Windows 2008

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Great Reads

by Jeffrey Walton

Perform authenticated encryption with Crypto++.

Windows-Service for Multithreading with Remote Control GUI

by J.Starkl

A windows-service which can handle different operations in separate threads and which can be controlled by a small GUI program

Calcoolation: A Math Puzzle Board Game

by Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

Demo for a math puzzle board game

Windows Authentication Using Form Authentication

by Muhammad Akhtar Shiekh

An article on "How to authenticate windows user using form authentication in ASP.NET?"

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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.

Splitter Control for Dialog

by libbyliugang

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

PSAM Control Library

by Ajcek84

WinForms library containing the IncipitViewer control for drawing musical notes

Bug Finder, A Real Win32 Extensible Passive Debugger

by Antonio Petricca

Win32, compiler independent, and extensible passive debugger

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Windows 2008

Authenticated Encryption

23 Mar 2009 by Jeffrey Walton

Perform authenticated encryption with Crypto++.

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Windows-Service for Multithreading with Remote Control GUI

25 Feb 2016 by J.Starkl

A windows-service which can handle different operations in separate threads and which can be controlled by a small GUI program

Calcoolation: A Math Puzzle Board Game

6 Aug 2009 by Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

Demo for a math puzzle board game

Windows Authentication Using Form Authentication

1 Jul 2009 by Muhammad Akhtar Shiekh

An article on "How to authenticate windows user using form authentication in ASP.NET?"

The OpenGL and GLUT: A Powerful Graphics Library and Utility Kit

10 Sep 2010 by logicchild

An article that explains how to use this library

Autoshutdown Service in C#

10 Jan 2014 by Kees van Spelde

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

Nullable datetime column in .NET DataGrid with DateTimePicker

17 Aug 2009 by vic_ch2000

A nullable datetime column in .NET DataGrid with DateTimePicker.

Internal Supply Chain, Visibility via 200 plus 3D Chart Reports - Part II

8 Oct 2009 by Syed Hasan Hyder

This article focuses on internal supply chain management systems visibility via chart reports, and provides assessment apparatus to manage and monitor activities spawned during business processes, hence paves the way for timely and precise business decisions.

Using Dynamic Proxies for Fault Tolerance and Failover

4 Mar 2009 by Derek Viljoen

How to leverage LinFu (or any other Dynamic Proxy implementation) for Fault Tolerance and Failover

Introduction to Composite WPF (CAL, Prism): Part 2

19 Jul 2009 by Jammer

An article showing an extremely simple implementation of CompositeWPF.

Multi language on-screen keyboard using Windows keyboard DLLs

18 Dec 2012 by Lars [Large] Werner

Windows has built inn support for a lot of keyboard languages, this class makes it possible to extract that info in an easy manner and present it to screen.

NET Debugging: Dump All Strings from a Managed Code Process Running

3 Nov 2011 by Rene Pally

Advanced Debugging Processes

LINQ to SQL - Detach Entities

12 Jul 2009 by Eric J. Smith, Shannon Davidson

Easily detach entities when using LINQ to SQL

Font Enumerator

1 Sep 2009 by PARK Youngho

A tool that enumerates all fonts installed on Windows, and shows you the preview so as to help you code conveniently.

Elevating your application for dummies: A step-by-step guide to elevate and write in the Registry

8 Apr 2009 by joseangelmt

We are going to enable your application to write entries in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, elevating your application when necessary.

Using BizTalk360

16 Oct 2012 by Lex Hegt

This article describes how BizTalk360 fills the gaps left by the BizTalk Server Administration Console and the capabilities of BizTalk360 V5.

Keep everyone away from breaking your database object naming convention with SQL Server Policy Based Management.

19 Feb 2013 by Khorshed Alam, Dhaka

Standardization database object name with SQL Server Policy Based Management.

Take advantage of the Windows Vista built-in System Performance Monitor

21 Jul 2009 by marc ochsenmeier

This article shows how to leverage a component Vista uses when showing the performance lines and histograms.

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.

Async Drag 'n Drop or Drag 'n Drop from external server/device

19 Nov 2011 by User008

Drag 'n Drop asynchronous files from an external server or device

BizTalk Server WCF Custom Service Behaviour

20 Sep 2012 by KundanKarma

BizTalk WCF Custom Service Behaviour for sending Response back (filling some values from input) at port level.

How to enable multi-hop impersonation using constrained delegation in .NET and Active Directory

18 Aug 2009 by sravan kumar surabhi, Ken Hadden

A step-by-step guide to help solve a common authentication problem faced by .NET multi-tier developers.

Simple Tri-State TreeView

5 Mar 2012 by Fred_Informatix

This is an alternative for "Simple Tri-State TreeView"

MOSS for Developers - Part 4: Workflows for Developers

18 Aug 2009 by dougturn

Provides an overview of Sharepoint workflows from the perspective of a developer. This content is part 4 of the MOSS content from www.myrampup.com.

MOSS for Developers - Part 5: Silverlight and Web Parts for Developers

18 Aug 2009 by dougturn

Provides an overview of Sharepoint with Silverlight and Web Parts from the perspective of a developer. This content is part 5 of the MOSS content from www.myrampup.com.

MOSS for Developers - Part 8: Web Services

18 Aug 2009 by dougturn

Provides an overview of Web services from the perspective of a developer. This content is part 8 of the MOSS content from www.myrampup.com.

MOSS for Developers - Part 10: User Management

19 Aug 2009 by dougturn

Provides an overview of user management from the perspective of a developer. This content is part 10 of the MOSS content from www.myrampup.com.

Extending DirectoryInfoEx to support Archives

31 Dec 2009 by Leung Yat Chun

Allow users to make virtual directories and use them via a similar interface as DirectoryInfo.

Connecting to Team Foundation Server 2008

9 Sep 2009 by David Schiffer

A simple WinForms application that lets you connect to Team Foundation Server 2008.

Using the BizTalk SQL Adapter to synchronize data

26 Nov 2009 by aadon.s

How to use the BizTalk SQL Adapter to synchronize data by invoking a Stored Procedure.

How to Configure SSL Certificate for SharePoint Web Application on IIS7/Window Server 2008

27 Nov 2009 by Syed Adnan Ahmed

The configuration of SSL certificate on IIS 7 (Windows Server 2008) is bit different than in IIS 6. This article describes the steps required to configure SSL certificate on SharePoint Central Admin web site.

Windows Post Install and 64 bit Registry tweaks

3 Jul 2012 by Snoepie

WPI and 64 bit Registry integration.

Switch to SMS/Text Event Reminders When Your Ultrabook is in Suspend Mode #2

28 Nov 2012 by simsam77

This is a follow-on article from my first on the topic of sending text messages as event reminders.

Win2008

Windows

Visual-Studio

Track your medical shots

28 Apr 2013 by Ken Cenerelli

An application to store your list of medical shots in the cloud

WPF x FileExplorer x MVVM

24 Nov 2012 by Leung Yat Chun

This article describe how to construct FileExplorer controls included DirectoryTree and FileList, using Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern.

C# Speech to Text

7 May 2012 by Sperneder Patrick

This article describes how to handle and use the SpeechRecognitionEngine class that is shipped with and since .NET 3.0.

Odyssey RibbonBar

15 Feb 2009 by Thomas Gerber

A WPF RibbonBar control.

Windows 7 Trigger Start Service

17 Jan 2010 by Abhishek Sur

Implement services that start/stop automatically to some events like Device attached, Network Availability, Firewall port modified, Domain join, Group Policy change etc

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)

PSAM Control Library

19 Jul 2018 by Ajcek84

WinForms library containing the IncipitViewer control for drawing musical notes

InputManager library - Track user input and simulate input (mouse and keyboard)

13 Oct 2010 by shynet

A library that contains classes to simulate user input and track user input (mouse and keyboard), in C# and VB.NET.

WF4 Custom activities for message mediation

20 Dec 2012 by Roman Kiss

This article describes a design, implementation, and usage of custom message mediation activities for a XAML workflow.

Stopwatch

3 Jan 2015 by Espen Harlinn

Benchmark C++ std::vector vs raw arrays, move assignable/constructable & copy assignable/constructable

Home Automation with Netduino and Kinect

3 Jan 2015 by Dan Thyer

Remote control a squirt gun, open the garage, and water the garden all through .net

SongBird - a Twitter Hybrid Smart Client

18 Jun 2009 by Pete O'Hanlon

Using the WCF RESTful services to create a Twitter hybrid Smart Client.

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.

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.

Relook your Old and New Native Applications with a Ribbon UI under Vista or Windows 7 (WTL)

12 Apr 2010 by Alain Rist

Including a Ribbon UI Implementation Guide with examples and a dual UI enabled legacy application

Switching Between HTTP and HTTPS Like A Bigshot Hotshot

22 Feb 2010 by Pero Matić

How to automatically enforce and switch between secure (HTTPS/SSL) and non-secure (HTTP/non-SSL) web pages without hard-coding absolute URLs, using SEO friendly redirects.

Windows Development in C++, Working with Menus

3 Jan 2015 by Espen Harlinn

Windows API, menus, C++ lambda expressions, std::enable_shared_from_this

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.

Undocumented List View Features

30 Sep 2015 by Timo Kunze

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

Smart Thread Pool

27 Aug 2012 by Ami Bar

A .NET Thread Pool fully implemented in C# with many features.

A first look at the Windows Web Services API

27 Jul 2009 by Nish Nishant

The article shows how to interop between a WCF service and a WWS client, and also how to rewrite the WCF service in WWS retaining compatibility with existing WCF clients.

Parallel Computing and Data Parallelism

2 Feb 2010 by logicchild

An article that focuses on Data Parallelism based on the Multi-Core Processor Technology.

Range Finder

30 Apr 2009 by Mohammad Reza Khosravi

A simple program to find real size or distance of objects in your digital camera photos

Reflection optimization techniques

29 May 2013 by Jain, Ajay

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

Drag List Box with Multiple Selection and Inter-List Dragging

4 Aug 2009 by ckorda

A replacement for MFC's CDragListBox that supports multiple selection and dragging between lists

Package that speeds up loading of JavaScript, CSS and image files

29 Mar 2012 by Matt Perdeck

Improves web site performance by combining and minifying JavaScript and CSS files on the fly. Processes ASP.NET AJAX toolkit .axd files too. Improves image caching and loading. Very easy to add to any ASP.NET web site.

Use one SSRS Report to Find All Your Microsoft SQL Servers, Out of Date Editions, and Service Packs

3 Oct 2016 by Mark W Solomon

In this article, I developed a way to determine all the SQL Servers in our environment at will and filter this information into Microsoft's Sunset report for Microsoft SQL Server and present all this information in an SSRS report.

Mastering Debugging in Visual Studio 2010 - A Beginner's Guide

6 May 2010 by Abhijit Jana

Describes all debugging features like Breakpoints, DataTips, Watch Windows, Multithreaded Debugging, Parallel Program Debugging and IntelliTrace Debugging

Real Tree 2

2 Apr 2009 by Mohammad Reza Khosravi

This application shows a simple algorithm for drawing random flowers and trees. The logic is based on fractal sets.

Beginner's Guide: Exploring IIS 6.0 With ASP.NET

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.

.NET Asynchronous Design Pattern for Native C++

2 Nov 2010 by Daniel Ranger

Native C++ implementation of the .NET Asynchronous Design Pattern using Windows I/O Completion Ports

Bug Finder, A Real Win32 Extensible Passive Debugger

28 Feb 2018 by Antonio Petricca

Win32, compiler independent, and extensible passive debugger

Hosting WPF Content in a Java Application

26 Apr 2009 by Vitaly Shelest

Demonstrates a simple technique for embedding WPF/.NET Components into Java GUI

DocMounter 2: A tool to build VS.NET documentation (now with Sandcastle)

15 Nov 2010 by 10Tec, Sergey Gorbenko

Tool for creating MS Visual Studio documentation files - XML Summaries, HxS/MSHC help solutions and manuals.

Windows 7 Goodies in C++: Introduction to the Ribbon

21 Feb 2011 by Michael Dunn

A tutorial that shows how to get started using the Ribbon in your applications

Multi-touch development with WPF - A multi-touch RSS reader

1 Nov 2009 by Roberto Sonnino

A multi-touch RSS reader built with Multi-Touch Vista.

Simple Tri-State TreeView

30 Mar 2011 by DreamCatcher2k10

Provides another, simple way to get a tri-state TreeView, ensuring compatibility to all Windows UIs / styles

Automate your UI using Microsoft Automation Framework

1 Jan 2011 by Ashish Kaila

Learn how to leverage UI automation in testing your UI and also to support accessibility features

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.

Windows 7: Exploration of 7 exciting new programming features in a single application!

6 Jan 2010 by Michael Chourdakis

Demonstration of seven new programming technologies.

WPF DataGrid With Excel Style Column Filter

24 Sep 2013 by Nayan Choudhary

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

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

Getting Operating System Version Info - Even for Windows 10!

20 Nov 2012 by Johnny J., Brisingr Aerowing

Get the operating system version and edition, updated with Windows 10

XML Serialization of Generic Dictionary, Multidimensional Array, and Inherited Type, with sharpSerializer .NET

9 Nov 2011 by Pawel idzikowski

How to serialize to XML, any generic, derived, or other complex type, which XMLSerializer cannot serialize

Versatile Tree Control

18 Feb 2013 by Babu_Abdulsalam

Tree control with custom checkbox with several other features.

Word Automation using Late binding - Usage of dynamic Keyword

9 Nov 2011 by Prathapachandran

This article gives a brief idea about word automation using late binding and dynamic keyword in .NET Framework 4.0

Reusable Class to Generate Excel Files

20 Mar 2009 by Sergio Romero

A class that generates an XML string as an Excel file

SnapWindows - StickyWindows reloaded

15 Feb 2010 by Mr.PoorEnglish

A new approach to 2D - geometric computation replaces Point, Size, and Rectangle.

An Introduction to Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) - Part I

27 Apr 2011 by Niladri_Biswas

This article will disscuss about MEF, how to start working in this, etc.

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.

Splitter Control for Dialog

29 Sep 2018 by libbyliugang

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

The Windows Native Ribbon Part 1.5: Laying out Controls and Groups

27 Apr 2011 by Michael Dunn

This article describes how to lay out controls in the Windows native Ribbon

Using Lambdas for WPF or Silverlight Animation

17 Jun 2010 by Dmitri Nеstеruk

Shows how to use lambdas and higher-order functions for WPF/Silverlight graphics work

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#.

Professional 3D Chart Reports, using ASP.NET 2.0 - Part III

3 Nov 2009 by Syed Hasan Hyder

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.

Few Step(s) to Remove SQL Server Database User(s)

20 Mar 2010 by Md. Marufuzzaman

Few step(s) to remove SQL Server database user(s) when you are facing error like “The database principal owns a database role and cannot be dropped.” for dropping a user.

Retrieve the Assembly Identities from a Manifest using C++

20 Jun 2010 by marc ochsenmeier

A set of C++ interfaces to retrieve the side-by-side information of a manifest embedded in an image file.

Simple Web Server in c#

6 May 2014 by Pritesh Dhokchaule

How to serialize data effectively? Custom serialization of Bitmap, Cursor, Icon, Font, and other objects without a default constructor with sharpSerializer

14 Aug 2011 by Pawel idzikowski

Is it better to serialize types without default constructor with Custom Serializer or a Substitute Pattern? Example of serialization of FontFamily into isolated storage in WP7.

Simple WDM LoopBack Driver

11 Mar 2009 by potluri_suresh

This article is for developers who are writing Windows kernel device drivers for the first time and want to experiment with a simple example with source code.

The Windows Native Ribbon Part 2: Setting Ribbon Properties at Runtime

18 Jul 2011 by Michael Dunn