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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

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.

by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

An alternative Windows version to the famous Total Commander!

IntelliLink - An Alternative Windows Version to Online Link Managers

by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

A look at the URLDownloadToFile function and architecture of IntelliLink

Simple C++ DirectShow MP3 Player Class

by Shao Voon Wong

No frills C++ MP3/WMA DirectShow player class

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Windows

Introduction to D3DImage

11 Aug 2008 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.

Cryptographic Interoperability: Keys

5 Jun 2008 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

26 Feb 2018 by Martin Mitáš

How to support scrolling within your controls.

custom-controls

XColorSpectrumCtrl - a non-MFC color picker control that displays a color spectrum

4 Apr 2008 by Hans Dietrich

XColorSpectrumCtrl displays a color spectrum that allows user selection, and provides APIs for color based on RGB and HSL color models.

XQueue - a non-MFC C++ class to manage an interprocess queue

17 Jan 2005 by Hans Dietrich

XQueue implements a shared-memory first-in first-out (FIFO) queue, based on memory-mapped files, that works on all versions of Windows.

Making DSLs in F#

16 Aug 2009 by Dmitri Nеstеruk

Let's create a simple project estimation DSL using F#!

Fluid Geometry - An Animation Library and Configuration Application

9 May 2012 by Josh Smith

A task-oriented review of an animation library and the application which uses it

IResult - A Robust Option Type for C#

9 Jun 2017 by Jeremy Madden

An attempt to introduce some Functional Programming concepts into an OOP domain

Control Message Bar

23 Oct 2008 by Paul Vickery

Code to add a message bar to virtually any existing Windows control.

WPF 3D FlipPanel

13 Mar 2012 by Fredrik Bornander

WPF Implementation of the spinning panel frequently used on the iPhone

Simple Method of DLL Export without C++/CLI

27 Jun 2009 by Dark Daskin

Article describes how to build an assembly that exposes functions to unmanaged code without C++/CLI

virtual-machine

10 Mar 2010 by Apriorit Inc, Ivan Romanenko

This article is the continue of the previously posted article Hide Driver. Some methods to detect hidden files and processes are described in it

TCP Socket Off-the-shelf

22 Jan 2014 by Igor Ladnik

Wrapper to facilitate usage of TCP sockets

XResFile - Files Stored in Resources: Part 2 - Zip Files

19 Jul 2007 by Hans Dietrich

This series of articles is a step-by-step guide to reading files stored in your program's resources. Along the way I will present some non-MFC classes to assist you in reading text, binary, zip, and even encrypted files that have been compiled into your program as resources.

CProcessData : A template class to ease up SendMessage calls across processes

9 Jun 2005 by Nish Nishant

CProcessData is a template class that makes it easy to use data allocated in a different process, and is useful when making inter-process SendMessage/PostMessage calls.

DirectShow Virtual Video Capture Source Filter in C#

13 Oct 2012 by Maxim Kartavenkov

Articles describes how to create virtual video capture source directshow filter in pure C#

Phalanger, PHP for .NET: Introduction for .NET developers

24 Jan 2007 by Tomas Petricek

Phalanger is a PHP language compiler for the .NET Framework which introduces PHP as a first-class .NET citizen.

ListBox Styling (Part 3 - Additional Templates) in Expression Blend and Silverlight

6 May 2010 by Alan Beasley

Explanation and examples of Additional Templates and Generated Content of a ListBox. Covering Layout, Transitions, and Animation.

A Complete Anti Theft Homemade Surveillance System

10 Mar 2017 by Miguel Diaz Kusztrich

Be notified in your mobile phone of intruders in your home, and take photos of them

Getting Started with U++ 2022.2

26 May 2022 by Miroslav Fidler

Installation and the first look at U++ platform

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++

Guide to WIN32 Regions

10 Mar 2002 by Paul M Watt

Guide to understanding how to create and use regions with the WIN32 SDK

IFS - an Internet File System implementation based on Web services and peer-to-peer technology

28 Sep 2002 by Stoyan Damov

Internet File System from scratch - making web services and peer-to-peer technology work together to build a virtual file system

H.264 CUDA Encoder DirectShow Filter in C#

16 Jul 2012 by Maxim Kartavenkov

Article describes how to make H.264 Video Encoder DirectShow Filter using NVIDIA encoder API in C#

Document Processing Part II: Request Driven OCR

30 Apr 2005 by Martin Welker

To get qualified access to paper based information, sometimes more than plain OCR is needed. This article shows why, and offers a solution to increase OCR quality by semi-automatic table extraction.

Window Tabs (WndTabs) Add-In for DevStudio

11 Jul 2002 by Oz Solomon

Window and File Management add-in for Visual C++

Always run Visual Studio as Administrator with no UAC prompt

30 Jul 2015 by Tom Chantler

UPDATE: 2015-07-30 - Works correctly in Windows 10 RTM (10.0.10240) with VS2013 and VS2015 - If you're running Windows 7, 8, 8.1 or 10 and you don't want to disable User Account Control (UAC) - which you shouldn't and quite possibly can't in a corporate environment - then you get an annoying prompt

Conceptual Children: A powerful new concept in WPF

6 Apr 2008 by Dr. WPF

This article describes a new approach by which an element can remove its visual and logical relationships to its children while maintaining a conceptual parental relationship with those children.

Attaching a Virtual Branch to the Logical Tree in WPF

6 May 2007 by Josh Smith

Reviews a pattern which enables new possibilities for data binding.

Authenticated Encryption

23 Mar 2009 by Jeffrey Walton

Perform authenticated encryption with Crypto++.

An extensible ExifReader class with customizable tag handlers

29 Mar 2010 by Nish Nishant

An ExifReader class in C# that supports custom formatting and extraction. StyleCop compliant code, with demos for WPF and Windows Forms.

Complete Sudoku Game for Windows using VB.NET 2013

9 Jun 2019 by Hung, Han

This article is a tutorial on how to code your own Sudoku game using VB.NET

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Shell Extensions - Part VI

26 May 2006 by Michael Dunn

A tutorial on writing a shell extension that can be used on the Send To menu.

Data Debugger Visualizer

30 May 2005 by dotnetdan

VS 2005 debug visualizers for DataSet, DataTable, DataView, DataRow and DataColumn objects.

Music Notation in .NET

15 Jul 2018 by Ajcek84

Open source library for music engraving in desktop, mobile and web applications

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Shell Extensions - Part VII

30 May 2006 by Michael Dunn

A tutorial on using owner-drawn menus in a context menu shell extensions, and on making a context menu extension that responds to a right-click in a directory background.

.NET Shell Extensions - Shell Icon Overlay Handlers

14 Sep 2013 by Dave Kerr

Create Shell Icon Overlay Handlers using .NET!

CudaPAD

U 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.

Outlook style GUI - three-way split form

3 Jul 2002 by Nish Nishant

Demonstrates the usage of splitters, treeviews, listviews, panels, toolbars

The ALXGrid Control Library.

10 Nov 2002 by Alexey

The ALXGrid Control Library is a set of classes for management of data as a table.

ImmDoc .NET - a tool for generating HTML documentation

27 Jun 2007 by Marek Stoj

ImmDoc .NET is a command-line utility for generating HTML documentation from a set of .NET assemblies and XML files created by the compiler.

Generating RDLC Dynamically for the Report Viewer Local Report

2 Jan 2014 by tetsushmz

This article explains how to dynamically create RDLC.

A Custom WPF Carousel Control

21 Nov 2019 by Leif Simon Goodwin

This article presents a simple WPF Carousel Control

Using C Calling Convention Callback Functions in C# and VB - The Easy Way

13 Sep 2005 by Jecho Jekov

Provides an easy way to use C calling convention callback functions in C# and VB

Build a Desktop GIS Application Using MapWinGIS and C# - Part 3

22 Nov 2009 by Wisam E. Mohammed

Raster data display and manipulation using MapWinGIS.

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

Mario5 with TypeScript

18 Dec 2014 by Florian Rappl

Exploring the abilities, benefits and features of TypeScript by extending / rewriting the original Mario5 source.

Automated IE SaveAs MHTML

4 Sep 2002 by Stephane Rodriguez.

This article demonstrates how to automate IE's Save As functionality

FIXME - A Smart FIXME Macro

25 May 2009 by Jochen Baier

Using this smart 'FIXME' macro will help you not to forget to fix your code.

Driver Loader [DLoad] from Scratch

2 Nov 2009 by csrss

A tool for loading device drivers

Passing Strings Between Managed and Unmanaged Code

7 Jul 2017 by Leif Simon Goodwin

How to pass strings between managed and unmanaged code

64-bit Structured Exception Handling (SEH) in ASM

1 Nov 2017 by Jose A Pascoa

Rolling up a practical solution

Elasticsearch, Kibana and Docker using .NET Standard 2

29 Dec 2018 by Juan G. Carmona

Advanced logging in modern .NET applications. A Sunday-morning-proof-of-concept.

.NET-Compiler-Platform

SAPrefs - Netscape-like Preferences Dialog

20 Apr 2002 by C^hris L^osinger

A base class for a prefereneces dialog, similar to that used in Netscape

Pretty Good Initialization Library

25 Nov 2004 by Thorsten Ottosen

Are you tired of filling data manually into STL containers? With the Initialization Library it gets a lot easier.

Add Images and Textboxes to PDF

2 May 2007 by pmpdesign

A lightweight C# library to add images and 'round rectangles' to a PDF on the fly and then securely embed the PDF in a web page

Notification of Silverlight Applications about Database State Changes

27 Nov 2009 by Max Paulousky

This article presents the techniques and caveats of building Silverlight applications that can be notified about database state changes via polling duplex. WSHttp binding and CLR triggers are used to implement the solution as well.

SQL-Server-2005

An Introduction to the Silverlight samples in the All-In-One Framework

12 Dec 2009 by All-In-One Code Framework

This article introduces several Silverlight samples in the All-In-One Framework.

C# WebServer Using Sockets

23 Jan 2014 by Alberto Biafelli

How to make a simple web server which supports GZIP compression, applications, and sessions.

Threads, Processes, Memory Allocation, and Workstation Mode vs. Server Mode

15 Mar 2015 by Marc Clifton

What you may not realize about memory allocation and threads, and a little known thing called "Server Mode"

A Tale of Two Timers

14 Jan 2017 by Graham Wilson

An exercise to measure the drift in the time-of-day clock on a Windows PC using the periodic timer

Screen Capture to the Clipboard

5 Apr 2001 by Joseph M. Newcomer

How do you capture the bitmap of a window? This little download shows how, and places the bitmap on the clipboard.

Implement Phonetic ("Sounds-like") Name Searches with Double Metaphone Part VI: Other Methods & Additional Resources

19 Mar 2007 by Adam Nelson

Surveys other phonetic matching techniques, and presents additional resources on the subject.

Silverlight 4 Video Player

8 May 2011 by defwebserver

An example of a Silverlight 4 View Model Style video player that is not just 'skinable' but fully 'designable'.

Expression-blend

Windows-Service for Multithreading with Remote Control GUI

25 Feb 2016 by J.Starkl

A windows-service which can handle different operations in separate threads and which can be controlled by a small GUI program

WFTools3D: A Small WPF Library To Build 3D Simulations Very Easily

24 Mar 2016 by Wolfgang Foerster

3D Tools for the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)

Adding New Theme Variations to the MFC Ribbon (CMFCVisualManager)

1 Nov 2017 by peterboulton

Add new Ribbon themes to MFC application built using VS Feature Pack' classes

C++/CLI HowTo : Deriving from a C# disposable class

5 Jul 2008 by Nish Nishant

This article walks through the implementation of a C++/CLI class from a disposable C# base.

Build Your Own DataGrid for Silverlight: Step 1

23 Apr 2009 by Jeff Karlson

Learn how to build the body part of your DataGrid using Silverlight and the GOA Toolkit. Implement Virtual Mode, work with hierarchical data, and build cells and cells navigation.

Decorator Pattern Usage on a Simplified Pacman Game

9 Dec 2013 by Petar Brkusanin

An example of how Decorator, Dependency Injection, and Composition Root patterns can be used to extend the base game functionality.

WPF Custom Visualization Part 2 of some: Triggers

24 Aug 2016 by Serge Desmedt

(Yet Another) Investigation of WPF triggers

cam2web - Streaming camera to web as MJPEG stream

29 Aug 2017 by Andrew Kirillov

The article describes cam2web project - an open source application aimed for streaming cameras as MJPEG streams.

Wheel-Road couple

20 Feb 2018 by Christian Dalle

Calculate a wheel profile matching a road profile.

CppEvent - How to Implement Events using Standard C++

13 Aug 2018 by Shmuel Zang

This article shows how we can implement a thread-safe events (similar to .NET events) mechanism using the standard C++ library.

Solution Build Timer for VS 2005/2013/2015/2017/2019

10 Jun 2019 by User 40411

Add-in for VS2005, VS2013/2015 and VS2017/2019 that provides the time taken to build a complete solution

CSNTPClient - An SNTP Implementation

7 Apr 2000 by PJ Naughter

A collection of freeware MFC classes to encapsulate the SNTP protocol.

DX Game Utility Class Library

9 Nov 2003 by Dan Peverill

A managed DirectX class library that can be used as a foundation for basic 2D games. Demo included.

XSD Tutorial - Part 5 of 5 - Other Useful Bits

3 Jul 2014 by Simon Sprott

This article gives a basic overview of the building blocks underlying XML Schemas.

2D "Nim" Game Development and Animation in C# (Part 2)

16 Aug 2007 by Volynsky Alex

Part 2 in a series of articles on a two-player mathematical game of strategy

Flyout - A great way to save space on your webpage

4 Dec 2007 by Ned Thompson

This article will demo how a free Flyout can help to save space on your webpage.

How To Make A Walking Robot In WPF -- Part 3: Emissive Materials, Polygons, And Storyboards

8 Nov 2010 by Gary.Miller.WPF

Final article in the series on how to make an animated 3D robot in WPF using C# code

Sumerics

29 Nov 2012 by Florian Rappl

Creating a touch enabled sensor numerical application for the latest generation of Ultrabooks

Smart WPF Login Overlay (Windows 8 Style)

3 Dec 2012 by DotNetMastermind

Login Overlay for WPF applications with a styling similar to the Windows 8 Login Screen.

Circular Indeterminate Progress Indicator Control

10 Apr 2013 by gggustafson

This article introduces the reader to the steps taken to create a user control that displays a circular indeterminate progress control.

Office 2013 Style Splash Screen

5 Aug 2014 by Magyar András

How to create Office 2013 style splash screen for Windows Forms

Protecting .NET 4.+ Application By C++ [Unmanaged]

25 Mar 2018 by The Ænema

Inject your 4.5 framework .NET application into a C++ unmanaged host application - fast, secure & without any extra tool or library.

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++

MDISnap

29 Nov 2004 by peterchen

Do your users a favor - add snapping edges to MDI child windows (or anywhere else).

Classes for computational geometry

26 Dec 2001 by Chris Maunder

Some classes and utility functions for general computational geometry

SSMonitor - Monitor a Visual SourceSafe database using VBScript

1 May 2003 by Doug Schmidt

A VBScript utility that continually monitors a VSS database and sends emails when certain patterns are detected. Can be run as an NT service.

DirectShow: Examples for Using SampleGrabber for Grabbing a Frame and Building a VU Meter

8 May 2009 by almere109

DirectX.Capture class examples showing how to grab a frame from video and how to make a VU meter for audio

Binding a ListView to a Data Matrix

15 May 2009 by Tawani Anyangwe

Binding a WPF ListView to a DataMatrix with columns determined at runtime

Calcoolation: A Math Puzzle Board Game

6 Aug 2009 by Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

Demo for a math puzzle board game

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 0 – Table of Contents

31 Jan 2010 by Arik Poznanski

Complete Library for using the Windows 7 Ribbon from C#, including 18 samples and 21 blog posts documenting the Ribbon features

WPF: Where to Put Value Converters?

31 Jan 2010 by Arik Poznanski

The question this posts tries to address is: Where to put value converters?

Windows Phone Crosswords

3 Jul 2012 by Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

Learn how to create a Windows Phone crosswords game taking advantage of online internet resources

A Full Featured Editor Based on the Richtext Box

14 Feb 2022 by Howard 9448490

Creating a reusable editor for C# Applications using the RichTextBox Control

Interoping .NET and C++ through COM

11 Jul 2017 by Marius Bancila

Create COM visible types in C# and consume them from C++

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Shell Extensions - Part IV

24 May 2006 by Michael Dunn

A tutorial on writing a shell extension that provides custom drag and drop functionality.

How to dynamically link to oleacc.dll in Visual C++ .NET

9 Jun 2002 by Chen Hao

How to control the dependancy on oleacc.dll in your Visual C++ .NET applications