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

C++

WinXP

Vista

Windows

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.

Invisible Ink

24 Aug 2017 by Daniel Vaughan

Using steganography to conceal text within a document or watermark a code file, using a whitespace encoder. Hide text in plain sight!

Your Own Quadrics in OpenGL MFC

20 Nov 2017 by Petrov Vladimir

The alternative Quadrics in OpenGL MFC for your Own design and Universal Polyhedron Procedure.

Weiler-Atherton Algorithm in 3D

11 Mar 2018 by Petrov Vladimir

Weiler-Atherton algorithm in 3D codes demo implementation

Desktop Screen Capture on Windows via Windows Desktop Duplication API with Drawing of Cursor's Image

2 Aug 2016 by Evgeny Pereguda

Simple article about using of Desktop Duplication API for capture desktop screen WITH image of cursor

General Purpose MultiSlider

26 May 2017 by John Trinder

Comprehensive Multi-Slider(-Range) that can add, delete and move arrows (thumbs)

Hosting .NET Core Components in Unmanaged C/C++ Process in Windows and Linux

4 Feb 2019 by Igor Ladnik

Compact infrastructure for custom hosting of .NET Core component in unmanaged C/C++ code with reciprocal methods calls between the parts running in Windows and Linux. Section Threads and Processes

Lee Algorithm Mazesolver

3 Mar 2024 by Shao Voon Wong

Lee Algorithm Mazesolver in MFC and Direct2D

Proper Bash Scripting on Windows: Associate SH Scripts to WSL (Windows 10) (Enable drag-and-drop to .sh) (+other Linux Executables)

28 Jun 2018 by Alex the Green Apple

Guide to properly set up Windows 10 for Shell scripting

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (7 of N)

29 Nov 2017 by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 7 Saving journal entries in the file system

Win10

VS2013

UWP

Communicating With a Direct2D Graphics Thread

27 Jun 2016 by Ben Aldhouse

How I stopped worrying and learned to love Direct2D.

Excel Search Tool (Macro)

12 Jun 2017 by LukeCodes

This is a simple macro script to search and retrieve individual cells in an Excel document.

Take three tablets and call me in the morning - the Chuwi Hi12

28 Feb 2017 by OriginalGriff

The Nexus 7, the Amazon Fire 7 inch, and the Chuwi Hi12. A personal review.

Win10

Android

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (4 of N)

27 Nov 2017 by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 4 Adding Windows Controls (Building the DailyJournal app)

Win10

UWP

UpdaterApp - a Library for Easy Update

26 Sep 2019 by William Costa Rodrigues

This article explains an easy method to download and update your WinForms application

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (6 of N)

28 Nov 2017 by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 6 Programmatically Adding Tabs (Pivot) for Multiple entries in DailyJournal (includes CommandBar and Menu concepts)

Win10

UWP

One or More Network Protocols are Missing on this Computer

16 May 2016 by Sibeesh Passion

One or more network protocols are missing on this computer

Win10

Texture Mapping in OpenGL using Class CImage

5 Aug 2016 by Petrov Vladimir

Texture Mapping in OpenGL from any Image File in any format using Class CImage(just call the File Name).

Disabling Fast Startup in Windows 10

20 Aug 2016 by OriginalGriff

Fast startup in Win10 seems to conflict with some apps, on some machines: I've seen it affect Chrome and Live Mail for example, as well as making shutdown a very long process on some laptops. But it's not obvious where the control for this is, hence this tip.

Win10

Animation Editor - Bring Cartoon Color to Your Otherwise Drab Covid World

16 Jul 2020 by Christ Kennedy

Combine your own sprites with any MP4 you choose using this Animation Editor

Win10

Dev

graphics

Determine Time Since Last Logon

8 Jun 2021 by Derell Licht

Find logon time on Windows 10

C++

Win10

MinGW

UWP Form Validation with Calcium

22 Jan 2017 by Daniel Vaughan

Implementing synchronous and asynchronous form validation for XAML based apps.

Pull-to-refresh on a Windows 10 UWP

29 Oct 2015 by BC3Tech

Pull-to-refresh on a Windows 10 UWP

Win10

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (5 of N)

28 Nov 2017 by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 5 Adding Tabs (Pivot) For Multiple Journal Entries

Win10

UWP

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (12 of N)

12 Dec 2017 by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 12 Working with the ListView - Setting up ListView style via XAML, using data binding and anonymous types in C#.

Win10

VS2013

UWP

Exploring Computational Number Theory (Part 3)

26 Mar 2018 by William Hey

Factoring classic integers

The Next Logical Step Using Azure Functions - How to Integrate a Native DLL via P/Invoke ([DllImport])

10 Feb 2020 by Steffen Ploetz

YES, you can - use native DLLs in your Azure Functions via P/Invoke ([DllImport]) as you already know it from .NET Framework, and safe the code you have developed and maintained for decades with much effort and patience.

Fixing Unregistered .OCX Files in Running Legacy Application on Windows 10 (64-bit)

18 May 2022 by Southmountain

How to install and register .OCX components for legacy application

C++

Win10

ActiveX

Building Your First App for Windows 10 IoT using C#

11 Feb 2016 by Martin Gmuca

Quick guide to develop first app for Windows 10 IoT core

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.

Getting All "Special Folders" via VB.NET

12 Apr 2016 by Jalapeno Bob

A VB.NET version of Ray Koopa's 21 Mar 2016 article, Getting All "Special Folders" in .NET

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.

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (11 of N)

7 Dec 2017 by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 11 LoadFileFromStorage - When changes from this chapter are complete you'll have an app which saves all entries and loads them from files.

Creating a Settings Screen for UWP with Codon

29 Mar 2019 by Daniel Vaughan

Create a dynamic settings screen for your UWP app. Add a setting with a single line of code.

Develop Angular2 Application using Visual Studio Code - 2

12 Nov 2016 by NguDeveloper

Angular2 + Webpack web application using VS Code step by step

Sprite Editor 2019: My Little Gymnast

24 Jan 2019 by Christ Kennedy

Draw multiple sprites of different appearances with a single instance of classSprite

Reconnect Windows 10 VPN Automatically

5 May 2020 by Marcus Müller

Use Windows 10 build-in tools to configure VPNs for automatic reconnection after a connection is lost

Jump Start to Build Diligent Engine

23 Jun 2021 by Southmountain

How to smoothly build Diligent Engine on Windows 10 with Visual Studio 2019

C++

Win10

VS2019

Fixing Inconsistent Stroke Width of Chinese Characters

29 Jan 2018 by Shao Voon Wong

Fixing Inconsistent Stroke Width of Chinese Characters

RaspberryPi2 Server-ASUSlaptop Client, Blocking Socket, 2 Fonts

11 Oct 2015 by Member 11246861

Wifi communication between RaspberryPi2 and Laptop ASUS: fonts English, Russian.

How to cast a parameter given by reflection?

2 Feb 2016 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Perhaps you are missing the whole idea of reflection. And the type cast. Also you need to understand that in OOP there are compile-time and runtime types.What is type cast? In case of reference type, including a boxed type, you don't change the object itself at all. Normally, you up-cast it;...

Win10

LevelDB for UWP Applications

18 Mar 2016 by Zohaib Sibte Hassan

Getting started on using LevelDB for your UWP application

How do i create a desktop shortcut to a vs solution to run as administrator in windows 10?

8 Mar 2016 by OriginalGriff

You can only set executables as "run as Admin", so you need to create a new shortcut, and point it at the EXE file. Add the path to the solution as a parameter to teh exe, and set the "start in" folder to the solution folder.Then you can set the "Advanced" option to "run as Admin".So for...

Win10

Windows

Visual-Studio

Atlwinverapi.h(712): error C3861: 'lcmapstringex': identifier not found

12 Aug 2017 by Member 13358397

1. Search for definitions of _WIN32_WINNT in the current project files, if there are some of them, erase them. 2. Add StdAfx (header and source) files in the project. 3. In StdAfx.h define the following macros: #define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0A00 #define _ATL_APARTMENT_THREADED #define...

Win10

Lastwritetimeutc difference in 2 copies of a file

4 Apr 2019 by Richard Deeming

The most likely cause is that your HDD is formatted with NTFS, whereas your USB stick is formatted with FAT. The MSKB article[^] doesn't seem to exist any more, but according to this StackOverflow answer[^]: Quote: File time stamps on FAT drives are rounded to the nearest two seconds (even...

Win10

Visual-Studio

How do I get java and .NET version information in shell script

31 Jul 2019 by k5054

The default java installation for ubuntu is openjdk, not the version from Oracle. This means that java -version shows $ java -version openjdk version "11.0.3" 2019-04-16 OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.3+7-Ubuntu-1ubuntu218.04.1) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build...

Win10

Linux

How can I open several consecutively clicked files in one istance of an app?

29 Sep 2019 by OriginalGriff

That's complicated, because Windows isn't set up to do that for you - apps should accept a command line argument, but once they are running you can't add to or otherwise change that collection. So your app has to be "aware": when it starts, it checks for and existing instance (which is pretty...

Win10

How do I insert the photo in MS acess using VB

24 Apr 2020 by OriginalGriff

Never concatenate strings to build a SQL command. It leaves you wide open to accidental or deliberate SQL Injection attack which can destroy your entire database. Always use Parameterized queries instead. When you concatenate strings, you cause...

Win10

How do I insert the photo in MS acess using VB

24 Apr 2020 by MadMyche

Besides the SQL Injection vulnerability above... I don't believe that the OleDB class supports named parameters in the query; they each should be replaced with a ? (question mark) and then they need to be added in order. I hodgepodged your code...

Win10

Is there a way to display the symbol of the poker card suits (hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades) in C?

10 May 2020 by Maciej Los

Take a look at MSDN documentation: _setmode | Microsoft Docs[^] // crt_setmodeunicode.c // This program uses _setmode to change // stdout to Unicode. Cyrillic and Ideographic // characters will appear on the console //(if your console font...

Win10

Why is my output not correct when utlizing cout<<hex

14 Jul 2020 by Patrice T

Quote: Why is my output not correct when utlizing cout

C++11

Win10

How to use command-line to create a batch file that schedules daily machine restarts in windows

2 Jul 2021 by RickZeeland

You probably need the full path, e.g. C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe

How can I get VS2022 to build an exe for win10

21 Feb 2024 by OriginalGriff

Check your build type: if you are running a 32 bit system (Win 10 or 11) and building for a 64 bit EXE file, it won't work. Then check it running it under the debugger rather than executing an EXE directly: that'll tell you if it works at all,...

Win10

Visual-Studio

Starting Modern / Universal App Maximized?

5 Nov 2015 by Suvendu Shekhar Giri

You can do this by setting ApplicationView.PreferredLaunchWindowingMode to ApplicationViewWindowingMode.FullScreenReference:How to maximise a Windows 10 Universal Application's window to full screen when running on a desktop?[^]Hope, it helps :)

Win10

How to Build a Simple Toast Notification in #UWP Apps? (Part 1)

21 Jan 2016 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to build a simple Toast Notification in #UWP apps? (Part 1)

BLE on windows 10 desktop

10 Apr 2016 by Andrea@Favero

I need to write an application on Windows 10 desktop, to test and develop some embedded products with BLE. I know that BLE is more mature on iOS and Android (and even on Windows Phone), but we are used to Windows Desktop applications, developed in Visual Studio 2015, in c#.I already...

Win10

Bluetooth

UWP

BLE on windows 10 desktop

10 Apr 2016 by Andrea@Favero

Update: I found the way to include the Windows 10 runtime.Add a reference to C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\UnionMetadata\Windows.winmdThanks the same :-)

Win10

Bluetooth

UWP

Getting Transducers Over LAN

13 Apr 2016 by Member 11246861

Within LAN, laptop gets signals from microcomputer and microcontroller using TCP/IP and SPI

UWP and development on Xbox One

6 May 2016 by Simon Jackson

A break down on the different modes of Xbox One development and clear direction of what is possible with the new UWP Retail unlock mode. Enable all devs to sideload and develop on the Xbox One UWP Platform

I want install multiple windows store apps through windows store

19 May 2016 by Richard MacCutchan

See Launch the Windows Store app[^].

Win10

automation

Command prompt commands ( windows )

28 May 2016 by Patrice T

Your question is just abuse. From the question, one can see you have not even Googled.Your main effort is asking the question.At least use Google or Bing and if the first try don't work, try to formulate the request differently a couple times.

Win10

Windows

cmd

Command prompt commands ( windows )

28 May 2016 by PIEBALDconsult

Getting the answer yourself is a lot easier than posting a question here:f:\>help copyCopies one or more files to another location.COPY [/D] [/V] [/N] [/Y | /-Y] [/Z] [/L] [/A | /B ] source [/A | /B] [+ source [/A | /B] [+ ...]] [destination [/A | /B]] source ...

Win10

Windows

cmd

Windows 10 - UWP Hello World Apps

24 Jun 2016 by Santhakumar M

Understand the Universal Windows platform, prerequisites. setting up the environment, and so on

Win10

Unable to finde string finctions like right, left and mid in WP VB.NET

14 Jul 2016 by OriginalGriff

Try:Dim var1 as String="123456789"Dim var2 as String = var1.Substring(3, 3)

Win10

Win8

string

Problem using flip view in windows10 app

18 Jul 2016 by aamir_shaheen

helo, I am trying to add some images in flip view in windows10 app (VB.NET). the code works successfully but it does not show the image in flipview but only caption on the top left corner on flipview,what I am missing. code is here Dim napathme As String =...

Win10

Windows

How do I make a yes or no question with different outcomes depending on input?

7 Sep 2016 by Garth J Lancaster

you're doing a lot of console.readline(s) there ... are you sure you need that many ? how about something like (using one variable to hold the answer, instead of one for yes and no)Dim answer As StringConsole.WriteLine("Hello, Would you like to know why programming is valuable? Yes or...

Basic

Win10

Visual-Studio

Is there a USB signal register with time stamp?

5 Jan 2017 by Jochen Arndt

Initial device detection is performed by USB hubs. When a device is connected to a downstream port of a hub, it changes the data line level which is detected by the hub, stored, and signaled to the host. The host then communicates with the hub to perform further initialisation of the device....

Win10

A Foldable Content Control for UWP

8 Jan 2017 by Nuwan Karunarathna

This a foldable content control for UWP platform.

Rename files with dot in name using batch script windows

22 Feb 2017 by Graeme_Grant

Here is a resource that will help you: Top 10 DOS Batch tips [^] - see tip 9This Command Reference[^] will come in handy too. :)

Win10

batch

scripting

Bluetooth low energy - windows programming

26 Jun 2017 by Jochen Arndt

You will probably never get a valid handle from GetBLEHandle. Your code in main() does not check the return value and the function itself is not working as expected: if (!SetupDiGetDeviceInterfaceDetail(hDI, &did, NULL, 0, &size, 0)) { int err = GetLastError(); if (err == ERROR_NO_MORE_ITEMS)...

How do I fix a silverlight problem.

11 Jul 2017 by KarstenK

As the error message is yelling you not only need Silverlight, but the Silverlight Developer runtime also known as Silverlight SDK (Software Development Kit). Consider using other software libraries because Silverlight is somehow deprecated, so it is a dead end lane.

Win10

Silverlight

Application creates registry at different location for win10

4 Sep 2017 by OriginalGriff

The simplest solution is this: don't use the Registry. That's a much better idea than you think: use of the Registry is more restricted than it was, and becoming more restricted with time, not easier. So what works now, may not work in future, as you have noticed with Win 7 / Win 10. And that is...

Win10

Floating divisions terribly slow on Intel I5 & E5 xeon processors

25 Sep 2017 by Jochen Arndt

Quote: The question is: ¿does intel E5 has coprocessor? Yes. All x86 based CPUs have a build-in x87 FPU and vector units (SSE, AVX). Quote: Can I use a compiler directive to run it faster? Yes, but it depends on the compiler and if you can accept reduced error handling and not being strict IEEE...

C++

Win10

Intel

Convert a HTML file into CSV/TXT and insert it into database via windows form(visual studio C#)

14 Feb 2018 by OriginalGriff

Not really. An HTML file is a page description, and a CSV file is a comma (and newline) separated list of values - there isn't any real overlap between the two formats so converting a generic HTML file to a list in any format isn't really going to work. It's like trying to convert a wedding...

How to call C function in universal windows platform app?

8 Mar 2018 by Richard MacCutchan

See c# - How to call a function from DLL in UWP? - Stack Overflow[^].

Win10

UWP

ANSI

How can a coder run a any pc game inside of a winfrom in C#

16 Mar 2018 by User 13204940

You're going to need to look into Windows DLLs to find the handle of the .exe which acts as a unique identifier, then set the parent of that to the panel's handle. That way, the .exe is effectively embedded in the form. You'll be needing the SetParent function in user32.dll to do this. Also it...

Win10

Windows

Visual-Studio

Your Own Word Bookmark Editor

15 Apr 2018 by Petrov Vladimir

Word Bookmark Editor for Word Reports easy handling

How to write winform applications for touch screens

13 May 2018 by OriginalGriff

You don't really have to worry - or at least that's been my experience with Win10 on a touch tablet. It just works! Touches are quatred to mouse clicks, long touches to mouse right clicks. Drag and drop works - though it can be fiddly with Windows Explorer - and the soft keyboard can be brought...

Win10

.NET

Why does form.clientsize move my buttons in windows 10?

27 Jun 2018 by John Whitmire

Well, well. Changing the anchoring of those buttons from bottom-right to top-right (which I could do because the form is not allowed to grow vertically) causes the buttons to stay in their rightful place in both Windows versions. Other related data: * The one button on the other form is...

Win10

forms

Streaming Engine Data to Azure with Windows IoT

8 Aug 2018 by Joel Ivory Johnson

Using a the OBD II Port and a Windows IoT Device (DragonBoard 410c or Raspberry Pi) to push real time engine data to the Azure Cloud for Analysis

How to store cookies in edge browser from a C++ console application ?

26 Aug 2018 by Michael Haephrati

The following code[^] works with Microsoft Edge. It is not in c++ but you can learn from it how to do it. import win32inet cookie_string = cookie if cookie.find('xpires') == -1: expires = datetime.utcnow() + timedelta(days=30) expires_string = expires.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S...

C++

Win10

How do I check a list for matching nambers

26 Oct 2018 by OriginalGriff

Compiling does not mean your code is right! :laugh: Think of the development process as writing an email: compiling successfully means that you wrote the email in the right language - English, rather than German for example - not that the email contained the message you wanted to send. So now...

Win10

game

Read/update XML document class

3 Feb 2019 by RickZeeland

Here is a simple example using XElement: string TestXml = @" first_one second_one third_one fourth_one fifth_one sixth_one "; XElement x =...

C#7.0

Win10

WPF

Read/update XML document class

3 Feb 2019 by Maciej Los

Please, refer MSDN documentation: XmlDocument Class (System.Xml) | Microsoft Docs[^], especially Find nodes[^] and Edit nodes. You might be interested in Select Nodes Using XPath Navigation[^] [EDIT] According to the OP requirements (posted in solution 3): Quote: I Want to keep the xml file...

C#7.0

Win10

WPF

Detect VM on windows

16 Mar 2019 by RickZeeland

Some code from Pastebin does not look like a very reliable source to me, instead see answers here: .net - How to detect if my application is running in a virtual machine? - Stack Overflow[^]

Win10

Win8

How can I open several consecutively clicked files in one istance of an app?

1 Oct 2019 by OriginalGriff

Just to make your life simpler ... I created a class to make it all rather easier: Double clicking a file in explorer and adding it to your app while it's running.[^] It does exactly what I said to do in the original answer.

Win10

Can't start window service w/ error 1053

31 Oct 2019 by CHill60

You posted this question back in July and were given several solutions to try Can't start window service w/ error 1053[^]

Win10

.NET

How do I maintain same instance of an application for all the windows LDAP users

18 Feb 2020 by Dave Kreskowiak

Windows doesn't support doing this. Supporting such would be a massive security risk. The process is owned by and has a copy of the security token from the account that launched it. UserB will never have the same instance that UserA started. The...

Win10

Windows

Windows-Server