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

UpdaterApp - a Library for Easy Update

by William Costa Rodrigues

This article explains an easy method to download and update your WinForms application

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Win8

A Help Infrastructure For WinRT Phones and Apps

1 Sep 2015 by David Maw

A way to embed help pages within a Windows RT or Phone program

HTML

Win8

Windows-Phone-8

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.

A n-level Nested Directory Tree WPF Demo

15 May 2015 by Lộc Nguyễn

Example of data binding for nested tree structure, and MVVM pattern.

A review and refresher on the Intel Ultrabook

4 Jan 2013 by Chris Maunder

Impressions on using a 3rd gen sensor-and touchscreen-equipped Intel Ultrabook prototype.

Win8

Ultrabook

A Simple C++ Profiler on x64

5 Aug 2014 by Babu_Abdulsalam

A Simple Profiler for C++ apps on x64 platform

A sneak peak on Windows Embedded with Galileo

9 Nov 2014 by Abhishek Nandy

simple example of Windows Embedded with Intel Galileo(Stage #2 Windows Embedded)

Win8

Windows

A Text Editor App in Windows Store

8 Feb 2016 by Azim Zahir

This is a Text Editor App for Windows 8.

Win8

VS2013

XAML

A USB Library to Detect USB Devices

21 Sep 2014 by slelong

A USB library to detect USB devices, and manage Attach and Detach events

A Very Basic Recursive Binary Search Tree For Excel VBA

24 Feb 2019 by WhiskeyBeforeWater

An unbalanced basic recursive Binary Search Tree for Excel VBA with functions (insert, search, delete, in order, pre-order, post-order, minimum, and maximum)

An experiment with random-access data virtualisation in a Windows Store app with XAML, C# and Rx

26 May 2015 by FrankSzendzielarz

Here I share the code of an R&D experiment to explore an alternative approach to data virtualization, using Rx and a XAML ListView in a Windows Store app, where I consider the IObservableVector as an "Observing" collection that reacts to UI event streams

AR Jewellery Develops a New Shopping Paradigm for Tablets

2 Sep 2014 by Member 11030029

Developer Serhiy Posokhin and his wife Antonina Posokhina, a designer by trade, recognized the potential of this technology in the world of jewelry and pursued its potential through the Intel® App Innovation Contest 2013 (AIC 2013).

Async MVVM Modern UI

16 Aug 2012 by Juan Pablo G.C.

Using MVVM with Windows 8 Modern UI.

Audacity* Gets a Touch UI for Tablets and 2 in 1 PCs

16 Oct 2014 by Tim_Duncan

This article previews some in-development features of Audacity, which is a free, simple, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows*, Mac* OS X*, GNU/Linux*, and other operating systems.

Autoshutdown Service in C#

10 Jan 2014 by Kees van Spelde

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

AvalonDock [2.0] Tutorial Part 3 - AvalonEdit in AvalonDock

31 Jan 2014 by Dirk Bahle

How to integrate AvalonEdit into AvalonDock [2.0] using MVVM

AvalonDock [2.0] Tutorial Part 4 - Integrating AvalonEdit Options

31 Jan 2014 by Dirk Bahle

Integrate AvalonEdit with text editing options into AvalonDock [2.0]

Avoid tedious coding with LeMP

10 Dec 2016 by Qwertie

The Lexical Macro Processor transforms your C# code with a LISP-inspired macro system. Nice substitute for T4 templates, with Visual Studio integration and a Linux-compatible editor.

Basic Calculating TextBox in VB.NET

27 Nov 2014 by Member 10951710

A simple extension to the original TextBox, allowing simple calculations (+, /, *, -)

BreaknBounce

4 Sep 2013 by Abhishek Nandy

Touch break and move the game objects

Win8

Windows

Bringing RISK to the Digital World

18 Mar 2015 by Intel

This case study examines the process that game developer Marmalade followed as it created an electronic version of Hasbro’s classic board game, RISK: The Game of Global Domination.

C++

Win8

Windows

artificial-intelligence

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Bug Finder, A Real Win32 Extensible Passive Debugger

28 Feb 2018 by Antonio Petricca

Win32, compiler independent, and extensible passive debugger

Build a Microservice with Service Fabric on Windows Server

21 Apr 2016 by Shawn1Xu

Build a microservice with Service Fabric on Windows Server 2012 using ASP.NET 5 and Service Fabric SDK

C++ WinAPI Wrapper Object using thunks (x32 and x64)

6 Dec 2016 by Jon Campbell

Using "thunk" technique to add this pointer as fifth parameter to WndProc call for x32 and x64

C++11 Concurrency

30 Dec 2014 by Babu_Abdulsalam

Various features supporting Concurrency in C++11

Calling All Stations

5 Dec 2014 by KarstenK

Interoperability: Calling C++ from C#

Capturing Live-video from Web-camera on Windows 7 and Windows 8

24 May 2015 by Evgeny Pereguda

Simple lib for capturing live-video from web-camera by using Media Foundation

Carrom+ AIO

20 Sep 2013 by Talha Naqvi

The best and most unconventional virtual carrom application optimized for AIO!

Case Study: 4tiitoo Constructs a Modern User Interface with Voice, Gesture, and Eye Tracking Input

12 Apr 2013 by Intel

Case Study: 4tiitoo Constructs a Modern User Interface with Voice, Gesture, and Eye Tracking Input

Win8

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Ultrabook

Case Study: Sesame Factory Engages Sensor Functionality on Ultrabook™ Systems for an Enhanced Diary Application

26 Jul 2013 by Intel

Case Study: Sesame Factory Engages Sensor Functionality on Ultrabook™ Systems for an Enhanced Diary Application

Case Study: Soma Games Develops Graphics-rich Game for Ultrabook™ in the Intel® Ultimate Coder Challenge

21 Dec 2012 by Intel

Case Study: Soma Games Develops Graphics-rich Game for Ultrabook™ in the Intel® Ultimate Coder Challenge

Win8

product-showcase

Ultrabook

Centurion LINQ - Integrating eHealth Community Care

11 Feb 2015 by UmarSiddiqui

Help us help you improve community health

Clearer – A Gesture-Driven Windows 8 To-Do Application

9 Oct 2012 by Colin Eberhardt

This article describes my experiences of porting a novel gesture-driven Windows Phone app to Windows 8.

Code to stream or convert MP3/WMA to PCM/WAV in Windows 8 (VB)

25 Sep 2012 by ljw1004

VB code to convert MP3 to WAV in Windows 8 using MediaFoundation

Computer Temperatures, Fan Speeds, etc.

16 Oct 2018 by JL Doty

Fully exploit features of OpenHardwareMonitorLib.dll

Configuring IIS, ASP.NET, and SQL Server

29 Oct 2013 by Juan Davel

This article is an updated one discussing the configuration of IIS, ASP.NET and SQL Server.

Connecting the Dream Cheeky Thunder Missile Launcher to Windows 8.1

26 Sep 2013 by Lewis Benge

Leverage new device APIs in Win8.1.

Win8

Windows

Dev

Consuming ASP.NET WEB API using ASP.NET MVC4 and RestSharp

6 Oct 2014 by Gaurav Aroraa

In this article, we will learn how to consume ASP.NET WEB API hosted on another server (as a REST services only) using ASP.NET MVC4 (as a client) with RESTSHARP.

Create First SSRS Report with SQL Server Analysis Services OLAP Cube

20 Jul 2014 by Mubin M. Shaikh

This Article will give you a good start for Creating SSRS Report First time with SQL Server Analysis Services OLAP Cube

Creating a Custom Control in Expression Blend with Custom Properties (WindowsPhone & Store)

26 May 2014 by Saad_Mahmood

Creating custom control for Windows Phone and Store Using Expressions Blend

Creating a Simple Windows 8 Game with JavaScript: Part 1 – Windows 8 App Basics

23 Oct 2012 by Chris_Bowen

We’ll be using HTML5, JavaScript, WinJS, and some helpful libraries from CreateJS along the way.

Javascript

Win8

Windows

Creating a Simple Windows 8 Game with JavaScript: Part 3 – Game Logic

18 Sep 2012 by Chris_Bowen

This is the third in a series of posts that will show you to create a (very) simple Windows 8 game.

Javascript

Win8

Windows

Creating a Simple Windows 8 Game with JavaScript: Part 4 – Input & Sound

18 Sep 2012 by Chris_Bowen

This is the fourth in a series of posts that will show you to create a (very) simple Windows 8 game.

Javascript

Win8

Windows

Creating multi-platform games with Cocos2d-x

28 May 2014 by FELIPE PEDROSO

In this tutorial how to create a simple game using the Cocos2d-x framework in a Windows development environment and how to compile it to run on Windows 8 and Android.

Creating Windows Store Live Tiles with The TileNotifications Pack

20 Dec 2013 by Marius Bancila

Shows how to easily create live tiles using the TileNotifications pack

XML

Win8

Windows

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.

CyberLink and Intel Use Collaborative Design to Create MediaStory

16 Oct 2014 by Dominic Milano

CyberLink MediaStory* software greatly streamlines the process of organizing and accessing the mountains of pictures and videos stored across phones, cameras, tablets, PCs, and the cloud to assemble professional-looking videos that can be shared in minutes.

Win8

Windows

Ultrabook

Deploy Sideloaded Windows 8 App in Production

31 Jul 2015 by dpalash

Through this article, you will learn how to deploy the sideloaded Windows 8 app to production easily and maintain/provide regular upgrade version of the app.

Desktop Sharing using RDP APIs and Socket

24 Nov 2015 by nuclear_sun

You can share a peer's desktop with any others using this software, designate the sharer and viewers in any way you can imagine. Detailed development document and user manual can be found in the Download.

Determining the Monitor's On/Off (sleep) Status

25 Jun 2017 by rbrunton

How to determine whether the monitor is on or off as a result of a Windows Power Scheme action

Developer Guide to Write Windows 8.1 Store App using Live Connect SDK

19 Jan 2014 by Prasanna Venkatesh . K

Simple C# functions to access SkyDrive folders and files using Live Connect SDK

Developing 3D Games for Windows* 8 with C++ and Microsoft DirectX*

12 Sep 2014 by Bruno Sonnino

In this article, I show you how to develop a soccer penalties shootout game.

DirectX and Pure Assembly Language: Doing What Can't be Done - Part IV(b): the Full DirectX App

26 Jun 2018 by CMalcheski

A Full DirectX Sample Application Created in Pure Assembly Language

DLNA made easy with "Play To" from any device

6 Apr 2015 by Dr Gadgit

Covers SSDP messages and XML replies plus how to stream a play-list

Don't Lose Your Marbles

23 Aug 2013 by Adrian Akison

App Innovation Game for Lenovo Horizon All-In-One

Draw Behind Desktop Icons in Windows 8+

22 Dec 2014 by Gerald Degeneve

Draw or render a Windows Form directly over the Wallpaper, behind the Desktop Icons in Windows 8+10

Driving route path direction with Bing Maps in C#/XAML in a Windows 8 app

18 Apr 2013 by Farhan Ghumra

How to draw a driving route direction with Bing Maps in C#/XAML in a Windows 8 app.

Engineering Calculator VOLTA-814

19 Dec 2016 by DrABELL

Engineering Calculator VOLTA-814 (Productivity Software contest submission) was originally developed as HTML5 web application and later converted into desktop app using Intel’s AppUp encapsulator. The latest version for Win 7/8 released in 2014 is built on .NET/WPF.

Enter the Wormhole

16 Oct 2014 by Geoff Arnold

fter participating in an earlier Intel contest, developer Dave Gannon took on these challenges, coming back with a vengeance with Wormhole Pinball, the winning app in the games category in the Intel App Innovation Contest 2013 in partnership with the Intel® Developer Zone.

Explore 3D

15 Aug 2013 by Chris Boss

OpenGL based 3D learning software

Exploring the new DevExpress Universal 2013 v13.2 release

10 Dec 2013 by Magnus Johansson

In this review of the 2013 v13.2 release, I will highlight what is new in the respective areas. But first, let’s install the suite.

Win8

Windows

Expression Blend - Playing with Sample Data (WPF , Windows Phone)

23 Jul 2014 by Saad_Mahmood

Expression Blend - Playing with Sample Data (WPF , Windows Phone)

Extended Windows Service Controller

3 Oct 2013 by Antonio Petricca

.NET ServiceController class extension

Extending MFC shell controls functionality

24 Jan 2016 by Vladimir Misovsky

Overriding CMFCShellTreeCtrl and CMFCShellListCtrl classes

Fast Point Cloud Viewer with C# and OpenGL

17 Aug 2016 by Edgar Maass

Open and display point clouds using a simple user control. Technology used: C# and the OpenGL library via the OpenTK port to .NET.

Fault Tolerance for Large Files on Cranky Hardware

13 Sep 2012 by sbarnes

WPF and Form utilities that do a better job copying and comparing large files on cranky hardware. Plea for software manufacturers to consider fault tolerance.

G3log, asynchronous logging the easy way

20 Aug 2014 by KjellKod.cc

Asynchronous, "crash safe" logging with dynamic logging sinks

Game Optimization for Ultrabook™ Devices

16 Oct 2014 by Lee Bamber

In this article you will learn how to improve the speed of your 3D game and understand what to look out for when porting your application to Ultrabook systems.

Gameplay: Touch Controls and 2-in-1 Awareness for Your Favorite Games

25 Mar 2014 by Erik Niemeyer, Chris Kirkpatrick

Ideum’s collaboration with Intel gave them access to technology and engineering resources to make the touch overlay and 2-in-1 awareness in Gameplay possible.

Win8

Windows

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Gameplay: Touch controls for your favorite games

17 Jan 2014 by Erik Niemeyer

An overview of gameplay software for Windows 8 lets gamers use and build their own Virtual Controllers for touch, which are overlaid on top of existing PC games

Win8

Windows

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GDrive Explorer - For Google Drive

16 Sep 2013 by tumbledDown2earth

Browse your Google Drive and integrate your windows explorer with a Google's storage Cloud

Get HDD Serial Number with C#

10 Jun 2018 by hasan bozkurt

How to obtain HDD information with C#

Getting All "Special Folders" via VB.NET

12 Apr 2016 by Jalapeno Bob

A VB.NET version of Ray Koopa's 21 Mar 2016 article, Getting All "Special Folders" in .NET

Getting Started with Azure API Management

26 Mar 2015 by Gaurav Aroraa

In this article, we will discuss basics of Azure API Management to manage our Web API.

Getting Started with Mean Stack

23 Dec 2015 by Ashwin. Shetty

Writing your first app using Mean Stack (M = MongoDB, E = Express.JS, A = Angular.JS and N = Node.js)

Hello B4A: Develop Native Android Apps using Visual Basic Syntax

8 Nov 2016 by Anele 'Mashy' Mbanga

Using Basic4Android, develop your first Android Native App

Highlight GridView rows in JavaScript and CSS

6 Oct 2015 by Fandango68

Use JavaScript to manage control layouts, formatting and highlights, without the need for Postback which is not so clean.

Hot Shots* Warps Conventional Touch Gaming

8 Apr 2014 by William Van Winkle

Recently, the Intel® App Innovation Contest in partnership with the Intel® Developer Zone sent developers a challenge to find the next big target in touch, and >Adam Hill may have blasted it with his award-winning Hot Shots* spaceship game.

Win8

Windows

product-showcase

How to build ultimate XBMC HTPC for less than $200 (Kodi)

25 Sep 2015 by lepipele

Enjoy watching your videos on the big screen by building your own Home Theater PC and using XBMC / Kodi. Article also touches on other Media Players like Roku 3, Apple TV, Android TV Boxes...

How to create a UserControl (WPF) which allows the user to pick a directory

5 Jun 2014 by LLLLGGGG

In this article we are going to build a UserControl in WPF which is intended to make the user choose a directory in his FIleSystem

How to diagnose JavaScript Errors Faster with Error

13 Feb 2013 by HTML5 Partners

The increasing power and complexity of these apps means developers need better tools like Error.stack for handling errors and diagnosing bugs. In this article, I’ll show you some simple debugging techniques to help save you time.

How to do some magic with indexedDB

26 Mar 2014 by David Fahlander

Discover the hidden features of indexedDB!

How to Use Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) in C++ with gSOAP

13 Jul 2017 by Chris Moutsos

How to connect to Amazon S3 with gSOAP to store and retrieve data

How to Write a 2 in 1 aware Application

6 Nov 2014 by Stevan Rogers

Dynamically adapting your UI to 2 in 1 configuration changes

Win8

Windows

artificial-intelligence

HUD window 64-bit (DWM composition)

2 Jan 2014 by zapsolution

DWM composition

Image Cryptography using RSA Algorithm in C#

21 Apr 2014 by SOHAM_GANDHI

Image cryptography using RSA algorithm in C#

Image Enabled Windows Store Applications with LEADTOOLS

7 Jan 2013 by LEADTOOLS Support

The advanced WinRT imaging technology in LEADTOOLS will include everything developers need to build imaging enabled Windows Store applications including support for loading and saving over 100 file formats, PDF and PDF/A, touch screen enabled viewer controls, annotations and image processing.

Image Warping using Simplified MLS in C#/WPF

7 Jan 2014 by wim4you

Demo Program WarpImage, Creating and Dragging linked points(Thumbnails,MVVM), access all pixels from/to WPF image, rigid MLS algorithm

Implementing multi-user multi-touch scenarios using WPF in Windows* 8 Desktop Apps

17 Jan 2014 by meghana-rao

In this paper we walk through a sample application (in this case a game that quizzes people on the Periodic Table) that enables multi-user, multi-touch capability and is optimized for large touchscreen displays.

Implementing WinRT Interfaces Defined Using WRL/C++ with WRL/C++, C++/CX and C#

8 Jan 2013 by orouit

This article demonstrates how to implement interfaces defined for a WinRT component using WRL and C++.

Install and boot Windows 8 from vhd

8 Jun 2012 by marcofranssen

In a previous blog post I explained to you how to install Windows 8 in a virtual machine in VirtualBox. In VirtualBox I used 1 gig of memory and 2 of my cores and it performed quite good. However in the metro interface I had some issues with my mouse (scrolling, delays etc.) So yesterday [...]

Integrate Azure IoT Backend for Application

25 Mar 2015 by Nathaniel_Chen

This article show how to integrate Arduino, RaspberryPi, Azure EventHubs, WorkRole, WebService, WCF with Restful API to build a simple IoT information service backend connect by Universal App.

Introduction to Programming with LEADTOOLS .NET OCR - Multi-threaded OCR SDK for 32 and 64 Bit Development

7 Jan 2013 by LEADTOOLS Support

Introduce you to the key features of the new .NET OCR classes, provide you with a step-by-step approach for creating an OCR application, and provide you with sample code.

IOT Jukebox

26 Oct 2014 by Abhishek Nandy

An Overview of IOT

Keyword Extraction Based On Entropy Difference

9 Sep 2013 by BjutCS

Here ,we provide simple and practical keyword extraction software and dll for long text

Kinect v2 Point Cloud Scanner and Viewer

3 Apr 2017 by Edgar Maass

Display a Point Cloud grabbed by the Microsoft Kinect v2 in a OpenGL control

Klubd

18 Aug 2013 by Abhishek Nandy

Every Possible solution at one place

Win8

Windows

Krita* Gemini* - Twice as Nice on a 2-in-1

25 Mar 2014 by Tim_Duncan

This article will discuss how the Krita developers added 2 in 1 mode-awareness - including implementation of both automatic and user-selected mode switching and some of the areas developers should consider when creating applications for the 2 in 1 experience to their applications.

Win8

Windows

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Learn to make your app to run best on Win8 across multiple devices including the latest 2 in 1’s. Watch now!

6 Nov 2014 by meghana-rao

Learn cutting edge UX from our world-class, featured expert, Luke Wroblewski and unlock the incredible capabilities, opportunities and user experiences that 2 in 1 devices can deliver.

Win8

Windows

Learning Test Driven Development with TDD Katas

14 Mar 2015 by Gaurav Aroraa