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

Lee Algorithm Mazesolver

3 Mar 2024 by Shao Voon Wong

Lee Algorithm Mazesolver in MFC and Direct2D

C++

Win7

Win8

Win10

Windows

DirectX

MFC

How to return to function LAV video decoder 32bit?

13 Oct 2022 by Member 14968061

Graph Construction Report: 0.000 sec Failed to render pin Video on filter LAV Splitter Source CLSID {B98D13E7-55DB-4385-A33D-09FD1BA26338} Object Name LAV Splitter Source File Name LAVSplitter.ax File Path C:\Program Files (x86)\LAV...

Win8

How to return to function LAV video decoder 32bit?

13 Oct 2022 by Dave Kreskowiak

About the only place you're going to get help with this is the people who wrote the decoder.

Win8

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

14 Jan 2022 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.

How to calculate point lope form calculator ?

27 Jul 2021 by RAJVEER EXIM

Hi All I need to draw the symmetric drawing on canvas control of XAML. please give me some tips and if possible examples. for reference: Point Slope Form Calculator Thank You What I have tried: searched on internet for solution but found...

Win8

Windows

XAML

How to calculate point lope form calculator ?

27 Jul 2021 by Gerry Schmitz

That would be a line. Given x, y and the slope, you can calculate the end points. 3 Ways to Find the Slope of an Equation - wikiHow[^] How to: Draw a Line - WPF .NET Framework | Microsoft Docs[^] Or, calculate the angle (tangent) and rotate a...

Win8

Windows

XAML

How do I get general information from a process using pinvoke

3 Jul 2021 by Member 7730841

I found my mistake. I used handle_get = new IntPtr(); Whereas I needed to use handle_get = new IntPtr(win); It's working now. I get the title, and the rectangle. I just need to fix the rectangle as it's not correct.

Win8

PInvoke

How do I get general information from a process using pinvoke

2 Jul 2021 by Member 7730841

I have located my program from the processes targetHandle = targetProcess.MainWindowHandle; I now can get the Handle's hex which I use in spy++ (just preference) hex = targetHandle.ToString("X"); I convert it to an integer win =...

Win8

PInvoke

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.

Cannot find specified file error Python 3

18 Jul 2020 by Printer Overlord

I've been making a some stupid code and i'm trying to play a sound. However when I run the code (without the timer and such so I can test if it works) I get this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:/Users/hpdes/Desktop/Corona...

Python3.6

Win8

Cannot find specified file error Python 3

18 Jul 2020 by Garth J Lancaster

The last line of the error trace says it all .. Printer Overlord wrote: Cannot find the specified file. Make sure the path and filename are correct. I think you'd be better off with a fully qualified path to the file for example ...

Python3.6

Win8

Need a solution to prevent a directx full screen game from minimizing when an overlying window gets focus.

16 Apr 2020 by Member 14380227

Hello friends, I write on a keyboard and mouse emulation program that receives input from a joystick or gampad. A lot of people have already written something like that. It is important to me if the game is running and I want to assign a setting...

C++14

Win10

Win8

Need a solution to prevent a directx full screen game from minimizing when an overlying window gets focus.

16 Apr 2020 by steveb

Direct X window is nothing more but a regular "Windows OS" window and it obeys the standard Windows API. There is obviously some code in your program that minimizes it, as it is not a standard Window behavior - you need a special code for that....

C++14

Win10

Win8

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

UpdaterApp - a Library for Easy Update

26 Sep 2019 by William Costa Rodrigues

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

(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...

C#7.0

Win8

Windows

Power shell commands returning the improper user name format

16 Apr 2019 by Member 14047666

(get-wmiobject Win32_ComputerSystem –ComputerName "").UserName is returning the user name in the below format // The above User name format will get when i logged in with Microsoft credentials. When i logged in with Local account to PC, the...

Power shell commands returning the improper user name format

16 Apr 2019 by Dave Kreskowiak

That's normal. Powershell is returning whatever WMI is returning. WMI returns the fully qualified "domain\username". If you want just the user name, you're going to have to parse that string or split it on the "\" character and just return the string after the split. You can do that like this: ...

A Very Basic Singely Linked List for VBA

16 Mar 2019 by WhiskeyBeforeWater

A nodular Singely Linked List for VBA with some basic functions

Detect VM on windows

16 Mar 2019 by RomTibi

I search a solution to detect that my program runs on VM. I found one and I don't know that is effective on every VM type or just in particular cases. This is the link: [C] Detect Hypervisor - Pastebin.com[^] What I have tried: works on VMware under Windows 10

Win10

Win8

Detect VM on windows

16 Mar 2019 by RickZeeland

Some code from Pastebin does not look like a very reliable source to me, instead see answers here: .net - How to detect if my application is running in a virtual machine? - Stack Overflow[^]

Win10

Win8

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)

Computer Temperatures, Fan Speeds, etc.

16 Oct 2018 by JL Doty

Fully exploit features of OpenHardwareMonitorLib.dll

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

Get HDD Serial Number with C#

10 Jun 2018 by hasan bozkurt

How to obtain HDD information with C#

Tiled Background for Windows Store Applications

25 Mar 2018 by Matej Pavlů

Creating a replacement for missing TileBrush known from WPF.

Bug Finder, A Real Win32 Extensible Passive Debugger

28 Feb 2018 by Antonio Petricca

Win32, compiler independent, and extensible passive debugger

Fixing Inconsistent Stroke Width of Chinese Characters

29 Jan 2018 by Shao Voon Wong

Fixing Inconsistent Stroke Width of Chinese Characters

Delete the latest file of each filename each month

9 Nov 2017 by Graeme_Grant

This will do it succinctly for you: var inFiles = new List { "Report 1 2017-08-01.xls", "Report 1 2017-08-09.xls", "Report 1 2017-08-27.xls", "Report 1 2017-09-01.xls", "Report 1 2017-09-09.xls", "Report 1 2017-09-18.xls", "Report 2 2017-08-01.xls", ...

Win8

Visual-Studio

Delete the latest file of each filename each month

9 Nov 2017 by Member 12341536

Dear all, first of all let me try to describe what i am trying to do. lets say we have several files in a Folder. The Names are name as follows: Report 1 2017-08-01.xls Report 1 2017-08-09.xls Report 1 2017-08-27.xls Report 1 2017-09-01.xls Report 1 2017-09-09.xls Report 1 2017-09-18.xls ...

Win8

Visual-Studio

Delete the latest file of each filename each month

9 Nov 2017 by Ralf Meier

How would you do it if you do it by yourself ? I would build a List only with those files which have the same Reportname, Year and Month. Now sort this List descending - after that you will get the latest File on Top. Each FileName at the List-Entry 1 or higher could be deleted. Repeat this with...

Win8

Visual-Studio

Fill circle with animating waves

2 Sep 2017 by Member 13390259

have a circle (Ellipse) in my windows phone app

Win10

Win8

UWP

Fill circle with animating waves

2 Sep 2017 by Graeme_Grant

Where are you stuck? Is it the WPF VisualBrush? According to the documentation[^]: Quote: Paints an area with a Visual. Now, Google Search is the first place to look. Here is the search that I used: uwp visualbrush - Google Search[^] First search result was this: Composition brushes - UWP app...

Win10

Win8

UWP

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

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

Excel Search Tool (Macro)

12 Jun 2017 by LukeCodes

This is a simple macro script to search and retrieve individual cells in an Excel document.

Wiener filter for images

10 May 2017 by Member 13192524

Help please remove the interference from the resulting image. What I have tried: The distortion function works, the filter is also, but the result is a reconstructed image with noises. Thank you in advance Project reference: dropmefiles.com/H3V01

Win8

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

Mo+ - A model oriented programming language and IDE for model oriented development

21 Mar 2017 by Dave Clemmer

Mo+ is the first technology that fully supports model oriented development, allowing software developers to powerfully scale the work they already do.

Getting Started with MonoGame using Visual Studio

15 Mar 2017 by Simon Jackson

MonoGame (for those of you not yet aware) is a Game Building Framework / API born from the ashes that was the Microsoft XNA Framework that provides a very easy to use API to build games.

I get always and every time different resx file error. Why?

8 Mar 2017 by kuzupala

Hi,I'm using vs2013 vb.net - asp.net when i my project run, get i always and every time different resx file error.Sorry i forget the error text:Server Error in Application /.Compilation errorsDescription: An error occurred while compiling a resource that is required to process this...

Win8

VS2013

ASP.NET

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.

Send Fax with fax-modem in C#

11 Dec 2016 by Md. Faroque Hossain

Sending Faxes with fax-modem and telephone line in C#

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.

Using SQLite, Leverage the create_aggregate(), and SQL's Between Operator to Create a Normal Probability Distribution Histogram, or What is More Commonly Referred to as a Bell Curve

8 Dec 2016 by rerhart585

Using SQLite, leverage the create_aggregate(), and SQL's Between Operator to create a Normal Probability Distribution Histogram, or what is more commonly referred to as a Bell Curve.

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

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

Searchable WPF TreeView

13 Oct 2016 by Fredrik Bornander

Showing how to prune nodes of a TreeView as a means of searching

How to register for touch events in MFC activex control ?

3 Oct 2016 by Itz.Irshad

A MFC ActiveX Control was developed in VS2005. The control is used in WinForms application.I would like to capture the touch events in that control which will be used in Windows Tablet (Windows 8).Could anybody help me out how to resolve this error ?Thanks,What I have tried:I...

WPF and multi-touch

30 Sep 2016 by Florian Rappl

Exploring WPF capabilities, limitations and work-arounds to create state-of-the-art applications with multi-touch features.

Creating a Link in the Left Pane of the File Explorer - like OneDrive or DropBox

22 Aug 2016 by Sujith Karivelil

Creating a link in the left pane of the file Explorer - like OneDrive or DropBox

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.

Point cloud alignment: ICP methods compared

15 Aug 2016 by Edgar Maass

Different methods to align (aka stich, register) point clouds via the ICP (Iterative Closest Point) method

Epson printer integration win 8.1 winjs apps

11 Aug 2016 by RafiuddinKOH

Hi,I am facing issue integrating Epson POS Printer for receipts on Win 8.1 WinJS app.What I have tried:I have tried different solutions, here are details:1. Using: Window.Devices library on Windows 8.1. Issue: In Win 8.1 Windows.Devices.PointOfService does not contains...

Win8

POS.NET

Desktop Screen Capture on Windows via Windows Desktop Duplication API with Drawing of Cursor's Image

2 Aug 2016 by Evgeny Pereguda

Simple article about using of Desktop Duplication API for capture desktop screen WITH image of cursor

Sample VB.NET Program using Google APIs for .NET V3 with YouTube

26 Jul 2016 by Mike Meinz

Provides a sample program using Google APIs for .NET V3 with YouTube

Unable to finde string finctions like right, left and mid in WP VB.NET

14 Jul 2016 by aamir_shaheen

I am developing a windows phone app which requires some string manipulation. but its still really hard for me to find proper code for that, I also triedMicrosoft.Visualbasicbut nothing there.let suppose I have two string variablesDim var1 as String="123456789"Dim var2 as...

Win10

Win8

string

Unable to finde string finctions like right, left and mid in WP VB.NET

14 Jul 2016 by OriginalGriff

Try:Dim var1 as String="123456789"Dim var2 as String = var1.Substring(3, 3)

Win10

Win8

string

Live uploading of video from web camera on YouTube service on Windows 8 and Windows 10

26 Jun 2016 by Evgeny Pereguda

Simple imitation of direct streaming of live video from web cam on YouTube service on Windows 8 and Windows 10

MFC:how to hide the program ICON in the task bar in win8.1

20 May 2016 by LubinLew

How to hide the Program ICON in the task bar in Win8.1.I tried the API ModifyStyleEx(WS_EX_APPWINDOW, WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW), but not worked.void CMFC_NotifyIconDlg::ShowHide(bool flag){ static CRect TmpRect; if (flag) {//show ModifyStyleEx(WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW,...

MFC:how to hide the program ICON in the task bar in win8.1

20 May 2016 by Richard MacCutchan

The issue is that you must use WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW when you first create the Window. It will then not show up on the task bar. But if you change its type at a later time it will still not show. The type of Window is established at create time.

PolyHook - The C++11 x86/x64 Hooking Library

17 May 2016 by stevemk14ebr

A modern, universal, c++ hooking library.

Why running PHP in sublime text 3 doesn't work in windows?

12 May 2016 by stackprogramer

hi , my friend for setting my sublime text3 in win8 ,i did these work:tools>build sytem>new build systemi write in this file below and save as php name.{ "cmd": ["D:\\xamp\\php\\php.exe", "$file"], "file_regex": "php$", "selector": "source.php"}please...

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

Using the Windows MIDI SYSEX API in .NET

13 Apr 2016 by Steve Grundy

This article describes using the Windows MIDI API functions in a managed environment.

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

Your Own Recent File List(s)

5 Apr 2016 by Petrov Vladimir

The alternative way of recent files handling with the direct access to the list of the files notepad edit including.

To And From Binary Literals

5 Apr 2016 by Mark Kruger

To And From Binary Literals for all standard .net numeric value types.

Progress Bar in Cell – Excel

18 Mar 2016 by johnniealan

This article describes about adding progress bar in cell.

Open A Command Prompt Anywhere

8 Mar 2016 by Yvan Rodrigues

This hidden key-click combination adds the ability to open a command prompt window from a Windows Explorer view.

Can't access hub elements from class

4 Mar 2016 by zeeshanali1993

I had a xaml in mainpage and want to access it's elements like x:Name="D1P1" in a c# class but can't use it and get an error the name "D1P1" does not exist in the current context any idea how to access the hub elements in c# class I use FindName but it did't work

Win8

Windows

XAML

Can't access hub elements from class

4 Mar 2016 by hitech_s

You cannot access controls inside a hub section as because they were inside a data template. if you use MVVM you can bind the data.

Win8

Windows

XAML

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

Extending MFC shell controls functionality

24 Jan 2016 by Vladimir Misovsky

Overriding CMFCShellTreeCtrl and CMFCShellListCtrl classes

From Task to Async/Await

17 Jan 2016 by SubhamoyBurman

Use of Task Parallel Library and Async/Await in your application

how to use curl to program

28 Dec 2015 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

If you mean cURL, you can start, for example, here:libcurl - programming tutorial[^],libcurl - source code examples[^],cURL - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[^].Not to be mixed with Curl programming language. :-)—SA

C++11

Win8

how to use curl to program

28 Dec 2015 by Member 11378829

i want to a learn how kow to use curl,please give a demo,thanks you

C++11

Win8

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)

How skip additional login in Windows 8.1 store app in http claims basic authentication

8 Dec 2015 by Jithin Geroge

I getting a additional login in windows store app login with message show belowThe server Domain.net is asking for your user name and password. The server reports that it is from localhost.Waring: your user name and password will be sent using basic authentication on a connection that...

WRL Collection Library Ported to Native C++

6 Dec 2015 by Gregory Morse

WRL Collection library ported to native C++