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Fluid Geometry - An Animation Library and Configuration Application

by Josh Smith

A task-oriented review of an animation library and the application which uses it.

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.

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Serialize Custom Collections of CollectionBase

by Eric Paul Schneider

Basic demo on how to serialize and deserialize custom collections

by Emre Guldogan

A System for Simulation and Analysis of Logic Circuits

DaReport PrintDocument - A Printing Utility for .NET

by Predrag Dukanac

A printing utility for .NET

dwl::fractalBrowser

by David O'Neil

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

All Articles

VS.NET2003

Microsoft Cabinet Templates

23 Jul 2004

Luuk Weltevreden

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

A tool statistic C# solution code count

14 Jan 2008

Andy Lang

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

MCMS User Roles

15 Mar 2005

Chester Ragel

Finding MCMS user by role.

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

28 Jun 2005

Greg Rezansoff

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

Deadlock Detection in Existing Code

11 Jan 2008

eransha

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

Using Nhibernate in VB.NET

7 Jan 2008

S.SRIVATHSAN

Implementation Nhibernate concept in VB.NET

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

22 Jun 2009

Victor A. Milokum, Apriorit Inc

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

The Amazingly Forgotten 2-Way .NET Rijndael CryptoStream

29 Aug 2009

_Khallaf

How To Do Precise 2-Way Rijndael CryptoStream Communication

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

24 Jan 2015

syed shanu

Gage R&R using VB.NET.

Genetic Algorithm in VisualBasic

4 Nov 2016

Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

VisualBasic Darwinism Evolutionary computation Application and Super Computing

Build My Own 3D Graphics Engine Step By Step

1 Feb 2017

Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

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

dwl::fractalBrowser

31 Mar 2018

David O'Neil

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

Digital Signatures and PDF Documents

30 Apr 2007

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.

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

24 May 2006

Michael Dunn

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

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

26 May 2006

Michael Dunn

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

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

30 May 2006

Michael Dunn

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

Bi-directional HTTP Connection

22 Jan 2004

Wytek Szymanski

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

Document Processing Part II: Request Driven OCR

30 Apr 2005

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.

NormalMapCompressor - A tool to automatically compress normal maps

4 Jul 2005

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.

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

13 Sep 2005

Jecho Jekov

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

Fluid Geometry - An Animation Library and Configuration Application

9 May 2012

Josh Smith

A task-oriented review of an animation library and the application which uses it.

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

17 Oct 2005

Bill Pierce

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

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

9 Nov 2005

Koushik Biswas

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

TreeCtrl - A WTL tree control with Windows Vista style item selection

9 Apr 2006

AlanW

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

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

31 Mar 2006

Dan Radu

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

Switching threads

16 Sep 2007

Rajasekharan Vengalil

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

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

28 Jun 2005

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

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

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

Sergiy Lavrynenko of Foss Software, Inc.

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

Shrinking SQL Server Transaction Logs with SQL-DMO

21 Apr 2004

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

mark novak

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

How to Edit and Persist Collections with CollectionEditor

26 Nov 2003

Daniel Zaharia

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

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

24 Nov 2014

SIDDHARTH_JAIN

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

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

5 Dec 2005

Oscar Londono

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

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

18 May 2007

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

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

Heath Stewart

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

OSD window with animation effect, in C#

25 May 2006

Mr.Smarty

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

A word-wise HTML text compare and merge engine

27 Aug 2005

Hongwei Shen

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

Using IFilter in C#

19 Mar 2006

Eyal Post

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

Receiving Events from late-bound COM servers

2 May 2005

Uwe Keim

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

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

10 Jan 2005

Anna-Jayne Metcalfe

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

WTL CDialogResize extension

29 Apr 2004

Rob Caldecott

Extension to WTL CDialogResize template to support persistent dialog size

ZIP Code Utility

2 Jan 2005

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.

CTreePropSheetEx – an extended version of CTreePropSheet

7 Apr 2005

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.

The Longest Common Substring with Maximal Consecutive

12 Sep 2005

Thanh Dao

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

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

15 May 2006

Michael Dunn

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

XPTable - .NET ListView meets Java's JTable

17 Sep 2005

Mathew Hall

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

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

6 Jul 2004

Johnvey Hwang

Open source Gmail API in C#

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

27 Aug 2003

Don Kackman

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

ASCII Art Generator

28 May 2007

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

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

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

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

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

Mark Belles

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

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

22 Jan 2013

radumi

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

11 Jul 2005

Chester Ragel

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

SQL-server-2000

Check Help Links Tool

6 Oct 2005

Nicholas Butler

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

EDIFACT to XML to Anything You Want

10 Aug 2005

Tonster101

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

Understanding Custom Marshaling Part 1

18 Aug 2006

Lim Bio Liong

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

Processing Global Mouse and Keyboard Hooks in C#

31 Aug 2011

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.

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

31 Dec 2005

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.

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

21 Jan 2008

Jeffrey Walton

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

Product Keys Based on the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

12 Jun 2007

Jeffrey Walton

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

Rabbit Threads: Making Threads Jump

14 Nov 2007

Jeffrey Walton

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

Yet Another Thread Monitor

8 Jan 2004

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

Guillaume Leparmentier

Understand and use color models in .NET

Protection Schemes Based on Virus Survival Techniques

26 Nov 2007

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

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

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

SQL-server-2000

1 Aug 2009

DaveShep

Component for adding scriptable forms capabilities to an application.

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

24 May 2006

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

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

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

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.

dotNetInstaller - Setup Bootstrapper for .NET Application

4 Jan 2004

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.

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

14 Nov 2004

Lars-Inge Tønnessen

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

Access multiple icons in a single icon file

23 Feb 2004

Matthew Hazlett

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

The Mini Shell Extension Framework – Part III

18 Sep 2005

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

Michael Dunn

Using the new WTL classes that implement advanced dialog UI elements

Who cares about Domain Rules?

20 Nov 2006

Maruis Marais

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

Developing a SOHO web filter step by step

9 Jun 2017

Reza Shademani

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

Reading Adobe Photoshop images

3 Jul 2005

Igor Tolmachev

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

CHttpClient - A Helper Class Using WinInet

10 Aug 2007

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

Max Santos

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

Hosting of MFC MDI Applications from Within WinForms and WPF Applications

12 May 2017

Alexey Shalnov

Demonstrates the concept of how to build an old MFC application in a .NET application, to replace the MFC MDI Framework with the modern WinForms or the WPF Framework and to integrate MFC Views and Dialogs in it.

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

13 Sep 2006

Nish Nishant

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

CCaptionButton - Add Buttons on the Caption Bar

19 Sep 2005

Neil Yao

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

RegistryMonitor - a .NET wrapper class for RegNotifyChangeKeyValue

16 Jan 2006

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.

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

31 May 2006

Michael Dunn

A tutorial on adding columns to Explorer's details view via a column handler shell extension.

Adding and using 32 bit alphablended images and icons to the imagelist control

23 Dec 2004

Narb M

An article on adding alphablended images to an imagelist control and using them on components.

FrontPage-Style Table Picker Using GDI+

27 Oct 2004

Jon Davis

Create a FrontPage-Style table picker in C# using simple GDI+ rendering techniques.

SingleInstance Component (Winform)

3 Aug 2003

Reto Ravasio

A component that makes a Winform application single instance.

WTL for MFC Programmers, Part X - Implementing a Drag and Drop Source

16 Jun 2006

Michael Dunn

A tutorial on using drag and drop in your WTL application.

Owner Drawn Menu with Icons, Titles and Shading

5 Dec 2003

Bruno Podetti

An easy use of owner drawn menu with variable styles like new Office products with titles, shading and icons.

An animated progressbar control with many extras

20 Nov 2006

Robert Rohde

An extended picturebox, animated picturebox, and an animated progressbar in one component.

Enable Your Users to Write Math Equations in Your Web and Desktop Apps

30 Jan 2008

sytelus

This article shows you how you can let your users type mathematical equations in popular TeX format and render them as GIF images in your web and desktop applications with just 10 minutes of coding effort.

How to Clone/Serialize/Copy & Paste a Windows Forms Control

6 Feb 2006

lxwde

Clone/Serialize/Copy & Paste a Windows Forms control through serializing its properties.

Advanced UxTheme wrapper

13 Jul 2007

Guillaume Leparmentier

How to use, and understand, visual styles for custom controls drawn with a C# wrapper (uxtheme.dll)

WTL CBitmapHyperLink class

18 Jan 2005

Igor Vigdorchik

CHyperLink derived class that displays a bitmap next to the link and allows a different color when hover.

The Dragable Container

10 Nov 2008

Dariush Tasdighi

How to create and use a dragable container at runtime.

Creating Pivot Tables and Charts Using ActiveX

20 Jan 2008

Sushant Joshi

This article describes how to generate Excel at client side and embedd "Pivot Tables" and "Charts" into the Excel.

30 Jun 2008

Liping Dai

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

Neural Networks on C#

19 Nov 2006

Andrew Kirillov

The articles describes a C# library for neural network computations, and their application for several problem solving.

Walking the callstack

14 Nov 2005

Jochen Kalmbach [MVP VC++]

This article describes the (documented) way to walk a callstack for any thread (own, other and remote). It has an abstraction layer, so the calling app does not need to know the internals.

Building Rich COMponents with Attributed ATL

26 Jan 2004

Alex Kolesnichenko

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

Useful enhancements for Visual Studio .NET

1 Jul 2003

SteveKing

Several tools packed into one addin for Visual Studio .NET

A simple demo for WDM Driver development

25 Oct 2004

mjtsai

WDM Driver programming introduction with three Pseudo Drivers.

Using views effectively without the doc/view overhead

14 Nov 2003

Antti Keskinen

An article on making the MFC framework do the work for you when creating views based on CView or its derivatives.

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

2 Jun 2006

Michael Dunn

A tutorial on writing an extension to customize the icons displayed for a file type.

Refly, makes the CodeDom'er life easier

1 Mar 2004

Jonathan de Halleux

A smart wrapper around CodeDom that speeds up code generation.

Undo and Redo the "Easy" Way

20 Jun 2004

compiler

This article introduces a simple approach to in-memory transactions that can be used to implement Undo and Redo. The technique uses SEH and Virtual Memory and requires only STL and Win32.

WordML Templates Editor – data visualization using Office 2003 WordML features

27 Oct 2006

Dan Radu

This article explains how to use Office 2003 WordML features to display data stored in .NET datasets.

Creating a WTL Dialog, Property Sheet or Wizard out of a resource (The Easy Way)

4 Aug 2004

Pablo Aliskevicius

After you design your dialogs in Visual Studio, use the WTL Class Wizard to turn them into WTL classes <b>and not just from Visual Studio 6!</b>

A C# Framework for Interprocess Synchronization and Communication

8 Aug 2004

Christoph Ruegg

How to share resources and implement a rich message/data passing architecture between threads and processes (SOA)

Fight the dialog units, DPI and Large Fonts

16 Nov 2003

George Yohng

Guarantees pixel-to-pixel matching appearance of resource-based dialogs for different font DPIs

Machine Solution to Einstein's Riddle Revisited

29 Oct 2013

Dezhi Zhao

This article shows a fast solution to Einstein's Riddle by using brutal search.

Methods for a location proximity search using GPS (WGS-84) mathematics

28 Apr 2005

Thomas Kurek

Unsatisfied with the accuracy of code online that assumes the Earth is a sphere, I have implemented the oblate spheroid model used in GPS.

SQL-server-2000

MemSpyy

29 Oct 2007

pj4533

Using OpenGL to map the virtual memory address space.

xp_regex: Regular Expressions in SQL Server 2000

6 Oct 2003

Dan Farino

This is a SQL Server 2000 Extended Stored Procedure writted in Managed C++. It allows you to use regular expressions in T-SQL.

Crafting a C# Forms Editor from scratch

1 Mar 2006

lxwde

Crafting a C# Forms Editor by implementing a RectTracker and a transparent control.

Implementing Semantic Actions in the Boost Spirit Parser Framework

10 Oct 2004

Dave Handley

Using composites to implement a modular arithmetic calculator with the Boost Spirit parser framework.

Assembly Manipulation and C# / VB.NET Code Injection

26 Apr 2013

Sebastien Lebreton

Reflexil is an assembly editor and runs as a plug-in for Reflector or JustDecompile. Reflexil is able to manipulate IL code and save the modified assemblies to disk. Reflexil also supports "on-the-fly" C#/VB.NET code injection.

Runtime Object Editor

30 May 2006

Corneliu Tusnea

A powerful window/object editor to be used at runtime that allows viewing/changing of properties and fields, method invocations, and object hierarchy navigation.

Visual SourceSafe Journal Monitor Service

27 Jan 2004

Lewis Moten

VMS is a windows service developed in .Net that monitors a Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS) database. Customized alerts may be sent based on the defined filters.

26 Sep 2005

BrainJar

The game of Reversi in C#.

C# MIDI Toolkit

18 Apr 2007

Leslie Sanford

A toolkit for creating MIDI applications with C#.

WTL for MFC Programmers, Part VIII - Property Sheets and Wizards

13 Jan 2006

Michael Dunn

A guide to creating property sheets and wizards in WTL

CFlowchartEditor - linking things in CDiagramEditor

5 Jul 2006

Johan Rosengren

A flowchart editor with linked objects, based on CDiagramEditor.

A Portable and Efficient Generic Parser for Flat Files

2 Aug 2017

Andrew Rissing

GenericParser is a C# implementation of a parser for delimited and fixed width format files.

A small C# Class for impersonating a User

11 Apr 2005

Uwe Keim

Introduced a class that simplifies Windows Impersonation in C#.

Special QuickWatch for a DataSet

26 May 2004

mohammed barqawi

A VS.NET add-in to know the content of the any dataset during debugging.

Add Custom Properties to a PropertyGrid

22 Aug 2006

Danilo Corallo

Extend a PropertyGrid with an Item collection; easy customization of properties with custom editor, custom converter and databinding.

Yet Another Analog Clock

8 Jun 2005

Obaid ur Rehman

Yet another analog clock control in C#, but this one is different.

Automate the Active Windows Explorer or Internet Explorer Window

20 Oct 2005

Sheng Jiang 蒋晟

An article on finding out an active IE or Explorer window or creating one and controlling it.

A Skip List in C#

31 Aug 2003

Leslie Sanford

Skip Lists, their Algorithms, and a SkipList class in C#.

EnhancedImage Project

1 Sep 2005

otigli

An article about how to enhance current image characteristics

Visual Leak Detector - Enhanced Memory Leak Detection for Visual C++

14 Nov 2006

Dan Moulding

A memory leak detector for Visual C++ packaged in an easy to use library!

Drawing UPC-A Barcodes with C#

13 Apr 2005

rainman_63

Demonstrates a method to draw UPC-A barcodes using C#.

Another WTL Grid

1 Jun 2003

Bjornar Henden

A WTL Grid mostly aimed for use against databases.

A class based on CFileDialog that provides easy image preview

22 Mar 2004

Rob Manderson

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

A simple ASP.NET Web TabStrip User Control

22 Aug 2004

jqd2001

Implementing Tab Control for Web.

SourceGrid - Open Source C# Grid Control

4 Aug 2013

Davide Icardi

SourceGrid is a free open source grid control. Supports virtual grid, custom cells and editors, advanced formatting options and many others features

xacc.propertygrid

21 Mar 2007

leppie

An ASP.NET PropertyGrid

Inserting images into a RichTextBox control (the OLE way)

1 Nov 2005

Oscar Londono

This article shows how you can insert images, controls and ActiveX objects into a .NET RichTextBox control by using the OLE way. There are several samples about how it could be done, but all of them are in C++ and I needed it for managed code (C#).

Install a Windows service the way YOU want to!

26 Nov 2003

HanreG

Shows how to change settings for a windows service during installation.

World Clock and the TimeZoneInformation class

3 Jan 2006

Mike Dimmick

Using the operating system's time zone APIs to convert times from Universal time (UTC) to a specified time zone.

The Razor Framework :: Part 2 :: Configuration/Options

15 Mar 2005

Mark Belles

An extensible dependency based plugin framework for .NET applications.

Benchmark start-up and system performance for .Net, Mono, Java, C++ and their respective UI

2 Sep 2010

dmihailescu

What is the start-up and system performance overhead for .Net, Mono, Java versus C++ and Forms, WPF, Swing versus MFC

Capturing Window Controls and Modifying their properties

19 Feb 2005

Ashkbiz Danehkar

A Spy tool program like MS Spy++ that lets you capture window controls and modify their properties. Useful for learning window handles and their properties.

RCF - Interprocess Communication for C++

25 Oct 2011

Jarl Lindrud

A server/client IPC framework, using the C++ preprocessor as an IDL compiler.

ResxWriter: Generating .resx files from an Excel spreadsheet

17 Nov 2006

Patrick Bounaix

Generate .resx files from an Excel spreadsheet; fully customizable.

Paging of Large Resultsets in ASP.NET

5 Aug 2004

Jasmin Muharemovic

An article about optimization and performance testing of MS SQL Server 2000 stored procedures used for paging of large resultsets in ASP.NET

SQL-server-2000

Applying Robustness Analysis on the Model–View–Controller (MVC) Architecture in ASP.NET Framework, using UML

22 Aug 2004

Shams Mukhtar

This article will enhance your vision on the usage of Robustness Analysis in conjunction with Model View Controller, using UML with application in ASP.NET. This article is a sequel to my articles on Architecture and Design with ASP.NET.

SQL-server-2000

15 Feb 2006

Yuval Naveh

.NET/C# visual effects framework for changing the user's locus of attention to an area on the screen.

Introduction to NLog

13 Jul 2006

Jaroslaw Kowalski

Introduction to managing diagnostic traces with NLog.

iTunes Bar Look-a-Like

30 Dec 2007

Snews

A control that mimics the look-n-feel of iTunes and the iPod manager.

Fun With Gravity

28 Jul 2008

BoneSoft

A gravity simulation particle system

Multi-line List Control

5 Sep 2006

Dave Calkins

A custom control which provides a multi-column list of items with multi-line rows.

Unicode Optical Character Recognition

23 Aug 2006

Daniel Admassu

The Project is an optical character recongnition application using artificial neural networks.

Installation IDs Based on Truncated Hashing

4 Dec 2007

Jeffrey Walton

Create Semi-Anonymous Installation Fingerprints Using Truncated Hashing and Crypto++

Compiling .NET code on-the-fly

19 Nov 2003

Jim Rogers

Compile .NET code programmatically, in memory, then use the resulting assembly to instantiate an object of a class, access its properties and methods, and call a static function.

UDDI Explorer: Tool for Searching Web Services

20 Dec 2005

Thanh Dao

Tool for searching web service(s) and viewing their WSDL information

A Fast CSV Reader

13 Jan 2016

Sebastien Lorion

A reader that provides fast, non-cached, forward-only access to CSV data.

LINQ FAQ: Part 2

28 Jul 2009

Shivprasad koirala

This FAQ article is dedicated to LINQ to SQL.

How to build your own ASP.NET templates for VS.NET

6 Jan 2004

rugha

This article explains how to add custom templates for both aspx and code behind files in VS.NET's "add new item" menu

Automatic Runtime Tab Order Management for Windows Forms

28 Oct 2004

Scott McMaster

This article presents the TabOrderManager, which is a class that automatically adjusts the tab order on a Windows form based on different high-level schemes.

Understanding CGI with C#

27 Jan 2005

Justin Williams

Leveraging the Common Gateway Interface in C#.

An extensible math expression parser with plug-ins

13 Mar 2008

Mathieu Jacques

Design and code for an extensible, maintainable, robust, and easy to use math parser.

Best Practice for Binding WinForms ListControls

26 Sep 2004

Scott McMaster

This article demonstrates the best technique for databinding the ListBox and ComboBox controls in .NET Windows Forms

Cabinet File (*.CAB) Compression and Extraction

23 Mar 2012

Elmue

How to implement creation and extraction of Microsoft CAB files

6 Steps to Implement DUAL Security on WCF using User name + SSL

20 May 2010

Shivprasad koirala

6 steps to implement DUAL security on WCF using User name + SSL

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Building the Reflector Add-In

17 Jul 2003

Jamie Cansdale

Making Reflector into a Visual Studio.NET Add-In

WebBrowser Control: How to Print Preview

22 Mar 2005

Frank W. Wu

Insert the WebBrowser control into a dialog box, and add print preview functionality to it by implementing the IOleCommandTarget interface.

Integrating MapPoint in your .NET applications

2 Oct 2005

Chayan

Using the MapPoint web service API and C# to calculate the route/driving directions between two places (e.g. cities) and generate a map showing the same.

MD5 Hash SQL Server Extended Stored Procedure

7 Mar 2005

Vic Mackey

An extended stored procedure for SQL Server that implements an optimized MD5 hash algorithm. Very small DLL (barely 7 KB).

Vista UAC: The Definitive Guide

21 Mar 2008

Thomas Hruska

Learn how UAC operates behind the scenes. Use the Elevate package to start multiple elevated processes but only display one UAC elevation dialog from a non-elevated process.

The Razor Framework :: Part 1 :: Plugins/Extensibility

11 Mar 2005

Mark Belles

An extensible dependency based plugin framework for .NET Applications.

MAPIEx: Extended MAPI Wrapper

5 Dec 2009

Noel Dillabough

A (hopefully) complete extended MAPI wrapper for WinXP, WinCE, and .NET

Getting a "Handle" on the MDI Client

6 Oct 2004

Jacob Slusser

A component to customize the MDI area of a Form with color, images, border styles, and more.

OCR with Microsoft® Office

26 Oct 2007

Martin Welker

Coming with Microsoft Office 2003, the MODI library offers you an easy but effective way to integrate Optical Character Recognition (OCR) functionality into your own applications.

A New Task Scheduler Class Library for .NET

17 Dec 2007

Dennis Austin

A revision of a Task Scheduler class library by David Hall

CppSQLite - C++ Wrapper for SQLite

24 Jun 2011

Rob Groves

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

MFC Classes for Multiple Monitors

27 Aug 2003

Don Kackman

Class wrappers around the Win32 multi-monitor API

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

11 Nov 2003

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.

C++ XML the easy way!

10 Jun 2005

Alex Hazanov

A wrapper for the XML DOM for C++.

30 Aug 2006

Giannakakis Kostas

A multilingual dictionary engine with regular expressions support and Web browser integration.

Artificial Neural Networks made easy with the FANN library

28 Aug 2013

Software Developer's Journal

Neural networks are typically associated with specialised applications, developed only by select groups of experts. This misconception has had a highly negative effect on its popularity. Hopefully, the FANN library will help fill this gap.

DecompressLibrary - A General Library to Decompress a zip, gz, or tar.gz File into a Memory Buffer

21 Feb 2018

Marius Daniel Ciorecan

A library that provides an easy to use class (CDecompressLibrary) that will detect and decompress into memory buffers an archive file (zip, gz, tar.gz).

18 Oct 2018

Emre Guldogan

A System for Simulation and Analysis of Logic Circuits

Shell Tray Info - Arrange your system tray icons

26 Jun 2005

Nish Nishant

A tool with full source code that enumerates tray icons and allows you to reposition them as well as send mouse messages.

BatchRebuilder - Batch rebuilder for your Visual Studio .NET Projects

23 Jan 2005

Mauricio Ritter

This is a tool created to compile all C# or VB.NET projects in a specified folder. It'll recurse into the subdirectories looking for projects to compile. It has a lot of options like those for changing the project's target folder and logging. Hope you find it handy!

Product Activation Based on RSA Signatures

6 Jun 2007

Jeffrey Walton

Validate Product Keys using RSA Signing Functions and Crypto++

find_first_of: A performance pitfall among the STL algorithms

18 Jun 2007

Jim Xochellis

This article is discussing the performance problems found in the most notable find_first_of implementations and suggests useful improvements and workarounds.

Picture Chat for .NET

10 Jul 2014

Yang Kok Wah

A chat program that supports Unicode input and picture transfer.

The very last Configuration Section Handler I hope I'll ever need

27 Jun 2004

Phil Haack

Flexible and easy to use configuration section handler with change monitoring

Evolution computations on C#

15 Oct 2006

Andrew Kirillov

The articles describes a C# library for evolution computations and their application for several problems solving.

Screen Designer Classes

7 Mar 2004

John Indigo

Screen Designer Classes for MFC applications