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by Jeffrey Walton

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

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.

Guide to WIN32 Regions

by Paul M Watt

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

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.

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Yet Another Fully Functional ownerdraw Menu

by Steffen Ploetz

Another fully functional ownerdraw menu with minimal effort - this time based on Win32, with icons instead of bitmaps, with accelerators and tested for ReactOS and WinNT 4.0 to Windows 10

Circuit Engine

by Emre Guldogan

A System for Simulation and Analysis of Logic Circuits

Splitter Control for Dialog

by libbyliugang

A splitter control for dialog can auto change the linked window's position

Width of Text in Italic Font

by Alexandru Matei

Shows an alternative to GetCharABCWidths and GetCharABCWidthsFloat

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Windows 2000

Cryptographic Interoperability: Keys

5 Jun 2008 by Jeffrey Walton

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

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VC8.0

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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.

Guide to WIN32 Regions

10 Mar 2002 by Paul M Watt

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

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.

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.

Automated IE SaveAs MHTML

4 Sep 2002 by Stephane Rodriguez.

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

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.

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.

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).

SSMonitor - Monitor a Visual SourceSafe database using VBScript

1 May 2003 by Doug Schmidt

A VBScript utility that continually monitors a VSS database and sends emails when certain patterns are detected. Can be run as an NT service.

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

Windows Authentication Using Form Authentication

1 Jul 2009 by Muhammad Akhtar Shiekh

An article on "How to authenticate windows user using form authentication in ASP.NET?"

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.

PSAM WPF Control Library

19 Jul 2018 by Ajcek84

PSAM Control Library ported over to WPF

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

Using the Web Service Callbacks in the .NET Application

2 Nov 2001 by Roman Kiss

This article describes a .NET Application model driven by the Web Services using the Virtual Web Service Proxy (written in C#)

Share the Clipboard Using .NET Remoting

14 Oct 2002 by Douglas Earl

Use .NET remoting to send the contents of your clipboard to another computer

Taking Advantage of the Winlogon Notification Package

6 Jan 2001 by Tony Truong

Taking advantage of the Winlogon Notification Package

BUG in _com_util::ConvertStringToBSTR and _com_util::ConvertBSTRToString

16 Jul 2002 by soptest

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

Autoshutdown Service in C#

10 Jan 2014 by Kees van Spelde

This is an alternative for "AutoShut, my first program in C#"

CRangeSlider - a Ctrl for Selecting a Range or Interval

8 Apr 2002 by Jens Scheidtmann

Have you ever searched for a nice way to select a subrange from an interval? This may be the solution for you.

The Ultimate Toolbox Application Skins

24 Aug 2007 by The Ultimate Toolbox

The Ultimate Toolbox supports Office XP, Office 2003, and Classic application skins

DCOM D-Mystified: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 6

8 May 2005 by Brian C Hart

We build our new server and install it on the server machine.

COM Macro Architecture Topology - Servers

24 Jul 2001 by Joao C. Morais

An article about COM Architecture, COM Servers, COM DLL Servers and the Registry

Programmatically scrolling WebBrowser control from Visual C/C++

22 Aug 2001 by Valters Vingolds

Article describes how to obtain IHTML interfaces to prrogrammatically scroll WebBrowser control from Visual C/C++.

MFC DataGrid

24 Feb 2002 by Kirill Panov

CDataGrid which was derived from CGridCtrl and used ADO for access to database.

Numeric Edit Control

2 Mar 2004 by gUrM33T

How to subclass an edit control in MFC so that it accepts numeric values only

Saving Drawing Contexts

27 Mar 2001 by Joseph M. Newcomer

GDI objects selected in a DC can't be deleted - even when you call DeleteObject. This handy class makes these potential leaks a thing of the past.

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.

Nullable datetime column in .NET DataGrid with DateTimePicker

17 Aug 2009 by vic_ch2000

A nullable datetime column in .NET DataGrid with DateTimePicker.

Internal Supply Chain, Visibility via 200 plus 3D Chart Reports - Part II

8 Oct 2009 by Syed Hasan Hyder

This article focuses on internal supply chain management systems visibility via chart reports, and provides assessment apparatus to manage and monitor activities spawned during business processes, hence paves the way for timely and precise business decisions.

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.

CCreditsCtrl - An advanced About Box

7 Jan 2001 by Marc Richarme

Yet another fully stacked control for displaying scrolling credits...

Adding Macro Scripting language support to existing MFC Application

18 Jul 2003 by Ernest Laurentin

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

CreateRegionFromFile

10 Dec 2001 by Yuriy Zaporozhets

Very primitive function that creates region from *.bmp files

Creating a web To-Do List with an Active Desktop Interface

17 Sep 2002 by Jason Henderson

Get organized and find a reason to use Active Desktop at the same time.

Migrating ATL service applications to Visual C++.NET

30 Jul 2002 by Vagif Abilov

Guidelines to migrate ATL-based Windows service application to Visual C++.NET

Using the Shell to Receive Notification of Removable Media Being Inserted or Removed

20 Nov 2002 by Obliterator

Uses the poorly documented SHChangeNotifyRegister function to receive notification upon shell events

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.

Developing MMC Snap-Ins using ATL

4 Jun 2001 by Leon Finker

Describes how to add various Microsoft Management Console UI items using ATL

Using Skins Without MFC

17 Jul 2001 by John Roark

A Simple Skinning Library

Offline Browser using WinInet, URL Moniker and MSHTML APIs

22 Mar 2005 by Muhammad Sheraz Siddiqi

This article describes how to make an offline browser using Visual C++/Win32 APIs.

RSS Reader Plug-in for Internet Explorer

16 Jul 2007 by PrafullaT

This is a toolbar for the Internet Explorer which shows information from RSS taken from the Internet.

Switching threads

16 Sep 2007 by Rajasekharan Vengalil

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

Silverlight Cairngorm - Port Cairngorm to .NET

6 Oct 2008 by Modesty Zhang

Port Cairngorm 2.2.1 to Silverlight 2 Beta 2. Includes all source code and a sample application.

Using DDX and DDV with WTL

31 Jan 2001 by Less Wright

This article will show you how to make use of WTL’s DDX/DDV implementation using a real world example.

A set of Network Management Classes

21 Jan 2002 by Carlos Antollini

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

Implementing custom collection classes with MC++

12 Jun 2002 by Nish Nishant

Tutorial on creating your own collection classes that are enumerable and sortable. Explains in detail the usage of the IEnumerable, IEnumerator, IComparable and IComparer interfaces

Part II: Web & Window Form Unification: Synchronous And Asynchronous Event Handling For Controls Created At Runtime

13 Jul 2002 by Marc Clifton

This is the second part of a multipart article on unifying web and window form application development. This part demonstrates synchronous and asynchronous event handling of GUI control events, abstracting the implementation of web/window forms to be technology independant.

Windows Explorer wildcard selection shell extension

28 Sep 2002 by Matthijs Hollemans

A shell extension to allow you to select files based on a wildcard search

Single Instance Application

31 Oct 2002 by Justin Hallet

An example approach to solving the single instance application problem with command line argument passing.

Folder Tab Control for Windows MFC (like MS Excel)

5 Oct 2003 by Lynn McGuire

Folder Tab control for Windows MFC (like MS Excel).

Writing a Debugger - Part 2: The Debug Loop

21 Oct 2003 by Duncan Edwards Jones

Part 2 in the series showing how to write a debugger in VB

Custom Captions (Including Multi-line Captions)

15 Jul 2000 by Dave Lorde

Simple customised Window captions, including multi-line captions

DCOM D-Mystified: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 5

11 Aug 2000 by Brian C Hart

We look at connection points and set up the server's end of one. We'll also finish implementing our SayHello() method.

A Programming Model to Use a Thread Pool

30 Sep 2000 by Sherwood Hu

A class to manage the thread pool

Process Microsoft® Outlook® Messages Automatically (via App. or a NT Service).

28 Apr 2001 by Dan Madden

An article showing you how to process (Outlook®) E-mail messages automatically by using an MFC dialog or NT service.

CODBCAccess: a CDatabase and CRecordset Wrapper

12 Mar 2003 by Alexander Wiseman

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

How to draw OpenGL to a window you created in a dialog box with the resource editor

24 Oct 2001 by Chong Hin Ooi

How to draw OpenGL to a window you created in a dialog box with the resource editor without manually using CreateWindow.

Snappable tool windows that auto-hide

20 Feb 2002 by Jens Nilsson

An article on the framework for implementing snapping windows.

Command routing beyond a split frame

16 Jul 2002 by Bartosz Bien

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

Pluggable Components using Component Categories - Part II

18 Sep 2003 by Zac Howland

An article on using component categories to create pluggable components

The Ultimate Grid FAQ

5 Oct 2007 by The Ultimate Toolbox

A selection of frequently asked questions submitted by users of the Ultimate Grid

Font Enumerator

1 Sep 2009 by PARK Youngho

A tool that enumerates all fonts installed on Windows, and shows you the preview so as to help you code conveniently.

Creating a new MDI child: maximization and focus issues

4 Apr 2002 by Daniel Bowen

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

Andrew's CodeProject Screen Saver

20 May 2002 by Andrew Peace

(Yet) another screen saver for the Code Project competition, with code in C# and (coming soon) some details about how certain aspects of the code involved work.

Ruler Control

30 Sep 2002 by HAMZADAYI

Custom CRulerWnd control

An instrumented synchronous/asynchronous event manager utilizing EventHandler and Reflection

16 Oct 2002 by Marc Clifton

Implements an instrumented event manager which can be used to invoke event sinks both synchronously and asynchronously. The event sink can be declared using either the System.EventHandler delegate or by reflection.

Building a BallonToolTip provider in C#

3 Mar 2004 by wilsone8

Shows how to create a ToolTip provider that supports Balloon Tooltips, including issues related to creating extender properties and using the NativeWindow class.

Adding Hyperlink support to the MFC Grid Control

3 Jun 2000 by Chris Maunder, Fred Ackers

A new class that adds hyperlink support to the MFC Grid Control

Minimizing windows to the System Tray

18 Oct 2000 by Mr Matt Ellis, Esq

A set of routines that show how easy it is to minimise your windows to the system tray

ShareIT

31 Oct 2001 by Farooque Khan

Demonstrates usage of NetShare APIs.

Outlook Bar Control and Frame (WTL)

27 Jun 2001 by Rashid Thadha

An outlook control and framework that can be used in your WTL Application

Thread-safe Logger with Automatic Removing Log Messages from Release Version

13 Sep 2000 by Vlad Kirienko

A log file class for multi-threaded applications

User-Level Spin Locks

23 Oct 2000 by Gert Boddaert

An introduction to using spin locks for synchronization.

Adding Custom Pages to Control Panel Applets

3 Apr 2001 by Michael Dunn

This article shows how to add your own pages to Control Panel applets by writing a property sheet handler.

Tensor templates

26 Jun 2001 by Mike Melnikov

A template class that enable you to make tensors with any dimensionality. Process convolution of any tensors and so on.

Store COM+ administration details as XML files to help with source control

8 Apr 2002 by Len Holgate

There's no standard way to save complex COM+ application configuration in a form that can be placed under version control. This article presents 2 scripts that take advantage of the COM+ Catalog accessibility via script to provide functionality that should really come as standard.

IconsST v1.2

26 Nov 2001 by Davide Calabro

A collection of usefull icons contained into a DLL

Owner-Draw Control Example: A Color Table Generator

4 Feb 2002 by Joseph M. Newcomer

A control for generating colour gradients

SppMk - a unit testing and GNU make support add-in for Visual Studio 6.0

11 Jul 2002 by Pavel Kobyakov

A DevStudio add-in described provides two interesting IDE integration features: adding a new tab to VC WorkspaceView window and running an arbitrary process under IDE with output sent to "Build" tab of VC Output window.

HyperEdit Control

9 Oct 2008 by Paul Vickery

CEdit-derived Hyperlink control, so user can edit hyperlinks

DCOM D-Mystified: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 4

11 Aug 2000 by Brian C Hart

Here we add a method to our DCOM-remoted object, and start on implementing its functionality.

Database info tool

26 Oct 2000 by Massimo Colurcio

Explore the structure of tables (and views)

ATL Server Tutorial - TipOfTheDay

18 Apr 2001 by Erik Thompson

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

Icon Extractor Shell Extension

27 Aug 2001 by George Anescu

A context menu handler shell extension for extracting icons from .exe and .dll files

Simple RTF based Help Dialog

3 Oct 2001 by Antoine Megens

Yet Another Simple Help Dialog

Regasm2.exe – The .Net/COM+ Installation Tool.

22 Oct 2001 by Roman Kiss

This article describes how to design, build and install .Net Application into the COM+ Catalog without using the ServicedComponent class in your application. The solution shows retrieving the assembly and class attributes (included custom) from the assembly file and their storing into the COM+ Catal

Adding Macro Scripting language support to existing ATL/WTL Application

30 Sep 2002 by Ernest Laurentin