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Structured-Filter - A jQuery UI Widget for Building Structured Queries

by Evoluteur

Structured-Filter is a generic Web UI for building structured search or filter queries. It is a full jQuery UI widget, supporting various configurations and themes.

Implementing Auto-tiling Functionality in a Tile Map Editor

by Colin Vella

This article presents an algorithm and data structures to implement auto-tiling as seen in RPG Maker, the Starcraft level editor, etc.

Many Questions Answered at Once — Collaboration between Windows Forms or WPF Windows

by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Popular question on Forms collaboration, also answered for WPF

[tut 8] Hand tool

by The Zakies

we would create Hand_tool to pan through the drawing form, and we would use a custom cursor of open and closed hands

Latest Articles

Understanding Windows Message Queues for the C# Developer

by honey the codewitch

Diving into some of the core plumbing behind the Windows operating system

A Fully Customizable Knob Control Without Images

by honey the codewitch

Add a flexible knob control to your .NET projects

PianoBox: An Interactive Musical Keyboard Control - MidiUI Part 1

by honey the codewitch

PianoBox is a customizable musical keyboard control for Windows Forms. This is the first part of MidiUI.

Gradient Color Picker

by gggustafson

This article presents a tool that provides developers with the ability to pick colors from a linear color gradient.

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Understanding Windows Message Queues for the C# Developer

22 Jul 2020

honey the codewitch

Diving into some of the core plumbing behind the Windows operating system

.NET

All-Topics

Win32

A Fully Customizable Knob Control Without Images

17 Jul 2020

honey the codewitch

Add a flexible knob control to your .NET projects

PianoBox: An Interactive Musical Keyboard Control - MidiUI Part 1

12 Jul 2020

honey the codewitch

PianoBox is a customizable musical keyboard control for Windows Forms. This is the first part of MidiUI.

Gradient Color Picker

5 May 2020

gggustafson

This article presents a tool that provides developers with the ability to pick colors from a linear color gradient.

tools

GUI

How to Write Fully Type Safe E2E Tests with Cypress using TypeScript

16 Jan 2020

Tomáš Růt

This article describes how to create a test project that allows you to both write and fully debug in TypeScript source files.

Creating a Console Based Window for Debugging

21 Apr 2019

Michael Haephrati

This article will show how to selectively add a Console window to Win32 or even MFC programs for debugging purposes.

Getting startet with OpenGL/OpenTK in MONO/.NET for serious applications

26 Mar 2019

Steffen Ploetz

Check OpenGL as a basis for appealing applications, that are not necessarily games.

Auto-repeat Button in 10 Minutes

31 Oct 2018

Adam Zgagacz

Simple WinForms auto-repeat button in a few lines

Abstract of the text rendering with OpenGL/OpenTK in MONO/.NET

27 Oct 2018

Steffen Ploetz

Give an brief overview of text rendering options for OpenGL/OpenTK especially for MONO/.NET.

Graphical BinaryTrees

7 Oct 2018

Mojtaba Hosseini

A graphical binary tree. Features: add, remove, or search for a node. Recursive algorithm has been used

ColorPicker - a jQuery UI Widget

27 Apr 2018

Evoluteur

A web color picker which looks like the one in Microsoft Office 2010

Event Calendar for an ASP.NET MVC Application

5 Feb 2018

Stas Wolski

The article explains how to integrate dhtmlxScheduler, an AJAX-based, interactive event calendar, in your ASP.NET MVC application.

Structured-Filter - A jQuery UI Widget for Building Structured Queries

12 Apr 2017

Evoluteur

Structured-Filter is a generic Web UI for building structured search or filter queries. It is a full jQuery UI widget, supporting various configurations and themes.

DataGridView with formula support

14 Jan 2017

Miguel Diaz Kusztrich

Custom DataGridView that allow you to add formulas to cells

Yes, I Know, But I Still Want a GUI for my Windows Service!

2 Jan 2017

Tim Bomgardner

There are lots of reasons why you might want an interface for your Windows Service. Here's how!

Hybrid Cross-Platform Applications: Approach to Using Cocos2d-x on Top of Native iOS and Android Components

5 Oct 2016

YevheniyK

The article describes a general approach to using Cocos2d-x on top of native components and relevant coding specifics for Cocos2d-x, iOS and Android.

Python's Hand in Redirecting Command Output Over the Network

26 Jul 2016

Zehaie M. Hailu

Python lends itself to the development of multi-threaded GUI and network applications.

MVVM for Beginners

19 Jul 2016

Super Lloyd

Introduction to MVVM for absolute beginners

Simple Cryptography Demo

29 Jun 2016

TimMackey

A simple demonstration of public key cryptography and a character substitution encryption method.

Concurrent Power and Performance Analysis on Android

15 Apr 2016

Android on Intel

With some of the new features available in Intel® VTune™ Amplifier 2016 Update 1 it is now relatively easy to obtain simultaneous capture of power and performance data on an unplugged Android device.

Android

GUI

An Introduction to XCB Programming

5 Apr 2016

Matt Scarpino

Developing Low-Level Linux Applications with XCB (X protocol C-language Binding)

Dynamic Modules with Prism and the Modern UI for WPF Toolkit

23 Mar 2016

Rubén Hinojosa Chapel

Prototype for a plugin architecture based on the Prism Library and the Modern UI for WPF (MUI) toolkit

OpenGL in Python with TKinter

25 Jan 2016

Samuel Teixeira

Why simple if we can be complex?

Reflections on a GUI Toolkit Based on OpenGL/OpenTK in MONO/.NET for Serious Applications

24 Jan 2016

Steffen Ploetz

Check OpenGL as a basis for appealing applications, that are not necessarily games.

Enhanced Scrollbar

2 Oct 2014

Adam Zgagacz

WinForms Scrollbar with enhanced properties, graphical bookmarks and value tooltips.

MVVM Pattern Made Simple

24 Sep 2014

Nick Polyak

This article gives an overview of MVVM pattern, its usage and advantages

Using some resources, timers and COM ports in wxWidgets

4 Sep 2014

Andres Cassagnes

wxWidgets resources examples and COM port communication.

Introduction to wxWidgets GUI programming with wxSmith

11 Aug 2014

Andres Cassagnes

A basic guideline to start with GUI designing with wxWidgets

A Software Virtual Keyboard for Your WPF Apps

25 Jul 2014

JamesHurst

Walks through the creation of an on-screen virtual keyboard for entering non-ASCII chars

Basic WPF Way to Implement and Include Animation in XAML

5 May 2014

Gerald Gomes

This article will make an attempt to describe a basic way to start implementing animation in WPF.

Programming Xlib with Mono Develop - Part 1: Low-level (proof of concept)

21 Jan 2014

Steffen Ploetz

How to call native X11 API from Mono Develop C# ending up in a very little application.

Implementing a Flowchart with SVG and AngularJS

21 Jan 2014

Ashley Davis

Documents my experiment building a flowchart with web technologies.

Programming Xlib with Mono Develop - Part 2: Athena widgets (proof of concept)

14 Sep 2013

Steffen Ploetz

How to call native Xt API from Mono Develop C# ending up in a very little Athena widget application.

How to Build Powerful Search Forms

21 May 2013

Xomega Team

A design pattern and implementation example for building advanced search forms

Building an iPhone App using jQuery Mobile

18 Apr 2013

Stuart Wheelwright

Step-by-step explanation of building a Task Timer app using web technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and jQuery Mobile.

Asynchronous models and patterns

28 Mar 2013

Florian Rappl

An introduction to async / await, popular mistakes and solutions for asynchronous programming, as well as usages and benefits from using asynchronous programming. We will also discuss interesting patterns based on concurrency.

C# wrapper for Diablo III API

26 Sep 2012

Charles Ju

This is a C# wrapper for Diablo III API. The project include the wrapper API file and a GDI+ ownerdraw panel and a Winform demo. You can add any Diablo III tag to the left combobox.

Easy WinForms Accordion Control

9 Jul 2012

Alan Burkhart

Quick and dirty Accordion control for WinForms in about 50 lines of code.

A framework for comprehensive validation of user input

19 Jun 2012

A. Ganzer

Validation of input made as easy as possible for Windows.Forms, WPF, console-applications or any other purposes

Selection Overlay DLL

18 Jun 2012

Mark Kruger

API which shows a Selection Overlay and notifies the caller when it's resizing and notifies the final rectangle.

Creating Custom VSIX Project Templates Using an EMGU Example

27 Mar 2012

C_Johnson

A Complete Guide to Creating Deployable Custom Project Templates

The Explorer Imperative - Partie Trois

20 Mar 2012

Jaxon7

Restoring UI Responsiveness FromContinuations (Asynch file IO)

iPhone ComboBox

12 Mar 2012

Dor Alon

iPhone Safari like ComboBox

WPF / MVVM Real-Time Trading Application

10 Feb 2012

alexy.shelest

This project is a real-time multi-threaded trading application framework developed with WPF / MVVM

Custom TextBox with Watermark

25 Jan 2012

Chrene91

An article on how to write your own textbox with the option to use a watermark.

Custom list item layout

23 Jan 2012

Bart Dubois

Describe how to create list of items with custom defined layout resource

A Beginner's Guide to Silverlight

11 Dec 2011

Raj Lal

Chapter 11 of "Fun with Silverlight 4" More information at http://silverlightfun.com

Redirect Mouse Wheel Events to Unfocused Windows Forms Controls

16 Nov 2011

wborgsm

MouseWheelRedirector redirects mouse wheel events to the control under the mouse pointer in Windows Forms applications, regardless of the control being clicked/focused. Just attach the control to the Redirector, no additional coding is required.

A Graphics Drawing Tool by using C# and Winforms

23 Jun 2011

Lewis Liu L

A Graphics Drawing Tool by using C# and Winforms

Composite Application Reloaded

11 May 2011

Super Lloyd

A much simpler composite application library.

Programming User Interface in InstallScript

1 May 2011

Mark Babayev

This article describes advanced techniques for programming user interface in pure InstallScript projects.

Win32

GUI

installer

Making the CMFCLinkCtrl Class More Developer-Friendly

11 Jan 2011

Dennis Dykstra

Enabling font and formatting changes in the MFC hyperlink control

A Group of GroupBox

16 Dec 2010

tgis.top

CheckGroupBox, RadioGroupBox, CollapsibleGroupBox controls

WPF Custom Chrome Library

3 Dec 2010

gbahns

Create fully functional windows with custom chrome and caption buttons in WPF

Working with Custom Background Bitmaps in Dialog Boxes and Property Sheets

21 Nov 2010

Ingo A. Kubbilun

This article shows how to deal with controls that do not properly paint their background when using custom background bitmaps.

.NET TrayBalloon with hyper-links and fading

17 Nov 2010

PavPS

.NET C# TrayBalloon component with hyper-links and fading.

.NET

Windows

GUI

WPF Loading Splash Screen

9 Oct 2010

amr azab

Simple animated loading text, like last MSN messenger, show animation and transparent mask in WPF

Graphics2D Drawing on Windows Mobile

6 Oct 2010

guidebee

Code example on how to draw enhanced graphics 2D pictures on Windows Mobile

Implementing Auto-tiling Functionality in a Tile Map Editor

7 Sep 2010

Colin Vella

This article presents an algorithm and data structures to implement auto-tiling as seen in RPG Maker, the Starcraft level editor, etc.

Online Rich Text Editor with Download as Word Option

7 Sep 2010

Nitin Kunte

Online Rich Text Editor with Mail Merge and download file as Word option

Globalization in C# .NET Assemblies

13 Jul 2010

Anupam Banerji

Explains the .NET approach towards globalization, and introduces the tools and methods to successfully implement globalization.

C# Windows Aero Style Wizard Control

14 Jun 2010

User 6744868

I have been a fan of the Windows Aero styled windows since Aero was first introduced in Windows Vista. However, there is little to no Aero inclusion in the .NET Framework, so I set out to create my own Windows Aero themed form.