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C# USB HID Interface

by Szymon Roslowski

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

Cryptographic Interoperability: Keys

by Jeffrey Walton

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

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.

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Machine Learning for C++ developers - the hard way: DirectML

by Michael Chourdakis

An introduction to machine learning with working C++ code that trains a linear regression model.

by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

Task Manager shows you the programs, processes, and services that are currently running on your computer. You can use Task Manager to monitor your computer’s performance or to close a program that is not responding.

IntelliFile - An Alternative Windows Version to the Famous Total Commander

by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

This article is about the IntelliFile application which is a free alternative Windows version to Total Commander and uses many components that have been published on CodeProject.

ScreenCapture: Single Header DirectX Library with HDR ability

by Michael Chourdakis

DirectX hardware screen capture and encoding with audio mixing capabilities. H264/H265/VP80/VP90/FLAC/MP3. HDR supported.

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Extending Classic (6.0) Visual Basic – Part 1

4 Sep 2019 by Chris Boss

Visual Basic 6.0 just doesn’t want to disappear. Why ? Likely many have written vital applications using VB 6.0 and Visual Basic dot.net is so different that it is not a viable option.

BASIC is not dead! Neither is the WIN32! Time to end the myth. (Part 3)

28 Feb 2024 by Chris Boss

BASIC: A powerful language often underestimated and undervalued

Why it's not crashing?

10 Sep 2010 by Andrey Permamedov

Why an exception raised in timer callback function doesn't leads to process termination.

PDB files out of the debugger

10 Dec 2011 by Sebastian Solnica

PDB files out of the debugger

Remote Threads Basics - Part 2

28 Jun 2010 by Alexey Kurakin

This article is the second part of my series about remote threads. In this part, I describe how you can create permanently executing thread with any of your code inside address space of another process.

Keyboard Input and TAB Navigation Between WPF Controls in a Win32 Application

15 Oct 2012 by Marius Bancila

I will show how to provide keyboard input for WPF controls hosted in a Win32 applications.

Simulating CWinApp::OnIdle in C

18 Mar 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

Learn how to create your CWinApp::OnIdle in C

My Understanding of ArcNet Protocol

3 Aug 2017 by johnniealan

ArcNet Protocol basics

Creating Transacted Files in Windows Vista

18 Mar 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

Learn how to create transactional vista using C# and Windows Vista (and higher) SDK.

Inter Process Communication: Windows NamedPipes & Java Applications

1 Nov 2015 by Duleeka Gunatilake

Inter Process Communication: Windows NamedPipes & Java applications

A Synchronous Observer of Asynchronous Events

13 Nov 2012 by Orjan Westin

In this article, we will write a simple multi-threaded example implementation of the Observer pattern, and show how to re-synchronise a past event to look current. Then we’ll demonstrate a technique to treat future events like they’re current, too.

Allowing Only Numeric Input in a TextBox

7 May 2023 by ToughDev

How to allow only numeric input in TextBox

Windows 7 Taskbar C# Quick Reference

14 Mar 2010 by Arik Poznanski

Following are some listings to be used as a quick reference to common Windows 7 Taskbar features using Windows API Code Pack.

Marshaling with C# – Chapter 3: Marshaling Compound Types

28 Dec 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

Learn how to marshal compound types (structures, unions, etc.) in C#.

Do you know how to maintain your Google ranking while moving to a new site structure?

12 Jan 2010 by Martin Hinshelwood

From time to time your website structure may change. When this happens you do not want to have to start from scratch with your Google rankings, so you need to map all of your Old URLs to new ones.

Zip/Unzip using Windows Shell

8 Jan 2012 by Aniruddha Loya

A module for compressing / decompressing files in windows using Windows shell

Marshaling with C# – Chapter 2: Marshaling Simple Types

28 Dec 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

Learn how to marshal simple types (integers, strings, etc.) in C#.

Your ADO is Broken

17 Jul 2011 by WebBiscuit

Microsoft has violated the holy rules of COM and broken their msado15.dll. The violation occurs after the installation of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (version 6.1.7601.17514).

Grant Access to your Assembly from COM Objects

14 Sep 2009 by Abhishek Sur

Make your class library COM visible using few simple steps

Windows 7: How to display progress bar on taskbar icon?

12 May 2010 by Sarath C

Simple method to display progressbar over taskbar button

WIN32, the Assembler Language of Windows, Key to Building GUI Frameworks!

13 Sep 2016 by Chris Boss

WIN32, the Assembler language of Windows, key to building GUI frameworks!

The Challenges of Building a Visual Designer

8 Nov 2015 by Chris Boss

The challenges of building a Visual Designer

Marshaling with C# – Chapter 1: Introducing Marshaling

28 Dec 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

Introduction to marshaling

Remote Threads Basics. Part 1

9 Jun 2010 by Alexey Kurakin

In this part of the tutorial, general information about remote thread is described: what are remote threads, how they can be created and used.

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Learning to code using the WIN32 the easy way, using BASIC

2 Nov 2016 by Chris Boss

One of the challenges which I have felt made the WIN32 API dfficult to learn is that it leaned heavily on C and as a long time BASIC programmer, I always felt the C language syntax was terse in nature and that it lacked the natural syntax of languages like BASIC.

Converting Colors to Gray Shades

18 Mar 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

Convert colors to gray shades, detect Print Preview mode, and detect Black-and-White printers

Remote Threads Basics - Part 3

12 Jul 2010 by Alexey Kurakin

Last part in my series about remote threads

How to get the length (duration) of a media File in C# on Windows 7

26 Oct 2009 by Williarob

If you have ever looked at a media file (audio or video) in explorer on a Windows 7 PC, you may have noticed that it displays additional information about that media file that previous versions of Windows didn't seem to have access to, for example the length/duration of a Quicktime Movie Clip.

Map Data from Database Context to Excel Sheet using LINQ & Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel

16 Nov 2013 by Debopam Pal

Using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel library, you can bring your data from your database against LINQ query and store them into an Excel Sheet.

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UnCommon C# keywords - A Look

7 Sep 2009 by Abhishek Sur

Some of both Documented and Undocumented Keywords that we dont use often like Check, StackAlloc, Fixed,default,@variables,Nullables, __arglist,__reftype etc are explained with simple examples

Hard Links vs. Soft Links

6 Apr 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

Symbolic links: a) Hard Links. b) Soft (Junction) Links

BeginPaint/EndPaint or GetDC/ReleaseDC?

18 Mar 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

Which is better, to use BeginPaint/EndPaint, or to use GetDC/ReleaseDC?

From Win32 to WinRT

10 Apr 2012 by LEADTOOLS Support

From Win32 to WinRT

Moving a Form without the Title Bar

18 May 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

Learn how to allow your form to be draggable from its body

Coding in Education, a programmers point of view!

3 Mar 2019 by Chris Boss

I have followed stories about learning to code in education and am intrigued by what I have read.

Programmatically Swapping Mouse Buttons

11 May 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

Swap mouse button using C# and Windows API.

LeakMon :- Part 2 Under the hood

31 Mar 2011 by Naveen

Explains how Leakmon is able to track down all the resource leaks