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H.264 CUDA Encoder DirectShow Filter in C#

by Maxim Kartavenkov

Article describes how to make H.264 Video Encoder DirectShow Filter using NVIDIA encoder API in C#

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Shell Extensions - Part VII

by Michael Dunn

A tutorial on using owner-drawn menus in a context menu shell extensions, and on making a context menu extension that responds to a right-click in a directory background.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 0 – Table of Contents

by Arik Poznanski

Complete Library for using the Windows 7 Ribbon from C#, including 18 samples and 21 blog posts documenting the Ribbon features

A Full Featured Editor Based on the Richtext Box

by Howard 9448490

Creating a reusable editor for C# Applications using the RichTextBox Control

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Run Client in Lua Script Completely

by flyhigh

By implementing a UI library and exporting its necessary components to lua script, we can create a beautiful UI and implement relevant logic in Lua script completely.

Multiple Precision Arithmetic: A Multiplication Algorithm

by Andrea Simonassi

The first and simplest of the multiplication algorithms, fast enough to multiply not too large numbers

How to Use GPU in VBA/Excel

by Excel-lent

This article shows how to compile and execute OpenCL code from VBA.

Camera_Net Library

by free5lot

Camera_Net is a FLOSS library for using video-cameras and video-inputs in .NET projects easily

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H.264 CUDA Encoder DirectShow Filter in C#

16 Jul 2012 by Maxim Kartavenkov

Article describes how to make H.264 Video Encoder DirectShow Filter using NVIDIA encoder API in C#

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Shell Extensions - Part VII

30 May 2006 by Michael Dunn

A tutorial on using owner-drawn menus in a context menu shell extensions, and on making a context menu extension that responds to a right-click in a directory background.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 0 – Table of Contents

31 Jan 2010 by Arik Poznanski

Complete Library for using the Windows 7 Ribbon from C#, including 18 samples and 21 blog posts documenting the Ribbon features

A Full Featured Editor Based on the Richtext Box

14 Feb 2022 by Howard 9448490

Creating a reusable editor for C# Applications using the RichTextBox Control

Interoping .NET and C++ through COM

11 Jul 2017 by Marius Bancila

Create COM visible types in C# and consume them from C++

DirectX and Pure Assembly Language: Doing What Can't be Done - Part I

8 Jun 2017 by CMalcheski

How to Create a Complete DirectX Game in Assembly Language

A GAC Manager Utility and API

30 Jul 2012 by Dave Kerr

Manage the Global Assembly Cache with this handy tool - or roll your own with the provided API!

Interoping .NET and C++ through Registration-free COM

2 Aug 2017 by Marius Bancila

Using managed COM objects in C++ without registering the server in Windows Registry

A Simple XML Validator, using VOLE

16 Apr 2007 by Matt (D) Wilson

A simple command-line utility that validates XML files, implemented using MSXML via the VOLE COM/Automation driver library

ATL Windowless ActiveX Media Container

5 Mar 2009 by Ernest Laurentin

Full-fledged ATL Windowless ActiveX Container. Ideal for hosting Windows Media Player, Transparent Flash and Silverlight Animations.

Web Application - Advanced Hosting of WebBrowser Control with ATL

14 Oct 2009 by Alex Blekhman

Example of handling real-life challenges when hosting WebBrowser control: separate creation of hosting window and the control, keyboard shortcuts, control's dimensions, etc.

DCOM D-Mystified: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 6

8 May 2005 by Brian C Hart

We build our new server and install it on the server machine.

COM Macro Architecture Topology - Servers

24 Jul 2001 by Joao C. Morais

An article about COM Architecture, COM Servers, COM DLL Servers and the Registry

Windows 7 Goodies in C++: Adding Custom Tasks to Jump Lists

29 Jun 2009 by Michael Dunn

Create custom tasks in your app's jump list on Windows 7

COM in plain C, Part 7

8 Aug 2006 by Jeff Glatt

An ActiveX Script Host with custom COM objects. This allows a script to call C functions in your app.

ScreenCapture: Single Header DirectX Library

1 Apr 2021 by Michael Chourdakis

DirectX hardware screen capture and encoding with audio mixing capabilities. H264/H265/VP80/VP90/FLAC/MP3

Adding Macro Scripting language support to existing MFC Application

18 Jul 2003 by Ernest Laurentin

Introduction to Microsoft Script Hosting and Adding Macro Scripting language support to existing MFC Application

Numerical Methods with C++ Part 3: Root Approximation Algorithms

10 Jun 2019 by thoughts-on-coding

Implementation of Root Approximation Algorithms such as Bisection, Newton, Dekker and Brent

Protect word document using C# and Word Automation

24 Nov 2015 by koolprasad2003

This article explain you How to protect word document using C# and Word automation

Video Effects in Direct3D. Part 1

20 Nov 2012 by Maxim Kartavenkov

Article shows how easy to make various video effects using PixelShaders in Direct3D.

Microsoft Interop API to convert the .doc, .docx, .dot, .dotx and .xls,.xlsx, .rtf to HTML

13 Dec 2012 by Vijay Tanwar

Convert Word documents, Excel sheets to HTML files using Microsoft Office Interop API and render the result back to a client browser.

DCOM D-Mystified: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 5

11 Aug 2000 by Brian C Hart

We look at connection points and set up the server's end of one. We'll also finish implementing our SayHello() method.

COM Mailslots - Designing asynchonous COM components for VB

10 Apr 2002 by Len Holgate

This example COM component provides 3 COM objects for using the Win32 Mailslot IPC mechanism. The component may be useful if you need to communicate from VB using Mailslots.

Pluggable Components using Component Categories - Part II

18 Sep 2003 by Zac Howland

An article on using component categories to create pluggable components

JException - Have Meaningful Exceptions in C++

31 Aug 2009 by Yalon Lotan

C++ exceptions with embedded stack trace and cause.

Running Any Command Line exe Remotely Using the Process Class

23 Dec 2011 by Dan Randolph

Builds on the existing RunRemote project to run commands on a remote server.

VMR9 Allocator Presenter in C# with Direct3D Video Rendering

10 Jul 2012 by Maxim Kartavenkov

Articles describes how to make pure C# rendering video on VMR9 with custom allocator presenter over Direct3D in .NET

Writing DirectShow Demultiplexors in C#. Part 1 - Windows Media Splitter example.

7 Oct 2012 by Maxim Kartavenkov

Article describes basic task which are requre to solve for developing your own DirectShow Splitter filters.

Elevating your application for dummies: A step-by-step guide to elevate and write in the Registry

8 Apr 2009 by joseangelmt

We are going to enable your application to write entries in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, elevating your application when necessary.

Music Notation in Blazor - Part I

1 Aug 2018 by Ajcek84

Client-side music notation rendering in Blazor

Writing DirectShow Demultiplexors in C#. Part 2 - AVI File Source example

13 Oct 2012 by Maxim Kartavenkov

Article describes basic tasks for implementing your own File Source DirectShow filters.

Using C# .NET User Defined Functions (UDF) in Excel

13 Jun 2013 by Adam Tibi

Exposing .NET functions to be consumed as Excel functions, otherwise known in Excel as "User Defined Functions" . Those .NET exposed functions can be easily used from Excel's cells. This article presents two ways to achieve this and the pros and cons of each.

Create Word table using OpenXML and C# Without Automation/Interop

8 Nov 2015 by koolprasad2003

This article help you to create word table using OpenXML without interop object

Store COM+ administration details as XML files to help with source control

8 Apr 2002 by Len Holgate

There's no standard way to save complex COM+ application configuration in a form that can be placed under version control. This article presents 2 scripts that take advantage of the COM+ Catalog accessibility via script to provide functionality that should really come as standard.

Native (Delphi) callbacks in .NET (C#) COM assembly

26 Apr 2012 by Issam Ali

How to pass native (Delphi) callback pointer to a .net COM assembly

Java: Retrieving User's Information, Such As Email and Position, from Active Directory Using COM4J

3 Jul 2013 by Ohad Redlich

This article shows how Java application can retrieve user's data from the Active Directory

DCOM D-Mystified: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 4

11 Aug 2000 by Brian C Hart

Here we add a method to our DCOM-remoted object, and start on implementing its functionality.

Creating an Outlook 2010 Add-In with a Custom Send Button

22 Dec 2014 by Turay Melo

This is an alternative for "Creating an Outlook 2010 Add-In"

Braintree Payment - ASP.Net Core2.1

16 Aug 2018 by Shashangka Shekhar

In this post, we are going to implement braintree payment gateway with ASP.NET Core 2.1

Modal Analysis of Plane Truss using Python

3 Sep 2018 by Bhairav Thakkar

Basic modal analysis for dynamic response of structures in Python

C#: Scheduling with Quartz, My First Desktop Schedule Job!

30 Jul 2020 by DiponRoy

Making schedule jobs exe using Quartz scheduler

Generating IDL and Manifest Files with TypeLibInfoTool

1 Nov 2011 by Federico Aponte

An application to inspect a COM TypeLib and generate IDL and .manifest files. The tool is made as an HTML application using JavaScript for the logic.

Outlook add-in using VC++ ATL/COM

5 Feb 2013 by Gokulnath007

To get instant control over Outlook and various operations of outlook.

Command Line Tool and C# Class for Uploading Videos on Vimeo

23 Aug 2019 by Andreask84

A command line tool and a simple C# class with a complete set of functions to easily upload videos on Vimeo

How to Migrate SQL Database to Azure SQL Database using SSMS Export/Import

19 Nov 2018 by Vivek Johari

Migrating SQL Database to Azure SQL Database using SSMS Export/Import Contents

LED Candle Light with Timer

25 Feb 2019 by hjgode

LED candle light with timer

WPF UIAutomation test suite development

26 Sep 2019 by Wang Ruofeng, Dirk Bahle

A guide to UIAutomation testing with WPF. Make test code easy to write and maintain.

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ObjectLookup Utility

31 Jan 2001 by Christian S Andersen

A small utility for looking up an object based on a CLSID or progid

PowerPoint timer (addin)

27 Oct 2012 by hevesir

Timer clock for PowerPoint 2007 (PPT add-in).

Procedural Smiles - Animating SVG with Pure JavaScript

30 Jul 2018 by Dave Kerr

How to animate SVG with pure JavaScript

Sentiment Analysis using ANNdotNET

17 Oct 2018 by Bahrudin Hrnjica

Sentiment analysis using ANNdotNET

Azure Storage Account Part 1: What is Blob?

5 Jan 2019 by Arkadeep De

Azure Storage Account - what is blob?

Universal COM Callable Wrapper

15 Oct 2010 by 401unauthorized

Allows working with most .NET classes in any COM-aware programming or scripting language

VBA Composite Control Object Model

25 Feb 2011 by Joel C Graff

A method for managing complex, event-driven interactions between controls

SCCM 2007 User Interactive Task Sequence

31 Aug 2011 by Joshua Lunsford

This is a tutorial on expanding the behavior of a SCCM 2007 Task Sequence to interact with a user

An Autoit Script to Generate a PowerPoint Presentation from MSWord Document

19 Jul 2016 by Member 4206974

A program for generating a PowerPoint presentation from a structured MSWord document

Windows toast notifications without a COM server

14 May 2017 by Martin Chrzan

An easy way to react on windows toasts activation without using a COM server

Data Driven Layout in Server-side Blazor

24 Sep 2018 by Jeremy Hutchinson

Data driven layout in server-side Blazor

Export Options in ANNdotNET

1 Nov 2018 by Bahrudin Hrnjica

Export options in ANNdotNET

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[TinyERP: SPA for Enterprise Application]Manage Staffs - Part 2

27 Dec 2018 by tranthanhtu.vn

[TinyERP: SPA for Enterprise Application]Manage Staffs - Part 2

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Custom API using .NET SDK for SQL API at Azure Cosmos DB

15 Nov 2018 by Srinivasa Dinesh Parupalli

Custom APIs using .NET SDK for SQL API

How to Migrate SQL Database to Azure SQL Database using SSMS Deploy

25 Nov 2018 by Vivek Johari

This post discusses how to migrate SQL database to Azure SQL database using SSMS deploy.

Numerical Methods in C++ Part 1: Newton-Cotes Integration

16 Apr 2019 by thoughts-on-coding

Implementation of Numerical Integrations with Trapezoidal and Simpson Rule Approach

Find in CWebBrowser Control

10 Aug 2000 by jerry0davis

How to display the "Find" window in a CWebBrowser control.

Reverse Geocoding with C# and MapPoint 2009

26 Mar 2009 by james.wren

Use C# and MapPoint 2009 to find a street address from a latitude/longitude.

Microsft Visual Studio 2005 Doxygen Add-In

29 Jun 2010 by aleksey_m_t

MSVS Add-in for Doxygen documentation system

Expand Microsoft SharePoint to Create the Ultimate Document Management Solution

17 Aug 2012 by Dynamsoft

In this article, we will see how to use Dynamic Web TWAIN to acquire, edit images, and upload them to Microsoft SharePoint.

How to Call CoEEShutDownCom in .NET Framework 4.0 and Use It to Solve Hang Issue When Connection Point Being Used Between .NET and Native COM Object

23 Apr 2016 by Simon M Li

Force .NET Framework release RCW objects when necessary

garbage-collection

Registration Free Activation of .NET Assembly with fox-pro Application through COM and SXS

29 Jan 2018 by Mohammed Abdulla (ABSS)

Step by step procedure to xcopy deploy .NET assembly into fox-pro application

DART2 Prima Plus - Tutorial 4 - OOPS

31 Jul 2018 by ThatsAlok

Object Oriented Programming in DART

JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript: Chapter 2

13 Sep 2018 by raddevus

JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript

Testing using Newman on TFS with Docker

18 Oct 2018 by Santosh Vijay Patil

Continuous Testing using Newman (Postman) on TFS 2017 with Docker

Downloading Podcasts from Changelog

8 Nov 2018 by Philipp_Engelmann

Due to busy lives in the 21st century, finding time to learn about new topics and keeping up to date with technological trends becomes more and more difficult.

Creating a Turing Machine in Rust

30 Nov 2018 by Philipp_Engelmann

In this series, I am going to rewrite the Turing machine I wrote in Creating a Turing machine in Python.

Dynamic and Configurable Availability Zones in Terraform

11 Dec 2018 by Dave Kerr

Dynamic and Configurable Availability Zones in Terraform

[TinyERP: SPA for Enterprise Application] Handle Error/ Validation

21 Dec 2018 by tranthanhtu.vn

[TinyERP: SPA for Enterprise Application] Handle Error/ Validation

Complete Guide to Install SharePoint in a Three Server Farm using AutoSPInstaller

14 Feb 2019 by Melick

This is a complete guide to install SharePoint in a three server farm using AutoSPInstaller

MebhiChokiDAR – Tweet Sentiment Analysis and More Using Microsoft Flow

22 Mar 2019 by Rajat-Indiandotnet

How to do sentiment analysis using few clicks and see live graphical representation using Power BI live feed

Indian Prime Minister 2019 Live Poll – Analysis using Microsoft Form, Microsoft Flow and Power BI Live

30 Mar 2019 by Rajat-Indiandotnet

Live Poll – Analysis using Microsoft Form, Microsoft Flow and Power BI Live

LambdaTest Selenium Testing Tool Tutorial with Examples in 2019

9 Apr 2019 by Haseeb A. Basil

LambdaTest Selenium Testing Tool Tutorial with examples in 2019

Serialization of COM objects using MFC

17 Jan 2000 by Pierre Chalamet

A neat way to use MFCs built in serialization to store COM objects

13 Nov 2000 by Mukesh Gupta

Converts a lump of binary/text data to hex format.

CBSTRStream - A simple BSTR stream implementation

12 Apr 2001 by Morten Abrahamsen

CBSTRStream is a simple BSTR stream implemenation with some useful data type conversion functions.

Resolving Variants

16 Jul 2001 by Fabian von Romberg

Dereferincing and resolving Variants and IDispatch

A SOAP based COM+ component Stress Tool

30 Jul 2002 by davyuan

This tool parses a SOAP request and calls the COM+ component to stress test it.

IMSL® C# with Excel and VSTO: An Introduction and Walkthrough

7 Jan 2008 by Visual Numerics, Inc.

This document focuses on the combination of VSTO 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition.

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Effortless ActiveX Twain Scanning with Atalasoft’s DotTwain SDK

12 Jun 2009 by Richard Minerich

In general, .NET ActiveX Wrappers are painful to build and deploy. This is because there are a large number of steps involved in the building of signed .NET ActiveX Web Applications. In order to reduce the complexity of this problem, we’ve created a sample solution which works out of the box.

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VSS tool – mass unchecking

30 Mar 2010 by G. Filkov

VSS mass undo-checkout workaround.

VBE CreateToolWindow

5 Jan 2012 by Sam Gerené

Create a custom dockable window in the VBA editor.

The Explorer Imperative - Partie Trois

20 Mar 2012 by Jaxon7

Restoring UI Responsiveness FromContinuations (Asynch file IO)

Multimedia Transcoding Across Multiple Computers with LEADTOOLS

7 Jan 2013 by LEADTOOLS Support

The benefits of grid and distributed computing are well established and indisputable. However, implementing them can be a nightmare – converting audio/video files in separate chunks can result in video hiccups and out of sync audio – but not with LEADTOOLS!

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regsvr42: Generate SxS Manifest Files from Native DLLs for Registration-Free COM

17 Jun 2012 by fahadzukie

This is an alternative for "regsvr42: Generate SxS Manifest Files from Native DLLs for Registration-Free COM"

Fully Control Your Webcam in Your Web Browser with Dynamsoft

21 Sep 2012 by Dynamsoft

Capture images and video streams from your webcams in IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera.

Control Scanners & Webcams in JavaScript

11 Jan 2013 by Dynamsoft

Control Scanners & Webcams in JavaScript.

Image Scanning & Uploading in Web App

17 Jan 2013 by Dynamsoft

Image Scanning & Uploading in Web App

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Take a Photo from a Desktop Webcam and Upload in a Web Browser with Dynamsoft

21 Jan 2013 by Dynamsoft

Control web cameras or the built-in laptop webcams inside IE, Firefox and Chrome with JavaScript.

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RTSP Server Made Easy with LEADTOOLS

1 Nov 2014 by LEADTOOLS Support

RTSP Server Made Easy with LEADTOOLS

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Upload Scanned Images Multithreaded & Async in JS

15 Mar 2013 by Dynamsoft

The article will show you how to increase the efficiency of image uploading/downloading by embedding ImageCapture Suite.

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Spokes SDK 5-Minute Quick-Start Blog!

15 Mar 2013 by Plantronics

Spokes SDK 5-Minute Quick-start blog!

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Develop a Cross-Platform Document Imaging Web App

23 May 2013 by Dynamsoft

The article will show you how to develop a cross-platform document imaging solution that works with all mainstream browsers by using ImageCapture Suite.