Dev

Great Reads

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.

Custom Controls in Win32 API: Scrolling

by Martin Mitáš

How to support scrolling within your controls.

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.

Latest Articles

Simplifying .NET Application Logging: Seamless Integration with Azure Log Analytics and CI/CD Automation

by Daan Acohen

Learn how to simplify .NET application logging by integrating with Azure Log Analytics and automating the process using GitHub Actions.

C# in Browser via WebAssembly (without Blazor)

by Nick Polyak

In this article I describe how to write C# code that runs in Browser.

Small function to replace characters with SQL Server

by Wendelius

A small function utilizing CTE to replace undesired characters from a string

gRPC, .NET 8.0 and Kestrel in Easy Samples

by Nick Polyak

I demonstrate the samples adding gRPC capabilities to Kestrel ASP.NET server and testing gRPC services with various clients.

All Articles

top

Dev

The Unwanted Inheritance

27 Jul 2013 by Giovanni Scerra

Inheritance and code reuse

Design

Dev

OOP

SAL 2 Function Parameters Annotations

16 Apr 2015 by Daniel Rose

Explanation of the different SAL annotations for function parameters for Visual Studio Code Analysis

VisualC++

Dev

AccessControl.FileSystemRights Permissions Table

31 Jan 2015 by Ryan Scott White

A quick C# reference for FileSystemRights enumeration in table format.

Storage Sizes and Other Useful Properties: Windows, C++, and C Variable Types

28 Jun 2016 by David A. Gray

A reference chart that doubles as the engine behind a data structure mapper

Visual C/C++ Macro and Compiler Switch Cheat Sheet

4 Apr 2019 by David A. Gray

Here I present a cheat sheet that I assembled for my own use, in the hope that others may as well find it useful.

Keyboard Map for Specialized Font Faces

14 May 2019 by David A. Gray

Use this reference table to expedite the use of specialized fonts, such as Wingdings.

7-Zip for Gearheads

29 Dec 2018 by David A. Gray

When the command-line help falls short, we improvise.

Contest. Yet another testing framework

7 Jan 2016 by Alejandro Miralles

Introducing contest. The new testing framework for .NET.

strftime Substitution Token Viewer

20 Jun 2018 by David A. Gray

This article demonstrates every documented strftime substitution token, and provides a tool to generate your own list for your platform.

Complete (so far) Enumeration of ASN.1 TAGs

9 Jul 2021 by ergohack

I found even the official documented lists of ASN.1 TAGs incomplete. So after scrounging around I was able to piece together a complete list (so far).

Dev

ASN.1

Windows Clipboard Formats

7 Mar 2018 by Jochen Arndt

An overview of clipboard and Drag & Drop object formats

Windows

Dev

clipboard

Useful Reference Books

25 Sep 2016 by Chris Maunder

A list of popular reference books sent in by the readers of CodeProject

C++