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Document Processing Part II: Request Driven OCR

by Martin Welker

To get qualified access to paper based information, sometimes more than plain OCR is needed. This article shows why, and offers a solution to increase OCR quality by semi-automatic table extraction.

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

by Michael Dunn

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

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

by Michael Dunn

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

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

by Jecho Jekov

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

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Writing Microsoft CRM 3.0 Callouts – Sample Code: Turkish Citizen Number Validator

by Alen M

This article focuses on callout development for MS CRM 3.0. As an example Turkish Citizen Number Validator code is written.

XSL Transform Code Generator for Visual Studio .NET

by Chris Stefano

A custom tool for Visual Studio .NET which runs an XSL transformation to generate code

Serialize Custom Collections of CollectionBase

by Eric P Schneider

Basic demo on how to serialize and deserialize custom collections

by Emre Guldogan

A System for Simulation and Analysis of Logic Circuits

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Visual Studio .NET 2003

Document Processing Part II: Request Driven OCR

30 Apr 2005 by Martin Welker

To get qualified access to paper based information, sometimes more than plain OCR is needed. This article shows why, and offers a solution to increase OCR quality by semi-automatic table extraction.

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

26 May 2006 by Michael Dunn

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

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

30 May 2006 by Michael Dunn

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

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

13 Sep 2005 by Jecho Jekov

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

Build My Own 3D Graphics Engine Step By Step

1 Feb 2017 by Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

How to build my own 3D graphics engine from ZERO step by step

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

24 May 2006 by Michael Dunn

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

Bi-directional HTTP Connection

22 Jan 2004 by Wytek Szymanski

An article about a bi-directional communication using a single open connection.

NormalMapCompressor - A tool to automatically compress normal maps

4 Jul 2005 by DeltaEngine

Normal maps are used for realtime 3D rendering (mostly in games) to improve the visual quality, but compressing them makes the 3D content look ugly, this tool helps to fix that problem.

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

28 Jun 2005 by Greg Rezansoff

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

Microsoft Cabinet Templates

23 Jul 2004 by Luuk Weltevreden

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

Deadlock Detection in Existing Code

11 Jan 2008 by eransha

The article briefly discusses deadlocks behavior, and presents an easy way to detect them.

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

22 Jun 2009 by Victor A. Milokum, Apriorit Inc

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

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

9 Nov 2005 by Koushik Biswas

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

DACBuilder – Data Access objects generation tool based on XML and XSL templates transformation

31 Mar 2006 by Dan Radu

The DACBuilder application provides auto-generation features from multiple database systems in multiple programming languages.

MCMS User Roles

15 Mar 2005 by Chester Ragel

Finding MCMS user by role.

Lat Lays Flat - Part 3: Creating A Google Maps .NET Control

17 Oct 2005 by Bill Pierce

Creating an ASP.NET server control wrapper for the Google Maps API.

Switching threads

16 Sep 2007 by Rajasekharan Vengalil

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

A Study of Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility for Automated Measuring Systems using VB.NET

24 Jan 2015 by syed shanu

Gage R&R using VB.NET.

Using Nhibernate in VB.NET

7 Jan 2008 by S.SRIVATHSAN

Implementation Nhibernate concept in VB.NET

The Amazingly Forgotten 2-Way .NET Rijndael CryptoStream

29 Aug 2009 by _Khallaf

How To Do Precise 2-Way Rijndael CryptoStream Communication

A tool statistic C# solution code count

14 Jan 2008 by Andy Lang

With this tool, you can statistic a C# solution or project code count.

Digital Signatures and PDF Documents

30 Apr 2007 by Frank Rem

PDFKit.NET 2.0 is a 100% .NET (verifiable) component for creating and manipulating PDF documents. In this article I will focus on its digital signature capabilities. Digital signatures can be used to authenticate the source of a PDF document, and to provide the integrity of a PDF document.

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ReSharper 1.5: The Most Intelligent Add-In To Visual Studio .NET

17 Mar 2005 by JetBrains s.r.o.

ReSharper is a VS.NET add-in with features such as intelligent coding assistance, on-the-fly error highlighting and quick error correction, unmatched support for code refactoring, and a whole lot more.

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AviScreensaver: A C# screensaver that allows you to play your favourites media files

20 Oct 2005 by Marco Roello

The screensaver plays from 1 to 16 video (or media files) simultaneously.

The Increasing Need to Protect your Applications from Hackers and Competitors

2 Nov 2005 by Gabriel Torok

Using Dotfuscator to protect your .NET source code from decompilers.

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Visual Assist X: The Indispensable IDE Add-In

30 Mar 2006 by Whole Tomato Software

Read on to learn the real reason my co-workers virtually dragged me to our purchasing agent to get my very own license for Visual Assist X!

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Choosing between XML and SQL in .NET Content Management Systems

2 May 2006 by Petr Palas

This article compares various approaches to storing, editing, and displaying structured content on the web. It shows the advantages and disadvantages of using XML and relational SQL databases.

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Tom Harris on ANTS Profiler

4 May 2006 by Simon Galbraith

The architect of ANTS Profiler talks about his work.

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ANTS Profiler 2.7 – A code profiler with a pedigree

2 Oct 2006 by Redgate Software

This article describes how you can use ANTS Profiler to eliminate performance hotspots and memory leaks from your .NET applications.

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Refactoring for C/C++ and C#: Let the Machine do the Work

10 Oct 2006 by Whole Tomato Software

A review of the code refactoring tools in Visual Assist X - by John Krajewski, Senior AI Programmer, Pandemic Studios.

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Yet Another Menu Generator

5 Feb 2007 by Pman75

A 2 tier menu generator that can be navigated forwards and/or backwards.

Automating the Deployment of an Office InfoPath Form Templates

2 May 2007 by Srinivas-Miriyala

This tool move the previously-published infopath form templates to a new location.

Generate .NET 2.0 C# proxy file from a JBOSS Web Service

13 Jun 2007 by Tohar

Solve the problem of failing to update a WebService after upgrading to NET 2.0 using VS2005 (using JBOSS).

SlickEdit 2007 For Windows Development

29 Jun 2007 by SlickEdit Inc.

Using SlickEdit 2007 For Windows Development

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Resco MobileApp Developer Pack – developing mobile business applications

1 Oct 2007 by RescoDeveloper.Net

The article describes the suite of Visual Studio controls, tools and samples designed for mobile business application development, targeting Microsoft .NET Compact Framework.

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I Had Used Profilers Before, but Not for Such a Complex Application

27 Feb 2009 by Redgate Software

Adam Marciniec experienced a substantial slow down in his code, so he went hunting for the bottleneck with ANTS Profiler. With it, he found the specific method responsible for the performance issue. Find out how he fixed the problem and boosted the performance of his application.

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Leveraging .NET Components and IDE Integration: UI AOP in an MVC use case

28 Jun 2005 by Daniel Cazzulino [XML MVP]

An in-depth exploration of the features and the power of .NET Component Model architecture, its integration with the IDE at design-time and the possiblities it opens through extensions at run-time.

Eliminating Explorer's delay when deleting an in-use file

28 Sep 2005 by Dan Farino

How to track down and patch an annoyance in Windows Explorer's code.

Yet Another Generalized Functors Implementation in C++

16 Dec 2005 by Aleksei Trunov

An article on generalized functors implementation in C++. Generalized functor requirements, existing implementation problems and disadvantages are considered. Several new ideas and problem solutions together with the compete implementation are suggested.

Professional User Interface Suite

13 Jan 2004 by Sergiy Lavrynenko of Foss Software, Inc.

MFC extension library enabling software to be provided with a professional UI

How to Edit and Persist Collections with CollectionEditor

26 Nov 2003 by Daniel Zaharia

The article demonstrates how to edit and persist collections with CollectionEditor.

Shrinking SQL Server Transaction Logs with SQL-DMO

21 Apr 2004 by Armen Hakobyan

Using SQL-DMO to shrink SQL Server transaction logs.

The Psychology of a WTL Project: Lowercase Cause (a typing program)

20 Apr 2005 by mark novak

A psychological journey into a project crafted from start to finish.

Optical Flow or Motion Estimation Using the Watson-Ahumada (WA) Algorithm

24 Nov 2014 by SIDDHARTH_JAIN

Optical Flow or Motion Estimation Using the Watson-Ahumada (WA) Algorithm

The expression evaluator revisited (Eval function in 100% managed .NET)

18 May 2007 by Pascal Ganaye

This second article about evaluation in .NET introduces a parser which pre-compiles the expressions

The Beginners Guide to Codecaves

27 Aug 2007 by Drew_Benton

This is a complete beginners guide to codecaves that covers the main topics of: what a codecave is, what a codecave can be used for, and how to use a codecave.

Shell Extensions for .NET Assemblies

17 Nov 2005 by Heath Stewart

Shell extensions to distinguish between .NET assemblies and Win32 applications and libraries.

OSD window with animation effect, in C#

25 May 2006 by Mr.Smarty

The article explains how to create an OSD window with animation/semi-transparent effects, in C#, using the NativeWindow class.

Using IFilter in C#

19 Mar 2006 by Eyal Post

Using the IFilter interface to extract text from various document types.

A word-wise HTML text compare and merge engine

27 Aug 2005 by Hongwei Shen

A C# .NET implemntation of HTML text compare and merge engine based on a similar algorithm as the Unix diff.

Resource ID Organiser Add-In for Visual C++ 5.0/6.0/.NET

10 Jan 2005 by Anna-Jayne Metcalfe

An application/add-in to organise and renumber resource symbol IDs

Receiving Events from late-bound COM servers

2 May 2005 by Uwe Keim

An article demonstrating how to receive events from a late-bound COM server using Microsoft Word as an example COM server.

CTreePropSheetEx – an extended version of CTreePropSheet

7 Apr 2005 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.

ZIP Code Utility

2 Jan 2005 by Jon Sagara

This article provides an easy method to lookup a U.S. City/State by ZIP Code, or one or more ZIP Codes by City/State. It also describes a method to calculate the distance between two ZIP Codes and find all other ZIP Codes within a radius of X miles of a specified ZIP Code.

WTL CDialogResize extension

29 Apr 2004 by Rob Caldecott

Extension to WTL CDialogResize template to support persistent dialog size

The Longest Common Substring with Maximal Consecutive

12 Sep 2005 by Thanh Dao

This code implements the Longest Common Sub-strings with Maximal Consecutive problem.

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

21 Jan 2008 by Jeffrey Walton

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

XPTable - .NET ListView meets Java's JTable

17 Sep 2005 by Mathew Hall

A fully customisable ListView style control based on Java's JTable.

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

15 May 2006 by Michael Dunn

A tutorial on writing a shell extension that operates on multiple files at once.

Gmail Agent API v0.5 / Mail Notifier & Address Importer

6 Jul 2004 by Johnvey Hwang

Open source Gmail API in C#

A Managed C++ Wrapper Around the Windows XP Theme API

27 Aug 2003 by Don Kackman

Using the XP Theme API safely on any OS from C#

ASCII Art Generator

28 May 2007 by Sau Fan Lee

ASCII Art generator in ASP.NET.

A Simple Profiler using the Visual Studio C/C++ Compiler and DIA SDK

15 Dec 2009 by Nikhil Soman

Easy to use profiler for time and impact analysis of C/C++ code which uses the Visual Studio C/C++ compiler (/Gh and /GH flags) and the DIA SDK to gather profiling data.

Unleash PropertyGrid with Dynamic Properties and Globalization

29 Jan 2004 by Daniel Zaharia

The article presents a way to enhance the use of the PropertyGid control with dynamic properties and globalization

N-gram and Fast Pattern Extraction Algorithm

31 Oct 2007 by Hatem Mostafa

This article demonstrates N-gram construction and Fast Text Pattern Extraction using a modified LZW algorithm.

TraceTool 12.7: The Swiss-Army Knife of Trace

20 Nov 2016 by Thierry Parent

A C#, C++, Delphi, ActiveX , Javascript , NodeJs and Java trace framework and a trace viewer: Tail, OutputDebugString, event log, and with Log4J, Log4Net, and Microsoft Enterprise Instrumentation Framework (EIF) support. This also comes with full support for Pocket PC, Silverlight, and Android.

Screen Captures, Window Captures and Window Icon Captures with Spy++ style Window Finder!

14 Mar 2005 by Mark Belles

Screen capturing that features multiple monitor support, including methods for capturing windows and window icons. Includes Spy++ style window finder!

An extended RichTextBox to save and load "HTML lite" files

5 Dec 2005 by Oscar Londono

This control provides a method to save and load HTML files directly, avoiding the use of RTF codes.

Ajaxion - Standalone AJAX - Part 2 of 2 - C# and Java Example

22 Jan 2013 by radumi

An article about how to keep AJAX simple as it is and get the most out of it.

11 Jul 2005 by Chester Ragel

A tool which can be used to do common tasks which Microsoft Content Management Server API provides.

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Check Help Links Tool

6 Oct 2005 by Nicholas Butler

A tool to check links across merged help (CHM) files.

Product Keys Based on the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

12 Jun 2007 by Jeffrey Walton

A Compact Product Key System Based on AES and Crypto++

EDIFACT to XML to Anything You Want

10 Aug 2005 by Tonster101

An article on converting EDIFACT messages to XML, and converted the XML into anything XSLT can perform

Processing Global Mouse and Keyboard Hooks in C#

31 Aug 2011 by George Mamaladze

This class allows you to tap keyboard and mouse and/or to detect their activity even when an application runs in the background or does not have any user interface at all.

Understanding Custom Marshaling Part 1

18 Aug 2006 by Lim Bio Liong

Learn the fundamental principles of COM custom marshaling by code examples.

Lookup and Display Win32/COM Error Strings With One Line of Code

31 Dec 2005 by Brian C Hart

Use compiler COM support (even in non-COM applications) to get a Win32 error code or HRESULT's message in one line of code.

Rabbit Threads: Making Threads Jump

14 Nov 2007 by Jeffrey Walton

Compel threads to execute out of context code using inline assembly.

Yet Another Thread Monitor

8 Jan 2004 by Tim Deveaux

This article discusses the use of Asynchronous Procedure Calls for Kernel/User mode communication.

Manipulating colors in .NET - Part 1

3 Jun 2007 by Guillaume Leparmentier

Understand and use color models in .NET

Access multiple icons in a single icon file

23 Feb 2004 by Matthew Hazlett

A class to help you access the images in an ICO file (VB & C#)

Protection Schemes Based on Virus Survival Techniques

26 Nov 2007 by Jeffrey Walton

A Survey of Virus Survival Techniques Applied to Protection Schemes

WebCacheTool: Manipulate the IE Browser Cache From the Command-Line

23 Feb 2006 by Scott McMaster

This article presents the WebCacheTool, a command-line utility to make it easier and faster to list, view, and delete files residing in the Internet Explorer browser cache.

Developing Next Generation Smart Clients using .NET 2.0 working with Existing .NET 1.1 SOA-based XML Web Services

16 Aug 2005 by Omar Al Zabir

Comprehensive guide to development of .NET 2.0 Smart Clients working with existing Service Oriented Architecture based XML web services, fully utilizing the Enterprise Library

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dotNetInstaller - Setup Bootstrapper for .NET Application

4 Jan 2004 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.

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

24 May 2006 by Michael Dunn

A tutorial on writing a shell extension that adds pages to the properties dialog of files.

Themed Windows XP style Explorer Bar

6 Oct 2005 by Mathew Hall

A fully customizable Windows XP style Explorer Bar that supports Windows XP themes and animated expand/collapse with transparency.

Work Queue based multi-threading

27 Nov 2004 by Richard Schneider

Allows an application to queue work that is performed concurrently to the main thread while maintaining exception processing.

An Anti-Reverse Engineering Guide

9 Nov 2008 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.

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An introduction on how to control Excel 2003 with J# .NET

14 Nov 2004 by Lars-Inge Tønnessen

An article on how to control MSFT Excel 2003 from J# .NET

The Mini Shell Extension Framework – Part III

18 Sep 2005 by Victor Derks

Discussion of a small C++ framework to create Windows shell extensions (IShellFolderImpl).

WTL for MFC Programmers, Part V - Advanced Dialog UI Classes

31 Dec 2005 by Michael Dunn

Using the new WTL classes that implement advanced dialog UI elements

Who cares about Domain Rules?

20 Nov 2006 by Maruis Marais

With this article, I am evolving a domain problem towards the best possible solution.

CCaptionButton - Add Buttons on the Caption Bar

19 Sep 2005 by Neil Yao

A reusable WTL base class to add buttons on the caption bar.

Developing a SOHO web filter step by step

9 Jun 2017 by Reza Shademani

The main goal of this article is to explain the practical details of low level network security programming.

RegistryMonitor - a .NET wrapper class for RegNotifyChangeKeyValue

16 Jan 2006 by Thomas Freudenberg

The Windows API provides a function RegNotifyChangeKeyValue, which is not covered by the Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey class. This solution imports that function and encapsulates it in a convenient manner.

How to drag a virtual file from your app into Windows Explorer

13 Sep 2006 by Nish Nishant

Shows how to use CFSTR_FILEDESCRIPTOR and CFSTR_FILECONTENTS to perform drag/drop with virtual files

Reading Adobe Photoshop images

3 Jul 2005 by Igor Tolmachev

Simple C# library for opening and displaying Adobe Photoshop images.

CHttpClient - A Helper Class Using WinInet

10 Aug 2007 by JO Hyeong-Ryeol

A C++ class which helps you to interact with a HTTP web server.

Windows XP IIS Manager v1.7

16 Mar 2005 by Max Santos

This article presentes a way of creating and managing multiple sites on the Windows XP IIS.

30 Jun 2008 by Liping Dai

An editor to view, analyse and modify ASN.1 DER encoded data