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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.

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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

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Is JavaScript Function Invocation Confusing?

3 Oct 2014 by _debasis

Is JavaScript function invocation confusing

SQL Server: Simple way to swap column values

12 Sep 2012 by aasim abdullah

A simple way to swap column values.

Designing your Azure MySQL DB with a UWP Demo

15 Apr 2019 by Abdelrahman El Kinani

Azure MySQL DB, how to design it, basic UWP todo demo

Calling Send and Receive Pipelines from the orchestration expression shapes

1 Jun 2009 by Abdul_Rafay

Calling Send and Receive Pipelines from the orchestration expression shapes

ViewState Control in ASP.NET 4.0

15 May 2010 by Abhijit Jana

ViewState Control in ASP.NET 4.0

CSS Friendly Menu Control in ASP.NET 4.0

18 May 2010 by Abhijit Jana

CSS Friendly Menu Control in ASP.NET 4.0

How to Pass ASP.NET Server Side Array to Client Side and Binding them with HTML Element?

8 Jul 2010 by Abhijit Jana

How to pass ASP.NET server side array to client side and binding them with HTML element

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...

“View this as root” – A Solution Navigator features in VS 2010 Productivity Power Tools

20 Jul 2010 by Abhijit Jana

A Solution Navigator features in VS 2010 Productivity Power Tools

Few Tips on Customizing Debugging Window View in Visual Studio

29 Aug 2010 by Abhijit Jana

A few tips on customizing debugging windows

Different Versions of Integrated Web Server in Visual Studio 2010

3 Oct 2010 by Abhijit Jana

Different Versions of Integrated Web Server in Visual Studio 2010

How to Use ASP.NET “Property Pages” to create or host a Silverlight application in ASP.NET Site?

25 Nov 2010 by Abhijit Jana

How to Use ASP.NET “Property Pages” to create or host a Silverlight application in ASP.NET Site?

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

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

Few important tips that you should know while using ASP.NET Session

25 May 2011 by Abhijit Jana

Few important tips while using ASP.NET Session

Grant Access to your Assembly from COM Objects

14 Sep 2009 by Abhishek Sur

Make your class library COM visible using few simple steps

Dynamic Behaviour on Objects at Runtime With Custom ExpandoObject

5 Jul 2010 by Abhishek Sur

The article describes how you can deal with dynamic object to inject members during runtime. It also demonstrates how to create Custom DynamicObject.

XML Binding in WPF with Sample RSS Reader

18 Jul 2010 by Abhishek Sur

XAML is getting more and more popular and has also been introduced for Mobile applications. Recently, while I was exploring the internet, I found that the recent version of Windows 7 mobile interfaces use Silverlight to deal with the interface...

Use of Expression Trees in .NET for Lambda Decomposition

6 Sep 2010 by Abhishek Sur

Use of Expression Trees in .NET for Lambda Decomposition

Hidden Facts of C# Structures in terms of MSIL

15 Oct 2010 by Abhishek Sur

Hidden Facts of C# Structures in terms of MSIL

Deal with Performance in WPF applications

12 Mar 2011 by Abhishek Sur

Deal with Performance in WPF applications

Formatting Date, Number Data on BCS OOB Business Data List Webpart

14 Mar 2014 by abin jaik

Formatting date, number data on BCS OOB business data list webpart

Office 365 Video & Office 365 APIs

4 Jun 2015 by abin jaik

Office 365 Video & Office 365 APIs

Setting Directory ACLs To Mimic Standard Windows Permissions

19 Feb 2013 by Adam Zuckerman

How to set directory ACLs to mimic standard Windows permissions

Custom Controls Lesson - Using A Child Container's Control Collection

19 Feb 2013 by Adam Zuckerman

I am building a custom control (an accordion style of control) for WinForms. During the building of the collapsible panel, I ran into an issue: how do I expose the control collection of a child control as the main control's control collection?

How To Find All Child Controls From a Starting Control or Form

27 Feb 2013 by Adam Zuckerman

Here's a post on how to find all child controls from a starting control or form

How to Implement Custom configSection with Nested Elements in C#

8 May 2014 by Adarsh Chaurasia - Passionate Trainer

After completing this exercise, you should be able to implement custom configSection, with nested elements, in your application's config file.

Repository Pattern

22 Sep 2014 by adityaswami89

This blog post discusses the Repository Pattern

Façade Design Pattern

24 Sep 2014 by adityaswami89

Façade design pattern

How to use CPU instructions in C# to gain performace

26 Feb 2011 by Adnan Boz

How to use CPU instructions in C# to gain performace

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Massively Parallel RNG using CUDA C, Thrust and C#

22 Sep 2011 by Adnan Boz

Massively Parallel Random Nunber Generation using CUDA C, Thrust and C#

Reusable Tree Operations for the .NET Framework

31 Oct 2011 by Adrian Alexander

A better way for exposing common tree operations on .NET Framework tree types

Listening to HTML Events from BHO

31 Oct 2011 by Adrian Alexander

How to listen to HTML Events from BHO.

Collections for WPF and NHibernate

10 Nov 2011 by Adrian Alexander

Collections for WPF and NHibernate

Implement a CMS Site using MVC with Inbuilt SEO Functionality

12 May 2015 by Adrian Cini

Implement a CMS Site using MVC with Inbuilt SEO Functionality

.NET and COM interop story

2 Jun 2009 by Adrian Dorache

Let's see a short example using COM objects exposed by Internet Explorer. The code below changes the color of every link in an HTML document.

Nokia 6212 NFC SDK Issue – This SDK has Been Tested with Microsoft Windows XP SP2 Only

15 Apr 2010 by Adrian Vintu

Nokia 6212 NFC SDK Issue – This SDK has been tested with Microsoft Windows XP SP2 only

Comparison of Android vs iPhone vs Nokia vs BlackBerry vs Windows Mobile 7

15 Jun 2010 by Adrian Vintu

A comparison of Android vs iPhone vs Nokia vs BlackBerry vs Windows Mobile 7

Guideline for your first (Android) mobile application

10 May 2010 by Adrian Vintu

I've had multiple requests on information about developing an (Android) mobile application so I decided to add my tips in this guideline. Please mind that these tips are general and may not apply to all situations.

How to interact with File; File System

23 Oct 2014 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

How to interact with file; file system

Uploading the Files – HTML5 and jQuery Way!

28 Nov 2014 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

Uploading the files - HTML5 and jQuery way

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What is Debugging, How to Debug… A Beginners Guide

14 May 2015 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This blog post focuses on debugging concept. It is meant for novice people who want to learn what is debugging and how to debug an application.

How to Get Started in Computer Programming?

8 Dec 2015 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

I was compiling a few things I would recommend to every beginner in computer programming. Here it is.

Experimenting with C# 6’s New Features

23 Jan 2016 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

C# 6 has been available for a long time, by now! Many developers have written many guides to "list" the features. I have written this post to explain those features, and to explain whether they are actually new or are they just sugar coating to the compiler.

Building a Custom Documentation Tool

14 Feb 2016 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this post, I am talking about methods used to build custom documentation builders for .NET projects using Reflection APIs.

What Windows Runtime Can Teach .NET Developers?

6 Mar 2016 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

What Windows runtime can teach .NET developers

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.

Colorful Microsoft Windows Forms Controls

16 Sep 2010 by Ahmed_Said

Colorful Microsoft Windows Forms Controls

What are the Changes in .NET 4.0 Security Model & What is Sandboxing?

5 Jun 2014 by Akash Ashok Jain

What are the Changes in .NET 4.0 Security Model & What is Sandboxing?

NumericTextBox (C#.NET)

7 Dec 2011 by Akos Orban

A TextBox for numbers with built-in mathematical expression evaluation

FilterableDataGridView (C#.NET)

29 Nov 2011 by Akos Orban

A DataGridView control with built-in Filtering

Tracking “active” clients using method parameter inspection in a WCF web service

22 Jul 2014 by Alejandro Gaio

A client-tracking solution for a session-less WCF web service

Building a self-hosted, RESTful web service with WCF

30 Jun 2015 by Alejandro Gaio

Building a self-hosted, RESTful web service with WCF.

How to Create a Windows 8 App for SharePoint: Part 2 – The Development Stage

14 Aug 2013 by Alex Choroshin

Developing a Win8 app and integratinge it with SharePoint Online 2013.

SharePoint: Getting "This collection already contains an address with scheme HTTP" Error When Creating a Custom WCF Service

4 Dec 2013 by Alex Choroshin

How to fix this error.

SharePoint: Can’t Activate Site Collection Feature When Creating New Site From a Custom Web Template

4 Dec 2013 by Alex Choroshin

In SharePoint, can’t activate Site Collection Feature when creating new site from a Custom Web Template

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.

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.

C#: Side Effects and LINQ's Defferred Execution

19 Apr 2014 by Alex Turok

It is difficult for me to imagine a program that doesn't deal with collections of some type – all our applications do proliferate with Arrays, Lists HashSets, DataTables and dozens of others. When writing code in C# the first tool I consider when faced with a collection is LINQ.

How to Fail Your Brand New Windows Phone Application

25 Apr 2014 by Alex Turok

How to fail your brand new Windows Phone application

Meta Programming in ANKHOR

12 Nov 2013 by Alexander Golde

Meta Programming is a concept that dates back to languages such as LISP or Smalltalk. The term is used for programs that write or modify other programs – or perform operations on themselves.

Meta Programming in ANKHOR

12 Dec 2014 by Alexander Golde

Meta Programming is a concept that dates back to languages such as LISP or Smalltalk. The term is used for programs that write or modify other programs – or perform operations on themselves.

How to Improve ASP.NET UpdatePanel Performance

29 Dec 2010 by Alexander Turlov

How to Improve ASP.NET UpdatePanel Performance

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.

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.

Image Sprites and CSS Classes creator

1 Feb 2011 by AlexCode

Image Sprites and CSS Classes creator

Remote Threads Basics. Part 1

9 Jun 2010 by Alexey Kurakin

In this part of the tutorial, general information about remote thread is described: what are remote threads, how they can be created and used.

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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.

Remote Threads Basics - Part 3

12 Jul 2010 by Alexey Kurakin

Last part in my series about remote threads

Dysfunctional Programming 101

11 Mar 2012 by AlexTatiyants

Functional programming has been all the rage lately, yet surprisingly few have heard about an intriguing alternative known as Dysfunctional (or FUctional) programming.

How to Debug in IE on a Mac

10 Apr 2012 by AlexTatiyants

Here's how to configure a Mac to debug web sites in IE

How to Get Internet Explorer 8 to Support HTML5 Tags and Web Fonts

15 Apr 2012 by AlexTatiyants

Though support for modern standards is limited in IE8, it's not impossible. Here's how to add support for HTML5 elements and web fonts.

21 Apr 2012 by AlexTatiyants

JSON-oriented document stores like Mongo and Couch have really become the darlings of the web application crowd. Of course, JSON (or BSON) isn't the only game in town. When it comes to document store formats, the other white meat if you will is XML.

C# Windows Form is Busy

2 Apr 2010 by Ali BaderEddin

There are two very common ways of telling the user that your application is busy. One is to show a progress bar that gets updated based on the progress getting done, and another is to show the "Waiting" cursor while the application is doing work.

Sortable ListView

2 Apr 2010 by Ali BaderEddin

The Windows Forms ListView control doesn't provide column sorting functionality. This article shows how to implement sorting while taking field type into consideration (sort by date, number, ...)

PropertyGrid Collection Events

2 Apr 2010 by Ali BaderEddin

When changing collections in an object through PropertyGrid, the PropertyChanged event doesn't get called.

C# Regular Expression Helper

17 Feb 2010 by Ali BaderEddin

A tool to make it easier to learn C# regular expressions...

SharePoint SPSite ListView

2 Apr 2010 by Ali BaderEddin

How To Get All Site Urls Without Creating an SPSite object?

SPList Image and SPFile Icon

2 Apr 2010 by Ali BaderEddin

Take advantage of SPList.ImageUrl and SPFile.IconUrl to improve the user experience of WinForm apps for SharePoint.

XML Editor Control

2 Apr 2010 by Ali BaderEddin

XML Editor with syntax highlighting

SQL DB Restore using PowerShell

20 Sep 2010 by Ali BaderEddin

Restore an SQL database on a local or remote SQL server using PowerShell

Introduction to Android development: TouchCalculator

5 Nov 2010 by Ali Ozgur

Introduction to Android development: TouchCalculator

Building ASP.NET TextBox with Integrated Validation And Switchable Input Modes

4 Jan 2010 by Ali Tarhini

The textbox we are about to discuss will have the regular asp.net validator controls built in and configurable as properties from within the textbox. Also the textbox's input type is customizable and varies between Text,Digits,Alphabets...

Grokking the CLI - Part 1: Meta Mayhem

15 Jun 2016 by Allen C. Copeland Jr

Grokking the CLI - Part 1: Meta Mayhem

Grokking the CLI - Part 2: Meta Meanderings

16 Jun 2016 by Allen C. Copeland Jr

Grokking the CLI - Part 2: Meta Meanderings

How to Make Your System Slower With WMI

18 Jan 2013 by Alois Kraus

With the new Windows Performance Toolkit you can now identify bottlenecks in your system which did not show up in any profiler.

Dynamic Programming in C# 4.0 – An Overview

25 Feb 2010 by Alphakoda

Introduction to dynamic programming in C# 4.0

Dynamically Formatting Phone Field with JavaScript

30 Nov 2016 by Alvin Bunk

How to dynamically format Phone field with JavaScript

Guidelines to Fluent Interface design in C# - Part 2

5 Aug 2010 by Andre Vianna

Some techniques to code each part of the sentence with some samples.

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Guidelines to Fluent Interface design in C# - Part 1

5 Aug 2010 by Andre Vianna

History, the basic concepts of Fluent Interfaces and a small glossary of terms that I will use in this series of posts

Building Client (JavaScript) Custom Validation in ASP.NET MVC 4 using jQuery

1 Jul 2013 by Andrei Ion Rînea

Building Client (JavaScript) Custom Validation in ASP.NET MVC 4 using jQuery.

Preparing the Development Environment for Java – Windows and Ubuntu

18 Nov 2013 by Andrei Ion Rînea

How to prepare the development environment for Java - Windows and Ubuntu

Having Fun With HTML 5 History API – Part Three

22 Jul 2016 by Andrei Ion Rînea

Having fun with HTML 5 history API - Part 3

Cross-Platform Selenium with DotNet Core

24 May 2019 by Andrew Blank

A bit about this project I was asked by a co-worker for an example of using Selenium Web Browser Automation with C# so I wrote a quick example in C# with MSTest and DotNet Core and I posted it to Github. https://github.com/andyrblank/Selenium-C-Sharp-Example What is Selenium?

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.

The bug in MFC tool tip control

13 Sep 2010 by Andrey Permamedov

The bug in MFC tool tip control

The way to find a hotspot

20 Sep 2010 by Andrey Permamedov

The way to find a hotspot without profilers

Improve CSS Development Productivity using Sass and Compass Part 1 - Configure Environment

16 Nov 2015 by Andy Feng

Improve CSS Development Productivity using Sass and Compass Part 1 - Configure Environment

Android Navigation Bar Menu Tutorial using Bottom Bar Library

25 Nov 2016 by Andy Point

How to create Android Navigation Bar Menu using Bottom bar Library

FreeNAS – Windows (CIFS) Shares on ZFS

5 Nov 2013 by anichin

How to create a Windows (CIFS) share that will be accessible on the local network and will demostrate how to use the ZFS snapshots to restore lost data.