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Miscellaneous

Embedding a Console in a C# Application
Posted: 25 Feb 2012   Updated: 10 Feb 2013   Views: 62,844   Rating: 4.91/5    Votes: 98   Popularity: 9.77
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 235   Downloaded: 6,364
Embed a functional console window in a C# application.

Shell and IE programming

.NET Shell Extensions - Shell Drop Handlers
Posted: 19 Jan 2013   Updated: 19 Jan 2013   Views: 4,183   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 6   Popularity: 3.89
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 21   Downloaded: 360
Rapidly create Shell Drop Handler Extensions using .NET
.NET Shell Extensions - Shell Preview Handlers
Posted: 26 Jan 2013   Updated: 26 Jan 2013   Views: 6,942   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 7   Popularity: 4.23
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 26   Downloaded: 500
Quickly create Shell Preview Handlers for Windows or Outlook using .NET!
.NET Shell Extensions - Shell Icon Handlers
Posted: 9 Jan 2013   Updated: 22 Feb 2013   Views: 10,347   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 10   Popularity: 5.00
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 34   Downloaded: 730
Rapidly create Shell Icon Handler Extensions using .NET
.NET Shell Extensions - Shell Thumbnail Handlers
Posted: 17 Mar 2013   Updated: 17 Mar 2013   Views: 3,687   Rating: 4.67/5    Votes: 5   Popularity: 3.49
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 27   Downloaded: 390
Create Shell Thumbnail Handler Extensions using .NET!
.NET Shell Extensions - Shell Info Tip Handlers
Posted: 13 Jan 2013   Updated: 5 Apr 2013   Views: 6,658   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 4.77
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 29   Downloaded: 525
Rapidly create Shell Info Tip Extensions using .NET
.NET Shell Extensions - Shell Icon Overlay Handlers
Posted: 13 Feb 2013   Updated: 5 Apr 2013   Views: 7,244   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 10   Popularity: 5.00
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 34   Downloaded: 776
Create Shell Icon Overlay Handlers using .NET!
.NET Shell Extensions - Shell Property Sheets
Posted: 5 Apr 2013   Updated: 7 Apr 2013   Views: 3,395   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 10   Popularity: 5.00
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 23   Downloaded: 329
Use .NET to rapidly build Shell Property Sheets.
.NET Shell Extensions - Shell Context Menus
Posted: 5 Jan 2013   Updated: 17 Jun 2013   Views: 40,781   Rating: 4.99/5    Votes: 57   Popularity: 8.75
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 204   Downloaded: 3,277
Rapidly create Shell Context Menu Extensions using .NET.

Client side scripting

Create Clean Webpages with Twitter Bootstrap
Posted: 10 Dec 2012   Updated: 10 Dec 2012   Views: 21,079   Rating: 4.83/5    Votes: 23   Popularity: 6.55
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 62   Downloaded: 499
Twitter Bootstrap is a lean and clean framework for website UIs. See what it can do and how it can help you!

Silverlight

Grid960 Layout for Silverlight
Posted: 29 Apr 2012   Updated: 11 Jun 2013   Views: 12,276   Rating: 4.93/5    Votes: 12   Popularity: 5.32
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 34   Downloaded: 898
The 960 Grid System is a hugely popular layout system for web sites - Grid960 lets you use it in Silverlight!

OpenGL

OpenGL MFC AppWizard
Posted: 15 Jan 2009   Updated: 15 Jan 2009   Views: 49,322   Rating: 4.27/5    Votes: 8   Popularity: 4.15
Licence: The GNU General Public License (GPLv3)      Bookmarked: 60   Downloaded: 3,352
An article showing how to make a Custom AppWizard for OpenGL applictions in Visual Studio .NET 2008
SharpGL: A C# OpenGL Class Library
Posted: 4 Nov 2002   Updated: 22 Feb 2012   Views: 604,876   Rating: 4.91/5    Votes: 142   Popularity: 10.56
Licence: The GNU General Public License (GPLv3)      Bookmarked: 356   Downloaded: 32,582
Use OpenGL in WinForms or WPF applications, directly or with a powerful Scene Graph.

C#

Apex Part 1: Create Your First MVVM Application
Posted: 22 Apr 2012   Updated: 21 May 2012   Views: 19,803   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 13   Popularity: 5.57
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 65   Downloaded: 932
Write your first MVVM application in ten minutes using the Apex SDK!
Apex Part 2: Adding Commands to an MVVM Application
Posted: 16 May 2012   Updated: 21 May 2012   Views: 12,073   Rating: 4.96/5    Votes: 11   Popularity: 5.16
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 18   Downloaded: 583
Learn how to add Commands to your MVVM application to add functionality without breaking the separation of View and ViewModel.
A Zune Style Application Template for WPF and Silverlight
Posted: 21 Jun 2012   Updated: 25 Jun 2012   Views: 22,550   Rating: 4.98/5    Votes: 24   Popularity: 6.88
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 74   Downloaded: 5,124
A Zune Style Application Template that makes a great starting point for WPF or Silverlight Projects
See the Intermediate Language for C# Code
Posted: 5 Jun 2013   Updated: 6 Jun 2013   Views: 7,268   Rating: 4.91/5    Votes: 25   Popularity: 6.87
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 36   Downloaded: 426
Introducing 'Sil' - the addin that lets you right click on code and quickly inspect the Common Intermediate Language the compiler generates for it.

.NET Framework

PInvoke Performance
Posted: 12 Sep 2011   Updated: 13 Sep 2011   Views: 20,946   Rating: 4.83/5    Votes: 37   Popularity: 7.58
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 30   Downloaded: 741
Performance comparison of P/Invoke versus a C++/CLI wrapper.
Extending Visual Studio Part 1 - Creating Code Snippets
Posted: 29 Nov 2011   Updated: 14 Apr 2012   Views: 26,174   Rating: 4.72/5    Votes: 21   Popularity: 6.23
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 89   Downloaded: 934
Learn how to extend Visual Studio 2010 by creating custom code snippets.
Extending Visual Studio Part 3 - Item Templates
Posted: 13 Apr 2012   Updated: 14 Apr 2012   Views: 17,587   Rating: 4.94/5    Votes: 29   Popularity: 7.22
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 59   Downloaded: 414
Learn how to extend Visual Studio 2010 by creating custom Item Templates.
A GAC Manager Utility and API
Posted: 29 Jul 2012   Updated: 30 Jul 2012   Views: 11,553   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 14   Popularity: 5.73
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 44   Downloaded: 1,468
Manage the Global Assembly Cache with this handy tool - or roll your own with the provided API!

Windows Communication Foundation

Introducing the Composite Data Service Framework
Posted: 27 Nov 2011   Updated: 27 Nov 2011   Views: 7,549   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 3.01
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 17   Downloaded: 352
Use a single Data Service to expose data from many sources with the Composite Data Service Framework!

Windows Presentation Foundation

Solitaire and Spider Solitaire for WPF
Posted: 9 Sep 2011   Updated: 26 Feb 2013   Views: 28,588   Rating: 4.96/5    Votes: 70   Popularity: 9.15
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 130   Downloaded: 5,468
Create Solitaire and Spider Solitaire for WPF, step by step.
WPF Padded Grid
Posted: 6 Sep 2010   Updated: 6 Sep 2010   Views: 20,245   Rating: 4.80/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 4.56
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 17   Downloaded: 404
A padded grid for WPF that is ideal for laying out forms.
A Simple Cross Button for WPF
Posted: 18 Aug 2011   Updated: 18 Aug 2011   Views: 13,381   Rating: 4.80/5    Votes: 11   Popularity: 4.99
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 34   Downloaded: 847
A small and simple cross button for your WPF applications.
Funky WPF - Enumerations and Combo Boxes
Posted: 17 Jan 2012   Updated: 18 Jan 2012   Views: 14,539   Rating: 4.90/5    Votes: 19   Popularity: 6.26
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 28   Downloaded: 603
The quickest, easiest, and funkiest way to bind enumerations to a combo box in WPF, Silverlight, and Windows Phone 7.
WPF Step by Step: Getting Started with WPF and Expression Blend
Posted: 5 Aug 2010   Updated: 20 Aug 2010   Views: 70,985   Rating: 4.99/5    Votes: 67   Popularity: 9.11
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 140   Downloaded: 2,137
Getting started with your first WPF application using Microsoft Expression Blend 4.0.
Using OpenGL in a WPF Application
Posted: 9 Oct 2011   Updated: 9 Oct 2011   Views: 26,549   Rating: 4.83/5    Votes: 16   Popularity: 5.82
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 37   Downloaded: 4,393
Use OpenGL in a WPF application with ease!
Commands in MVVM
Posted: 29 Oct 2011   Updated: 3 Dec 2012   Views: 80,619   Rating: 4.96/5    Votes: 55   Popularity: 8.63
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 194   Downloaded: 6,196
A consistent approach to Commands, Asynchronous Commands, and Events-to-Commands for WPF, Silverlight, and WP7.
Introducing Apex
Posted: 30 Jul 2011   Updated: 2 Aug 2011   Views: 16,217   Rating: 4.78/5    Votes: 18   Popularity: 6.00
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 52   Downloaded: 726
Introducing Apex - a lightweight MVVM and utility library for WPF, Silverlight, and WP7.
Tidy Up XAML with the ApexGrid
Posted: 30 Jul 2011   Updated: 31 Jul 2011   Views: 16,632   Rating: 4.79/5    Votes: 25   Popularity: 6.71
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 41   Downloaded: 632
A small and neat addition to the Grid control which can tidy up XAML in WPF, Silverlight and WP7

Cryptography & Security

A simple MFC class to encrypt data with the Crypto API
Posted: 3 Jul 2007   Updated: 3 Jul 2007   Views: 63,504   Rating: 4.76/5    Votes: 12   Popularity: 5.14
Licence: The GNU General Public License (GPLv3)      Bookmarked: 54   Downloaded: 2,599
An article showing how to use the Crypto API to make a simple MFC class that can encrypt and decrypt different types of data

Macros and Add-ins

Extending Visual Studio Part 2 - Creating Addins
Posted: 3 Feb 2012   Updated: 17 Jun 2013   Views: 31,748   Rating: 4.91/5    Votes: 42   Popularity: 7.98
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 101   Downloaded: 1,609
Create an amazingly useful 'Switch' addin to switch between cpp/h, designer/code, XAML/codebehind and more!

Tools and IDE

QuickAccent - A Tool for Accents and Symbols
Posted: 18 Nov 2012   Updated: 19 Nov 2012   Views: 2,438   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 3.01
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 9   Downloaded: 151
Use QuickAccent to quickly copy accents and symbols to your clipboard. Also read the article to find out about the essentials when writing System Tray based applications
FireKeys - Open Programs, Folders or URLs with Hot Keys!
Posted: 10 Mar 2013   Updated: 11 Mar 2013   Views: 5,322   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 10   Popularity: 5.00
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 32   Downloaded: 288
FireKeys is a tool that lets you set up hotkey bindings for your favorite programs or places. See how it works, download it and find out how the code was written!
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