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Cryptographic Interoperability: Keys

by Jeffrey Walton

Import and export Cryptographic Keys in PKCS#8 and X.509 formats, using Crypto++, C#, and Java.

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.

Authenticated Encryption

by Jeffrey Walton

Perform authenticated encryption with Crypto++.

Pretty Good Initialization Library

by Thorsten Ottosen

Are you tired of filling data manually into STL containers? With the Initialization Library it gets a lot easier.

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Writing Microsoft CRM 3.0 Callouts – Sample Code: Turkish Citizen Number Validator

by Alen M

This article focuses on callout development for MS CRM 3.0. As an example Turkish Citizen Number Validator code is written.

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.

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.

by Emre Guldogan

A System for Simulation and Analysis of Logic Circuits

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Windows 2003

Writing Microsoft CRM 3.0 Callouts – Sample Code: Turkish Citizen Number Validator

29 Aug 2023 by Alen M

This article focuses on callout development for MS CRM 3.0. As an example Turkish Citizen Number Validator code is written.

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.

18 Oct 2018 by Emre Guldogan

A System for Simulation and Analysis of Logic Circuits

Splitter Control for Dialog

29 Sep 2018 by libbyliugang

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

Width of Text in Italic Font

25 Jul 2018 by Alexandru Matei

Shows an alternative to GetCharABCWidths and GetCharABCWidthsFloat

PSAM Control Library

19 Jul 2018 by Ajcek84

WinForms library containing the IncipitViewer control for drawing musical notes

Bug Finder, A Real Win32 Extensible Passive Debugger

28 Feb 2018 by Antonio Petricca

Win32, compiler independent, and extensible passive debugger

Developing a SOHO web filter step by step

9 Jun 2017 by Reza Shademani

The main goal of this article is to explain the practical details of low level network security programming.

Win32 x86 Calling Conventions

4 Apr 2017 by Abhineet Ayan Verma

Major calling conventions for Win32 and best suited functions

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.

TraceTool 12.7: The Swiss-Army Knife of Trace

20 Nov 2016 by Thierry Parent

A C#, C++, Delphi, ActiveX , Javascript , NodeJs and Java trace framework and a trace viewer: Tail, OutputDebugString, event log, and with Log4J, Log4Net, and Microsoft Enterprise Instrumentation Framework (EIF) support. This also comes with full support for Pocket PC, Silverlight, and Android.

Custom MessageBox with checkbox

11 Sep 2016 by Avatar2400

This is a simple class that allows you to have message box with checkbox and other small features.

Live Log Viewer

14 Jun 2016 by Alex Wiese

Monitors log files and displays text as it is appended to the file

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

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Convert RTF to Plain Text (Revised Again)

9 Apr 2016 by NightWizzard

Handling for hex expressions and the trailing '}'

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SQL-server-2000

To And From Binary Literals

5 Apr 2016 by Mark Kruger

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

MemServer : a dynamic memory allocation server

22 Dec 2015 by Simone Serponi

A way to ensure the deallocation of all used dynamic memory using one DLL

Get date from weeknumber and weekday in VBScript

5 Dec 2015 by NightWizzard

Explained step by step

CalendarExtender

ServicePredicateBuilder for creating Serializable Expressions

30 Nov 2015 by Mohammad Dayyan, VahidJafari

A library for creating .Net Serializable Expressions to send via WCF services

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!

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A Good Desktop Software in Users' Eyes

26 Sep 2015 by Southmountain

Some take-away to improve the quality of desktop software

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.

ListView Column Sorter

21 Jul 2015 by Sven So.

A column sorter that sorts columns with strings and numbers (also decimals), but also the first column on image and then on string.

How to Sign Device Drivers with WDK 7.1

24 Jun 2015 by maratoni

This is a brief tutorial on how to sign a Windows device driver with WDK 7.1

Section Handles Enumeration. Extending File Unlocking

19 May 2015 by Yohamnes Hernandez

How to free blocked files, inclusive if they are mapped in memory. Something that many tools are missing.

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.

Some Advanced ATL Development Skills for Visual C++ Developers

16 Mar 2015 by sunhui

In this paper, we will discuss some advanced skills for ATL COM development.

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.

C# Storable Box Control 1.4.0.4

6 Mar 2015 by Darkencrow

A multi-drawer style collapsable UI container

Fully Customizable XP Progress Bar (with examples)

20 Jan 2015 by Marcos Meli

A progress bar like the WinXP progress bar control, but completely customizable.

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.

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Autos - Immediate Access to Resources Without Clicking

1 Jan 2015 by tc99

Immediate access to resources without clicking

Error in Certificate Enrollment Win 2003 Server ASP.NET Application

30 Dec 2014 by Daniel Fisher (lennybacon)

You don't have a private key in place - The system cannot find the file specified.

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.

R-tree:Space Search Algorithm

2 Dec 2014 by HateCoding

This tip will show you an example for using R-tree.

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.

C# / VB.NET / C++ CLI: Create, read and write MS Access (mdb, accdb), MySQL, SQL Server, SQL Server Compact and SQLite databases

13 Nov 2014 by Emiliarge

Both MS Access formats (mdb and new - accdb), MSSQL 2008 R2, MSSQL CE, SQLite, MySQL

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.

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

C#: Read and Write Excel (*.xls and *.xlsx) Files Content without Excel Automation (using NPOI and ADO.NET)

30 Aug 2014 by Emiliarge

2 ways to read and write data to *.xls and *.xls files and display it on DataGridView.

A Tiny Custom List Control

25 Aug 2014 by HateCoding

A tiny custom list control

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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

Custom disk clean up using WSH VBScript

1 Aug 2014 by Gautham Prabhu K

Perform custom disk clean up when hard disk free space goes low

Sending and receiving strings from COM-port via jSSC in Java

27 Jul 2014 by Emiliarge

How to send data to device and receive data from device through COM-port

Peer Process and its Significance in Improving Robustness of Software Application

30 Jun 2014 by Anant Beriwal

How to counter crash issue in applications

How to Embed Barcodes in Your SSRS Report

27 Jun 2014 by Philipp Katscher

How to use barcodelib generated Barcodes in SSRS (consider Barcode fonts don't work in runtime)

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Automated Extract and Build from Team System using PowerShell

26 Jun 2014 by Clift Norris, John D. Cook

We describe a PowerShell script to extract source code from Team System version control and automate the build process

A simple Compass

25 Jun 2014 by Philipp Katscher

How to draw a compass and feed it with NMEA device data (i.e. a GPS Compass)

An Workaround for Double Click on Treeview Checkbox

10 Jun 2014 by Thava Rajan

This tip is used to fix a workaround for a bug in double click on checkbox

XSLT to transform Excel XML worksheet to "named" nodes

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.

Using the AWS SDK

31 May 2014 by netfed

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

Copy Paste and Insert in Datagridview (Winforms)

28 May 2014 by Thava Rajan

Copy and insert data at any postion in your datagridview

Is anonymous logon a Win 2003 security breach?

20 May 2014 by KFLee

In the win 2003 security log, I keep seeing this logon:Source: SecurityUser: NT Authority/AnonymousClass: Logon/LogoutDomain: NT AuthorityLogon ID: 0x0, 0x51D5ABE6Type: 3 Does anyone know this is security log means? and if it is an illegal logon, how do I fix it?Thank you.

Communication between the Controllers in AngularJS

14 May 2014 by Member 10771162

AngularJS: Communication between Controllers

LodePngWin32 Class for Rendering PNG Files in Raw WinAPI

23 Apr 2014 by Derell Licht

C++ class that provides a convenient wrapper for lodepng library

EMF Printer Spool File Viewer

23 Apr 2014 by Duncan Edwards Jones

A viewer application for EMF format spool files

Handling Application Settings

15 Mar 2014 by Michael_Davies

Handling large numbers of application settings

Detect System Wide Mouse Events

7 Mar 2014 by Kazi Zakir Hossain

How to detect system wide mouse events in your application

Save/Load Image between buffer

4 Mar 2014 by kanbang

Save/Load Image between buffer

“Value does not fall within the expected range.” error while exporting excel to pdf

9 Feb 2014 by Onkar J.

MS Office 2007 does not support 'export' to pdf option by default. You need to download Add-Ins for that.Following link will solve your problem. 2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS

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#"

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

Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a connection from the pool. This may have occurred because all pooled connections were in use and max pool size was reached

6 Jan 2014 by dk.dk000

Add Max Pool Size in your connection stringex:-

SQL-Server-2008

Print Direct To Windows Printer (EPOS Receipt)

2 Jan 2014 by Michael_Davies

Printing To Line Printers (EPOS) Using Windows

Reduce System Load and Speed Up Your Computer

27 Dec 2013 by IPI Paul

Reduce system load and increase performance

Windows-Installer

Execute System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Connect Method with Timeout Controlled by System.Threading.Timer

10 Dec 2013 by JRINC

Connect to remote socket via System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Connect method with timeout controlled by System.Threading.Timer

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

Programming Without Coding Technology (PWCT)

23 Nov 2013 by Mahmoud Samir Fayed

Introduction to Programming Without Coding Technology

Webix Integration with Online Geographical Maps

21 Nov 2013 by sonic_youth

This tip will tell you how to add popular web maps such as Google, Nokia, OpenStreet and Yandex maps into a Webix app with just several lines of code.

How to publish a MVC4 Intranet application to Windows 2003 server using Visual Studio 2012Pro

12 Nov 2013 by metharam

Please help me with this!I have developed an MVC4 Intranet application using Visual Studio 2012 Professional.I need to publish the project to a Development server that has IIS6 and is a Windows 2003 server.I am unable to identify the 'Profile settings and Connection settings' when i...

Machine Solution to Einstein's Riddle Revisited

29 Oct 2013 by Dezhi Zhao

This article shows a fast solution to Einstein's Riddle by using brutal search.

Rendering AltNETType (= .NET FreeType port) with OpenGL

14 Oct 2013 by Demid Korneev

Example of AltNETType use in OpenGL

Drop all Triggers belonging to any schema in MS SQL Server

9 Oct 2013 by Matthew Taylor

How to remove Microsoft SQL Server triggers associated with a custom schema.

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Extended Windows Service Controller

3 Oct 2013 by Antonio Petricca

.NET ServiceController class extension

publishing windows application to remote site

25 Sep 2013 by Rick van Woudenberg

Check the logs ( All the windows and IIS logs ). It will most likely tell you the reason. I highly doubt that it's a VS 2010 problem.

publishing windows application to remote site

25 Sep 2013 by chandranavr

hii can publish vs2010 windows application in my local IIS. when i try to publish the application to remote site i get the error "unable to create website'IP+websitename'. http error (502) an invalid response was received from a gateway or proxy server".how to solve it.thanks in advance.

WPF DataGrid With Excel Style Column Filter

24 Sep 2013 by Nayan Choudhary

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

Lucene.Net – Custom Synonym Analyzer

10 Sep 2013 by AndrewSmith

How to use Lucene.net search to work with synonyms

EfTidyNet: .NET Wrapper for Tidy library

6 Sep 2013 by ThatsAlok

Free component for parsing HTML, .NET version of EfTidyCom

How to get EXE associated with a File Extension in the Registry

5 Sep 2013 by Mike Meinz

Function returns exe name and command line for the provided filename and extension.

Hello World, Basic Server/Client Example of WCF

24 Aug 2013 by Hasan Habib Surzo

Basic Server/Client Example using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) programming

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.

22 Aug 2013 by ThatsAlok

Opensource Outlook Express automation library

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.

Get Windows Win32 Error Text - Simplified

31 Jul 2013 by Thomas B Dignan

Getting the text of Win32 Error codes for 99% of cases.

Save a TreeView into an XML File

24 Jul 2013 by Norbert Eder

The article includes a sample project showing how to save the nodes of a TreeView into an XML file.

Upgrading an STL-based application to use Unicode.

9 Jul 2013 by Taka Muraoka

Problems that developers will face when upgrading an STL-based application to use Unicode and how to solve them.

Tabbed IE Browser Control

3 Jul 2013 by Emmery Chrisco

Tabbed Browser Control addon

Digital Thermometer Using C# and ATmega16 Microcontroller

1 Jul 2013 by HiteshSharma

Hardware interfacing through serial port using C#

“Value does not fall within the expected range.” error while exporting excel to pdf

16 Jun 2013 by sepideh_hoseinian

I am getting the above error while trying to export the excel 2007(xlsx) format workbook to pdf. The workbook contains only one sheet and I have Ms Office 2007 installed on windows 2003 sp2 server. Here is my converttopdf() function:Dim excelApplication As...

MONGO is as SWEET as a MANGO

10 Jun 2013 by KK Kod

Developing .Net application with Mongo Db as Back end