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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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libpe: PE32/PE32+ Binaries Parsing Library

by Jovibor

Library for parsing internal structures of PE32/PE32+ binary files.

Simple C++ DirectShow MP3 Player with .NET Wrapper

by Shao Voon Wong

No frills C++ MP3/WMA DirectShow player class

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.

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"An advanced, low-level programmer's guide to Windows NT Kernel, Native API and drivers"

10 May 2011 by GAMerritt

Tomasz Nowak's "Undocumented Windows NT" original .chm file about ntdll.dll

.NET Code Comment Utilities

19 Mar 2015 by Peter T. Ringering

A program that makes editing code comments and XML comments easier.

.NET Data Modeler for Oracle 11g

19 Mar 2014 by Jacob Himes

My go around to an Entity Framework alternative

.NET DataTable To JSON Format Conversion Tool for WCFServices

4 Nov 2013 by SimbarasheM

A .NET v4 Library for converting DataTable row(s) to JSON String for WCFServices

.NET Double Reference

31 Mar 2011 by Jon_Slaughter

Simple class to encapsulate a double reference

.NET Interop with 32 and 64-bit DLLs

11 Dec 2014 by Zzzzzoltan

A novel solution to the 32 vs 64-bit DLL interop problem

.NET Runtime Library for Delphi

11 Oct 2015 by Bismark Appah

.NET Runtime Library for Delphi

.NET TransactionScope and its default Transaction Isolation level issue

1 Feb 2013 by S. M. Ahasan Habib

.NET TransactionScope and its default Transaction Isolation level issue.

.NET WinForms Tray Icon Implemenation with Win7 and Vista Features

23 Oct 2014 by BrokenEvent

.NET WinForms Tray icon implemenation with Win7 and Vista features: GUID identification, large custom icons, custom UI instead of the hint, etc.

2D Character Design With F# And GDI+

2 Nov 2015 by Farhad Reza

We will design two interesting characters in this tip. The first one is Code Project Bob sticker and the second one is Magpie bird which is the national bird of Bangladesh.

2D Drawing on Windows Forms and the Use of Transformation Matrices While Demonstrating the Trapezoid

18 Dec 2014 by charles922

Use of the Trapezoidal Rule to integrate a function

3-D's of Windows 8.1 Store Background App

11 Mar 2014 by Prasanna Venkatesh . K

Writing a Windows store background app from the scratch

3D effects in Windows Store App

2 Feb 2014 by AnobikDey

A description of how images and other controls can be rotated and used to give 3d Effect in Windows Store Apps

3D Puzzle with OpenGl and C#

20 Jan 2015 by charles922

3D programming with OpenGl and C# to create an interactive puzzle

4 Ways to Improve Your Lotus Notes Performance

7 Sep 2015 by Atul Kharecha

If you are using Lotus Notes as an email client and it is running very slowly, this tip will help you to overcome the performance issues.

64 Bit Application Cannot Use DSOfile

16 Aug 2016 by robert8w8

DSOfile in 64 bit version

7-Segment Time Display Widget in WPF

19 Jul 2015 by Revanth Ramesh

Futuristic Talking 7-Segment Time Display Widget in WPF

?? Operator

12 Mar 2012 by Muthu Nadar

This article will explain about null coalescing operator along with its advantage and disadvantage.

[tut 7] Drag & Drop points in lines

24 Jun 2016 by The Zakies

in this tut we will create a technique to enable the user to control points within a drawn line, by drawing circles around points of the line , when the user clicks a circle he would control the corresponding point.

[tut 8] Hand tool

29 Jun 2016 by The Zakies

we would create Hand_tool to pan through the drawing form, and we would use a custom cursor of open and closed hands

[tut 9] hand tool (part 2) navigator panel

3 Jul 2016 by The Zakies

we will continue the functionality of the hand tool with having a navigator panel which works as a map, we will also have a red rectangle which tells the user where he is actually viewing inside the whole form, also it can be moved to pan the form

A .NET File System Watcher

20 Feb 2014 by toneware

A utility that monitors a selected directory for changes

A 64 Bit Version of ODBCTracer

7 Sep 2012 by zippy1981

This is an alternative for "ODBCTracer"

A Complete Sample of Custom Class Collection Serialization and Deserialization

19 Jun 2014 by Maciej Los

If you want to know the way you can serialize and deserialize custom class collection, this tip is for you.

deserialization

A computational statistics class

19 Nov 2013 by YOSSI ROZENBERG

A computational statistics class in C#

A Desktop App that Works Unchanged for WPF or WinForms

16 Nov 2020 by Erik Nagel

Usable demo demonstrating some aspects of application architecture

A DOS One-Liner: Running a Program Against a List of Files

24 Apr 2018 by David A. Gray

Run many (hundreds, even) files through a program or script, using nothing but CMD.EXE.

A fast and simple DataGridView analogue

18 Jan 2013 by Andrey Sitaev

Here I placed source files, binaries and brief instructions for FastGrid control.

A Faster File.Copy

23 May 2014 by Frank T. Clark

Improving file transfer speed for large files

A First Impression of a clockwork using Simple Gears

11 Oct 2013 by wim4you

We wanted a first impression of a clockwork using simple gear for visual evaluation. A provisory prototype is made.

A Foldable Content Control for UWP

8 Jan 2017 by Nuwan Karunarathna

This a foldable content control for UWP platform.

A General C++ Reflection Engine Based on C++11 and Meta Programming

28 Jun 2016 by JohnX2015

This is a cross-platform general C++ engine, including a general runtime and a reflection engine.

A Generic ADO.NET Overlay to Simplify DB Calls to SQL Server and Oracle

12 Jan 2016 by shijo joseph

An ADO.NET Layer for SQL Server and Oracle which makes it easier for interfacing with database

A Generic Implementation for ICommand

24 Dec 2013 by Senthilvel Samatharman

This tip provides a simple implementation for the ICommand interface and enables to write quick code leaving the nuances of fetching the return types and asynchrony

A Good Desktop Software in Users' Eyes

26 Sep 2015 by Southmountain

Some take-away to improve the quality of desktop software

A good practice for mapping TFS collections on local path

7 Jun 2012 by Mario Majčica

A well justified practice for mapping TFS collections on your local PC.

A Lean JavaScript for Generate Gallery

22 Dec 2015 by Member 4206974

A JavaScript for generate gallery with some transition effects.

A Lightweight File Backup Manager

24 Jan 2015 by shijo joseph

A file backup manager with simple user interface and all the essential functionalities.

A Little Neat Trick to Grab Windows 10 Startup Desktop Screen Pictures

4 Sep 2018 by simonp_ca

If you like those beautiful Windows10 PC startup screens and wonder how to capture and save them as images, this tip/trick is for you...

A Low Maintenance XML Settings Mechanism

14 Mar 2015 by RickZeeland

An easy way to edit and exchange XML config settings

A managed FreeFrame host

6 Feb 2013 by Jarno Burger

A managed wrapper around FreeFrame, to give your video frames some cool effects

A Micro Web Server Using WCF

7 Jul 2014 by Michael Bergman

Using Windows Communication Foundation to build a simple web server

A New Discovery?: Omitting File Extension in SRC attribute of IMG tag

18 Oct 2011 by Nikunj_Bhatt

Image can also be shown without specifying its extension in HTML doc if it is on server

A New Skin for Ye Olde GroupBox

13 Jun 2015 by RickZeeland

Creating a custom GroupBox in WinForms that supports skinning

A PictureBox with Zoom, Grid and Rulers

6 Mar 2014 by LucaDN

Add zoom capabilities, grid and rulers to the standard WinForms PictureBox control

A Plug and Play Logging Library for Dummies

20 Dec 2015 by shijo joseph

An easy to implement yet powerful logging library which requires absolute zero learning curve

A Polygon-triangulation Algorithm with Time Complexity O(N*logN)

16 Jan 2016 by Mathew_wwx

This tip will introduce a library written in C++ that wraps up a 2d polygon triangulation algorithm with time complexity of O(N*logN), the algorithm works on both self-intersected and non self-intersected polygons.

A PowerShell Form Generator

7 May 2014 by Member 4206974

A PowerShell 3.0 Form Generator.

A Progress Indicator for the Boost Test Library

20 Mar 2013 by cocaf

How to show progress in a Boost test application.

A pure-C Centered MessageBox Replacement

23 Oct 2015 by Ph. Jounin

A C-replacement for MessageBox

A quick introduction: Create an MSI installer with WiX

8 Dec 2010 by Moak

This is a quick introduction for developers who want to create a simple MSI installer using the free WiX toolset v3.0.

A simple application for gathering system information

8 Apr 2012 by MehdiNaseri

In this tip you will learn how to collect system information by using System.Environment and System.Management.

A Simple Application to Notify the Caps Lock Status

25 Jun 2013 by Kaushik S Murthy

This application allows you to know the status of caps lock whenever the caps status is toggled

A Simple Bluetooth Application

16 Dec 2013 by Hadrich Mohamed

This tip enables you to discover bluetooth features and how we can use its API to develop a simple application.

A Simple Calculator in Windows Forms

14 Dec 2014 by Yvan Rodrigues

A demonstation of accumulators and operators

A Simple CSV Reader

31 Mar 2013 by George Swan

An easy way to read CSV files.

A simple example of adding movable label controls at runtime

23 Jan 2013 by Tarek Elqusi

I created a simple form with a button to add a label control at run time sequentially numbered; labels are movable and lines are drawn between labels.

A Simple Hash Tool

16 Jan 2013 by Anurag Saini

A tool to generate MD5 and SHA-1 checksums.

A Simple Library to Generate PowerPoint Presentations

5 Jun 2014 by Erik Vullings

Generate a PowerPoint presentation, consisting of slides with a title and an image, without requiring Microsoft Office

A Simple Number Entry Textbox

2 Dec 2009 by bobishkindaguy

A simple entry box for various numbers, especially phone numbers.

A Simple Podcast App For Windows Phone (HTML & Javascript)

14 Jun 2015 by Fiyaz Hasan

Building a simple app for windows phone using plain HTML and Javascript

A Simple RTF Print Form

1 Oct 2016 by Howard 9448490

A WYSIWYG Printer Interface for Rich text

A Simple Screensaver in C through Win32: CodeRain

16 Aug 2012 by AshakiranBhatter

ScreensSaver through fullscreen mode using Win32 APIs in C.

A Simple Thumbnail Viewer Control

3 Jul 2014 by Nguyen.H.H.Dang

A very simple Thumbnail Viewer inherited from FlowLayoutPanel for beginners

A Simple USB desktop locker

26 Oct 2014 by Arkadeep De

A simple way to delete an undeletable file

18 Nov 2011 by Andre' Gardiner

A simple way to delete an "undeletable" fileSTEPS>Go to run type cmd or Open a Command Prompt window and leave it open.>Close open programs.>Click Start, Run and enter TASKMGR.EXE or Press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC>Go to the Processes tab and End Process on Explorer.exe.>Leave Task...

A simple way to delete an undeletable file

19 Nov 2011 by George Swan

I prefer alternative 3 but this option may save time if multiple files are to be deleted.Disk Cleanup will remove all files stored in a folder named Windows.old in the drive's root if the option Remove Previous Versions of Windows is selected.Create a directory named Windows.old in the...

A simple way to see hidden files using DOS

13 Feb 2010 by Andre' Gardiner

A simple way to see hidden files using DOSGo to Run and type cmd or open command prompt (MSDOS)At command prompt type: dir /ah if their is too much in list type: dir /ah/p/w ;) NOTERemember to rate :cool:

A Simple Windows Example Using the Chromium Embedded Framework 3

13 Jun 2014 by Jason Stern2

This is a simple Windows example using the Chromium embedded framework 3.

A Simple Worker Thread Class

29 Mar 2019 by Rick York

This is a simple worker thread class that allows when to use a member function as the thread function.

A Small Class to Read INI Files

30 Apr 2012 by Nippey

This is a TCHAR alternative for "A Small Class to Read INI File"

A Small Utility for Synchronization Between Two Folders

29 Mar 2020 by Marijan Nikic

A small command line utility for synchronization between two folders

A Snippet that Transforms Spanish Text into Simple American English Phonetics

5 Jun 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

A C# snippet that converts Spanish text into a phonetic representation of how to pronounce it (in Mexican Spanish, not Spaniard Spanish) for speakers of American English

A solution to get rid of the flicker of controls on scroll window(WINCE/WM)

7 Nov 2010 by Chen_Zhuo

A Task Scheduler Library for .NET Applications

10 Jun 2014 by Sen Jacob

A simple task scheduler utility by which you can schedule a task to run at any time or interval

A Task Scheduler Library for .NET Applications

11 Jun 2014 by Sen Jacob

This is an alternative for "A Task Scheduler Library for .NET Applications"

A Tiny Custom List Control

25 Aug 2014 by HateCoding

A tiny custom list control

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A Tip to Get MFC Support for Console Application in Visual Studio 2019

26 Mar 2021 by Southmountain

Some quick configurations to get MFC support for console application

A Unique Singleton

25 May 2015 by osy

Proper implementation of a signal handler

A utility to measure screen area in pixels

30 Apr 2013 by Michael Rosqvist

If you want to measure something on the screen, here is a utility.

A Very Basic Singely Linked List for VBA

16 Mar 2019 by WhiskeyBeforeWater

A nodular Singely Linked List for VBA with some basic functions

A Very High-Level Outline for a Way Cool Utility

24 Nov 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

In which the author takes the "That is an Exercise Left to the Reader" cop-out to Extremes

A Visual Studio 2010 style ToolBox control

26 Nov 2012 by nilotpalbarpujari

VS 2010 style toolbox written in C#

A way to disable "auto-select based on partial string match" of items in an editable CComboBox upon drop-down

28 Feb 2010 by Code-o-mat

Combo boxes under Windows have a "nice" feature of automatically selecting an item for the user when the user drops down the list of the combo box. This selection is based on partial string matching by the combo box, namely, it will select the first item in the list -if any- that begins with the...

A Windows Form like MessageBox for ASP.NET Website

19 Apr 2012 by Rahul Rajat Singh

A simple Windows Form like message box for ASP.NET applications

Accelerometer Sensor in Windows Phone 8

20 Feb 2013 by Pradeep Reddy S

Implementation of Accelerometer in WP8 applications.

Accesing DB2 Databse using DB2 CLI

4 Oct 2012 by Ritesh_Singh

C++ code to connect/access DB2 database using DB2 call level interface(CLI)

Access HFS+ from Windows (read-only) without installing any drivers

2 Nov 2014 by Dominick Sidiropoulos

A way to access files on HFS+ filesystems that side-steps alltogether the tar-pit called "windows-drivers-from-hell (tm)".

Access Team Foundation Server 2010 Check in Details From C#.NET

17 Apr 2013 by babu saravanan

This article explains how to retrieve TFS 2010 project check in details from C#.NET code

Access Values of ProgressBar Created a Runtime

23 Oct 2014 by Tantum

Access values of ProgressBar created at runtime

Access Violation Crash on Windows Phone Devices

21 Apr 2015 by Bogdan Bujdea

Access Violation Crash on Windows Phone Devices

Accessing class object present in exe from explicitly loaded DLL using Inheritance and virtual function

19 May 2013 by Amit Deshmukh 1010

Accessing class object present in exe from explicitly loaded DLL using Inheritance and virtual function.

Accessing Data through Web Service in Windows 8 Stores App - VS2012

24 Oct 2012 by Ramanujam Shankar

Show data in grid view control of Windows Stores App using web service or WCF

Accessing the Controls on a Form at Design Time

29 Oct 2013 by Mike-MadBadger

How to discover all the controls on a form at design time for a property editor

Achieveing Indefinite Background Execution with the Microsoft Band

6 Oct 2015 by James M Croft

This post covers getting your Windows apps connected to a Microsoft Band for an indefinite period of time.

Activating WRL Audio Interfaces in Native C++

7 May 2014 by Gregory Morse

Activating WRL audio interfaces in native C++

multi-threading

ActiveSync Scripting

3 Mar 2010 by hjgode

The following is a nice? sample for an automation task. This batch will be executed every time a device connects to your PC via ActiveSync. You will need the itsutils.As you can read, the batch (script) first tries to check, if it has already been run on the device. This is done by looking...

Actually USE TaskManager to Suspend Dominating Services and Regain Workflow Speed

7 Dec 2016 by RedDk

Suspend, by "stopping", then when done doing what you need to do, restart ... or not!

Adapting responsive design to Windows RT snapped view

4 Mar 2013 by Sergey Zwezdin

How to adapt your responsive HTML pages to Windows RT snapped mode.

Windows-Phone-7

Add "Zooming" to a WPF Window or User Control

6 Jan 2015 by MarkLTX

Allow users to "magnify" your WPF application!