DP Line approximation algorithm is a well-known method to approximate 2D lines. It is quite fast, O(nlog_2(n)) for a n-points line and can drastically compress a data curve. Here, a fully OOP implementation is given.

A C++ OCX for drawing pictures on any window of your Application

by Romout

The control overwrites the windows event handler to overtake the paint event.

A C++ Plug-in ThreadPool Design

by Alex C. Punnen

The Command Pattern and Chain of Responsibility for implementing a plug-in Thread Pool library.

A Checkbox Tree Control for Use in Filtering Selections

by Magerusan Grigore Cosmin

An ATL filter control

A CHexEdit Control - For HEX and DEC number input

by Luo Pei'en

An article on how to write an Edit control used for HEX and DEC number input.

A class based on CFileDialog that provides easy image preview

by Rob Manderson

Browse your images with a file open dialog and see what you've selected

A Class for Getting NetCard Adapter Information

by YangTze

This class can be used to get netcard adapter information such as MAC,IP,DHCP

A class for the automation of simple computer tasks using keybd_event and CreateProcess

by Ankit Tandon

This class uses keybd_event and CreateProcess to create a script processor and executor. The script can be used for automation of daily tasks such as opening and checking mail accounts, automating the functionality of software etc. This will work with any app which can take input via keyboard.

A Class to Combine Slider Control and Progress Bar Windows

by Cem KARACA

An article on how to combine Slider Controls and Progress bar into one class using custom draw

A class to download files from the net

by Chris Maunder

A simple class to ease the task of downloading files from the net

A class to encapsulate the basics of overlapped I/O

by Rob Manderson

Overlapped I/O - practice

A class to make it easy to enumerate folder contents

by Rob Manderson

Enumerating folder contents the reusable way

A Class to Save and Load Listbox Data

by Kuniva

CListBoxSafe is a class that can save data from a listbox to file and load data from a file into a listbox.

A class to synchronise thread completions

by Rob Manderson

Synchronising thread completion the easy way

A class wrapper for Matlab(c) ActiveX Control

by Jonathan de Halleux

Eases up the use of the Matlab(c) COM server...

A closer look at XML Data Binding, including a product appraisal

by Sprotty

An introduction to XML Data Binding, and a review of a number of leading products.

A color picker dialog with a color dropper like Photoshop and Frontpage 2000

by jack Mesic

A color picker and dropper that extends the standard Windows dialogs to behave like Photoshop or Frontpage 2000

A COM component offering Internet download utilities

by Philipos Sakellaropoulos

A COM component written in C++ that offers functions for multiple parallel downloads, Internet cache access, URL and path resolving.

A ComboBox using XML as dictionary

by Johnson Zhou

Create a new combobox which can fill itself automatically using a dictionary in XML

A compact filename edit control

by Martyn Pearson

An edit control that encapsulates compacting of filenames

A Comparative Study of Java and C#

by gspatwal

A brief article comparing and contrasting the features of Java and C#.

A complete C# Screensaver that does double-buffering on multiple monitor systems!

by Garry Freemyer

Example screensaver in source code. Does a mini-preview too!

A Complete Screen Saver Framework Using MFC

by Chen Su

complete screen saver framework with an installation program.

A completely customizable Google API Web Client

by Vasudevanms

A web based Google Web services client using ASP.NET.

A Context Menu Handler for Windows Users That Can't Let Go

by Shaun Harrington

A context menu handler that makes it easier to work with paths, command windows, and program arguments from within Explorer.

A cool skin GUI with shadow border

by James Duy Trinh (VietDoor)

A cool skin GUI with shadow border; display images (supports many formats) on dialogs, buttons, listboxes.

A Custom Block Allocator for Speeding Up VC++ STL

by Joaquín M López Muñoz

A block allocator for use with STL containers that greatly improves speed in programs doing massive data insertions and extractions.

A Decimal Class Implementation

by Marc Clifton

Use this class when high precision is required in basic numerical operations.

A DirectX Game: Quadrino

by Paul M Watt

An interpretation of a popular falling block game implemented with DirectX that attempts to avoid any copyright infringement.

A Doc/View Dialog, supports Dynamic Split

by shudingbo

You can arbitrarily add DOC/View, and all the view can be resized.

A Fast Mostly User Mode Inter-Process Mutex

by Olan Patrick Barnes

Win32 Mutexes are slow and cumbersome, this is a fast and nifty alternative!

A Fast Version of Conway's Game of Life with Thread and DirectX Draw

by Jerry Jiang

A fast version of Conway's Game of Life with thread and DirectX draw

a File Switch Tabbar for Source Insight

by Simon.W

Inject a File Switch Tabbar to Source Insight, which like uEdit or Visual Studio

A first look at the Windows Web Services API

by Nish Nishant

The article shows how to interop between a WCF service and a WWS client, and also how to rewrite the WCF service in WWS retaining compatibility with existing WCF clients.

A flicker issue in MDI applications

by Andrzej Markowski

Provides a fix to the flicker problem in MDI applications.

A Float Tree Control like the Parameter List Control in Visual Studio

by Johnson Zhou

In Visual Studio, you will find an auto-completion list when you type your code in the IDE. This is a similar control but using a tree.

A focus-sensitive EditBox Class

by DavidRipple

Change the back color of an edit box when it gets the focus, and back to another color when focus is lost

A Friendly Approach to COM Basics

by Renjith Ramachandran

This article will help you to approach COM basics in a friendly manner.

A Functor that deletes Pointers from STL Sequence Containers

by Nemanja Trifunovic

A policy based deletion functor that can be used with for_each function.

A general purpose NT Service Class

by Stefan Voitel

Build a NT Service

A general purpose ruler control

by mystro_AKA_kokie

This is a demostration of a general purpose ruler control in use. It consist of 2 apps and the ActiveX control itself. Control code is included.

A generalized CUpdateUI based on a policy design

by Voinkov

A policy based implementation of UI updating that accumulates and executes UI changes.

A Generational Garbage Collector in C++

by @deel@bbas

A Garbage Collector framework that is based upon Generational Copying

A Generic Approach to Debug Tracing and Logging

by maskisland

A generic tracing library implementation.

A generic C++ template class to implement a smart pointer

by Binoy

Writing a generic C++ template class to implement a smart pointer for automatic deletion of memory

A Generic C++ Thread Class

by Arun N Kumar

This article presents a class that can either be readily used as a Container for existing worker threads or can be enhanced(inherited) for OO Style programming

A Generic Open-address Hash Table Implementation with an STL-like Interface

by Leandro T C Melo

A generic standalone STL-like implementation of a hash table that uses either linear probing or double hashing as the collision resolution mechanism.

A Generic Pipeline Framework for C++

by theidealist

Presentation of a generic, extendable C++ pipeline framework

A Generic Well Control (ColorPicker, ArrowPicker and more)

by Tao Zhu

Provides and demonstrates the use of a generic "well" control that can be used to facilitate color-pickers, hash-style selectors amongst others

A generic, reusable, and extendable matrix class

by Yap Chun Wei

An article describing the use of a generic matrix class and how it is implemented.

A Gradient Static Control

by Irek Zielinski

A Static control will gradient

A Gradient Static Control

by Ilya Solnyshkin

A Static control with a gradient

A Guide to WIN32 Clipping Regions

by Paul M Watt

Guide to understand the three different types of clipping regions, and how they relate to the Device Context

A heap or shared memory based mutex pool manager

by Feng Xu

An article on a mutex pool manager based on heap or shared memory.

A Helper Class for Calling Invoke

by Ranjan Banerji

SRComHelper makes it easier to call invoke specially in cases where there are several calls to Invoke

A helpful way to use the FlagsAttribute with enumerations

by remarkpk11

Bitwise operations with enumerations.

A High Performance TCP/IP Socket Server COM Component for VB

by Len Holgate

Although socket based TCP/IP servers using IO Completion Ports are often written in C++, it's sometimes useful to write such a server in Visual Basic.

A homebrewed lightweight scheduler

by pradeep shivadasan

timer based task scheduler

A Java Language IDE

by mystro_AKA_kokie

This is a partially implemented IDE for the Java platform.

A light stack implementation for Win32

by Daniel Junges

A simple and very small stack implementation for any type.

A linked list collection class in MC++

by sultan_of_6string

The .NET ArrayList class provides "dynamic arrays" which, to a C++ programmer should seem really innane. Here's a linked list collection class that can be used in any .NET language.

A list control with hyperlink function

by liuxiao

This control provides hyperlink function for the list control with exact positioning for the cursor.

A ListView Dialog using Win32 API

by zjsmile

A Dialog using Listview in report style and icon style

A managed "Send To" menu class

by Alexey Sinutin

An article on a small managed C++ class which gives ability to use the "Send To" feature of Windows Explorer.

A Managed C++ Email Validator Control for ASP.NET

by Paul Ingles

An ASP.NET Validator Control implemented in Managed C++ that can be used to verify email addresses by connecting to SMTP servers listed as Mail eXchangers for a domain, includes example of Win32 API Interoperability with C++ .NET. The validation is not RegEx based.

A Managed C++ Wrapper Around the Windows XP Theme API - Part 2

by Gene OK

This is an update to Don Kackman's UxTheme component originally written for Visual Studio 2003

A matrix class with serialization and advanced input/output functions

by Roger Allen

A Matrix class derived from CObject with serialization and operator overloading

A Matrix-Based 2-D Polygon Clipping Class

by 73Zeppelin

An article on 2-D Polygon Clipping

A Memory DC for WTL

by Paul A. Howes

An article detailing a simple memory-based device context for the WTL, to be used when flicker-free double-buffered drawing is desired

A Mersenne Twister Class

by Dave Loeser

A pseudorandom number generator.

A Method of Worker Thread Pooling

by Pradeep Kumar Sahu

A Method of Worker Thread Pooling

A More Complete DLL Injection Solution Using CreateRemoteThread

by Drew_Benton

This article explores a more complete method of injecting a DLL into another process using the CreateRemoteThread approach.

A Multi Column ComboBox

by Xiao Wu Guang

A multicolumn, customizable, editable combobox

A multi-threaded HTTP proxy server based on Win32

by zlike

Demostration of a multi-threaded HTTP proxy server implemented with WinSock on Windows.

A New Perspective on Viewing

by John Hilton

Simple yet comprehensive viewing code for OpenGL and Direct3D.

A new progress bar for all occassions...

by Peter Mares

A CStatic derived Progress bar control that can indicate "busy states" effectively and double up as a good looking progress bar

A new software protection method (Objantihack)

by kookoo

This article intruduce you a new software encryption method.

A newbie's elementary guide to spawning processes

by Nish Nishant

Gives an elementary introduction to the use of ShellExecute/ShellExecuteEx, CreateProcess, WaitForSingleObject. How to bring up the Find window, the Properties window.

A nice multiline ToolTipCtrl example.

by TomKat

A nice multiline ToolTipCtrl example looking like the one available in Delphi.

A non-inheritable class

by Zeeshan Amjad

A class that cannot be inherited from

A Normal / Exponential Random Generator and Histogram Class

by Jonathan de Halleux

A fast random generator with normal or exponential distribution + a histogram class

A not so simple firewall.

by gamitech

A not so simple firewall if I can call it so. This application will ask you if you want a certain program to start.

A note about using control notification messages in MFC classes

by Tibor Blazko

How your control can eat its parent's messages.

A Persistent Wait Cursor

by Martyn Pearson

A simple method of maintaining a wait cursor across messages

A policy based reference counting implementation for compound objects

by Emilio Garavaglia

Reference counting smart pointers and handles of various flavours.

A Popup Progress Window

by Chris Maunder

A popup window containing a progress control and cancel button - no resource file needed

A Prelude to Pointers

by Nitron

A quick reference to pointers and pointer operations

A Presentation of the STL Vector Container

by Nitron

Presenting the std::vector with a discussion on STL algorithms and predicates.

A Primitive Spellchecker in Microsoft C++ 6.0

by ITSTH

This article demonstates how to use Microsoft C++ as a spellchecker while programming by making excessive use of the user-defined keyword feature

A Progress-iner Message System

by kuhx1980

A Progress-iner Message System

A Property Table Editor

by skybirdcao

An article showing a property table editor like VC7.0's property table.

A Quick Drive Manager

by KarstenK

Connecting and disconnecting network drives

A real time log file viewer

by amleth

A real time log file viewer.

A Recording and Playing Thread Class

by Aric Wang

This is a class derived from CWinThread class. It is used to record and play sound in the specific thread.

A Reference to Using Pointers

by logicchild

An article to help explain how C/C++ use pointers.

A Resource Server Handler Class For Custom Controls

by Eric Woodruff

A class implementing IHttpHandler for use in custom controls, to send embedded resources such as scripts, images, and style sheets to the client.

A Reusable, High Performance, Socket Server Class - Part 1

by Len Holgate

Writing a high performance server that runs on Windows NT and uses sockets to communicate with the outside world isn't that hard once you dig through the API references. What's more, most of the code is common between all of the servers that you're likely to want to write.

A reusable, high performance, socket server class - Part 2

by Len Holgate

To maintain performance a socket server shouldn't make blocking calls from its IO threads. This article builds on the previous one to add a business logic thread pool to our example server.

A Reusable, High Performance, Socket Server Class - Part 3

by Len Holgate

When a server has to deal with lots of short lived client connections, it's advisable to use the Microsoft extension function for WinSock, AcceptEx(), to accept connections.

A scripted SQL query generation framework with IDE: SQLpp (v1.4)

by Jonathan de Halleux

A helper framework for generation of SQL queries in C++ and Lua

A Secure Software Distributon SDK

by Emilio Guijarro

SSD SDK provides security for your shareware programs through strong cryptographic techniques.

A Self-extracting Installer

by Stefan Kuhr

Creating a self-extracting file that allows to start multiple setups

A Separator Combo-box

by Zuoliu Ding

A CComboBox derived combo-box class

A Serialization Primer - Part 1

by Ravi Bhavnani

This tutorial describes how to easily serialize a simple object.

A Serialization Primer - Part 2

by Ravi Bhavnani

This tutorial describes how to handle invalid data stores and support versioning during serialization.

A Serialization Primer - Part 3

by Ravi Bhavnani

This tutorial describes how to serialize complex objects.

A Set of ADOX Classes

by Carlos Antollini

Simple database catalog access using a set of ADOX classes

A set of classes to create the IE-style GUI

by Nikolay Denisov

The article gives a sample of how to implement Internet Explorer-style sizable re-bar and menu bar controls.

A set of Network Management Classes

by Carlos Antollini

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

A set of template classes for working with the registry

by Daniel Andersson

Writing generic code with templates and the C++ standard library.

A set of universal data check functions

by Johnson Zhou

A set of universal data check functions can be used in any systems with checking requirement.

A short discussion on mapping 3D objects to a 2D display

by Paresh Solanki

This article describes, in simple terms, how to translate three dimensional co-ordinates into the two dimensional co-ordinates to be displayed on a screen

A Simple Beep - Reminiscing about ZX Spectrum audio

by Colin Angus Mackay

Driving the PC Speaker from .NET.

A Simple C# Toolbar Docking Framework

by Rogério Paulo

An example framework for toolbar handling, written in C#.

A Simple C++ Client/Server in CORBA

by Carlos Jiménez de Parga

An introduction to the Visual C++ CORBA development

A simple C++ code generator (Sample Usage of my XML Wrapper class)

by Johnson Zhou

Generate C++ classes using XML & XSL

A Simple Class to Encapsulate VARIANTs

by Rob Manderson

Using Variants in your C++ code

A simple demo for WDM Driver development

by mjtsai

WDM Driver programming introduction with three Pseudo Drivers.

A Simple HTTP Proxy with the ACE Library

by auralius manurung

An article on how to build a simple HTTP proxy server

A simple image preview class using GDI+

by Rob Manderson

Using GDI+ in conjunction with an owner-draw static window

A Simple LogFile

by Neil Yao, Zoltan

A simple logfile to record runtime information

A Simple Method to Control the Startup State of an MFC SDI Application

by David Saelman

How to minimize or maximize an SDI application without any flash artifacts.

A simple method to display a transparent PNG file

by flyhigh

Introducing a simple method to display a transparent PNG file.

A Simple OpenGL 2D Primitives EP_OpenGL_002

by erjan123

2D basic OpenGL Primitives Lines, Points, Triangles, Quads and Polygons

A Simple Pie Chart Control - Improved 3-D Pie Chart

by PrasadPerera

A follow up to the simple pie chart control article which will detail the new improvements

A Simple Program for Status Bar Notification using Whidbey

by Binoy R

The NotifyIcon Component will display an icon in the status bar notification area, which you can use as notiification purpose to alert users that an action or event has occured.

A Simple Resource Manager

by Weiye Chen

This is a simple class that you can use to load and use another resource DLL if it is present during runtime.

A Simple RSS News Generating Tool

by Stephan Pilz

A tool to generate/manage news and provide news via RSS.

A simple solution for validation of MFC forms

by zcln

An easy way to do validation for MFC Dialogs, FormViews, PropertyPages

A simple string generator in C++

by ChauJohnthan

Article on a simple string generator

A simple tab like dialog control

by Wang Yingwu

CTabDialog bundles buttons and dialogs, so users can add their owner draw buttons and dialogs

A simple TCP/IP Chat client/server

by GMachiavelli

An article useful to understand simple thread use, TCP/IP networking, and basic use of XML.

A simple transparent CStatic-derived class

by Zorglab

This class allows you to create transparent static controls. For instance, you can add text on a bitmap in a dialog.

A simple UDP time server and client for beginners

by gomorgan89

How to implement a simple UDP time server and client using WinSock.

A simple use of the Multimedia Timer

by Nicolas Etienne

Demonstrates the simple use of a multimedia timer in user classes

A simple way to hack Windows File Protection (WFP) using the SetSfcFileException undocumented function

by Abdellatif_El_Khlifi

How to delete/modify a system file which is protected by Windows without being detected by the OS protection.

A Simple Way to Switch from One Menu Set to Another

by dazinith

Replace your current menus with another set of menus with this function

A Simple Win32 Window Wrapper Class

by Jason Henderson

How to make a Win32 application object oriented, without using MFC.

A Simple Windows Forms Properties Spy

by Rama Krishna Vavilala

A utility that can be used to spy the properties of any Windows forms control in the system

A Simple Windows Mobile 5.0 Task Enumerator

by Sreekanth Muralidharan

A simple task enumerator for Windows Mobile SmartPhones.

A simple Windows port scanner - Part 2

by ice911

This project is a simple Windows port scanner which can be very useful for checking your machine to make sure it is locked down!

A Simple WordPad

by Barretto VN

A Simple WordPad

A simple XML Parser

by Michael A. Barnhart

A class to read and write non validated XML files

A Simple Yet Debuggable COM Skeleton Code

by Stephane Rodriguez.

Tutorial showing how to build COM components from scratch (DLL, EXE, automation)

A Single Instance Control Component in C#

by Chandra Hundigam Venkat

A Single Instance control component which checks whether any instance of your application is running on the system.

A Singleton Template Class

by Brian van der Beek

A Singleton Template Class

A small but effective discussion on threads - CxThread class !

by TomKat

A small but effective discussion on threads , how they work , and tips and tricks ! Plus a cool implementation !

A solution to the Readers/Writers Problem using semaphores

by Joris Koster

A solution to the Readers/Writers Problem using semaphores

A Spell Check IE Menu Extension

by Shaun Wilde

An IE menu extension that allows you to spell check your form submissions.

A Spin Edit control with popup trackbar

by John Gonzalez

An implementation of the spin-edit control used in Jasc Paint Shop Pro

A statistical analysis of the performance variations of assorted managed and unmanaged languages

by Rama Krishna Vavilala, Nish Nishant

This article compares and contrasts the relative performances of various languages like native C++, Visual Basic 6, C#, VB.NET, Managed C++, MC++ and native code mix, ngen'd assemblies etc. using a prime number generation function as a generic benchmark

A Strategy for Displaying Numeric Data with Significant Figures

by Bryan Brown

A strategy for displaying numeric data with significant figures using Log10.

A Tabbed MDI Frame Window

by Ernesto Perales Soto

A tabbed frame window to show several views of a document in a single frame.

A TCHAR style header file for STL strings and streams

by PJ Arends

Presents a header file that allows a single source file that uses STL to be built in either ANSI or Unicode, without any changes or lots of #ifdefs.

A Technique to Customize the Title Bar of Windows

by Junlei Li

Use an easy-to-use templated class to custom the title bar of windows.

A template singleton class for easy implementation of Windows hooks

by .dan.g.

Simplifying the implementation of Windows hooking through the use of a templatized manager class

A Template Way to a More Stable Observer Pattern

by Ma Xi

Using templates to sovle problems in the Observer Pattern.

A thread pool implementation

by Rajeev Sadasivan

A simple thread pool

A Time-line control using WTL

by Tony Ioanides

An alternative approach to selecting date ranges.

A Tiny Variable String Splitter

by mi-chi

Tokenize and access string contents using a format mask

A Toolbar in the middle of elsewhere

by G. Steudtel

This article explains how to place a toolbar right in the middle of a dialog or a form.

A Transparent Menu Synchronizing System

by vcepa

An article about menu enable/disable management in a semi-automated way

A TryEnterCriticalSection that works on Windows 9x

by Olan Patrick Barnes

TryEnterCriticalSection is a useful tool to determine if some protected resource is busy, but it's only available on the NT Platform... until now.

A TXPBAR with GDI+ for MFC

by skinui

A XP bar with GDI+ for MFC, like the Apple dockbar.

A UDP-based Reliable Data Transfer Library

by lilyco

Introduces an open source UDP-based data transfer library.

A useful set of separators

by Nicolas Bonamy

Some dialog boxes separators that replace group boxes

A user draw button that supports PNG files with transparency, for Visual C++ 6.0 and VS2005

by Darren Sessions

With this class, you can add a PNG image to your button and automatically get a highlighted and grayscale version.

A User Interface System

by Jonathan Enders

A user interface infrastructure quickly attachable to your application, accompanied by a simple text-based platform-independent user interface that builds on the infrastucture.

A UTF-16 Class for Reading and Writing Unicode Files

by Jeffrey Walton, Jordan Walters

A UTF-16 class derived from CStdioFile for reading and writing Unicode files

A Utility to Convert VS.NET 2003 Project Files

by dacris

This utility converts projects and solutions from VS.NET 7.0 to VS.NET 7.1 and vice versa.

A versioning scheme for the MSVC IDE without re-compiles

by coder112

A way to avoid unnecessary recompiles when using RCSTamp to update the .RC file.

A wrapper class for ITEMIDLIST

by kim-ryo

CItemIDList class helps manage ITEMIDLIST more easily

A WTL Game Loop

by Paul M Watt

A message loop class that is suitable for game programming in WTL.

A WTL Hunspell-checked Edit Control

by _oti

A WTL Hunspell-checked edit control.

A WTL XP Button and Edit Box

by Derick Cyril Thomas

A WTL Implementation of XP Button and Edit Box

ABCs of Pro*C

by vipulparmar

Basic understanding of Pro*C

About CObect , CRuntimeClass and related macros.

by Mahfuzur Rahman.

What is the useful of CObject , CRuntimeClass and related macros.

Abstract Class versus Interface

by Rahman Mahmoodi

Abstract class versus Interface: Usage and Implementation.

Access database using XML without SQL-XML

by Johnson Zhou

How to access RDBMS liks MS SQL or Orcale using XML. The core part using COM technology and ATL.

Access Registry Settings Declaratively

by Lonnie McCullough

A set of macros and classes that allow declarative access to registry settings.

Accessing data source using ADODB

by Karismatic

Using this dll anyone can access 3 databases i.e Oracle,SQLServer,Access

Accessing dBase Files

by thomask

How to access a dBase file

Accessing songs and playlists from ITunes using C#

by yann bertaud

How to get the song list, song information from ITunes using .NET.

Accessing the Windows Address Book

by Code4Food

A class to access the WAB

Accessing: MySQL Database using MySQL C API

by Renato Tegon Forti

A set of class to access and manipulate MySQL database using MySQL C API

Accessing: PostgreSql data base using libpq - C Library.

by Renato Tegon Forti

A set of class to access and manipule PostgreSql data base using libpq - C Library.

ACM Problem of (AARC'98) - Parkinson

by MoustafaS

Solving old ACM problems

Action History - Undo and Redo

by Lea Hayes

A useful undo/redo system that can be implemented into most programs easily.

Action Support in the VCF

by Jim Crafton

An article on adding action support to your VCF application.

Active Tools v1.0

by Andrey Levin

This addin provides some useful functions for editing source code: change selection case to upper case, change selection case to lower case, capitalize selection and conver spaces in a selection to TABs.

ActiveSync File Filter in C#

by Peter Tewkesbury

This article shows how to write an ActiveSync file filter in C#.

Add a baloon type tooltip message for your form

by Binoy R

This example demonstrates how can you make a baloon tooltip message using windows tooltip component.

Add a custom template to Visual Studio .NET 2003

by Sarvesvara (BVKS) Dasa

An article that explains a method to add your own custom template in the Visual Studio .NET 2003 IDE.

Add a user in SQL Server using Visual C++

by xiaojin

The article explains adding a user in SQL Server programmatically, using VC++

Add a WTL MDI window into an ATL Control

by Zhang YanFeng

This article will show you how to make MDI window of WTL into ATL control by using a real world example.

Add Crash Reporting to Your Applications with the CrashRpt Library

by Mike Carruth

This article describes how to use the CrashRpt library to generate crash report for your application that can be debugged using WinDbg or VS.NET.

Add XP Visual Style Support to OWNERDRAW Controls

by David Y. Zhao

Wrapper class that uses visual style APIs available in WinXP

Add zooming to WTL CScrollImpl

by Alain Rist

CZoomScrollImpl extends WTL CScrollImpl to allow continuous zooming.

Add-in for automatically incrementing build numbers in Visual Studio .NET

by Catalin Stavaru

Finally, an add-in that increments build number for VC++.NET !

Addin Menus in Lotus Notes using MFC/NotesAPI

by Tingu Abraham

Creating Add-in Menus in Lotus Notes using Lotus C APIs and MFC.

Adding "Merge cells" support to the MFC GridControl

by Huang Wei

Adding "Merge cells" support to the MFC GridControl.

Adding a drop-down menu to an IE Toolbar button

by Igor Tolmachev

This article explains how to add a drop-down menu to a toolbar button of Internet Explorer.

Adding an icon file's icons to an executable

by Simon Parmenter

A VS2008 C++ project to add an icon resource in a file to an executable.

Adding and extracting binary resources

by adrian cooper

A beginner's guide to adding a binary resource in visual studio and a simple class for programmatical extraction.

Adding automation to MFC applications

by roel_v2

Step-by-step instructions on how to add OLE automation to an already existing application. In addition, it illustrates how to do things without using the code as provided by the application wizard.

Adding COM Automation Support To Win32 Applications

by Mohammed El-Afifi

Given an existing win32 application, how to provide COM automation capability to it?

Adding Context Help to your application

by kokholm

This short article demonstrates the ability to add Context Help to your application.

Adding GIF-animation using GDI+

by NormDroid

Norm demonstrates how to coerce GDI+ into displaying animated GIFs

Adding Icons to the System Tray

by Chris Maunder

A class for adding icons to the system tray

Adding Macro Scripting language support to existing MFC Application

by Ernest Laurentin

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

Adding mouse functionality to any control

by Fred Ackers

An article on adding mouse based functionality to any CWnd derived control

Adding Regular Expressions to Your App with Regex++

by perlmunger

A tutorial to demonstrate adding regular expressions to your project using Regex++ from boost.org.

Additional Combo MRU for Doc/View architecture

by kla_boot

Doc/View MRU reflected in a ComboBox on the document form view

ADO Connection Strings

by Carlos Antollini

A list of ODBC DSN Connection Strings.

ADO MFC Wrapper classes

by Tim Kohler

ADO classes that closely resemble CDatabase and CRecordset.

ADO.NET – Get the notification events from Managed Providers

by Naveen K Kohli

How to use the event handlers for various ADO.NET connection & data objects.

ADO.NET Primer using Managed C++

by Bill Ferreira

A primer on using ADO.NET with Managed extensions for Visual C++ .NET

ADO: 101-level Tutorial

by Kevin Wittmer

101-level tutorial on ActiveX Data Objects

Adobe ActiveX Control with MFC

by rocky_pulley

How to use the Adobe Acrobat 7 Reader ActiveX control inside a C++ application.

Adobe Photoshop file loader template class

by Brad P. Taylor

A template class to making loading Adobe Photoshop files easier

Advanced critical section

by 0xdeadbeef

Advanced critical section which features TryLock and timeouts

Advanced Logging For All Kind of Applications

by Oleksandr Kucherenko

Simple to use classes for logging and tracing

Advanced multi-dimensional region template class

by valdok

A template class for multi-dimensional regions for any coordinate type.

agsMSMQ v1.1 - A Message Queue Implementation

by Agus Kurniawan

Class wrapper for Message Queue (MSMQ)

All In One Dot Net Deployment

by Jeff Turner

Installing .NET framework with your application.

AlphaView

by Noel Frankinet

A virtual WTL ListView control on an SQLite3 table or view.

Alternative Timestamp Class with no MFC

by metcarob

This article describes a timestamp class that can be used as an alternative to the standard C date time functions.

Alternative to Microsfot Ad Rotator

by Rahman Mahmoodi

A class that returns the ad details from an XML file.

Always on Top

by Rob Langston

A DLL which creates a system hook to trap WM_INITMENUPOPUP and append an "Always on Top" option to all system menus.

ALXParser - a single expression dBase parser

by Alexey

A dBASE syntax parser of one expression. Functions and variables are supported.

Amazon Explorer - An adventure with ASP.NET & the Amazon Web Service

by Okeno Palmer

Create an ASP.NET application that uses the Amazon Web Service to search the Amazon catalogs.

AMLog, easy logging

by Anders Molin

A small utility to make easy logging to files

Amzi! Prolog + Logic Server ASP.NET Wrapper Class

by Amzi! inc.

C++ ASP.NET interface to Amzi! Prolog + Logic Server for building Rule-Based Expert Systems

An ActiveX Control - you can create a Skinable Form in Desgin Time

by iranvig

An ActiveX Control - you can create a Skinable Form in Desgin Time.

An All-Purpose Keyboard Hooker

by Abin

An easy to use keyboard hooking DLL that is suitable for most applications.

An almost complete Namespace Extension Sample

by Pascal Hurni

An implementation of a shell namespace extension that uses the system provided ShellView (SHCreateShellFolderView)

An Analysis of the Windows PE Checksum Algorithm

by Jeffrey Walton

An Analysis Demonstrating the PE Checksum is an Additive Checksum based on RFC 1071

An Anti-Reverse Engineering Guide

by Joshua Tully

A look into what goes into the area of preventing reverse engineering, and gives developers some functions and ideas about preventing reversing engineering of their programs.

An Apple Style Docking Bar Implemented by eGui lib

by YangXiaoWang

An apple style docking bar implemented by eGui lib

An Application To Show You How To Simulate A Mobile Set!

by SuperEric

This application is just a simple simulator but its ability is that u can simply add much more properties to ur mobile and the interface and the source code are so separate so u can change the interface with just a low cost!!!

An Asynchronous HTTP Request WinINet Wrapper in C++

by crazybit

An asynchronous HTTP download class for C++

An ATL Component in C++ that fires COM events

by Neville Dastur

A COM component that implements interprocess communication, and illustrates firing events to a COM container such as Visual Basic

An auto-collection information control group

by Johnson Zhou

A set of classes for batch inputting, validating, and packing user's data.

An AutoRepeat Button Class

by Joseph M. Newcomer

A button control that autorepeats after a set period of time

An AutoRepeat Button Class

by PJ Arends

This is an alternative for "An AutoRepeat Button Class"

An CMultiDocTemplate extension

by Yi Yang

A more real Document Template Class

An Easy Firewall Application

by Jesus Oliva

Firewall application developed using Packet Filtering API.

An easy to use class to list Active Directory Users

by Muhammad Ahmed

A very simple class which can list all the Active Directory users just by calling a single member function.

An Easy to Use Observer Pattern Implementation (No Inheritance Required)

by Corneliu Tusnea

Observer Pattern implemented in a nice template model, easy to use as it does not require the classical inheritance and can easily decouple Subject and Observer

An easy to use worker thread

by Frank Melber

Use worker threads in your application without the complicated details

An Easy to Use Wrapper for SQLite3 (Totally Free Embedded Database Engine!)

by Daniel Cohen Gindi

I have created classes to wrap the SQLite3 library, to remove many headaches...

An Easy Video-processing Framework by Grabbing Frames as Bitmaps Using DirectShow

by Mingliang Zhu

An article showing how to easily but effectively extract all frames from a video as bitmaps

An Easy Way to Customise the Default Print Dialog in an MFC App

by Roger Allen

A quick and easy way to customise the CPrintDialog object in an MFC application

an efficient C++/STL library for word puzzles and spell checking

by Dr. Goulu

DicoLib stores words in lists of anagrams indexed by their length and a 26 bits bitset which describe which letters are present in the words. This makes it extremely fast to search for words which contain specified letters, and to search for words which are "close" for spell checking appli

An Encoder class derived from a stream

by Andrea Cacciarru

How to implement a class that derives from a Xstream class and how to serialize from and to it.

An Enhanced CCheckComboBox

by Magerusan Grigore Cosmin

Hybrid control simulating a combo box with checkboxes on a dropdown tree

An example for platform-independent development

by Tobias Wenig

A platform independent game model.

An example of a non progress bar

by GMazzo65

This shows how to use a "working" progress bar like Windows XP does.

An Excellent Reference for Managed C++

by markmalin

Book Review of Programming With Managed Extensions for Microsoft Visual C++.NET 2003

An exception safe OO thread-pool framework

by Peter Hancock

Provides a plug in multithreaded environment, using an exception safe thread-pool and functors.

An extendable report editor

by RockmanZero

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

An Extended MFC CListCtrl to edit individual cells, sort headers, and more

by Sanjay1982

The MFC CListCtrl does not allow editing labels for all columns. This extended class implements ways to specify column editors, row, cell, and column colors etc.

An Icon Explorer

by YangTze

An Icon Explorer which looks like Windows Resource Explorer

An Image (GIF, JPEG, BMP, ICO, WMF and EMF) Viewer

by Chen Su

A sample that can load, display, and print graphics files.

An Image Decoder Based on IImgCtx

by strnghrs

This article shows how to decode image with IImgCtx interface provided by IE

An image preview dialog for adjusting brightness and contrast

by jemodurn

An image preview dialog for adjusting brightness and contrast

An Implementation of the Service Locator Pattern in C++

by Kenneth Kasajian

The Service Locator can be used to decouple classes, which improves the overall design and significantly helps with unit testing.

An In-Depth Study of the STL Deque Container

by Nitron

This article presents an in-depth analysis of std::deque and offers guidance as to when to prefer using it as opposed to std::vector, by taking into consideration memory allocation and container performance.

An Interface Based Implementation by ATL

by Modesty Zhang

This article presents a practical technique to achieve interface based object implementation by ATL only. This technique implements basic COM concepts about interface while doesn't rely on COM runtime.

An interview with Microsoft's new Visual C++ .NET community liaison

by Chris Maunder

Herb Sutter has just joined Microsoft as their new Visual C++ .NET community guy. Read about who he is, what he does, and what is happening with our beloved Visual C++.

An Introduction For How to Insert your Own Custom Objects Inside a std:::set

by programmersmind

An Introduction for how to insert your own custom objects inside a std:::set

An Introduction to Debugging in MSVC++ using Pseudoregisters

by Wouter Dhondt

Explanation of the debugger pseudoregisters like @ERR, @TIB

An introduction to lex and yacc part 1

by Rob Manderson

A guide to using lex and yacc to create parsers in your projects

An introduction to lex and yacc part 2

by Rob Manderson

Using lex and yacc to create parsers for your projects

An introduction to libsig c++ using the Microsoft Visual Studio compiler

by roel_

An introduction to libsig c++ using the Microsoft Visual Studio compiler

An introduction to MFC's COM Interface Macros

by Rob Manderson

How to define and implement COM interfaces inside an MFC class

An Introduction To Web Service Security - Part II

by HENDRIK R

Part two of this series introduces signing and encryption principals. It explains the steps to digitally sign and encrypt a message using the WSE and an X.509 certificate.

An introduction to Web Service Security using WSE - Part I

by HENDRIK R

This article explains the first steps to build secure Web Services. It introduces the WSE specification and the easiest authentication mechanism based on username identification and password validation.

An MFC Calculator Custom Control with No Resource File Dependencies

by peterboulton

A re-usable calculator custom control which works and looks like a hand held calculator, which can be used in any MFC application by simply adding a cpp and a h file to the project (no resource file dependencies).

An MS Outlook-style mini-calendar control using WTL

by Tony Ioanides

An MS Outlook-style mini-calendar control using WTL

An object-oriented wrapper around function pointers

by Kenny Moens

Function pointers provide a handy mechanism for 1st order functions but are rather complex in usage. This article gives a wrapper around those function pointers making the use of them easier.

An Overview of New Control Containers in Whidbey – Panels

by Binoy R

This article is based on a pre-release version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, formerly code-named “Whidbey”. All information contained herein is subject to change.

An ShGetFileInfo Wrapper Class

by Doru Cioata

A class built around the use of ShGetFileInfo() function.

An SMPPLIB with COM Support

by Jack Hui

It is an SMPP implementation of v3.3 and v3.4 ( partial support). You can use it to connect to SMSC and send/receive SMS.

An STL like Tree Class

by Jack Hui

A multi-node Tree class by using map and vector

An STL-compliant mathematical vector class

by Ambidextrous Coder

A portable implementation of a templated, STL-compliant math vector class.

An STL-like bidirectional map

by Joaquín M López Muñoz

A template container implementing a bidirectional map that blends well with STL.

An STL-Like Vector With Matlab Indexing Facilities

by Mo Hossny

An STL-Like Vector with Matlab indexing facilities.

An unclickable button

by Chris Maunder

What looks like a normal pushbutton - until the user tries to click on it.

An Update To the Wrapper Class for the libid3tag Library

by Yubo Dong

An updated wrapper class to retrieve and modify id3 tag information for a given MP3 file.

Animated Child Window Movement

by Chris Losinger

A simple class to animate the movement of child windows

Animated Dialog Menu with Client Shadows

by Vladimir Ralev

This article shows how to create an animated menu, on any CWnd

Animated Emoticons like those in MSN Messenger

by dTianx

How to create a RichEdit control to display animated emoticons like MSN Messenger's.

Animating View Transitions on Windows Mobile

by João Paulo Figueira

How to animate child view transitions on a Windows Mobile WTL application.

Another class factory

by Yoramo

Class Factory based on C# events & delegate

Another control group for HTML as user interface

by Johnson Zhou

To process user input from a HTML interface in windows using MFC

Another ListView print (preview) sample.

by Andres Kaasik

Illustrates how MFC based List View content can be printed.

Another Look At IDisposable

by Marc Clifton

A discussion of the Dispose method, how to use it, when to use it, and problems using it.

Another new thunk copy from ATL

by simonchen.net

A useful skill to get rid of ATL, but do similar flexible architectures by yourself.

Another registry class

by SteveKing

A registry class with overloaded operators to use registry values like normal variables

Another Report List Control

by Abin

A report style CListCtrl supporting sorting, sub-item editing, sub-item image, sub-item color etc.

Another Star Trek Game (The Retro One)

by BadKarma

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

Another Thread Pool

by imagiro

A simple thread pool with minimal dependencies

Another WTL Grid

by Bjornar Henden

A WTL Grid mostly aimed for use against databases.

Answers to your MFC/ATL questions from the Visual C++ .NET Product Manager.

by Chris Maunder

The definitive set of 'What's the deal with MFC' answers from Microsoft's Nick Hodapp.

AntiHisto

by Chris Losinger

A utility to edit IE URL history

Any Day of the Week Using the Doomsday Rule

by Paul J. Weiss

C++ implementation of the Doomsday Rule to determine the weekday

API function call unification: the case of Processes/Modules enumeration

by Elias Bachaalany

An article to show how to write a code that will unify two different API set into one

API Hooking (LoadLibrary)

by Adam Roderick J

A simple approach to Hook LoadLibrary API with a sample

API Hooking revealed part 3 and 4 - Thread Deadlock Detector

by xryl669

The final article about API hooking, with a working example of a thread deadlock detector.

API Monitoring Unleashed

by Parag Paithankar

Shows undocumented stuff to monitor 3rd party applications

Application Configuration File Variables

by alonvx

Type-safe access to read-only or read/write configuration file variables using "one-line-of-code".

Application Terror

by Andreas Saurwein

How to (really) annoy your friends and foes or even your boss.

Applied Crypto++: Block Ciphers

by Jeffrey Walton

Encrypt data using Block Ciphers with Crypto++.

Applied Crypto++: Pseudo Random Number Generators

by Jeffrey Walton

How to Choose a Crypto++ Pseudo Random Number Generator

Applied Crypto++: Using the RSA Digital Signature System (Part I)

by Jeffrey Walton

Create and Verify RSA Digital Signatures with Appendix Using Crypto++

Applying visual effects to the desktop - Shoot

by abhinaba

This article discusses how an application can apply visual effects to the desktop, by copying desktop contents, applying effects on it and then re-displaying it.

Applying Windows XP Visual Styles to Applications

by Steve Thresher

Apply Windows XP visual styles to applications without a rebuild.

Approximate and Sample Entropies Complexity Metrics

by Chesnokov Yuriy

The article presents C++ code for estimation of approximate and sample entropies suitable for biological signals analysis

Arabic Fast Print on Receipt Printers

by Tarek Eslim

Allows Arabic POS system developers to work the easiest way on thier receipt printers.

ARACrypt - a crypto class

by Darroll Walsh

Extremely simple crypto class

Arithmetic Overflow Checking using checked/unchecked

by Andrew Phillips

How to use overflow checking effectively and avoid some pitfalls.

Article 1 - An Overview of Whidbey.doc

by Binoy R

Whidbey is a major component of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET suite. The .NET version of Visual Basic is a new improved version with more features and additions. After these new additions, VB.NET qualifies to become a more smarter approach for the software developers.

Article 1 - Dynamic creation of an SQL Server database, tables and stored procedure through Whidbey (or VB.NET)

by Binoy R

This article explains step by step dynamic creation of an SQL Server database, tables and stored procedure through Whidbey (or VB.NET).

Article 2 - Display data using DataSet and DataGrid controls through Whidbey (VB.NET)

by Binoy R

This article explains how we can display data using DataSet and DataGrid control after the database is created.

Article 2 - Dynamic creation of a SQL Server database, tables and stored procedure through Whidbey (or VB.NET)

by Binoy R

Display data using Dataset and Data Grid control after the database is created

ASP.NET DataGrid Header Slider Control

by Tony Truong

ASP.NET DataGrid Header plug-in that allows the header to stay on screen.

ASP.NET Outlook Style Toolbar Control

by Ashish Kaila

An outlook style toolbar control in ASP.NET

ASP.NET tutorial using Dreamweaver MX

by James W. Threadgill

An article demonstrating the use of Dreamweaver MX to create a simple ASP.NET application.

ASP.NET with Managed C++

by TigerNinja_

Use Managed C++ as your code-behind file for ASP.NET web pages

asp2php shell

by l a u r e n

A shell application for the asp2php utility.

Aspect Oriented Programming / Aspect Oriented Software Design

by Marc Clifton

Everything you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask about AOP/AOSD

Assembly Explorer 1.0

by Leon Langleyben

Simple utility to browse assembly object hierarchy

Assert is your friend

by Rob Manderson

How to use assert to find bugs in your programs

Asynchronous Function Calls: Working with Win32 threads made easy

by JaeWook Choi

An article on the new approach to utilize Win32 threads in a more intuitive manner.

AtInitExitInstance - Register functions to be called during InitInstance and ExitInstance

by soundman32

A technique to register functions to be called during InitInstance and ExitInstance

ATL OLEDB Memory Leak 2: CDynamicParameterAccessor

by jason lue

A subtle memory leak problem on CDynamicParameterAccessor on special occasions

ATL PersistXML implementation

by Katasonov

Easiest way to add XML persistence to an existing IDispatch based ATL COM object.

ATL Server - Web Application/Web Service

by Leon Finker

Web Application/Web Service development using ATL Server classes

ATL Server Tutorial - TipOfTheDay

by Erik Thompson

Create an ATL Server to generate random tips using a Server Response File

ATL Snapping Framework (Like VC.NET)

by Eugene Polonsky

Complete implementation of .NET IDE's snapping windows in ATL/WTL

ATL Under the Hood - Part 1

by Zeeshan Amjad

In this series of tutorials I am going to discuss some of the inner workings of ATL and the techniques that ATL uses.

ATL Under the Hood - Part 2

by Zeeshan Amjad

This is article 2 in a series of tutorials that discuss some of the inner workings of ATL and the techniques that ATL uses.

ATL Under the Hood Part 3

by Zeeshan Amjad

Contininuing the ATL Under the Hood series to explain the inner workings of ATL

ATL Under the Hood Part 4

by Zeeshan Amjad

Contininuing the ATL Under the Hood series to explain the inner workings of ATL

ATL Under the Hood Part 5

by Zeeshan Amjad

Creating user interface elements with ATL

ATL7 and Attributes

by Leon Finker

ATL7 and Attributes description and sample usage

atlPath

by lyshsd

ATL/WTL version of Samuel Gonzalo's CPath1.2

Audio Capture with DirectShow - Part 2

by WajihUllahBaig

A console program that captures audio and saves it.

Audio Mixer Functions Demo

by Chen Su

Several demo applications that illustrate how to use the Audio Mixer functions in your own applications.

Audio playback processing with DirectMusic

by Carlos Jiménez de Parga

An extension of the DirectMidi class library for audio handling

Authenticated Encryption

by Jeffrey Walton

Perform authenticated encryption with Crypto++.

Auto Build Environment Add-in for Visual Studio .NET

by Joshua Jensen

Provides support for customized global environment build settings on a per solution basis

Auto Clicker v1.0

by Gordon W. Ahn

A program that clicks your mouse automatically.

Auto Completion ComboBox for WTL

by NormDroid

Implementation of Auto Completion ComboBox for WTL

Auto connecting with DUN using InternetAutodial

by Brian Davis

Quick and dirty hack for automatically bringing DUN dialog if not connected to the internet.

Auto Value

by c-smile

Auto Value is an implementation of variables having undefined state

Auto Windows Resource (*.rc) version Editor

by Réda BOUREBABA

This freeware allows to edit a Windows Resources File (*.rc) and to produce a file named 'version.h' containing several string constants (#define). It can also synchronize a RC file and version.h with the Classbuilder Master Header File.

auto_ptr and its usage

by Neeraj Sathe

This article talks about the usage of STL's auto_ptr class

Autocomplection in RichEdit Control

by Paolo Vernazza

A control that allows to use an autocomplection feature in RichEdit controls as the one in Visual Studio

Auto-complete edit and combo, without Platform SDK

by Chris Losinger

How to enable file system and URL auto-complete for edit controls and combo-boxes, without downloading the entire Platform SDK

AutoComplete without IAutoComplete

by Andreas Kapust

An AutoCompletion control that doesn't use IAutoComplete but still retains the same look and feel.

Auto-discover Oracle TNS service names with COSidHelper class

by li@agileinfollc.com

An article on how to discover Oracle TNS service names.

Automated IE SaveAs MHTML

by Stephane Rodriguez.

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

Automatic Build Versioning in Visual Studio

by Beau Skinner

Automatic build version awareness, incrementing, and archiving.

Automatic C++ object initialization from XML

by Alexandre GRANVAUD

Automate your data classes initialization from an XML file.

Automatic Garbage Collection in C++ using Smart pointers

by abc876

This article explains how to prevent your programs from memory leaks, by incorporating Garbage Collector in your class.

Automatic Layout of Resizable Dialogs

by Till Krullmann

A WTL extension which introduces layout maps to automatically update the layout in resizable dialogs.

Automatic resizing controls

by drice

Mechanism to automatically dock/anchor your controls in a window or dialog.

Automating a specific instance of Visual Studio .NET using C#

by Mohamed Hendawi

Get a list of running Visual Studio instances, and a reference to the automation server.

Automating MS-Office applications

by VGirish

This tutorial helps you to automate PowerPoint, with hints to automate other MS-Office applications

Automating Windows Applications

by Igor Ladnik

A Windows application that does not export any program interface, may be converted to automation server with COM object(s) injected into the application process.

AutoRunner: a template class to automatically run start- and cleanup-code in code blocks

by Patje

The presented template class offers an easy way to create simple classes that handle the initialisation and cleanup of 'logic' in code blocks.

AxPipe - Multi-Threaded Binary Stream C++ Class Library

by Svante Seleborg

A small and efficient collection of classes and templates to create multi-stage multi-threaded data processing pipe lines

Backpropagation Artificial Neural Network in C++

by Chesnokov Yuriy

This article demonstrates a backpropagation artificial neural network console application with validation and test sets for performance estimation using uneven distribution metrics.

Balloon Help as a non-modal replacement for MessageBox()

by Shog9

Although sometimes useful, message boxes used to display information are often just annoying. This article describes a non-modal replacement.

Barcode .NET Control

by rocky_pulley

A Code 39 barcode control with printing and saving support.

Barry's Chat System

by Barretto VN

Barry's Chat System

Basic concepts on Endianness

by Juan Carlos Cobas

A beginner introduction to Endianness.

Basic stuff on Files, Directories and Streams

by Nish Nishant

Demonstrates the use of the reader/writer classes as well as the file/directory info classes

Basic use of Shell_NotifyIcon in Win32

by Abraxas23

Starting your app minimized on the sytem tray.

BasicAdmin - Personal Organizer

by ErnestoNet

Finance, contacts, notes organizer

BasicExcel - A Class to Read and Write to Microsoft Excel

by Yap Chun Wei

A Class to Read and Write to Microsoft Excel

Basics of uploading files to and downloading from an ftp server

by VGirish

This tutorial helps you to upload and download files from an FTP server.

Be alert to memory leak when using STL to manage pointer only

by amonlee

for some novice of STL, like me, who might make some low level errors when trying to release memory

Become a service

by fato

This article introduces a set of C functions you can use in you projects to write windows services in few lines of code

Beginner's introductory guide to writing, installing, starting, stopping NT services

by Nish Nishant

Includes a generic skeleton for a simple NT service. Explains how to install, start, and stop the service programmatically.

Beginner's Tutorial - Using global hotkeys

by Nish Nishant

Explains how to register, use and unregister hotkeys

Beginning Direct3D

by Vahid Kazemi

Start Direct3D programming and create a window

Beginning Direct3D 10

by Vahid Kazemi

Create your first application using Direct3D 10.

Benchmarking Direct, Delegate and Reflection Method Invocations

by Marc Clifton

This console mode applet illustrates the significant performance hit of methods invoked using reflection.

BEncode Lexing in C++

by airlobster

A very efficient BEncode Lexer in C++.

Better Way to Sleep: Control Execution and Limit CPU Usage by your Threads

by hagarwal

Here is a class that will help you to control the execution of your threads that involves looping/polling and also limits their CPU usage to a specified limit.

Bi-directional RPC

by moshe masas

How to use RPC for doing bi-directional client/server procedure calls.

Binary File Copy

by Pawan84

A C++ program to read/write files in binary mode.

Binary Sorting Into a std::list

by #realJSOP

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

Binding MFC Grid to database.

by Mazdak

This version of MFC grid works with database.

Bitmap Backgrounds For Dialog Boxes

by ImmelmanQ

An article on setting a Bitmap as the Dialog Background. NO API

BitMap Contour To Windows Region

by serup

An article on how to generate an outline of a bitmap. Used when designing user shaped dialogs.

Bitmap From Screen

by Roger65

The anatomy of a bitmap.

Bitmap ToolBar

by Nicolas Gazelle

This is my attempt to create a simple toolbar class that allows to set a bitmap in the background of a toolbar.

Bitwise Operation Explained

by programmersmind

Few well known bitwise operation problem collection

BoolTool

by M S Vinay

A quick method of manipulating the current state of a multi-state variable using enums.

BoxPlanner - Simple Layout Algorithm

by panboza

A layout algorithm for layout controls in a row or column

Brainchild, A syntax coloring edit control

by Jan van den Baard

Syntax coloring, multi-level undo/redo editor control.

Bring your frame window a shadow

by Mingliang Zhu

An article on how to make application frame window shadowed. MFC/ATL not required.

Broadcast a message to multiple instances of an application

by bijua2001

Broadcast a message to multiple instances of an application

Browse Folder Dialog, Search Folder and All Sub Folders using C/C++

by JHawkZZ

Opens a Browse Folder window, then searches each file of the selected folder and all subfolders

Buffer Pool \ Object Pool

by Uri Twig

An article on optimization of the use of dynamic memory.

Buffered Canvas for Memory DC with Rotation, Clipping, Transparency

by Kevin Spaeth

Code for buffering and rotating your drawing context.

Buffered CScrollView

by mdj_moon

A reusable class inherited from CScrollView to implement buffered scrolling

BUG in _com_util::ConvertStringToBSTR and _com_util::ConvertBSTRToString

by soptest

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

BUG: MFC 7.0's CByteArray::Serialize() reads too much data

by skst

A bug in MFC 7.0's CByteArray::Serialize() causes it to read too much data.

Build a CD directory database

by Jack Janssen

An article on a tool for making a database containing the directories of CDs etc.

Build localized apps as separate executables

by Petr Stejskal

How to build a separate executable for each language version.

Building a simple C++ script compiler from Scintilla and CINT

by Robert Umbehant

How to build a simple C++ script compiler from Scintilla and CINT.

Building an Office2K COM addin with VC++/ATL

by Amit Dey

This article shows how to program an Outlook2000/2K+ COM addin using a pure ATL COM object.

Building Client/Server Applications with VC for Secure Private File Sharing

by Ganyob

How to build secure private file sharing client/server using a freeware SDK

Building COM Objects in C#

by Mubbasher Adeel

Building COM Objects in C#.

Building database application with ADO.NET for a beginner.

by Yulianto.

An article on building database with ADO.NET application for a beginner.

Building Rich COMponents with Attributed ATL

by Alex Kolesnichenko

Tutorial article about how to build components with rich functionality using attributed ATL.

Burn the Edges of Your Windows to Give Them Character

by Michael Dunn

No, that's not a typo

Burning CD/DVD Media with the Image Mastering API Version 2.0 (IMAPI2)

by Eric Haddan

Example of a CD/DVD burning application using IMAPI2.

ButtonControl

by _AnsHUMAN_

A simple button control showing the use of a property page.

Bypassing ftell/fseek's 2gb limitation

by IGx89

Instructions on how to implement _fseeki64 and _ftelli64.

BZip2 Classes

by Gilad Novik

Two classes to compress/decompress data using bzip2

C# ATLCOM Interop code snipperts - Part 1

by Gopi Krishna Nuti

Code snippets detailing Interop programming in C# and ATLCOM

C# Compiler

by Konrad Rotuski

A simple C# [VB.NET] compiler without using csc.exe

C# Creating Dynamic Menus

by Barretto VN

Creating Menus Dymanically in C#.

C# Wizard for Beginners

by Barretto VN

C# Wizard for Beginners

C++ AVL Tree Template

by Walt Karas

A C++ AVL Tree Template

C++ Class Implementation of HMAC-SHA

by Chien-Chung, Chung

C++ class of HMAC-SHA1

C++ Coding Practices Guide

by Chesnokov Yuriy

The article describes C++ coding styles and practices to be followed to develop robust and reliable code that is easily comprehended and maintained by other developers.

C++ Exceptions: Pros and Cons

by Nemanja Trifunovic

An unbiased analysis of good and bad cases for using exceptions vs. error codes.

c++ file generator

by s o v a n n

generate c++ file and interface header

C++ implementation of the C# Property and Indexer with Accessor-Modifiers

by jeff00seattle

A C++ implementation of the C# functionality for both Property and Indexer, and controlling their compile-time accessibility using accessor-modifiers.

C++ Memory Management Innovation: GC Allocator

by xushiwei

Most of the C++ programmers do not benefit from "Garbage Collection" technique (GC). Here is a new memory management technique named "GC Allocator" (Note it is not "GC").

C++ MetaClass

by Niraj Kedar

A class that can be modified at run-time

C++ Objectify Design Pattern

by MarcosCB

A design pattern that gives the advantages of a common Object inheritance to C++

C++ Property Accessors

by Chris Grimes

Shows how to create C++ property accessors that support C#-like syntax

C++ Wrapper Class to Compute Moving Averages

by Member 2516638

C++ wrapper class to compute moving averages

C++ wrapper for ADOCE filtering

by Olivier Gaumond

A simple class to use the DesktopToDevice and DeviceToDesktop functions from a C++ project.

C++ Wrappers for the Expat XML Parser

by Tim Smith

The included class definitions provide complete and easy to use C++ wrappers for the Expat C API

C++ XML the easy way!

by Alex Hazanov

A wrapper for the XML DOM for C++.

C1: How does a calculator work/ How to write one?

by Michael Lüftenegger

Explanation of a calculator

Cabinet File (*.CAB) Compression and Extraction

by Elmue

How to implement creation and extraction of Microsoft CAB files

CAboutCtrl - Aboutbox Credits Control

by Pablo Software Solutions

This control can be use as an about box for your applications

Caching in ASP.NET

by Joydeep Ghosh

Demonstrates data caching in ASP.NET

CadLib for creating DXF(Drawing Interchange Format) files

by Omid Shahabi

A link-library and its interface class to create, load and modify DXF files.

Calendar

by Michael Pauli

Tray calendar for WinXP+ (replaces MirandaPlanner).

Calling Managed .NET Function from Unmanaged Windows Custom DLL.

by hasansheik

It will help you to call a managed function from unmanaged DLL function.

Calling methods from Dll compiled in 'C' from C#

by Thor's Kettle

Describes how to interface 'C' code with C# through Dlls compiled in 'C'

Calling webService (managed C# webservice) from MFC(unmanaged) Application by Retaining the Session using Cookies Container.

by BAIJUMAX

This article deals with calling webService (managed C# webservice) from MFC (unmanaged) application by retaining the session using Cookies Container

CAM simulator

by Diego Andrade

This program shows how a CN machine works

CAMEL - CPU Identifier Class

by voodoopriestess

A class to detect ALL the features of the CPU / CPUs in the local system. Now at version 1.2

Can search_n be more efficient?

by Jim Xochellis

This article is discussing the efficiency of the most popular search_n implementations. Furthermore, it is introducing a new search_n specialization for random access iterators, which outruns by far the most commonly used implementations.

CAppBar, a WTL implementation of AppBar

by Neil Yao

A reusable WTL base class to support AppBar

Capture an HTML document as an image

by Rob Manderson, Vadim Tabakman

Capturing HTML documents as images

Capture Live Video from various Video Devices.

by Dillip Kumar Kara

LiveVideo is an application to capture live video from various video capture devices.

Capture Screen to Clipboard including dropdown menu

by Y. Huang

Capture screen image to clipboard including dropdown menu, combobox lists etc

Casting Basics - Use C++ casts in your VC++.NET programs

by Nish Nishant

Demonstrates and compares the various casting operators available. Also suggests when to use and what to use!

CAsyncProxySocket - CAsyncSocket derived class to connect through proxies

by Tim Kosse

This class allows you to establish connections through SOCKS4/5 and HTTP 1.1 proxies.

CAsyncSocketEx - Replacement for CAsyncSocket with proxy and SSL support

by Tim Kosse

CAsyncSocketEx is an MFC-less replacement for CAsyncSocket which does also offer a flexible layer system. With the layer class CAsyncProxySocketLayer, you can connect through proxy servers.

CAsyncSslSocketLayer - SSL layer class for CAsyncSocketEx

by Tim Kosse

This class is an SSL layer for CAsyncSocketEx using OpenSSL.

CAtlHttpClientT Bug Fixed

by Yury Lukach

A fix of ATL 7 CAtlHttpClientT code

CBrowseCtrl - Adding File/Folder-Browse Features to Your Projects Easily

by Abin

A file/folder browsing control that integrates an editbox and a button with built-in images

CBTAngleWnd: A cool rotation angle custom control with full source code!

by ucc801

It implements the angle custom control, a circle with a line indicating a rotation angle. Give your application a professional look now!

CButton with icon

by Alexander Kloep

A small class to create a button with an icon on it

CButtonST v3.9 (MFC Flat buttons)

by Davide Calabro

A fully featured owner-draw button class - it's got the lot!

CCheckComboBox II

by PJ Arends

A ComboBox that has a checkbox by each of its items.

CClockST v1.3

by Davide Calabro

A simple digital clock and date class derived from the MFC CStatic class

CColorBox

by PEK

A very simple button that shows a color and lets the user change it by clicking on the button.

CColourPickerXP - a Theme-aware Colour Picker with 2 Styles.

by Zorglab

An theme-aware colour picker MFC control that combines the functionalities of other colour pickers on CodeProject and adds some new functionality.

CConsole - A Simple Console for Debug Output

by User 6658

Show debug information in an easy to handle console

CContourBitmap - A Region Creator

by Wolfgang Busch

A bitmap class with a "brute-force" region creator

CCoolFXStatic

by Hou Tianze

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

CDataFile - An easy class for reading numeric data in CSV or Text-Delimited format.

by Nitron

This class reads numeric data and stores it for easy access. The data can be accessed by (row, column) from any data reduction routines you may have.

CDFValue - Fractional/Decimal conversion class

by Old Timer

A class used to manipulate and convert decimal and fractional data.

CDHtmlDialog with CSS, JavaScript and images

by iTreeSoft

An article on how to use CSS, JavaScript and images in resource with CDHtmlDialog in VC++ .NET

CDiagramEditor - DIY vector and dialog editor

by Johan Rosengren

A feature rich vector editor skeleton.

CDialogEx, CPropertySheetEx2 classes with status bar, toolbar and tool tips

by Martin Ziacek

CDialogEx and CPropertySheetEx2 are classes derived from CDialog and CPropertySheetEx with support for status bar, toolbar and tool tips

CDialogResize based class with no groupbox flicker

by SGarratt

Get rid of annoying groupbox flicker when using resizeable windows; also effects adjustable minimum and maximum window size.

CDocument::DoSave revealed

by Nish Nishant

Explains how you can suppress the File-Save-As dialog in a Doc/View app, how to save files to multiple formats, and how DoSave is implemented.

CDoubleScrollBar: Scrollbars based on double values

by DavyBoy

A simple plug-in replacement for CScrollBar, which provides direct access to scrolling with double values.

CDropEdit

by Chris Losinger

Drag and drop files onto a CEdit, instead of using a file open dialog.

CEditMoeda

by Augusto Maia

A CEdit enhancement for efficient currency capturing.

CEnBSTR - A simple _bstr_t extension

by Morten Abrahamsen

A simple _bstr_t extension to wrap basic string functionality (find, mid, replace aso)

Cexif

by Davide Pizzolato

A small class to read EXIF data from JPEG images.

CExtStatusControlBar - Managing status bar's panes is getting easier

by Dmitriy Yakovlev

An enhanced status bar which allows you to easily add/remove almost any controls to/from its panes, on-the-fly.

CFadeStatic

by Hou Tianze

A CStatic derived class that adds in fade in/out effect to your picture controls.

CFile Replacement with Overlapped I/O and User-Defined Progress Callback

by Joseph Dempsey

Provides a class capable of providing a CFile sytle interface with no MFC dependecies and more importantly providing the ability to read/write if full overlapped IO mode with a user defined callback between each segment read/write.

CFileFinder - Extend the functionality of CFileFind MFC class

by Samuel Gonzalo

Search for files by name, size, date, text contents. The search can be performed in a single folder or including it's subfolders.

CFileManip: "DOS-Command-Like" File/Directory Manipulation

by Abin

A class that allows fast and easy file/directory operation

CFileTar 1.0 - pack and unpack file archives

by Nish Nishant

A class for packing and unpacking file archives.

CFilterHeaderCtrl and CFilterListCtrl - Give user a chance to filter data you brought him!

by Massimiliano Conte

An owner drawn header control and a CListControl that uses it

CFlowchartEditor - linking things in CDiagramEditor

by Johan Rosengren

A flowchart editor with linked objects, based on CDiagramEditor.

CFolderDialog - Selecting Folders

by Armen Hakobyan

The CFolderDialog class allows you to add a folder-selection dialog box to your applications.

CFontStatic

by Patrik Svensson

An easy way to change the look of a CStatic.

CFormatDriveDialog - A wrapper class for the undocumented SHFormatDrive API function

by Nish Nishant

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

CFunctionEdit - A custom control for n-tuple input v1.2

by Cagdas Calik

A custom control for n-tuple input.

CGDIRect

by Jason Troitsky

A comprehensive class to help working with the different "Rect" classes in Win32 & .NET

CGetOpt - A commandline Parameter Parsing Class

by Geert van Horrik

This class enables you to easily parse a command line in any C++ application.

CGlassDialog

by Youngman Park

This is a simple class that makes transparent dialog boxes rise more smoothly.

CGradient and CGradientCtrl

by Joel Holdsworth

A pair of classes for rendering and editing colourful washes

CGridCtrl 1.5

by Marius Negrutiu

This article presents a tiny grid control derived from the standard list control

CGZip, a C++ wrapper for gzip methods

by Jonathan de Halleux

A minimal class for handling gzip methods included in the zlib library.

CHandleT - A HANDLE wrapper for WTL

by isemenov

A simple Win32 HANDLE type wrapper.

Changing FileDescriptor's Limit and TIME_WAIT Limit in Win-XP, VISTA and Server2003.

by Raghuwanshi.G.S

This article shows how to improve Server / System performance by changing the FILE DESCRIPTOR limit and TIME_WAIT in Windows 2003, XP and Vista.

Changing the Default form of Dialog Window

by Star_Friend

Changing the default form of dialog window making it as a circle instead of rectangular form.

Changing the Number of Items that Appear in the Most Recently Used List (MRU)

by Jason Walsh

How to change the number of items that appear in the Most Recently Used List (MRU)

Changing the Visual Studio .NET Add-in Default Tool Menu Item Icon

by Nathan Blomquist

This article discusses how to change the icon that is placed on the tools menu by the Visual Studio .NET Add-in Wizard

Changing Time Zone Information with C++

by Ludvik Jerabek

Programmatically changing the Windows time zone information.

Changing Windows XP's Bootskin, Windows File Protection, and Themes programmatically

by Naren Neelamegam

Vistra code walkthrough article, to explain a few of the interesting things about Windows.

Chatbot Tutorial

by Gonzales Cenelia

Tutorial on making an artificial intelligence chatbot

Check User’s Permissions On A File or Folder

by Softomatix

A component to check if given user has a particular access rights on a file/folder or not.

Checked Iterators

by Nemanja Trifunovic

Answers to some common questions on C++ checked iterators.

Checking the serial Number of a CD

by H. Joseph

This program pops up a message box if the installation CD is not in the CD Drive by checking the serial number of the CD.

Christian and James' Code Project Screensaver

by Christian Graus, James T. Johnson

Our attempt at a screen saver with a Code Project theme, written in C#

CImageButtonWithStyle - Buttons using Images with XP Visual Styles

by Stephen C. Steel

How to get buttons using an icon or bitmap to use XP visual styles.

CImageTextButton

by anuragvelekkattu

Bitmap button which embeds text on it.

CIni

by Abin

A comprehensive INI file handling class.

CIniEx DLL for non-MFC users

by PacoGM

CIniEx without MFC.

CIniFile Class for C++ - A robust cross platform INI file class

by Todd Davis

A fully featured and cross platform friendly way to handle *.ini and *.cfg files.

CInputBox

by Mustafa Demirhan

A CDialog derived class that provides functionality similar to the VB InputBox function

CInputBox 1.0

by Nish Nishant

A CFrameWnd derived class that provides functionality similar to the VB InputBox function. You don't need a dialog resource to use the class!

CInputEvent class

by RiriOnTheWeb

Easier mouse event management for your owner drawn controls

Circuit Engine

by Emre Guldogan

A System for Simulation and Analysis of Logic Circuits

Circular Reference-proof ATL Object Collections

by Midi_Mick

Using ATL and STL to create collections of COM objects without circular references

CKCSideBannerWnd: An MFC Banner Control that Can Add a Professional-looking Feel to Most Windows...

by Peter Mares

A CWnd-derived control that can attach itself to any window, without the programmer making provisions for it

CKeystrokeEngine

by Mustafa Demirhan

A set of classes used to send keystrokes to a selected window

Class function callback

by Tydia-kun

Shows how to make callback to functions within classes that are non-static.

Classes for computational geometry

by Chris Maunder

Some classes and utility functions for general computational geometry

ClassLib, A C++ class library

by Jan van den Baard

C++ class library.

CLayeredBitmapCtrl

by Metaldude

A CStatic derived control that allows multiple layers of bitmaps to be displayed or hidden in the same control.

CLayeredWindowHelperST v1.0

by Davide Calabro

A wrapper class for transparent windows

Clean Up Handler

by Black Horus

A shell extension to delete temporary files (e.g visual c++ intermediate files).

CleanUp Files using C Sharp

by Shankara Narayanan

Describes the File Access, Persistance with C Sharp

CleanZipAndGo

by Dominique Doucet

Utility to quickly archive any project to a Zip file.

CLEDScreen class - LED digital screen with transparency

by olden69

A CStatic derived digital LED screen with transparency. Based on "CStaticTime class" of Jason Hattingh.

CListCtrl With Web Links

by cgoldsch

Extended ListCtrl class that supports web links.

Clock Screen Saver

by Don Kackman

A mouse trailing clock screen saver written in MFC

CLRDebugEnable: A Visual Studio .NET add-in that allows non-admin accounts to debug CLR applications running under different logon credentials

by Rama Krishna Vavilala

A Visual Studio .NET addin that allows non-admin accounts to debug CLR applications running under different logon credentials.

CM_ConfigBuilder 1.2g: Visual Studio 6/Visual Studio 2005/Visual Studio 2008 Code Generator for Application Settings Graphic Management

by Stefano Basili

CM_ConfigBuilder generates and compiles the required files to manage your application's settings/preferences and to store/retrieve them in XML format.

CMap How-to

by Sam NG

How to use a CMap

CMapEditor

by eugi

A simple and efficient interface for using a multi-level matrix of values.

CMapEditorCtrl

by eugi

This class provides MFC Control functionality to CMapEditor, and supports isometric view

CMarkupArchive, an extension to CMarkup

by Jonathan de Halleux

This class adds additional features to the XML parser CMarkup: file handling, namespaces, numerical helpers and new find methods.

CMatrixCtrl - Matrix Credits Control

by Pablo Software Solutions

This is an attempt to create a control which looks a little bit like the credits of the Matrix movie.

CMenuXP - The Office XP Style Menu

by Jean-Michel LE FOL

Owner drawn menu with the Office XP visual style

CMp3Tags - id3v1.1 Tag Reader/Writer

by Dean Thomas

An article on reading and writing tags for MP3 files.

CMultiCombo - A checkbox-bitmapped combobox

by Mauricio Ritter

Present a combo-box class that allows multiple checkbox bitmaps to be placed next to each item.

CNumberFormat: A class for bit-field extraction out from 32 bit value values

by rbid

An MFC class for fast extraction and interpretation of values from a 32 bit provided value.

CODBCAccess: a CDatabase and CRecordset Wrapper

by Alexander Wiseman

A class to wrap the use of CDatabase and CRecordset into one object to communicate with databases

Code Counter Tool

by Prashanth Uppunda

Code Counter is a GUI tool, which can be used for counting the number of source lines, commented lines and blank lines in a VC++ project.

Code for finding out the total number of files & folders existing in a folder through VC++

by kalicharan

The small function block will return a structure consisting of number of folders & files existing in the given folder.

Code that debugs itself

by Andrew Schetinin

A set of macros for detecting and reporting critical errors, combined with a technique of writing solid code.

Code to Allow You to Print the Content of a CTreeCtrl

by Roger Allen

A base class that provides all the functions you need to print a CTreeCtrl

Code to extract plain text from a PDF file

by NeWi

Source code that shows how to decompress and extract text from PDF documents.

CodePlotter 1.6 - Add and edit diagrams in your code with this 'Visio-like' tool

by .dan.g.

A Visual Studio addin for creating and editing ASCII diagrams in source files

CodePlotter Remoded 1.6 - A standalone version for VC6, .NET, Delphi, C++ Builder and VB coders

by .dan.g.

A 'Visio-like' tool for adding and editing ascii diagrams in your source code

CodeWizard--A visual tool to automatically generate C++ code files!

by ucc801

CodeWizard includes a tool that lets you visually create functionality on-screen and automatically generate C++ code files!

CollapseAll Macro for Visual Studio .NET

by Edwin Evans

A simple macro to collapse all the project nodes in the Solution Explorer

Collapsible, resizable and dockable XP style control bar

by Nicolas Gazelle

Collapsible, resizable and dockable XP style control bar

Color CButton, CEdit, and CDialog using CAdvancedComponent

by Loack_

Using CAdvancedComponent to change the background, foreground, and other colors on CButton, CEdit, and CDialog.

Color Picker for WTL with XP themes

by Tim Smith

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

ColorComboBox

by pseudonym67

Selecting colors with a combo box.

ColorFinder - Retrieve the color of any pixel on the Desktop

by abhinaba

This article discusses the ColorFinder application that can be used to retrieve the color of any pixel on the desktop in various formats

Column based selection in rich edit control.

by Mahfuzur Rahman.

Column based selection in rich edit control.

Column Separator Control

by Vladimir L.

A control to split text into fixed width columns

COM Interface Hooking and Its Application - Part I

by Zhefu Zhang

Interaction with MSN Messenger 6.0

COM Interop using managed C++

by Igor Chouvalov

A demoonstration of COM Interop, showing early and late binding to a COM component

COM+ Subscription Viewer

by Roman Kiss

This sample shows how to retrieve a subscriptions registered in the Event System store using C#.

ComboBoxDataBind

by Janardhan Babu Chinta

A resizable combobox which can bind data through an interface

Command line parser

by Pavel Antonov

An intuitive and extensible command line parser class that handles multiple command line formats

Command line tool with source code to add native resources to any executable

by kamnas

A command line tool with source code to add any native Win32 resource (HTML, Icons, BMPs, etc.) to an executable.

Command Prompt Explorer Bar

by Pavel Zolnikov

This tool extends explorer with functionality of a command prompt. Implemented as a band object completely in C#. Demonstrates COM Interop and P/Invoke, windows hooking and API interception. Finally you can run all these .Net SDK tools and ‘Hello World!’ programs without leaving explorer shell.

Command routing beyond a split frame

by Bartosz Bien

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

Comments Workbench for C++ - A Visual Studio .NET Add-in

by lazybug_in

Comments workbench for C++ - a Visual Studio .NET add-in.

Common Add-Ins

by Sp1ff

Writing add-ins for DevStudio, Visual Studio, and Office

Communication between GUI Application and Device Driver

by lizhiwei

An article on Communication between GUI Application and Device Driver

Comparing different coding approaches - Part 1

by Emilio Garavaglia

This is the first of a series of articles where a comparison between different code styling is evaluated and made available.

Comparing different coding approaches - Part 2

by Emilio Garavaglia

Second part: multiple projects, templates and inheritance.

Comparing Two Bitmaps for Equality

by PJ Arends

Code snippet that compares two HBITMAP handles to see if the bitmaps they contain are the same

Compiler Security Checks In Depth

by Brandon Bray (MSFT)

This paper discusses buffer overruns and the complete picture of the Microsoft® Visual C++® .NET security checks feature provided by /GS

Compiler's Code Optimization - The Dark Side

by Marcelo A. B. Slomp

How compiler's code optimization models works and mixing its to create an hybrid optimization model.

Compiling and Integrating Crypto++ into the Microsoft Visual C++ Environment

by Garth J Lancaster, Jeffrey Walton

Avoid common pitfalls when using Crypto++ and VC++.

Composite Pattern Made as C++ Component

by tojohere

Composite pattern made as a reusable C++ template class

Composites-Visitors pattern: the OOP way

by Emilio Garavaglia

An implementation of the composite-visitors pattern avoiding the use of rescursive generic code.

Compress Data

by James Lee

Compress/uncompress data in CFile, CByteArray and IStream(ISequentialStream)

Compressing attachments before sending the mail

by Karl Josefsson

Compressing attachments before sending the mail

Concatenating Wave Files

by Furer Alexander

An article about concatenating .WAV files "on the fly"

Configure Log4Net for Desktop and Web Applications

by Hai, Nguyen

How to configure Log4Net for desktop and Web applications

Connect the Gmail with IWebBrowser2

by Dofu

Use the IWebBrowser2 to connect Gmail

Connecting to a HTTPS server with SSL using Wininet, sending client certificate and reading response

by Ayhan AVCI

A sample class which illustrates how to connect to a HTTPS server, the class sends the desired client certificate and authenticates the user.

Conquering Wizard97

by Vladimir L.

This article describes the problems one can meet during using Wizard 97 with MFC and the way to resolve them

Conservative Garbage Collector for C

by Yasin HINISLIOGLU

This article explains garbage collection and memory management using C language

Console Application Framework

by Dominique Bijnens

A framework for rapidly creating a console application.

Console Event Handling

by Kumar Gaurav Khanna

This article discusses how to handle console-window specific events

Const Illustration in C++

by LaymanZheng

This article illustrates the common usage of a const in C++

Consuming .NET My Services from Managed C++

by Diana Mitran (MSFT)

This white paper guides you through the process of writing a client application that will consume a sample .NET My Services service

Consuming Web Services from a Win Forms Application

by Jason Henderson

How to access and use a web service from a C# application, using the CodeProject Web Services.

Consuming Web Services from MS Excel

by Kodanda Pani

How to access a web service from Microsoft Excel

Control Arrays in VB.NET

by ManojRajan

This article explains control arrays with example.

Control Center for Windows 2K and more extended

by conio

Control Center for Windows 2K and more

Control Data Support

by Paul Vickery

A class to enable data to be set on a control

Control Panel Applets for everyone

by carlos@takeapps

This is a step-by-step guide to build your own control panel applet

Control Positioner -- Repostion your child windows without code change

by Ziming

This is a small class for control repositioning. It can create an INI file, which logs all aspects of your control.

Controlling Winamp2/3/Sonique Programmatically

by Daniel Bright

An article on controlling popular media players from external programs.

ControlObjectList

by DCUtility

Add/Remove/Scroll/Sort Object List (CButton, CStatic, etc..)

Convenient wrapper of VBScript.RegExp for VC++

by sswater shi

Regular Expression for VC++ using VBScript.RegExp

Conversion of Enhanced Metafile to Bitmap and viceversa

by Pravarakhya

An article on conversion of EMF file to Bitmap file format and BMP to EMF

Convert a Delegate to a Function pointer to Implement Callback function

by kero

Convert a delegate to a function pointer to implement callback function, for mixed Managed C++ and unmanaged C++ coding, and for DLL call.

Convert Integers to Their Textual Description

by Jeremy Falcon

Convert an integer to its textual description

Convert MAC Address String into Bytes

by anand choubey

The code snippet converts MAC Address String Format into Bytes

Convert Object Name to SID and vice versa

by Nikhil Doshi

Tool to convert SIDs to object name and vice versa.

Convert.exe

by Roger Wright

A Utility to converter negative values displayed with trailing minus to a leading minus format

Converting between different number bases

by Shrishail Rana

An article on converting numbers and strings to different code bases such as binary, octal, decimal and hex.

Converting numeric types to strings and strings to numeric types

by Eloff

Benchmarks on various conversion technqiues, commentary, and some custom conversion functions.

Converting SIDs between strings and binary

by Brian Friesen

How to convert SIDs between string and binary representations

Convertion from managed String* data type to LPCTSTR

by mshoukry_alkhwarazmi

a class to convert from VC++.NET String* data type to leagcy LPCTSTR

Convolution of Bitmaps

by Fred Ackers

Article discussing how to convolve images, specificially the convolution of bitmaps.

Cool Colour Selector Including Hue, Saturation, and Lumination

by Lea Hayes

This colour selector helps to make selecting colours more efficient

Cool WTL menu with Gradient Sidebar

by Ramon Smits

An article about changing the look of WTL icon menu

COptionTree

by Matthew R. Miller

An article on an easy and neat way to include options, preferences, or settings into your applications

Copy a period of AVI chunks

by Denny50

How to copy a period of AVI video by copying the chunk data.

Copy binary folder files

by QUIETTA

EZ methods to copy a complete folder, while filtering the filetypes as needed.

Copy Constructors and Assignment Operators: Just Tell Me the Rules!

by Kenneth Kasajian

I get asked this question sometimes from seasoned programmers who are new to C++. There are plenty of good books written on the subject, but I found no clear and concise set of rules on the Internet for those who don't want to understand every nuance of the language—and just want the facts.

Correct Column Ordinals of an ADOX Table Object

by Ferdie

Getting the correct column ordinals of an ADOX Table object.

Correctly drawn themed dialogs in WinXP

by Luuk Weltevreden

This article shows a workaround to the graphics bug that a checkbox or radio button is displayed with a black background on themed dialogs.

COscilloscopeCtrl

by Tanzim Husain

An oscilloscope control with multiple band(frequency) support

Count Lines of C or C++ Code

by Roger65

An article on counting lines of code.

Counting version1.1

by xiaogi

A software to count lines in our source code.

CP+ Visual Studio.NET Add-In

by Paul Watson

An app which retrieves the latest Articles and Lounge Posts from CP and displays them to you within your VS.NET IDE

CP2 Universal Gui LibrarY (UGLY) Project - MAIN PAGE

by J. Dunlap

A GUI library collaborative project.

CPath 1.2 - To work with path strings easily

by Samuel Gonzalo

A class to work with path strings, to parse command line arguments and get file properties

CPJAImage - Yet another image drawing class

by PJ Arends

A class that draws an image with various options - transparently, disabled or grayscale, centered on or stretched to fit a given rectangle.

CPop3 class

by Christopher Zmorzynski

This is simple CPop3 class that can connect to a pop3 server and receive messages.

CPopProxyMT - A multi-threaded POP3 proxy skeleton

by Nish Nishant

CPopProxyMT is a skeletal class that wraps a multi-threaded POP3 proxy. You can further modify this class to suite your needs.

CPPHtmlStatic v1.2

by Eugene Pustovoyt

A control based on CStatic for displaying HTML-like text formatting elements.

CppSQLite - C++ Wrapper for SQLite

by Rob Groves

A C++ wrapper around the SQLite embedded database library.

CPPToolTip v2.1

by Eugene Pustovoyt

A class that allows you to display your data for a control as tooltip

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

by 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.

CProfile - A Simple Class to Do Code Profiling and Tracing

by Hernán Di Pietro

This simple class allows to profile code sections and optionally print time elapsed and tracing strings in different formats.

CPropTree v1.0 - Property Tree Control

by sramsay

Custom MFC tree control that support dynamic editable items

CQuickList

by PEK

A custrom-draw virtual list control. Support for subitem editing, images, button (checkboxes, radio buttons), custom colors, and "column navigation".

Crafting an interpreter Part 2 - The Calc0 Toy Language

by Martin.Holzherr

Second article on building a language interpreter describing error handling and direct evaluation during parsing.

Crafting an interpreter Part 3 - Parse Trees and Syntax Trees

by Martin.Holzherr

Third article on building a language interpreter describing the generation of parse trees and syntax trees.

Crafting an interpreter Part 1 - Parsing and Grammars

by Martin.Holzherr

First of a series of articles on building a language interpreter, describing basics about parsing and grammars.

CRC32: Generating a checksum for a file

by Brian Friesen

How to generate a CRC32 based on a file

Create a Convenient Toolbar Assistant Using WTL

by Rocom

A more easy to generate toolbar images.

Create a movie from an HBitmap

by Gopalakrishna Palem

Explains methods for creating a movie (AVI/ WMV/ MOV) programmatically.

Create a thread from global\static void returning a function with any type and number of arguments

by hagarwal

This is a macro which takes the name of any void returning global\static procedure, followed by the list of arguments to be passed to that procedure, and invokes the procedure with the arguments supplied, in a new thread.

Create a Universal Document Template which supports Dynamic Frame Window Layout

by dean170

Introduce a programming technology to design a very complex, rich document type.

Create Asynchronous Web Services with WSE v2.0 and ASP.NET SimpleHandlerFactory

by DGoins

This article describes another way to implement asychronous webservices using ASP.NET and WSE v2.0.

Create In-Place ToolTips on yourself control

by autodebug

It is very easy to create In-Place ToolTips on yourself control like treeview control.

Create INSERT batch files easily with ScriptBuilder

by Gordon Kushner

Utility program for generating SQL Server INSERT scripts

Create multilingual web pages very easily

by Stephan Pilz

Create multilingual web pages very easily, without using localization and resources.

Create Simple Palette Animation

by Aric Wang

To show you how to create a easy animation with palette

Create Sub Window for MiniView under CView

by Youngho Kim

This Article is make of a CView under CView using CWnd control

Create Thumbnail Extractor Objects for Your MFC Document Types

by Philipos Sakellaropoulos

An article on writing thumbnail shell extensions for your MFC document types

CreateGrayscaleIcon

by Davide Calabro

A Win32 function to create grayscale icons

Creating a Collection Class in C++

by fyrewolfe

How to use a template to create a custom collection class and using the C++ std::vector STL library as well as the operator. I will expect you to understand how pointers, classes, templates and the operator works.

Creating a Config Panel Applet

by Nilesh K.

Step by step creation of a control panel applet

Creating a custom wizard to generate managed C++.NET applications with a default form

by zebbedi

Creating a custom wizard to generate managed C++.NET applications with a default form

Creating a Dictionary using Word Automation and Text-to-Speech Control

by pratheesh

An MFC based implementation of a MS Word Speller.

Creating a dynamically translucent dialog

by CheerJeer

Using two common techniques to create an uncommon UI.

Creating a host application for the .NET Common Language Runtime.

by Ranjeet Chakraborty

This article explains how easy it is to write custom host applications for the .NET Common Language Runtime to run managed code.

Creating a new MDI child: maximization and focus issues

by Daniel Bowen

Issues and solutions when creating a new MDI child in a WTL application when the last active child was maximized

Creating a Yahoo! Mail Client using IWebBrowser2 and DHTML

by pratheesh

Describes a practical use of the HTML interfaces available in C++.

Creating An ActiveX Control using VC++.NET

by Abdul Hye

An understanding of ActiveX controls.

Creating an Add-in to host a GUI inside the Developer Studio IDE

by Jim Crafton

An article on hosting your own custom window inside of Microsoft Developer Studio

Creating an Extensible User Interface with .NET, Part 2

by Keith Jacquemin

Accessing application level user interface elements from plug-in components.

Creating and Resolving shell links

by Nish Nishant

An MC++ class that uses IJW to invoke the IShellLink interface

Creating and Using custom controls in VC++

by Yogesh M Joshi

This article will create a custom control using the custom control on the control bar.

Creating custom headers and footers in Application level events using global.asax

by Rahman Mahmoodi

An example of how to create custom headers and footers in Application level events using the global.asax file.

Creating Dialup Connections

by Seiya Fujii

Describes how to create a new phone-book entry, and set it up with the user profile.

Creating draggable windows - SDI and dialogs

by Nish Nishant

Shows how you can create windows that can be dragged around, not just through the title bar, but anywhere within the window body

Creating embedded dialogs in MFC

by EK_Kiwi

Creating embedded dialogs in MFC using DS_CONTROL

Creating graphs using JavaScript

by Andy-Scott

JavaScript can be used to dynamically generate a bar graph with user supplied data. This article shows you how.

Creating Movable Child Window Controls

by saud_ad

A walkthrough on building a Windows control that can be moved by the user at runtime.

Creating Self-Extracted Executable

by Nir Dremer

How to create a Self-Extracted executable with minimal overhead

Creating the General ProfUIS Dialog and ProfUIS MessageBox

by Leshchuk Aleksey

Creating the General ProfUIS Dialog and ProfUIS MessageBox

Creating your first project in Visual C++ .NET

by Star_Friend

How to Create your first project created in .NET environment espetially using VC++...?

Creation of a Simple DLL

by VGirish

Steps to create your first DLL file

Creation of Multiple Dynamic Views. How to initilize and use additional different views in your MDI app by using Doc / view architecture. Example...

by rj45

An MDI MFC generated project has only one view by default, here is one way to add more CView derived classes and initiliaze them without adding any special initialization code.

CRegisterEx - a registry wrapper class

by S van Leent

An easy to use all-in-one registry class

CRegSettings - registry helper class

by Magomed Abdurakhmanov

Simple class to store application settings in registry

CReportCtrl - An extremely convenient version of report-style CListCtrl

by Abin

An MFC CListCtrl derived class specialized in report-style list control manipulation.

CRichEditCtrl and a popup menu

by bryce

Providing a popup menu for the CRichEditCtrl

CRichEditCtrl revised

by G. Steudtel

A derived CRichEditCtrl class which focuses on streaming and on the visual aspects of formatting. Also includes the use of the link-formatting.

Critical Section Block

by hongseok.com

Helper Class for using CRITICAL_SECTION

Cross language inheritance in .NET

by Chris Maunder

An introduction to cross-language inheritence in .NET.

Cross Language Web Service Implementation

by Nick Parker

Cross Language XML based Web Service Implementation between Managed C++ and C#.

Cross Platform Mutex

by Gulyan

Using Mutexes on cross platform programming

Cross thread calls in native C++

by einaros

An article which discusses the need for synchronization in multi-threaded applications, and features a generic framework for making calls across threads: ThreadSynch.

Crossing the bridge between Ghostscript and GDI+

by Jonathan de Halleux

A C++ wrapper for the Ghostscript DLL that enables to render PS directly to GDI+ Bitmap

Cross-Platform IPC Event Manager for Interaction with Service Providers

by Alex_Intw

This article shows you how to send or post events among processes using shared memory queues for the Windows and Linux platforms.

CRoundButton2 - A fancy graphical button

by JtR1977

A self drawing, round button for different styles and usages.

CRulerRichEditCtrl - a complete RTF mini-editor

by Johan Rosengren

A complete mini-editor with a formatting toolbar and a ruler with editable tab-positions.

Cryptographic Interoperability: Digital Signatures

by Jeffrey Walton

Sign and verify messages using Crypto++, Java, and C#.

Cryptographic Interoperability: Keys

by Jeffrey Walton

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

Cryptography with symmetric key using bitmaps

by GINGISHAN2003

Cryptography with symmetric key using bitmaps

CScrollCtrl: An autoscrolling text control

by Shog9

Display autoscrolling text with logo and patterned background. Useful for about dialogs, misc fluff.

CSDITrueColorTabs

by Florin Ochiana

A tab control with true color icons for an SDI application with multiple views.

CSecureEditEx - A More Secure Edit Control

by Dominik Reichl

CSecureEditEx controls are resistant to password revealers. Passwords aren't visible in the process memory.

CSerialIO - A Useful and Simple Serial Communication Class

by tojine

It implements the serial communication using a thread to enable data being captured anytime, you just handle the event of READ/WRITE/OPEN/CLOSE via inheriting this class

CServiceHelper

by Nish Nishant

A simple class to install, uninstall, start, stop, pause, continue Win32 services

CSHA1 - A C++ Class Implementation of the SHA-1 Hash Algorithm

by Dominik Reichl

CSHA1 - A C++ class implementation of the SHA-1 hash algorithm

CSkinProgress

by Kochise

A bitmapped progress bar in a status bar with optional completion status message

CSmtpProxyMT 1.0

by Nish Nishant

An SMTP proxy class with ability to insert signatures to outgoing mails. Does not require MFC.

CSoundFileDlg - An Open/Save dilaog for sound files with Preview (or prelisten)

by lvidaguren

The CSoundFileDlg Class allows you to use a file open dialog for sound files, but allows yow to hear the sound before open it.

CSplashScreenEx: A Non Rectangular Splash Screen Class with Alpha Blending

by John O'Byrne

CSplashScreenEx allows to display a non rectangular bitmap with information about the init of your app

CSplitMX - File Splitting Class for Visual C++

by Pyatex

This class splits a source file into many smaller pieces which can be distributed accross the web or on floppy disk.

CSplitURL - split a URL into component parts

by Rob Caldecott

Wrapper class for the WinInet InternetCrackUrl function

CSpreadSheet - A Class to Read and Write to Excel and Text Delimited Spreadsheet

by Yap Chun Wei

A Class to Read and Write to Excel and Text Delimited Spreadsheet

CSPServer, State-based Protocol Server Class

by hector santos

Class framework for creating client/server protocol servers

CStarWarsCtrl - Star Wars Credits Control

by Pablo Software Solutions

This is an attempt to create a control which looks like the credits of the Star Wars movies.

CStatic derivative CSpeedoMeter class

by Henry Tan Setiawan

A simple SpeedoMeter class based on CStatic base class.

CStatusGraphCtrl - a C++ wrapper class on CWnd, to display status graphically

by Gerald Naveen A

C++ source to create a control that graphically displays the current status of an application variable.

CStdioFile-derived class for multibyte and Unicode reading and writing

by David Pritchard

A class, derived from CStdioFile, which transparently reads and writes both Unicode and multibyte files. Version 1.5.

CString To char Conversion method (Warning Free)

by ImmelmanQ

An article on converting CStrings to chars without data loss.

CStringEdit - An Edit Box With Validation and Status/Alert Display

by MJ_Karas

A CEdit derived class with string content / length checking and highlighted status / alert display.

CTaskProgressDialog: A dialog indicating operation progress for multiple tasks

by yellowine

Progress indicator for multi-tasks in a project

CTextFileDocument

by PEK

CTextFileDocument lets you write and read text files with different encodings (ASCII, UTF-8, Unicode 16 little/big endian are supported).

CThread

by PEK

CThread simplifies the process to start, run and stop threads. You can use it to work with threads in the same way as you do in C# or Java.

CToolbarDialog - dialog with floating toolbar

by Lucian Barbulescu

A CDialog derived class that contains a floating toolbar.

CToolTipDialog class : a simple WTL class to enable tooltips in your dialogs

by Alain Rist

Add this small class to your existing dialog inheritance list and get nice tooltips on controls and dialog.

CToolTipListCtrl - A CListCtrl derived class providing per SubItem tooltips

by João Filipe de Castro Ferreira

A CListCtrl derived class providing per SubItem tooltips, adapted from Nate Maynard's CToolTipTreeCtrl

CTrayIconPosition - where is my tray icon?

by Irek Zielinski

Ever wanted to know position of your tray icon? Windows supplies no API for that. This class is a compact solution that works.

CTreeComboBox: A Multiline Tree Combo Box that supports XML

by John Melas

This class implements a combo box that reads its data from an XML file, displays a tree as a drop down window, and supports mulitple selections.

CTreeCtrl\CListCtrl\CListBox With ToolTip Based On the Item Data

by ran wainstein

A CTreeCtrl derived class providing tooltips based on item data

CTreeCtrlEx - Setting Color and Font Attribute for Individual Items in Tree Control

by lion

Allows to display color items and change the font style

CTreePropSheet - A Netscape/Visual Studio .NET like Preferences Dialog

by Sven Wiegand

This framework introduces a property sheet, based on the original Windows property sheet (derived from CPropertySheet) which uses a tree control to browse the pages instead of a tab control

CTreePropSheetEx – an extended version of CTreePropSheet

by Yves Tkaczyk

CTreePropSheetEx is an extension of CTreePropSheet offering new features such as resizing, skipping empty pages, and new property frames such as Office 2003 option sheet.

CTreeView Iterator

by Julien Martino

An iterator to parse subtree and execute function on each item/node

CTrueColorToolBar

by DCUtility

Very simple true color toolbar (It's true!)

CTrueRandom - Getting True Random Numbers

by Dominik Reichl

The CTrueRandom class gets true random numbers for you.

CUpgradeApplication - Remotely Upgrade Applications

by voodoopriestess

How to remotely upgrade applications from a web server with just two lines of code! Does not use MFC.

Custom (User Defined) Operators in C++

by John Crenshaw

C++ has no native support for adding new operators, but this article shows how, with macros and some clever overloading, it is possible to easily add your own anyway.

Custom 32-bit RGBA Color MFC Control

by Colin Vella

A custom MFC control that allows the user to manipulate 32-bit RGBA colour attributes.

Custom Light-weight Regions

by valdok

Regions encapsulation in light-weight C++ objects.

Custom Python Part 1: Extensions

by Jamie Hale

How to build C/C++ custom extension libraries for Python.

Custom Tab Controls, Tabbed Frame and Tabbed MDI

by Daniel Bowen

An extensible framework for creating customized tabs in ATL/WTL, with a VS.NET-like tab control implementation, tabbed frames, tabbed MDI, and more.

Custom ToolTips for MFC Projects

by kenearle

Put anything you want in a ToolTip

Custom Wizard for OpenGL in Visual Studio .NET

by Youngho Kim

Create OpenGL Window using MFC in Visual Studio .NET

Customised Modal Dialog

by lata07mahi

Modal dialog with a user-defined look and feel.

Customized Visual Studio .NET package: your fully integrated document window inside the IDE

by Michael Sheinin

Create a fully integrated document window inside the Visual Studio IDE.

Customizing "Browse for folder" dialog Part - II

by Yogesh M Joshi

Adding and subclassing the custom controls

Customizing the "Browse for folder" dialog

by Yogesh M Joshi

This Program customizes the "Browse For folder dialog" with a few lines of code...

CvsIn Add-in for Visual Studio .NET 2002 and 2003 and Visual Studio 2005

by jiulun

CvsIn add-in for Visual Studio .NET 2002 and 2003 and Visual Studio 2005.

CWeek - A Class for Getting the weekday and weeknumber

by Patrik Svensson

Getting the weekday and weeknumber

CWindowScroller

by PJ Arends

An MFC control for adding middle mouse button scrolling to any CWnd derived window

CWnd Helper Class

by Alvaro Mendez

Class with static functions and nested classes to make working with CWnd-derived objects easier

CxFile

by Davide Pizzolato

Disc and memory files within the same object

CXMLProfile - Easy XML Profiles for applications

by Emilio Guijarro

A MFC class to store an application's profile in an XML file.

CXPStyleButtonST v1.2

by Davide Calabro

Windows XP buttons with all CButtonST features

CXSBrowseFolder - A Simple Class to Encapsulate SHBrowseForFolder

by Dana Holt

This class makes it easier to use the shell function SHBrowseForFolder

CxStatic: a CStatic control with text wrapping

by Vincent Richomme

A CStatic control with text wrapping, color, and transparency.

CYABFFW: Yet Another BrowseForFolder Wrapper

by Sp1ff

Yet another wrapper for the ::BrowseForFolder function

CZoomCtrl: A Picture Control with Zooming and Scrolling

by Jim Dill

A scrollable child window for pictures of any size.

Dahlia Debug-Device Browser Bar

by Jeremy Boschen

An Internet Explorer browser bar, which acts as a pseudo-debug output device

DAO ClassWizard for Visual Studio .NET

by drice

Create and maintain CDAORecordset classes for MS Access Tables in Visual Studio .NET

Data Conversions

by VGirish

These are a few samples of data conversions which you can use for a quick reference

Data encryption with DPAPI

by Andreas Saurwein

A wrapper class for the Data Protection API

Database Virtual Cursor

by Hatem Mostafa

This article demonstrates a new technique to optimize DBMS output cursor storage using Virtual Cursor.

DataGrid Column adjustments during resizing form (using ParamArray)

by Binoy R

Automatically handle to adjust grid widths

DataGrid's ViewState optimization

by Daniel Fruzynski

How to reduce DataGrid's ViewState size, while maintaining all DataGrid's functionalities.

Date and Time in C++

by RK_2000

This is an article on the various usages of date and time in Windows C++

Date Time Picker control for the MFC Grid Control

by Eugen Podsypalnikov

A DateTime control for editing date or time values inplace in the MFC Grid Control

DB2 Access Classes

by nickadams

A set of classes to encapsulate DB2 CLI APIs in ADO style.

dbgfix: An add-in to properly launch IE during ASP.NET debugging when running VS7 under alternate credentials

by Rama Krishna Vavilala

This add-in launches IE properly during ASP.NET debugging when running VS7 under alternate credentials.

Debug logging with STL stream operators

by Johann Anhofer

An easy to use debug logger, implemented via a custom stream buffer.

Debug Tutorial Part 2: The Stack

by Toby Opferman

Introduction to the most important ally in the fight against bugs, the stack.

Debug Tutorial Part 3: The Heap

by Toby Opferman

Introduction to the heap.

Debug Tutorial Part 4: Writing WINDBG Extensions

by Toby Opferman

This tutorial we will attempt to write a simple debug extension.

Debug Tutorial Part 5: Handle Leaks

by Toby Opferman

Learn how to debug handle leaks in Windows.

Debug With Apps Displayed on Secondary Monitor

by #realJSOP

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

Debugging .NET Framework and MS Visual Studio Managed Classes at Run time and Design time

by Sumeet Kumar

This article explains how it is possible to seamlessly set breakpoints, step into, set watches and examine local variables for .NET framework classes as well as any other managed assemblies.

Debugging and Testing Made Easy (Part 1)

by Kumarpal Sheth

Some macros and tips to take the air out of bugs, and classes to make unit testing painless and simple

Debugging Through the Debugger

by Jeffrey Walton

Using WinDbg to survive in a .NET world.

DECIMAL Wrapper Class

by Jörgen Sigvardsson

A simple DECIMAL wrapper class suitable for C++ code interfacing VB scripts/OLE automation code etc.

Declutter your loops ... Replacing for with for_each

by Gabhan Berry

How to use the STL for_each algorithm to implement loops and why it's a good idea to do so.

DEELX - Regular Expression Engine for C++

by sswater shi

DEELX regular expression engine is the most convenient and easiest engine to use.

Delay Loading DLLs

by ETA

Easy to use library which let you use different compilers, to optimize-compile your DLL for different processors

Delay MessageBox with auto-close option

by Shog9, Nish Nishant

This message box delays its dismissal by disabling the OK button for a delay interval. It also has an optional auto-close feature. There are two versions, one uses a WH_CBT hook and some basic window tricks like sub-classing to achieve its goal. The other one is more MFC-ied.

Delegates And Events - The Uncensored Story - Part 1

by A. Abdul Azeez

This is a part of a series of articles that aims at fully understanding delegates and events

Delegates in a standard C++ way

by Ben Chan

A method to duplicate .NET delegates in unmanaged C++ using the External polymorphism pattern.

Delegates in C++ with a natural assignment operator

by arystotenes
Michael J.

Delegate type just like in C# or Delphi.

Delegates in managed C++

by Chris Maunder

This sample demonstrates single- and multi-cast delegates using C++, including declaration, creation and usage, and a discussion on type safety.

Delete folders, subfolders and files easily

by Jonathan Pouliot

This article shows you how to delete all the files and subfolders in a selected folder

Delete Sub Menu

by Priyank Bolia

How to add delete submenu to the file menu of Document/View program in VC++

Deleting a directory along with sub-folders

by Feroz Zahid

Function that deletes whole of a directory structure.

Demonstrating Custom Attributes: Build An Assembly Searching Tool.

by Lim Bio Liong

Build an assembly searching system via custom attributes and reflection.

Demonstration of OLE Automation of MS Word

by Anishcv

An article that demonstrates automation by showing how to split a MS-Word file based on Bookmarks

Dependency-Grapher for C++-Projects

by SteveKing

An add-in written in VB.NET to generate an inheritance and/or dependency graph of a c++-project. Uses the graphviz library from AT&T.

Deriving your own stream from the iostreams framework

by Christian Graus

An exploration of extending the iostreams framework through custom streams.

Design by Contract Framework for C++

by Kevin McFarlane

An implementation of Design by Contract in C++

Design by Contract macros for C++ and link to Doxygen

by Antoine Tandin

Macros to write "Design by Contract" conditions in the header of the functions and inoculate it in your doxygen documentation automatically.

Designing a Windows Control - Part 1

by Andreas Saurwein

How to design a commercial quality Windows control

Designing Asynchronous Processing Using COM+ Queued Services

by Partha Kuchana

An introduction to COM+ queued services.

Designing Robust Objects with Boost

by Jim D'Agostino

Tutorial on designing classes using Boost libraries

Detailed memory leak dumps from a console app

by Chris Losinger

How to get path and line number info for memory leaks, in a console app

Detecting the Display Font Size

by Chen Su

Simple function to enable you to programmatically detect the user-selected font at runtime

Detecting Windows NT/2K process execution

by Ivo Ivanov

An article on how to get notification from the OS when a process starts

Detecting XP Themes

by Alastair Dallas

How To Detect Theme Settings in Windows XP

Determine the version of Internet Explorer installed on a local machine

by Sidney Chong

Two ways to programmatically determine the version of Internet Explorer installed on a local machine

Determining Threading Limits For Multi-Threaded Network Applications

by John Aldrich

This article will explain a method of benchmarking a W9X/W2K/XP based computer to determine the maximum safe level of thread usage while keeping the system able to process other input without entering into a freeze condition.

Developing applications that always decease gracefully.

by Jagadeesh VN

An article that describes how to write applications that always quit gracefully.

Developing Firewalls for Windows 2000/XP

by Jesus Oliva

An article about developing Firewalls for Windows 2000/XP

Developing MIDI applications with DirectMusic

by Carlos Jiménez de Parga

A wrapper class library for the DirectMusic MIDI.

Developing Windows Forms Control using MFC and Managed C++

by Rama Krishna Vavilala

Demonstrates different ways to move MFC based controls to .NET Windows Forms

DFB vs. DIB

by valdok

The difference between DFB and DIB.

DHTML Editor with Table Support and Source Editor

by Elmue

A complete class encapsulating a versatile HTML editor

Dialog Box with gradient background and Color changing progress bar

by Vikram Kashyap

A small dialog based application that allows the user to change the color of progress bar.

Dialog Header

by jmgurgel

Add a header to any dialog or property sheet

Dialogs Communication

by toxcct

On the art of exchanging data

Diary Of A Coder--Marc's Boatyard Bug

by Marc Clifton

Marc bares all in a discussion of a bug involving the atof function.

Differences in the behaviour of CString >> and << using MFC 7 and double '\0' ended strings (like REG_MULTI_SZ)

by leandrobecker

Differences in the behaviour of CString >> and << using MFC 7 and double '\0' ended strings (like REG_MULTI_SZ) and a workaround

Different Ways of Implementing Factories

by Patje

This article presents different ways of implementing factories, each with their own advantages and disadvantages.

Digital Analog Clock

by Barretto VN

Digital analog clock

Direct2D: Hardware Acceleration in Windows 7 Plotting

by Michael Chourdakis

Draw your vectors using a new, ActiveX based hardware accelerated interface.

DirectShow - Fine TV Tuning Using IKsPropertySet.

by Liaqat Fayyaz

How to fine tune a TV channel in DirectShow / How to set custom video frequencies of TV tuner devices?

DirectShow Filters - What They Are

by tanvon malik

This article is about DirectShow filters and how to create them

DirectShow Source Filter for Painting on DC

by Ashok Jaiswal

How to paint in DC in source filter

DirectSound Wrapper Classes

by Arman S.

An article on multimedia - playing Waves by using the DirectSound component.

DirectX 8 Template 2

by Anthony Roach

An extension to the DirectX framework for adding backgrounds

DirectX 9 SDK with .NET Forms (C++)

by IrrationalThinking

Shows you how to implement a DirectX Render Window into a .NET Form.

Disable CTabCtrl tab items in WTL - Using the Owner Drawn Method

by Rashid Thadha

A port of Paul Dilascia MFC CTabCtrlWithDisable to WTL

Disable System Close Button on a Console Application

by John L. DeVito

This code is a simple way to disable the close button on a Windows Console Application. It can also be used to disable any of the system menu buttons

Discover ISAPI. Working with Cookies.

by Adrian Bacaianu

This article presents a way to send cookies to client browser from an ISAPI extension.

Discover ISAPI. Working with GET-POST Data

by Adrian Bacaianu

That article present a way to retrieve the GET-POST data from a form into an ISAPI extension.

Discover ISAPI. XML Way

by Adrian Bacaianu

A good approach to build an ISAPI web application using XML and XSL

Discover ISAPI: ADO Data Access from ISAPI

by Adrian Bacaianu

A way to build HTML pages in ISAPI using OLE DB database access

Disk free space

by Daniel Ribeiro

This code is used to check for free space available on logical disks

Disk Usage Viewer

by Matt Fichtenbaum

A disk usage viewer with tree-view output.

Display PNG, JPG, etc. on Pocket PC

by Jim Koornneef

Combine CXImage and DibSectionLite on Pocket PC.

Display ToolTip in any place on the screen

by Zarembo Maxim

This article shows how to display tooltips at any location on the screen

Displaying Bitmap with Scrolling

by Shibu K V

An article showing how to display a picture within a dialog, and add scrollbars where needed to view the whole image.

Distance using Longitiude and latitude using c++

by chhibs

exactly what the title says

Distributed Computing in Small and Medium Sized Offices

by hax_

Introduction to the open-source hxGrid library for distributed computing. Main benefits of the library: cluster uses only idle time of Windows 2000/XP/Vista workstation (no dedicated workstations required); easy to use; free.

DllInstanceSwitcher class for switching to MFC Extension DLL resources

by Peredelsky Alexey

AFX_MANAGE_STATE(AfxGetStaticModuleState()) results in an error. This is the solution to the problem.

DLLs are Simple! Part 3

by Mahmoud Komeily

This article describes how to create a DLL with a DEF file and use it.

DLLs are Simple! Part 4

by Mahmoud Komeily

This article describes how to create a Resource-Only DLL and how to using it for creating multimedia applications.

Dlls are Simple. Part 1

by Mahmoud Komeily

How to create DLLs and use them.

DLLs are simple: Part 2

by Mahmoud Komeily

This article describes how to export classes from a DLL.

DNS if u need it

by DarkSn0w

Simple quering DNS servers for retrieve information about host's DNS records

Doodle - A Basic Paint Package in GDI+

by Christian Graus

Using GDI+ to create a paint program with soft brushes and loading/saving images

dotNetInstaller - Setup Bootstrapper for .NET Application

by Davide Icardi

With this tool the developer can define the application prerequisites and install the correct version of these components in the correct order based on the user operating system type and language, allow the user to download these components from the web or install these components directly.

Double Buffering With GDI+

by Mazdak

Simple example about Double Buffering with GDI+

Double List Picker

by Paul Vickery

Control to allow users to pick items from a list, and add to another list

Double Subclassing (Runtime Form Editor)

by Ralph Varjabedian

An article that describes a way to subclass controls that are already subclassed (double), The example includes a runtime form editor

Double-click on the Trace Message in the Output Window in Developer Studio to Get to the Line of Code

by Sheng Jiang 蒋晟

Take advantage of the output window in Developer Studio

Download a File Using URLDownloadToCacheFile

by Chen Su

A sample to demonstrate how to use URLDownloadToCacheFile and IBindStatusCallback.

Drag & Drop Dialog

by Jochen Duell

A dialog-class which you can drag around the screen by clicking anywhere on it.

Drag and Drop Listbox Items using OLE

by Ali Rafiee

Rearrange listbox items using drag and drop using OLE.

Drag List Box with Multiple Selection and Inter-List Dragging

by ckorda

A replacement for MFC's CDragListBox that supports multiple selection and dragging between lists

Drag, drop, cut, copy and paste operations on lists of files using MFC

by Brigsoft

Article that explains drag, drop, cut, copy and paste operations on lists of files using MFC

Draw oblique / slant text strings

by Andrew Qu

This article shows how to draw oblique/slant text string

DrawHTML

by Thiadmer Riemersma

A drop-in replacement for the DrawText() SDK function with minimal HTML support

Drawing a rubber-band line in GDI+

by jyodak

Drawing a self-erasing line or a rubber-band line from a base-point to the current mouse point in GDI+ seemed to be impossible - here's how to do it.

Drawing Arrows

by Jamie Hale

How to draw arrows (with arrowheads) to an arbitrary DC

Drawing Barcodes in Windows Part 1 - Code 39

by Neil Van Eps

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

Drawing Barcodes in Windows Part 2 - Codebar

by Neil Van Eps

An article on drawing Codebar barcodes to the screen or to the clipboard

Drawing Barcodes in Windows Part 3 - I2of5

by Neil Van Eps

An article on drawing I2of5 barcodes to the screen or to the clipboard

Drawing Barcodes in Windows Part 4 - Code 93

by Neil Van Eps

An article on drawing Code 93 barcodes to the screen or to the clipboard

Drawing Barcodes in Windows Part 5 - Code 128

by Neil Van Eps

An article on drawing Code 128 barcodes to the screen or to the clipboard

Drawing Image on MDI Main Frame background

by Konrad Rotuski

This article explains how to draw images on MDI Main Frame background using window subclassing

Drawing Lines, Shapes, or Text on Bitmaps

by Davide Pizzolato

Quick reference to draw lines, shapes, or text on bitmaps

Drawing with DirectDraw & GDI

by marb

Drawing Graphics fast with DirectDraw than with GDI

Drawing without flicker

by VGirish

Steps for Double buffering ( Drawing without flicker )

Drive Box

by Gobinath.K.R

This article explains how to display the list of Drive in a ComboList box.

Drivers, Exceptions and C++

by valdok

Using C++ objects with destructors and exceptions in drivers

Dual / Multiple Monitor Support in Win32

by Asim Goheer

How to add dual / multiple monitor support to your Win32 programs.

Dump full interfaces information of an object

by ChauJohnthan

How to understand more about certain objects' implementation details

Dynamic Class Factory

by mimicry

An article about class factory with dynamic subscription / auto registration

Dynamic configuration of MFC menus and toolbars

by Franck Paquier

Dynamic activation of application menus and toolbars through an external XML file.

Dynamic Dialog Class

by Marcel Scherpenisse

Create dialogs dynamically, and easily, without the need for a dialog resource script.

Dynamic embossed text Progress control

by John White

A dynamic embossed text progress control that uses no resource file

Dynamic Inter-Process Shared Memory

by Waldermort

A method of sharing several items of any size between processes.

Dynamic Invoke from Unmanaged DLL

by calaquendi

This article explains invoking unmanaged DLL functions from C#.

Dynamic LED Control

by VGirish

A blinking LED-style control

Dynamic Linked List Tree

by AhmedEssamNaiem

Using Vector and double linked list to create trees

Dynamic Message Passing for C++

by Achilleas Margaritis

Dynamic message passing for C++.

Dynamic TEXT Section Image Verification

by Jeffrey Walton

Detect Hardware Faults and Unauthorized In-Memory Patches with Hashing using Crypto++

Dynamically generating images in ISAPI extension using GDI+ with live demo

by Jonathan de Halleux

A class wrapper to write GDI+ images to the client browser using an ISAPI extension.

Dynamically re-creating a combo box

by Paul Vickery

Function to recreate a combo box at run-time to allow new styles, preserving its data

Dynamically re-creating a list box

by Paul Vickery

Function to recreate a listbox at run-time to allow new styles, preserving its data, and selections

Easier bitwise Operations

by Eddie Velasquez

A collection of templates that simplify the comprehension of bitwise operations

Easy Animated Tray Icon

by Steve Schaneville

This is a class (SS_TrayIcon) that allows for the easy addition of a tray icon into any project (whether you use MFC or not).

Easy Detection of Memory Leaks

by Michael Gopshtein

Describes a tool for easy detection of memory leaks.

Easy dialog control resizer

by uemaker

Simple implementation of "anchors" and "docking" features implemented in .NET forms

Easy handling number of HRESULTs

by Petr Stejskal

Handling HRESULT return values with TRY_HRESULT/CATCH_HRESULT macros

Easy Installer

by Abu Mami

The Easy Installer program

Easy Port Forwarding and Managing Router with UPnP

by upredsun

This article describes what port forwarding is. UPnP source code is also given.

Easy to Use Class for ScreenCapture to Printer

by Albert Hermann

A class for easily capturing screen and printing to default printer

Easy way to access listview from treeview and vice versa

by kariem2k

Easy way to access listview from treeview and vice versa in a Windows Explorer style application.

EasyFtp 1.3.2 (for Applications)

by .dan.g.

A 'drop-in' FTP solution for applications providing a full GUI, extended commandline options and no resource files. Use standalone or compiled into your own app.

Edge Based Template Matching

by Shiju PK

Implementing an edge based template matching or pattern matching algorithm.

Editable Date Picker

by Paul Vickery

Fully editable date picker control based on CDateTimeCtrl

Editable Multi-line ListBox

by TomKat

A ListBox control providing multi-line support.

Effective Threads in C++ - Part 1: The Basic Thread Class

by FlamTaps

Wrapping the Win32 Thread API into a C++-friendly class.

Effective Threads in C++ - Part 2: The ExitableThread Class

by FlamTaps

Wrapping the Win32 Thread API into a C++-friendly class.

Effecto Player

by Ahmed Ismaiel Zakaria

Media audio player with 3D and 2D effects and skinning.

Efficient data processing with ADO in C++: Method GetRows

by Vitaly Tomilov

Demonstrates effective data processing of ADO recordset objects in C++ via Safe Arrays provided by method GetRows.

Efficient Matrix Programming in C#

by Emanuele Ruffaldi

Fast matrix expressions evaluation, based on dynamic code generation and partial evaluation

EfTidyNet: .NET Wrapper for Tidy library

by ThatsAlok

Free component for parsing HTML, .NET version of EfTidyCom

eGUI, a anmiated UI develop kit

by Yang XiaoWang

A easy-to-use widget libary to develop the animation GUI based on Windows GDI

Einstein's riddle solved in C++

by ManiB

Tutorial to solve Einstein's riddle using C++

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

by joseangelmt

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

Ellipse drawing algorithm

by Rid@

A basic algorithm for drawing ellipses on a window

E-Mail Notifier - notifies users when new mail is received on multiple GMail (and other) accounts

by Catalin Stavaru

This light, yet very usable, application notifies users when new mail is received on multiple GMail (and other) accounts. Written in C++/MFC. No .NET framework, no browser instances launched, low system resource requirements!

Embed an HTML control in your own window using plain C

by Jeff Glatt

Specifically shows how to embed a browser OLE object in your own window, and more generally demonstrates how to manipulate and create COM/OLE objects, in plain C (ie, no MFC, WTL, ATL, .NET, C#, nor even C++). The latter is applicable to many other uses, such as creating your own script engine.

Embed Python in MFC Dialog

by Sharjith

Demo to show use of Python Interpreter to evaluate methematical expressions

Embedding .NET Controls in Java

by Heath Stewart

Learn to embed .NET user controls in Java applications, applets, and beans using COM to bridge the gap between the two frameworks.

Embedding CMFCOutlookBar in CSplitterWnd panes

by vikas maan

Create a 2008 MFCOutlookBar in any pane of a SplitterWnd.

Embedding Python In Your C++ Application

by AnOldGreenHorn

Wrapper classes to embed the Python interpreter in Standard C++ code

Emulating CoCreateInstance()

by Elias Bachaalany

Describes how to use COM objects without registration.

En/Decode MIME-Content with MimeSniffer

by Randolph Duke

RFC-compliant Mime-En/Decoder

Enable/Disable a Group of Controls with One Click

by Pavel Sokolov

This article demonstrates a CButton derived class that is used to enable or disable a set of controls with a single click.

Enabling or Disabling controls in more effective and efficient way

by Jamil Ahmed

Using the STL bitset class to create an elegant solution to a common problem

Enabling Windows XP Visual Style UI for your C# applications

by Barretto VN

Enabling Windows XP Visual Style UI for your C# applications

Encrypt/Self Decrypt Files in Native C++ and .NET

by Leon Finker

Encrypts/self-decrypts a file at a time based on password and chosen algorithm

Encryption and Decryption with ATL

by ryszarddrozd

WTL and console applications based on ATL implementation of Cryptography

Enhance netstat

by y0da

This article shows an implementation of the main TCP/UDP functions of the IP Helper API that is used to get info about active connections including the process attached to a connection.

Enhanced version of the CreateProcess function

by BillyNorwak

Waits for the child process to exit, minimizes the main window while the child process runs, and automatically restores the window when it exits.

Enhancement for the cool Minesweeper Memory Reader

by jasonee

This is a little enhancement so you can simply highlight the mines on minesweeper while you play.

Enum Iteration and String Conversion

by sidpage

Enum iteration and string conversion

EnumBinder - Bind C++ enums to strings, combo-boxes, arbitrary data structures

by Warren Stevens

An easy way to bind C++ enums to strings, combo-boxes, list-boxes, arbitrary data structures.

Enumerate and Change Display Modes

by Jason Henderson

Get all possible display modes and change them using EnumDisplaySettings and ChangeDisplaySettings functions.

Enumerate and Host Control Panel Applets using C#.

by Mark Belles

Demonstrates how to enumerate and host Windows Control Panel Applets using C# and unmanaged C++.

Enumerate SQL Server using SQL DMO

by Rashid Thadha

Get a list of SQL Servers to which you can connect.

Enumerate your leaf classes

by Jaded Hobo

An article on a set of macros and a factory class to enumerate and dynamicaly create leaf classes derived from virtual base classes

Enumerating processes : A practical approach

by Irfan Dawood

Enumerating processes using ToolHelp32 library and also shows how to change priority and terminate a process.

Enumerating serial ports - W2K style.

by Zach Gorman

Enumerating the serial ports using the SetupDi* API provided with Win2K and later

Error Detection Based on Check Digit Schemes

by Jeffrey Walton

A Survey of Popular Check Digit Schemes

Error Reporter - Enables Back-2-Base Error Reporting

by voodoopriestess

Allows users to send bug reports to manufacturers without having to manually create bug reports. Requires only four lines of code to be added to your application and works with all versions of Microsoft Windows. No MFC.

Event notification on streams during long reads or writes

by Jim Wiese (aka Spunk)

An article on event notification for operations on large streams...

Everett: The next Big Thing for Visual C++ developers

by Chris Maunder

Microsoft's Visual C++ .NET Product Manager talks about the changes in store for the next version of Visual Studio .NET

Examining the assembly listing generated by the C++ compiler - I

by Rama Krishna Vavilala

Examining the assembly listing generated by the C++ compiler

Example of CListCtrl::SortItems(...) in MSDN

by Ivor S. Sargoytchev

The given example in the documentation of CListCtrl::SortItems(...) shows us exactly the WRONG way of using the function.

Example of How to Print a Long CString across Multiple Pages of Output using the MFC Print Architecture

by Roger Allen

An example project of how to break up a long string that you want to print across multiple pages

Excel Serial Date to Day, Month, Year and Vice Versa

by Victor Vogelpoel

A speedy algorithm to convert Excel numbers to DMY and vice versa

ExcelFormat Library

by Martin Fuchs

ExcelFormat allows reading, writing, and editing of XLS (BIFF8 format) files using C++.

Execute Native Code From .NET

by Maxim Alekseykin

Explains how to execute native code from a .NET program.

ExeScanner

by Vishalsinh Jhala

This article explains how to enumerate all the objects in a Portable Executable and manipulate them.

Exile 1.8 - The Password Manager

by AntonGogolev

Yet another password manager.

ExoEngine - a C# 3D engine

by Ben Houston

A basic 3D engine built using C# and the .NET platform