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Introduction to D3DImage

by Dr. WPF

.NET 3.5 SP1 is here! It's time to break out your DirectX skills. This article provides the information necessary to get started using a new DirectX interop feature in WPF called D3DImage.

Cryptographic Interoperability: Keys

by Jeffrey Walton

Import and export Cryptographic Keys in PKCS#8 and X.509 formats, using Crypto++, C#, and Java.

XColorSpectrumCtrl - a non-MFC color picker control that displays a color spectrum

by Hans Dietrich

XColorSpectrumCtrl displays a color spectrum that allows user selection, and provides APIs for color based on RGB and HSL color models.

XQueue - a non-MFC C++ class to manage an interprocess queue

by Hans Dietrich

XQueue implements a shared-memory first-in first-out (FIFO) queue, based on memory-mapped files, that works on all versions of Windows.

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C++14: CSV Stream based on C File API

by Shao Voon Wong

C++14: CSV Stream based on C File API to remove code bloat from STL File Streams

C++: Minimalistic CSV Streams

by Shao Voon Wong

Read/write CSV in few lines of code!

GFX Sidebar: Inside the ILI9341 Display Driver on the ESP-IDF

by honey the codewitch

Explore the inner workings of a highly capable IoT display driver for the ESP32

VRCalc++ Object Oriented Scripting Language :: Vincent Radio {Adrix.NT}

by Vincent Radio

VRCalc++ OOSL Engine is embeddable in any Delphi Application using Dynamic Packages

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C++

Introduction to D3DImage

11 Aug 2008

Dr. WPF

.NET 3.5 SP1 is here! It's time to break out your DirectX skills. This article provides the information necessary to get started using a new DirectX interop feature in WPF called D3DImage.

Cryptographic Interoperability: Keys

5 Jun 2008

Jeffrey Walton

Import and export Cryptographic Keys in PKCS#8 and X.509 formats, using Crypto++, C#, and Java.

XColorSpectrumCtrl - a non-MFC color picker control that displays a color spectrum

4 Apr 2008

Hans Dietrich

XColorSpectrumCtrl displays a color spectrum that allows user selection, and provides APIs for color based on RGB and HSL color models.

XQueue - a non-MFC C++ class to manage an interprocess queue

17 Jan 2005

Hans Dietrich

XQueue implements a shared-memory first-in first-out (FIFO) queue, based on memory-mapped files, that works on all versions of Windows.

Automatic Linguistic Indexing of Pictures (ALIP) By Artificial Neural Network Approach

10 Sep 2009

Chesnokov Yuriy

General idea of how the computer may be used to describe the image analyzing its pixel content known as ALIP

Control Message Bar

23 Oct 2008

Paul Vickery

Code to add a message bar to virtually any existing Windows control.

10 Mar 2010

Apriorit Inc, Ivan Romanenko

This article is the continue of the previously posted article Hide Driver. Some methods to detect hidden files and processes are described in it

XResFile - Files Stored in Resources: Part 2 - Zip Files

19 Jul 2007

Hans Dietrich

This series of articles is a step-by-step guide to reading files stored in your program's resources. Along the way I will present some non-MFC classes to assist you in reading text, binary, zip, and even encrypted files that have been compiled into your program as resources.

CProcessData : A template class to ease up SendMessage calls across processes

9 Jun 2005

Nish Nishant

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.

The Impossibly Fast C++ Delegates, Fixed

11 Mar 2017

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Derived work based on the article by Sergey Ryazanov "The Impossibly Fast C++ Delegates": this good solution is fixed and further developed using C++11.

Synchronization with Visual C++ and the Windows API

23 Mar 2021

Espen Harlinn

Choosing the right synchronization mechanisms when working with threads, thread-pools, and I/O Completion ports to create high performance asynchronous servers in C++

Guide to WIN32 Regions

10 Mar 2002

Paul M Watt

Guide to understanding how to create and use regions with the WIN32 SDK

IFS - an Internet File System implementation based on Web services and peer-to-peer technology

28 Sep 2002

Stoyan Damov

Internet File System from scratch - making web services and peer-to-peer technology work together to build a virtual file system

Succinct Guide to Floating Point Format For C++ and C# Programmers

12 Jan 2020

Shao Voon Wong

Floating Point Format For C++ and C# Programmers

Window Tabs (WndTabs) Add-In for DevStudio

11 Jul 2002

Oz Solomon

Window and File Management add-in for Visual C++

Combinatorial Explosion - A cautionary tale

22 Jan 2017

marcus obrien

My experience of the disastrous effects of a bad OO design. In particular what happens when combinatorial explosion arrives knocking on the door.

design-patterns

Constructing Fast Lexical Analyzers with RE/flex - Why Another Scanner Generator?

30 Apr 2020

Robert van Engelen

RE/flex for C++

tlock<>: Any C++ Object read/write Thread-safe Provider

13 Jul 2019

Michael Chourdakis

An easy locking class for shared/exclusive mutex functions with upgrade/downgrade

Authenticated Encryption

23 Mar 2009

Jeffrey Walton

Perform authenticated encryption with Crypto++.

X86/ARM Emulator

1 May 2014

codestarman

X86/ARM emulator written using C++ and assembler for the .NET environment.

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

26 May 2006

Michael Dunn

A tutorial on writing a shell extension that can be used on the Send To menu.

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

30 May 2006

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.

The ALXGrid Control Library.

10 Nov 2002

Alexey

The ALXGrid Control Library is a set of classes for management of data as a table.

Simple MLP Backpropagation Artificial Neural Network in C++ (Step by Step)

1 Mar 2019

AmirAslan Haghrah

Implementing a very simple Backpropagation Neural Network algorithm to approximate f(x) = sin(x) using C++

Using C Calling Convention Callback Functions in C# and VB - The Easy Way

13 Sep 2005

Jecho Jekov

Provides an easy way to use C calling convention callback functions in C# and VB

Automated IE SaveAs MHTML

4 Sep 2002

Stephane Rodriguez.

This article demonstrates how to automate IE's Save As functionality

FIXME - A Smart FIXME Macro

25 May 2009

Jochen Baier

Using this smart 'FIXME' macro will help you not to forget to fix your code.

Driver Loader [DLoad] from Scratch

2 Nov 2009

csrss

A tool for loading device drivers

64-bit Structured Exception Handling (SEH) in ASM

1 Nov 2017

Jose A Pascoa

Rolling up a practical solution.

Functional Programming in C++

23 Nov 2018

MehreenTahir

This article will show you an alternative way of using C++; How to write functional code in C++. You’ll see how to write more concise, safer, readable, reasonable code.

Create An Awesome WPF UI for Your C++/QT Applications

6 Jan 2020

The Ænema

This article will teach you how to create an amazing, clean and smooth WPF/Winform UI for your native application without using any complex, unsafe, ActiveXish methods, etc.

Pretty Good Initialization Library

25 Nov 2004

Thorsten Ottosen

Are you tired of filling data manually into STL containers? With the Initialization Library it gets a lot easier.

Getting Started with U++ 2020.2

14 Nov 2020

Miroslav Fidler

Installation and the first look at U++ platform

SAPrefs - Netscape-like Preferences Dialog

20 Apr 2002

C^hris L^osinger

A base class for a prefereneces dialog, similar to that used in Netscape

Screen Capture to the Clipboard

5 Apr 2001

Joseph M. Newcomer

How do you capture the bitmap of a window? This little download shows how, and places the bitmap on the clipboard.

Implement Phonetic ("Sounds-like") Name Searches with Double Metaphone Part VI: Other Methods & Additional Resources

19 Mar 2007

Adam Nelson

Surveys other phonetic matching techniques, and presents additional resources on the subject.

Unification of Text and Binary File APIs

9 Jan 2018

Shao Voon Wong

A portable and easy-to-use C++ file library to read and write structured data

Adding New Theme Variations to the MFC Ribbon (CMFCVisualManager)

1 Nov 2017

peterboulton

This article shows how to add new Ribbon themes to an MFC application built using the Visual Studio 'Feature Pack' (CMFCVisualManager) classes.

Passing strings between managed and unmanaged code

7 Jul 2017

Leif Simon Goodwin

ANNT : Convolutional neural networks

28 Oct 2018

Andrew Kirillov

The article demonstrates usage of ANNT library for creating convolutional ANNs and applying them to image classification tasks.

artificial-intelligence

Bring Your Animations to H264/HEVC Video

8 Aug 2020

Shao Voon Wong

Bring your animations to H264/HEVC video using C++ and C# with h/w acceleration

CSNTPClient - An SNTP Implementation

7 Apr 2000

PJ Naughter

A collection of freeware MFC classes to encapsulate the SNTP protocol.

50 OpenGL MFC Projects in One

10 May 2017

Petrov Vladimir

Former NeHe OpenGL Lessons adapted to MSVS-15 pro MFC in INICODE and the samples of the Joystick implementation

Nimbus SDK: A Tiny Framework for C++ Real-Time Volumetric Cloud Rendering, Animation and Morphing

27 Aug 2020

Carlos Jiménez de Parga

A reusable Visual C++ framework for real-time volumetric cloud rendering, animation and morphing

cam2web - Streaming camera to web as MJPEG stream

29 Aug 2017

Andrew Kirillov

The article describes cam2web project - an open source application aimed for streaming cameras as MJPEG streams.

Classes for computational geometry

26 Dec 2001

Chris Maunder

Some classes and utility functions for general computational geometry

MDISnap

29 Nov 2004

peterchen

Do your users a favor - add snapping edges to MDI child windows (or anywhere else).

Interoping .NET and C++ through COM

11 Jul 2017

Marius Bancila

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

CppEvent - How to Implement Events using Standard C++

13 Aug 2018

Shmuel Zang

This article shows how we can implement a thread-safe events (similar to .NET events) mechanism using the standard C++ library.

Hello C#! C++ at Your Service

23 Mar 2021

Espen Harlinn

A .NET Core client implemented in C# using TcpClient and a multi-threaded server implemented in C++

Using text callbacks in ListView Controls

26 Nov 1999

Chris Maunder

Shows how to use text callbacks in list controls

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

24 May 2006

Michael Dunn

A tutorial on writing a shell extension that provides custom drag and drop functionality.

How to dynamically link to oleacc.dll in Visual C++ .NET

9 Jun 2002

Chen Hao

How to control the dependancy on oleacc.dll in your Visual C++ .NET applications

Color Picker for WTL with XP themes

13 Jun 2002

Tim Smith

Color picker control for WTL applications including optional support for XP themes

A C++ SHA1 and MD5 Implementation with CryptoAPI

20 Sep 2012

Marius Bancila

This article proposes a C++ implementation for computing hashes (SHA1, MD5, MD4 and MD2) on Windows with the Microsoft CryptoAPI library.

A Custom STL std::allocator Replacement Improves Performance

6 Feb 2020

David Lafreniere

Protect against heap fragmentation faults and improve execution speed with a fixed block alternative to STL std::allocator

Creating Alternate GUI using Vector Art

6 Feb 2000

Keith Rule

Create visually complex, yet programmatically simple, non-rectangular GUIs

The alxBase classes for work with DBF files

5 Nov 2002

Alexey

The alxBase classes for work with dbf files.

XBreadCrumbBar - Draw breadcrumb trail with hyperlinks and HTML

7 Aug 2007

Hans Dietrich

XBreadCrumbBar is a windowless non-MFC class that allows you to display a breadcrumb trail as HTML text, with support for web links and APP: links.

How to Make Your Own Sandbox: Simple Sandbox Explained

2 Oct 2016

Eugene Balabanov

A tiny sandbox primer

Computer Vision Sandbox

4 Apr 2019

Andrew Kirillov

An open source application to acquire and process video from cameras

computer-vision

Asynchronous Multicast Delegates in Modern C++

3 Sep 2020

David Lafreniere

A C++17 standards compliant delegate library capable of targeting any callable function synchronously or asynchronously

Artificial Neural Network C++ Class

6 Mar 2021

Hatem Mostafa

Artificial Neural Network C++ class with two use cases: Counter and Handwritten Digits recognition

artificial-intelligence

PiRex – remote controlled Raspberry Pi based robot

29 Mar 2018

Andrew Kirillov

The article describes the PiRex robot controllable from either a web browser or a dedicate client application by using REST API.

TreeCtrl - A WTL Tree Control with Windows Vista Style Item Selection

9 Apr 2006

AlanW

A WTL tree control that supports Windows Vista style selection and multiple selection

Enhanced CListCtrl that accepts and filters dropped files and folders

6 Feb 2000

Stuart Carter

This article explains how to support file drag and drop in your CWnd-derived object

Drawing Barcodes in Windows Part 1 - Code 39

14 Jun 2002

Neil Van Eps

An article on drawing Code 39 barcodes to the screen or to the clipboard

CFormatDriveDialog - A wrapper class for the undocumented SHFormatDrive API function

27 Aug 2002

Nish Nishant

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

The OpenGL and GLUT: A Powerful Graphics Library and Utility Kit

10 Sep 2010

logicchild

An article that explains how to use this library

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

2 Aug 2017

Marius Bancila

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

An efficient way for automatic updating

11 Sep 2017

Michael Haephrati

A simple way to provide silent automatic updates with no server side code

Protecting .NET 4.+ Application By C++ [Unmanaged]

25 Mar 2018

The Ænema

Learn how to inject your 4.5 framework .NET application into a C++ unmanaged host application. Fast, Secure & without any extra tool or library.

A Simulator of a Universal Turing Machine

31 Mar 2017

JorgeLuisOrejel

This article describes the implementation and testing of a simulator of a universal Turing machine.

Comment/Uncomment Macro and more

18 May 2002

Adam Solesby

Useful Visual Studio macros to simplify commenting code

A Simple XML Validator, using VOLE

16 Apr 2007

Matt (D) Wilson

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

The SBJ MVC Framework - The Model, from Abstraction to Realization

20 Mar 2009

SBJ

A Model-View-Controller Framework that integrates with the MFC Doc/View architecture

ATL Windowless ActiveX Media Container

5 Mar 2009

Ernest Laurentin

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

Darwin Streaming Server 6.0.3 - setup, customization, plugin or module development, performance and load tests on 32 & 64 bit Redhat Linux

1 Sep 2009

Koushik Biswas

How to setup Darwin Streaming Server 6.0.3 on 32 or 64 bit Linux platforms, add custom functionality by developing plugins ("modules" as Apple calls them), and results of some performance and load tests I ran

Some Shocking Facts You Probably Didn't Want to Know about U++ Framework...

12 Nov 2020

Miroslav Fidler

...but I will tell you anyway.

Thread-safe std::map with the Speed of Lock-free Map

1 May 2017

AlexeyAB

Examples of use and testing of a thread-safe pointer and contention-free shared-mutex

Using the Web Service Callbacks in the .NET Application

2 Nov 2001

Roman Kiss

This article describes a .NET Application model driven by the Web Services using the Virtual Web Service Proxy (written in C#)

Share the Clipboard Using .NET Remoting

14 Oct 2002

Douglas Earl

Use .NET remoting to send the contents of your clipboard to another computer

Debugger for Arduino

18 Jan 2018

Jan Dolinay

Source level debugger for Arduino with GDB and Eclipse

Performance of a Circular Buffer vs. Vector, Deque, and List

12 May 2017

SeattleC++

Reports performance of C++ container classes on a variety of operations

C++: Windows Toast Notification

27 Jan 2021

Shao Voon Wong

Windows Toast Notification in C++

Taking Advantage of the Winlogon Notification Package

6 Jan 2001

Tony Truong

Taking advantage of the Winlogon Notification Package

CCeButtonST v1.2

18 Dec 2001

Davide Calabro

The reference control for MFC flat buttons with text and icons. Give your CE applications a professional look!

BUG in _com_util::ConvertStringToBSTR and _com_util::ConvertBSTRToString

16 Jul 2002

soptest

How MS implements them and why they do not want you to see the source code of those functions.

Mouse Gesture Add-in for MS DevStudio 6

8 Nov 2004

JaeWook Choi

An article on Mouse Gesture add-in for MS DevStudio 6.

The Ultimate Toolbox Application Skins

24 Aug 2007

The Ultimate Toolbox

The Ultimate Toolbox supports Office XP, Office 2003, and Classic application skins

Web Application - Advanced Hosting of WebBrowser Control with ATL

14 Oct 2009

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.

Custom URL Protocol for Invoking Application

6 Mar 2012

Chandrakantt

Registering a custom URL protocol for invoking an application

Asynchronous TCP Part 1

14 Sep 2018

bkelly13

Goal: Describe how asynchronous or non-blocking TCP code works

An autonomous roving vehicle Part 2 of n

19 Jan 2014

Mike Hankey

Part 2 in an on going series of article featuring an Autonomus Rover

microcontroller

Real Time Collaboration: A Quick C++ Windows Library with RDC Support

13 Feb 2019

Michael Chourdakis

Create collaborating projects easily

The Secrets of Google Chrome Credentials

30 Jan 2017

Michael Haephrati

Chrome stores all passwords and other credentials in an encrypted database but guess what: they can be retrieved by anyone with the proper knowledge. This article will show you how.

Generic Finite State Machine Revisited

15 Jun 2017

0xG00DC0FFEE

A better and much simpler implementation of Finite State Machine library for C++

XML tables with C++

16 Aug 2017

HoshiKata

How to use C++ to write XML files that can be consumed by OpenOffice or Excel as spread sheets..

Magic Formula of the Intersection Point of Two Line Segments

5 Dec 2019

Petrov Vladimir

Compact and simply Vector Formula of the Intersection Point of Two Line Segments

computational-geometry

Rodney - A Long Time Coming Autonomous Robot (Part 2)

16 Jan 2019

Phil Hopley

Second part in a series on a ROS (Robot Operating System) House Bot

WndImage Control

6 May 2002

peterchen

An easy-to-use control to display bitmaps (stretch, scale, tile)

Nullsoft Winamp Plug-in With Bitmapped UI, Docking and Restrictive Resizing

9 Jun 2000

James Spibey

An article discussing a Plug-in for Nullsoft Winamp which looks and behaves like the Winamp UI.

DCOM D-Mystified: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 6

8 May 2005

Brian C Hart

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

COM Macro Architecture Topology - Servers

24 Jul 2001

Joao C. Morais

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

Programmatically scrolling WebBrowser control from Visual C/C++

22 Aug 2001

Valters Vingolds

Article describes how to obtain IHTML interfaces to prrogrammatically scroll WebBrowser control from Visual C/C++.

24 Feb 2002

Kirill Panov

CDataGrid which was derived from CGridCtrl and used ADO for access to database.

Numeric Edit Control

2 Mar 2004

gUrM33T

How to subclass an edit control in MFC so that it accepts numeric values only

Vista Goodies in C++: Monitoring the Computer's Power Status

29 Dec 2006

Michael Dunn

How to use power status notifications to make your applications conserve power when necessary.

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

29 Jun 2009

Michael Dunn

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

Introduction to B-trees: Concepts and Applications

15 Aug 2014

Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

How to solve real-life problems using B-trees

Brief Introduction of a Continuous SQL-stream Sending and Processing System (Part 1: SQLite)

1 Jan 2021

Yuancai (Charlie) Ye

Application of SocketPro onto various databases for continuous inline request/result batching and real-time stream processing with bi-directional asynchronous data transferring

ANNT : Feed forward fully connected neural networks

28 Sep 2018

Andrew Kirillov

The article demonstrates usage of ANNT library for creating fully connected ANNs and applying them to different tasks.

artificial-intelligence

UWPLib: Include XAML Controls in Plain Win32

4 Feb 2020

Michael Chourdakis

A quick way to add UWP controls into plain Win32 apps for Windows 10

Designing Efficient Thread-Safe Reference Counting System

29 Jun 2017

EgorYusov

This article describes an efficient thread-safe reference counting system

Saving Drawing Contexts

27 Mar 2001

Joseph M. Newcomer

GDI objects selected in a DC can't be deleted - even when you call DeleteObject. This handy class makes these potential leaks a thing of the past.

WindowSnapshot - System Tray Utility To Surgically Capture Bitmaps of Windows/Controls On The Screen

13 Jan 2002

Lim Bio Liong

A System Tray Utility to precisely capture screenshots of Windows and Controls anywhere on the screen.

CRangeSlider - a Ctrl for Selecting a Range or Interval

8 Apr 2002

Jens Scheidtmann

Have you ever searched for a nice way to select a subrange from an interval? This may be the solution for you.

Rendering Textures with Alpha Channels and Color Key Transparency using a MatrixStack in Managed Direct3D

28 Jun 2005

Greg Rezansoff

This brief article describes how to use managed Direct3D to render texture bitmaps with alpha channels and transparency key colours onto vertices in C# with the aid of a MatrixStack.

Introduction to Creating Dynamic Types with Reflection.Emit: Part 2

1 May 2006

jconwell

Part 2 of an introduction to creating dynamic types. This article shows how to actually generate the methods in a dynamic type and how to call them.

COM in plain C, Part 7

8 Aug 2006

Jeff Glatt

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

Customizable Window Layouts

28 Jul 2008

Roland Trainor

A class to facilitate user defined dialog and window control layouts.

Basic Instrumentation and Profiling Framework for C++

9 Oct 2008

Paul M Watt

Macro based framework written for C++ applications that will allow basic instrumentation and profiling features

A Compile Time Data Structure Using Template Meta Programming

11 Dec 2008

Zeeshan Amjad

A Linked List as an example of a compile time data structure, and its implement with template meta-programming.

How to craft UDP packets and send them with WinPCap

21 Dec 2008

Emmanuel Herrera

An article describing how to create custom UDP packets and then send them through the Internet using WinPCap.

30 Sep 2009

Fiwel

Different ways to apply image filters.

TidyXML

6 Nov 2014

MrMikeJJ

Designed to take XML and make it easy to read, by adding appropriate line breaks and tab indentation.

Take a REST : A Windows C++ Library for Quick Web Interfaces Interaction

30 May 2019

Michael Chourdakis

A few functions and you can call various Web libraries like Google Drive

C++11 FreeRTOS GCC

12 Aug 2019

Piotr Grygorczuk

Enable C++11 multithreading features in GCC for FreeRTOS

multi-threading

Embedding AWK in a C program

5 Apr 2020

Mircea Neacsu

An AWK interpreter converted to a C-callable library

Arduino Nano Project Displaying Clock, Calendar and Internal and External Temperatures (Ver 1.2)

4 Sep 2020

Uzi Granot

Arduino Nano micro controller breadboard project with wiring diagram and source code. Development software by PlatformIO and Arduino Studio.

A Z80 Assembler

3 Oct 2020

Ben Hanson

Back in 1984, I wanted to write a Z80 assembler. At the time, this would have meant coding it in Z80 machine code, but due to the conveniences of modern technology, I have now done it in C++.

CreateRegionFromFile

10 Dec 2001

Yuriy Zaporozhets

Very primitive function that creates region from *.bmp files

Garbage Collection in .NET

17 Jun 2002

Chris Maunder

A quick introduction to Garbage collection in .NET using Managed C++

Visual Component Framework

25 Oct 2000

Jim Crafton

An Article describing working with the Visual Component Framework

CCreditsCtrl - An advanced About Box

7 Jan 2001

Marc Richarme

Yet another fully stacked control for displaying scrolling credits...

Microsoft Cabinet Templates

23 Jul 2004

Luuk Weltevreden

This article shows a set of templates created around the Microsoft Cabinet library. With these templates, you can extract cabinet files and cabinets stored in the resource section of a module. It can be easily extended to allow extraction through other means.

Session of low-level optimization of memory usage in C++ programs with total exposure

22 Jun 2009

Victor A. Milokum, Apriorit Inc

In this article, we will try to make our algorithms work faster using the methods of low-level optimization of memory allocation in C++.

Linear Equation Solver in C++

31 Oct 2013

Bill_Hallahan

Solves a large number of simultaneous equations

A USB HID Keyboard, Mouse, Touchscreen emulator with Teensy

13 Nov 2017

Elmue

This article describes how to use a Teensy 3.1 board from PJRC.com to simulate keyboard, mouse and touch screen USB HID devices at the same time. This allows to remote-control a computer through one USB cable.

Simple Multi-Request Web Crawler using U++

21 Sep 2020

Miroslav Fidler

Using asynchronous nature of U++ library HttpRequest class to implement parallel web crawler with GUI

Broadcast Burst Queue

7 Jun 2016

Marek Strihavka

BBQ - Writing highly scalable Windows Socket server

Fast Fourier Transform Caterpillar Method

3 Jul 2017

Alexander Semjonov

Developing fastest FFT implementation based on precompile tool using data driven approach

Chess Console Game in C++

25 Apr 2019

Jerome Vonk

Simple chess game, written in C++, that runs in a console. Made for didatic purposes and fun :)

dwl::fractalBrowser

17 Jan 2021

David O'Neil

Everybody Loves the Mandelbrot Set! Here's a browser for it!

PolyHook 2: C++17 x86/x64 Hooking Library

24 Jul 2018

stevemk14ebr

PolyHook v2 - the C++17 x86/x64 library supporting multiple methods of hooking

H264/HEVC Video Encoder for OpenGL

25 Jul 2020

Shao Voon Wong

H264/HEVC Video Encoder for recording OpenGL rendering

A Fixed Block Memory Allocator in C

24 Dec 2018

David Lafreniere

Unique allocator features improve performance and protect against heap fragmentation faults on any C or C++ project.

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

10 Jun 2019

thoughts-on-coding

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

JSON on Fire: JSON (C++) is a Blazing JSON Library that can Run on Low Memory Devices

22 Dec 2020

honey the codewitch

A JSON pull parser and a pooling in-memory tree library for modern IoT or even your PC

Introduction to Web Assembly with C/C++

8 Nov 2019

Joel Ivory Johnson

An introduction to web assembly using the C/C++ language, part 1. In this part, I introduce web assembly, walk you through setting up the development tools, and go through a couple of introductory programs.

Migrating ATL service applications to Visual C++.NET

30 Jul 2002

Vagif Abilov

Guidelines to migrate ATL-based Windows service application to Visual C++.NET

Adding Macro Scripting language support to existing MFC Application

18 Jul 2003

Ernest Laurentin

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

IBM WebSphere MQ with C#: GUI application that is both GET REQUEST/ PUT RESPONSE and PUT REQUEST/ GET RESPONSE

9 Nov 2005

Koushik Biswas

An article on synchronization of a GET REQUEST/ PUT RESPONSE MQ C# program and a PUT REQUEST/ GET RESPONSE MQ C# program.

Another Star Trek Game (The Retro One)

27 Aug 2008

BadKarma

The Star Trek game reworked, using a 2D retro look

Generic Picker Dropdown Control

12 Dec 2008

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer

A flexible easily overridable combo-box-alike control for choosing from a 2D array of options

Interactive 3D Spectrum Analyzer Visualization for Windows Media Player

17 May 2009

Carlo McWhirter

Interactive 3D Spectrum Analyzer for Windows Media Player using DirectX 9 and some light GPGPU.

Testing simple concurrent containers

25 Oct 2009

Valery Grebnev

This article illustrates simple approaches and test results when creating containers with concurrent flavor and running on a multi-core PC.

Arena Allocator, DTOR and Embedded Preallocated Buffer

25 Nov 2009

Mamasha Knows

Arena like memory management, embedding allocations inside Arena, DTOR, context thinking

Indoor Weather Station using Arduino

2 Feb 2010

carl morey

A complete weather station using Arduino 2009 and Visual Basic

Stencil Buffer Glows - Part 1

18 Nov 2010

JimRL

A glow effect achieved by leveraging the stencil buffer

Constants and Constant Expressions in C++11

11 Jul 2012

Mikhail Semenov

keywords: constexpr, constant, constant expression, user-defined literals, GCC 4.7.0

Partition Tables Explained

2 Nov 2012

Elias Bachaalany

An article describing the format of the partition table accompanied with a GUI demonstration tool.

Multi language on-screen keyboard using Windows keyboard DLLs

18 Dec 2012

Lars [Large] Werner

Windows has built inn support for a lot of keyboard languages, this class makes it possible to extract that info in an easy manner and present it to screen.

A Novice's Guide to the BeagleBone Platform and Software Development Using C++

8 Mar 2017

Eric D Schmidt

A crash course in working with the BeagleBone and its built-in A/D converter, GPIO, and I2C bus using C++

Code Obfuscation in 64-Bit Land

11 Dec 2016

Russ Osterlund

Code Obfuscation in 64-Bit Land

The Secrets of Firefox Credentials

30 Jan 2017

Michael Haephrati

Way to fetch stored credentials in more recent versions of Firefox

Parallel Scalable Burrows-Wheeler Transformation (BWT) Using Intel® Threading Building Blocks and OpenMP Libraries

2 May 2017

Arthur V. Ratz

This article is a practical guide on using Intel® Threading Building Blocks (TBB) and OpenMP libraries for C++ based on the example of delivering parallel scalable code that implements Burrows-Wheeler Transformation (BWT) algorithm.

TinyObfuscate - A small String Obfuscator

12 Oct 2017

Michael Haephrati

When you need encrypt/obfuscate strings in your program so that they don't just show up with a strings or hex tool when your executable is examined, this tool can be useful.

The Entity-Component-System - An Awesome Game-design Pattern in C++ (Part 1)

21 Nov 2017

Tobs88

This article is about the Entity-Component-System (ECS). It is a design pattern which allows you great flexibility in designing your overall software architecture.

Weiler-Atherton Algorithm in MFC

25 Feb 2018

Petrov Vladimir

Weiler-Atherton algorithm in MFC codes demo implementation

4K (2160p) resolution for PS1, PS2, PSP games

2 Aug 2020

Evgeny Pereguda

Clone of PCSX/PCSX2/PPSSPP emulator for Windows 10 on WPF/C# with "touch" control

Implementing Binary Communication Protocols in C++ (for Embedded Systems)

7 Oct 2020

Alex Robenko

Easy compile-time configurable implementation of binary communication protocols in C++11

Dark Corners and Pitfalls of C++

15 Aug 2019

SimbirSoft

C++: love and intrigue

Text to SVG Path Utility in U++

14 Nov 2020

Miroslav Fidler

Creating a simple utility for converting text to SVG path in U++

ScreenCapture: Single Header DirectX Library

1 Apr 2021

Michael Chourdakis

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

Adding Object Detection with TensorFlow to a Robotics Project

28 Apr 2019

Phil Hopley

In this article, we will add AI to an existing ROS (Robot Operating System) House Bot.

machine-learning

Toolset to Cross Compile/Remote Debug Raspberry from Windows Host

30 Jan 2020

fd9750

Overview of required tools to cross compile/build/remote debug C/C++ projects on a Windows host ( 10 ) for a Raspberry PI 3B

Using the Shell to Receive Notification of Removable Media Being Inserted or Removed

20 Nov 2002

Obliterator

Uses the poorly documented SHChangeNotifyRegister function to receive notification upon shell events

Robust C++: Initialization and Restarts

1 Jul 2020

Greg Utas

Structuring main() and quickly recovering from memory corruption

CStatic-derived histogram control

9 Jan 2000

Alexander Fedorov

A simple histogram control for displaying data

Developing MMC Snap-Ins using ATL

4 Jun 2001

Leon Finker

Describes how to add various Microsoft Management Console UI items using ATL

Using Skins Without MFC

17 Jul 2001

John Roark

A Simple Skinning Library

Offline Browser using WinInet, URL Moniker and MSHTML APIs

22 Mar 2005

Muhammad Sheraz Siddiqi

This article describes how to make an offline browser using Visual C++/Win32 APIs.

RSS Reader Plug-in for Internet Explorer

16 Jul 2007

PrafullaT

This is a toolbar for the Internet Explorer which shows information from RSS taken from the Internet.

Switching threads

16 Sep 2007

Rajasekharan Vengalil

How to switch the thread that a routine is running on.

Using Lua and luabind with Ogre 3d

3 Jan 2008

Nigel Atkinson

An article on using Lua via luabind with Ogre 3d, an open source 3d graphics engine

Selection Rectangle: An Implementation in "Explorer style" :)

28 Jan 2010

Eugen Podsypalnikov

A semi-transparent selection rectangle

Forward/Backward Code Navigation with the Mouse Thumb Buttons Inside Visual Studio 2010 (C++, Visual Basic, F#)

7 Feb 2010

Jochen Baier

Addin to navigate in your code using the thumb buttons of your mouse

Parallel Radix Sort on the GPU using C++ AMP

9 Feb 2013

Debdatta Basu

Examine the various approaches to implementing Radix sort on the GPU

Email Search Engine

11 Jan 2015

SarmadAsghar

Building on My SQL Storage Engines and APIs to Conduct Complex Analysis Using SQL Query Language: Part 5

Building and configuring OpenSSL in Visual Studio (MSBuild).

30 Mar 2015

Eugene Sadovoi

Integrating third party tools and libraries into Visual Studio (MSBuild) configuration environment.

Variadic Delegates

13 Apr 2015

Anton Chibisov

This tutorial showcases how to implement C++ delegates which are capable of being bound to methods and functions having arbitrary signature, i.e., any number and type of parameters and return value.

Using the Windows Photo Import API - Windows.Media.Import

4 Jun 2017

Axel Rietschin

Import photos & videos directly from smart phones and digital cameras using the Windows Photo Import API, for Windows Universal Apps and Classic Win32 applications on Windows 10 and beyond.

Execution Extension Method

19 Apr 2016

Clifford Nelson

A set of extension methods to support conditional Expression Bodied Functions and Properties

Sharing Objects Between Threads in C++, the Safe and Easy Way

14 Jun 2016

Noah L

Beware the data race sneak attack.

Enumerating All Cycles in an Undirected Graph

9 Sep 2018

Philipp Sch

Finding a fundamental Cycle Set forming a complete basis to enumerate all cycles of a given undirected graph

C++ State Machine with Asynchronous Multicast Delegates

23 Oct 2019

David Lafreniere

A framework combining state machines with asynchronous multicast delegates

Event Tracing for Windows: Reducing Everest to Pike's Peak

8 Jun 2017

David A. Gray

Historically, ETW has been portrayed as having a very steep learning curve, along the lines of the effort required to summit Everest. Realizing its potential value, I set about to reduce the effort to that required to summit Pike's Peak.

Vga Text Mode: To Hell and Back

10 May 2018

Member 13737597

This article shows how to enter vga text mode and return from it on Windows 7

Singular Values Decomposition (SVD) In C++11 By An Example

30 Dec 2018

Arthur V. Ratz

In this article, we will demonstrate how to compute full SVD of a given matrix A and discuss about the code in C++11 implementing the full SVD computation by using simple iteration and Jordan-Gaussian methods.

Asynchronous Multicast Callbacks in C

29 Jan 2019

David Lafreniere

Simplify passing data between threads with this portable C language callback library.

Rodney - A Long Time Coming Autonomous Robot (Part 5)

7 Apr 2019

Phil Hopley

Fifth part in a series on a ROS (Robot Operating System) House Bot

A Modern Direct2D Color Picker for Plain Win32

2 Jun 2020

Michael Chourdakis

C++, Direct2D, one function and you got a nice picker

Falling Blocks on an Arduino Nano with 4x 8x8 dot Matrix

19 Aug 2020

Christ Kennedy

Here's how I made a game of Falling Blocks with my Arduino Nano, a clothes hanger and some duct tape

Using C++ to Simplify the Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) API - Part 1

30 Aug 2020

Espen Harlinn

Easy to use C++ wrapper classes for the Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) C API

The Oracle Call Interface (OCI) and ODP.Net - Part 1

23 Mar 2021

Espen Harlinn

Proven techniques for fast Oracle Database access using .NET 5.0 and native C++

Rodney - A Long Time Coming Autonomous Robot (Part 8)

3 May 2019

Phil Hopley

Eighth part in a series on a ROS (Robot Operating System) House Bot

Rodney - A Long Time Coming Autonomous Robot (Part 3)

17 Jan 2019

Phil Hopley

Third part in a series on a ROS (Robot Operating System) House Bot

A Command Line Interface (CLI) Framework

4 May 2021U

Greg Utas

Automating help, validating user input, running scripts...

The CODBCDynamic class

14 Mar 2000

Tom Archer

A class to dynamically read data from any ODBC data source

Using DDX and DDV with WTL

31 Jan 2001

Less Wright

This article will show you how to make use of WTL’s DDX/DDV implementation using a real world example.

A set of Network Management Classes

21 Jan 2002

Carlos Antollini

A set of classes that make it easy to work with Network Management.

Part II: Web & Window Form Unification: Synchronous And Asynchronous Event Handling For Controls Created At Runtime

13 Jul 2002

Marc Clifton

This is the second part of a multipart article on unifying web and window form application development. This part demonstrates synchronous and asynchronous event handling of GUI control events, abstracting the implementation of web/window forms to be technology independant.

Implementing custom collection classes with MC++

12 Jun 2002

Nish Nishant

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

Windows Explorer wildcard selection shell extension

28 Sep 2002

Matthijs Hollemans

A shell extension to allow you to select files based on a wildcard search

Single Instance Application

31 Oct 2002

Justin Hallet

An example approach to solving the single instance application problem with command line argument passing.

Folder Tab Control for Windows MFC (like MS Excel)

5 Oct 2003

Lynn McGuire

Folder Tab control for Windows MFC (like MS Excel).

Hosting .exe Applications into a Dialog

9 May 2007

Sherin Iranimose

An article on launching and embeding .exe applications into a dialog-based application

Implementing a std::map Replacement that Never Runs Out of Memory and Instructions on Producing an ARPA Compliant Language Model to Test the Implementation

14 Dec 2008

Roy, Philippe

An article on improving STL containers to cache to disk in order to lift memory limitation issues.

Introduction to Remote Administration and Monitoring Systems

21 Oct 2009

csrss

Introduction to Remote Administration and Monitoring Systems

Ask for, and receive, change notifications from a printer

20 Apr 2010

David Crow

This article is a brief discussion on how to use FindFirstPrinterChangeNotification

Column based selection in rich edit control.

22 May 2012

Mahfuzur Rahman.

Column based selection in rich edit control.

Interval arithmetic using round-to-nearest mode (part 1 of n)

27 Oct 2015

Daniel Pfeffer

A faster method for performing interval arithmetic

Joystick Win32 and MFC Projects

19 Dec 2016

Petrov Vladimir

Joystick Win32 and MFC Projects Templates ready to use

Named C++ Function Parameters, Yet Another Approach

11 Mar 2017

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Rather insane yet simple approach to the named function parameters

Building IoT devices: from Maker prototypes to Custom PCB manufacturing

6 Dec 2017

Scott Tattersall

Building a custom-designed PCB for an Internet of Things (IoT), “connected” device from scratch

Writing MATLAB to C converter: Parser and Code Generator created with Bison/Flex

21 Nov 2017

Shmuel Safonov

Using Bison/Flex for creation of the code convertor from subset of MATLAB language to C code. The converter is used for building native applications and libraries from MATLAB code.

Compiling Your C Code to .NET - Part 2

14 Dec 2019

Alexandre Bencz

With this new OrangeC/C++ compiler back-end, you can compile your C code to .NET.

Creating a .cab Archive from One or More Files

24 Aug 2018

Michael Haephrati

The MakeCab tool is built-in in Windows but using it to create a .cab archive is a bit tricky. Why not write a small program that will do that for you?

Sending WhatsApp Messages from a Win32 C++ Program - Part 1

3 Nov 2018

Michael Haephrati

A simple way for sending WhatsApp messages to an individual or to a group in C++

x64 Memory Access Monitor

23 Apr 2019

Member 13737597

This article shows how to automatically catch memory access (read /write) for some memory region and log these changes into file

A Monitored, Memory Mapped std::allocator for Mass Data Storage in STL Container

26 May 2020

stefan stammberger

A novel allocator implementation for managing huge sets of data in STL's std:: containers for Windows operating systems

operating-systems

A Remote Pump Monitor over WiFi

5 Nov 2020

honey the codewitch

Explore an Arduino based IoT web server and UDP multicaster for monitoring a remote water pump

Brief Introduction of a Continuous SQL-stream Sending and Processing System (Part 2: MySQL)

4 Apr 2021

Yuancai (Charlie) Ye

Continuous SQL-stream Sending and Processing System

Debugging Live Systems

26 Aug 2020

Greg Utas

No breakpoints or drooling all over the console!

27 Dec 1999

Jason Troitsky

A CStatic class that gently fades text into view

Custom Captions (Including Multi-line Captions)

15 Jul 2000

Dave Lorde

Simple customised Window captions, including multi-line captions

Process Microsoft® Outlook® Messages Automatically (via App. or a NT Service).

28 Apr 2001

Dan Madden

An article showing you how to process (Outlook®) E-mail messages automatically by using an MFC dialog or NT service.

DCOM D-Mystified: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 5

11 Aug 2000

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.

A Programming Model to Use a Thread Pool

30 Sep 2000

Sherwood Hu

A class to manage the thread pool

COM Mailslots - Designing asynchonous COM components for VB

10 Apr 2002

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.

Snappable tool windows that auto-hide

20 Feb 2002

Jens Nilsson

An article on the framework for implementing snapping windows.

Command routing beyond a split frame

16 Jul 2002

Bartosz Bien

Command routing and UI updates for inactive views in a split frame.

Pluggable Components using Component Categories - Part II

18 Sep 2003

Zac Howland

An article on using component categories to create pluggable components

Add "Select All" to parameter lists in SQL Reporting

9 Mar 2005

Sven Cipido

How to add a "select all" option to your parameter lists in SQL Reporting.

SQL-server-2000

MFC Resources Fallback

11 Jul 2007

Giuseppe Marazzi

A small tip for implementing a fallback resources process with MFC that's useful for localization

The Ultimate Grid FAQ

5 Oct 2007

The Ultimate Toolbox

A selection of frequently asked questions submitted by users of the Ultimate Grid

An extendable report editor

3 Sep 2008

RockmanZero

An extendable report editor. You can simply add your own controls without recompiling the program or writing annoying plug-ins.

virtual-machine

Changing your Windows audio device programmatically using VC++

23 Dec 2008

odlumb

How to launch and manipulate applets programmatically.

A WTL Hunspell-checked Edit Control

21 Jun 2009

_oti

A WTL Hunspell-checked edit control.

13 Jul 2009

Hou Tianze

A CStatic derived class that wraps the cool FX effect by dswigger.

JException - Have Meaningful Exceptions in C++

31 Aug 2009

Yalon Lotan

C++ exceptions with embedded stack trace and cause.

UI Control Data Spy

1 Oct 2009

Nishad S

A tool for capturing data from controls like TreeCtrl, ListCtrl, ComboBox, ListBox, etc.

Ownerdraw listctrl with transparent background and customized items image on WinCE

5 Jan 2012

Pansion_chen

Ownerdraw listctrl with transparent background and custermized items image on WinCE.