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C# USB HID Interface

by Szymon Roslowski

Just another approach to understanding communication between HID devices and C#.

Custom Controls in Win32 API: Scrolling

by Martin Mitáš

How to support scrolling within your controls.

XColorSpectrumCtrl - a non-MFC color picker control that displays a color spectrum

by Hans Dietrich

XColorSpectrumCtrl displays a color spectrum that allows user selection, and provides APIs for color based on RGB and HSL color models.

XQueue - a non-MFC C++ class to manage an interprocess queue

by Hans Dietrich

XQueue implements a shared-memory first-in first-out (FIFO) queue, based on memory-mapped files, that works on all versions of Windows.

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Graph3D: A Windows.Forms Render Control in C#

by Elmue

An easy to use 3D control which can be integrated into an application in a few minutes

ListEx: Advanced MFC List Control with Lots of Features

by Jovibor

List Control with tooltips, cells editing, colors, sorting, hyperlinks, columns hiding, and a lot more

Pixel-Perfect Reporting – Embedded In Your App

by JBartlau

In this article, we discuss how embedded reporting tools like List & Label offer advanced design and formatting capabilities, enabling users to customize the layout, font and formatting of Pixel-Perfect reports.

TracerX Logger and Viewer for .NET

by MarkLTX

Easy to use logger with a powerful viewer that supports filtering by thread, logger, etc.

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Visual Studio

Custom Controls in Win32 API: Scrolling

26 Feb 2018 by Martin Mitáš

How to support scrolling within your controls.

Windows

Win64

Visual-Studio

XColorSpectrumCtrl - a non-MFC color picker control that displays a color spectrum

4 Apr 2008 by Hans Dietrich

XColorSpectrumCtrl displays a color spectrum that allows user selection, and provides APIs for color based on RGB and HSL color models.

XQueue - a non-MFC C++ class to manage an interprocess queue

17 Jan 2005 by Hans Dietrich

XQueue implements a shared-memory first-in first-out (FIFO) queue, based on memory-mapped files, that works on all versions of Windows.

Making DSLs in F#

16 Aug 2009 by Dmitri Nеstеruk

Let's create a simple project estimation DSL using F#!

Fluid Geometry - An Animation Library and Configuration Application

9 May 2012 by Josh Smith

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

Control Message Bar

23 Oct 2008 by Paul Vickery

Code to add a message bar to virtually any existing Windows control.

Simple Method of DLL Export without C++/CLI

27 Jun 2009 by Dark Daskin

Article describes how to build an assembly that exposes functions to unmanaged code without C++/CLI

Detect Driver

10 Mar 2010 by Apriorit Inc, Ivan Romanenko

This article is the continue of the previously posted article Hide Driver. Some methods to detect hidden files and processes are described in it

TCP Socket Off-the-shelf

22 Jan 2014 by Igor Ladnik

Wrapper to facilitate usage of TCP sockets

Using a TypeDescriptionProvider to support dynamic run-time properties

16 Jun 2008 by Nish Nishant

This articles explains how to implement a TypeDescriptionProvider for a class to support multiple object types using a single class type

XResFile - Files Stored in Resources: Part 2 - Zip Files

19 Jul 2007 by Hans Dietrich

This series of articles is a step-by-step guide to reading files stored in your program's resources. Along the way I will present some non-MFC classes to assist you in reading text, binary, zip, and even encrypted files that have been compiled into your program as resources.

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

9 Jun 2005 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.

Phalanger, PHP for .NET: Introduction for .NET developers

24 Jan 2007 by Tomas Petricek

Phalanger is a PHP language compiler for the .NET Framework which introduces PHP as a first-class .NET citizen.

Synchronization with Visual C++ and the Windows API

23 Mar 2021 by Espen Harlinn

Choosing the right synchronization mechanisms when working with threads, thread-pools, and I/O Completion ports to create high performance asynchronous servers in C++

Guide to WIN32 Regions

10 Mar 2002 by Paul M Watt

Guide to understanding how to create and use regions with the WIN32 SDK

IFS - an Internet File System implementation based on Web services and peer-to-peer technology

28 Sep 2002 by Stoyan Damov

Internet File System from scratch - making web services and peer-to-peer technology work together to build a virtual file system

AJAX-enabled Name Selector User Control

24 Aug 2009 by Steve Krile

Fully AJAX-enabled user control used to select names from a database in a drop-down format.

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.

Window Tabs (WndTabs) Add-In for DevStudio

11 Jul 2002 by Oz Solomon

Window and File Management add-in for Visual C++

Always run Visual Studio as Administrator with no UAC prompt

30 Jul 2015 by Tom Chantler

UPDATE: 2015-07-30 - Works correctly in Windows 10 RTM (10.0.10240) with VS2013 and VS2015 - If you're running Windows 7, 8, 8.1 or 10 and you don't want to disable User Account Control (UAC) - which you shouldn't and quite possibly can't in a corporate environment - then you get an annoying prompt

Dependency Injection using Unity: Resolve Dependency of Dependencies

13 Mar 2018 by Akhil Mittal

A tutorial to learn dependency injection with the help of a simple example

Flexible WPF ToggleSwitch Lookless Control in C# & VB

15 Nov 2017 by Graeme_Grant

A Modern Toggle Switch - From mock concept to a full custom WPF control that you can plug into your own apps

C#.NET Implementation of K-Means Clustering Algorithm to Produce Recommendations

25 Dec 2016 by Arthur V. Ratz

In this article we'll demonstrate the implementation of k-means clustering algorithm to produce recommendations.

Attaching a Virtual Branch to the Logical Tree in WPF

6 May 2007 by Josh Smith

Reviews a pattern which enables new possibilities for data binding.

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.

Data Debugger Visualizer

30 May 2005 by dotnetdan

VS 2005 debug visualizers for DataSet, DataTable, DataView, DataRow and DataColumn objects.

CudaPAD

28 Mar 2023 by Ryan Scott White

CudaPAD is a PTX/SASS viewer for NVIDIA Cuda kernels and provides an on-the-fly view of your Cuda code.

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 Reflection.Emit to Precompile Expressions to MSIL

6 Jan 2009 by Steve Marsh

The classes in this project allow you to parse text expressions entered by a user and compile them to a .NET assembly. This assembly can be executed on the fly, or saved to a DLL.

PowerJSON - A Powerful and Fast JSON Serializer

2 Feb 2018 by wmjordan

This is a fork of "fastJSON" with new power to control many aspects in JSON serialization and deserialization, such as, serializing interface instances (polymorphic serialization) and private types, including or excluding members, performing data conversions, conditional serialization, etc.

BuilderHMI.Lite - Simple Drag-and-Drop WPF Layout

18 Nov 2020 by Bruce Greene

.NET Core WPF design as quick and intuitive as WinForms! Hear that MICROSOFT?

.NET

WPF

Visual-Studio

Harlinn.Windows - A Visual Studio 2022 Solution

27 Jan 2022 by Espen Harlinn

Harlinn.Windows is a collection of libraries that I have put together that serves as a big part of the runtime we use at work.

C++

Visual-Studio

Outlook style GUI - three-way split form

3 Jul 2002 by Nish Nishant

Demonstrates the usage of splitters, treeviews, listviews, panels, toolbars

The ALXGrid Control Library.

10 Nov 2002 by Alexey

The ALXGrid Control Library is a set of classes for management of data as a table.

ImmDoc .NET - a tool for generating HTML documentation

27 Jun 2007 by Marek Stoj

ImmDoc .NET is a command-line utility for generating HTML documentation from a set of .NET assemblies and XML files created by the compiler.

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

Automated IE SaveAs MHTML

4 Sep 2002 by Stephane Rodriguez.

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

FIXME - A Smart FIXME Macro

25 May 2009 by Jochen Baier

Using this smart 'FIXME' macro will help you not to forget to fix your code.

A Simple Windows Vista/7 Gadget to Preview CodeProject's Featured Articles

1 Aug 2017 by Arthur V. Ratz

Use HTML/CSS/JavaScript/Ajax for creating a simple lightweight Windows Vista/7 sidebar desktop gadget

SAPrefs - Netscape-like Preferences Dialog

20 Apr 2002 by C^hris L^osinger

A base class for a prefereneces dialog, similar to that used in Netscape

Pretty Good Initialization Library

25 Nov 2004 by Thorsten Ottosen

Are you tired of filling data manually into STL containers? With the Initialization Library it gets a lot easier.

Add Images and Textboxes to PDF

2 May 2007 by pmpdesign

A lightweight C# library to add images and 'round rectangles' to a PDF on the fly and then securely embed the PDF in a web page

Notification of Silverlight Applications about Database State Changes

27 Nov 2009 by Max Paulousky

This article presents the techniques and caveats of building Silverlight applications that can be notified about database state changes via polling duplex. WSHttp binding and CLR triggers are used to implement the solution as well.

Reactive Programming for .NET and C# Developers - An Introduction To IEnumerable, IQueryable, IObservable, and IQbservable

1 Sep 2013 by Anoop Pillai

Exploring Reactive Programming including a detailed look at Interactive and Reactive Extensions for .NET and C# developers.

.NET

Visual-Studio

reactive

Practical Perfect Hashing in C#

7 May 2015 by JorgeLuisOrejel

This article deals with the implementation and empirical testing of a method to achieve practical perfect hashing.

VS2010

Visual-Studio

All in One Toolchain for Article Writing with Visual Studio Code

27 Feb 2021 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Now with auto-numbering! New Visual Studio Code extension “Extensible Markdown Converter” augments built-in Markdown extension to form all in one toolchain offering convenient editor, rendered document viewer, spell checker and converter to HTML, per CodeProject article submission requirements

MFC List Control with Tooltips, Editing, Colors, Columns hiding, Sorting and lot more abilities.

6 Apr 2020 by Jovibor

Owner-draw list control with tooltips, editing, colors, sorting, hyperlinks, columns hiding and lot more.

Screen Capture to the Clipboard

5 Apr 2001 by Joseph M. Newcomer

How do you capture the bitmap of a window? This little download shows how, and places the bitmap on the clipboard.

Implement Phonetic ("Sounds-like") Name Searches with Double Metaphone Part VI: Other Methods & Additional Resources

19 Mar 2007 by Adam Nelson

Surveys other phonetic matching techniques, and presents additional resources on the subject.

Windows-Service for Multithreading with Remote Control GUI

25 Feb 2016 by J.Starkl

A windows-service which can handle different operations in separate threads and which can be controlled by a small GUI program

Adding New Theme Variations to the MFC Ribbon (CMFCVisualManager)

1 Nov 2017 by peterboulton

Add new Ribbon themes to MFC application built using VS Feature Pack' classes

C++/CLI HowTo : Deriving from a C# disposable class

5 Jul 2008 by Nish Nishant

This article walks through the implementation of a C++/CLI class from a disposable C# base.

Use Visual Studio 2008 C++/CLI to Automate Excel

24 Jul 2008 by bollwerkj

This article shows you how I got Excel to work using C++/CLI in a Windows Forms Application

On the fly Code Generation with Evolutility

11 Jun 2010 by Evoluteur

A generic Web User Interface for CRUD applications generating all screens at run-time based on external metadata. It comes with sample applications for address book, memo pad, to do list, restaurants list, wine cellar, and database structure documentation that are easily customizable.

WinRT: StyleMVVM Demo 2 of 2

5 Nov 2013 by Sacha Barber

StyleMVVM Demo App

Decorator Pattern Usage on a Simplified Pacman Game

9 Dec 2013 by Petar Brkusanin

An example of how Decorator, Dependency Injection, and Composition Root patterns can be used to extend the base game functionality.

ASP.NET Core and Angular 2 Code Venture - Part 1

13 Oct 2016 by Vincent Maverick Durano

This article will walk you through on building a data-driven web app from scratch within the context of ASP.NET Core 1.0 using Angular 2 and Web API 2.

Wheel-Road couple

20 Feb 2018 by Christian Dalle

Calculate a wheel profile matching a road profile.

Windows

VS2013

Visual-Studio

Solution Build Timer for VS 2005/2013/2015/2017/2019

10 Jun 2019 by User 40411

Add-in for VS2005, VS2013/2015 and VS2017/2019 that provides the time taken to build a complete solution

CSNTPClient - An SNTP Implementation

7 Apr 2000 by PJ Naughter

A collection of freeware MFC classes to encapsulate the SNTP protocol.

DX Game Utility Class Library

9 Nov 2003 by Dan Peverill

A managed DirectX class library that can be used as a foundation for basic 2D games. Demo included.

XSD Tutorial - Part 5 of 5 - Other Useful Bits

3 Jul 2014 by Simon Sprott

This article gives a basic overview of the building blocks underlying XML Schemas.

2D "Nim" Game Development and Animation in C# (Part 2)

16 Aug 2007 by Volynsky Alex

Part 2 in a series of articles on a two-player mathematical game of strategy

Flyout - A great way to save space on your webpage

4 Dec 2007 by Ned Thompson

This article will demo how a free Flyout can help to save space on your webpage.

Introduction to Model Driven Development with Sculpture – Part 1

3 Sep 2008 by Ahmed Negm

This article introduces how to create and manage .NET enterprise applications using your favorite technology (Data Access Application Block, LINQ, NHibernate, ASMX, and WCF) with the Model Driven Development approach by Sculpture.

Circular Indeterminate Progress Indicator Control

10 Apr 2013 by gggustafson

This article introduces the reader to the steps taken to create a user control that displays a circular indeterminate progress control.

Classes for computational geometry

26 Dec 2001 by Chris Maunder

Some classes and utility functions for general computational geometry

MDISnap

29 Nov 2004 by peterchen

Do your users a favor - add snapping edges to MDI child windows (or anywhere else).

API-Less INI File Wrapper

5 Nov 2008 by Tolgahan ALBAYRAK

Read, Write, Save INI files without using Windows APIs.

Using DescriptionAttribute for enumerations bound to a WPF ComboBox

27 Jan 2016 by Clifford Nelson

How to use DescriptionAttribute for enumerations bound to a ComboBox.

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.

How to dynamically link to oleacc.dll in Visual C++ .NET

9 Jun 2002 by Chen Hao

How to control the dependancy on oleacc.dll in your Visual C++ .NET applications

Color Picker for WTL with XP themes

13 Jun 2002 by Tim Smith

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

Inference in Belief Networks

6 Dec 2002 by hzhou

A C# implementation of bucket elimination algorithm for inference in belief networks.

Windows

.NET

.NET1.0

artificial-intelligence

Visual-Studio

Dev

XBreadCrumbBar - Draw breadcrumb trail with hyperlinks and HTML

7 Aug 2007 by Hans Dietrich

XBreadCrumbBar is a windowless non-MFC class that allows you to display a breadcrumb trail as HTML text, with support for web links and APP: links.

Find File in Solution

28 Mar 2010 by Alex Blekhman

Find any file in solution using incremental search and advanced filtering

SMTP Client Supporting Implicit SSL Secure Sockets Layer with OAuth2 Open Authorization or Password Authorization (2.0)

20 Jun 2019 by Uzi Granot

The attached open source C# .NET library is an SMTP client implementing implicit SSL and OAuth2 protocols. The library answers the question: how to send email message using Gmail as a server. Or, how to send email message using email server that implements implicit SSL and port 465.

Creating Alternate GUI using Vector Art

6 Feb 2000 by Keith Rule

Create visually complex, yet programmatically simple, non-rectangular GUIs

Enhanced CListCtrl that accepts and filters dropped files and folders

6 Feb 2000 by Stuart Carter

This article explains how to support file drag and drop in your CWnd-derived object

The alxBase classes for work with DBF files

5 Nov 2002 by Alexey

The alxBase classes for work with dbf files.

CFormatDriveDialog - A wrapper class for the undocumented SHFormatDrive API function

27 Aug 2002 by Nish Nishant

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

WebService Probe

19 Oct 2002 by Roman Kiss

Using the WebService Probe to publish details of the "talking" between the web service and its consumer. Here is its design, implementation and usage in the WebService Analyzer Studio.

Using a NetworkStream with raw serialization, GZipStream, and CryptoStream

26 Mar 2006 by Marc Clifton

Using a NetworkStream with raw serialization, GZipStream, and CryptoStream.

Implement an Autoplay Handler

18 Sep 2006 by Tim Almdal

Implementing an Autoplay handler in C#.

RSA Library with Private Key Encryption in C#

15 Jul 2012 by Arpan Jati

RSA encryption library with full OAEP padding and private key encryption support

Zip Rendering Extension for SQL Server Reporting Services 2005/2008/2012

14 Aug 2013 by Harmen Brouwer

How to create and deploy a SSRS rendering extension, explained by a functional Zip Rendering extension for SSRS 2005, 2008 (R2) and 2012.

Fabrika LAB: WebCam Video

22 May 2013 by Dejan Mauer

Free and easy way to access a web camera by using the Aforge library.

HiUpdate tools - Automatic application updates

19 Sep 2013 by Josef Andrys

HiUpdateTools is a easy tools to use publish new version of your application

VS2012

Visual-Studio

Implementing K-Means Image Segmentation Algorithm

29 Aug 2017 by Arthur V. Ratz

How to implement k-means clustering algorithm to perform graphical raster image segmentation

Drawing Barcodes in Windows Part 1 - Code 39

14 Jun 2002 by Neil Van Eps

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

GPS Receivers, Geodesy, and Geocaching: Vincenty’s Formula

9 Jan 2008 by Mike Gavaghan

Vincenty's Formula is an iterative solution for calculating the distance and direction between two points along the surface of Earth.

How to Test a Class Which Uses DispatcherTimer

14 Jul 2007 by Josh Smith

Demonstrates how to create unit tests for a class which uses a DispatcherTimer.

C# Scripts using DynamicMethod

10 May 2011 by D. Christian Ohle

C# scripts using DynamicMethod

Simulator 6 Axis Articulated Robots

7 Apr 2014 by jurhas

A small simulator for a 6 axis articulated robot

PDF417 Barcode Encoder Class Library and Demo App Ver. 2.2

8 Sep 2020 by Uzi Granot

The PDF417 barcode encoder class library is written in C#. The target framework is .NET Framework (net462) and .NET Standard (netstandard2.0). The encoder library allows you to create a PDF417 barcode image from a text string or a binary (byte) array. Two demo/test applications are included.

Comment/Uncomment Macro and more

18 May 2002 by Adam Solesby