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Introduction to D3DImage

by Dr. WPF

.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.

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.

Latest Articles

AWS LocalStack - Installing & Configuring Locally on Windows for SQS

by Bert O Neill

This article explains how to install and configure AWS LocalStack on a Windows machine for SQS (Simple Queue Service).

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.

Reorganize and Rebuild Indexes and Update Statistics

by GabrieleTronchin

A simple stored procedure to add at your database to keep it reactive

Automatic Missing Indexes Creation Statements

by GabrieleTronchin

Automatic creation of non clustered indexes using system SQL entities

All Articles

Windows

The Right Way to Version Your Assemblies

13 Feb 2012 by StevenLJackson1

How you can structure your solution and project files in Visual Studio to make updating your assemblies' version number much easier

XML Serialization Using Generics

3 Apr 2012 by Rui Jarimba

Serialize/deserialize your objects using generics. Customize settings like indentation, encoding, namespaces and others

IDisposable, Finalizer, and SuppressFinalize in C# and C++/CLI

25 Jan 2012 by Sebastian Krysmanski

The help page for IDisposable provides the code for IDisposable's default implementation pattern in C#. This article will explain each part of it step by step and also provide the equivalent C++/CLI code in each step.

“Agile Development” – The Software Industry’s New Meme

8 Feb 2016 by Steve Naidamast

“Agile Development” – The Software Industry’s New Meme

WCF Services - Choosing the Appropriate WCF Binding

30 Jul 2012 by Imran Abdul Ghani

Existing bindings available in WCF

Use BCrypt to Hash Your Passwords: Example for C# and SQL Server

12 Oct 2012 by Rob Kraft

Some implementation details

Detection of Half-Open (Dropped) TCP/IP Socket Connections

20 Jun 2009 by Stephen Cleary

How to detect a dropped TCP/IP connection

Using C# from native C++ with the help of C++/CLI

4 Apr 2014 by Pragmateek

Using C# from native C++ with the help of C++/CLI.

Trace SOAP Request/Response XML with TraceExtension

17 Aug 2009 by Arindam Sinha

SOAP Request/Response XML can be logged with TraceExtension

How to Use SSH to Access a Linux Machine from Windows

28 May 2013 by John Atten

How to use SSH to access a Linux machine from Windows

Top 5 New Features in ASP.NET Web API 2

21 Oct 2013 by Imran Abdul Ghani

ASP.NET Web API 2 has been released with a number of new exciting features. In this web development post, I'll try to discuss new features of it which can be considered the top 5.1.

How to Install the Latest Mac OS X Lion Virtual Machine on Windows Server 2008/Windows 7

24 Feb 2012 by Eric Xue (brokensnow)

20 mins installation guide in order to get you with a Mac OS X Lion VM in no time

Extending Classic (6.0) Visual Basic – Part 1

4 Sep 2019 by Chris Boss

Visual Basic 6.0 just doesn’t want to disappear. Why ? Likely many have written vital applications using VB 6.0 and Visual Basic dot.net is so different that it is not a viable option.

How to sign C++/CLI assemblies with a strong name

20 Apr 2009 by Inaki Ayucar

Learn how to sign C++/CLI assemblies with a strong name.

The request failed with HTTP status 417: Expectation failed

15 Jul 2010 by mrt_doulaty

The request failed with HTTP status 417: Expectation failed

Browse Internet Faster and Save Power using a Smart HOSTS File

29 Dec 2011 by Omar Al Zabir

How to browse the internet faster and save power using a smart HOSTS file

3 Easy Ways to Store Data Locally in a Windows Phone App

12 Apr 2014 by Alex Turok

Our applications – no matter whether games, productivity tools or business software – are all about data.

Web.Config is Cached

11 Jun 2014 by Steve Wellens

There was a question from a student over on the Asp.Net forums about improving site performance. The concern was that every time an app setting was read from the Web.Config file, the disk would be accessed. With many app settings and many users, it was believed performance would suffer.

Microsoft Edge WebDriver- What Everybody Ought to Know About

4 Aug 2015 by Anton Angelov

Examples how to use the Microsoft Edge WebDriver to create UI automated tests executed against the new Microsoft browser- Edge.

Details explanation on Compression Enabled Session for SQL Server and State Server Session Mode in ASP.NET 4.0

26 Jan 2011 by Abhijit Jana

Details explanation on Compression Enabled Session for SQL Server and State Server Session Mode in ASP.NET 4.0

Loading Assemblies using Assembly.Load, Assembly.LoadFrom and Assembly.LoadFile

3 Jun 2013 by Pankaj.Sinha.Techno

Loading assemblies using Assembly.Load, Assembly.LoadFrom and Assembly.LoadFile

Using MemoryStream to Wrap Existing Buffers: Gotchas and Tips

23 Oct 2014 by Ben M Watson

Using MemoryStream to wrap existing buffers: Gotchas and tips

Agile Baby Steps: A Parable To Help You Get Started

20 Mar 2016 by Rob Kraft

We often hesitate to take the action that shows we are committed to doing something new. We read about it, analyze it, and try to understand it; but real learning requires that we go beyond reading. We must DO.

Introducing Hiro, the World's Fastest IOC Container, Part I: Design Diary

10 Apr 2009 by Philip Laureano

A look into the design of a statically precompiled IOC container that performs as fast as an application without an IOC container.

How to Fix Orphaned SQL Users

26 May 2013 by Tharaka MTR

This post will show you how to fix orphaned SQL users.

SQL-Server-2005

SQL-server-2000

Open 16-bit Windows Applications Natively on 64-bit Windows Using OTVDM/winevdm

10 Apr 2023 by Tough Developer

How to open 16-bit Win apps natively on 64-bit Windows using OTVDM/winevdm

A Way to Improve Performance of your Web Application Significantly

1 May 2011 by Brij

A way to improve performance of your web application significantly

Why it's not crashing?

10 Sep 2010 by Andrey Permamedov

Why an exception raised in timer callback function doesn't leads to process termination.

DirectoryInfo.GetFiles Returns More Files Than Expected

3 Feb 2011 by Inaki Ayucar

How to get exactly what you need using DirectoryInfo.GetFiles, with an exact extension match lookup

Service Listening to TCP, HTTP and Named Pipe at the same time

15 May 2011 by Ondrej_Uzovic

A simple example showing how to implement a service listening to TCP, HTTP and Named Pipe at the same time.

C#: A Better Date-Masked Text Box

29 Sep 2012 by John Atten

John on Google CodeProjectLet’s face it. Managing date information within the .net framework (or any framework, really . . . Java is not much better) is a pain the the ass. Really. What makes it even worse is managing user data entry of date information.

Syncfusion’s "Succinctly" Series of Free ebooks

22 Jul 2013 by Simon Jackson

Syncfusion’s "Succinctly" series, one of the largest free (and still growing) set of technical books covering everything from languages, to source control systems and beyond.

Windows-Phone-7

OCD Windows Phone photogs, Beware

24 Jun 2014 by BC3Tech

OCD Windows Phone photogs, beware

How Agile Changed the Software Development Workplace

15 Sep 2014 by Saleh Hamadeh

In the last three decades, software development has undergone a drastic change. Computer science started out as a mix of discrete mathematics and electrical engineering. As more people bought personal computers, most businesses sold their software for fixed prices.

One More Time About Resource vs. EmbeddedResource

1 Nov 2014 by Ivan Krivyakov

Difference between 'Resource' and 'Embedded Resource' Build Actions described

Guide for building C# apps on Ubuntu: Graphical applications using Windows Forms

20 Mar 2016 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this episode I am going to talk about using graphical applications in Mono. The graphical framework to use would be Windows Forms.

WPF : Binding to global App properties

9 Apr 2009 by Sacha Barber

I was working on something for an upcoming article that I am writing where I am messing around with 3D, and I was having a small issue with a VisualBrush (something to do with Freezable, I never did quite figure it out and came up with a better solution), but along the way of trying [...]

Calling Web Service Functions Asynchronously from a Web Page

2 Apr 2010 by Steve Wellens

A user had a problem calling a Web Service from a web page asynchronously. I tried his code on my machine and was able to reproduce the problem. I was able to solve his problem, but only after taking the long scenic route through some of the more perplexing nuances of Web Services and Proxies.

ASP.NET MVC and jQuery Part 3 – Model Binding

27 Apr 2010 by TheyCallMeMrJames

This is the third post in a series about jQuery and ASP.NET MVC 2 in Visual Studio 2010. 100% of the developers I have talked to this morning are enjoying jQuery and how it makes ASP.NET MVC sites a treat to work on. Of course, the sample size was one (1) developer, and he’s writing this post.

Custom Web Parts is not getting displayed after deployment in Share Point 2010. How to Resolve?

10 Jul 2010 by Abhijit Jana

In SharePoint 2010, we can create Visual Web parts very easily from Visual Studio and can deploy it directly from Visual Studio...

Calling Method in Parent Page from User Control

4 Oct 2010 by Dinesh K Mandal

Calling method in parent page from user control

String.IsNullOrEmpty

27 Dec 2010 by Brij

String.IsNullOrEmpty

UIAutomation, Coded UI Tests, AutomationPeer, and WPF/Silverlight Custom Controls

25 Mar 2011 by jmix90

In this post, we will see how to make a custom control fully useable in a Coded UI Tests scenario.

Creating Visual Web Part Properties

15 May 2011 by Raymund Macaalay

How to create WebPart properties.

Implement Search Screen using knockoutjs, jQuery, and ASP.NET MVC3

23 Jul 2012 by Neeraj Kaushik1980

This article demonstrates implementation of knockoutjs observable viewmodel with jquery and ASP.NET MVC 3 and how to bind viewmodel with HTML controls.

Query Plan Caching - My SQL Server Nightmare

30 Apr 2012 by Martin Thwaites

If you have an issue with a slow part of a site after a large dataload, that you can't replicate after a DB restore, it's likely you could be dealing with a similar issue.

SQL-Server-2005

Creating a Multi-paged Container Control with Design Time Support

27 Aug 2012 by Richard James Moss

This article describes adding design time support for a TabControl-like component which renders the same way the Project Properties in Visual Studio 2012.

“Cannot Evaluate Expression Because the Code of the Current Method is Optimized”

28 Jan 2013 by Sandeep Mewara

Possible solutions to the problem

ASP.NET Interview Questions for Beginners and Professionals - Part 4

21 Apr 2014 by Imran Abdul Ghani

ASP.NET Interview Questions for Beginners and Professionals - Part 4

[OoB] Sonar with Arduino, C#, JavaScript and HTML5 (Part 2)

25 Sep 2014 by morzel

Part 1 described the general idea behind Sonar project, hardware components used and Arduino sketch... This second post in "Out of Boredom" series is about C# and JavaScript programs that make it possible to display ultrasonic range sensor data in web browsers.

Constructing the SUT (System Under Test) – Eradicating Brittle Unit Tests

19 Apr 2015 by Hideous Humpback Freak

How to construct the SUT (System Under Test) – Eradicate Brittle Unit Tests

New Features and Enhancements in .NET Core 3.0

25 Sep 2019 by Shameel

.NET Core 3.0, with a significant number of changes and improvements, was released on 23rd September 2019. The most important changes are discussed in this article. The post New Features and Enhancements in .NET Core 3.0 appeared first on The Developer Space.

Mobile Development: Yet Another Kiosk Mode Library

13 Jul 2017 by hjgode

How to disable StartMenu clicks and Win key for kiosk mode application using a library

How to enable HTTPCompression in IIS6

17 Oct 2010 by Brij

Enabling HTTPCompression in IIS6

Programmatically Changing Session State Behavior in ASP.NET 4.0

15 Jan 2011 by Abhijit Jana

Programmatically Changing Session State Behavior in ASP.NET 4.0

Multi Targeted Add Reference Support in Productivity Power Tools

26 Feb 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Multi Targeted Add Reference Support in Productivity Power Tools

How to Implement Template Binding in Silverlight Custom Control?

6 Apr 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to implement template binding in Silverlight custom control

How to Categorize Control Properties for XAML View Inside Blend and Visual Studio?

10 Jul 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Organizing custom control properties inside Visual Studio and Expression Blend

Expression-blend

PDB files out of the debugger

10 Dec 2011 by Sebastian Solnica

PDB files out of the debugger

Improved Solution Explorer in Visual Studio 2012 to Improve Productivity

2 Jul 2012 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Improved Solution Explorer in Visual Studio 2012 to improve productivity

XNA and Beyond, the notable mentions

16 Jan 2013 by Simon Jackson

Some of the other frameworks which use XNA as a baseline.

Setting a "Content-Disposition" HTTP Header in Web API Controller Method

22 Jan 2013 by Alexander Turlov

Setting a "Content-Disposition" HTTP Header in the Web API Controller method.

Creating a Custom TypeConverter: Part 2 - Instance Descriptors, Expandable Properties and Standard Values

30 Jul 2013 by Richard James Moss

This follow up article expands upon the sample in the first part, to include more concise design time code generation, expandable property support, and finally custom lists of values.

Creating a Custom TypeConverter: Part 1 - Getting Started

30 Jul 2013 by Richard James Moss

How to use TypeConverter allowing complex objects to be edited as though they were simple strings

Uploading the Files – HTML5 and jQuery Way!

28 Nov 2014 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

Uploading the files - HTML5 and jQuery way

web_development

Release Management vNext - Token Web.Config for Azure Web Apps

17 Nov 2015 by Kevin Mack

Hello All! Welcome to TotalALM. This is a new blog being written by Kevin Mack, and Brandon Rohrer, and you will be seeing many more posts from the two of us about all things ALM. To find out more about who we are, please feel free to check out our bios on this site.

Be Careful of Those SPECIAL Names in Unity

4 Feb 2016 by Simon Jackson

Be careful of those SPECIAL names in Unity

Windows-Phone-8

What Windows Runtime Can Teach .NET Developers?

6 Mar 2016 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

What Windows runtime can teach .NET developers

MongoDb and LINQ: How to Aggregate and Join Collections

15 Nov 2017 by Petru Faurescu

Insights in data aggregations and joining collections with MongoDB and .NET Driver

Testing and Validation CNTK Models using C#

15 Nov 2017 by Bahrudin Hrnjica

Once the model is built and Loss and Validation functions satisfy our expectation, we need to validate and test the model using the data which was not part of the training data set (unseen data).

Distributed Cache - Simplified

22 May 2009 by Diego Resnik

Cache mechanism is one of the basic infrastructures in every medium & above project, either web application or winForm application.

Remote Threads Basics - Part 2

28 Jun 2010 by Alexey Kurakin

This article is the second part of my series about remote threads. In this part, I describe how you can create permanently executing thread with any of your code inside address space of another process.

Writing a .NET Debugger (Part 3) – Symbol and Source Files

9 Nov 2010 by Sebastian Solnica

How to load module debugging symbols (PDB files) into the debugger and how to bind them with source files

A Helper Class to Get the Current Location on a Windows Phone Just Once

15 Jan 2011 by Don Kackman

Here is a helper class to get the current location on a Windows Phone just once

Tips: How to use Gradient Color Picker in Expression Blend?

13 Apr 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to use Gradient Color Picker in Expression Blend?

Windows Phone 7: How to Encrypt Communication with Desktop Application

24 Apr 2011 by Ondrej_Uzovic

A simple example showing how to implement encrypted communication between Windows Phone 7 and standalone .NET application.

Windows-Phone-7

Entity Framework and T4: Generate Specification Objects for Your Entities

31 Jul 2011 by Rui Jarimba

Learn how to use the Specification Pattern and how to generate Specification Objects for your Entity Framework entities using T4 templates.

How to get rid of the XAML Design view inside Visual Studio IDE?

7 Aug 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to get rid of the XAML Design view inside Visual Studio IDE?

How to set Current User Name to InfoPath Person/Group Picker

17 Feb 2012 by Melick

How to set Current User Name to InfoPath Person/Group Picker

Source Code Versioning with Git in Visual Studio

27 Mar 2012 by Ayobami Adewole

Source code versioning with Git in Visual Studio

Windows and GDI-objects

5 Jun 2012 by Michael Banzon

Windows and GDI-objects

Send a private client certificate (p12) in HTTP Post

23 Jul 2012 by Shabbir Lathsaheb

I was developing an application to post xml data to a URL (REST call) using asp.net and C#. The endpoint was hosted with a third party vendor and they had a much secured hosting environment.

Creating a Scrum Team Project in Visual Studio 2012 using Visual Studio Scrum 2.0 Process

31 Jul 2012 by kishore Gaddam

How to use SCRUM Template 2.0 to manage projects in VS 2012 TFS

Developer Tools: Paint.NET

29 Aug 2012 by Zac Gery

Paint.NET is a free open source project that helps bridge the gap between the low fidelity and high cost options currently available.

Portable MVVM Light - Move Your View Models

29 Jan 2013 by Shayne P Boyer

Move your View Models.

Getting started with nodejs - Building an MVC site

19 Feb 2013 by Gilly Barr

Getting started with nodejs.

Solution to the MSSQL Server “Suspect”

3 May 2013 by Shahriar Iqbal Chowdhury/Galib

Solution to the MSSQL Server “Suspect”

Generate insert Statements from a Specific Table Data using SQL Server

27 May 2013 by Tharaka MTR

Generate insert statements from a specific table data using SQL Server

SQL-Server-2008

SQL-Server-2005

How Does a LightSwitch HTML Client Application Work?

11 Jun 2013 by defwebserver

How a LightSwitch HTML client application works.

Extending Blend for Visual Studio

4 Jul 2013 by Timmy Kokke

Extending Blend for Visual Studio.

Expression-blend

Extracting Table Data from Word Document using Aspose Words

10 Aug 2013 by Manas Bhardwaj

How to extract table data from Word document using Aspose Words

Remove Slow Startups and Enjoy Less “Suspense” through .NET 4.5.1′s App Suspend Feature

10 Oct 2013 by Rion Williams

This article covers one of the switches that you might be interested in flipping, the App Suspend feature, which is available in .NET 4.5.1 on Windows Server 2012 R2.

Setting Cache Control HTTP Headers in Web API Controller Method

13 Nov 2013 by Alexander Turlov

The Web API framework has a number of support objects that simplify the job.

Use Converters in your Windows Phone Apps

12 Apr 2014 by Alex Turok

In a recent post I have covered several approaches to store data in a Windows Phone application. Another important problem is presenting data in an easy and controllable way that would not interfere with other layers of your app.

How to Debug Windows Services written in .NET? (Part I)

2 Dec 2014 by Sebastian Solnica

How to debug Windows services written in .NET

Serve up Debug Symbols for your NuGet packages? Heck yeah!

12 Jan 2015 by BC3Tech

While playing around with NuGet as much as I have been, I noticed something in the ‘nuget pack’ command that I thought was pretty interesting. A ‘-symbols’ flag. “What’s this do?” I thought. So, naturally, I gave it a shot. What NuGet spat out for me was a .

Python – Search Youtube for Video

5 Feb 2015 by Grant Curell

This code is for Python 3. I was surprised to discover that I couldn’t really find a good way to do this when I Googled for a solution. I just kept getting results for Google’s youtube API, which is great… but also massive overkill for what I wanted to do.

Inline spreadsheet-style edit mode for the Related Items control on a SharePoint form

18 Sep 2015 by Dmitriy Kozlov

Forms Designer has just gotten a new feature: the related items control is now able to do inline spreadsheet-style quick editing. This feature is supported in SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online in Office 365.

Using .resw files with UWP Compiled Bindings

1 Oct 2015 by Daniel Vaughan

IntroductionWith UWP and WinRT, Microsoft introduced a new means for localizability, which differs significantly from the method employed in Silverlight and .NET desktop apps.

Xml Schemas From Code / XML validation against Schema File And More

25 Oct 2015 by Sacha Barber

I don’t know about you lot but I work with XML files a bit, but I don’t have to mess around with XSD (xml schema) files that often. And it seems like every time I do I forget what I did last time. To this end I thought I would write this up somewhere, so […]