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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

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AWS LocalStack - Installing & Configuring Locally on Windows for SQS

5 Apr 2024 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

30 Mar 2024 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.

How to Restart a USB Port

23 Mar 2024 by Uwe_Sieber

Shows how to use IOCTL_USB_HUB_CYCLE_PORT to restart a USB port under Windows

XML Sitemap

14 Mar 2024 by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

An alternative Windows version to XML Sitemap online generators

Tile Grid Control

5 Mar 2024 by PJ Arends

An MFC CWnd derived grid of user definable tiles

Lee Algorithm Mazesolver

3 Mar 2024 by Shao Voon Wong

Lee Algorithm Mazesolver in MFC and Direct2D

OpenGL and WPF: Integrating an OpenGL Window inside a WPF Window

1 Mar 2024 by gabriel4sonic

Shows how to use OpenGL in a .NET WPF application by directly incorporating an OpenGL window as a child of the main WPF window, making it behave more like a control

Editor for Folder Metadata in C#

23 Feb 2024 by Martin Henke (1971)

Edit Metadata for folders by using desktop.ini features

IP Radar 2 - Real-Time Detection and Defense

5 Feb 2024 by Clark Fieseln

Protect your privacy against malicious network activity and policy violations

Crypt Library Demo - The Basics of Microsoft CryptoAPI Library

20 Jan 2024 by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

The article discusses the concept of cryptography and its application in ensuring data security.

VPNScripter: A Scripter for Windows' VPN Connections

21 Nov 2023 by Federico Di Marco

Create quickly VPN connections in Windows according to a XML configuration file

Reboot or Not to Reboot?

13 Oct 2023 by Maxim Kartavenkov

This is a guide on how to configure your application, service or driver to handle appearing the new devices or device removal avoiding reboot request.

Doing UTF-8 in Windows

9 Oct 2023 by Mircea Neacsu

This is (yet another!) article on how to handle UTF-8 encoding on a platform that still encourages the UTF-16 encoding.

Windows Version Detection

1 Sep 2023 by Shao Voon Wong

Windows Version Detection using C# and C++

Using XForms and formsPlayer to Build a Weather Web Services Client

25 Aug 2023 by Mark Birbeck

Easily and quickly build web services clients using XForm

Tracing and Logging Technologies on Windows. Part 4 - Saving Log

18 Aug 2023 by Maxim Kartavenkov

Discussion of how to organize saving application trace helper information.

Time Period Library for .NET

17 Aug 2023 by Jani Giannoudis

Extensive time period calculations and individual calendar periods

Cinchoo ETL - JSON Reader

7 Aug 2023 by Cinchoo

Simple JSON reader for .NET

Get the Best of Both Worlds: Command Line and GUI

29 Jul 2023 by Zijian

Rapidly develop a console app with a lot of options and give a command line program a GUI

WPF Hosting SharpDX

27 Jul 2023 by Patrick Brunner

Examples of WPF applications using DirectX11 managed code (SharpDX and C#) based on Microsoft interop solution

Unity Graphics Emulator for Native Plugin Development

12 Jul 2023 by EgorYusov

This article describes Unity low-level plugin interface and the Unity graphics interface emulator that facilitates native plugin development.

Tracing and Logging Technologies on Windows. Part 3 - User Mode Handles in the Kernel

5 Jul 2023 by Maxim Kartavenkov

Continue discussion of the simple kernel drivers tracing mechanisms by using output information into the handles of the files pipes and console passed to the driver from the host application.

Web Scraping with Python: Part I

17 Jun 2023 by VISWESWARAN1998

Scrape the websites with Python 3

Tracing and Logging Technologies on Windows. Part 2 - Simple Ways Tracing in the Kernel Mode

15 Jun 2023 by Maxim Kartavenkov

Discussion of simple ways of tracing and also new tracing technologies involved in Windows 10

Tracing and Logging Technologies on Windows. Part 1 - Simple Ways Providing Information for Tracing

18 May 2023 by Maxim Kartavenkov

The series of articles covers most aspects of logging and tracing mechanisms which can be embedded into your application. It discusses simple ways of tracing and also new tracing technologies which were involved in Windows 10.

C++: Windows Toast Notification

25 Apr 2023 by Shao Voon Wong

Windows Toast Notification in C++

Least Squares: A Matrix Approach in Java

17 Apr 2023 by Mark H Bishop

Computational classes and a GUI interface to illustrate usage

Splash and Login Forms (Problems and Solutions)

10 Apr 2023 by Vladimir Kniazkov

The more perfect description of the creation the Splash and the Login forms with full source code

CudaPAD

28 Mar 2023 by Ryan Scott White

CudaPAD is a PTX/SASS viewer for NVIDIA Cuda kernels and provides an on-the-fly view of your Cuda code.

Simple C++ DirectShow MP3 Player Class

10 Mar 2023 by Shao Voon Wong

No frills C++ MP3/WMA DirectShow player class

Workaround for AT TIME ZONE Performance Issues in SQL Server Views & Dynamic SQL

6 Mar 2023 by Andriy Protskiv

Workaround for performance issues with AT TIME ZONE

String Manipulations using TCHAR Header File

14 Feb 2023 by Atique Rahman

Tips and tricks on String manipulations in Unicode (Windows Programming context)

Design a Windows Explorer Extension with SharpShell

26 Jan 2023 by Bert O Neill

How to extend the context menu of Windows Explorer

FPGA Hardware Simulation Framework (FPGA_HW_SIM_FWK)

11 Jan 2023 by Clark Fieseln

Simulate hardware containing an FPGA programmed in VHDL interactively

PsCal - Create Personalized PDF Calendars

10 Jan 2023 by FormerBIOSGuy

This article describes a set of batch, AWK, and PostScript files that together allow you to create personalized, 12-page PDF calendars for some year.

Miller Columns for WPF

4 Jan 2023 by Alexey A. Popov 2

A simple implementation of Miller columns (cascading columns) control

ViewFile and Head Tools

21 Dec 2022 by gggustafson

This article is a significant revision to the earlier version and introduces a new version of ViewFile.

packetcache: Exploring Development of a memcache-like Network Cache

29 Nov 2022 by Michael Sydney Balloni

This article explores UDP programming, LRU cache development, and .NET packet processing.

Win32 Programming: Dealing with Variable Size Structs When Making API Calls

24 Nov 2022 by Bruno van Dooren

When calling into the win32 API, there are many times when you must deal with structures that have a variable size. This article shows how to do that in a convenient way.

Hosting .NET Web Service in Unmanaged C/C++ Process in Windows and Linux

18 Oct 2022 by Igor Ladnik

Compact infrastructure for custom hosting of .NET Web components in unmanaged C/C++ code with reciprocal methods calls between the parts running in Windows and Linux

Drawing Rich Text with GDI+

14 Oct 2022 by Andy De Filippo

Render Rich Text with GDI+ by tapping into the power of API hooking

Getting All "Special Folders" in .NET

27 Sep 2022 by Ray K

Retrieving the path to the new user folders like Downloads, Saved Games or Searches

basic_oformatstream Template Class

25 Sep 2022 by David 'dex' Schwartz

Old style printf format strings ported to an ostream shim class

Win32 Security: Retrieving Privileges and Groups for an Access Token

22 Sep 2022 by Bruno van Dooren

This article shows how to retrieve the Privileges and Groups that are part of an access token such as the current thread token.

Obtain the Plain Text Session Key using CryptoAPI

22 Sep 2022 by Raphael Amorim

How to get plain text session using CryptoAPI

ftp2? Evolving File Transfer with msgfiles

12 Sep 2022 by Michael Sydney Balloni

A .NET client-server application for sending files over a network

N: An Experimental Multithreaded bignum Library for Windows

6 Sep 2022 by Michael Chourdakis

This class allows math between any size big number, as long as your available memory can handle it.

multi-threading

Codez Bank: A Code Snippet Bank Application

22 Aug 2022 by steveb

An application that stores and manages useful code snippets and keeps them always handy

Different Ways to Maintain Audit Information for DML in SQL

8 Aug 2022 by Avinash A. Dhumal

Implement an audit mechanism for your DML objects

Using Win32 Transactions

21 Jul 2022 by Bruno van Dooren

This article demonstrates how to use Win32 transactions with file and registry operations.

Porting a Large Project from Windows to Linux

7 Jul 2022 by Greg Utas

Analogous functions, subtle differences, multiple compilers...

Reading OPC DA Data in PowerShell

5 Jul 2022 by Bruno van Dooren

How to read data from OPC DA servers into a PowerShell script

Unification of Text and Binary File APIs

27 Jun 2022 by Shao Voon Wong

A portable and easy-to-use C++ file library to read and write structured data

Simple Software for Optimal Control

23 Jun 2022 by Igor Ladnik

Simple software to solve quadratic optimal control problem

DataFrame Library for PPL

4 Jun 2022 by Oscar K.

What is PPL, Generation code DataFrame Library, Contents DataFrame library, examples of using several methods with results

Hosting of MFC MDI Applications from Within WinForms and WPF Applications

30 May 2022 by Alexey Shalnov

Building old MFC app in .NET app, replacing MFC MDI Framework with modern WinForms or WPF Framework and integrating MFC Views and Dialogs in it

Getting Started with U++ 2022.2

26 May 2022 by Miroslav Fidler

Installation and the first look at U++ platform

A C# Central Logging Mechanism using the Observer and Singleton Patterns

26 May 2022 by David Catriel

A very powerful and clean way to add logging of all sorts to an application

mscript 3.0: Database Programming, Logging, and Many Language Improvements

26 May 2022 by Michael Sydney Balloni

Check out the third major revision of mscript for replacing your nasty batch files with simple mscripts

How to Use GPU in VBA/Excel

16 May 2022 by Excel-lent

This article shows how to compile and execute OpenCL code from VBA.

Cryptographic Hashes: What They Are, and Why You Should be Friends

5 May 2022 by Jerome Vonk

Description of cryptographic hashes and practical examples on how to calculate them

Camera_Net Library

28 Apr 2022 by free5lot

Camera_Net is a FLOSS library for using video-cameras and video-inputs in .NET projects easily

Cinchoo - ChoEazyCopy, Yet Another RoboCopy GUI

13 Apr 2022 by Cinchoo

Yet another RoboCopy GUI tool

How to Change Text Color in a Windows Terminal

7 Apr 2022 by Chris Maunder

A quick overview and a simple Windows CMD script to make your terminal output a little more lively

mscript 2.0.2: DLL Authoring, Registry DLL, exec() Error Handling

6 Apr 2022 by Michael Sydney Balloni

Minor release improves DLL security, adds registry DLL, enhances exec() error handling

mscript - Version 2.0 Adds Error Handling, New Functions, and DLL Integration

2 Apr 2022 by Michael Sydney Balloni

If you were on the fence about adding mscript to your arsenal of system tools, have another look.

Rapid Object Detection in .NET

23 Feb 2022 by Huseyin Atasoy

Rapid object detection without a third party library requirement in .NET

mscript: A Programming Language for Scripting Command Line Operations

7 Feb 2022 by Michael Sydney Balloni

Replace your nasty .bat files with friendly mscripts for clean and powerful command line operations

Multiple Face Detection and Recognition in Real Time

5 Jan 2022 by Sergio Andrés Gutiérrez Rojas

Face detection and recognition with support of multiples faces in the same scene and other interesting features using C# and EmguCV

image-recognition

httplite: C++ REST Processing Class Library

6 Dec 2021 by Michael Sydney Balloni

Interested in easily implementing REST communications in your Windows C++ apps?

Mouse Smoothing

28 Nov 2021 by wqaxs36

Mouse smoothing feature to your mouse

Win32 SDK PropertyGrid Made Easy

23 Nov 2021 by David MacDermot

This article describes the creation of a non-MFC custom PropertyGrid control.

Building a Chat Application using the QuantumGate P2P Networking Library

30 Oct 2021 by Karel Donk

An example of building a peer-to-peer chat application for secure and private communication

Easy WPF Copy/Paste Excel

14 Oct 2021 by Juan Francisco Morales Larios

An easy way to copy and paste data between WPF application and Excel

Sudoku Solver using C# Windows Application

25 Sep 2021 by Senthil Kumeresh

An overview of how the coding is done to solve the Sudoku problem

Audio Steganography for Pretty Good Concealing (AS4PGC)

25 Sep 2021 by Clark Fieseln

Compress, encrypt and hide a secret file inside an audio file (MP3, WAV, OGG, FLAC, ..)

StringShear - A Science Project Adventure in C# and C++

13 Sep 2021 by Michael Sydney Balloni

A science program is rearranged, ported from C# to C++, measured, and optimized

Customized Onscreen Keyboard in C#

11 Aug 2021 by Kourosh K Tari

Customized onscreen keyboard in C# for Windows

Compact Framework for Tasks Flow Control and Parallel Computing

25 Jul 2021 by Igor Ladnik

This article presents a compact framework for managing operations flow in various control, simulation and testing applications.

Fast Typo-Insensitive String Matching in a Program and a Database

12 Jul 2021 by David Wincelberg

Strings that differ by typos can be matched.

Table Football (Game Tutorial)

6 Jul 2021 by VisualMonsters

Simple game "table football", you can easily create and play with your friends and family

Simple Multi-Request Web Crawler using U++

4 Jul 2021 by Miroslav Fidler

Using asynchronous nature of U++ library HttpRequest class to implement parallel web crawler with GUI

Aspect Oriented Programming in .NET

14 Jun 2021 by Shivprasad koirala

An introduction to Aspect Oriented Programming in .NET

MIDI Monitor Written in Visual Basic

14 May 2021 by Paul Srmnn

Using VisualBasic Express 2010

HotPoints - A New Method for 2D Polyline Vertex Smoothing

30 Apr 2021 by ADMGNS

An alternative method to Catmull-Rom, Chaikin or Bezier curve smoothing methods

Compact and Repair Access Database using C# and Late Binding

20 Apr 2021 by Alexander Yumashev

The code compacts and repairs an MS Access database from C# code using a JRO.JetEngine COM-object. Binding occurs at runtime, no references, no interops. Pure System.Reflection.

ToolBoxCtrl

14 Apr 2021 by Aleh Baradzenka

The control representing a regular ToolBar in the form of a tree of command buttons

Brief Introduction of a Continuous SQL-stream Sending and Processing System (Part 2: MySQL)

4 Apr 2021 by Yuancai (Charlie) Ye

Continuous SQL-stream Sending and Processing System

1 Apr 2021 by Aleh Baradzenka

One of the easiest ways to animate images for your program

Sessiontime - Record Windows Session and Locked/unlocked Events and Parse and Display Collected Data

31 Mar 2021 by Ivan Golović

Record various Windows session events, log them, parse and display session events per user

Rich OutlookBar in XP and Vista Style

31 Mar 2021 by Star Vega

Creating a rich OutlookBar in XP or Vista style

Windows 7: New Features Explained using .NET

29 Mar 2021 by Abhishek Sur

New Win7 features explained with simple demo applications

MultiPaneCtrl - Create Hierarchically Nested Areas

26 Mar 2021 by Aleh Baradzenka

A control that allows you to create multiple tabbed regions that can be dragged to another location with the mouse.

Drag & Drop Images and Drop Descriptions for MFC Applications

26 Mar 2021 by Jochen Arndt

Add drag & drop support with drag images and drop descriptions to your MFC applications

TabCtrl - Adjustable Control with Zooming and Scrolling Tabs

25 Mar 2021 by Aleh Baradzenka

In this article, you will learn about an adjustable control that has zooming and scrolling tabs, dragging with the mouse, custom drawing and much more.

Abstracting TCP/IP Communications, and Adding What Should Be the New Basics

24 Mar 2021 by pdoxtader

AbstractTcpLib

Synchronization with Visual C++ and the Windows API

23 Mar 2021 by Espen Harlinn

Choosing the right synchronization mechanisms when working with threads, thread-pools, and I/O Completion ports to create high performance asynchronous servers in C++

An Ultrafast Light Timeseries Storage Engine – LMDB Part 1

23 Mar 2021 by Espen Harlinn

A lightweight timeseries storage engine, capable of storing millions of timeseries values per second

Hello C#! C++ at Your Service

23 Mar 2021 by Espen Harlinn

A .NET Core client implemented in C# using TcpClient and a multi-threaded server implemented in C++

OutlookTabCtrl - Another Kind of Tab

16 Mar 2021 by Aleh Baradzenka

This control is another kind of tab. Tabs are displayed as horizontal stripes and can be collapsed into buttons. Each tab is assigned its own window, which is shown when you click on the tab.