.NET 3.5 SP1 is here! It's time to break out your DirectX skills. This article provides the information necessary to get started using a new DirectX interop feature in WPF called D3DImage.
.NET 3.5 SP1 is here! It's time to break out your DirectX skills. This article provides the information necessary to get started using a new DirectX interop feature in WPF called D3DImage.
This series of articles is a step-by-step guide to reading files stored in your program's resources. Along the way I will present some non-MFC classes to assist you in reading text, binary, zip, and even encrypted files that have been compiled into your program as resources.
CProcessData is a template class that makes it easy to use data allocated in a different process, and is useful when making inter-process SendMessage/PostMessage calls.
Choosing the right synchronization mechanisms when working with threads, thread-pools, and I/O Completion ports to create high performance asynchronous servers in C++
To get qualified access to paper based information, sometimes more than plain OCR is needed. This article shows why, and offers a solution to increase OCR quality by semi-automatic table extraction.
UPDATE: 2015-07-30 - Works correctly in Windows 10 RTM (10.0.10240) with VS2013 and VS2015 - If you're running Windows 7, 8, 8.1 or 10 and you don't want to disable User Account Control (UAC) - which you shouldn't and quite possibly can't in a corporate environment - then you get an annoying prompt
This article describes a new approach by which an element can remove its visual and logical relationships to its children while maintaining a conceptual parental relationship with those children.
A tutorial on using owner-drawn menus in a context menu shell extensions, and on making a context menu extension that responds to a right-click in a directory background.
This article presents the techniques and caveats of building Silverlight applications that can be notified about database state changes via polling duplex. WSHttp binding and CLR triggers are used to implement the solution as well.
Learn how to build the body part of your DataGrid using Silverlight and the GOA Toolkit. Implement Virtual Mode, work with hierarchical data, and build cells and cells navigation.
Using the WebService Probe to publish details of the "talking" between the web service and its consumer. Here is its design, implementation and usage in the WebService Analyzer Studio.
This article introduces you to client side multi-column dynamic pivot, a cleaner, simpler and elegant alternative to the complex and convoluted dynamic server side pivot.
A full-scale all-assembly .DLL module for the situations that warrant it can offer a tremendous power and speed boost over using inline ASM or intrinsics alone.
Real-time detection and defense against malicious network activity and policy violations (exploits, port-scanners, advertising, telemetry, state surveillance, etc.)
Learn how to view a remote machine's file system using your own explorer like window, and transfer files and folders by dragging and dropping in C# using the TcpComm TCP library
The easiest way to implement the ToolStripControlHost and ToolStripDropDown classes, in a UserControl, in order to display a Container/Control beyond the limits of its Parent Container and Parent Form, with very few lines of code. Let's uncomplicate ...
Example of handling real-life challenges when hosting WebBrowser control: separate creation of hosting window and the control, keyboard shortcuts, control's dimensions, etc.
Chrome stores all passwords and other credentials in an encrypted database but guess what: they can be retrieved by anyone with the proper knowledge. This article will show you how.
This article is targeting architects and developers who are looking for a way to integrate .NET applications / Servers with IBM WebSphere MQ (IBM MQSeries).
Shows how a .NET based WebDAV server can be created by combining two Open Source projects. The example implementation returns files from a file system, but you can extend it to return resources from any repository.
In this article we will learn about EventAggregator and IActiveAware interface and its uses in WPF application using Prism. This is continuation of second part of article series having total three parts.
Application of SocketPro onto various databases for continuous inline request/result batching and real-time stream processing with bi-directional asynchronous data transferring
SignalR server and client applications for demonstrating common scenarios like connecting, disconnecting, joining and leaving groups, sending messages to all clients, to specific or group of clients
Normal maps are used for realtime 3D rendering (mostly in games) to improve the visual quality, but compressing them makes the 3D content look ugly, this tool helps to fix that problem.
This brief article describes how to use managed Direct3D to render texture bitmaps with alpha channels and transparency key colours onto vertices in C# with the aid of a MatrixStack.
This article focuses on internal supply chain management systems visibility via chart reports, and provides assessment apparatus to manage and monitor activities spawned during business processes, hence paves the way for timely and precise business decisions.
In this article, I explain, step by step, how we can use a WCF behavior for logging operation's invoke and result, errors, warnings and information logs that include the operation's details.
In this article, we will demonstrate how to compute full SVD of a given matrix A and discuss about the code in C++11 implementing the full SVD computation by using simple iteration and Jordan-Gaussian methods.
This article shows a set of templates created around the Microsoft Cabinet library. With these templates, you can extract cabinet files and cabinets stored in the resource section of a module. It can be easily extended to allow extraction through other means.
This article describes how to use a Teensy 3.1 board from PJRC.com to simulate keyboard, mouse and touch screen USB HID devices at the same time. This allows to remote-control a computer through one USB cable.
Windows has built inn support for a lot of keyboard languages, this class makes it possible to extract that info in an easy manner and present it to screen.
This article contains the public domain implementation of an interpreter for a statically typed stack-based programming language in C# called Cat. The accompanying article is a high-level description of how the various modules work, a brief description of the language, and links to related work.
This article will show how to use data binding and styles to show data coming from a Microsoft SQL database using the new object-relational model introduced in Visual Studio 2008, LINQ to SQL, allowing grouping, sorting and filtering of data with almost no code.
This article shows a detailed approach on how to dynamically point to a given shared data source reference by setting up an RDCE and using a couple of tips and tricks.
This article covers some details and issues in making an application used with Internet Explorer to download only unique images to a chosen folder. DUIapp creates and maintains an index in the folder to include unique and exclude duplicate images selected from IE web pages.
This article will cover the basics of network programming using Network View in Unity 3D. We will be creating an Authoritative Server based networking environment showcasing the basics functions of network programming using Unity 3D and C#.
This article is a practical guide on using Intel® Threading Building Blocks (TBB) and OpenMP libraries for C++ based on the example of delivering parallel scalable code that implements Burrows-Wheeler Transformation (BWT) algorithm.
Slink is a code generating Framework that generates type safe URLs for ASP.NET. With Slink URLs, you increase code quality, increase maintainability, and get compile time checking of your URLs in all your ASPX pages (code-behind and non-codebehind).
A How-To Guide for replacing the integrated ClickOnce technology built into Visual Studio, and control the install/update process using Visual Studio tools
MS Test Result Viewer is a free open source library to convert MS Test result (.trx) file into HTML. It is also allowed you to perform MS Test on your test container project (.dll) file. This utility will work with simple command line arguments to generate test report in HTML format with excellent U
An Enhanced Skype Chatter Bot, with a friendly user interface, programable knowledge base, testing interface with Export/Import knowledge base to files
Import photos & videos directly from smart phones and digital cameras using the Windows Photo Import API, for Windows Universal Apps and Classic Win32 applications on Windows 10 and beyond.
Historically, ETW has been portrayed as having a very steep learning curve, along the lines of the effort required to summit Everest. Realizing its potential value, I set about to reduce the effort to that required to summit Pike's Peak.
To work with Regions effectively in a Prism based WPF application, we must understand the relationship between WPF Controls, RegionAdapters and Regions. In this articles, we will learn about process of Region creation and critical role played by RegionAdapters with a demo application.
This is the second part of a multipart article on unifying web and window form application development. This part demonstrates synchronous and asynchronous event handling of GUI control events, abstracting the implementation of web/window forms to be technology independant.
Tutorial on creating your own collection classes that are enumerable and sortable. Explains in detail the usage of the IEnumerable, IEnumerator, IComparable and IComparer interfaces
This article will cover the basics of Leap Motion integration into your Unity 3D project. We will look at the basic setup and implementation of the basics to get you started. In order for you to try the code, you will need to have the Leap Motion hardware.
There are cases where it might be desirable to support character input without a keyboard attached in a more embedded application where the keyboard is displayed as part of the window.
In this article I take a look at setting up a system for HoloLens development, the compatibility of the applications with other UWP platforms, and introduce Unity for making a 3D application
The MakeCab tool is built-in in Windows but using it to create a .cab archive is a bit tricky. Why not write a small program that will do that for you?
This example COM component provides 3 COM objects for using the Win32 Mailslot IPC mechanism. The component may be useful if you need to communicate from VB using Mailslots.
Avoid horizontal scroll and effectivelly use whole horizontal control width: resize all columns except one to their content and this one to all remaining space.
This article shows how to create a very simple control in C# that overrides the ArrangeOverride, GetVisualChild, and VisualChildrenCount to create a panel that shadows and disables contained controls.
5-in-1 educational software package for Tablet PC/Win8: Fraction Calculator, Prime Factoring, Linear, Quadratic and System of Equation solvers (AIC-2013)
(Yet) another screen saver for the Code Project competition, with code in C# and (coming soon) some details about how certain aspects of the code involved work.
Implements an instrumented event manager which can be used to invoke event sinks both synchronously and asynchronously. The event sink can be declared using either the System.EventHandler delegate or by reflection.
Shows how to create a ToolTip provider that supports Balloon Tooltips, including issues related to creating extender properties and using the NativeWindow class.
An extended Static markup extension implementation for Silverlight 5 and WPF supporting invoking static methods with arguments, and a Silverlight Type markup extension implementation.
Use the GOLD Parser to define a language for mapping between two business entities, create a parser using the bsn-goldparser engine, and generate an assembly using CodeDom.
How to use CrashRptEx, to avoid some of the pitfalls of crash reporting in MFC apps or if you want the ability to continue your application after a crash
"Don't care about Google Maps/Routing/StreetView programming. This Control gives your WinForms applications the power of Google Maps API v3". - my previous article. Unfortunately, since Dec.2015, Google Maps JavaScript API applications requires authentication and the program stopped working properly
Continue defining and presenting Gearographic curves from the simplest to the most intriguing. Offering web-pages and R scripts used to illustrate different aspects of it.
Being able to switch between 32-bit and 64-bit modes in Windows is a useful skill. Learn about the heaven’s gate technique and the tools and methods needed for hooking 64-bit processes from the 32-bit WOW64 mode.
This is yet another example for memory mapped files. What is cool though is unlike other samples, I have a SetData(TCHAR* Key, TCHAR* value) / GetData(TCHAR* key) pattern here.
This article presents a commercial-grade cross-platform Harel UML StateChart Open-Source application framework named StateWizard for concurrent, distributed, and real-time reactive system development with simplicity, efficiency, and scalability.
jLinq is a Javascript query language that makes it easy to work with large arrays of information. Today, jLinq 2.2.0 is released which offers new commands, bug fixes and more!
This article describes how to implement a generic, extensible entity list repository and business logic for SharePoint 2010 using the T4 templating engine (Text Template Transformation Toolkit).
This short article shows how to use an undocumented internal class method from the System.Deployment.Application.Win32InterOp namespace to get a PE images manifest resource.
This document describes how to get extended user’s data, such as email address, from the Active Directory. A former article describes how to do so using native tools, such as COM4J; however these tools are cumbersome for use, while pure Java is better and simple.
This article will present an example of a WEB application with interactive maps, and includes development of WMS server and features for map display on the client side.
This article describes how a Windows Azure BizTalk Service Bridge pipeline can be extended for message mediation by Workflow (VETER + WORKFLOW Pattern).
This article revises the HTML authoring tool, HTML TOC Generator, that generates a Table of Contents for an HTML document. Optionally, the tool will number the HTML headers.
In this article, we will see how to use entity framework in our Applications, developed through the various languages that Visual Studio allows us to use. The examples in this article and probably in the next, will be C # used under WinForms, but - as mentioned - this choice is not going to affect a
Ouellet Convex Hull is currently the only ‘Online’ Convex Hull in O(log h) per point, where 'Online' stands for dynamically add one point at a time. Based on our own test against many other algorithm implementations, including Chan and Voronoi/Delaunay, it appears to be the fastest one.
The ShellScript is originally developed for the debugging of my "genome-in-code" virtual cell simulation engine, but now it becomes a script language for a .Net program.
If you are a programmer that tried to introduce a kid to programming with Scratch, this article is for you. Comparing a simple game between Scratch and C#.
There's no standard way to save complex COM+ application configuration in a form that can be placed under version control. This article presents 2 scripts that take advantage of the COM+ Catalog accessibility via script to provide functionality that should really come as standard.
A set of extensibility hacks for WPF. A few interesting triggers and actions, including EventTrigger, ReactiveTrigger, InvokeMethodAction, and InvokeCommandAction. Also allows invoking Triggers and Actions based on Conditions.
Use QuickAccent to quickly copy accents and symbols to your clipboard. Also read the article to find out about the essentials when writing System Tray based applications
This article describes how I wrote a small Windows service for handling the task of sorting and renaming scanned (and run throgh OCR) documents depending on contents.
Team Foundation Server is an ALM tool. It can be extended as per the business requirement. Controls can be created so as to populate them on the work item form. We can add additional business functionality by creating the controls. The API provided by TFS makes this possible.
How to apply GA techniques fo solving problems in VB.NET. The example shows how to create solutions for a 2D maze, which will evolve to find the shortest path between two points.
Want to learn to write Swift code, but you don't have a Mac yet? Now you can write and compile Swift on Windows. Only takes about 15 minutes to set up.
A DevStudio add-in described provides two interesting IDE integration features: adding a new tab to VC WorkspaceView window and running an arbitrary process under IDE with output sent to "Build" tab of VC Output window.
This article describes how to design, build and install .Net Application into the COM+ Catalog without using the ServicedComponent class in your application. The solution shows retrieving the assembly and class attributes (included custom) from the assembly file and their storing into the COM+ Catal
SoapBox Core uses WPF's MEF to provide a base application framework that is easy to extend. This is a simple example that includes elements of a basic application (toolbar, statusbar, document area, etc.).
Portable Class Libraries (PCLs) can only call other PCLs. There is a way to implement PCLs that "call" platform specific services by writing a PCL and platform specific equivalent libraries.
This article will show how to create and/or a list of a particular class type from a SqlDataReader object by dynamically creating a lambda expression to carry out the process of populating the list.
SQL Server 2016 introduces support for system-versioned temporal tables as a database feature that brings built-in support for providing information about data stored in the table at any point in time rather than only the data that is correct at the current moment in time.
Low impact method for using a Session variable + custom Action filter to allow end users to select a test date of their choosing, thus overriding the default date used during web requests.
The article explains the recent Modules TS Draft for a future C++ Standard and provides examples based on the modules implementation in Visual C++ 2017
The audience of this article's readers will find out how to perform association rules learning (ARL) by using FPGrowth algorithm, that serves as an alternative to the famous Apriori and ECLAT algorithms.
The C++-program simulates a Turing Machine (TM). TM is defined by input files: metafile, states file, alphabet file, transition file, input word(s) file(s).
Setting up an SMS gateway to conduct an SMS survey and storing the survey results in an MS Access database, from which you can generate/print out reports.
This project shows how to have a master/detail DataGridView using CSLA EditableRootListBase (or DynamicRootList) as the master list object. It shows how to have sorted list and auto save on both the master and detail DataGridView.
SystemFramework defines interfaces, classes, and types to support a native runtime system with its own garbage collector, delegates, etc. The design of SystemFramework classes is similar to those of the .NET Framework.
I have posted a recent article on the ProgressViewModel to show a software design that can be used for background processing in C# 4.0. This article extends that design with the ability to ouput more than one progress.
Having too many files in one folder causes file manipulation to slow down the program. The class presented here is intended to provide a tree-like folder structure for file writing.
A reflective approach to providing stored procedure based data access methods with a reuse pattern based on polymorphic Types as arguments in ObjectResult
In this post, you will learn how to perform text-to-speech actions in Windows Runtime for Windows Store applications, also how to store the speech stream in a waveform file format on your machine.
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.
Gerald Goertzel developed a very quick way to carry out a discrete Fourier transformation. But there seem to be very few descriptions that really explain its derivation in full.
Despite the references of several sources of unattended installation of Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine, in this article describes a script tested in real production environments and it can be used with minimal or - perhaps - no modifications.
In this tutorial, I will introduce the use of Spring JdbcTemplate in a Spring Boot web application. This tutorial will show how to create the necessary configuration for JdbcTemplate. And how it can be used for data insertion and retrieval.
The main purpose of this tutorial is to get you started with ASP.NET MVC easily, which will be through building a simple Twitter client to demonstrate the components of the framework and exposing some concepts too.
How to build an OpenSearch data source that can be searched using Windows 7 Federated Search functionality. Following the best practices, you can enable rich integration of your remote data sources with Windows 7 Explorer without having to write any client-side code.
PresentationWindows is a WPF class library that introduces three new types derived from the Window class, enabling many previously difficult to access features of windows.
This article introduces the basics of newRouter introduced in AngularJS 1.4 Please note that Angular 1.4 and new router are still work in progress and not released yet.
IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Liberty profile is a flexible and dynamic server profile of WAS which enables the WAS server to deploy only required custom features instead of deploying a big set of available JEE components.
Normally, XML binding to DataGrid is done through MVVM style. This to me seems a little cumbersome and difficult to understand. Hence I developed a simple method to achieve the same.
Uechi APM Web is an APM (Application Performance Management) Open Source Server Performance Monitor written and developed in Java and C # for all Linux and Windows platforms. The Uechi.APM.Web offers a complete resource for unlimited monitoring servers in real time. Have full control of the CPU cons
Descriptors and descriptor heaps are key components of a new resource binding paradigm introduced in Direct3D12. This article describes an efficient system for managing descriptor heaps.
This is an article on how to post automated test results to Microsoft's Test Manager Infrastructure from external sources (e.g. your home grown automated test harness).
This article shows you how to implement trampolines on x64, introduces the idea of sync and async hooks, and dynamically added runtime filters and loggers.
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