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Button Controls

XGlyphButton - a simple image button control

Last Updated: 9 Mar 2004 Page Views: 91,958 Rating: 4.29/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 5.58 Bookmark Count: 54

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XGlyphButton is a simple CButton-based control that allows you to display an image without the need for owner-draw control.

XButtonXP - an XP-aware pushbutton that can also toggle and display an icon

Last Updated: 19 Jan 2008 Page Views: 153,477 Rating: 4.56/5 Votes: 40 Popularity: 7.30 Bookmark Count: 99

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XButtonXP is an XP theme-aware pushbutton that can optionally be used as a toggle button. It can also display an icon with or without text.

EnableGroupboxControls - a non-MFC function to enable or disable all the controls within a groupbox

Last Updated: 9 Apr 2008 Page Views: 26,388 Rating: 4.52/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 5.68 Bookmark Count: 28

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

EnableGroupboxControls is a function that enables or disables all the controls within a groupbox based solely upon the window rect of the controls. A simple approach to implementing a groupbox checkbox is also explained.

CreateCheckboxImageList - a non-MFC function to create an imagelist of themed checkboxes

Last Updated: 15 Apr 2008 Page Views: 41,619 Rating: 4.75/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.59 Bookmark Count: 63

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

CreateCheckboxImageList is a function that creates an imagelist of themed or non-themed checkboxes, suitable for use in tree controls, list controls, and list boxes.

Owner-draw buttons

XEmphasisButton - bold and underlined text in a non-ownerdraw button

Last Updated: 23 May 2007 Page Views: 76,026 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 42 Popularity: 7.88 Bookmark Count: 87

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XEmphasisButton allows you to display buttons with bold and underlined text without requiring ownerdraw. This means that the button is perfectly compatible with XP themes, and also works on previous Windows versions.

Combo & List Boxes

ComboBox Controls

XTipComboBox - Display tooltips for combobox

Last Updated: 1 Jul 2003 Page Views: 148,587 Rating: 4.42/5 Votes: 22 Popularity: 5.93 Bookmark Count: 51

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XTipComboBox implements a combobox with tooltips for the data items (both in the list box and in the edit box)

Listbox Controls

XListBox - Owner-draw CListBox with selectable text and background colors

Last Updated: 27 Feb 2008 Page Views: 160,873 Rating: 4.61/5 Votes: 25 Popularity: 6.44 Bookmark Count: 64

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XListBox is an owner-draw listbox that provides printf-style formatting and selection of text and background colors

Dialogs and Windows

XCharMap - A dialog to display a character map

Last Updated: 3 Jun 2003 Page Views: 66,507 Rating: 4.29/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 5.38 Bookmark Count: 24

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XCharMap demonstrates the use of CXCharMap, a class that displays a character map similar to the Windows Character Map utility.

XHTMLTipOfTheDay - HTML Tip of the Day Dialog

Last Updated: 14 Jun 2004 Page Views: 33,401 Rating: 4.17/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.02 Bookmark Count: 32

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XHTMLTipOfTheDay is a Tip of the Day dialog that displays HTML and has forward and back buttons.

XFolderDialog - a folder selection dialog based on CFileDialog

Last Updated: 25 Feb 2008 Page Views: 115,110 Rating: 4.66/5 Votes: 45 Popularity: 7.70 Bookmark Count: 83

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XFolderDialog provides a folder selection dialog like that used in MS Word, and includes persistent list view type.

XBrowseForFolder - Wrapper for SHBrowseForFolder

Last Updated: 7 Mar 2008 Page Views: 101,946 Rating: 4.74/5 Votes: 58 Popularity: 8.35 Bookmark Count: 49

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XBrowseForFolder wraps the SHBrowseForFolder API, provides a way to specify an initial directory, and cleans up the SHBrowseForFolder dialog.

XFontDialog - Customizing CFontDialog Part I: Adding Font Filters

Last Updated: 7 Oct 2008 Page Views: 70,394 Rating: 4.59/5 Votes: 33 Popularity: 6.98 Bookmark Count: 28

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XFontDialog demonstrates how to customize CFontDialog by removing unwanted controls

XMonoFontDialog - Customizing CFontDialog Part II: Selecting Monospaced Fonts

Last Updated: 22 Oct 2008 Page Views: 8,163 Rating: 4.61/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.43 Bookmark Count: 13

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XMonoFontDialog is a CFontDialog clone that is customized for selecting monospaced fonts. A custom label has been added to the dialog that informs the user when a monospaced font is selected in the combobox, and bold typeface is used to highlight monospaced fonts in the combobox list.

XMessageBox - A reverse-engineered MessageBox()

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2008 Page Views: 271,997 Rating: 4.76/5 Votes: 162 Popularity: 10.51 Bookmark Count: 320

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

A reverse-engineered non-MFC MessageBox() that includes custom checkboxes.

XDialogImport - How to share dialogs between projects

Last Updated: 18 Jun 2003 Page Views: 51,575 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 6.87 Bookmark Count: 52

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XDialogImport describes a simple and effective method for sharing frequently-used dialogs between projects, using some documented and some poorly documented techniques.

XKeyboard - on-screen keyboard

Last Updated: 4 Apr 2005 Page Views: 75,009 Rating: 4.33/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 5.64 Bookmark Count: 52

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XKeyboard eliminates the threat of keyloggers by allowing the user to enter a password by clicking on buttons displayed on an on-screen keyboard.

Windows Common dialogs

XFileDialog - Customizing CFileDialog

Last Updated: 23 Jun 2003 Page Views: 114,545 Rating: 4.71/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 6.02 Bookmark Count: 54

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XFileDialog demonstrates how to customize CFileDialog by adding a MRU combobox for folders.

Edit Controls

XEditPrompt - CEdit-derived control with web-like prompt

Last Updated: 20 Jul 2007 Page Views: 23,656 Rating: 4.82/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 6.37 Bookmark Count: 39

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XEditPrompt implements an edit control with built-in prompt and text color, just like you see on web pages.

Files and Folders

Configuration Files

XMLProfile - a non-MFC, non-STL class to read and write XML profile files

Last Updated: 2 Jul 2008 Page Views: 16,511 Rating: 4.61/5 Votes: 35 Popularity: 7.12 Bookmark Count: 81

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XMLProfile implements a class to read and write XML profile files that is consistent with the MFC set of profile functions. Conversion functions to allow reading/writing both INI and XML profiles are included. A CWinApp-derived class provides drop-in replacement of the standard MFC profile functio

XResFile - Files Stored in Resources: Part 1 - Text and Binary

Last Updated: 6 Jul 2007 Page Views: 20,453 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 38 Popularity: 7.71 Bookmark Count: 69

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

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.

XResFile - Files Stored in Resources: Part 3 - Encrypted Files

Last Updated: 9 Jul 2007 Page Views: 16,925 Rating: 4.87/5 Votes: 24 Popularity: 6.72 Bookmark Count: 32

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

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.

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

Last Updated: 19 Jul 2007 Page Views: 24,220 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 37 Popularity: 7.77 Bookmark Count: 48

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

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.

XPEInfo - a non-MFC class to get info from PE file

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2008 Page Views: 7,798 Rating: 4.79/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 6.24 Bookmark Count: 33

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

The XPEInfo APIs allow you to extract information from a PE file. Included in the download is a Windows demo app, and a console app that tests whether a PE file is valid, whether it is 64-bit, contains debug info, is a .Net executable, or is signed. Sample cmd files are provided.

XReverse - Reverse a text file using memory-mapped files

Last Updated: 14 May 2003 Page Views: 62,420 Rating: 4.43/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.74 Bookmark Count: 19

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XReverse reverses a text file line-by-line, so that what was the last line becomes the first line. This is useful when you want to view server logs, for example, with the latest line displayed at the top. Memory-mapped files helps to make XReverse very fast.

XFile - Extending the Win32 File API for Server Applications

Last Updated: 19 May 2003 Page Views: 99,981 Rating: 4.51/5 Votes: 37 Popularity: 7.07 Bookmark Count: 95

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XFile extends the Win32 file functions with a non-MFC class that includes functions to implement file rollover, file shrinking, file compare, buffered writes, mapped file reads, zipping, and automatic file size limits.

XHtmlLog - Convert text log files to HTML

Last Updated: 30 May 2003 Page Views: 42,259 Rating: 4.17/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 4.64 Bookmark Count: 28

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XHtmlLog converts delimited text log files to HTML for display by a browser. Callback functions allow the output to be customized prior to HTML generation.

XFileProperties - A modeless dialog to display file properties

Last Updated: 13 Jun 2003 Page Views: 41,925 Rating: 4.56/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.07 Bookmark Count: 23

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XFileProperties demonstrates the use of CXFileProperties, a class that displays a modeless dialog similar to the Windows file properties dialog.

XFolderSize - A class to determine folder size

Last Updated: 11 Jun 2007 Page Views: 18,495 Rating: 4.61/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.42 Bookmark Count: 25

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XFolderSize is a non-MFC class that collects folder size, folder count, and file count based on starting folder.

List Controls

XListCtrl - A custom-draw list control with subitem formatting

Last Updated: 6 Sep 2006 Page Views: 683,050 Rating: 4.78/5 Votes: 265 Popularity: 11.59 Bookmark Count: 441

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

A custom-draw list control with support for subitem colors, bold font, progress bars, and checkboxes.

Menus

XPrintHeader - Choose page header format using "More like this" popup menus

Last Updated: 30 Jul 2003 Page Views: 34,369 Rating: 4.44/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.35 Bookmark Count: 17

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XPrintHeader implements a dialog that allows the user to choose the formatting for a page header by dynamically created popup menus.

Miscellaneous

Colour Selection Controls

XColourPicker - yet another colour picker control

Last Updated: 9 Jan 2006 Page Views: 27,449 Rating: 4.78/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 6.22 Bookmark Count: 20

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XColourPicker is a simple drop-in colour picker.

XColorHexagonCtrl - a non-MFC color picker control that displays a color hexagon

Last Updated: 4 Apr 2008 Page Views: 27,417 Rating: 4.84/5 Votes: 31 Popularity: 7.22 Bookmark Count: 20

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

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

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

Last Updated: 4 Apr 2008 Page Views: 20,566 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 51 Popularity: 8.34 Bookmark Count: 37

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

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

XColorDialog - an MFC color picker control that displays a color hexagon and a color spectrum

Last Updated: 5 Apr 2008 Page Views: 13,697 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 5.21 Bookmark Count: 14

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

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

XColorPickerXP - an MFC color picker control with themed look

Last Updated: 9 Apr 2008 Page Views: 10,077 Rating: 4.57/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.10 Bookmark Count: 11

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XColorPickerXP is a simple drop-in color picker based on CComboBox that pops up color selection grid.

Custom Controls

XAnalogClock - a skinnable analog clock

Last Updated: 20 Jul 2006 Page Views: 56,629 Rating: 4.82/5 Votes: 55 Popularity: 8.39 Bookmark Count: 78

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XAnalogClock displays a nice-looking skinnable analog clock in a small memory footprint.

XScrollBar - Scroll bar like Windows Media Player's

Last Updated: 2 Sep 2008 Page Views: 95,303 Rating: 4.69/5 Votes: 81 Popularity: 8.96 Bookmark Count: 106

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XScrollBar is a scroll bar that may be displayed with optional thumb color, thumb gripper, and channel color

ResizeScrollbar - How to change width of built-in scroll bars

Last Updated: 7 Feb 2002 Page Views: 77,752 Rating: 4.65/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.18 Bookmark Count: 35

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Changing scroll bar width for Windows controls like listbox

XHyperLink - yet another hyperlink control

Last Updated: 16 Oct 2003 Page Views: 43,411 Rating: 4.56/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 5.83 Bookmark Count: 32

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XHyperLink is a simple drop-in hyperlink control with optional parent notification.

XSudokuWnd - a control that implements the Sudoku puzzle

Last Updated: 19 Mar 2007 Page Views: 67,835 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 73 Popularity: 9.05 Bookmark Count: 77

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XSudokuWnd is an MFC control that implements a solver for the popular Sudoku puzzle, based on D.E. Knuth's Dancing Links algorithm. Example projects show how to use XSudokuWnd in dialog and SDI applications.

XGroupBox - an MFC groupbox control to display text and icon

Last Updated: 2 Sep 2008 Page Views: 16,615 Rating: 4.82/5 Votes: 48 Popularity: 8.10 Bookmark Count: 45

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XGroupBox is an MFC control that displays a flicker-free groupbox with text and/or icon. You can use this to display either a standard groupbox or a header-only groupbox.

XProgressWnd - A Popup Progress Window with optional AVI and time

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2008 Page Views: 13,192 Rating: 4.77/5 Votes: 45 Popularity: 7.89 Bookmark Count: 64

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XProgressWnd is a popup progress window that display a progress control and optional AVI animation and estimated time left, without requiring a dialog resource.

Miscellaneous Controls

XIcon - an MFC control to display text and icon

Last Updated: 4 May 2008 Page Views: 13,761 Rating: 4.63/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 5.81 Bookmark Count: 28

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XIcon is an MFC control that displays text and/or icon with auto-sizing.

XGradientZoneBar - an MFC color gradient indicator bar

Last Updated: 19 May 2008 Page Views: 21,362 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 58 Popularity: 8.63 Bookmark Count: 48

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XGradientZoneBar displays an indicator bar that allows you to specify multiple zones that are filled with a color gradient, and includes APIs to set the bar orientation, font, and tick marks.

XSuperTooltip - Office 2007 Super Tooltip class

Last Updated: 31 Jul 2006 Page Views: 82,839 Rating: 4.84/5 Votes: 107 Popularity: 9.81 Bookmark Count: 170

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XSuperTooltip implements class for displaying super tooltips, which were introduced in Office 2007. The demo download includes super tooltip code generator, that makes it easy to add super tooltips to your application.

XBalloonMsg - a non-MFC balloon-shaped message box

Last Updated: 11 Jul 2008 Page Views: 46,429 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 61 Popularity: 8.71 Bookmark Count: 101

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XBalloonMsg displays a message box using balloon-style tooltips. Message and title strings may be embedded or stored in string resource.

Shell and IE programming

ExecApp, ExecRegisteredApp, and LookupRegisteredApp - non-MFC functions to execute an application

Last Updated: 8 Jun 2008 Page Views: 12,553 Rating: 4.61/5 Votes: 22 Popularity: 6.19 Bookmark Count: 35

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

ExecApp is a replacement for WinExec(). ExecRegisteredApp executes the app that is registered for the specified file extension. LookupRegisteredApp retrieves the application file path that is registered for the specified file extension.

Static & Panel Controls

Custom Controls

XHTMLStatic - An Extra-Lean Custom Control to Display HTML

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2007 Page Views: 135,652 Rating: 4.71/5 Votes: 42 Popularity: 7.65 Bookmark Count: 117

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

A custom control based on CStatic that interprets and displays common HTML text formatting elements such as bold, italic, color, font, and size, but adds only 16 Kb to your app.

XColorStatic - a colorizing static control

Last Updated: 16 Oct 2003 Page Views: 79,077 Rating: 4.45/5 Votes: 28 Popularity: 6.45 Bookmark Count: 45

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XColorStatic is a simple CStatic-based control that provides font changes, text and background colors, and icon display.

Toolbars & Docking windows

XDriveBar - Display drive buttons in a fixed toolbar

Last Updated: 11 Aug 2003 Page Views: 56,041 Rating: 4.49/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.52 Bookmark Count: 46

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XDriveBar implements a drive bar for the drives in a system. The demo project shows how to keep the drive bar in sync by handling the WM_DEVICECHANGE message.

XTrueColorToolBar - True-color toolbar with support for Office-style color button

Last Updated: 10 Jan 2008 Page Views: 26,661 Rating: 4.45/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 5.69 Bookmark Count: 41

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XTrueColorToolBar is an MFC class based on CToolBar that provides support for true-color bitmaps, with optional support for an Office-style color picker button.

Tree Controls

XHtmlTree - Tree control with support for HTML, XML, Smart Checkboxes, and Drag & Drop

Last Updated: 1 Jan 2008 Page Views: 118,411 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 143 Popularity: 10.59 Bookmark Count: 265

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XHtmlTree is an MFC control based on CTreeCtrl, with support for HTML text, web links, APP: links, XML load/save, Smart Checkboxes, and Drag & Drop.

Applications & Tools

Tools with source code

XCmyk - CMYK to RGB Calculator with source code

Last Updated: 5 Jul 2003 Page Views: 136,984 Rating: 4.34/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 5.65 Bookmark Count: 38

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XCmyk implements an RGB to CMYK calculator

XTimer - Timer and Stopwatch Utility with Source Code

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2007 Page Views: 81,007 Rating: 4.58/5 Votes: 29 Popularity: 6.69 Bookmark Count: 57

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XTimer provides countdown timer and stopwatch features in a compact MFC dialog app.

GDI

Finding a Font file from a Font name

Last Updated: 10 Jul 2001 Page Views: 85,322 Rating: 4.48/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 5.83 Bookmark Count: 22

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

How to find the name of a font file, given the display name of a font

XFont - Get font name and file information

Last Updated: 21 May 2003 Page Views: 50,648 Rating: 4.29/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.46 Bookmark Count: 9

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XFont retrieves the name of the font file from the regsitry, and the font name from the font file

XFontCombo - An OpenType-aware font combobox

Last Updated: 26 May 2003 Page Views: 44,154 Rating: 4.28/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 5.38 Bookmark Count: 23

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XFontCombo demonstrates the use of IsOpenType(), a function that determines if a font is OpenType

XBreadCrumbBar - Draw breadcrumb trail with hyperlinks and HTML

Last Updated: 7 Aug 2007 Page Views: 16,379 Rating: 4.72/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 6.42 Bookmark Count: 27

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XBreadCrumbBar is a windowless non-MFC class that allows you to display a breadcrumb trail as HTML text, with support for web links and APP: links.

XHtmlDraw - Draw text with HTML tags and anchor links

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2007 Page Views: 55,104 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 30 Popularity: 7.17 Bookmark Count: 66

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XHtmlDraw allows you to display a single line HTML text as easily as using DrawText(), including web links and APP: links, no MFC

.NET Framework

XAutobuild - A utility to increment build number

Last Updated: 6 Jun 2007 Page Views: 14,394 Rating: 4.43/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.43 Bookmark Count: 30

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XAutobuild auto-increments the build number contained in Autobuild.h. This can be used in resource files to automatically update the version resource each time a project is compiled.

XFxDetect - A utility to detect which versions of .Net are installed

Last Updated: 10 Jun 2007 Page Views: 12,960 Rating: 4.59/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 6.07 Bookmark Count: 35

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XFxDetect inspects registry and file system of local or remote computer to determine which versions of .Net Framework are installed.

Win32/64 SDK & OS

Microsoft Active Accessibility

XMSAALib - a non-MFC class to retrieve accessibility (MSAA) info

Last Updated: 10 Feb 2009 Page Views: 5,672 Rating: 4.82/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.37 Bookmark Count: 12

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XMSAALib provides APIs that allow you to retrieve MSAA (accessibility) information from a window by using the IAccessible interface. The demo app shows how to build an accessibility object tree from a window.

C / C++ Language

XGetopt - A Unix-compatible getopt() for MFC and Win32

Last Updated: 20 May 2003 Page Views: 113,274 Rating: 4.65/5 Votes: 45 Popularity: 7.69 Bookmark Count: 54

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XGetopt provides drop-in Unix-style command line processing for Win32 and MFC applications

XZip and XUnzip - Add zip and/or unzip to your app with no extra .lib or .dll

Last Updated: 18 Jul 2007 Page Views: 230,469 Rating: 4.69/5 Votes: 90 Popularity: 9.17 Bookmark Count: 191

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XZip and XUnzip provide non-MFC functions to create a zip, add files to it, and extract files from it - all in two .cpp files

XCPClock - CodeProject Clock

Last Updated: 27 Aug 2008 Page Views: 49,516 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 63 Popularity: 8.81 Bookmark Count: 97

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XCPClock displays CodeProject clock with four skins.

C#

XGetoptCS - A Unix-style getopt() written in C#

Last Updated: 5 Jun 2007 Page Views: 9,963 Rating: 4.64/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.16 Bookmark Count: 13

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XGetoptCS provides Unix-style command line processing for C# apps

DLLs & Assemblies

Step by Step: Calling C++ DLLs from VC++ and VB - Part 3

Last Updated: 28 Feb 2004 Page Views: 112,930 Rating: 4.40/5 Votes: 42 Popularity: 7.13 Bookmark Count: 56

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

This series of articles is a step-by-step guide to constructing C++ DLLs that include C++ functions and C++ classes, and then calling the DLL functions and classes from VC++ and VB programs.

Step by Step: Calling C++ DLLs from VC++ and VB - Part 1

Last Updated: 29 Feb 2004 Page Views: 482,789 Rating: 4.55/5 Votes: 115 Popularity: 9.39 Bookmark Count: 253

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

This series of articles is a step-by-step guide to constructing C++ DLLs that include C++ functions and C++ classes, and then calling the DLL functions and classes from VC++ and VB programs.

Step by Step: Calling C++ DLLs from VC++ and VB - Part 4

Last Updated: 2 Mar 2004 Page Views: 230,141 Rating: 4.35/5 Votes: 45 Popularity: 7.20 Bookmark Count: 95

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

This series of articles is a step-by-step guide to constructing C++ DLLs that include C++ functions and C++ classes, and then calling the DLL functions and classes from VC++ and VB programs.

Step by Step: Calling C++ DLLs from VC++ and VB - Part 2

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2009 Page Views: 216,018 Rating: 4.54/5 Votes: 48 Popularity: 7.63 Bookmark Count: 95

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

This series of articles is a step-by-step guide to constructing C++ DLLs that include C++ functions and C++ classes, and then calling the DLL functions and classes from VC++ and VB programs.

Internet / Network

XIPAddressCtrl - an enhanced IP address control based on CIPAddressCtrl

Last Updated: 5 Jan 2005 Page Views: 30,868 Rating: 3.93/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 4.83 Bookmark Count: 11

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XIPAddressCtrl adds string handling and profile read/write functions to CIPAddressCtrl.

XWSAError - a DLL for Winsock error lookup

Last Updated: 6 Jan 2005 Page Views: 24,241 Rating: 4.62/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 5.91 Bookmark Count: 12

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Add Winsock error lookup to your C++ or VB app with this DLL.

Single Server, Multiple Clients - Win32/MFC classes for client/server communication with Unicode support

Last Updated: 26 Jan 2005 Page Views: 49,282 Rating: 4.30/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 5.59 Bookmark Count: 45

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

An implementation of Liyang Yu's classes for client/server communication for both Win32 and MFC, with Unicode and ANSI support.

String handling

XMemString - Extended memory and string search functions

Last Updated: 11 May 2003 Page Views: 43,101 Rating: 3.86/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 4.64 Bookmark Count: 15

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Extended string and memory search functions: memmem(), memimem(), memichr(), _tcsistr()

XTrim - trim leading and trailing whitespace characters

Last Updated: 20 May 2003 Page Views: 52,830 Rating: 4.24/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 3.82 Bookmark Count: 12

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XTrim implements _tcsltrim and _tcsrtrim - CRT-like functions to trim whitespace.

XSearch - a class that implements a search engine-style advanced search

Last Updated: 16 May 2007 Page Views: 36,999 Rating: 4.58/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 6.55 Bookmark Count: 61

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XSearch implements a search engine-style advanced search, including ALL, EXACT PHRASE, AT LEAST ONE, and WITHOUT words. XSearch is based on a multiple-substring search algorithm.

XString - non-MFC non-STL string functions

Last Updated: 7 Aug 2007 Page Views: 19,128 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.36 Bookmark Count: 21

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XString offers functions for remove, replace, trim, and case-insensitive search that are not included in the CRT.

Text Conversion

XFormatNumber - A function to format numbers with commas

Last Updated: 25 Jun 2002 Page Views: 43,734 Rating: 4.55/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.06 Bookmark Count: 20

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An easy-to-use function that provides locale-correct comma-formatting of numbers

Text Search and Replace

XTokenString - a function to extract tokens from a string

Last Updated: 4 Aug 2005 Page Views: 21,584 Rating: 4.51/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 5.87 Bookmark Count: 37

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XTokenString extracts tokens from a string, and returns a CStringArray that contains tokens. A token is defined by specified delimiters; double-quotes may optionally group multiple words into a single token, and an option is provided for handling escaped characters.

Threads, Processes & IPC

Inter-Process Communication

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

Last Updated: 17 Jan 2005 Page Views: 65,352 Rating: 4.81/5 Votes: 46 Popularity: 8.00 Bookmark Count: 88

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

Thread Debugging with the Thread Information Block

Last Updated: 5 Jun 2002 Page Views: 54,668 Rating: 4.30/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.18 Bookmark Count: 28

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How to use the Thread Information Block to store descriptive information about the thread

Debug Tips

XCrashReport : Exception Handling and Crash Reporting - Part 1

Last Updated: 19 Oct 2003 Page Views: 105,075 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 54 Popularity: 8.36 Bookmark Count: 120

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Add basic exception handling and crash reporting to your application

XCrashReport : Exception Handling and Crash Reporting - Part 2

Last Updated: 19 Oct 2003 Page Views: 46,708 Rating: 4.75/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 6.79 Bookmark Count: 56

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Add basic exception handling and crash reporting to your application

XCrashReport : Exception Handling and Crash Reporting - Part 3

Last Updated: 19 Oct 2003 Page Views: 68,436 Rating: 4.79/5 Votes: 45 Popularity: 7.93 Bookmark Count: 76

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Add basic exception handling and crash reporting to your application

XCrashReport : Exception Handling and Crash Reporting - Part 4

Last Updated: 19 Oct 2003 Page Views: 226,021 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 69 Popularity: 8.89 Bookmark Count: 133

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Add basic exception handling and crash reporting to your application

Design and Architecture

Data Structures

XBitArray - a non-MFC C++ class to manipulate bits in a bit array.

Last Updated: 10 Feb 2004 Page Views: 37,990 Rating: 4.02/5 Votes: 25 Popularity: 5.62 Bookmark Count: 30

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XBitArray provides functions to set, test, and find bits in an array of bytes.

Work Issues

Version Control for the Standalone Programmer - Part 1

Last Updated: 29 Jun 2007 Page Views: 97,008 Rating: 4.72/5 Votes: 98 Popularity: 9.40 Bookmark Count: 261

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

How to set up TortoiseSVN when working by yourself.

Font Survey: 42 of the Best Monospaced Programming Fonts

Last Updated: 23 Sep 2009 Page Views: 86,555 Rating: 4.59/5 Votes: 71 Popularity: 8.50 Bookmark Count: 81

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

This article presents commonly used programming fonts with examples of each font in ClearType and non-ClearType.

Hardware & System

Event Logging, Part I: XEventLog - Basic NT Event Logging

Last Updated: 22 Apr 2003 Page Views: 98,577 Rating: 4.79/5 Votes: 49 Popularity: 8.10 Bookmark Count: 71

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

XEventLog shows how to integrate minimalist NT event logging into your application

Windows Version Numbers

Last Updated: 11 Jul 2001 Page Views: 83,850 Rating: 4.51/5 Votes: 28 Popularity: 6.53 Bookmark Count: 38

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Values returned by GetVersionEx for Windows operating systems

XWinVer - Simple class to get Windows OS version

Last Updated: 13 Jun 2007 Page Views: 52,956 Rating: 4.62/5 Votes: 26 Popularity: 6.53 Bookmark Count: 57

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Get Windows OS version and service pack info in numeric and string formats.

Testing and QA

Handling unknown errors [Tip/Trick]

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2009 Page Views: 196 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.40 Bookmark Count: 0

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

If you don't know how to handle an error, don't test for it..

Hans Dietrich

Member

I attended St. Michael's College of the University of Toronto, with the intention of becoming a priest. A friend in the University's Computer Science Department got me interested in programming, and I have been hooked ever since.

Recently, I have moved to Los Angeles where I am doing consulting and development work.

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