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Miscellaneous

Embedding a Console in a C# Application
Posted: 25 Feb 2012   Updated: 10 Feb 2013   Views: 60,623   Rating: 4.91/5    Votes: 98   Popularity: 9.77
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 233   Downloaded: 6,115
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: 3,967   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 6   Popularity: 3.89
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 20   Downloaded: 329
Rapidly create Shell Drop Handler Extensions using .NET
.NET Shell Extensions - Shell Preview Handlers
Posted: 26 Jan 2013   Updated: 26 Jan 2013   Views: 6,604   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 7   Popularity: 4.23
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 25   Downloaded: 452
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: 9,823   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 10   Popularity: 5.00
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 33   Downloaded: 673
Rapidly create Shell Icon Handler Extensions using .NET
.NET Shell Extensions - Shell Context Menus
Posted: 5 Jan 2013   Updated: 5 Mar 2013   Views: 35,819   Rating: 4.98/5    Votes: 49   Popularity: 8.42
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 182   Downloaded: 2,827
Rapidly create Shell Context Menu Extensions using .NET
.NET Shell Extensions - Shell Thumbnail Handlers
Posted: 17 Mar 2013   Updated: 17 Mar 2013   Views: 3,338   Rating: 4.67/5    Votes: 5   Popularity: 3.49
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 26   Downloaded: 347
Create Shell Thumbnail Handler Extensions using .NET!
.NET Shell Extensions - Shell Info Tip Handlers
Posted: 13 Jan 2013   Updated: 5 Apr 2013   Views: 6,320   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 4.77
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 27   Downloaded: 501
Rapidly create Shell Info Tip Extensions using .NET
.NET Shell Extensions - Shell Icon Overlay Handlers
Posted: 13 Feb 2013   Updated: 5 Apr 2013   Views: 6,501   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 10   Popularity: 5.00
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 33   Downloaded: 609
Create Shell Icon Overlay Handlers using .NET!
.NET Shell Extensions - Shell Property Sheets
Posted: 5 Apr 2013   Updated: 7 Apr 2013   Views: 3,179   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 10   Popularity: 5.00
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 21   Downloaded: 314
Use .NET to rapidly build Shell Property Sheets.

Client side scripting

Create Clean Webpages with Twitter Bootstrap
Posted: 10 Dec 2012   Updated: 10 Dec 2012   Views: 18,605   Rating: 4.81/5    Votes: 22   Popularity: 6.44
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 59   Downloaded: 450
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: 12 Dec 2012   Views: 10,912   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 10   Popularity: 5.00
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 28   Downloaded: 798
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: 48,720   Rating: 4.27/5    Votes: 8   Popularity: 4.15
Licence: The GNU General Public License (GPLv3)      Bookmarked: 59   Downloaded: 3,282
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: 599,617   Rating: 4.91/5    Votes: 141   Popularity: 10.55
Licence: The GNU General Public License (GPLv3)      Bookmarked: 353   Downloaded: 31,421
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: 19,457   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 13   Popularity: 5.57
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 65   Downloaded: 907
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: 11,754   Rating: 4.96/5    Votes: 11   Popularity: 5.16
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 18   Downloaded: 561
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: 21,879   Rating: 4.98/5    Votes: 24   Popularity: 6.88
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 73   Downloaded: 5,013
A Zune Style Application Template that makes a great starting point for WPF or Silverlight Projects

.NET Framework

PInvoke Performance
Posted: 12 Sep 2011   Updated: 13 Sep 2011   Views: 20,093   Rating: 4.83/5    Votes: 37   Popularity: 7.58
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 29   Downloaded: 717
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: 25,309   Rating: 4.72/5    Votes: 21   Popularity: 6.23
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 83   Downloaded: 879
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: 16,768   Rating: 4.94/5    Votes: 29   Popularity: 7.22
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 57   Downloaded: 384
Learn how to extend Visual Studio 2010 by creating custom Item Templates.
Extending Visual Studio Part 2 - Creating Addins
Posted: 3 Feb 2012   Updated: 26 Aug 2012   Views: 27,149   Rating: 4.91/5    Votes: 34   Popularity: 7.52
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 85   Downloaded: 1,422
Create an amazingly useful 'Switch' addin to switch between cpp/h, designer/code, XAML/codebehind and more!
A GAC Manager Utility and API
Posted: 29 Jul 2012   Updated: 30 Jul 2012   Views: 11,272   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 14   Popularity: 5.73
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 43   Downloaded: 1,423
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: 7,350   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 3.01
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 17   Downloaded: 346
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: 27,445   Rating: 4.96/5    Votes: 70   Popularity: 9.15
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 128   Downloaded: 5,351
Create Solitaire and Spider Solitaire for WPF, step by step.
WPF Padded Grid
Posted: 6 Sep 2010   Updated: 6 Sep 2010   Views: 19,793   Rating: 4.80/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 4.56
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 17   Downloaded: 393
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: 12,879   Rating: 4.80/5    Votes: 11   Popularity: 4.99
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 33   Downloaded: 797
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: 14,098   Rating: 4.90/5    Votes: 19   Popularity: 6.26
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 28   Downloaded: 591
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: 68,890   Rating: 4.99/5    Votes: 67   Popularity: 9.11
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 135   Downloaded: 2,010
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: 25,451   Rating: 4.83/5    Votes: 15   Popularity: 5.67
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 36   Downloaded: 4,281
Use OpenGL in a WPF application with ease!
Commands in MVVM
Posted: 29 Oct 2011   Updated: 3 Dec 2012   Views: 76,138   Rating: 4.96/5    Votes: 55   Popularity: 8.63
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 190   Downloaded: 5,895
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: 15,917   Rating: 4.78/5    Votes: 18   Popularity: 6.00
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 52   Downloaded: 716
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: 16,278   Rating: 4.79/5    Votes: 25   Popularity: 6.71
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 40   Downloaded: 627
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: 62,761   Rating: 4.76/5    Votes: 12   Popularity: 5.14
Licence: The GNU General Public License (GPLv3)      Bookmarked: 54   Downloaded: 2,516
An article showing how to use the Crypto API to make a simple MFC class that can encrypt and decrypt different types of data

Tools and IDE

QuickAccent - A Tool for Accents and Symbols
Posted: 18 Nov 2012   Updated: 19 Nov 2012   Views: 2,358   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 3.01
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 9   Downloaded: 148
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: 5,042   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 10   Popularity: 5.00
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 32   Downloaded: 272
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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