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Elasticsearch, Kibana and Docker using .NET Standard 2

by Juan G. Carmona

Advanced logging in modern .NET applications. A Sunday-morning-proof-of-concept.

50 OpenGL MFC Projects in One

by Petrov Vladimir

Former NeHe OpenGL Lessons adapted to MSVS-15 pro MFC in INICODE and the samples of the Joystick implementation

WPFSpark v1.2

by Ratish Philip

The next version of the useful WPF controls is here

Windows Resize and Move

by Bruno Tabbia

Automatic positioning and resizing of explorer windows, without overlapping (for obsessive superusers)

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Multi Rename of Files

by Allegra Angelo

This tip intends to discuss how to rename multiple files in VB.NET.

Fixing Unregistered .OCX Files in Running Legacy Application on Windows 10 (64-bit)

by Southmountain

How to install and register .OCX components for legacy application

Lee Algorithm Mazesolver

by Shao Voon Wong

Lee Algorithm Mazesolver in MFC and Direct2D

Jump Start to Build Diligent Engine

by Southmountain

How to smoothly build Diligent Engine on Windows 10 with Visual Studio 2019

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Elasticsearch, Kibana and Docker using .NET Standard 2

29 Dec 2018 by Juan G. Carmona

Advanced logging in modern .NET applications. A Sunday-morning-proof-of-concept.

50 OpenGL MFC Projects in One

10 May 2017 by Petrov Vladimir

Former NeHe OpenGL Lessons adapted to MSVS-15 pro MFC in INICODE and the samples of the Joystick implementation

WPFSpark v1.2

15 Mar 2016 by Ratish Philip

The next version of the useful WPF controls is here

Magic Formula of the Intersection Point of Two Line Segments

5 Dec 2019 by Petrov Vladimir

Compact and simply Vector Formula of the Intersection Point of Two Line Segments

Simple Service-Based System for Massive Data Processing with ZooKeeper-Kafka and Redis

15 Feb 2018 by Igor Ladnik

Basic infrastructure for massive continuous data acquisition and processing using ZooKeeper-Kafka and Redis

Weiler-Atherton Algorithm in MFC

25 Feb 2018 by Petrov Vladimir

Weiler-Atherton algorithm in MFC codes demo implementation

Sorted Page from Distributed Unsorted Data Sets

12 Mar 2018 by Igor Ladnik

Algorithm and code to create sorted page out of several large volatile unsorted data sets.

DirectX and Pure Assembly Language: Doing What Can't be Done - Part IV(b): the Full DirectX App

26 Jun 2018 by CMalcheski

A Full DirectX Sample Application Created in Pure Assembly Language

Event Tracing for Windows: Reducing Everest to Pike's Peak

8 Jun 2017 by David A. Gray

Historically, ETW has been portrayed as having a very steep learning curve, along the lines of the effort required to summit Everest. Realizing its potential value, I set about to reduce the effort to that required to summit Pike's Peak.

Joystick Win32 and MFC Projects

19 Dec 2016 by Petrov Vladimir

Joystick Win32 and MFC Projects Templates ready to use

Your Own Quadrics in OpenGL MFC

20 Nov 2017 by Petrov Vladimir

The alternative Quadrics in OpenGL MFC for your Own design and Universal Polyhedron Procedure.

Weiler-Atherton Algorithm in 3D

11 Mar 2018 by Petrov Vladimir

Weiler-Atherton algorithm in 3D codes demo implementation

Invisible Ink

24 Aug 2017 by Daniel Vaughan

Using steganography to conceal text within a document or watermark a code file, using a whitespace encoder. Hide text in plain sight!

General Purpose MultiSlider

26 May 2017 by John Trinder

Comprehensive Multi-Slider(-Range) that can add, delete and move arrows (thumbs)

Hosting .NET Core Components in Unmanaged C/C++ Process in Windows and Linux

4 Feb 2019 by Igor Ladnik

Compact infrastructure for custom hosting of .NET Core component in unmanaged C/C++ code with reciprocal methods calls between the parts running in Windows and Linux. Section Threads and Processes

Proper Bash Scripting on Windows: Associate SH Scripts to WSL (Windows 10) (Enable drag-and-drop to .sh) (+other Linux Executables)

28 Jun 2018 by Alex the Green Apple

Guide to properly set up Windows 10 for Shell scripting

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (7 of N)

29 Nov 2017 by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 7 Saving journal entries in the file system

Communicating With a Direct2D Graphics Thread

27 Jun 2016 by Ben Aldhouse

How I stopped worrying and learned to love Direct2D.

Take three tablets and call me in the morning - the Chuwi Hi12

28 Feb 2017 by OriginalGriff

The Nexus 7, the Amazon Fire 7 inch, and the Chuwi Hi12. A personal review.

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (4 of N)

27 Nov 2017 by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 4 Adding Windows Controls (Building the DailyJournal app)

UpdaterApp - a Library for Easy Update

26 Sep 2019 by William Costa Rodrigues

This article explains an easy method to download and update your WinForms application

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (6 of N)

28 Nov 2017 by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 6 Programmatically Adding Tabs (Pivot) for Multiple entries in DailyJournal (includes CommandBar and Menu concepts)

Animation Editor - Bring Cartoon Color to Your Otherwise Drab Covid World

16 Jul 2020 by Christ Kennedy

Combine your own sprites with any MP4 you choose using this Animation Editor

Texture Mapping in OpenGL using Class CImage

5 Aug 2016 by Petrov Vladimir

Texture Mapping in OpenGL from any Image File in any format using Class CImage(just call the File Name).

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (5 of N)

28 Nov 2017 by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 5 Adding Tabs (Pivot) For Multiple Journal Entries

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (12 of N)

12 Dec 2017 by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 12 Working with the ListView - Setting up ListView style via XAML, using data binding and anonymous types in C#.

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (13 of N)

14 Dec 2017 by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForms) Chapter 13 : Deployment, Sideloading a UWA - How easy/difficult is it, really?

Exploring Computational Number Theory (Part 3)

26 Mar 2018 by William Hey

Factoring classic integers

UWP Form Validation with Calcium

22 Jan 2017 by Daniel Vaughan

Implementing synchronous and asynchronous form validation for XAML based apps.

Using the Windows MIDI SYSEX API in .NET

13 Apr 2016 by Steve Grundy

This article describes using the Windows MIDI API functions in a managed environment.

Getting All "Special Folders" via VB.NET

12 Apr 2016 by Jalapeno Bob

A VB.NET version of Ray Koopa's 21 Mar 2016 article, Getting All "Special Folders" in .NET

Using SQLite, Leverage the create_aggregate(), and SQL's Between Operator to Create a Normal Probability Distribution Histogram, or What is More Commonly Referred to as a Bell Curve

8 Dec 2016 by rerhart585

Using SQLite, leverage the create_aggregate(), and SQL's Between Operator to create a Normal Probability Distribution Histogram, or what is more commonly referred to as a Bell Curve.

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (11 of N)

7 Dec 2017 by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 11 LoadFileFromStorage - When changes from this chapter are complete you'll have an app which saves all entries and loads them from files.

Creating a Settings Screen for UWP with Codon

29 Mar 2019 by Daniel Vaughan

Create a dynamic settings screen for your UWP app. Add a setting with a single line of code.

Sprite Editor 2019: My Little Gymnast

24 Jan 2019 by Christ Kennedy

Draw multiple sprites of different appearances with a single instance of classSprite

Your Own AVI Shop

2 Apr 2019 by Petrov Vladimir

Build up our own AVI editing application and explore some fun techniques using simple code additions

LevelDB for UWP Applications

18 Mar 2016 by Zohaib Sibte Hassan

Getting started on using LevelDB for your UWP application

Streaming Engine Data to Azure with Windows IoT

8 Aug 2018 by Joel Ivory Johnson

Using a the OBD II Port and a Windows IoT Device (DragonBoard 410c or Raspberry Pi) to push real time engine data to the Azure Cloud for Analysis

The "SMAT" Subsystem for C++

6 Apr 2020 by Doctor Autonomy

A surprisingly easy way to avoid memory leaks with new/delete allocations in C++

Your Own Word Bookmark Editor

15 Apr 2018 by Petrov Vladimir

Word Bookmark Editor for Word Reports easy handling

SemanticZoom in Windows 10

20 Jul 2015 by Juan Pablo G.C.

ListView with MVVM grouping, context menu, templates in detail.

Win10 TabletMode & WinForms.Net Form Event Order

28 Jul 2018 by B.O.B.

Win10 TabletMode alters the order of Form events in WinForms.Net - this article describes how to correct the event order

Configuring Terraform Development Environment

24 Apr 2019 by Kevin Mack

How to configure Terraform Development Environment

A WPF-Friendly Shell_NotifyIcon Wrapper Class - Part 2: Minimize to System Tray

2 Dec 2020 by Ronald M. Martin

This series of articles explores a new WPF-friendly wrapper class for Shell_NotifyIcon.

A WPF-Friendly Shell_NotifyIcon Wrapper Class - Part 3: Ad Blocker Front End

2 Dec 2020 by Ronald M. Martin

This article provides a walk-through of the front end of a convenient ad blocking application that lives behind a notify icon.

A WPF-Friendly Shell_NotifyIcon Wrapper Class - Part 4: Ad Blocker Back End

2 Dec 2020 by Ronald M. Martin

A walk-through of the front end of a convenient ad blocking application that lives behind a notify icon

Performance Considerations for Resource Binding in Microsoft DirectX 12

23 Oct 2015 by Intel Corporation

This article describes how to pick different resource binding mechanisms to run an application efficiently on specific Intel’s GPUs.

Intel IoT Gateway: Windows 10 Getting Started Guide

19 Jan 2016 by Intel Corporation

This document describes the steps needed to deploy a Microsoft Windows 10 IoT Gateway and explains how to set up security features, software access points, and other management and development tools.

A Lap Around @ChakraCore

3 Jun 2016 by Microsoft Developers

Earlier this year, we open-sourced ChakraCore, the heart of the JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft Edge and the Windows 10 Universal App Platform. Today we'll walk you through what's new and what's next in ChakraCore, including some upcoming work like Modules, WebAssembly, ES2017 and beyond.

Strong Authentication and the Road to FIDO

22 Jun 2016 by Microsoft Developers

In this talk, we'll introduce you to .msCredential, anexperimental version of the FIDO API implemented in Microsoft Edge, powered byWindows Hello.

ES6 Arrow functions - The new fat and concise syntax in JavaScript

24 Jun 2016 by Kyle Pennell

Arrow functions are a new ES6 syntax for writing JavaScript functions. They will save developers time and simplify function scope.

Cloudant Data Layer

2 Aug 2016 by Mihail Mateev

IBM Cloudant Data Layer Local Edition is a database management system (DBMS) platform designed to resemble IBM Cloudant Database as a service (DBaaS) in the privacy of your own data center.

PolyHook - The C++11 x86/x64 Hooking Library

17 May 2016 by stevemk14ebr

A modern, universal, c++ hooking library.

PDF password recovery tool, The smart, the brute and the list.

19 May 2016 by Mohamed Kalmoua

In this article, I will discuss a PDF password recovery tool that I created in WPF using Visual Studio 2015.

Programming Windows 10: UWP Focus (3 of N)

26 Nov 2017 by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 3: The Challenges of Making Our Apps Look Good

C++ WinAPI Wrapper Object using thunks (x32 and x64)

6 Dec 2016 by Jon Campbell

Using "thunk" technique to add this pointer as fifth parameter to WndProc call for x32 and x64

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (9 of N)

4 Dec 2017 by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 9 Refactor (MVC thinking), More OOP, Designing Objects, SoC continuing work on DailyJournal app.

Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 Reviewed

3 Nov 2015 by Dirk_Strauss

This review will dig a little deeper under the hood and show what Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 can do for your development team.

Install Visual Studio 6.0 on Windows 10

8 Jun 2017 by Kirk Stowell

A tutorial for installing Visual Studio 6.0 on Windows 10

DICOM Image Viewer

24 Oct 2020 by Harsha T, Amarnath S, S Mahesh Reddy

A simple viewer of images stored in the DICOM 3.0 File Format (C#). The file should have raw pixel data, uncompressed. Window Level functionality is also provided.

Simple SignalR Data Streaming Infrastructure Out-of-the-Box

22 Jan 2019 by Igor Ladnik

The article presents infrastructure components for data streaming from server to clients and bidirectional communication with SignalR .NET Core.

Computer Temperatures, Fan Speeds, etc.

16 Oct 2018 by JL Doty

Fully exploit features of OpenHardwareMonitorLib.dll

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (14 of N)

22 Dec 2017 by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForms) Chapter 14: Add ability to delete an entry with a pop up confirmation dialog, add AccessKeys (keyboard shortcuts) and fix some bugs in our DailyJournal app.

Advanced View States for Windows 10 apps

15 Apr 2015 by Juan Pablo G.C.

StateTriggers with multiple properties and initialization, setters for attached properties, deep property path, set values to null,custom attached properties, visual state group as resource and trigger inside datatemplates workaround

A Class to Combine Slider Control and Progress Bar Windows

23 Jan 2018 by Cem KARACA

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

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (15 of 15)

29 Dec 2017 by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForms) Chapter 15: Final chapter delves into various XAML Windows Controls showing examples and dealing with simple layouts.

Useful Techniques for Platform Independent Web Software Development

14 Sep 2016 by Igor Ladnik

The article presents a collection of Web technologies. Multi-OS servers written in ASP.NET Core and node.js along with HTML / JavaScript / TypeScript single-page client construct scrollable table sample.

How to Use Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) in C++ with gSOAP

13 Jul 2017 by Chris Moutsos

How to connect to Amazon S3 with gSOAP to store and retrieve data

Determining the Monitor's On/Off (sleep) Status

25 Jun 2017 by rbrunton

How to determine whether the monitor is on or off as a result of a Windows Power Scheme action

Programming Windows 10: UWP Focus (2 of N)

21 Nov 2017 by raddevus

Using C# for Desktop Development: Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) -- Chapter 2

Programming Windows 10: UWP Focus (1 of N)

20 Nov 2017 by raddevus

Using C# for Desktop Development: Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) --Intro & Chapter 1

WPF Controls With Drag Selection

16 Jan 2017 by James J M

Add drag selection functionality to ListBoxes, ListViews, DataGrids, & TreeViews.

Theano Machine Learning on a GPU on Windows 10

30 Nov 2016 by Dino Konstantopoulos

Running Theano with an Nvidia 1070 GPU on Windows 10, with CUDA 8 and Visual Studio 2015

Introduction to AllJoyn platform on RaspberryPi and Windows IoT - and gourmet sous-vide cooking as a bonus

7 Aug 2016 by Mikolaj Barwicki

How I built a sous-vide cooking device on Raspberry PI with Windows IoT controlled via AllJoyn protocol from Android smartphone.

Implementing Windows 10 GridView for UWP Apps

7 Mar 2016 by TrevyBurgess

Implementing Windows 10 GridView for UWP Apps

The Quest for the SSDTs

20 Jul 2017 by Jose A Pascoa

The much talked about Kernel data structures

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (8 of N)

1 Dec 2017 by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 8 Applied OOP, Designing Objects, SoC and going deeper into designing the DailyJournal app.

Using the Media Capture API in the Browser

28 Jul 2015 by Dave_Voyles

Today I’d like to experiment with the Media Capture and Streams API, developed jointly at the W3C by the Web Real-Time Communications Working Group and the Device APIs Working Group.

Avi from Image Files in One Click

27 Dec 2017 by Petrov Vladimir

Simple solution for small avi demo performance from Image files of any kind

An Easy Cross-Platform Floating Action Menu using Qt/QML

20 Feb 2017 by PatGulotta

An easy to use C++/Qt/Qml Floating Action Menu providing the ability to add Floating Actions Menus to a Qt/Qml cross-platform project.

Computed Tomography - Generation of the Sinogram Image in C#

19 Jul 2016 by Amarnath S

An article describing the computation of the Sinogram of an image in C#, using the Radon Transform of the image.

Selenium Series: Chapter 2, By Types getting into the good stuff of Selenium

2 Mar 2017 by Sean Rand

This is an article to demonstrate different uses of ByType Selectors within Selenium. This is the heart of the API, Finding Element(s) using By Types. Understanding these ByType's are key in navigating, selecting and using web elements to test. Lets get going in Automation Testing!

Using Graphviz in your project to create graphs from dot files

5 Jan 2017 by Andre van Dun

Graphviz graphs from dot specification

Build a Microservice with Service Fabric on Windows Server

21 Apr 2016 by Shawn1Xu

Build a microservice with Service Fabric on Windows Server 2012 using ASP.NET 5 and Service Fabric SDK

Live uploading of video from web camera on YouTube service on Windows 8 and Windows 10

26 Jun 2016 by Evgeny Pereguda

Simple imitation of direct streaming of live video from web cam on YouTube service on Windows 8 and Windows 10

Lee Algorithm Mazesolver

3 Dec 2021 by Shao Voon Wong

Lee Algorithm Mazesolver in MFC and Direct2D

Extending MFC shell controls functionality

24 Jan 2016 by Vladimir Misovsky

Overriding CMFCShellTreeCtrl and CMFCShellListCtrl classes

Get HDD Serial Number with C#

10 Jun 2018 by hasan bozkurt

How to obtain HDD information with C#

To And From Binary Literals

5 Apr 2016 by Mark Kruger

To And From Binary Literals for all standard .net numeric value types.

SpriteEditor 2019 - How to Use the Code - Bugs!

23 Jan 2019 by Christ Kennedy

Put your sprites to use with an example that will give new meaning to buggy code

Getting Started with Mean Stack

23 Dec 2015 by Ashwin. Shetty

Writing your first app using Mean Stack (M = MongoDB, E = Express.JS, A = Angular.JS and N = Node.js)

VS2015 RC Windows Universal App With Windows 10 Technical Preview

8 Jul 2015 by syed shanu

Learn to create simple Windows Universal App using Visual Studio 2015 RC

A Very Basic Recursive Binary Search Tree For Excel VBA

24 Feb 2019 by WhiskeyBeforeWater

An unbalanced basic recursive Binary Search Tree for Excel VBA with functions (insert, search, delete, in order, pre-order, post-order, minimum, and maximum)

A glimpse into the windows 10 upgrade notification

7 Oct 2015 by Rey Bango

Over the last few months, more than 14 million people upgraded to Windows 10. Learn how our team at Microsoft helped ensure a smooth upgrade experience.