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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.

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.

Guide to WIN32 Regions

by Paul M Watt

Guide to understanding how to create and use regions with the WIN32 SDK

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Shell Extensions - Part VI

by Michael Dunn

A tutorial on writing a shell extension that can be used on the Send To menu.

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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

by Emre Guldogan

A System for Simulation and Analysis of Logic Circuits

Splitter Control for Dialog

by libbyliugang

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

Width of Text in Italic Font

by Alexandru Matei

Shows an alternative to GetCharABCWidths and GetCharABCWidthsFloat

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Windows 2000

Yet Another Fully Functional ownerdraw Menu

23 Jan 2020 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

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 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

Using an Output Stream for Debugging

30 May 2018 by Sven Axelsson

How to create an output stream that writes to the debug terminal

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.

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)

An AutoRepeat Button Class

12 Apr 2017 by PJ Arends

This is an alternative for "An AutoRepeat Button Class"

Win32 x86 Calling Conventions

4 Apr 2017 by Abhineet Ayan Verma

Major calling conventions for Win32 and best suited functions

Color Picker and Font Picker by Owner Drawn Control

18 Jan 2017 by nilaysoft

Demonstrates how to implement a WIN32 color picker and font picker by owner drawn control

11 Dec 2016 by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

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

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.

Accessing alternative data-streams of files on an NTFS volume

15 Aug 2016 by Richard Deeming

A pair of classes to encapsulate access to NTFS alternative data streams.

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

CWindowScroller

7 May 2016 by PJ Arends

An MFC control for adding middle mouse button scrolling to any CWnd derived window

Convert RTF to Plain Text (Revised Again)

9 Apr 2016 by NightWizzard

Handling for hex expressions and the trailing '}'

SQL-Server-2005

SQL-server-2000

SQL User Defined Function to Parse a Delimited String

5 Apr 2016 by SQLMonger

SQL Function to parse a delimited string and return it as a table. Handles multi-character delimiters and returns the results as a table.

SQL-server-2000

GLFW: A (Simple) OpenGL Framework Library

23 Dec 2015 by Simone Serponi

An easy to use library to quickly setup and run OpenGL applications.

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

LayerGenMMX

2 Nov 2015 by icemanind

Easily create Business and Data Layers!

SQL-Server-2005

SQL-server-2000

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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Powershell script to monitor windows servers and populate it into a sharepoint list

29 Jul 2015 by LalithGallage

This powershell script is you to monitor windows servers’ free hard disk and populate it to sharepoint custom list.

SQL-Server-2008R2

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Communication between the Controllers in AngularJS

14 May 2014 by Member 10771162

AngularJS: Communication between Controllers

Convert Integers to Their Textual Description

6 May 2014 by Jeremy Falcon

Convert an integer to its textual description

Monitoring a Printer Queue from VB.NET

2 May 2014 by Duncan Edwards Jones

How to monitor a printer queue from Visual Basic .NET

EMF Printer Spool File Viewer

23 Apr 2014 by Duncan Edwards Jones

A viewer application for EMF format spool files

Using Unicode in INI files

3 Apr 2014 by Manabu Kumeta

How to use Unicode in INI 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

Go to sleep! Fade to B/W

3 Feb 2014 by andyj115

Fading a window from color to black and white like Windows/XP

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

Faxing with XP and C#

5 Jan 2014 by Leon van Wyk

Send faxes with C# using Win 2k or XP

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

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

Exception Handling Using Custom Attributes and Stacktrace

25 Nov 2013 by Balachandar Jeganathan

Exception handling using custom attributes and stacktrace.

Programming Without Coding Technology (PWCT)

23 Nov 2013 by Mahmoud Samir Fayed

Introduction to Programming Without Coding Technology

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.

CreateIoCompletionPort will support windows server 2000.

11 Sep 2013 by @BangIndia

CreateIoCompletionPort will support windows server 2000.As per the msdn document is not supportable. but i written a sample program which is giving proper result in both xp and windows server 2000 also. how its possible. int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]){ try { ...

Timed Update Edit Control

9 Sep 2013 by Craig Henderson

An edit control to periodically validate and reformat its contents.

EfTidyNet: .NET Wrapper for Tidy library

6 Sep 2013 by ThatsAlok

Free component for parsing HTML, .NET version of EfTidyCom

EfTidy: The Tidy Library Wrapper

6 Sep 2013 by ThatsAlok

A free component for HTML parsing and cleaning

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.

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.

SourceGrid - Open Source C# Grid Control

4 Aug 2013 by Davide Icardi

SourceGrid is a free open source grid control. Supports virtual grid, custom cells and editors, advanced formatting options and many others features

Protecting an Application's Unauthorized Copy

2 Aug 2013 by Manish K. Agarwal

To protect your application's unauthorized copy by using image integrity functions (Platform SDK's ImageHlp APIs) and to manage certificates in a portable executable (PE) image file.

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.

Yet Another Logging Library

9 Jul 2013 by Taka Muraoka

Message logging library

Quick and convenient way to build STL strings.

9 Jul 2013 by Taka Muraoka

A quick and convenient way to build STL strings.

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.

XCrypt - Encryption and decryption class wrapper

24 Jun 2013 by Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

This is an alternative for "XCrypt - Encryption and decryption class wrapper".

Windows Symbols and Dump Analysis (Quick Steps)

6 Jun 2013 by Manish K. Agarwal

Windows symbols and crash dump analysis.

Querying a SharePoint Portal Server (SPPS) Index using a WebDAV request

6 Jun 2013 by Naveen Karamchetti

An article on querying a SharePoint Portal Server (SPPS) Index using a WebDAV request.

Reflection optimization techniques

29 May 2013 by Jain, Ajay

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

Enhanced BrowseForFolder Styled TreeView

27 May 2013 by Chris Richner

Supports Explorer, SingleChecked and RecursiveChecked mode (checkboxes). Lets you specify the displayed drive types, etc...

Magic Library Docking Manager Designer

16 May 2013 by Chris Richner

Provides docking support without writing one line of code.

Graceful Handling Of JavaScript Errors

16 May 2013 by Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

In this article, we would see how to gracefully handle JavaScript errors on a webpage, without creating a wrong impression in the minds of our visitors and/or users.

A Set of MFC Wrapper Classes for ADO - Version 2.20J

16 May 2013 by Joffrey Brouillet

This is an alternative for "A set of ADO classes - version 2.20"

An exception safe OO thread-pool framework

16 May 2013 by Peter Hancock

Provides a plug in multithreaded environment, using an exception safe thread-pool and functors.

Create an SQL Server Database Using C#

24 Apr 2013 by Phuong Thanh Nguyen

Create a SQL Server database using C#.

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Send mail using System.Web.Mail namespace

23 Apr 2013 by ManojRajan

This tutorial explains how to send mails with attachments

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.

How to execute multiple long running SQL Statements Asynchronously in small chunks

28 Mar 2013 by Khorshed Alam, Dhaka

How to execute multiple long running SQL Statement Asynchronously in smaller chunks

SQL-Server-2005

SQL-server-2000

Creating a Glass Button using GDI+

26 Mar 2013 by Lukasz Swiatkowski

How to create an animating glass button using only GDI+ (and not using WPF)

Notifying Windows Explorer about files in use

26 Mar 2013 by Lukasz Swiatkowski

How to notify Windows Explorer about which files are used and locked by your application.

Using SynchronizationContext in Windows Forms

22 Mar 2013 by Anuraj Parameswaran

How to use SynchronizationContext in Windows Forms

Cross-browser blink feature

20 Mar 2013 by Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

The Blink Feature in Netscape browsers is really a cool one. Here we would bring in the Blink feature for Microsoft Internet Explorer using a simple JavaScript trick.

How to Prepare a USB Drive for Safe Removal

13 Mar 2013 by Armanisoft

This is an alternative for "How to Prepare a USB Drive for Safe Removal"

Running a Windows .NET application on Linux

12 Mar 2013 by Nelson Kosta Souto

Running the same compiled assembly on Windows and Linux.

DHTML User Interface Library

1 Mar 2013 by Ted Crow

Implement an advanced DHTML user interface in your own MFC applications

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.

SQL-Server-2008

The Ultimate Toolbox - Updates and User Contributions

12 Feb 2013 by The Ultimate Toolbox

Updates and User Contributions for the Ultimate Toolbox Libraries

CXml - A Wrapping Class for MSXML 3.0/4.0/5.0/6.0

10 Jan 2013 by Jerry.Wang

This wrapping class will try to use the latest version of MSXML in the machine, and it is easy because of using auto_ptr.

A Basic Media Player

10 Jan 2013 by Mehdi Bonvari

Using MCIWnd wrapper class to write a simple media player

Using comboboxes in the MFC Grid Control

8 Jan 2013 by Chris Maunder

Explains how to use comboboxes to edit cells in the MFC Grid Control