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Button Controls

General

.NET port of Joe's AutoRepeat Button class

Last Updated: 16 Apr 2002 Page Views: 134,154 Rating: 4.11/5 Votes: 37 Popularity: 6.45 Bookmark Count: 44

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

This ports Joe Newcomer's AutoRepeat Button class to a .NET control

Combo & List Boxes

General

Ordered ListBox

Last Updated: 29 Jul 2002 Page Views: 113,106 Rating: 4.03/5 Votes: 48 Popularity: 6.77 Bookmark Count: 27

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: 119,927 Rating: 4.15/5 Votes: 22 Popularity: 5.58 Bookmark Count: 43

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: 240,626 Rating: 4.27/5 Votes: 39 Popularity: 6.80 Bookmark Count: 64

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: 131,313 Rating: 4.42/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 5.55 Bookmark Count: 54

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: 59,363 Rating: 4.87/5 Votes: 48 Popularity: 8.19 Bookmark Count: 110

Licence: The BSD License

An ownerdrawn multi-column combobox class with support for data-binding

Dialogs and Windows

Beginners

Tile, center and stretch a bitmap as your MFC dialog background

Last Updated: 6 Jun 2002 Page Views: 245,502 Rating: 4.05/5 Votes: 58 Popularity: 7.15 Bookmark Count: 69

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: 307,286 Rating: 4.38/5 Votes: 119 Popularity: 9.08 Bookmark Count: 102

Some tips/suggestions on using modeless dialogs with MFC

Dialogs

CInputBox 1.0

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2001 Page Views: 80,555 Rating: 4.04/5 Votes: 66 Popularity: 7.34 Bookmark Count: 17

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: 198,696 Rating: 4.27/5 Votes: 118 Popularity: 8.85 Bookmark Count: 79

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: 155,949 Rating: 4.05/5 Votes: 49 Popularity: 6.84 Bookmark Count: 51

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.

General

Creating draggable windows - SDI and dialogs

Last Updated: 12 Jul 2002 Page Views: 99,590 Rating: 4.20/5 Votes: 22 Popularity: 5.64 Bookmark Count: 40

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: 413,386 Rating: 4.81/5 Votes: 117 Popularity: 9.95 Bookmark Count: 305

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: 126,392 Rating: 4.66/5 Votes: 39 Popularity: 7.41 Bookmark Count: 32

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: 79,615 Rating: 4.45/5 Votes: 46 Popularity: 7.40 Bookmark Count: 125

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

Windows Common dialogs

CFormatDriveDialog - A wrapper class for the undocumented SHFormatDrive API function

Last Updated: 27 Aug 2002 Page Views: 96,455 Rating: 4.28/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 6.12 Bookmark Count: 26

A wrapper class for SHFormatDrive (XP/2K only). Corrects some errors in KB article Q173688

Document / View

General

CDocument::DoSave revealed

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2002 Page Views: 100,066 Rating: 4.29/5 Votes: 34 Popularity: 6.58 Bookmark Count: 34

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.

Files and Folders

Files

An LCS based diff-ing library in C#

Last Updated: 24 Aug 2009 Page Views: 6,973 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 6.13 Bookmark Count: 24

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

General

CFileTar 1.0 - pack and unpack file archives

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2001 Page Views: 98,264 Rating: 4.02/5 Votes: 88 Popularity: 7.82 Bookmark Count: 30

A class for packing and unpacking file archives.

Miscellaneous

Windows Forms

Managed C++ and Windows Forms

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2001 Page Views: 110,172 Rating: 4.10/5 Votes: 40 Popularity: 6.57 Bookmark Count: 33

An introduction to Windows Forms using Managed C++

Managed C++ and Windows Forms - Image Viewer

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2001 Page Views: 109,516 Rating: 4.03/5 Votes: 36 Popularity: 6.26 Bookmark Count: 31

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: 87,018 Rating: 4.37/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.01 Bookmark Count: 15

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: 74,535 Rating: 4.11/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 4.95 Bookmark Count: 29

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: 89,270 Rating: 4.02/5 Votes: 68 Popularity: 7.36 Bookmark Count: 19

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: 114,466 Rating: 4.03/5 Votes: 59 Popularity: 7.13 Bookmark Count: 49

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: 76,699 Rating: 4.39/5 Votes: 26 Popularity: 6.21 Bookmark Count: 46

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: 65,854 Rating: 4.31/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 5.70 Bookmark Count: 32

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

Shell and IE programming

Shell Programming

Clipboard handling with .NET

Last Updated: 27 Apr 2002 Page Views: 237,258 Rating: 4.28/5 Votes: 41 Popularity: 6.90 Bookmark Count: 81

An introduction to using the clipboard

Status Bar

General

Adding a status bar to an MFC dialog

Last Updated: 16 May 2002 Page Views: 219,632 Rating: 4.57/5 Votes: 93 Popularity: 9.01 Bookmark Count: 86

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Shows how you can have status bars in your dialog based apps

Applications & Tools

CodeProject Tools

A tool to strip zips of unwanted files before submitting to CodeProject

Last Updated: 19 May 2004 Page Views: 53,324 Rating: 4.36/5 Votes: 28 Popularity: 6.31 Bookmark Count: 26

The CPZipStripper tool with source code

MAC Address Changer for Windows XP/2003

Last Updated: 26 May 2005 Page Views: 306,013 Rating: 4.38/5 Votes: 55 Popularity: 7.62 Bookmark Count: 92

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: 136,283 Rating: 4.30/5 Votes: 32 Popularity: 6.47 Bookmark Count: 60

A tool with full source code that enumerates tray icons and allows you to reposition them as well as send mouse messages.

Tools with source code

Window Sizer

Last Updated: 7 Aug 2002 Page Views: 139,656 Rating: 4.70/5 Votes: 51 Popularity: 8.02 Bookmark Count: 62

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: 157,876 Rating: 4.05/5 Votes: 44 Popularity: 6.66 Bookmark Count: 35

This free program can be used to stress test SMTP servers. It also aids anti-Spam tool developers as a useful mail-bombardment tool.

ASP.NET

General

A quick guide to using nested repeaters in ASP.NET

Last Updated: 19 Feb 2004 Page Views: 177,106 Rating: 4.12/5 Votes: 30 Popularity: 6.09 Bookmark Count: 48

Using nested repeaters in ASP.NET with an XML data store

GDI

Beginners

Using color gradients as backgrounds in your dialogs and views

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2002 Page Views: 155,228 Rating: 4.02/5 Votes: 67 Popularity: 7.33 Bookmark Count: 58

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.

.NET Framework

General

Drag and Drop between list boxes - Beginner's Tutorial

Last Updated: 13 May 2002 Page Views: 197,145 Rating: 4.05/5 Votes: 95 Popularity: 8.00 Bookmark Count: 68

An introduction to drag and drop in .NET

Registry handling with .NET

Last Updated: 21 May 2002 Page Views: 122,852 Rating: 4.02/5 Votes: 61 Popularity: 7.17 Bookmark Count: 45

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: 192,536 Rating: 4.02/5 Votes: 78 Popularity: 7.60 Bookmark Count: 36

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: 83,339 Rating: 4.23/5 Votes: 34 Popularity: 6.47 Bookmark Count: 59

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: 74,098 Rating: 4.43/5 Votes: 25 Popularity: 6.20 Bookmark Count: 59

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.

Win32/64 SDK & OS

General

Getting and setting desktop folder names

Last Updated: 24 Jan 2003 Page Views: 54,549 Rating: 4.03/5 Votes: 32 Popularity: 6.06 Bookmark Count: 29

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: 102,023 Rating: 4.36/5 Votes: 28 Popularity: 6.31 Bookmark Count: 40

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: 93,453 Rating: 4.22/5 Votes: 31 Popularity: 6.29 Bookmark Count: 55

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: 53,255 Rating: 4.84/5 Votes: 37 Popularity: 7.58 Bookmark Count: 60

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.

Windows Communication Foundation

General

A first look at the Windows Web Services API

Last Updated: 27 Jul 2009 Page Views: 10,889 Rating: 4.74/5 Votes: 25 Popularity: 6.63 Bookmark Count: 30

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.

Windows Presentation Foundation

General

WPF Tutorial - Part 1 : Transformations

Last Updated: 21 Jul 2006 Page Views: 86,295 Rating: 4.22/5 Votes: 36 Popularity: 6.57 Bookmark Count: 66

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: 49,228 Rating: 4.74/5 Votes: 37 Popularity: 7.43 Bookmark Count: 51

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

C / C++ Language

Beginners

MFC under the hood

Last Updated: 2 Jul 2002 Page Views: 185,058 Rating: 4.03/5 Votes: 93 Popularity: 7.94 Bookmark Count: 96

Explains the basic MFC program flow including where WinMain and the message loop are hidden

C#

Beginners

Introduction to inheritance, polymorphism in C#

Last Updated: 9 Oct 2001 Page Views: 323,094 Rating: 4.07/5 Votes: 108 Popularity: 8.27 Bookmark Count: 86

An elementary introduction to inheritance, polymorphism in C# using simple code snippets

Enums and Structs in C#

Last Updated: 13 Oct 2001 Page Views: 199,393 Rating: 4.02/5 Votes: 76 Popularity: 7.57 Bookmark Count: 72

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: 325,993 Rating: 4.14/5 Votes: 83 Popularity: 7.94 Bookmark Count: 134

An introduction to using events and event handlers in C#

General

Getting unsafe with pointers in C#

Last Updated: 12 May 2002 Page Views: 97,308 Rating: 4.03/5 Votes: 62 Popularity: 7.22 Bookmark Count: 31

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Introduction to unsafe code

Simulating polymorphic operator overloads with C#

Last Updated: 19 Apr 2005 Page Views: 58,408 Rating: 4.46/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 5.71 Bookmark Count: 19

Article shows how to overcome the C# insistence on operator overloads being static and describes a method for simulating polymorphic behavior for operator overloads.

Generics

A generic Trictionary class

Last Updated: 11 Mar 2009 Page Views: 6,500 Rating: 4.31/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.19 Bookmark Count: 14

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

How To

Adding tray icons and context menus

Last Updated: 10 Apr 2002 Page Views: 288,805 Rating: 4.07/5 Votes: 67 Popularity: 7.43 Bookmark Count: 144

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: 10,961 Rating: 4.56/5 Votes: 26 Popularity: 6.45 Bookmark Count: 32

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

Windows Forms

Pre-beginner's guide to using a timer

Last Updated: 15 Mar 2002 Page Views: 116,195 Rating: 4.05/5 Votes: 61 Popularity: 7.24 Bookmark Count: 40

Shows how you can use a timer proc in your windows forms apps

C++ / CLI

Applications

N-Track : Work-Time tracking system

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2002 Page Views: 193,788 Rating: 4.26/5 Votes: 36 Popularity: 6.63 Bookmark Count: 50

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.

C++/CLI

A first look at C++/CLI

Last Updated: 27 Apr 2004 Page Views: 279,688 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 101 Popularity: 9.36 Bookmark Count: 105

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: 144,737 Rating: 4.63/5 Votes: 32 Popularity: 6.96 Bookmark Count: 27

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: 186,646 Rating: 4.43/5 Votes: 38 Popularity: 7.00 Bookmark Count: 36

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: 95,728 Rating: 4.38/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 6.26 Bookmark Count: 27

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: 54,931 Rating: 4.66/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 6.67 Bookmark Count: 27

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: 52,161 Rating: 4.51/5 Votes: 26 Popularity: 6.39 Bookmark Count: 27

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: 67,351 Rating: 4.29/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 5.59 Bookmark Count: 20

Introduces generics and compares it with templates

C++/CLI Properties - Syntactic sugar for accessor methods

Last Updated: 11 May 2005 Page Views: 69,521 Rating: 4.55/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 5.82 Bookmark Count: 14

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: 111,817 Rating: 4.36/5 Votes: 68 Popularity: 7.99 Bookmark Count: 57

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: 23,218 Rating: 4.78/5 Votes: 30 Popularity: 7.07 Bookmark Count: 29

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: 41,050 Rating: 4.58/5 Votes: 35 Popularity: 7.07 Bookmark Count: 36

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: 15,735 Rating: 4.82/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 6.56 Bookmark Count: 18

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: 14,320 Rating: 4.45/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 6.05 Bookmark Count: 11

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: 10,367 Rating: 4.76/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 6.49 Bookmark Count: 18

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

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

COM Interop

Creating and Resolving shell links

Last Updated: 10 May 2002 Page Views: 159,026 Rating: 4.26/5 Votes: 30 Popularity: 6.29 Bookmark Count: 20

An MC++ class that uses IJW to invoke the IShellLink interface

General

Limiting your .NET apps to a single instance

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2001 Page Views: 157,693 Rating: 4.09/5 Votes: 52 Popularity: 7.02 Bookmark Count: 16

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: 166,839 Rating: 4.02/5 Votes: 157 Popularity: 8.82 Bookmark Count: 22

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: 138,049 Rating: 4.03/5 Votes: 66 Popularity: 7.33 Bookmark Count: 15

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: 130,160 Rating: 4.64/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 6.14 Bookmark Count: 26

A basic introduction to serialization using Managed C++

Dynamically loading a DLL - MC++

Last Updated: 27 May 2002 Page Views: 155,675 Rating: 4.04/5 Votes: 46 Popularity: 6.71 Bookmark Count: 21

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: 165,204 Rating: 4.29/5 Votes: 52 Popularity: 7.36 Bookmark Count: 67

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: 203,825 Rating: 4.35/5 Votes: 22 Popularity: 5.84 Bookmark Count: 25

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: 156,420 Rating: 4.03/5 Votes: 47 Popularity: 6.75 Bookmark Count: 28

Declaring and using managed .NET arrays with MC++

Basic stuff on Files, Directories and Streams

Last Updated: 26 Jun 2002 Page Views: 127,094 Rating: 4.03/5 Votes: 50 Popularity: 6.85 Bookmark Count: 23

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: 192,108 Rating: 4.05/5 Votes: 50 Popularity: 6.89 Bookmark Count: 45

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: 217,055 Rating: 4.61/5 Votes: 38 Popularity: 7.29 Bookmark Count: 50

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: 71,457 Rating: 4.37/5 Votes: 25 Popularity: 6.11 Bookmark Count: 13

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: 23,758 Rating: 4.11/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 4.95 Bookmark Count: 9

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.

P/Invoke

Using IJW in Managed C++

Last Updated: 2 May 2002 Page Views: 170,502 Rating: 4.04/5 Votes: 36 Popularity: 6.29 Bookmark Count: 24

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: 190,748 Rating: 4.04/5 Votes: 50 Popularity: 6.86 Bookmark Count: 27

This is further demonstration of MC++ IJW capabilities

Implementing Callback functions using IJW (avoiding DllImport)

Last Updated: 13 Jul 2002 Page Views: 137,509 Rating: 4.09/5 Votes: 26 Popularity: 5.79 Bookmark Count: 27

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: 61,246 Rating: 4.16/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 5.50 Bookmark Count: 30

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.

Bugs & Workarounds

.NET issues

The virtual bool bug

Last Updated: 2 Sep 2003 Page Views: 90,364 Rating: 4.40/5 Votes: 35 Popularity: 6.79 Bookmark Count: 25

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: 76,017 Rating: 4.19/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.04 Bookmark Count: 21

Describes an issue when writing a binary file into a zip file using the java.util.zip classes

Internet / Network

Beginners

Beginning Winsock Programming - Simple TCP server

Last Updated: 25 Feb 2002 Page Views: 407,844 Rating: 4.34/5 Votes: 162 Popularity: 9.59 Bookmark Count: 178

An introduction to WinSock programming. A simple TCP server is explained.

Beginning Winsock Programming - Simple TCP client

Last Updated: 28 Feb 2002 Page Views: 352,777 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 99 Popularity: 8.99 Bookmark Count: 152

A simple TCP client is explained.

Beginning Winsock Programming - Multithreaded TCP server with client

Last Updated: 5 Mar 2002 Page Views: 294,955 Rating: 4.37/5 Votes: 92 Popularity: 8.58 Bookmark Count: 132

Explains a multithreaded TCP file server, a custom TCP chat protocol and a custom TCP client

Email & SMTP

CSmtpProxyMT 1.0

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2001 Page Views: 77,827 Rating: 4.04/5 Votes: 67 Popularity: 7.37 Bookmark Count: 31

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 Page Views: 99,349 Rating: 4.59/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 5.98 Bookmark Count: 28

CPopProxyMT is a skeletal class that wraps a multi-threaded POP3 proxy. You can further modify this class to suite your needs.

Internet and networks

How to do Synchronous and Asynchronous web downloads

Last Updated: 28 Jun 2002 Page Views: 96,374 Rating: 4.03/5 Votes: 48 Popularity: 6.78 Bookmark Count: 33

Explains the usage of WebRequest, WebResponse and related classes.

MC++ TCP server talking to MFC & MC++ TCP clients

Last Updated: 1 Jul 2002 Page Views: 117,776 Rating: 4.02/5 Votes: 52 Popularity: 6.89 Bookmark Count: 23

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Basic demonstration of the TcpListener/TcpClient classes.

Remoting

Absolute beginner's introduction to remoting

Last Updated: 4 Apr 2002 Page Views: 190,755 Rating: 4.45/5 Votes: 102 Popularity: 8.94 Bookmark Count: 138

Introduces .NET remoting and the use of asynchronous callbacks using simple code snippets

Programming Tips

General

To new is C++; To malloc is C; To mix them is sin

Last Updated: 29 Mar 2004 Page Views: 206,288 Rating: 4.14/5 Votes: 28 Popularity: 5.98 Bookmark Count: 31

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: 179,413 Rating: 4.28/5 Votes: 38 Popularity: 6.76 Bookmark Count: 81

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: 29,289 Rating: 4.51/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 5.77 Bookmark Count: 25

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 Page Views: 57,829 Rating: 4.78/5 Votes: 35 Popularity: 7.38 Bookmark Count: 70

Shows how to use CFSTR_FILEDESCRIPTOR and CFSTR_FILECONTENTS to perform drag/drop with virtual files

String handling

General,

The Complete Guide to C++ Strings, Part II - String Wrapper Classes

Last Updated: 12 Oct 2002 Page Views: 555,676 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 198 Popularity: 11.16 Bookmark Count: 404

A guide to the string wrapper classes provided by Visual C++ and class libraries

Strings

StringConvertor : A convertor class for managed-unmanaged string conversions that handles memory de-allocations

Last Updated: 15 May 2005 Page Views: 74,635 Rating: 4.61/5 Votes: 33 Popularity: 6.99 Bookmark Count: 40

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.

Threads, Processes & IPC

Threads

How to pass data to worker threads

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2001 Page Views: 116,352 Rating: 4.08/5 Votes: 31 Popularity: 6.08 Bookmark Count: 23

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: 49,955 Rating: 4.15/5 Votes: 33 Popularity: 6.30 Bookmark Count: 17

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: 210,070 Rating: 4.08/5 Votes: 33 Popularity: 6.20 Bookmark Count: 45

Licence: The BSD License

An introduction to using signaled events for thread synchronization in .NET

Installation

General

Deploying MFC applications via ClickOnce

Last Updated: 14 Jan 2008 Page Views: 19,821 Rating: 4.87/5 Votes: 25 Popularity: 6.81 Bookmark Count: 33

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

A step by step tutorial on how to deploy an MFC application via ClickOnce

Book Chapters

Manning Publications

C++/CLI in Action - Declaring CLR types

Last Updated: 24 Feb 2007 Page Views: 22,694 Rating: 4.73/5 Votes: 32 Popularity: 7.12 Bookmark Count: 23

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 Page Views: 21,030 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 26 Popularity: 6.83 Bookmark Count: 24

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 Page Views: 17,806 Rating: 4.68/5 Votes: 31 Popularity: 6.98 Bookmark Count: 32

Excerpt from Chapter 4 on interior and pinning pointers

Hardware & System

General

CFloppyDisk 2.0

Last Updated: 14 Feb 2002 Page Views: 134,588 Rating: 4.51/5 Votes: 64 Popularity: 8.14 Bookmark Count: 31

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 Page Views: 122,385 Rating: 4.34/5 Votes: 54 Popularity: 7.51 Bookmark Count: 90

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 Page Views: 146,455 Rating: 4.34/5 Votes: 46 Popularity: 7.22 Bookmark Count: 45

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: 240,772 Rating: 4.35/5 Votes: 91 Popularity: 8.52 Bookmark Count: 102

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.

Services

Beginner's introductory guide to writing, installing, starting, stopping NT services

Last Updated: 29 Dec 2001 Page Views: 241,263 Rating: 4.70/5 Votes: 127 Popularity: 9.89 Bookmark Count: 190

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 Page Views: 104,428 Rating: 4.23/5 Votes: 42 Popularity: 6.86 Bookmark Count: 37

A simple class to install, uninstall, start, stop, pause, continue Win32 services

Nishant Sivakumar

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Nish is a real nice guy living in Atlanta, who has been coding since 1990, when he was 13 years old. Originally from sunny Trivandrum in India, he recently moved to Atlanta from Toronto and is a little sad that he won't be able to play in snow anymore.

Nish has been a Microsoft Visual C++ MVP since October, 2002 - awfully nice of Microsoft, he thinks. He maintains an MVP tips and tricks web site - www.voidnish.com where you can find a consolidated list of his articles, writings and ideas on VC++, MFC, .NET and C++/CLI. Oh, and you might want to check out his blog on C++/CLI, MFC, .NET and a lot of other stuff - blog.voidnish.com

Nish loves reading Science Fiction, P G Wodehouse and Agatha Christie, and also fancies himself to be a decent writer of sorts. He has authored a romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket as well as a programming book – Extending MFC applications with the .NET Framework.

Nish's latest book C++/CLI in Action published by Manning Publications is now available for purchase. You can read more about the book on his blog.

Despite his wife's attempts to get him into cooking, his best effort so far has been a badly done omelette. Some day, he hopes to be a good cook, and to cook a tasty dinner for his wife.

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