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General

Copying a DIB to the Clipboard

Last Updated: 15 Apr 2008 Page Views: 109,902 Rating: 3.55/5 Votes: 44 Popularity: 5.83 Bookmark Count: 43

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Helps with copying a device independant bitmap to the clipboard.

Dialogs and Windows

Dialogs

Using CResizablePage In a CFormView

Last Updated: 16 Apr 2001 Page Views: 72,033 Rating: 2.87/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 3.80 Bookmark Count: 19

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Technique for utilizing a CResizablePage in a CFormView-derived class

Wizard Form Implementation

Last Updated: 17 Feb 2009 Page Views: 21,853 Rating: 4.77/5 Votes: 39 Popularity: 7.58 Bookmark Count: 102

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Create a dynamically resizable wizard form

Form Views

CResizableFormView

Last Updated: 6 Jun 2001 Page Views: 128,209 Rating: 3.40/5 Votes: 36 Popularity: 5.29 Bookmark Count: 32

Extension of Paolo Messina's CResizableDialog concept

General

Enumerate Controls In a Dialog Box or FormView

Last Updated: 9 Aug 2005 Page Views: 32,019 Rating: 3.48/5 Votes: 24 Popularity: 4.80 Bookmark Count: 16

Enumerate all controls in a dialog box or form view.

Document / View

General

Tracking The Mouse In A View

Last Updated: 7 May 2001 Page Views: 71,512 Rating: 2.96/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 4.24 Bookmark Count: 28

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Track a mouse click, even in a scrolled view

Files and Folders

Configuration Files

XML Application Profile Class

Last Updated: 27 Jan 2007 Page Views: 27,613 Rating: 4.32/5 Votes: 22 Popularity: 5.79 Bookmark Count: 34

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Implement XML application profiles that are similar (but not too similar) to using INI files

List Controls

CListCtrl - one of the Blonde classes in MFC

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2002 Page Views: 131,487 Rating: 3.59/5 Votes: 44 Popularity: 5.91 Bookmark Count: 25

Some dialogbox code to give the Blonde a clue

Menus

Custom menus

Modifying the System Menu

Last Updated: 26 Jan 2007 Page Views: 36,210 Rating: 3.14/5 Votes: 60 Popularity: 5.58 Bookmark Count: 22

Add menu items to, and learn how to handle the system menu

General

Dynamically Build Your Menu and/or Toolbar

Last Updated: 12 May 2005 Page Views: 60,418 Rating: 3.06/5 Votes: 37 Popularity: 4.80 Bookmark Count: 28

Build a menu and/or a toolbar dynamically without using resource files (well, almost).

Miscellaneous

General

CodeProject Article Scraping

Last Updated: 13 Oct 2008 Page Views: 16,674 Rating: 4.31/5 Votes: 32 Popularity: 6.49 Bookmark Count: 59

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Scrape the My Articles page here on CodeProject to keep an eye on your articles.

Grid Control

Blinking Cells For Chris Maunder's Grid Control

Last Updated: 13 May 2005 Page Views: 31,656 Rating: 3.05/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 4.16 Bookmark Count: 6

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Create blinking cells for Chris Maunder's grid control.

Windows Forms

User Login For WinForm Applications

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2008 Page Views: 18,321 Rating: 4.05/5 Votes: 42 Popularity: 6.58 Bookmark Count: 83

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Discusses windows authentication and application-specific authentication for WinForm applications

Printing

General

Keep Your InkJet Print Head Clean

Last Updated: 4 Jan 2009 Page Views: 10,357 Rating: 4.78/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 6.11 Bookmark Count: 29

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

A utility that you can use to "exercise" your inkjet printer without wasting a lot of ink or paper

GDI+

General

Determining Ideal Text Color Based on Specified Background Color

Last Updated: 8 May 2007 Page Views: 51,580 Rating: 4.36/5 Votes: 89 Popularity: 8.51 Bookmark Count: 72

A method for programatically determining the appropriate foreground color based on the specified background color

General Graphics

Bitmaps

Replacing Part of an Existing Bitmap

Last Updated: 28 Jul 2006 Page Views: 24,648 Rating: 3.73/5 Votes: 31 Popularity: 5.57 Bookmark Count: 18

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Copy a bitmap over a portion of another bitmap

Render Text On A Bitmap (and other stuff)

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2008 Page Views: 9,746 Rating: 4.17/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 5.67 Bookmark Count: 22

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Put text on a bitmap, make your winform app go full-screen, and say hello to some simple LINQ code.

Game Development

Games

Anagrams - A Word Game in C#

Last Updated: 7 Apr 2008 Page Views: 24,426 Rating: 4.40/5 Votes: 28 Popularity: 6.37 Bookmark Count: 19

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

The classic word game using words and letter scores alllowed in Scrabble.

Mobile Development

Dialogs and Windows

Scrolling Property Page in PocketPC 2002

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2003 Page Views: 56,419 Rating: 3.60/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 4.52 Bookmark Count: 19

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Add a scrollbar to a property page when the SIP is displayed.

STL

Collections and Iterators

Binary Sorting Into a std::list

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2002 Page Views: 74,516 Rating: 3.27/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 4.45 Bookmark Count: 9

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

One technique for performing a binary insertion sort on a std::list

C / C++ Language

General

Formatting Behavior in COleDateTime for MFC8

Last Updated: 3 Aug 2006 Page Views: 10,640 Rating: 3.67/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 3.82 Bookmark Count: 7

A passable workaround for the COleDateTime formatting behavior in MFC8.

Using CodeProject - A Day In the Life of an Application - Part 3 of 5

Last Updated: 27 Jan 2007 Page Views: 13,565 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 5.29 Bookmark Count: 10

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

The right way to code using CodeProject for occasional support

Using CodeProject - A Day In the Life of an Application - Part 1 of 5

Last Updated: 15 Apr 2008 Page Views: 24,899 Rating: 4.29/5 Votes: 41 Popularity: 6.92 Bookmark Count: 67

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

The right way to code using CodeProject for occasional support

Using CodeProject - A Day In the Life of an Application - Part 2 of 5

Last Updated: 15 Apr 2008 Page Views: 14,874 Rating: 4.06/5 Votes: 22 Popularity: 5.45 Bookmark Count: 16

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

The right way to code using CodeProject for occasional support

Using CodeProject - A Day In the Life of an Application - Part 4 of 5

Last Updated: 15 Apr 2008 Page Views: 11,470 Rating: 3.92/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 5.01 Bookmark Count: 10

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

The right way to code using CodeProject for occasional support

Using CodeProject - A Day In the Life of an Application - Part 5 of 5

Last Updated: 15 Apr 2008 Page Views: 15,851 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 5.20 Bookmark Count: 10

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

The right way to code using CodeProject for occasional support

C#

General

Overriding App.Config Settings for Multiple Objects

Last Updated: 17 May 2008 Page Views: 15,222 Rating: 4.10/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 5.15 Bookmark Count: 19

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

One method for loading common and object-specific data from your app.config file.

Share User Settings Between Applications

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2008 Page Views: 7,479 Rating: 4.72/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.27 Bookmark Count: 30

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

A not-so-dotNet way to allow multiple programs to share a single settings file

VBScript

General

Determining The Ideal Text Color Based on Specified Background Color (For VBScript)

Last Updated: 7 May 2007 Page Views: 11,000 Rating: 3.52/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 3.18 Bookmark Count: 11

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

The VBScript version of my C# article about the very same thing

Algorithms & Recipes

Parsers and Interpreters

Persistent String Parser

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2008 Page Views: 23,875 Rating: 3.98/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 5.09 Bookmark Count: 36

Licence: A Public Domain dedication

Parse a string with quoted elements, insert/add/delete elements, and is CLS compliant

Date and Time

Tools

Scheduling Future Dates

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2008 Page Views: 13,546 Rating: 4.22/5 Votes: 47 Popularity: 7.05 Bookmark Count: 59

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Implement repetitive tasks at consistent intervals

DLLs & Assemblies

General

Get Your DLL's Path/Name

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2006 Page Views: 43,039 Rating: 3.73/5 Votes: 42 Popularity: 6.05 Bookmark Count: 32

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Two methods to retrieve the path/name of a VS2002 or higher DLL from within that DLL.

Programming Tips

Design and Strategy

Reliable Floating Point Equality Comparison

Last Updated: 5 Dec 2006 Page Views: 38,174 Rating: 2.87/5 Votes: 32 Popularity: 4.32 Bookmark Count: 10

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Compare floating point numbers for equality at programmer-specified precision.

String handling

General

Creating a Unique String Using a UUID

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2001 Page Views: 114,443 Rating: 3.26/5 Votes: 28 Popularity: 4.72 Bookmark Count: 13

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

A small function to either accept or create a UUID* and return a CString

String Parsing Class (supports quoted strings)

Last Updated: 14 Mar 2002 Page Views: 121,647 Rating: 3.84/5 Votes: 52 Popularity: 6.59 Bookmark Count: 34

Parse strings with specified delimiter and specified quote character

Keeping It Clean - String Function Wrappers for VS2005

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2006 Page Views: 37,254 Rating: 3.79/5 Votes: 24 Popularity: 5.23 Bookmark Count: 8

A technique for making stdio functions compile clean regardless of the Microsoft compiler used

Debug Tips

General

Debug With Apps Displayed on Secondary Monitor

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2006 Page Views: 19,579 Rating: 4.14/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.09 Bookmark Count: 22

Here's some code that will automatically start your app on a secondary monitor if it's compiled with debug info.

Work Issues

The Developer's Life

Being a Programmer

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2008 Page Views: 42,670 Rating: 4.48/5 Votes: 180 Popularity: 10.11 Bookmark Count: 125

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

My views on how to be a proper programmer

Hardware & System

Hardware

Build Your Own NAS Device

Last Updated: 14 Apr 2008 Page Views: 55,723 Rating: 4.56/5 Votes: 39 Popularity: 7.26 Bookmark Count: 57

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

How to go about buildingyour own NAS device

John Simmons / outlaw programmer

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I've been paid as a programmer since 1982 with experience in Pascal, and C++ (both self-taught). I've been writing Windows programs since 1991 almost exclusively with Visual C++ and MFC. In the 2nd half of 2007, I started writing C# desktop and web applications.

My weakest point is that my moments of clarity are too brief to hold a meaningful conversation that requires more than 30 seconds to complete. Thankfully, grunts of agreement are all that is required to conduct most discussions without committing to any particular belief system.

I really don't care if you vote 1's on my forum posts, but at least act like a professional when it comes to my articles. When you play stupid little voting games because you don't agree with someone's politics or sense of humor, you're cheating all the other members of the site.

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