.NET port of Joe's AutoRepeat Button class
Last Updated: 16 Apr 2002
Page Views: 136,585
Rating: 4.11/5
Votes: 37
Popularity: 6.45
Bookmark Count: 45
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
This ports Joe Newcomer's AutoRepeat Button class to a .NET control
Ordered ListBox
Last Updated: 29 Jul 2002
Page Views: 114,796
Rating: 4.04/5
Votes: 49
Popularity: 6.83
Bookmark Count: 28
A ListBox derived class that supports internal ordering and re-ordering of items
ToolTipListBox - a list box with tool tips
Last Updated: 31 Jul 2002
Page Views: 122,751
Rating: 4.15/5
Votes: 22
Popularity: 5.58
Bookmark Count: 44
A ListBox derived class that shows tool-tips for items that won't fit within the width of the list box
An editable multi-line listbox for .NET
Last Updated: 4 Aug 2002
Page Views: 245,609
Rating: 4.27/5
Votes: 39
Popularity: 6.80
Bookmark Count: 67
An owner drawn listbox that supports multi-line word-wrapped text as well as in-place editing.
FontComboBox - a font listing combo box for .NET
Last Updated: 4 Aug 2002
Page Views: 133,972
Rating: 4.42/5
Votes: 18
Popularity: 5.55
Bookmark Count: 55
A fully owner drawn ComboBox derived class for enumerating and choosing fonts
A data-bound multi-column combobox
Last Updated: 27 Jul 2007
Page Views: 63,465
Rating: 4.88/5
Votes: 49
Popularity: 8.24
Bookmark Count: 116
Licence: The BSD License
An ownerdrawn multi-column combobox class with support for data-binding
Tile, center and stretch a bitmap as your MFC dialog background
Last Updated: 6 Jun 2002
Page Views: 251,897
Rating: 4.16/5
Votes: 59
Popularity: 7.37
Bookmark Count: 71
A small CDialog derived class that helps avoid frequent copy/pasting of the same code, when using a bitmap as dialog background
Tutorial - Modeless Dialogs with MFC
Last Updated: 18 Jun 2002
Page Views: 316,484
Rating: 4.38/5
Votes: 120
Popularity: 9.11
Bookmark Count: 106
Some tips/suggestions on using modeless dialogs with MFC
CInputBox 1.0
Last Updated: 30 Nov 2001
Page Views: 81,866
Rating: 4.05/5
Votes: 67
Popularity: 7.39
Bookmark Count: 19
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
A CFrameWnd derived class that provides functionality similar to the VB InputBox function. You don't need a dialog resource to use the class!
Keyboard messages/accelerators handling in MFC dialog based applications
Last Updated: 1 Dec 2001
Page Views: 205,129
Rating: 4.28/5
Votes: 119
Popularity: 8.88
Bookmark Count: 84
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
This article explains how you can override PreTranslateMessage and ProcessMessageFilter in dialog based apps
Delay MessageBox with auto-close option
Last Updated: 13 Aug 2002
Page Views: 158,963
Rating: 4.06/5
Votes: 50
Popularity: 6.90
Bookmark Count: 53
Licence: The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
This message box delays its dismissal by disabling the OK button for a delay interval. It also has an optional auto-close feature. There are two versions, one uses a WH_CBT hook and some basic window tricks like sub-classing to achieve its goal. The other one is more MFC-ied.
Creating draggable windows - SDI and dialogs
Last Updated: 12 Jul 2002
Page Views: 101,665
Rating: 4.20/5
Votes: 22
Popularity: 5.64
Bookmark Count: 42
Licence: The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
Shows how you can create windows that can be dragged around, not just through the title bar, but anywhere within the window body
Some handy dialog box tricks, tips and workarounds
Last Updated: 17 Sep 2002
Page Views: 423,321
Rating: 4.77/5
Votes: 119
Popularity: 9.90
Bookmark Count: 312
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
Hidden modal dialogs, stealing focus, always on top dialogs, going full-screen, expanding and contracting dialogs, removing task bar icon, context sensitive help and many other useful tips and tricks.
The singular non-modality of MFC modal dialogs
Last Updated: 6 Apr 2003
Page Views: 129,208
Rating: 4.66/5
Votes: 41
Popularity: 7.51
Bookmark Count: 36
Licence: The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
Explains the pseudo modality of CDialog based modal dialogs and a problem with the CDialog::EndDialog implementation
MessageBoxManager - A Windows Forms component that provides enhanced MessageBox functionality
Last Updated: 19 Feb 2006
Page Views: 82,915
Rating: 4.45/5
Votes: 46
Popularity: 7.40
Bookmark Count: 131
Licence: The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
MessageBoxManager is a Windows Forms component that you can drag & drop into a Windows Forms project's main form, and it gives you enhanced message box functionality without forcing you to change your existing calls to any of the MessageBox.Show() overloads
CFormatDriveDialog - A wrapper class for the undocumented SHFormatDrive API function
Last Updated: 27 Aug 2002
Page Views: 98,791
Rating: 4.31/5
Votes: 28
Popularity: 6.24
Bookmark Count: 28
A wrapper class for SHFormatDrive (XP/2K only). Corrects some errors in KB article Q173688
CDocument::DoSave revealed
Last Updated: 18 Sep 2002
Page Views: 102,134
Rating: 4.29/5
Votes: 34
Popularity: 6.58
Bookmark Count: 37
Explains how you can suppress the File-Save-As dialog in a Doc/View app, how to save files to multiple formats, and how DoSave is implemented.
An LCS based diff-ing library in C#
Last Updated: 24 Aug 2009
Page Views: 8,869
Rating: 4.51/5
Votes: 24
Popularity: 6.22
Bookmark Count: 25
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
This is an LCS based diff library that was written for the Code Project Lean and Mean diff engine contest
CFileTar 1.0 - pack and unpack file archives
Last Updated: 18 Nov 2001
Page Views: 100,068
Rating: 3.98/5
Votes: 91
Popularity: 7.80
Bookmark Count: 32
A class for packing and unpacking file archives.
Managed C++ and Windows Forms
Last Updated: 25 Oct 2001
Page Views: 112,040
Rating: 4.10/5
Votes: 40
Popularity: 6.57
Bookmark Count: 34
An introduction to Windows Forms using Managed C++
Managed C++ and Windows Forms - Image Viewer
Last Updated: 26 Oct 2001
Page Views: 111,120
Rating: 4.05/5
Votes: 37
Popularity: 6.35
Bookmark Count: 34
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
Demonstrates adding menus, showing open-dialog boxes, showing images, scrolling.
The MFC unclickable button ported to Managed C++
Last Updated: 23 May 2002
Page Views: 88,099
Rating: 4.37/5
Votes: 14
Popularity: 5.01
Bookmark Count: 17
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
This article presents a port of the MFC Trick button to .NET using Managed C++ and Windows Forms
How to have an Auto-Completing ComboBox in .NET
Last Updated: 2 Jun 2002
Page Views: 75,318
Rating: 4.14/5
Votes: 17
Popularity: 5.10
Bookmark Count: 32
Shows how to derive a class from ComboBox and add an Auto-Complete feature to it. The example uses Managed C++.
Multi-line InputBox control - MC++
Last Updated: 7 Jun 2002
Page Views: 90,267
Rating: 4.03/5
Votes: 69
Popularity: 7.41
Bookmark Count: 21
A .NET port of my MFC CFrameWnd derived InputBox class, written using MC++
Outlook style GUI - three-way split form
Last Updated: 3 Jul 2002
Page Views: 116,610
Rating: 4.04/5
Votes: 60
Popularity: 7.19
Bookmark Count: 51
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
Demonstrates the usage of splitters, treeviews, listviews, panels, toolbars
Using WinForms controls in an MFC dialog
Last Updated: 20 Dec 2005
Page Views: 79,949
Rating: 4.40/5
Votes: 27
Popularity: 6.29
Bookmark Count: 48
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
This article is a simple introduction to using the CWinFormsControl MFC class to put a Windows Forms control on an MFC dialog.
Using the Windows Forms 2.0 MenuStrip and ToolStrip controls to give your MFC applications a new look and feel
Last Updated: 21 Feb 2006
Page Views: 67,854
Rating: 4.31/5
Votes: 21
Popularity: 5.70
Bookmark Count: 33
This article demonstrates how to use the Windows Forms 2.0 MenuStrip and ToolStrip controls in an MFC SDI application, using C++/CLI, to get the Office 2003 style menu and toolbar
Clipboard handling with .NET
Last Updated: 27 Apr 2002
Page Views: 244,957
Rating: 4.28/5
Votes: 41
Popularity: 6.90
Bookmark Count: 86
An introduction to using the clipboard
Adding a status bar to an MFC dialog
Last Updated: 16 May 2002
Page Views: 224,365
Rating: 4.55/5
Votes: 94
Popularity: 8.99
Bookmark Count: 90
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
Shows how you can have status bars in your dialog based apps
A tool to strip zips of unwanted files before submitting to CodeProject
Last Updated: 19 May 2004
Page Views: 54,821
Rating: 4.36/5
Votes: 28
Popularity: 6.31
Bookmark Count: 29
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
The CPZipStripper tool with source code
MAC Address Changer for Windows XP/2003
Last Updated: 26 May 2005
Page Views: 317,696
Rating: 4.38/5
Votes: 55
Popularity: 7.62
Bookmark Count: 94
Licence: The Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)
A freeware program (with source code) that allows you to change the MAC ID of your network adapter
Shell Tray Info - Arrange your system tray icons
Last Updated: 26 Jun 2005
Page Views: 140,537
Rating: 4.30/5
Votes: 32
Popularity: 6.47
Bookmark Count: 64
A tool with full source code that enumerates tray icons and allows you to reposition them as well as send mouse messages.
Window Sizer
Last Updated: 7 Aug 2002
Page Views: 142,842
Rating: 4.70/5
Votes: 51
Popularity: 8.02
Bookmark Count: 64
A hot-key based program that lets you resize your current window to any size. Useful for web designers and GUI developers as it helps avoid frequent screen-resolution changes.
MultiMail 2.0 - Freeware SMTP stress testing tool
Last Updated: 3 Oct 2003
Page Views: 162,840
Rating: 4.08/5
Votes: 46
Popularity: 6.79
Bookmark Count: 38
This free program can be used to stress test SMTP servers. It also aids anti-Spam tool developers as a useful mail-bombardment tool.
A quick guide to using nested repeaters in ASP.NET
Last Updated: 19 Feb 2004
Page Views: 184,611
Rating: 4.12/5
Votes: 30
Popularity: 6.09
Bookmark Count: 49
Using nested repeaters in ASP.NET with an XML data store
Using color gradients as backgrounds in your dialogs and views
Last Updated: 9 Jun 2002
Page Views: 158,193
Rating: 4.02/5
Votes: 68
Popularity: 7.37
Bookmark Count: 62
Beginner article that shows how you can create horizontal, vertical and diagonal backgrounds. Also tells you what to watch out for, to avoid flickering when doing complicated drawing.
Drag and Drop between list boxes - Beginner's Tutorial
Last Updated: 13 May 2002
Page Views: 201,146
Rating: 4.05/5
Votes: 96
Popularity: 8.04
Bookmark Count: 69
An introduction to drag and drop in .NET
Registry handling with .NET
Last Updated: 21 May 2002
Page Views: 127,139
Rating: 4.03/5
Votes: 62
Popularity: 7.23
Bookmark Count: 47
Shows with some code snippets how registry handling is a piece of cake with .NET
A statistical analysis of the performance variations of assorted managed and unmanaged languages
Last Updated: 8 Aug 2002
Page Views: 196,251
Rating: 4.02/5
Votes: 79
Popularity: 7.64
Bookmark Count: 37
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
This article compares and contrasts the relative performances of various languages like native C++, Visual Basic 6, C#, VB.NET, Managed C++, MC++ and native code mix, ngen'd assemblies etc. using a prime number generation function as a generic benchmark
The coding gentleman's guide to detecting the .NET Framework
Last Updated: 21 Jul 2005
Page Views: 85,941
Rating: 4.23/5
Votes: 34
Popularity: 6.47
Bookmark Count: 61
A C++ class that will detect and enumerate the active CLR versions on a machine
A modal dialog that fades the background to gray-scale imitating the XP shutdown screen
Last Updated: 23 Feb 2006
Page Views: 76,992
Rating: 4.44/5
Votes: 26
Popularity: 6.28
Bookmark Count: 63
Licence: The Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)
DimmerDialog is a .NET class that shows a modal dialog which grays out the rest of the background, just like the Windows XP Shutdown dialog. This can be used when your application needs to show a very important message box or form that requires immediate user attention.
Getting and setting desktop folder names
Last Updated: 24 Jan 2003
Page Views: 55,723
Rating: 4.09/5
Votes: 35
Popularity: 6.32
Bookmark Count: 31
Gives you copy/paste-able functions to retrieve the localized folder names, and to set/get user-defined folder names for dekstop folders
Changing default icons for folders and drives
Last Updated: 26 Jan 2003
Page Views: 103,983
Rating: 4.36/5
Votes: 28
Popularity: 6.31
Bookmark Count: 42
Shows how to globally change the icons for folders and drives. Also shows some nifty tricks you might find handy in your applications.
Manipulating Windows using messages and simple CBT hooking
Last Updated: 7 Aug 2003
Page Views: 95,557
Rating: 4.22/5
Votes: 31
Popularity: 6.29
Bookmark Count: 58
Licence: The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
Demonstrates techniques using windows messages and hooks, which allow us to automate a windows properties dialog or even custom applications
CProcessData : A template class to ease up SendMessage calls across processes
Last Updated: 10 Jun 2005
Page Views: 55,091
Rating: 4.84/5
Votes: 38
Popularity: 7.65
Bookmark Count: 62
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.
A first look at the Windows Web Services API
Last Updated: 27 Jul 2009
Page Views: 13,877
Rating: 4.78/5
Votes: 26
Popularity: 6.76
Bookmark Count: 36
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
The article shows how to interop between a WCF service and a WWS client, and also how to rewrite the WCF service in WWS retaining compatibility with existing WCF clients.
WPF Tutorial - Part 1 : Transformations
Last Updated: 21 Jul 2006
Page Views: 91,952
Rating: 4.23/5
Votes: 37
Popularity: 6.63
Bookmark Count: 69
A brief introduction to using transformations with the WPF
WPF Tutorial - Part 2 : Writing a custom animation class
Last Updated: 12 Apr 2007
Page Views: 52,453
Rating: 4.75/5
Votes: 38
Popularity: 7.50
Bookmark Count: 54
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
This article covers how animations can be applied on properties that do not have an associated animation class
MFC under the hood
Last Updated: 2 Jul 2002
Page Views: 187,794
Rating: 4.04/5
Votes: 94
Popularity: 7.97
Bookmark Count: 99
Explains the basic MFC program flow including where WinMain and the message loop are hidden
Introduction to inheritance, polymorphism in C#
Last Updated: 9 Oct 2001
Page Views: 331,302
Rating: 4.10/5
Votes: 110
Popularity: 8.36
Bookmark Count: 89
An elementary introduction to inheritance, polymorphism in C# using simple code snippets
Enums and Structs in C#
Last Updated: 13 Oct 2001
Page Views: 203,421
Rating: 4.09/5
Votes: 79
Popularity: 7.75
Bookmark Count: 74
Licence: The Common Public License Version 1.0 (CPL)
Two oft-overlooked value types that C# offers and where they can be used
Events and event handling in C#
Last Updated: 16 Oct 2001
Page Views: 338,772
Rating: 4.14/5
Votes: 83
Popularity: 7.94
Bookmark Count: 138
An introduction to using events and event handlers in C#
Getting unsafe with pointers in C#
Last Updated: 12 May 2002
Page Views: 99,239
Rating: 4.04/5
Votes: 63
Popularity: 7.27
Bookmark Count: 32
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
Introduction to unsafe code
Simulating polymorphic operator overloads with C#
Last Updated: 19 Apr 2005
Page Views: 59,728
Rating: 4.46/5
Votes: 19
Popularity: 5.71
Bookmark Count: 20
Article shows how to overcome the C# insistence on operator overloads being static and describes a method for simulating polymorphic behavior for operator overloads.
A generic Trictionary class
Last Updated: 11 Mar 2009
Page Views: 7,501
Rating: 4.31/5
Votes: 16
Popularity: 5.19
Bookmark Count: 15
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
This article describes a generic Trictionary class derived from Dictionary that allows two values of different types per key
Adding tray icons and context menus
Last Updated: 10 Apr 2002
Page Views: 295,278
Rating: 4.08/5
Votes: 68
Popularity: 7.48
Bookmark Count: 149
Beginner's Tutorial on adding tray icons and setting context menus
Using a TypeDescriptionProvider to support dynamic run-time properties
Last Updated: 16 Jun 2008
Page Views: 12,076
Rating: 4.56/5
Votes: 26
Popularity: 6.45
Bookmark Count: 35
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
This articles explains how to implement a TypeDescriptionProvider for a class to support multiple object types using a single class type
Pre-beginner's guide to using a timer
Last Updated: 15 Mar 2002
Page Views: 117,881
Rating: 4.07/5
Votes: 62
Popularity: 7.29
Bookmark Count: 40
Shows how you can use a timer proc in your windows forms apps
N-Track : Work-Time tracking system
Last Updated: 24 Jul 2002
Page Views: 195,798
Rating: 4.26/5
Votes: 36
Popularity: 6.63
Bookmark Count: 51
A work time tracking system that includes a Managed C++ remoting server and MFC clients that use the managed extensions. The application demonstrates how to mix managed and unmanaged code.
A first look at C++/CLI
Last Updated: 27 Apr 2004
Page Views: 286,407
Rating: 4.67/5
Votes: 101
Popularity: 9.36
Bookmark Count: 106
A brief look at the new C++/CLI syntax and how it improves over the old MC++ syntax
Function overriding in C++/CLI
Last Updated: 22 Jun 2004
Page Views: 149,358
Rating: 4.63/5
Votes: 32
Popularity: 6.96
Bookmark Count: 29
Takes a look at new features like explicit overriding, renamed overriding, multiple overriding and sealing a method
Arrays in C++/CLI
Last Updated: 11 Aug 2004
Page Views: 193,180
Rating: 4.43/5
Votes: 38
Popularity: 7.00
Bookmark Count: 38
Licence: The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
The article exposes the new array syntax available in C++/CLI for the declaration and use of CLI arrays
Deterministic Destruction in C++/CLI
Last Updated: 12 Aug 2004
Page Views: 97,321
Rating: 4.38/5
Votes: 27
Popularity: 6.26
Bookmark Count: 29
Looks at how deterministic destruction is possible with C++/CLI
An overview of interior pointers in C++/CLI
Last Updated: 29 Nov 2004
Page Views: 56,329
Rating: 4.65/5
Votes: 28
Popularity: 6.73
Bookmark Count: 28
Tries to explain the syntax, usage and behavior of interior pointers in C++/CLI
Guide to using Pinning Pointers
Last Updated: 30 Nov 2004
Page Views: 53,140
Rating: 4.53/5
Votes: 27
Popularity: 6.48
Bookmark Count: 28
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
Article on the usage and dangers of pinning pointers
Using generics in C++/CLI
Last Updated: 7 Dec 2004
Page Views: 69,208
Rating: 4.29/5
Votes: 20
Popularity: 5.59
Bookmark Count: 21
Introduces generics and compares it with templates
C++/CLI Properties - Syntactic sugar for accessor methods
Last Updated: 11 May 2005
Page Views: 72,178
Rating: 4.55/5
Votes: 19
Popularity: 5.82
Bookmark Count: 15
Looks at the syntax for the declaration and use of properties in C++/CLI
A rational attempt to substantiate C++/CLI as a first class CLI language
Last Updated: 27 Jul 2005
Page Views: 114,978
Rating: 4.36/5
Votes: 68
Popularity: 7.99
Bookmark Count: 60
Licence: The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
Why the author thinks that C++/CLI has its own unique role to play as a first-class .NET programming language
CAutoNativePtr - A managed smart pointer for using native objects in managed code
Last Updated: 20 Jan 2006
Page Views: 23,942
Rating: 4.78/5
Votes: 30
Popularity: 7.07
Bookmark Count: 31
Licence: The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
CAutoNativePtr is a managed template class that acts as a smart pointer, and is handy for using native objects in managed code.
C++/CLI Library classes for interop scenarios
Last Updated: 20 Jun 2006
Page Views: 42,631
Rating: 4.58/5
Votes: 35
Popularity: 7.07
Bookmark Count: 37
Licence: The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
The article takes a brief look at some not so commonly used classes such as auto_handle, lock, and ptr.
Using and extending the Orcas marshal_as library
Last Updated: 12 Jul 2007
Page Views: 16,647
Rating: 4.82/5
Votes: 23
Popularity: 6.56
Bookmark Count: 19
This article covers basic marshal_as usage, as well as how to extend marshal_as to support additional type conversions
A look at STL/CLR performance for linear containers
Last Updated: 8 Mar 2008
Page Views: 15,699
Rating: 4.45/5
Votes: 23
Popularity: 6.05
Bookmark Count: 12
Licence: The Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)
The performance of STL/CLR sequence containers are compared with that of corresponding BCL generic collection classes
C++/CLI HowTo : Deriving from a C# disposable class
Last Updated: 5 Jul 2008
Page Views: 11,395
Rating: 4.76/5
Votes: 23
Popularity: 6.49
Bookmark Count: 20
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
This article walks through the implementation of a C++/CLI class from a disposable C# base.
Creating and Resolving shell links
Last Updated: 10 May 2002
Page Views: 160,753
Rating: 4.26/5
Votes: 30
Popularity: 6.29
Bookmark Count: 21
An MC++ class that uses IJW to invoke the IShellLink interface
Limiting your .NET apps to a single instance
Last Updated: 3 Nov 2001
Page Views: 159,121
Rating: 4.10/5
Votes: 53
Popularity: 7.08
Bookmark Count: 17
Shows how to use the Mutex class to limit your app to a single instance using a named mutex
OLE DB - Bound controls
Last Updated: 12 Nov 2001
Page Views: 167,911
Rating: 4.02/5
Votes: 158
Popularity: 8.85
Bookmark Count: 23
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
Shows how you can use data bound controls with OLE DB
OLE DB - First steps
Last Updated: 1 Dec 2001
Page Views: 140,186
Rating: 4.04/5
Votes: 67
Popularity: 7.38
Bookmark Count: 16
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
Basic introduction to using OLE DB to insert, update and read records from a database
Serialization Primer - MC++
Last Updated: 25 May 2002
Page Views: 131,632
Rating: 4.66/5
Votes: 22
Popularity: 6.25
Bookmark Count: 28
A basic introduction to serialization using Managed C++
Dynamically loading a DLL - MC++
Last Updated: 27 May 2002
Page Views: 157,372
Rating: 4.05/5
Votes: 47
Popularity: 6.78
Bookmark Count: 23
Shows how you can load an assembly at run time, instantiate a class in that assembly and call methods on the class
Delegates Tutorial - MC++ and C# - The dual perspective
Last Updated: 12 Jun 2002
Page Views: 167,694
Rating: 4.29/5
Votes: 52
Popularity: 7.36
Bookmark Count: 72
Introduces and walks you through the use of delegates in .NET. Compares and contrasts the different approaches that MC++ and C# adopt in the use of delegates. With examples in both languages
Implementing custom collection classes with MC++
Last Updated: 12 Jun 2002
Page Views: 205,351
Rating: 4.35/5
Votes: 22
Popularity: 5.84
Bookmark Count: 26
Tutorial on creating your own collection classes that are enumerable and sortable. Explains in detail the usage of the IEnumerable, IEnumerator, IComparable and IComparer interfaces
Using managed arrays
Last Updated: 24 Jun 2002
Page Views: 158,172
Rating: 4.05/5
Votes: 48
Popularity: 6.81
Bookmark Count: 29
Declaring and using managed .NET arrays with MC++
Basic stuff on Files, Directories and Streams
Last Updated: 26 Jun 2002
Page Views: 128,186
Rating: 4.05/5
Votes: 51
Popularity: 6.91
Bookmark Count: 25
Demonstrates the use of the reader/writer classes as well as the file/directory info classes
Introduction to Managed C++
Last Updated: 7 Jul 2002
Page Views: 193,782
Rating: 4.07/5
Votes: 51
Popularity: 6.94
Bookmark Count: 46
An attempt to get a beginner started on Managed C++
Casting Basics - Use C++ casts in your VC++.NET programs
Last Updated: 23 Aug 2002
Page Views: 219,117
Rating: 4.61/5
Votes: 38
Popularity: 7.29
Bookmark Count: 51
Demonstrates and compares the various casting operators available. Also suggests when to use and what to use!
Managed Exception Handling using VC++.NET
Last Updated: 8 Aug 2003
Page Views: 72,698
Rating: 4.37/5
Votes: 25
Popularity: 6.11
Bookmark Count: 14
An introduction to managed exception handling in MC++ programs
CNullable : A convenient Nullable equivalent class for C++/CLI
Last Updated: 18 May 2005
Page Views: 24,491
Rating: 4.11/5
Votes: 16
Popularity: 4.95
Bookmark Count: 10
CNullable can be used to represent a value type (or simple native type) such that the type can be nulled. You can also compare it to nullptr using the == and != operators both of which have been overloaded.
Using IJW in Managed C++
Last Updated: 2 May 2002
Page Views: 173,185
Rating: 4.06/5
Votes: 37
Popularity: 6.37
Bookmark Count: 26
A basic introduction to using IJW instead of P/Invoke in Managed C++. This is also the first CP article on IJW.
Screen and Form capture with Managed C++
Last Updated: 3 Jul 2002
Page Views: 193,241
Rating: 4.06/5
Votes: 51
Popularity: 6.93
Bookmark Count: 30
This is further demonstration of MC++ IJW capabilities
Implementing Callback functions using IJW (avoiding DllImport)
Last Updated: 13 Jul 2002
Page Views: 139,438
Rating: 4.11/5
Votes: 27
Popularity: 5.88
Bookmark Count: 29
Shows how you can call native API functions that require callbacks using IJW, and without the use of DllImport attribute. The technique allows you to pass a delegate as the callback function just as in the MS recommended manner except, I show you how to do this without the ugly DllImport attribute.
Function pointers and Delegates - Closing the gap!
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2005
Page Views: 63,285
Rating: 4.19/5
Votes: 22
Popularity: 5.63
Bookmark Count: 31
Licence: The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
Explains the usage of the Marshal class methods GetFunctionPointerForDelegate and GetDelegateForFunctionPointer, and compares their performance with the P/Invoke mechanism.
The virtual bool bug
Last Updated: 2 Sep 2003
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Rating: 4.52/5
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Popularity: 6.92
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Describes the virtual bool bug that exists in mixed mode Managed C++ programs that access unmanaged classes
Bug when using the java.util.zip classes to write zip files
Last Updated: 8 May 2004
Page Views: 77,620
Rating: 4.19/5
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Popularity: 5.04
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Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
Describes an issue when writing a binary file into a zip file using the java.util.zip classes
Beginning Winsock Programming - Simple TCP server
Last Updated: 25 Feb 2002
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An introduction to WinSock programming. A simple TCP server is explained.
Beginning Winsock Programming - Simple TCP client
Last Updated: 28 Feb 2002
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Rating: 4.51/5
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Popularity: 9.02
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A simple TCP client is explained.
Beginning Winsock Programming - Multithreaded TCP server with client
Last Updated: 5 Mar 2002
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Rating: 4.38/5
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Popularity: 8.61
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Explains a multithreaded TCP file server, a custom TCP chat protocol and a custom TCP client
CSmtpProxyMT 1.0
Last Updated: 15 Nov 2001
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Popularity: 7.42
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An SMTP proxy class with ability to insert signatures to outgoing mails. Does not require MFC.
CPopProxyMT - A multi-threaded POP3 proxy skeleton
Last Updated: 9 Oct 2002
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CPopProxyMT is a skeletal class that wraps a multi-threaded POP3 proxy. You can further modify this class to suite your needs.
How to do Synchronous and Asynchronous web downloads
Last Updated: 28 Jun 2002
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Rating: 4.05/5
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Explains the usage of WebRequest, WebResponse and related classes.
MC++ TCP server talking to MFC & MC++ TCP clients
Last Updated: 1 Jul 2002
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Rating: 4.03/5
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Popularity: 6.95
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Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
Basic demonstration of the TcpListener/TcpClient classes.
Absolute beginner's introduction to remoting
Last Updated: 4 Apr 2002
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Rating: 4.45/5
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Popularity: 8.94
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Introduces .NET remoting and the use of asynchronous callbacks using simple code snippets
To new is C++; To malloc is C; To mix them is sin
Last Updated: 29 Mar 2004
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Rating: 4.14/5
Votes: 28
Popularity: 5.98
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Article explains the differences between malloc/free and new/delete in a C++ context
Send mail without specifying an SMTP server
Last Updated: 12 Apr 2005
Page Views: 187,401
Rating: 4.28/5
Votes: 38
Popularity: 6.76
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Licence: The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
A class derived from CSMTPConnection that queries the MX record for a target domain and uses that to send mail
How to accurately detect if an application is theme-enabled?
Last Updated: 1 Jun 2005
Page Views: 30,319
Rating: 4.51/5
Votes: 19
Popularity: 5.77
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Describes a function that overcomes the inadequacies of IsAppThemed and IsThemeActive.
How to drag a virtual file from your app into Windows Explorer
Last Updated: 13 Sep 2006
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Rating: 4.78/5
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Popularity: 7.38
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Shows how to use CFSTR_FILEDESCRIPTOR and CFSTR_FILECONTENTS to perform drag/drop with virtual files
The Complete Guide to C++ Strings, Part II - String Wrapper Classes
Last Updated: 12 Oct 2002
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Popularity: 11.22
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A guide to the string wrapper classes provided by Visual C++ and class libraries
StringConvertor : A convertor class for managed-unmanaged string conversions that handles memory de-allocations
Last Updated: 15 May 2005
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Rating: 4.61/5
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Popularity: 6.99
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Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
A convertor class for managed-unmanaged string conversions that handles memory de-allocations. Caller need not worry about freeing unmanaged memory allocations.
How to pass data to worker threads
Last Updated: 30 Oct 2001
Page Views: 117,464
Rating: 4.10/5
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Popularity: 6.17
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Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
Shows how you can pass data to your worker threads
Thread Sychronization using monitors
Last Updated: 31 Oct 2001
Page Views: 50,469
Rating: 4.15/5
Votes: 33
Popularity: 6.30
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Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
Introduction to using the Monitor class for accessing shared resources from multiple threads
Using events for thread synchronization
Last Updated: 27 Mar 2002
Page Views: 213,171
Rating: 4.10/5
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Popularity: 6.28
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Licence: The BSD License
An introduction to using signaled events for thread synchronization in .NET
Deploying MFC applications via ClickOnce
Last Updated: 14 Jan 2008
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Rating: 4.87/5
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Popularity: 6.90
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Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
A step by step tutorial on how to deploy an MFC application via ClickOnce
C++/CLI in Action - Declaring CLR types
Last Updated: 24 Feb 2007
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Excerpts from Chapter 1. Topics are (1) Declaring CLR types and (2) Handles: The CLI equivalent to pointers
C++/CLI in Action - Instantiating CLI classes
Last Updated: 26 Feb 2007
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Rating: 4.83/5
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Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
This is an excerpt from Chapter 1 that covers how CLI classes are instantiated, and discusses constructors and assignment operators
C++/CLI in Action - Using interior and pinning pointers
Last Updated: 28 Feb 2007
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Excerpt from Chapter 4 on interior and pinning pointers
CFloppyDisk 2.0
Last Updated: 14 Feb 2002
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A class for reading and writing floppy disk sectors directly [Win 95/98/ME/NT/2K/XP]
CExpire - A C++ class that implements time and run based restrictions
Last Updated: 28 Feb 2002
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Licence: The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
Shareware authors can use this class to limit the number of runs or the number of days that a program will function
Beginner's Tutorial - Using global hotkeys
Last Updated: 28 Apr 2002
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Licence: The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
Explains how to register, use and unregister hotkeys
A newbie's elementary guide to spawning processes
Last Updated: 2 Aug 2002
Page Views: 247,755
Rating: 4.35/5
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Popularity: 8.55
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Licence: The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
Gives an elementary introduction to the use of ShellExecute/ShellExecuteEx, CreateProcess, WaitForSingleObject. How to bring up the Find window, the Properties window.
Beginner's introductory guide to writing, installing, starting, stopping NT services
Last Updated: 29 Dec 2001
Page Views: 248,107
Rating: 4.66/5
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Popularity: 9.85
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Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
Includes a generic skeleton for a simple NT service. Explains how to install, start, and stop the service programmatically.
CServiceHelper
Last Updated: 20 May 2002
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Rating: 4.27/5
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Popularity: 7.01
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A simple class to install, uninstall, start, stop, pause, continue Win32 services
