Win32

Great Reads

by Jeffrey Walton

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

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.

Simple Method of DLL Export without C++/CLI

by Dark Daskin

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

Routing Manager for WCF4

by Roman Kiss

This article describes a design, implementation and usage of the Custom Routing Manager for managing messages via Routing Service built-in .Net 4 Technology.

Latest Articles

ToDoList 7.2.9 - An Effective and Flexible Way to Keep on Top of Your Tasks

by .dan.g.

A hierarchical task manager with native XML support for custom reporting

A Very Basic Singely Linked List for VBA

by WhiskeyBeforeWater

A nodular Singely Linked List for VBA with some basic functions

Coding in Education, a programmers point of view!

by Chris Boss

I have followed stories about learning to code in education and am intrigued by what I have read.

Using Windowless Rich Edit Controls Directly from C#

by Sergey Nozhenko

A technique of invoking and implementing non-standard interfaces of windowsless rich edit controls is demonstrated

All Articles

top

Win32

Cryptographic Interoperability: Keys

5 Jun 2008

Jeffrey Walton

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

VC7

VC7.1

VC8.0

VC6

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

4 Apr 2008

Hans Dietrich

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

Simple Method of DLL Export without C++/CLI

28 Jun 2009

Dark Daskin

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

Routing Manager for WCF4

29 Apr 2010

Roman Kiss

This article describes a design, implementation and usage of the Custom Routing Manager for managing messages via Routing Service built-in .Net 4 Technology.

How To: Use Office 2007 OCR Using C#

24 Aug 2009

Waleed Elkot

Reading text from any image using Microsoft Office 2007 OCR

.NET Shell Extensions - Shell Icon Overlay Handlers

14 Sep 2013

Dave Kerr

Create Shell Icon Overlay Handlers using .NET!

tlock: Any C++ Object read/write Thread-safe Provider

14 Dec 2018

Michael Chourdakis

An easy locking class for shared/exclusive mutex functions with upgrade/downgrade

C++11

C++

Win32

Windows-Service for Multithreading with Remote Control GUI

25 Feb 2016

J.Starkl

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

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

1 Aug 2017

Arthur V. Ratz

In this article, we'll discuss on how to use HTML/CSS/JavaScript/Ajax to create a simple lightweight Windows Vista/7 sidebar desktop gadget that allows to preview featured articles contributed to CodeProject's web site

Windows Authentication Using Form Authentication

1 Jul 2009

Muhammad Akhtar Shiekh

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

Windows 7 Goodies in C++: Adding Custom Tasks to Jump Lists

29 Jun 2009

Michael Dunn

Create custom tasks in your app's jump list on Windows 7

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 0 – Table of Contents

1 Feb 2010

Arik Poznanski

Complete Library for using the Windows 7 Ribbon from C#, including 18 samples and 21 blog posts documenting the Ribbon features

Fabrika LAB: WebCam Video

23 May 2013

Dejan Mauer

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

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 3 - First WinForms Ribbon Application

4 Mar 2010

Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to create an empty WinForms application with Windows 7 ribbon support.

An efficient way for automatic updating

11 Sep 2017

Michael Haephrati

A simple way to provide silent automatic updates with no server side code

Web Application - Advanced Hosting of WebBrowser Control with ATL

14 Oct 2009

Alex Blekhman

Example of handling real-life challenges when hosting WebBrowser control: separate creation of hosting window and the control, keyboard shortcuts, control's dimensions, etc.

.NET Shell Extensions - Shell Property Sheets

8 Apr 2013

Dave Kerr

Use .NET to rapidly build Shell Property Sheets.

Real Time Collaboration: A Quick C++ Windows Library with RDC Support

14 Feb 2019

Michael Chourdakis

Create collaborating projects easily

C++

VS2013

Win32

Building FM Radio with RDS Support

8 Jan 2009

Tamir Khason

This article explains how to build a simple FM radio player with RDS support by using WPF and USBFM library

Image Filters

30 Sep 2009

Fiwel

Different ways to apply image filters.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 20 – QuickAccessToolbar

24 Mar 2010

Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to work with the ribbon quick access toolbar.

BASIC, Why? The Answer Might Surprise You ! (Part 1)

23 Aug 2018

Chris Boss

Why some prefer the BASIC language over others

MIDI Out Setter

10 May 2009

DaveyM69

Allows changing of the default MIDI out device in Vista and Windows 7

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 7 – Spinner

8 Mar 2010

Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon spinner control.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 13 – DropDownColorPicker

15 Mar 2010

Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon drop down color picker control.

April Fools! Evil Windows Dialog Prank

31 Mar 2011

Gregory Gadow

Prank your coworkers with a dialog box that appears and disappears randomly by using a notification area app.

Custom URL Protocol for Invoking Application

6 Mar 2012

Chandrakantt

Registering a custom URL protocol for invoking an application

WPF-Less GDI+.NET Report Component: Star Report

25 Jan 2013

FatCatProgrammer

StarReport: WPF-less GDI+.NET report component.

Introduction to B-trees: Concepts and Applications

15 Aug 2014

Mihai MOGA

How to solve real-life problems using B-trees

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 5 - Application Menu with SplitButton and DropButton

6 Mar 2010

Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon application menu with ribbon split button and ribbon drop button controls.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 6 – Tabs, Groups and HelpButton

7 Mar 2010

Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to use ribbon tabs, groups and the ribbon help button control.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 10 – Working With Images

12 Mar 2010

Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to work with images in the ribbon.

.NET Shell Extensions - Shell Drop Handlers

19 Jan 2013

Dave Kerr

Rapidly create Shell Drop Handler Extensions using .NET

Generic Picker Dropdown Control

12 Dec 2008

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer

A flexible easily overridable combo-box-alike control for choosing from a 2D array of options

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 8 – ComboBox

9 Mar 2010

Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon combo box control.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 18 – ContextPopup

22 Mar 2010

Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to work with ribbon context popup.

Multi language on-screen keyboard using Windows keyboard DLLs

18 Dec 2012

Lars [Large] Werner

Windows has built inn support for a lot of keyboard languages, this class makes it possible to extract that info in an easy manner and present it to screen.

Take a REST : A Windows C++ library for quick Web interfaces interaction

21 Jan 2017

Michael Chourdakis

A few functions and you can call various Web libraries like Google Drive.

C++

Win64

Win32

PolyHook 2: C++17 x86/x64 Hooking Library

24 Jul 2018

stevemk14ebr

PolyHook v2 - the C++17 x86/x64 library supporting multiple methods of hooking

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 4 - Application Menu with Buttons

5 Mar 2010

Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon application menu.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 12 – CheckBox and ToggleButton

14 Mar 2010

Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon check box and toggle button controls.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 15 – Use Ribbon as External DLL

19 Mar 2010

Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to load ribbon resources from external DLLs.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 16 – ApplicationModes

20 Mar 2010

Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to work with ribbon application modes.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 19 – RecentItems

23 Mar 2010

Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to work with the ribbon recent items control.

UI Control Data Spy

1 Oct 2009

Nishad S

A tool for capturing data from controls like TreeCtrl, ListCtrl, ComboBox, ListBox, etc.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 14 – FontControl

16 Mar 2010

Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon font control.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 17 – Contextual Tabs

21 Mar 2010

Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to work with ribbon contextual tabs.

ASP.NET User Control: File Browser

16 Dec 2011

Henryk Filipowicz

A web user control for selecting a file from the file system.

Mr. Crossworder - Create Crosswords in Seconds!

6 Jan 2019

Mehedi Shams

Crossword creator - with a touch of Unicode Logic!

Direct2D: Hardware Acceleration in Windows 7 Plotting

10 May 2009

Michael Chourdakis

Draw your vectors using a new, ActiveX based hardware accelerated interface.

Column based selection in rich edit control.

22 May 2012

Mahfuzur Rahman.

Column based selection in rich edit control.

The Kernel-Bridge Framework

1 Nov 2018

Alexander Eremeev

The Windows kernel-hacking library and development framework written on C++17

Sending WhatsApp Messages from a Win32 C++ Program - Part 1

3 Nov 2018

Michael Haephrati

A simple way for sending WhatsApp messages to an individual or to a group in C++

Retrieving and Storing Call History

19 Dec 2007

Bryan Sachdeva

This article describes how to create a wrapper class for the native Phone API, and then uses it to retrieve and store the call history.

Display HTML in WPF and CefSharp Tutorial Part 2

9 Apr 2015

Dirk Bahle, Alex Maitland

How to implement a ResourceHandler in CefSharp to display custom HTML in WPF

Happy Registry: A quick wrapper for the Win32 database

24 Oct 2015

Michael Chourdakis

A simple template for manipulating the registry

Running Any Command Line exe Remotely Using the Process Class

23 Dec 2011

Dan Randolph

Builds on the existing RunRemote project to run commands on a remote server.

Intertexti - Resurrecting HyperCard

2 Feb 2013

Marc Clifton

A prototype application for cross-referencing and indexing files, URL's.

Classificiation Using Logistic Regression in Visual Basic

19 Dec 2016

petrostherock

Machine Learning. What languages come to mind? R? Python? Matlab? Bet you didn't think Visual Basic.

Hacking FontDialog

23 Aug 2008

legcsabi

How to hide UI elements of a FontDialog (e.g., Font Size).

How to do CreateFileMapping in a C++ DLL and access it in C#, VB and C++

10 Mar 2009

nkrscorpio

This is yet another example for memory mapped files. What is cool though is unlike other samples, I have a SetData(TCHAR* Key, TCHAR* value) / GetData(TCHAR* key) pattern here.

Testing reader/writer locks

21 Jan 2009

Valery Grebnev

This article describes testing the results of reader/writer locks on Windows XP/Vista Uniprocessor and Multi-core PCs.

Visual Modeling of Complex Reactive Systems with Harel UML StateCharts

8 Sep 2009

jerryd_intw

This article presents a commercial-grade cross-platform Harel UML StateChart Open-Source application framework named StateWizard for concurrent, distributed, and real-time reactive system development with simplicity, efficiency, and scalability.

Use mplayer as our Audio Decoder – Part 2

12 Dec 2011

jackyxinli

This article demonstrates how to use mplayer as an audio decoder and display real time spectrum during playback process

VisualC++

Windows

Win32

CrashRptEx - An Extension to the CrashRpt Crash Reporting System

23 May 2018

Andreas Schoenle

How to use CrashRptEx, to avoid some of the pitfalls of crash reporting in MFC apps or if you want the ability to continue your application after a crash

Selection Overlay DLL

18 Jun 2012

Mark Kruger

API which shows a Selection Overlay and notifies the caller when it's resizing and notifies the final rectangle.

Steganography programming with Visual Studio 2012 (Nostega paradigm)‏

20 Sep 2012

Palavos

A paradigm of Noiseless Steganography for secretely transmitting messages via Excel graphs.

How to Read a PE Image's Manifest Resource using an Undocumented Internal .NET Class Method

21 Jan 2013

Kerem Guemruekcue

This short article shows how to use an undocumented internal class method from the System.Deployment.Application.Win32InterOp namespace to get a PE images manifest resource.

Visual Studio Visualizer: Part 1

10 Jun 2013

Frederico Regateiro

This project shows a work around to make a non-serializable object available to a custom visualizer.

State Machine - State Pattern vs. Classic Approach

5 Aug 2014

Chris875

State pattern and procedural solution illustrated

Win32 Thread Wrapper with Synchronized Start

29 Apr 2016

David Lafreniere

A Win32 CreateThread() C++ wrapper class for synchronized thread startup and forced message queue creation.

Hacking with Windbg - Part 1 (Notepad)

11 Feb 2019

Sarthak S

Assembly inspection and hacking with windbg

QuickAccent - A Tool for Accents and Symbols

30 Oct 2014

Dave Kerr

Use QuickAccent to quickly copy accents and symbols to your clipboard. Also read the article to find out about the essentials when writing System Tray based applications

Line Fitting in Images Using Orthogonal Linear Regression

12 Apr 2013

Jonathan Nethercott

Describes an algorithm for calculating the equation of a line in an image using orthogonal linear regression.

HiRes Backgroundworker

20 Aug 2014

sgoleary

Cut and Paste BackgroundWorker.

Collision Proof Shared String Resources

12 Jul 2016

David A. Gray

Share Win32 string resources without the risk of conflicting resource IDs

Allocating Memory on Linux and Windows

10 Aug 2018

RCL_SPD

How to allocate memory on Linux and Windows

Re-Active Disabled Controls

2 Nov 2012

Pieter Alec Myburgh

Re-Activate disabled windows controls

Last branch records and branch tracing

27 Mar 2013

nick.p.everdox

Usage of Intel/AMD extended processor features.

Using JavaScript frameworks from your C#/UWP application

2 Dec 2015

David Catuhe

Thanks to Chakra (the JavaScript engine used by Microsoft Edge), it is now possible to host one of the fastest JavaScript engines (and also the one with the highest support of ECMAScript 6) inside any Universal Windows Platform application.

Javascript

WinRT

Win32

Texture Mapping in OpenGL using Class CImage

5 Aug 2016

Petrov Vladimir

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

Host and Workflow: Two Worlds to Communicate. Part V

4 Oct 2008

freedeveloper

Part V: Intercommunications with a Workflow instance using Correlation parameter

JesTracePaster - Tool to Add Method-entry Logs in Source Files

11 Mar 2009

Jellow TK

This simple tool will add method-entry logs in source files.

Outlook add-in using VC++ ATL/COM

5 Feb 2013

Gokulnath007

To get instant control over Outlook and various operations of outlook.

Modify Windows BCD using Powershell

19 Feb 2018

awilson9010

Working with Windows BCD store in Powershell

.NET and Delphi Inter-Process Communication via Named Pipes

12 Dec 2014

Yuriy Magurdumov

Calling native methods from .NET application via standard Windows Named Pipes

OpenGL in Python with TKinter

25 Jan 2016

pySamuel

Why simple if we can be complex?

Selenium Series Part 4: Killing Laying Around Browser Processes for More Consistent Selenium Testing

25 Jun 2018

Sean Rand

This is an article to help you clean up browser processes during automated Selenium testing.

Change Local IIS Home Path from Explorer Context Menu

1 Sep 2008

Sean Rock

Change local IIS home path from explorer context menu

Menu, tabs, toolbars, scrollbars, hotkeys, frames resizing, and the ON_COMMAND_RANGE handler for classes derived from CListCtrl on CFormView dialogs

12 Jul 2009

Emery Emerald

A demonstration of using a general-purpose MDI interface in MFC table forms.

SWF Summary Shell Extension (PropertyPage for SWF files!)

13 Jul 2010

Daniel Cohen Gindi

This application adds a property page to show SWF properties in the Windows file properties window.

DbProvider Profiler using WCF and DbProviderFactory Injection: Part II of IV

20 Sep 2011

Pieter Van Parys

Creating profiling information in our ProxyDbxxx classes

(Memory and Resource) Leak Detection for WinCE

24 May 2012

Sergeant Kolja

This is an alternative for "Memory leak detection for WinCE".

Directory Monitor Service controls SSIS Package Execution

2 Aug 2012

Kuthuparakkal

WMI based DirectoryMonitor triggers SSIS Package execution.

How to Scan Documents with your WPF Application

7 Sep 2012

Dynamsoft

In this article, I’ll share with you how to utilize Dynamic .NET TWAIN in a WPF application to process your documents.

Virtual Monopolium

4 Sep 2013

KillBot Project

A make-over of one of the most popular family games, Monopoly.

Extended (Inherited) Versions of List and Combo Box Controls

8 Mar 2016

Robert Gustafson

Extended versions of ListBox and ComboBox controls which allow images, font, and color for individual items

Managing object lifetime in Delphi

4 Nov 2015

Denis Murashov

In the article I try to make a brief review over methods to manage object lifetime in Delphi applications.

jParser PCL .NET Json Parser

15 Feb 2016

Ahmed Amer Jaf

Fast n Easy Way to parse Json data

Using the Windows MIDI SYSEX API in .NET

13 Apr 2016

Steve Grundy

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

Venn Diagram in VisualBasic

4 Apr 2016

Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

R API for drawing venn diagram in VisualBasic

Detect SAM File Corruption under Windows 7 (Part 1)

10 Apr 2016

AIT SALEM BOUSSAD

This first part of the article presents how to inject a DLL inside lsass process by using Windows service

Ved Startup Manager

4 Feb 2017

Satish Jagtap

This article is written in VC++ as utility to manage startup applications of Windows.

Embedded Programming using Powerbasic with RTOS-32 (Part 1)

12 Sep 2018

Chris Boss

A short introduction to using the Powerbasic 6.0 console compiler with the Ontime RTOS-32 embedded operating system

RemoteInstall: Automated Testing of Windows Installers on VMWare Infrastructure

24 Nov 2009

dB.

A framework for testing Windows installers with some help from virtualization.

Crash While Closing Application that Uses Windows Ribbon Framework

23 Apr 2010

Arik Poznanski

Crash while closing application that uses Windows Ribbon Framework

Patch my Arabic Locale on Windows Mobile

6 May 2012

emranallan

Add your local inside windows local to be supported for unicode

How to perform fading transitions on Textures in XNA 4.0 using Interpolation Timers

7 Jul 2012

CJ Kent

Create an Interpolating Timer and use it to fade textures in and out in XNA 4.0

Using Information Retrieval Techniques as an Alternative to Commercial Web Services

15 Aug 2008

Yasser M. Jaffal

In this article, I discuss an example of how you can use information retrieval to grab data out of MSN Money pages to get a free Web Service for currency exchange rates and other quotes.

Introduction to Programming with LEADTOOLS .NET OCR - Multi-threaded OCR SDK for 32 and 64 Bit Development

7 Jan 2013

LEADTOOLS Support

Introduce you to the key features of the new .NET OCR classes, provide you with a step-by-step approach for creating an OCR application, and provide you with sample code.

InfoPath 2007 Helper for MOSS 2007

6 Feb 2009

Javier Ibarra

This article is about how to get or set values of an InfoPath form.

Simple Tri-State TreeView

5 Mar 2012

Fred_Informatix

This is an alternative for "Simple Tri-State TreeView"

Native Win32 API OpenGL Tutorial - Part 2

17 Apr 2016

leon de boer

In this second part, we will create an OpenGL MDI application

MTC.Host. A Infrastructure to host and manage Windows Services

10 Dec 2016

gfazzola

In this article I will explain the implementation of an infrastructure to host and manage windows services in a practical and interactive way.As a practical example of the solution will be implemented a dynamic ip update client of DucDNS

The *AdES Collection, Part 4: ASiC and MIME Containers

22 Sep 2018

Michael Chourdakis

Signed container formats

Using Windowless Rich Edit Controls Directly from C#

2 Mar 2019

Sergey Nozhenko

A technique of invoking and implementing non-standard interfaces of windowsless rich edit controls is demonstrated

To Heap or not to Heap; That’s the Large Object Question?

11 Jul 2017

Doug Duerner, Yeon-Chang Wang

In this article we explored a theory; would it be better to not utilize a heap construct when dealing with very large objects in .NET, in order to avoid Large Object Heap (LOH) fragmentation?

Persian Gulf in 3D Anaglyph

12 Aug 2013

Mohammad Reza Khosravi

This application uses some simple 2D methods to make 3D scenes which can be seen with Red/Cyan Anaglyph glasses.

Interact with Windows services in C++

6 May 2016

Marius Bancila

Interact, control and configure Windows services using C++ components built on top of the Windows services API

Fun with Unicode

9 Apr 2016

Yang Kok Wah

Typing Unicode directly to a text-box, including support for surrogate pairs. Create simple web pages to display fanciful fonts

Injecting .NET Assemblies Into Unmanaged Processes

22 Jun 2013

Pero Matić

A detailed analysis of how to inject the .NET runtime and arbitrary .NET assemblies into unmanaged and managed processes; and how to execute managed code within those processes.

XColorHexagonCtrl - a non-MFC color picker control that displays a color hexagon

4 Apr 2008

Hans Dietrich

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

WPF x FileExplorer x MVVM

25 Nov 2012

Leung Yat Chun (Fainx)

This article describe how to construct FileExplorer controls included DirectoryTree and FileList, using Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern.

Classic Shell

23 Feb 2010

Ivo Beltchev

Classic Start menu and other shell features for Windows 7 and Vista.

CLR Injection: Runtime Method Replacer

23 Jun 2009

Ziad Elmalki

Replace any method with another method at runtime. Updated for 3.5 SP1.

XBalloonMsg - a non-MFC balloon-shaped message box

11 Jul 2008

Hans Dietrich

XBalloonMsg displays a message box using balloon-style tooltips. Message and title strings may be embedded or stored in string resource.

Custom Controls in Win32 API: The Painting

12 Dec 2014

Martin Mitáš

Understanding the basics of custom control painting and avoiding the trap of control flicker

Draw Behind Desktop Icons in Windows 8+

23 Dec 2014

Gerald Degeneve

Draw or render a Windows Form directly over the Wallpaper, behind the Desktop Icons in Windows 8+10

Sending WhatsApp Messages from a Win32 C++ Program - Part 2

13 Dec 2018

Michael Haephrati

A simple way for sending WhatsApp documents and images to an individual or to a group in C++

Moving Memory in .NET using VB and the CIL

22 Jun 2014

Nathaniel Moschkin

Topics and methods on programming in .NET and performance considerations

Windows 7 Trigger Start Service

17 Jan 2010

Abhishek Sur

Implement services that start/stop automatically to some events like Device attached, Network Availability, Firewall port modified, Domain join, Group Policy change etc

Stepper Motor and 7 Segment Display Control with Parallel Port

31 Dec 2008

Samet KILICTAS

Stepper motor And seven-segment display control with parallel port using Assembly Language

ASM

Windows

Win32

TetroGL: An OpenGL Game Tutorial in C++ for Win32 platforms - Part 3

7 Nov 2008

Cedric Moonen

Learn how to draw text and handle the states of your game.

WMI Interface for .NET

9 Dec 2007

jsunstrom

A class library to aid in writing WMI applications.

C++ is fun: Writing a Tic Tac Toe Game

4 Nov 2013

Marius Bancila

This article shows how to create a Tic Tac Toe game in C++ using different technologies such as Win32 and WinRT to prove that writing code in C++ is as fun and productive as in other programming languages.

.NET Shell Extensions - Deploying SharpShell Servers

15 Sep 2013

Dave Kerr

Learn how to deploy SharpShell servers easily with the new Server Registration Manager tool.

Concurrency Runtime in Visual C++ 2010

12 Nov 2010

Ajay Vijayvargiya

Learn about parallel algorithms, parallel containers, tasks, task groups, agents library, task scheduler etc in VC10

Windows Live Messenger Plug-in Development Bible

3 Nov 2008

IndioX86

An article explaining several Win32 reverse engineering techniques applied to Live Messenger research and plug-in development.

Cryptographic Interoperability: Digital Signatures

20 Oct 2009

Jeffrey Walton

Sign and verify messages using Crypto++, Java, and C#.

Additional custom panel in Microsoft Outlook

25 Jun 2008

Lukas Neumann

An example of undocumented integration into the user interface of Microsoft Office applications.

C# Snooker

14 Dec 2009

Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

Sound-enabled pool game for C#.

SharePoint OCR image files indexing

2 Dec 2009

gstolarov

SharePoint OCR image files indexing.

Getting started with Volume Rendering using OpenGL

30 Jun 2013

Divine Augustine

Step by step explanation of 3D image rendering using OpenGL.

RWMutex: A Shared/Exclusive Recursive Mutex

13 Dec 2018

Michael Chourdakis

A mutex with shared/exclusive access with upgrade/downgrade capability

Custom Controls in Win32 API: Scrolling

26 Feb 2018

Martin Mitáš

How to support scrolling within your controls.

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.

Using .NET Classes/Modules from Native C++

13 Sep 2009

Johann Anhofer

The goal of this article is to describe a more or less generic way to access .NET managed objects from a native C++ application.

Bypassing PatchGuard 3

21 Aug 2008

Christoph Husse

This article shows how to bypass PatchGuard 3 on the latest windows versions.

Guide to Win32 Memory DC

21 Jul 2011

Paul M Watt

Guide to creating and using Memory Device Contexts (DC) in Win32.

Stopwatch

3 Jan 2015

Espen Harlinn

Benchmark C++ std::vector vs raw arrays, move assignable/constructable & copy assignable/constructable

True Natural Language Understanding through a Conceptual Language Understanding Engine

11 Jan 2010

Roy, Philippe

An article introducing an Artificial Intelligence technique that understands and manipulates concepts from text.

Explorer Shell Extensions in .NET (Revised)

16 Sep 2015

_Plutonix

Framework for NET based Shell Context Menus using VB, C#

Custom Controls in Win32 API: Visual Styles

17 Mar 2014

Martin Mitáš

Paint your control consistently with standard/common controls, using the visual styles API.

Shell Extensibility - Explorer Desk Band, Tray Notification Icon et al.

28 Aug 2009

Alex Blekhman

A simple Calendar utility that demonstrates basic Shell extensibility techniques: desk band, tray notification icon, locales.

DBTool – Part 2: Harlinn.Oracle

1 Oct 2013

Espen Harlinn

A reflection based wrapper for the Oracle Data Provider for .NET – allows your application to dynamically load the Oracle.DataAccess.dll assembly installed on your client’s computer.

Sciter - multiplatform embeddable HTML/CSS/scripting UI engine

11 Nov 2015

c-smile

Basics of Sciter embedding principles, high-level overlook of Sciter SDK structure.

Windows 7 Goodies in C++: Taskbar Progress and Status Indicators

14 Sep 2009

Michael Dunn

An intro to using Taskbar progress bars and overlay icons with your Windows 7 applications

Troubleshooting Registration Free COM

1 May 2018

Nisamudheen

How to troubleshoot Registration Free COM using Tools

PDF Merger and Protector

5 Oct 2012

Sunasara Imdadhusen

PDF MERGER and PROTECTOR is the best pdf merger software which is fast and powerful way to join(Merge) PDF files with password protection as well as you can apply stamper with either any type of image or text. Using this utility you don’t required installation of Adobe Acrobat. Looks Exciting ???

Anti-Debug Protection Techniques: Implementation and Neutralization

7 Apr 2016

Apriorit Inc, Kulchytskyi Oleg

Several approaches of anti-debug protection and some tips about how they are usually neutralized by reversers

Integrate the OpenOffice.org Power in a WTL (or Other Native Win32) Application

18 Feb 2009

Alain Rist

OOo::DocWindow and WTL::COOoCtrl classes to work on any Microsoft-Office document, and Open Office SDK integration in Visual Studio/VCExpress 2005/2008

ExpTreeLib Version 3 - Explorer-like Navigation and Operation for your Forms

9 Jan 2014

Jim Parsells

A Class Library for building Forms with a folder navigation TreeView and form specific ListViews that can be tailored for your application and behave like Windows Explorer. Full documentation.

Relook your Old and New Native Applications with a Ribbon UI under Vista or Windows 7 (WTL)

13 Apr 2010

Alain Rist

Including a Ribbon UI Implementation Guide with examples and a dual UI enabled legacy application

Window Form Controls v/s WPF Controls Memory Comparision

10 Oct 2015

yash soman

The article is about window form controls and wpf controls memory management. The difference between them and internals of how they are loaded.

.NET-Compiler-Platform

system

System Wide Hooking for the WM_CHAR Message

5 Jan 2010

sridhar vattam

How to hook the WM_CHAR message using the WH_GETMESSAGE hook.

A Full Yahoo! Weather App, Yes Another One

16 Apr 2011

rspercy65

Uses Farhad Siasar's YahooWeathertlb library with a few added functions

Dynamically Add/Edit Environment Variables of Remote Process

30 Dec 2008

Sarath C

Dynamically Add/Edit Environment variables of Remote process

40 Basic Practices in Assembly Language Programming

29 Jan 2019

Zuoliu Ding

A discussion on some basic practices highly recommended in Assembly Language Programming.

Burning and Erasing CD/DVD/Blu-ray Media with C# and IMAPI2

23 Mar 2010

Eric Haddan

Using the Image Mastering API in C#.

The Practical Guide to Multithreading - Part 2

12 Apr 2010

Ajay Vijayvargiya

More of practical situations to use multithreading!

Windows Development in C++, working with menus

3 Jan 2015

Espen Harlinn

Windows API, menus, c++ lambda expressions, std::enable_shared_from_this

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 21 – SizeDefinition

25 Mar 2010

Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to define custom size definitions for ribbon group elements.

Windows dialog design in C++ without dialog templates.

3 Jun 2015

john morrison leon

An alternative approach in which dialogs are entirely specified as C++ code that requires neither IDE support to be written nor IDE generated resources to be executed. Powered by the C++ type system.

Image Blending in Windows - an Assembly Language Approach

4 Oct 2017

CMalcheski

Ditching the slowdowns and applying a little elbow grease can create dramatic speed improvements in GDI image blending.

Win32 SDK PropertyGrid Made Easy

21 Nov 2018

David MacDermot

This article describes the creation of a non-MFC custom PropertyGrid control.

TabCtrl

12 Jul 2010

Borodenko Oleg

Adjustable contol with zooming and scrolling tabs, dragging with the mouse, custom drawing and much more

Load EXE as DLL: Mission Possible

6 Dec 2015

Michael Chourdakis

Load an EXE file as a DLL in another EXE and execute the functions

Subverting Vista UAC in Both 32 and 64 bit Architectures

22 Apr 2009

Pero Matić

This article illustrates how to bypass Vista UAC as well as how to correctly launch an interactive process from a Windows Service.

Configuring the Emulation Mode of an Internet Explorer WebBrowser Control

6 Jul 2014

Richard James Moss

Helper class for configuring which version of Internet Explorer is used by the WebBrowser control when hosted in a Windows Forms or WPF application

MinHook - The Minimalistic x86/x64 API Hooking Library

17 Mar 2015

Tsuda Kageyu

Provides the basic part of Microsoft Detours functionality for both x64/x86 environments.

Managed Fusion

19 Nov 2009

Simon Allaeys

Managed Fusion - A managed API to view and manipulate the Global Assembly Cache

A first look at the Windows Web Services API

27 Jul 2009

Nish Nishant

The article shows how to interop between a WCF service and a WWS client, and also how to rewrite the WCF service in WWS retaining compatibility with existing WCF clients.

Undocumented List View Features

30 Sep 2015

Timo Kunze

Use undocumented parts of the Windows Vista list view API to enhance your application.

Conservative Garbage Collector for C

22 Dec 2008

Yasin HINISLIOGLU

This article explains garbage collection and memory management using C language

Range Finder

30 Apr 2009

Mohammad Reza Khosravi

A simple program to find real size or distance of objects in your digital camera photos

Application Recovery and Restart C# Quick Reference

23 Apr 2010

Arik Poznanski

Application recovery and restart C# quick reference

TetroGL: An OpenGL Game Tutorial in C++ for Win32 Platforms - Part 2

29 Mar 2009

Cedric Moonen

Learn how to load images, display them on the screen and manage them efficiently and how to display animations.

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

6 Dec 2016

Jon Campbell

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

Custom Controls in Win32 API: Control Customization

11 Dec 2014

Martin Mitáš

Overview of techniques for customizing existing controls.

DirectUI

27 Apr 2012

Leslie Zhai

Open source windowless presentation manager library with DirectX 3D anmiation

Accessing All of Windows Special Folders

12 Mar 2008

Warrick Procter

Get the path names to Windows special folders; optionally create the folders if they are missing; access physical and virtual special folders.

Ultra Rapid Object Detection in Computer Vision Applications with Haar-like Wavelet Features

10 Jul 2008

Chesnokov Yuriy

The article describes the use of Haar-like wavelet features for ultra fast object detection using a cascade of artificial neural network classifiers.

Custom Controls in Win32 API: The Basics

12 Dec 2014

Martin Mitáš

A quick introduction into the development of custom controls in plain Win32 API.

FireKeys - Open Programs, Folders or URLs with Hot Keys!

11 Mar 2013

Dave Kerr

FireKeys is a tool that lets you set up hotkey bindings for your favorite programs or places. See how it works, download it and find out how the code was written!