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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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.LESS Web.config/DotlessConfiguration Options

14 Jan 2014 by Cindy Potvin

Many options of the .LESS CSS parser can be set directly from the Web.config file, but many of them are not clearly described. Here is my attempt to document them.

.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.

.NET DataGridView: Change Formatting of the Active Column Header to Track User Location

12 Oct 2012 by John Atten

How to change the formatting of the Active Column Header to track user location.

.NET ListView: Reacting to Column Resize When User Doubleclicks Header Separator

1 Sep 2010 by Gediminas Geigalas

I just came up with a hack for .NET ListView to react to users doubleclider separator to auto resize the column to fit column contents.

10 easy steps to create an elegant jQuery slide show in SharePoint 2007 using Content Query Web Part

19 Sep 2012 by Khurram Punjwani

Create a slideshow in SharePoint 2007.

19 Must-Know Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts – Part 1

25 Feb 2016 by Anton Angelov

A short list of keyboard shortcuts for things you probably do often in Visual Studio

19 Must-Know Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts – Part 2

25 Feb 2016 by Anton Angelov

A short list of keyboard shortcuts for things you probably do often in Visual Studio

2010: The Deconstruction…

14 Nov 2015 by Steve Naidamast

Initial notes… The following piece is a sociological analysis of the state of professional software development today.

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.

3 Simple Steps to Create SharePoint 2013 Site Collection

21 Sep 2014 by Imran Abdul Ghani

3 Simple Steps to Create SharePoint 2013 Site Collection

3D Engine, from GLUT to GLFW

14 Apr 2019 by Martin Vorbrodt

3D Engine, from GLUT to GLFW

5 Simple Steps for Using Web API in ASP.NET Web Forms Application

13 May 2014 by Imran Abdul Ghani

5 simple steps for using web API in ASP.NET web forms application

[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.

A Bug in Custom ISAPI Filter Related to Keep-Alive

28 Jun 2013 by Zhuyun Dai

I once implemented my own Basic authentication logic in a custom ISAPI filter on IIS 6 and IIS 7.5 (classic mode).

A Client Server File Sharing Application

2 Feb 2012 by Ayobami Adewole

A Client Server File Sharing Application

parallel-processing

A Collaboration White Board Using HTML 5 and SignalR

2 Oct 2012 by Anuraj Parameswaran

A very simple and lightweight collaboration white board using HTML5 canvas API, JQuery and SignalR

A Complete Impersonation Demo in C#.NET

20 Jun 2013 by Wayne Ye

A complete Impersonation demo in C#.NET

A CQRS and an AOP Expert Walk into an Oredev Bar…

20 Oct 2011 by Philip Laureano

A mind-bending experience

A Crash Course In CSS Sprites

19 Feb 2013 by Zac Gery

A Crash Course In CSS Sprites

A Critical Section is not 100% user mode synchronization object

24 Sep 2010 by Sarath C

Talking about Critical Section's internal use of kernel objects

A Custom linq query builder

19 Sep 2009 by beatles1692

In my opinion one the most interesting features of Linq is Expression Trees.They let us build structured queries over IQueryable type.IQueryable ,as its name implies, is an interface that let us build a query over a provided object of type T.Although IQueryable and expression trees are mostly u

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

A Leap In Embedded Programming; .NET Micro Framework

10 Jan 2011 by jebarson

A Leap In Embedded Programming; .NET Micro Framework

A Little HTML5: Using JSON and File API to View Starred Google Reader Posts

28 May 2013 by Keyhole Software

Using JSON and File API to view starred Google Reader posts.

A Managed ETW Provider and the 15002 Error

16 Mar 2012 by Sebastian Solnica

A managed ETW provider and the 15002 error

A Mobile Application Served From CouchDB

28 Nov 2012 by Keyhole Software

A mobile application served from CouchDB.

A more extensible way to build plugin system

29 Aug 2010 by Gediminas Geigalas

This post explains how plugin architecture can be improved to allow better extensibility and provide backward compatibility after updates.

A non-generic IList implementation without any Boxing and Unboxing

18 May 2009 by gUrM33T

A simple workaround to avoid boxing and unboxing while still using a non-generic IList implementation

A Recipe For Password Security

20 Sep 2014 by Bob McGowan

Using strong cryptography with entropy to secure user passwords.

A simple container used in MVC web applications with DI (Dependency Injection)

15 Oct 2012 by RizviHasan

A simple container used in MVC web applications with DI.

A Sneak Preview of WebSocket-enabled WCF Services

5 Jun 2012 by Nikos Baxevanis

A WebSocket-enabled service in .NET will be written like any other WCF service with two differences.

A Synchronous Observer of Asynchronous Events

13 Nov 2012 by Orjan Westin

In this article, we will write a simple multi-threaded example implementation of the Observer pattern, and show how to re-synchronise a past event to look current. Then we’ll demonstrate a technique to treat future events like they’re current, too.

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

Accordion Panel with CSS

11 May 2015 by John Bhatt

Accordion Panel with CSS

Account Unknown

31 Mar 2017 by ledtech3

Account unknown

ACCU 2009: So many sessions, so little time...

28 Sep 2009 by Anna-Jayne Metcalfe

Preamble [21st April 2009]Well, we're here at the Barcelo Oxford Hotel again, and for us ACCU 2009 starts tomorrow (though the pre-conference workshops happen on the Tuesday, we haven't booked onto one this year).We are a little more prepared this year than last - for example we now have a 6 fo

Action Based ViewModel and Model Validation

16 Apr 2009 by Pete O'Hanlon

Action based ViewModel and Model Validation

Add *subdomains* to the Compatibility View List

3 Oct 2013 by BC3Tech

How to add subdomains to the compatibility view list

Add a Settings Panel in Charm Bar – Privacy Policy

15 Jan 2013 by ShubhamSaxena

Add a Settings Panel in Charm Bar.

Add Column Header to Custom ViewBase (ListView.View)

12 May 2010 by Leung Yat Chun

Add column header to custom ViewBase (ListView.View)

Add More Space to Your Windows Virtual Machine System (C:) Drive

5 Dec 2016 by Sujay Sarma

Here's how to add more space to your Windows Virtual Machine System (C:) drive

Adding a Verb to the dotnet CLI Tooling

3 Oct 2016 by matt warren

How to add a verb to the dotnet CLI tooling

Adding SignalR to an ASP.NET WebForms Project

22 May 2013 by Jeffrey T. Fritz

How to add real-time interactivity to a website that is written with ASP.NET WebForms

Adding User Control and Defining its Functionality in C#.NET

29 Oct 2013 by Komal Mangal

How to add user control and define its functionality in C#.NET

Adding Video Element on the Fly and Drawing it to a Canvas Element

30 Nov 2011 by Gil Fink

Adding Video Element on the Fly and Drawing it to a Canvas Element

Adjusting View so Keyboard Doesn’t Hide a UIController

27 Feb 2015 by Dennis E White

Adjusting View so Keyboard doesn’t hide a UIController

Adplus: Handling Managed Exceptions

6 Jul 2012 by Sebastian Solnica

Managed exceptions and the ways we can handle them using Adplus

Advanced Control of UAC

18 Mar 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

How to have advanced control over UAC

AfxGetMainWnd in C#

2 Apr 2011 by Chris_Green

AfxGetMainWnd in C#

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.

Agile Project Management Tools

19 Feb 2011 by kishore Gaddam

Agile Project Management Tools

AH, Ah, ah, ah…Staying Alive…Staying Alive

10 Jun 2009 by Steve Wellens

Sometimes you want your web page to 'stay alive'. That is, if a user is filling out a complicated form, you do not want the session to time out before they are finished. The user could get very angry and rightfully so: You might even get yelled at!

Ajax is Not Really What You Think It Is

22 Oct 2009 by Charles Boyung

My goal here is to explain the differences between what Ajax really is and what most people are interpreting it to mean.

akka : state machines

6 Sep 2016 by Sacha Barber

In this post we will look at 2 ways you can write state machines with Akka. We will firstly examine the more primitive (but easily understandable) approach, and then look into the more sophisticated approach offered by AkkaFSM. What Is A State Machine?

Always Encrypted Feature in SQL Server 2016

19 Oct 2016 by Manjuke Fernando

Always encrypted feature in SQL Server 2016

SQL-Server-2016

An alternative way to create the menu bar

22 Jul 2011 by João Paulo Figueira

An alternative way to create the menu bar

An Early Bird's View of Windows 8 "Metro UI"

26 Aug 2011 by Vijay Rajanna

In this post, you will read about an early bird's view of Windows 8 "Metro UI"

An Easier Way to Debug Windows Services

6 Sep 2011 by jgauffin

Here is an easier way to debug windows services

An Introduction to Design Pattern - Part 2

22 May 2011 by sayem.bd

This article is the second part of a series of articles which will try to explain the basics of design patterns.

An Introduction to Design Pattern – Part 1

28 May 2011 by sayem.bd

This article is the first part of a series of article which will try to explain the basics of design patterns

Anatomy of the Windows 7 Taskbar - ThumbnailToolbarButton

1 Apr 2010 by rudigrobler

With Windows 7’s public release less than 2 weeks away (22 October 2009), I decided to dig into how the taskbar works!

Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Jumplist (Part 1)

1 Apr 2010 by rudigrobler

Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Jumplist (Part 1)

Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Jumplist (Part 2)

1 Apr 2010 by rudigrobler

If your application is associated with a specific file extension, then you get the last part for free! The taskbar also lists files opened by your application in the Recent category!

Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – TabbedThumbnail (Part 2)

1 Apr 2010 by rudigrobler

In my “quest” to create thumbnails similar to the ones used in Internet Explorer 8, I hit a couple of snags!

Android development: a Bluetooth label/receipt printing demo

14 Apr 2014 by hjgode

BtPrint4 A Bluetooth Label printer demo This is my first Android project and I had to learn how to get an Android activity working.

Android Development: btPrint4 Prints Demos and Files to Bluetooth Receipt and Label Printers

18 Dec 2014 by hjgode

This is an update to my btPrint4 Android application.

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

Android's Graphics Buffer Management System (Part I: gralloc)

14 May 2015 by Neta777

CodeProjectIn this post series I'll do a deep dive into Android's graphics buffer management system.

Android's Graphics Buffer Management System (Part II: BufferQueue)

13 May 2015 by Neta777

In this post, I'll describe graphics buffers flows in Android, with special attention to class BufferQueue which plays a central role in graphics buffer management.

Angular JS AutoComplete In MVC With Web API

24 Mar 2016 by Sibeesh Passion

In this article we will learn how we can create Angular JS autoComplete text box with the data from SQL Server database. We use MVC architecture with Web API and Angular JS to fetch the data and do all the manipulations. I am creating this application in Visual Studio 2015.

AngularJS Custom Directive with Two-way Binding Using NgModelController

11 May 2015 by Gilly Barr

AngularJS Custom Directive with Two-way Binding Using NgModelController

AngularJS: When/Where to Load Files

17 Jun 2015 by Sibeesh Passion

Introduction Hi all, I hope you are fine. Today we will learn about Angular JS HTML DOM elements.

Announcing MVC3 Validation Groups

16 Jan 2012 by Martin Jarvis

The new MVC3 Validation Groups

Another Way to Get Windows XP OS Bit Version in VB.NET

9 Apr 2017 by ledtech3

How to get Windows XP OS bit version in VB.NET.

Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library (AntiXSS)

28 Aug 2013 by nageshwa

Anti-cross site scripting library (AntiXSS)

19 Oct 2009 by ocoudert

There are striking lessons in failed software architectures, and it all starts with API design. I am sharing here my practical experience with C++ projects, but most of these advices also apply to Java.

App.Config Transforms Outside Of Web Project

7 Jul 2015 by Sacha Barber

App.Config Transforms outside of Web Project

Application Security Economics

16 Oct 2014 by CdnSecurityEngineer

When you want to buy something that you can afford, what do you do? Well if you’re like most people you go to some financial institution and take out a loan in the amount of the item you wish to…Read more ›The post Application Security Economics appeared first on Security Synergy.

Apply CSS Important In JQuery And CSS

29 Sep 2015 by Sibeesh Passion

In this post we will discuss how we can apply CSS important in JQuery. We all know that we can not apply a important CSS property directly to an element. It does not work. But still there is a solution for that. Here I am going to share you that. I hope you will like […]

Architecting Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

26 Aug 2011 by Ben Liebert

Architecting Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Articles: Create Azure AKS Cluster with Windows Server Containers Preview

18 Feb 2020 by OwenDavies

Microsoft announced back in May of the Windows Server Containers support in Azure Kubernetes Service Preview. Finally we can run Windows containers on the AKS service. It’s still only in preview, but fingers crossed will be coming to General Availability soon..

Articles: How to create an Azure Virtual Machine with PowerShell

9 Feb 2020 by OwenDavies

So you want to create a Virtual Machine on Azure, this can be done in the portal. But really we want this scriptable, so that we can run it at a later date if needed and also so we can leverage this work and use it to create other virtual machines at a later date..

ASP.NET 4.0 and Control IDs

7 Oct 2009 by trottin

In .NET 4.0, there is a new option when adding controls to a page or user control: ClientIDMode. This property offers you four choices: Legacy, Static, Predictable, Inherit...

ASP.NET AJAX Controls for MVC Developers

27 Dec 2012 by Jeffrey T. Fritz

I've been spending a bit of time over the past month looking into ALL of ASP.NET, not just MVC or SignalR or WebAPI.

ASP.NET Callback – and HOW?

28 Jan 2013 by Cruz Boon

Implementing ASP.NET callback.

ASP.NET Callback – and WHY?

28 Jan 2013 by Cruz Boon

ASP.NET callback issues.

ASP.NET Controls – Problem sorting GridView with SqlDataSource control

13 Apr 2010 by Nuno M. F. Gomes

ASP.NET Controls – Problem sorting GridView with SqlDataSource control

ASP.NET Core 2.0 Razor Pages

29 Aug 2017 by User 1043264

How to use Razor Pages in ASP.NET Core 2.0. Continue reading

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

ASP.NET MVC and jQuery Part 2 – Suggesting Content

27 Apr 2010 by TheyCallMeMrJames

This is the second post in a series about jQuery and ASP.NET MVC 2 in Visual Studio 2010. Two perpetually frustrating tasks I have dealt with are scratching out a UI to collect data and having to work with that data client-side.

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.

ASP.NET MVC Custom HTML Helpers (C#)

6 Sep 2013 by Murali Gowda

Create custom HTML Helpers to make it easier to generate view content.

ASP.NET Web Services Dependency Injection using Unity

14 Feb 2017 by Rui Jarimba

Web Services Dependency Injection using Unity

ASP.NET Web Services – How to Overload a Web Method?

24 Aug 2014 by Arun Ramachandran India

WebMethod overloading in ASP.NET web services

ASP.Net Web Services – How to use session state in a web service?

14 Aug 2014 by Arun Ramachandran India

CodeProject In the last blog post, we have discussed about consuming web services from the client application. In this article we will go over how to use session state in a web service. This is continuation of the previous article.

ASP.NET, MVC 3, the Razor View Engine and Google Maps

5 Nov 2011 by TheyCallMeMrJames

With the release of MVC 3, the updated project templates and the Razor view engine we have several new features and tool improvements at our disposal. I wanted to see how hard it would be to get a quick mash-up of some ASP.NET goodness and the Google Maps API.

Asynchronous Programming in .NET – Motivation and Unit Testing

21 May 2018 by Nikola M. Živković

Asynchronous Programming in .NET – Motivation and Unit Testing

Authentication Against CRM Contact using Custom STS

30 Oct 2013 by Manoj.Kumar12

Authentication against CRM contact using custom STS

Authentication using Facebook, Google and Microsoft account in WP8.0 App (MVVM)

30 Jun 2014 by saramgsilva

This sample show to connect one Windows Phone 8.0 app to Facebook, Google and Microsoft account. Main Features: Login/Logout and has an about page with feedback, share in social networks, review and share by email. Download C# (19.4 MB) Introduction … Continue reading →

Auto + Mobile: Cars Have Always Driven The Future Of Technology

19 Nov 2014 by Dan Rowinski

When the smartphone meets the automobile, the future of technology is the road ahead.The post Auto + Mobile: Cars Have Always Driven The Future Of Technology appeared first on ARC.