to avoid concatenations.

A Generic ADO.NET Overlay to Simplify DB Calls to SQL Server and Oracle

12 Jan 2016 by shijo joseph

An ADO.NET Layer for SQL Server and Oracle which makes it easier for interfacing with database

A good practice for mapping TFS collections on local path

7 Jun 2012 by Mario Majčica

A well justified practice for mapping TFS collections on your local PC.

A Low Maintenance XML Settings Mechanism

14 Mar 2015 by RickZeeland

An easy way to edit and exchange XML config settings

A Micro Web Server Using WCF

7 Jul 2014 by Michael Bergman

Using Windows Communication Foundation to build a simple web server

A Pagination Solution using IEnumerable<T>

17 Jul 2014 by Marlon Hizole

An elegant approach to pagination

A PictureBox with Zoom, Grid and Rulers

6 Mar 2014 by LucaDN

Add zoom capabilities, grid and rulers to the standard WinForms PictureBox control

A simple example of adding movable label controls at runtime

23 Jan 2013 by Tarek Elqusi

I created a simple form with a button to add a label control at run time sequentially numbered; labels are movable and lines are drawn between labels.

A Simple Number Entry Textbox

2 Dec 2009 by bobishkindaguy

A simple entry box for various numbers, especially phone numbers.

A Simple RTF Print Form

1 Oct 2016 by Howard 9448490

A WYSIWYG Printer Interface for Rich text

A Simple Thumbnail Viewer Control

3 Jul 2014 by Nguyen.H.H.Dang

A very simple Thumbnail Viewer inherited from FlowLayoutPanel for beginners

A Small Class to Read INI Files

30 Apr 2012 by Nippey

This is a TCHAR alternative for "A Small Class to Read INI File"

A Tiny Custom List Control

25 Aug 2014 by HateCoding

A tiny custom list control

custom-controls

A Tool Which is Useful to Calculate the Office Work Hours

3 Jan 2015 by Rajesh Buddaraju

A simple tool which is useful to calculate our day to day work hours

A utility to measure screen area in pixels

30 Apr 2013 by Michael Rosqvist

If you want to measure something on the screen, here is a utility.

Access Master Page Controls from Content Page in C#

1 Aug 2014 by Prakash Lekhak

This article describes how to access master page control from content page.

Accessing Active Directory Objects via C# (Visual Studio)

9 Feb 2011 by Abhijit Shiposkar

Accessing Active Directory Objects via C# (Visual Studio)

Accessing Active Directory Objects via C# (Visual Studio)

22 Feb 2011 by Member 3568076

Hi,How to list all users in ListBox include cn, mobile, mail?private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e){ DirectoryEntry dir = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://ou=o,DC=xyz,DC=de"); DirectorySearcher search = new DirectorySearcher(dir); search.Filter =...

Accessing FilePath in MVC 6 via Dependency Injection

1 Jun 2015 by Mostafa Asaduzzaman

How to access files within the application using DI

Activating WRL Audio Interfaces in Native C++

7 May 2014 by Gregory Morse

Activating WRL audio interfaces in native C++

multi-threading

Add a Filter Function, Merge Function in MFC Grid Control

1 Apr 2015 by Lantert

Add Excel style filter function to Chris Maunder's CGridCtrl

Add New User Registration Information in XML with C#

14 Nov 2014 by Anurag Prajesh

Add new user registeration information in XML with C#

XML-documentation

Add User to Active Directory

28 Jan 2013 by MehdiNaseri

A simple application for adding users to active directory

Add-In for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 Console (SCVMM 2012 R2)

9 Mar 2017 by Vladan.Obradovic

Display additional properties for each VM inside SCVMM 2012 R2 console (VLAn, IP addres, VM Path, Mounted ISO, Number of Checkpoint)

Adding a Snippet to Visual Studio

20 Nov 2011 by OriginalGriff

It is really easy to do once you get the idea how, but the Microsoft documentation could be a lot clearer - so here is a simple sample with full instructions.

Adding connection string during installation

11 Jul 2013 by Purushotham Agaraharam

Setup file creation and adding a connection string custom control.

Adding Functionality To .NET Controls

30 Jul 2014 by Matthew Givens

Two ways to add functionality to .NET controls

Adding Image in the Image Control without Stretching/Compressing the Image

22 Oct 2014 by Ankur Rawat

Adding Image in the Container without stretching/compressing the Image

Adding INotifyPropertyChanged to Entity Framework Classes

14 Dec 2014 by MarkLTX

Automatically implement INotifyPropertyChanged for every property in Entity Framework 6.0 entity classes

Adding Transformation Files in the .NET Windows Service

9 Dec 2016 by Shesh Lamichhane

Step by step to add the transformation files of app.config in your .NET Windows service

Windows-service

Adding your items to Visual Studio default files

9 Oct 2011 by OriginalGriff

Adding your items to Visual Studio default files

ADO.Net Connectivity using Stored Procedure and Output parameters

10 May 2015 by Ankit Bansal MVP

This articles explains the insertion of data into SQL Database using Stored Procedures with Output Parameters. Some Bootstrapping is also used to create a good looking HTML.

Alphanumeric count up

27 Jan 2015 by HiDensity

Class providing methods to count up a string using a definable character set.

AlSayed Color TrackBar

5 Jun 2012 by Abed AlSayed

AlSayed ColorBar is a TrackBar best for professional color picker, like the one used in Adobe Photoshop.

Alternative to URLDownloadToFile function

20 Aug 2023 by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

How to download files from an HTTP server.

An alternate implementation to Paste data into the WPF DataGrid

28 Aug 2011 by Reto Ravasio

Howto Paste and not make a mess

An Easy Way To Query a Database

29 Apr 2011 by dontumindit

An Easy Way To Query a Database

An Easy Way To Query a Database

14 Feb 2011 by FZelle

You are both wrong with the DataAdapter.Why do you think there is an overload with the querystring and the connectionstring?public DataSet select_query(string query, string con_str){ try { using (SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter(query,con_str)) { ...

An Easy Way To Query a Database

14 Feb 2011 by woric

The sample code provided by Andrew Rissing is a huge improvement over the original, but incorrectly catches the exception and displays a MessageBox. (Andrew correctly points out this is not a good idea.)A better solution is to allow the exception to fail:public DataSet...

An Easy Way To Query a Database

23 Feb 2011 by PrimeCoder

Nice,How about adding a couple of other methodspublic static void Parameter(IDbCommand command, string naam, object value){ IDbDataParameter par = command.CreateParameter(); par.ParameterName = naam; par.Value = value ?? DBNull.Value; ...

An Easy Way To Query a Database

14 Feb 2011 by Andrew Rissing

The following samples should take advantage of using statements and furthermore built in features of the ADO.NET framework. Furthermore, if you open a connection, make sure you open it at the latest time possible and close it as soon as possible.Edit: While I was originally not trying to...

An Updated Batch Image Resize Tool

22 Aug 2014 by rmliu

Resize either images or canvas only, resize batch images

Angular CLI and ASP.NET Core Angular Template

1 Oct 2017 by Iman Memarpour

How to set up your environment to use Angular CLI with your ASP.NET Core 2.0 Angular template

AngularJS & Web API Active Directory Security

28 Aug 2015 by Bert O Neill

AngularJS and Web API Active Directory Security (Authorisation)

AngularJS 2.0 Getting Started with Visual Studio

5 Sep 2015 by Thinira

In this tip, we will discuss how to setup Angular 2.0 in Visual Studio and write a very basic “Todo” application.

Application Startup Permissions Validator

28 Mar 2013 by Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

This is a simple class/demo application that shows how to check whether the account that is being used to run the application has administrative rights.

Applying Attribute Routing in ASP.NET Web API REST Methods

20 Jan 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

How to apply Attribute Routing to Web API Controllers

Applying Reusable Read Only Styles for WPF Controls at Application/User Control Level

23 Sep 2015 by Ponkarthikeyan Thangavel

This tip describes about applying reusable read-only styles for WPF controls at Application/User Control level

Arabic Calendar Date to English Calendar Date Windows Form C#

7 Jan 2015 by shouvith hydrose Kerala

This article explains how to change Arabic Calendar Date to English Calendar Date in Windows Form C#.

Archive Multiple Files In Zip & Extract Zip Archive

14 Oct 2013 by Farhan Ghumra

Learn how to create zip archive and extract it without any 3rd party library

ASP.NET 5 and Ubuntu

22 Feb 2015 by Hugo Carnicelli

During this article, we are going to explore what is currently necessary to run an ASP.NET 5 website on Ubuntu.

ASP.NET DatePicker (Persian/Gregorian)

28 Jul 2014 by Ruhollah Heidarpour

Just another ASP.NET Persian(Jalali/Shamsi/Solar) / Gregorian Datepicker

web_development

ASP.NET Menu Control Issue in Chrome and Safari

26 Jul 2012 by Tejas Vaishnav

ASP.NET menu control not shown properly in Chrome and Safari

ASP.NET MVC 4 for Visual Studio 2010 Installation Errors - Incompatible with .NET 4.5 or Earlier, Upgrade to .NET Framework 4.5 latest version

27 Sep 2012 by Shemeer NS

ASP.NET MVC 4 for VS2010 Installation Errors, 0x81f40001 - This product is incompatible with .NET 4.5 or earlier. You must upgrade to .NET Framework 4.5 to the latest version before installing this product, with Web Platform Installer and MSI.

ASP.NET MVC 5 - Bootstrap 3.0 in 3 Steps

3 Oct 2014 by JoaoSousa23

This tip walks you through the steps for creating a ASP.NET MVC 5 Web Application using Bootstrap as template for layout.

ASP.NET timed page reload

13 Nov 2013 by James Gabel

ASP.Net timed page reload on button click/form submission.

Attach to IIS WPW3 process using vscommands extension in Visual Studio 2010

2 Oct 2011 by Praveen Bhosage

How to attach to IIS WPW3 process using the vscommands extension in Visual Studio 2010.

Auto Complete Control Like in GMail/Hotmail/Facebook

1 Aug 2013 by Bikash Prakash Dash

How to create an auto suggestion control like Gmail/Hotmail/Facebook to add items in list.

Auto Completion for #include in VS2010

1 May 2010 by Ajay Vijayvargiya

Visual Studio 2010, for Visual C++ projects/code, now supports auto complete feature for #include statement too!Just type in #include directive followed by " or

AutoCompleteExtender working with EntityFramework! (Reload 2015)

12 Nov 2015 by Eduardo Yost

Creating a Web User Control containing an AutoCompleteExtender for data through WCF (JSON) allowing to store the entity selected through EntityFramework. Entity object serialization from the server to the client and the client to the server.

Automated Creation of NuGet Packages

6 Aug 2014 by DannyVarod

Fast, stable and powerful creation of NuGet packages

Automatic Copying of Release Executables to a Specific Folder on a Successful Build

7 Sep 2020 by OriginalGriff

How to automatically copy release executables to a specific folder on a successful build

Automatic Version Increase/Decrease (Assembly)

24 Feb 2013 by phome

CAAV, Increase/Decrease the version segments in AssmblyInfo.cs or template files in the specified folder and its sub-folder

Automatically Stepping over STL

13 Oct 2012 by ed welch

Automatically stepping over STL

Autos - Immediate Access to Resources Without Clicking

1 Jan 2015 by tc99

Immediate access to resources without clicking

Autos Window in Visual Studio 2013

31 Oct 2014 by Abhishekv 11

Autos Window in Visual Studio 2013

Avoid default formatting when exporting data from datagrid to excel.

14 Oct 2010 by ambatisreedhar

Export to Excel,default formatting of excel,excel number format,excel date format,excel currency format

Azure Cloud Service with ASP.NET MVC and WCF

10 Jul 2015 by Mukesh Pr@sad

This tip describes how to build an application in Azure Cloud with ASP.NET MVC and WCF.

Back and Forward button for MDI Parent form to traverse through opened MDI child forms

27 Feb 2014 by Sarath Jayachandran

Badge Notifications in Windows 8

28 Jun 2012 by ROHIT SHAW

It shows how to display a badge notification in Windows 8 metro app

Balloon Message using JavaScript & CSS in ASP.NET

18 Feb 2015 by AMB-03

This is a very simple way to create a balloon message... without using any plugin

Basic MVVM and ICommand Usage Example

2 Mar 2017 by Nomesh G

Setting up basic MVVM in WPF and ICommand usage to allow operations on ViewModel from view.

Batch IDE

20 Mar 2015 by Alaa Ben Fatma

Small tool to write, run batch codes

Batch Script of TFS Checked Out Files

4 Mar 2017 by yuvalsol

Batch script that retrieves checked out and changed files from TFS and saves their paths to output file