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

N 18 Apr 2024 by Michael Chourdakis

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

machine-learning

IntelliTask

8 Apr 2024 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

30 Mar 2024 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

20 Mar 2024 by Michael Chourdakis

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

IntelliPort

21 Feb 2024 by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

You can use IntelliPort to transfer large files from a computer onto your portable computer using a serial port rather than going through the process of setting up your portable computer on a network.

Introduction to ELENA Programming Language

20 Feb 2024 by Alex Rakov, Alexandre Bencz

ELENA is a general-purpose, object-oriented, polymorphic language with late binding

Thank You for Your Service: Creating a Persistent Isolated Windows Service

14 Feb 2024 by Michael Haephrati

Windows Services are powerful little beasts and encountering them is unavoidable when developing under Windows

The Guide to WinUI3 for a C++ Win32 Programmer

1 Feb 2024 by Michael Chourdakis

Easily migrate to WinUI3 from plain Win32 while keeping all Win32 features intact

Introduction to Native DLLs - Part 2: Exporting Functions

25 Jan 2024 by Bruno van Dooren

An introduction to exporting functions from DLLs

Crypt Library Demo - The Basics of Microsoft CryptoAPI Library

20 Jan 2024 by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

The article discusses the concept of cryptography and its application in ensuring data security.

Introduction to Native DLLs - Part 1: Boilerplate

11 Jan 2024 by Bruno van Dooren

In this article, I explain how to create win32 style DLLs and what the various significant intricacies are.

Using Asynchronous Procedure Calls (APC) in Windows based C++ applications to perform GUI Update

8 Dec 2023 by Bruno van Dooren

How to use APCs to perform user interface updates

parallelization

ToDoList 8.2 - An Effective and Flexible Way to Keep on Top of Your Tasks

17 Sep 2023 by .dan.g.

A hierarchical task manager with native XML support for custom reporting

cngsha3: A Cryptography Next Generation Implementation of Newer Algorithms

13 Aug 2023 by Michael Chourdakis

Use SHA-3 and the CRYSTALS Kyber, Dilithium and Sphincs in Win32 projects

FingerPrintf: A Small Library for Quick Usage of the Biometric API, Fingerprint and Camera

18 Jun 2023 by Michael Chourdakis

Use your sensors for identification and verification

Hacking with Windbg - Part 2 (Minesweeper)

5 Jun 2023 by Sarthak S

Assembly inspection and hacking with windbg

Hacking with Windbg - Part 1 (Notepad)

31 May 2023 by Sarthak S

Assembly inspection and hacking with windbg

WinUI3 in Existing Win32 Applications

6 May 2023 by Michael Chourdakis

How to use the WinUI3 controls in a plain Win32 application without packaging

Understanding Windows Asynchronous Procedure Calls (APCs)

2 Apr 2023 by Bruno van Dooren

In this article, I will explain Asynchronous Procedure Calls (APCs), their uses and their pitfalls

parallelization

gbCapture - Extract Protected Document Content

21 Mar 2023 by gbeene

Capture protected document content as text without the need for breaking DRM

A Little Update to Picture Slide Puzzle

5 Mar 2023 by spidergeuse

Customize jigsaw (size and picture)

ChatGPT-API for Windows: Use ChatGPT in your Windows Applications

2 Mar 2023 by Michael Chourdakis

Quicky generate text and images

Implementing an Asynchronous Named Pipe Server - Part 2

22 Dec 2022 by Bruno van Dooren

How to implement named pipe server for communicating with client apps

Implementing an Asynchronous Named Pipe Server - Part 1

9 Dec 2022 by Bruno van Dooren

How to implement named pipe server for communicating with client apps

Win32 Programming: Dealing with Variable Size Structs When Making API Calls

24 Nov 2022 by Bruno van Dooren

When calling into the win32 API, there are many times when you must deal with structures that have a variable size. This article shows how to do that in a convenient way.

Using C++ Move Semantics to Manage Pointers to Externally Allocated Memory

3 Nov 2022 by Bruno van Dooren

The win32 subsystem often returns pointers to objects that need to be deallocated by the caller. In this article, I show a way to do this reliably and in an exception-safe manner.

memory-management

A generic progress bar snippet with Inner Process Communication using Mutex

29 Oct 2022 by Michael Haephrati

The progress bar snippet explained in this article, can be called or updated from different running programs.

Using a Win32 Mutex to Figure Out if an Application Instance is the First One

21 Oct 2022 by Bruno van Dooren

This article shows how to use a win32 mutex during application startup to figure out if an application instance is the first one.

synchronization

Getting All "Special Folders" in .NET

27 Sep 2022 by Ray K

Retrieving the path to the new user folders like Downloads, Saved Games or Searches

Win32 Security: Retrieving Privileges and Groups for an Access Token

22 Sep 2022 by Bruno van Dooren

This article shows how to retrieve the Privileges and Groups that are part of an access token such as the current thread token.

Using the Win32 Cryptographic API to Hash Data

26 Aug 2022 by Bruno van Dooren

This article describes a way to hash data using the latest Win32 API and C++

Using Windows Transactions to Recursively Delete a Registry Tree

16 Aug 2022 by Bruno van Dooren

This article describes how to use Windows transactions to recursively delete a registry tree under a registry subkey and then the subkey itself.

Using Win32 Transactions

21 Jul 2022 by Bruno van Dooren

This article demonstrates how to use Win32 transactions with file and registry operations.

mscript 3.0: Database Programming, Logging, and Many Language Improvements

26 May 2022 by Michael Sydney Balloni

Check out the third major revision of mscript for replacing your nasty batch files with simple mscripts

Masking Texture in OpenGL using Class CImage

6 May 2022 by Petrov Vladimir

Masking Texture in OpenGL from Bitmap Image File using Class CImage (just call the File Name)

Web-Controlling a Win32 App using WebSockets

30 Apr 2022 by Michael Chourdakis

A quick way to interoperate between Win32 and a browser using WebSockets

mscript 2.0.2: DLL Authoring, Registry DLL, exec() Error Handling

6 Apr 2022 by Michael Sydney Balloni

Minor release improves DLL security, adds registry DLL, enhances exec() error handling

mscript - Version 2.0 Adds Error Handling, New Functions, and DLL Integration

2 Apr 2022 by Michael Sydney Balloni

If you were on the fence about adding mscript to your arsenal of system tools, have another look.

mscript: A Programming Language for Scripting Command Line Operations

7 Feb 2022 by Michael Sydney Balloni

Replace your nasty .bat files with friendly mscripts for clean and powerful command line operations

OpenVPN for Windows XP

29 Jan 2022 by Kai Schtrom

OpenVPN v2.5.4 patched for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003

C++/WinRT Runtime Component in Win32 Applications - Part 4

14 Jan 2022 by Giuseppe Pischedda

Implementing a Win32 C++ Application that "consumes" a C++/WinRT Runtime Component.

Consume a C++/WinRT Runtime Component in a Win32 Application - Part 1

12 Jan 2022 by Giuseppe Pischedda

Introduction to C++/WinRT

Using WM_POWER Events to Monitor a UPS

2 Dec 2021 by klinkenbecker

Shows how to monitor a UPS, graph the details and shutdown the system

Win32 SDK PropertyGrid Made Easy

23 Nov 2021 by David MacDermot

This article describes the creation of a non-MFC custom PropertyGrid control.

Fetching Most Recent Minds.com Posts

26 Feb 2021 by Michael Haephrati

Minds.com is a blockchain-based social network where users can earn money or cryptocurrency for using it.

A Basic Icon Editor Running on ReactOS (and Consequently on Windows XP and Newer Versions)

31 Jan 2021 by Steffen Ploetz

Creation of a basic icon editor with as little code as possible, that is running on ReactOS and Windows, to check out the stability of application development capabilities on ReactOS

30 Jan 2021 by Michael Haephrati

How to use an OCR SDK using C++ and libCurl

DWinLib - The Guts

17 Jan 2021 by David O'Neil

A little about how things work behind the scenes in DWinLib!

DWinLib 6: Pretty WinAPI Incorporation

17 Jan 2021 by David O'Neil

My DWinLib Windows API wrapper combined with Francisco Campos's Pretty WinAPI framework

DirectX MIDI - Simultaneously Play Multiple MIDI Files from Memory Using MCI Functions

10 Oct 2020 by LeisureBamboo

In this article, you will see the steps required to simultaneously play multiple midi file from memory using MCI functions.

Generation of Infinite Sequences in C# and Unmanaged C++

20 Sep 2020 by JorgeLuisOrejel

How to generate infinite sequences in both C# and unmanaged C++

Understanding Windows Message Queues for the C# Developer

22 Jul 2020 by honey the codewitch

Diving into some of the core plumbing behind the Windows operating system

The Bip Buffer - The Circular Buffer with a Twist

20 Jul 2020 by Simon Cooke

A bi-partite circular buffer for high performance buffering, where it comes from, and why you'd want to use it.

Midi: A Windows MIDI Library in C#

6 Jul 2020 by honey the codewitch

Provides a complete managed API for working with MIDI files, sequences and devices

A Modern Direct2D Color Picker for Plain Win32

2 Jun 2020 by Michael Chourdakis

C++, Direct2D, one function and you got a nice picker

SpeechRecognition and SpeechSynthesis Windows 10 API for plain Win32

27 May 2020 by Michael Chourdakis

A one-function library to easily integrate Speech to Text and Text to Speech in your Win32 applications

A MIDI File Slicer and MIDI Library in C#

22 Mar 2020 by honey the codewitch

Slice sections out of a MIDI file, and stretch or compress playback time using this simple utility. Or use the Midi Library to build your own MIDI apps

System.IO.Directory Alternative using WinAPI

1 Mar 2020 by Marijan Nikic

Faster and better alternative to System.IO.Directory IEnumerable methods EnumerateDirectories, EnumerateFiles and EnumerateFileSystemEntries

Doing UTF-8 in Windows, Part 2 - Tolower or Not to Lower

18 Feb 2020 by Mircea Neacsu

Case folding for UTF-8 code

Extended Autohide for Taskbar and Startmenu

25 Jan 2020 by Thilo Bauer

Autohides Taskbar and Startmenu when there are no mouse moves over them for a defined time

SelfServe: A Self-hosting Self-installing Windows Service

14 Jan 2020 by honey the codewitch

Add the ability to run a service in console mode and to control or install your service from the command line

WIN Taskbar is Waaay too High, Here's a Tiny One

14 Jan 2020 by Thilo Bauer

With some code snippets to give beginners (+ others) ideas

Add JavaScript and VBScript to Your .NET Apps

14 Jan 2020 by honey the codewitch

Easily add scripting support to your apps using Microsoft's active script technology

KeePass Password Safe

13 Jan 2020 by Dominik Reichl

KeePass is a free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager.

[WPF] Easiest Way to Create an Animated/Smoothed Scroll Bar

4 Jan 2020 by The Ænema

Here's the best, beautiful and easiest way to create an animated and smooth sliding scroll viewer in WPF Platform (Windows Presentation Foundation).

Smart Partition File Exchange

22 Dec 2019 by Marijan Nikic

A utility for automatization of moving files from partition A to partition B and vice versa

Windows Experience Score For Windows 10

5 Nov 2019 by Howard 9448490

A replacement Windows Experience Score tool for Windows 10

Design WinForms Controls using Photoshop

2 Nov 2019 by Alaa Ben Fatma

Use your skills as a designer to create gorgeous control

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Fastest Hash Function for Table Lookups in C?!

30 Oct 2019 by Sanmayce

Brutally optimized hash function for general table lookups

Win32 Thread Wrapper with Synchronized Start

23 Oct 2019 by David Lafreniere

A Win32 CreateThread() C++ wrapper class for synchronized thread startup and forced message queue creation.

Signal Segmentation Algorithm of Radhakrishnan, et al. Ported to C and C#

20 Oct 2019 by Lance A. Endres

The algorithm presented by Radhakrishnan, et al., originally used to segment well logs for the oil industry, has been ported to C and C#.

WinLamb: using C++11 Lambdas to Handle Win32 Messages

22 Sep 2019 by Rodrigo Cesar de Freitas Dias

Introducing WinLamb, a modern C++11 object-oriented library to write native Windows programs

The Explorer Imperative - Two Stage Search

4 Sep 2019 by Jaxon7

Least frequent character offset exact match algorithm used in GUI keyword search

CropBox

21 Aug 2019 by Johnny J.

Easily add image cropping to your desktop application

decode multiPage rotate tif.zip

12 Aug 2019 by LeisureBamboo

The decode and encode of multiPage rotate tif.zip

Introduce an IPC Component Based on Windows Message

12 Aug 2019 by flyhigh

Simple and reliable IPC module based on Windows message, which supports recursive call up to 19 rounds because of the limitation of Windows.

Tiny CMD

1 Aug 2019 by Michael Haephrati

A tiny Command Line Interface wrapped with a Graphic User Interface

tlock<>: Any C++ Object read/write Thread-safe Provider

13 Jul 2019 by Michael Chourdakis

An easy locking class for shared/exclusive mutex functions with upgrade/downgrade

.NET Shell Extensions - Shell Context Menus

29 Jun 2019 by Dave Kerr

Rapidly create Shell Context Menu Extensions using .NET

Fetch and Search Your Chrome History

14 Jun 2019 by Michael Haephrati

How to fetch and search your Chrome history by accessing the "history" Sqlite database

Adding an InputBox() to Any C++ Program

12 Jun 2019 by Michael Haephrati

A simple and easy to use InputBox() function for any type of C++ program for Windows

RGF: A Save/Open Dialog Box with Cloud Capabilities

31 May 2019 by Michael Chourdakis

Replace GetOpenFileName/GetSaveFileName with a new cloud API!

The GOD : Google, Onedrive and Dropbox Access in One REST Windows Library!

30 May 2019 by Michael Chourdakis

C++ dir, upload, download and management library

Take a REST : A Windows C++ Library for Quick Web Interfaces Interaction

30 May 2019 by Michael Chourdakis

A few functions and you can call various Web libraries like Google Drive

A Flexible Direct2D Pianoroll for Your Music Apps

9 May 2019 by Michael Chourdakis

Create music easily

Creating a Console Based Window for Debugging

21 Apr 2019 by Michael Haephrati

This article will show how to selectively add a Console window to Win32 or even MFC programs for debugging purposes.

Using Windowless Rich Edit Controls Directly from C#

1 Mar 2019 by Sergey Nozhenko

A technique of invoking and implementing non-standard interfaces of windowsless rich edit controls is demonstrated

Real Time Collaboration: A Quick C++ Windows Library with RDC Support

13 Feb 2019 by Michael Chourdakis

Create collaborating projects easily

FileSnap: A Windows Library for Differential File Snapshots!

13 Feb 2019 by Michael Chourdakis

Include file versioning, snapshots and incremental backups in a file

Ultimate Shared Memory: A Flexible Class for Interprocess Memory Sharing

13 Feb 2019 by Michael Chourdakis

A flexible memory sharing class across processes and threads with locking support

40 Basic Practices in Assembly Language Programming

29 Jan 2019 by Zuoliu Ding

A discussion on some basic practices highly recommended in Assembly Language Programming.

Control NAO Using Kinect

28 Jan 2019 by Tareq_Gamal

How to Control NAOqi-Based Robots like NAO, Pepper using Kinect

How to Embed Resources in a Static Library

22 Jan 2019 by Michael Haephrati

How can a Static Library embed resources and other data so any application (even a Console based one) can use them.

Global Hotkeys within Desktop Applications

29 Dec 2018 by Kfir Eichenblat

Learn how to create Global Hotkeys properly in a C# desktop application (e.g. Windows Forms or WPF)

EV Code Signing with a Hardware Token

15 Dec 2018 by Michael Haephrati

How to sign a PE using an EV Code Signing Certificate with a hardware token

Sending WhatsApp Messages from a Win32 C++ Program - Part 2

13 Dec 2018 by Michael Haephrati

A simple way for sending WhatsApp documents and images to an individual or to a group in C++

RWMutex: A Shared/Exclusive Recursive Mutex

13 Dec 2018 by Michael Chourdakis

A mutex with shared/exclusive access with upgrade/downgrade capability

Filterable TreeView

11 Nov 2018 by hasan bozkurt

Filterable TreeView WinForm UserControl

Typewriter.NET Text Editor

9 Nov 2018 by Сергей Челноков

How to write your Notepad

HotPatching: (VERY) Deep Inside

4 Nov 2018 by Michael Chourdakis

A ready to be used hotpatching library with five methods!