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Ultra-Rapid PHP Application Development

by Christoph Buenger

Describes PHP application development with the free Scavix Web Development Framework (Scavix-WDF).

Easy ToolStrip - Let your UserControl display beyond the Containers/Form limits (C# and VB.NET)

by Avelino Ferreira

The easiest way to implement the ToolStripControlHost and ToolStripDropDown classes, in a UserControl, in order to display a Container/Control beyond the limits of its Parent Container and Parent Form, with very few lines of code. Let's uncomplicate ...

WPF TextBox With Ellipsis

by MarkLTX

A subclass of the WPF TextBox control that displays an ellipsis when the text doesn't fit.

Small Paging Control for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)

by freedeveloper

A small control to control paging in Windows Presentation Foundation.

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How to Embed Resources in a Static Library

by Michael Haephrati

How can a Static Library embed resources and other data so any application (even a Console based one) can use them.

Auto-repeat Button in 10 Minutes

by Adam Zgagacz

Simple WinForms auto-repeat button in a few lines

Paging WPF DataGrid

by WyoMetz

Simple and easy paging of a WPF DataGrid with DataTable and LINQ queries

How to Build a Room Booking Calendar with dhtmlxScheduler

by Stas Wolski

This article describes how to implement a meeting room booking system in an ASP.NET MVC project with dhtmlxScheduler.

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User Controls

How to Embed Resources in a Static Library

22 Jan 2019 by Michael Haephrati

How can a Static Library embed resources and other data so any application (even a Console based one) can use them.

Auto-repeat Button in 10 Minutes

31 Oct 2018 by Adam Zgagacz

Simple WinForms auto-repeat button in a few lines

Paging WPF DataGrid

26 Aug 2018 by WyoMetz

Simple and easy paging of a WPF DataGrid with DataTable and LINQ queries

How to Build a Room Booking Calendar with dhtmlxScheduler

5 Feb 2018 by Stas Wolski

This article describes how to implement a meeting room booking system in an ASP.NET MVC project with dhtmlxScheduler.

Embedded Controls in HMIs

10 Nov 2017 by knockNrod

Creating Embedded Controls for WonderWare InTouch and WinCC

Yet another Web Camera control

5 Nov 2017 by Alexander Iacobciuc

In this article you will find yet another implementation of a web camera control.

Scanned Data Visualization: Present Your Data in a Life-like Radar Screen

8 Sep 2016 by Kim, Byungsu

Draw a life-like radar screen by using simple code

Easy ToolStrip - Let your UserControl display beyond the Containers/Form limits (C# and VB.NET)

3 Aug 2016 by Avelino Ferreira

The easiest way to implement the ToolStripControlHost and ToolStripDropDown classes, in a UserControl, in order to display a Container/Control beyond the limits of its Parent Container and Parent Form, with very few lines of code. Let's uncomplicate ...

Adorners, Glyphs, Behavior, and ControlDesigner for WinForms Controls

30 Mar 2015 by SSDiver2112

Interactive Design Time Control Overlays to make editing custom controls easier.

Custom Button Control with Gradient Colors and Extra Image (VB.NET)

19 Mar 2015 by SSDiver2112

This is a simple to use custom button control, but with a lot of visual design options.

Creating a NumericUpDown control from scratch

6 Nov 2014 by Nowaki

Shows the entire process of creating a full-fledged NumericUpDown control in WPF.

Ultra-Rapid PHP Application Development

31 Oct 2014 by Christoph Buenger

Describes PHP application development with the free Scavix Web Development Framework (Scavix-WDF).

Gain Coding Speed with Nido (FREE) Framework .NET/ C#

30 Oct 2014 by Nirosh

Nido Framework with .Net 4.0 and Entity Framework help you standardize your Business Logic Layer (BLL).

Enhanced Scrollbar

2 Oct 2014 by Adam Zgagacz

WinForms Scrollbar with enhanced properties, graphical bookmarks and value tooltips.

Group GridView Data

22 Aug 2014 by Anurag Gandhi

A custom GridView control which provides you an additional facility to group the data in gridview along with the facility to customise the Group Header and Group Footer

A Software Virtual Keyboard for Your WPF Apps

25 Jul 2014 by JamesHurst

Walks through the creation of an on-screen virtual keyboard for entering non-ASCII chars

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Using Knockout.js to Control Cascading Selects

23 Jul 2014 by davekahn

An easy way to control the lists of options in multiple related SELECT controls

Basic WPF Way to Implement and Include Animation in XAML

5 May 2014 by Gerald Gomes

This article will make an attempt to describe a basic way to start implementing animation in WPF.

A Silverlight control to parse Excel data into a flat collection

7 Apr 2014 by I.explore.code

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How to Add User Customized Properties to Your Silverlight Control

28 Jan 2014 by Jorge J. Martins

It's easy to add user customized properties to any Silverlight control.

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Creating a discrete value slider in Silverlight

22 Dec 2013 by Kashif_Imran

The article shows the proecess of creating and using a discrete value slider for Silverlight.

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Architecture Guide: Windows Forms, Generics, Auto-Mapper, Entity Framework, Framework Design, and many more..

12 Dec 2013 by Nirosh

Architecting a Windows Forms based system on top of a framework. This will help you develop a form based application faster.

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Scientific Data Visualizer

7 Nov 2013 by Alexander Chernosvitov

ActiveX component for 3D visualization, embedded in different client applications.

Creating your own widget in iDevUI

14 Oct 2013 by Jamesking56

Adding functionality to the iDevUI framework

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Android Style Screen Pattern for Login

12 Jul 2013 by Unnikrishnan_S_N

Draw pattern instead of password for login screen.

All you need to create a Nuget package for ASP.NET MVC

28 May 2013 by Giorgio Minardi

How to create an MVC HTML Helper and package it for Nuget.

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CategorySlider - A discrete slider with objects (categories) insted of values

17 May 2013 by Jorge J. Martins

Using a Slider to select an item from a list of objects (string, numeric, or image) as a discrete value or category.

ASP.NET DatePicker User Control (Hijri / Gregorian) shows month and year as dropdowns

6 May 2013 by Yahya Mohammed Ammouri

ASP.NET Date Selector User Control based on calendar control.

A plugin for Picasa and .NET 3.5

4 Apr 2013 by Michael Mann (mann.DEV)

Plugin migration with new features of .NET 3.5.

Sectioned ListView for Android Using Mono C#

14 Mar 2013 by stebo0728

Develop a Preferences style sectioned list adapter using Android Mono C#.

Flexible List Control

7 Feb 2013 by Faraz Azhar, Dubai

Building a list control that allows anything to be added to it.

Enhanced ObservableCollection with ability to delay or disable notifications

29 Jan 2013 by Eugene Sadovoi

Implements delayed or disabled INotifyCollectionChanged.

Creating Menus (with Drop-Down Sub-Menus) using Images in WPF

29 Nov 2012 by Shanan Winters

Creating Menus (with Drop-Down Sub-Menus) using Images in WPF.

An External or Standalone ProgressBar

11 Nov 2012 by JerryBNewhouseJr

Create a simple, flexible, standalone ProgressBar that can be added to any class with relative ease.

AJAX AutoComplete control with JavaScript and PHP

29 Oct 2012 by Mihaly Sogorka

AutoComplete control for web-develepoment written in pure JavaScript

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Android 3D Carousel

16 Oct 2012 by Igor Kushnarev

How 3D carousel could be implemented for Android platform

A Versatile MessageBox Replacement

7 Oct 2012 by Andriks

A MessageBox replacement with some much needed extras

C# wrapper for Diablo III API

26 Sep 2012 by Charles Ju

This is a C# wrapper for Diablo III API. The project include the wrapper API file and a GDI+ ownerdraw panel and a Winform demo. You can add any Diablo III tag to the left combobox.

How to use the Token Manager plugin for Wordpress

27 Aug 2012 by M@dHatter

An article with detailed code examples of creating tokens and assigning them to pages for display thoughout Wordpress using the Token Manager plugin.

Using User Defined Fields in Outlook

27 Jul 2012 by Kudredin

Making use of the User Defined Fields to help better organize emails, and keep track of informaiton

Small Paging Control for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)

27 Jun 2012 by freedeveloper

A small control to control paging in Windows Presentation Foundation.

SQL-Server-2005

A multi-selection Drop Down List using a generic Abstract PopUp class

10 Jun 2012 by OriginalGriff

A Generic Abstract class providing a true Pop-up control, implemented in a multiple selection drop down list.

UserControl populating ItemsControl – Manipulation of ItemsControl collection from inner UserControl

23 May 2012 by Jorge J. Martins

UserControl populating ItemsControl – manipulation of ItemsControl collection from inner UserControl.

An All VB.NET Explorer Tree Control with ImageList Management

17 May 2012 by Jim Parsells

Explorer TreeView control with Shell Folder access class and Icon management.

Flexible ComboBox and EditingControl

30 Apr 2012 by NewPast

Using any Control In ComboBox or in EditingControl for DataGridView

PersianDate and Some WPF Controls For It

25 Apr 2012 by Arash Sahebolamri

PersianDate type, and two WPF controls (PersianCalendar, and PersianDatePicker) for working with Persian dates

iPhone ComboBox

12 Mar 2012 by Dor Alon

iPhone Safari like ComboBox

ASP.NET 4.0 TimePicker User Control

25 Feb 2012 by BrianLaF

Time Picker Extender User Control for ASP.NET Framework 4

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WPF TextBox With Ellipsis

13 Jan 2012 by MarkLTX

A subclass of the WPF TextBox control that displays an ellipsis when the text doesn't fit.

WPF Memory Usage Chart

19 Dec 2011 by Ismail Degani

A WPF memory usage chart that is based on the WPF Toolkit charting package.

ASP.NET User Control: File Browser

16 Dec 2011 by Henryk Filipowicz

A web user control for selecting a file from the file system.

My first .NET Component, a DateTimePicker that accepts no date

9 Dec 2011 by rhawk4

I needed a datetimepicker that allowed users to easily empty it and edit it like a maskedtextbox, so I made one from the actual DateTimePicker class.

"Mutating" Login

24 Nov 2011 by ortund

Login system with breach redundancy handling.

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Auto Flow Buttons Panel

26 Sep 2011 by Yasser Sobhy

A .NET control to control the layout of categorized sections in your application.

TimeEdit Controls

25 Sep 2011 by NewPast

TimeEdit, TimeCombo, TimeColumn for flexible time editing

Custom JavaScript Event Manager (CJEM)

3 Aug 2011 by M@dHatter

A Custom JavaScript Event Manager Class Designed to Manage Window, Document and Control Events on a Webpage

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Omron PLC Serial Interface

1 Aug 2011 by Mahdi Mansouri

Surpass Omron OCX OPC Component and use a user friendly .NET based class to interface Omron PLC Series

ComponentModel for ASP.NET MVC3

26 Jun 2011 by Ray_Liang

In this article, I will show you how to build a component model for ASP.NET MVC3 with Builder and Factory design patterns. You could use this model to write your strongly type components to binding data, handling harchical objects and write jQuery UI controls / HTML5 controls for ASP.NET MVC3.

A Scrolling Area with Only Scroll Buttons

26 Jun 2011 by jeanlibera

How to create a vertical or horizontal scrolling area with scroll buttons and a hidden ScrollBar.

A Ken Burns Powered Photo Frame Control for WPF

15 Jun 2011 by isaks

Shows how to create a nice looking photo frame control in WPF and animate it using the Ken Burns effect

Tri-State Tree View

30 May 2011 by RikTheVeggie

A Tri-State Tree View designed for Directory Browsing and Installers

Office 2010 Button

29 May 2011 by VallarasuS

This article describes how to extend a system button to achieve the Office 2010 button look and feel.

Simple Shopping Cart (Basket ) User Control using ASP.NET & JavaScript (Floating, Movable and Resizable)

25 May 2011 by Yahya Mohammed Ammouri

A simple and easy way to add shopping cart to your website and start using it

BitmaskCtrl - Display and edit a number as a bitmask

24 May 2011 by Joe Nachbaur

A Windows Forms user control to display and edit numbers as a bitmask.

11 May 2011 by gaps96

Draws sets of tree nodes in a vertical way. Allows to Export an Image to SVG.

SQL Pager Control for GridView, DataList, Repeater, DataGridView

6 May 2011 by Sunasara Imdadhusen

The DataPager is a custom control that attaches to a data control (such as a GridView, ListView, Datalist, Reapeater) allows paging on that control.

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WPF: Carousel Control

18 Apr 2011 by Sacha Barber, Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

Highly customisable WPF Carousel control.

Android Binding - Introduction

1 Apr 2011 by xandytsui

An Introduction to a new Android-java based MVVM Presentation Framework

NotifyParentObservableCollection (Part 2) monitors changes of its children properties

4 Feb 2011 by Michael Agroskin

ObservableCollection attaches to the PropertyChanged events of its children using the WeakEvents pattern, and raises the ChildPropertyChanged event accordingly. Replicates functionality of BindingList but without the overhead. Very useful when you need to update / select / arrange / move items.

NotifyParentObservableCollection (Part 1) monitors changes of its children properties

23 Jan 2011 by Michael Agroskin

ObservableCollection attaches to the PropertyChanged events of its children and raises the ChildPropertyChanged event accordingly. Very useful when you need to update / select / arrange / move items.

Multiple Screens Using Google App Inventor

14 Jan 2011 by Nathan Campos

Making multiple virtual screens on your App Inventor project

Automate your UI using Microsoft Automation Framework

1 Jan 2011 by Ashish Kaila

Learn how to leverage UI automation in testing your UI and also to support accessibility features

Color Picker using WPF Combobox

29 Dec 2010 by sudheer muhammed

The article will demonstrate how to use a combobox as a colorpicker tool just like we have in Visual Studio color picker tool.

WPF Custom Chrome Library

3 Dec 2010 by gbahns

Create fully functional windows with custom chrome and caption buttons in WPF

Enable Multiple Asynchronous Postbacks at the Same Time

23 Nov 2010 by Vinay Lakhanpal

This article explains how you can use PageRequestManager class to enqueue multiple requests.

Working with Custom Background Bitmaps in Dialog Boxes and Property Sheets

21 Nov 2010 by Ingo A. Kubbilun

This article shows how to deal with controls that do not properly paint their background when using custom background bitmaps.

File Manager With Clipboard Interaction and Drag and Drop Support

14 Nov 2010 by infinateone

A file manager app with Clipboard interaction and drag and drop support.

Server Side, Data Driven Image Rendering in ASP.NET MVC and XAML for Web Apps

3 Nov 2010 by Anoop Pillai

The article explain Server side image rendering using data bound XAML. You'll be able to render WPF controls and create data-bound image visualizations using this technique

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A Phone Like Control

1 Nov 2010 by Sacha Barber

A control that partially emulates a popular phone.

A look inside the ASP.NET Charting conlrol

21 Oct 2010 by Ed Guzman

The Chart control gives you freedom to develop graphic reports.

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A 13x13 Grid Poker Hand Chart Windows Forms User Control

18 Oct 2010 by Gagey1971

A simple .NET control to display the 'standard' 13x13 grid for two card poker hands.

Expression Control for TFS Work Items

5 Oct 2010 by konamiman.MSX

Custom control for TFS Work Items that shows the result of calculating an expression based on the work item fields contents

JavaScript Filtering with JSON and Filter Management

16 Sep 2010 by strofo

Part 1 of creating a dynamical filtering mechanism in C#

Multiple file uploads with progress bar using classic ASP.NET and C#

1 Sep 2010 by Ramu Sangabathula Original

In web applications, displaying a progress bar is necessary while uploading files. This article helps in creating a progress bar for single file and multi-file uploads in ASP.NET 2.0.

Sortable and Editable Datagrid for Ruby on Rails, Based on dhtmlxGrid

3 Jul 2010 by Stas Wolski

This tutorial shows how to display editable datagrid in Ruby on Rails environment with the help of dhtmlxGrid.

UserControl Prompts for ControlName after Drop in the Designer

2 Jul 2010 by freakyit

UserControl with a custom ControlDesigner that prompts for the ControlName after drop in the Designer

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Automated UI Testing with Guia

1 Jul 2010 by Guia-Project

Unit-Testing of WPF User Controls via UI automation