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Get Ready for Windows 10: How to Make "Get Windows 10" Icon Appear in Your Windows taskbar

by Arthur V. Ratz

This tip is especially useful for users who own the licensed copy of Windows 7/8/8.1, and would like to upgrade to Windows 10 after July 29, 2015.

Smart WPF Login Overlay (Windows 8 Style)

by DotNetMastermind

Login Overlay for WPF applications with a styling similar to the Windows 8 Login Screen.

Port a 2D libgdx game to MonoGame

by Giannakakis Kostas

Port your libgdx games to run in Windows Phone and Windows 8 platforms

Autoshutdown Service in C#

by Kees van Spelde

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

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Lee Algorithm Mazesolver

by Shao Voon Wong

Lee Algorithm Mazesolver in MFC and Direct2D

Make Buzzer (Internal Speaker) Sound in Windows 7/8/10 32bit / 64bit

by Andreoli Carlo

In our company, we find ourselves in need of using the internal PC (buzzer) on Windows7 64bit. At the end, we figured out how to do it.

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

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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'minValue' cannot be greater than maxValue error.

9 Oct 2013 by Glen Childs

Hello, I am trying to read in a text file (Words.txt) and then select a word out from the "Words.txt" file. However I am now receiving a 'minValue' cannot be greater than maxValue error.Can anyone help me with what I may have done wrong? My WordListHelper class:public class...

'minValue' cannot be greater than maxValue error.

9 Oct 2013 by lukeer

Looks like _wordList.Count equals zero.Are you sure that _wordlist is filled with all the data needed when you call GetWord()?

'minValue' cannot be greater than maxValue error.

9 Oct 2013 by phil.o

It seems _wordList is empty, so _wordList.Count - 1 = -1First of all since _wordList is declared at your class level you should not prefix its use with type in the ProjectFile() method: private async void ProjectFile() { var _Folder =...

(Get-wmiobject win32_computersystem).username returns invalid value

16 Apr 2019 by OriginalGriff

Deleting doesn't seem to be working: so I'll post this here to remove it from the "unanswered" queue and delete it later when the DB is feeling less "fragile"... This is the same question as you posted yesterday: Power shell commands returning the improper user name format[^] Please do not...

.NET Code Comment Utilities

19 Mar 2015 by Peter T. Ringering

A program that makes editing code comments and XML comments easier.

3-D's of Windows 8.1 Store Background App

11 Mar 2014 by Prasanna Venkatesh . K

Writing a Windows store background app from the scratch

3D effects in Windows Store App

2 Feb 2014 by AnobikDey

A description of how images and other controls can be rotated and used to give 3d Effect in Windows Store Apps

5 Unforgivable Windows 8 RTM Problems

23 Aug 2012 by Sam Meacham

This post discusses 5 unforgivable Windows 8 RTM problems

[Concept] Sending video and audio data between 2 computers c# windows form

30 Nov 2013 by agent_kruger

i would like to know the concept of transferring data between 2 computers over internet.Example code will be appriciated. Thanks In Advance.

[Concept] Sending video and audio data between 2 computers c# windows form

30 Nov 2013 by OriginalGriff

If you have "refered many google links" then what do you expect us to tell you that you haven't found? Especially in a little textbox like this?Go back to Google, and look again: it contains a huge amount of information on the subject which will better answer a general question such as this.

[Not a question] accelerometer mouse using atmega 32 and bluetooth module.

16 Nov 2013 by Member 10406393

i want to make tilt sensing mouse which can be use by head movement. accelerometer used for tilt sensing and a IR object sensor detect eye blink for click the button. what are the codes to connect this with my pc.

[Not a question] accelerometer mouse using atmega 32 and bluetooth module.

16 Nov 2013 by OriginalGriff

It doesn't quite work like that.We do not do your work for you.If you want someone to write your code, you have to pay - I suggest you go to VWorker.com and ask there.But be aware: you get what you pay for. Pay peanuts, get monkeys.

[Security Vulurability] direct invocation of regedit via Process.Start()

6 Jun 2013 by ZeroPointSoftware

I've stumbled accross a possible way to bypass UAC which seems kind of troublesome.Normally inserting values into certain portions of the registry programmaticly requires UAC Elevation to a user with administrative priveledges on the target machine. Right?That being said, should I be...

[Security Vulurability] direct invocation of regedit via Process.Start()

6 Jun 2013 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

I don't think so. Starting from Vista, and reasonably set up, I think, only in Windows 7, UAC is not to be bypassed. I mean, you can bypass UAC only if the user gives an explicit permission. In particular, the whole UAC check can be disabled for a whole system, and then the system really becomes...

[Solved]How i transfer web service list to windows 8 app?

24 Jun 2013 by berkayerdi

[WebMethod]public List getParameters() { DataSet ds = new DataSet(); string connect = "Data Source=BERKAY-PC\\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=Hastahane;Integrated Security=True;"; SqlConnection deneme = new SqlConnection(connect); ...

[Solved]How i transfer web service list to windows 8 app?

24 Jun 2013 by OriginalGriff

Answered only to remove from unanswered list: solved by OP.

[UWP]- OnActivated Event not fired in windows 10 machine for a windows 8 app

20 Aug 2015 by hitech_s

I have windows 8 app with notifications enabled. it works great in windows 8, 8.1 and in windows 10 machine too. But i got the problem is when user taps on notification it is getting the launch attributues from LAunchEvent in windows 8 and 8.1 apps and based on the launch parameter of toast...

A Good Desktop Software in Users' Eyes

26 Sep 2015 by Southmountain

Some take-away to improve the quality of desktop software

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

Windows-Phone-8

A Lightweight File Backup Manager

24 Jan 2015 by shijo joseph

A file backup manager with simple user interface and all the essential functionalities.

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.

A Simple C++ Profiler on x64

5 Aug 2014 by Babu_Abdulsalam

A Simple Profiler for C++ apps on x64 platform

A Small Doubt in C# Code

12 Sep 2013 by Char Waka

using System;using System.Collections.Generic;using System.Linq;using System.Net;using System.Windows;using System.Windows.Controls;using System.Windows.Navigation;using Microsoft.Phone.Controls;using Microsoft.Phone.Shell;using ListPicker.Resources;namespace...

A Small Doubt in C# Code

12 Sep 2013 by MuhammadUSman1

Please check following link.Hope so it'll resolve your issue.ComboBox.SelectedIndexChanged Event

A Small Doubt in C# Code

12 Sep 2013 by lukeer

Change the type of your Country variable. String is only good to show that string. I'd use a custom class that wraps a CultureInfo[^]. This type provides country codes and your custom wrapper can make it appear like you need it:public class Country{ private...

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)

A StringFormat Replacement for Windows RT

18 Apr 2013 by Yvan Rodrigues

A simple but effective way for format bound data in XAML with the Windows Runtime

A Text Editor App in Windows Store

8 Feb 2016 by Azim Zahir

This is a Text Editor App for Windows 8.

A Tiny Custom List Control

25 Aug 2014 by HateCoding

A tiny custom list control

custom-controls

a tools for retrieving sentences and terms of a Web Page

26 Apr 2014 by r.kh

Hi friends.I need a software that retrieve sentences and terms of each sentence, but i dont know how to search for it?In other words this tools should list all sentence and terms of each sentence.Can you help me for this?Thank you?

a tools for retrieving sentences and terms of a Web Page

27 Apr 2014 by Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)

Seems like Homework. Please try something on your own. Also explain what have you tried for this.You mentioned about retrieving sentences and terms. But from where and why? We can't make out these things, if you won't explain us, right? What are those sentences and what are terms refer...

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)

A Very Basic Singely Linked List for VBA

16 Mar 2019 by WhiskeyBeforeWater

A nodular Singely Linked List for VBA with some basic functions

Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))

4 Jul 2013 by Char Waka

actually Save as pdf button in my app working fine.but today morning whenever i press that button the above error was displaying kindly hep me to solvesee this screen shot of this errorhttp://www.mediafire.com/?pkim36hpac9gkz4[^]Updated:but i am unable to openn iis manger in...

Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))

4 Jul 2013 by Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)

I guess this is a permission issue.Refer - Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))?[^].

Activating WRL Audio Interfaces in Native C++

7 May 2014 by Gregory Morse

Activating WRL audio interfaces in native C++

multi-threading

Adding Arrow shape on canvas in windows store apps

3 Jun 2014 by Vinay Sakpal

Hello,I need to add an arrow shape ( || ) on canvas.Anybody can help me out in this?Thanks,Vinay

Adding Arrow shape on canvas in windows store apps

3 Jun 2014 by Naz_Firdouse

Have a look at thishttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/1563285/how-to-draw-an-arrow-in-silverlight[^]

Adding Arrow shape on canvas in windows store apps

5 Jun 2014 by Vinay Sakpal

Thanks for reply.Above link has resolved my problem.Thanks

AdRotator for Windows 8

23 Oct 2012 by Simon Jackson

AdRotator for Windows 8

Alarm in C#

6 Oct 2014 by Shah Ankita

This code sample demonstrates how to set an alarm notification.

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

Animation height of ItemsControl in windows 8 trough code

19 Apr 2013 by Shashank Bisen

In Win8 app I am trying animation height of ItemsControl. It worked through XAML with the help of this post, but when I tried through code it not happening. Am I missing something? private static void AnimateSection(ItemsControl itemsControl, double fromHeight, double toHeight) { ...

App not getting notifications in windows 10

14 Jul 2015 by hitech_s

Hi All,I have a windows 8 app which is toast capable. currently i installed this app in my laptop with windows 8.1 OS. Notifications(tile and toast) are working fine. while i installed the same app in Windows 10 machine with build number 10162, my app is not showing up in the list of apps...

AppInnovation Contest - Windows 8 needed ?

7 Oct 2012 by Richard MacCutchan

You should post this question here[^],

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).

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Arrays Generator

26 Jul 2015 by Alaa Ben Fatma

Generate your arrays using a GUI tool

Async MVVM Modern UI

16 Aug 2012 by Juan Pablo G.C.

Using MVVM with Windows 8 Modern UI.

async WCF call in Suspending event

18 Nov 2012 by boco10

Hy there,I've just started develop apps to win8. Win8 app closing event does not exist, only suspended event. I've and app, that should log out from a database, when the user close the app. I have a WCF service that handle the database operations. I call the WCF service from suspending...

async WCF call in Suspending event

19 Nov 2012 by earloc

I recently read about something similar and i did not try it out myself, but it seems to me like the runtime cancells your operation.try notifying the runtime of your outstanding operation by requesting a SuspendingDeferral[^]:private async void Current_Suspending(object sender,...

Attachment to Email in WindowsPhone

26 Jun 2013 by pranavshah598

I Want to send file...but attachment option is not available in windows phone...can anyone help me how to send this file......

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.

Autos - Immediate Access to Resources Without Clicking

1 Jan 2015 by tc99

Immediate access to resources without clicking

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]

Avi File empty property Sheet (Closing Files in C#)

3 Dec 2014 by fabbi008

I wrote a class to write an avi file byte per byte. It works fine, Media Player and Virtual Dub can play and handle the video. The problem is, the video details in the Windows property sheet are completely empty, no heigth, width, etc.. I compare the header to a fully functional file in a...

Avi File empty property Sheet (Closing Files in C#)

3 Dec 2014 by Milfje

Perhaps this may be of help:AVI File Structure[^]

Avi File empty property Sheet (Closing Files in C#)

4 Dec 2014 by fabbi008

I made a mistake when i copy the virtualDub structure in my programm. There was a padding Junk-Chunk with some Text in it. I thought it doesn't matter. The was wrong! Know there stands a custom text and everything works fine.

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 (+, /, *, -)

Basic MVVM Listbox Binding in WPF

11 Aug 2014 by Jdarmanovich

Basic MVVM pattern for binding items to a listbox in WPF

Batch wildcards in if statement

31 Jul 2013 by G4mm4R4y

Im saying this at the beginning so it doesn't happen: Don't say anything bad about batch its needed for a reason.I need wildcards in an if statement something likeif "food is good"=="food * good" echo Yes I agree it is (Wildcard)Is...

Batch wildcards in if statement

31 Jul 2013 by OriginalGriff

AFAIK the batch IF Statement only works on string equality / non-equality, there are no wildcards.However, it would not be difficult to write a quick'n'dirty application which takes two strings as parameters, and returns ERRORLEVEL 0 for equality and +1 and -1 for greater and less than. Since...

Bidirectional Replication - in MySQL

28 Jan 2015 by Sujith Karivelil

In Master - Slave replication, Changes in master will reflect in Slave. but any changes made in the slave Database will not reflect back in Master, this article will help you to implement Bidirectional Replication.

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binding different values to user control through viewmodel in MVVM

17 Dec 2014 by Vivek S Kale

I have user control like below: x:Class="ScoreCardInMVVM.Common.ImageButtonControl" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns:local="using:ScoreCardInMVVM.Common" ...

binding different values to user control through viewmodel in MVVM

18 Dec 2014 by Vivek S Kale

pls somebody ans above quesiton

4 Sep 2013 by Abhishek Nandy

Touch break and move the game objects

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.

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# How To Read .xlsx Excel File With 3 Lines of Code

29 Jul 2014 by dietmar paul schoder

Read rows and cells from an xlsx-file: quick, dirty, effective.

C# Web.config file giving unknown issues

23 Jun 2013 by M.R. Inc

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C# Web.config file giving unknown issues

24 Jun 2013 by _Asif_

Seems like this web.config is not XML compliant. Save this web.config as test.xml and load it in IE and check what is the error. Hopefully this should resolve your issue.Thanks

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

multi-threading

Calculating hash values in Windows Metro Style applications using C#

4 Mar 2013 by Tyronne Thomas

Calculating hash values in Windows Metro style applications using C# and .NET 4.5.

Calendar and Xml file

2 Feb 2014 by Kadev

hi i want develop a calendar which save the date enter by user and push toast notification in some date, but the Toast notification use xml files,how can i use xml file like a data base and save in it the user's data i don't know how ,could you help me ?)

Calling All Stations

5 Dec 2014 by KarstenK

Interoperability: Calling C++ from C#

Camera Driver not working in Windows 8

22 Aug 2013 by Akmal Abbas Naqvi

I have a dll file called MLScreenCapturePXT.dll , it is used to register the medialooks screen capture driver for flash , When i register this dll in windows 7 the drivers get registered successfully and we can see them in adobe flash camera setting but when i register the same dll in...

Can I Bind items from the List?

4 Aug 2014 by berkayerdi

public async Task> Load() { _n++; var categories = await NewsLoader.LoadNewsAsync(); return categories; } protected async override void OnNavigatedTo(NavigationEventArgs e) { var x...

Can I change the AllUsersProfile

11 Mar 2014 by CodingLover

Hi all,Is it possible to change AllUsersProfile environment variable value? If so where I can find it on Windows 7.I've checked on environment variables dialog, but I couldn't find any.Thanks in advance.

Can I Convert A 16 Bit Exe File To 64 Bit So That I Can Run On Latest Os?

20 Dec 2014 by Member 11325681

can i do it? any soft to help me out i made a soft n turbo c++ nd wana start in windows 8

Can I Convert A 16 Bit Exe File To 64 Bit So That I Can Run On Latest Os?

20 Dec 2014 by PIEBALDconsult

No. You cannot convert an already-compiled program.As Bill said, if you have the source code (and I think you do) then you can use a newer compiler to compile for the newer systems.As many have suggested to your many other questions, Visual Studio Express may be the right tool to...

Can I Convert A 16 Bit Exe File To 64 Bit So That I Can Run On Latest Os?

20 Dec 2014 by BillWoodruff

You need the source code; you may need to do minor, or major, work on the source code depending on what it does, uses, and requires, and you need to recompile for the target architecture. If you're lucky, the IDE you use (like Visual Studio) may be able to translate/transform for you.Or you...

Can I Convert A 16 Bit Exe File To 64 Bit So That I Can Run On Latest Os?

20 Oct 2020 by Member 14970986

Install vdos and use your application within it.

Can I create Windows 8 xaml app with phonegap

28 Jan 2014 by DeepsMann

Hi,I have created a WP8 application with phonegap. Now i need to create same application for Windows 8. PhoneGap says to create it using Html5/Javascript metro app. There i need to use windows Runtime Component to call C# code. I tried to use WebRequest in a windows Runtime Component class,...

Can I create Windows 8 xaml app with phonegap

29 Jan 2014 by Ahmed Bensaid

Visual Studio is your friend ;)http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/apps/br229519[^]

Can we use windows 8 app in android tab or in ipad

8 Aug 2013 by Sumit Kumar Singh India

Hi Guys,I have a client he want touch panel app for android tab. I want to make it in windows 8 (visual studio 2012) app store. Kindly tell me possibility.

Can XNA still be used for games targetting Windows phone store?

3 Jan 2013 by WajihaAhmed

I read this blog:http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2012/09/29/10354437.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage[^]which says that XNA can be used to create apps for windows phone store, but in another msdn article, it says that You can’t create new XNA Framework apps that target...