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Large Collections in Native and Managed Code (VB, C++, C#) - Part I

by Aydin Homay

In this article, I tried to show a real benchmark based on presser test method, for a Big Data collection deals on C++, C#, and VB.NET.

"There is insufficient memory or disk space. Save the document now" - Opening MS Word from ASP.NET

by Sadish Kumar.V

This article will help you to open an MS-Word Document (Document or Document template) or MS-Excel sheet from server side code (ASP.NET) with minimum configuration efforts.

"Zero Web.config Configuration" Deployment / "No touch web.config" Application Deployment

by nssidhu

No web.config modifications required, for deployment.

# Nullable DateEdit Control

by Oscar Bowyer

A Nullable C# DateEdit Control

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Large Collections in Native and Managed Code (VB, C++, C#) - Part I

by Aydin Homay

In this article, I tried to show a real benchmark based on presser test method, for a Big Data collection deals on C++, C#, and VB.NET.

"There is insufficient memory or disk space. Save the document now" - Opening MS Word from ASP.NET

by Sadish Kumar.V

This article will help you to open an MS-Word Document (Document or Document template) or MS-Excel sheet from server side code (ASP.NET) with minimum configuration efforts.

"Zero Web.config Configuration" Deployment / "No touch web.config" Application Deployment

by nssidhu

No web.config modifications required, for deployment.

# Nullable DateEdit Control

by Oscar Bowyer

A Nullable C# DateEdit Control

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.NET1.0

Large Collections in Native and Managed Code (VB, C++, C#) - Part I

by Aydin Homay

In this article, I tried to show a real benchmark based on presser test method, for a Big Data collection deals on C++, C#, and VB.NET.

"There is insufficient memory or disk space. Save the document now" - Opening MS Word from ASP.NET

by Sadish Kumar.V

This article will help you to open an MS-Word Document (Document or Document template) or MS-Excel sheet from server side code (ASP.NET) with minimum configuration efforts.

"Zero Web.config Configuration" Deployment / "No touch web.config" Application Deployment

by nssidhu

No web.config modifications required, for deployment.

# Nullable DateEdit Control

by Oscar Bowyer

A Nullable C# DateEdit Control

.NET - COM Interoperability

by KRISHNA PRASAD.N

This paper provides a technical overview of .NET and COM interoperability.

.NET - Diving into System Programming - Part 1

by Vladimir Afanasyev

Device configuration using C# (Part 1)

.NET - Diving into System Programming - Part 2

by Vladimir Afanasyev

Device configuration using C# (Part 2) . How to enumerate devices.

.NET - Diving into System Programming - Part 3

by Vladimir Afanasyev

Device configuration using C# (Part 3). Device resources - IRQ, DMA, etc.

.NET - Localization using Resource file

by Prakash Kumar Singh

This article explains and demonstrates various ways to implement localization in your .NET application.

.NET / XML Serialization

by aSarafian

An article that tries to clear up the concept of serialization.

.NET 4.0 MEF FAQ (Socket, Plug and extension)

by Shivprasad koirala

.NET 4.0 MEF FAQ (Socket, Plug and extension)

.NET and COM: The Complete Interoperability Guide

by Erik Westermann

Book Review of .NET and COM: The Complete Interoperability Guide

.NET Asynchronous Design Pattern for Native C++

by Daniel Ranger

Native C++ implementation of the .NET Asynchronous Design Pattern using Windows I/O Completion Ports

.NET Chaînes Utilitaires (String Utils)

by Romelard Fabrice (Alias F___)

Classes Library for String manipulations in Your .NET projects

.NET class to create and maintain vCalendar information

by slolife

.NET class to create and maintain vCalendar information

.NET class to create and maintain vCard information

by slolife

.NET class to create and maintain vCard information

.NET Client Classes for openldap/winldap

by Leon Finker

An example of using LDAP/OpenLDAP with .Net

.NET Code Profiler Speeds PlanGen Web Application

by Redgate Software

ANTS Profiler used to optimize code, lower hardware costs and improve application performance.

.NET Color Picker Controls

by Philip Lee

A control library containing three color picker controls written in C#

.NET Command Line Tools

by TheKarateKid

Various Command Line Tools Available under .NET Development Environment

.NET Console Password Input By Masking Keyed-In Characters

by Lim Bio Liong

Demonstrates how to intercept .NET console keyboard input and display a * in place of each actual typed-in character.

.NET Core Startup

by Shashangka Shekhar

In this article, we will learn about .NET Core Features & short overview on .NET Framework (existing). We will discuss about what changes were made/added in new environment of .NET Core.

.NET Data Access Class for Exchange 2000 Webstore

by clementsm

Assembly written in VB.NET that accesses Exchange 2000 Webstore data, using WEBDAV.

.NET Data Persistence: SQL Server vs. Matisse vs. FastObjects

by A.Z. Rosenberg

An article with source code examining the development speed and performance capability of .NET, Matisse and FastObjects

.NET DataSet filter demonstration

by Praveen Nair (NinethSense)

This article explains how to filter rows in a DataSet/DataTable. The example provided will help you get information faster.

.NET Delegates: A C# Bedtime Story

by Chris Sells

An exploratory story of delegates and events for C# programmers told in the style of a bedtime story

.NET Diagnostics - II, A Threads Monitoring Application Using C#

by Naveen K Kohli

Using the ProcessThread class to monitor the states of threads inside a process.

.NET Diagnostics - III, Enumerate System Services and Dependencies Using C#

by Naveen K Kohli

How to get the list of all system services on a system and also finds out their dependencies.

.NET Diagnostics – IV, Use the Environment class to get your environment

by Naveen K Kohli

Use of the Environment class explained to extract information like Operating System, Environment Variables, etc.

.NET DUMeter clone

by leppie

A DUMeter clone, but with some better/different reporting features.

.NET Dynamic Software Load Balancing

by Stoyan Damov

A Draft Implementation of an Idea for .NET Dynamic Software Load Balancing

.NET Encryption Simplified

by wumpus1

A simple, string-oriented class for symmetric encryption, asymmetric encryption, and hashing.

.NET Event Handling using the Template Method Design Pattern

by Kevin McFarlane

How to enhance .NET event handling with the Template Method design pattern

.Net Framework

by Jesu Benin

Basics of .Net

.NET Interactions with j2EE based Web Applications

by Chellam

An article on .NET applications' interaction with j2EE based web applications.

.NET LCD MatrixControl and GDI+

by Mikhail Cholokhov

Implementation of a LCD User Control in .NET using C#.

.NET multi-threading and communication between threads

by Gopinath Krishnamurthy

An article that explains the messaging between main and worker threads

.NET MySQL Connexion V 1.2

by Romelard Fabrice (Alias F___)

Class Library for MySQL request

.NET port of Joe's AutoRepeat Button class

by Nish Nishant

This ports Joe Newcomer's AutoRepeat Button class to a .NET control

.NET Remoting

by malikusman

DCOM component replacement in .NET is .NET remoting

.NET Remoting – Basic Maneuvers

by raymond.fung, Norman Fung

A tutorial on .NET Remoting

.NET Remoting - Events. Events? Events!

by Dmitry_Belikov

You have the server and several clients. You want the server to fire an event and all of the clients or only some specific must receive it. This article describes several approaches to the problem.

.NET Remoting : Long-duration invocations

by Dmitry Belikov

Sometimes server needs to perform lengthy calculations in reply to the client’s request. If such calls are rare or do not take too much time, it’s not a problem. If your solution shows a tendency to have about 20-30 such invocations being performed concurrently at the same time, you should read this

.NET Remoting Customization Made Easy: Custom Sinks

by Motti Shaked

.NET Remoting customization – it doesn't have to be so hard!

.NET Remoting in Simple English (Really, it's that simple)

by Daniel Ang Chee Meng

This article is meant to be a step by step guide to give its reader a gist of .NET Remoting. This tutorial guides the reader to set up a fully functional chat program.

.NET Remoting Message Redirection Channel Sinks

by zhi

An upper logic layer transparent way to redirect .NET remoting calls, enabling exposure of .NET remoting services behind firewall/NAT, to anywhere.

.NET Remoting Spied On

by Naveen K Kohli

Microsoft's RemSpy sample's implementation has been explained and more remoting explanations.

.NET style Side Tab Control

by helloravi

.NET Side Tab

.NET System Brushes Painter

by Werdna

Shows how to use different brushes and write owner drawn listbox

.NET system wide hotkey component

by Duncan Edwards Jones

A component to respond to a hotkey combination, system-wide.

.NET TimePicker

by Louis-Philippe Carignan

A variation on the standard .NET date-time picker

.NET TWAIN image scanner

by NETMaster

Using TWAIN API to scan images

.Net Wizard Control

by Yasin HINISLIOGLU

This article is about creating wizard style user interface

.NET wrapper for libbz2

by leppie

.NET wrapper for libbz2, written in MC++

.NET XML Serialization - A Settings Class

by James T. Johnson

A settings class that can be used to store values in an XML document

.NET's ThreadPool Class - Behind The Scenes

by Marc Clifton

When to use .NET's ThreadPool class, and when to use something different.

1..2..3 ways of integrating MATLAB with the .NET

by Emanuele Ruffaldi

A library to access MATLAB from .NET and a comparision of three possible methods to implement it.

2D Poligon Drawer-Animator

by andrea contoli

Draw poligons, manipulate them, and animate them.

3D Bar Chart

by MJDamron

Converting a 2D chart into a 3D chart

3D Pie Chart in ASP.NET

by MJDamron

Discusses the implementation of a 3D pie chart in ASP.NET

4 steps to create free SSL certificate for development

by Shivprasad koirala

4 steps to create free SSL certificate for development

5 Tips for Accelerating Your Web Site Development in ASP.NET

by Petr Palas

Did you know there’s an easier way how to create dynamic web sites? Learn how Kentico CMS for ASP.NET will increase your productivity and help you win more clients.

6 Steps to Enable Transactions in WCF

by Shivprasad koirala

6 steps to enable transactions in WCF

7 Steps to Write Your Own Custom Rule using FXCOP

by Shivprasad koirala

7 steps to write your own custom rule using FXCOP

A .NET assembly viewer

by Ben Peterson

An application to examine .NET assemblies both directly and with reflection

A .NET MD5 Class Library

by Frazell

A MD5 class library for .NET supporting advanced features like random Salt values embedded in the MD5 hash.

A .NET NT Registry Library and NT Registry Editor

by Hoang Khanh Nguyen

A .NET wrapper for NT Registry and a .NET NT RegEdit demo

A .NET Progress Dialog

by Matthew Adams

A progress dialog for asynchronous workers

A .NET Wizard control

by Oleksandr Kucherenko

A .NET Wizard control for the VS.IDE and client apps

A Basic Scheduler

by Didara F Dosabhai

Define schedules to the program for executing programmer defined jobs

A basic Virtual Machine for Experimentation

by Include123

A basic Virtual Machine for experimentation.

A Beginners Guide to Templates - Part 1

by Stefan Spenz

An article about basic function and class templates

A Beginners guide to Templates - Part 2

by Stefan Spenz

Using advanced template functionality

A Better ValidationSummary Control for Data Driven Applications

by Scott Juranek

The ValidationSummary Control can be easily subclassed to make data driven web applications more code-friendly.

A Bitmap Manipulation Class With Support For Format Conversion, Bitmap Retrieval from a URL, Overlays, etc.

by Adam Nelson

Provides an overview and discussion of the author's BitmapManipulator C# class, including examples of each feature, as well as numerous .NET/GDI+ caveats.

A Brief Introduction to the log4net logging library, using C#

by David Salter

An article describing the basic use of the log4net library.

A C# .NET PacMan game

by Neri LLosa

An article on Pocket PC game development.

A C# auto complete combo box

by Matt Berther

A C# implementation of an auto complete combo box, based on Chris Maunder's MFC code

A C# class that deals with System Registry

by Alexandr_K

This C# class retrieves, creates, deletes Registry values and keys, and even more...

A C# ColorListBox

by Sanjay Ahuja

In this article we will see how to write an owner drawn ListBox

A C# component to encode and decode yEnc data

by Steven Campbell

A fully tested component capable of encoding and decoding yEnc data.

A C# Grep Application

by George Anescu

Presenting a small C# application which provides Grep-like functionality under .NET.

A C# idiom to simulate global functions

by another

When what you really want is a global function.

A C# Image Converter

by George Anescu

Presenting a smal C# Windows Application for converting images between different graphical formats

A C# implementation of Reversi (Othello) Game for PocketPC and Windows

by George Mamaladze

A C# implementation of Reversi (Othello) Game for PocketPC and Windows.

A C# implementation of the Twofish cipher

by Shaun Wilde

An article on integrating a C# implementation of the Twofish cipher into the .NET framework.

A C# implementation of Unix crypt()

by Jeroen-bart Engelen

A C# version of the Unix crypt() algorithm.

A C# Mersenne Twister class

by Dave Loeser

A pseudorandom number generator.

A C# MPEG1 Image Compression Class

by Mike Donovan

This article shows how to compress an image using the MPEG1 format

A C# Password Generator

by Kevin Stewart

An article on implementing a simple password generator class in C#

A C# Ping Control

by daniel.byrne

This source code/control is provided to make it easy for programmers in C# to ping remote hosts and get the response time in milliseconds.

A C# Scrolling Text Control

by Manster

This article shows you how to create a scrolling text/scrolling marquee control in C#.

A C# Server Drop-down Control

by Marty Cerisano

A C# usercontrol that enumerates servers and displays the list in a drop-down list

A C# Serviced Component for Websphere MQ 5.3

by eleung

A C# .NET serviced component that encapsulates MQ PUT and MQ GET.

A C# sets class

by Richard Bothne, Jim Showalter

A fairly decent sets class in C#.

A C# Visual Studio.Net, Excel, and InterDev tab control.

by Italo Silveira

A C# tab control that mimics the Visual Studio.Net, Excel, and InterDev tab styles.

A C# water effect picture control

by Christian Tratz

A C# implementation of the popular water surface effect.

A Charting Custom Control using Microsoft OWC

by Catiger

This is a .NET custom control for web-based charting using Office Web Component technology.

A Chat Server/Client Solution for Local Networks

by Evren Daglioglu

A chat server/client solution for local networks, terminal server/terminal client environments

A Checkbox Tree Control for Use in Filtering Selections

by Magerusan Grigore Cosmin

An ATL filter control

A class for sending emails with attachments in C#.

by Steaven Woyan

A class for sending emails with attachments in C#.

A class to load and use file associated icons

by Vitaly Zayko

An article about using SHGetFileInfo in C# (a simple class and demo are included).

A class to parse graphical fonts

by Matthew Hazlett

How to use graphical fonts in your games

A class to put a ProgressBar or any control into a StatusBar

by Eric Marcon

How to simply display a control inside the StatusBar of your program.

A class to represent group data type and how to use it in code

by YOSSI ROZENBERG

A class to represent group data type and an example code to demonstrate how to use it in code.

A clickable button

by Chris Sells

An immensely handy clickable button.

A client side filtered dropdown for ASP.NET

by marcel27

Filter a combo box in IE as you type - without posting back at every key press

A closer look at XML Data Binding, including a product appraisal

by Sprotty

An introduction to XML Data Binding, and a review of a number of leading products.

A COM class wizard for VS.NET 2003

by mav.northwind

A wizard to bring easy COM class creation to C#.

A Comparative Study of Java and C#

by gspatwal

A brief article comparing and contrasting the features of Java and C#.

A completely customizable Google API Web Client

by Vasudevanms

A web based Google Web services client using ASP.NET.

A Comprehensive Logging Package for .NET

by Jeff Varszegi

A Comprehensive Logging Package for .NET

A control class for browsing through the Network Neighborhood

by JurgenVanGorp

If you want to have an easy-to-use Dialog Box to browse through the network, have a look at this. This library allows for selecting network shares, directories, files, ... and will ask for a user name and password, if needed.

A CountDownTimer inherited from System.Windows.Forms.Timer

by Sven So.

A timer that will only run the number of times you specifed.

A custom configuration file AppSettings reader class

by Daniel Fisher (lennybacon)

This article describes how to create a custom configuration file AppSettings reader class.

A custom control for images with annotations

by yvdh

An article about a custom control for displaying images with the possibility of adding annotations.

A custom range selector control in C# (with a little animating slider)

by Bharath K A

At times, business needs are so unique that we have to write new controls in addition to the existing Toolbox provided controls. This article explains how to write such a unique control, named Range Control. Control source and a sample app are included.

A Custom TextBox with Regular Expression Validation Using MC++

by liyang yu

A custom TextBox with input validation written in VC++.NET, also walks you through the steps needed to build your own custom controls

A Data Access Layer to persist business objects using attributes and reflection - Part I

by xicoloko

Persistance to business objects through attributes and reflection

A Data Access Layer to persist business objects using attributes and reflection - Part II

by xicoloko

Persistance to business objects through attributes and reflection

A Data Access Layer to persist business objects using attributes and reflection - Part III

by xicoloko

Persistance to business objects through attributes and reflection

A Debug Stopwatch

by Marc Clifton

A debug build stopwatch useful for diagnostic timing.

A Deep Dish Dictionary Clone Routine

by Marc Clifton

Cloning a Dictionary.

A Dequeue - also called a ring-buffer

by BenDi

Another addition to the System.Collections - a ring buffer, more sophisticated than ArrayList or Queue.

A designable PropertyTree for VS.NET

by Russell Morris

A TabControl-like options dialog based on a TreeView

A Dictionary Collection Sorting By Value

by Hannes Foulds

An article on creating a custom collection like the SortedList that sort entries by value instead of by key.

A DXF Reader Solution and a Simple DXF Viewer

by Evren Daglioglu

This project gets a DXF file, extracts and interprets data and draws it on screen.

A Dynamically Generated XML Data Editor

by Marc Clifton

Using an XML Schema Definition (XSD) document, this utility dynamically generates a data entry form to create and edit XML data.

A flag editor

by Thierry Bouquain

This piece of code is the implementation of a simple flags editor. It can be used to edit flags in a property grid.

A flexible charting library for .NET

by JChampion

Looking for a way to draw 2D line graphs with C#? Here's yet another charting class library with a high degree of configurability, that is also easy to use.

A floating-point Margin structure, now with TypeConverter

by AlwiNus

A Margin structure that can be used in a variety of situations, like layout, drawing and printing. Now comes with a custom TypeConverter and a usage sample.

A Free HTML Report Generator for DataSets

by DaberElay

There are many tools out there for reports, varing by price, capabilities and learning curves. I wanted an ASAP tool (As Simple As Possible :-)) to produce HTML outputs and view them with emphasis, on dynamic creation capability. I started out with making a reporter for ADO DataSets.

A full-duplex audio player in C# using the waveIn/waveOut APIs

by Ianier Munoz

An article on low-level audio capture and playback using the waveIn/waveOut APIs through P/Invoke in C#.

A Generic - Reusable Diff Algorithm in C#

by aprenot

A generic algorithm that can be used to find the difference between objects.

A google search application using Gtk#

by samirkut

An application (based on Gtk#) which uses the google web service to search the internet.

A Grouping Repeater Control for ASP.NET

by Rob van der Veer

This custom repeater control can be used to add group headers to your output.

A library to simplify access to image metadata

by George Mamaladze

A library to simplify access to image metadata.

A Link Cloud to Cope With Large Weighting Variations

by Gavin Harriss

A link cloud / tag cloud that copes with large weighting variations and gaps well.

A linked list collection class in MC++

by sultan_of_6string

The .NET ArrayList class provides "dynamic arrays" which, to a C++ programmer should seem really innane. Here's a linked list collection class that can be used in any .NET language.

A ListView HitTest for C#

by row4utc

An article on adding a HitTest method for a ListView control.

A Localizable Currency TextBox

by Stephen Muecke

A localizable Currency textbox control.

A low-level audio player in C#

by Ianier Munoz

This article describes a sample application that uses the waveout API in C#.

A Magical Edit Menu Manager

by Tom Clement

A magical edit menu that works with no connections to the rest of your project

A managed "Send To" menu class

by Alexey Sinutin

An article on a small managed C++ class which gives ability to use the "Send To" feature of Windows Explorer.

A Managed C++ Email Validator Control for ASP.NET

by Paul Ingles

An ASP.NET Validator Control implemented in Managed C++ that can be used to verify email addresses by connecting to SMTP servers listed as Mail eXchangers for a domain, includes example of Win32 API Interoperability with C++ .NET. The validation is not RegEx based.

A marquee control in C#

by Josh Smith

A marquee control written in C#

A Master Detail DataGrid

by xicoloko

Implements a DataGrid with a Master/Detail view on data.

A Message Loop object

by Ilan Assayag

Asynchronous sequential execution of methods using a message loop.

A MSN Messenger Library for Construction of Communication Based Applications

by Derek Bartram

An article presenting a library for producing communication based application utilising the MSN Messenger services and protocols.

A Multi Gradient Button

by marktoth

Button that allows multiple gradients defined at design time.

A New Task Scheduler Class Library for .NET

by Dennis Austin

A revision of a Task Scheduler class library by David Hall

A non-well-formed HTML Parser and CSS Resolver

by James S.F. Hsieh

A non-well-formed HTML parser and CSS Resolver builded by pure .NET C#

A numeric edit control

by kennedy_franklin

This is a control which will allow the user to input only numbers. And it also has some special features like, if we enter negative values, we can show it in a different color.

A POP3 Client in C# .NET

by Desmond McCarter

A POP3 client in C# .NET for reading and processing emails (including attachments).

A Possible Enhancement of the MSIL

by Valer BOCAN

Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) may be improved by adding a few new instructions

A Practical Guide to .NET DataTables, DataSets and DataGrids - Part 1

by Pete2004

The purpose of this document is to provide a practical guide to using Microsoft’s .NET DataTables, DataSets and DataGrid

A Practical Guide to .NET DataTables, DataSets and DataGrids - Part 2

by Pete2004

The purpose of this document is to provide a practical guide to using Microsoft’s .NET DataTables, DataSets and DataGrid

A Practical Guide to .NET DataTables, DataSets and DataGrids - Part 3

by Pete2004

The purpose of this document is to provide a practical guide to using Microsoft’s .NET DataTables, DataSets and DataGrid

A Practical Guide to .NET DataTables, DataSets and DataGrids - Part 4

by Pete2004

The purpose of this document is to provide a practical guide to using Microsoft’s .NET DataTables, DataSets and DataGrid

A Preview of Active Server Pages+ - Chapter 1: Introducing ASP+

by Wrox

An introduction to ASP.NET

A Preview of C# - Chapter 7: Namespaces and the Base Classes

by Wrox

An introduction to Namespaces and the Base Classes

A Programmer's Introduction to C# - Chapter 21

by Eric Gunnerson (msft)

Erik Gunnerson writes about Attributes in C#

A Proposal for an Enhanced C# Property syntax

by Salil Pitkar

Proposal to make C# properties flexible whilst maintaining the Smart Field syntax.

A RAD (Rapid Application Deployment).ASP Architecture: Introduction

by Andrew Eno

The first article of a series that will lay out the framework for a non .NET implementation of XML and XSLT using SSIs (server-side includes).

A Remoting Event (Simple and Efficient for Enterprise Solutions)

by Hossein Ghahvei Araghi

This article contains the simplest solutions for: the security problem for DelegateSerializationHolder, the IO problem, and the messaging speed problem. Note: Messaging speed problem will appear when your application has worked for a long time.

A Resource Server Handler Class For Custom Controls

by Eric Woodruff

A class implementing IHttpHandler for use in custom controls, to send embedded resources such as scripts, images, and style sheets to the client.

A ServiceInstaller Extension That Enables Recovery and Autostart Configuration

by Neil Baliga

An extension assembly that allows configuring the "advanced" service configuration options for recovery actions.

A set of template classes for working with the registry

by Daniel Andersson

Writing generic code with templates and the C++ standard library.

A Shaped Windows Form Application with Variable Opacity

by Robert Hinrichs

How to create a Shaped Windows Application with Variable Opacity

A Simple 2 User Whiteboard application in C#/.NET

by Ranjeet Chakraborty

This article is my attempt at developing an extremely simple Whiteboard application in C#/ WinForms and sockets for messaging, to be used simultaneously by 2 users.

A Simple and Generic Cache

by Andre Trollip

An article on implementing your own simple caching.

A Simple Approach for Controlling Print Jobs using WMI

by Jagan Mohan

A simple approach for controlling print jobs using WMI

A simple architecture to read arbitrarily formatted flat files into ADO DataSets

by Sriram Chitturi

This article gives a simple architecture of using StreamReaders and DataSets together to read data from arbitrarily formatted flat files into DataSets, using ini files as an example

A simple ASP.NET chat

by sathesh pandian

A simple chat application using ASP.NET.

A Simple ASP.NET Server Control: Message Box & Confirmation Box

by Ning Liao, Liang Yang

An article on creating a simple ASP.NET server control that functions as Message Box and Confirmation Box

A Simple C# Genetic Algorithm

by Barry Lapthorn

In this article we shall produce a simple genetic algorithm in C#

A Simple C# Toolbar Docking Framework

by Rogério Paulo

An example framework for toolbar handling, written in C#.

A simple C# Wave editor, part 1: Background and analysis

by Jonathan Kade

The first phase of a RIFF/Wave editing "swiss army knife", in which we'll learn how to extract all the data present in common Wave files and store it in an XML document.

A Simple C# Wrapper for the AviFile Library

by Corinna John

Edit AVI files in .NET.

A Simple Chat Application Using .NET Remoting

by Anil Kumar

This application demonstrates .NET remoting in LAN.

A simple class to allow you to play Wavs in C#

by MeterMan

The framework, from what I have seen, does not include a function to play sound. So, after looking around and gathering information on how to do such, I ended up making a class. I like to use this for error messages. I simply imported the DLL file winmm.dll and used the PlaySound function from it.

A Simple Class to Read and Write INI Files

by Nick Alexeev

This class is a thin MFC wrapper around Win32 API for reading/writing INI files.

A Simple Clock

by kavehdr

This program shows how to make a simple clock.

A Simple Compiler for the Common Language Runtime

by Michael Bebenita

An end-to-end example of a bottom up LALR(1) compiler for a fictitious language targeting the Common Language Runtime

A Simple Customizable Windows Event Logger Application

by Pankaj A. Chitriv

An article on writing a simple Windows Event Logger.

A Simple DataGrid Row Tooltip For Beginners.

by PSK_

A simple DataGrid Row Tooltip for beginners.

A simple extension to the ListView object (in report mode)

by londonman

A simple extension to the ListView object (in report mode)

A Simple FTP Application

by Ammar Al-Jamri

This is a brief description.

A simple guide to WMI providers

by Cohen Shwartz Oren

How to write WMI providers in C#

A simple histogram displaying control

by Alexandru Ghiondea

A histogram control for displaying your data.

A Simple Immutable ArrayList for C#

by bearvarine

An ArrayList container wrapper class that permits the table to be filled with data in an early phase of a program, but then made read-only (Immutable) for subsequent usage.

A Simple Immutable Hashtable for C#

by bearvarine

A Hashtable wrapper class that permits the table to be filled with data in an early phase of a program, but then made read-only (Immutable) for subsequent usage.

A simple in-process semaphore using C#

by Sriram Chitturi

Creating a semaphore to limit a given number of threads accessing a resource in a process.

A Simple Introduction to the .NET Intermedia Language (IL)

by Filip Bulovic

A simple example of using IL directly

A Simple Photo Publisher Program

by GMachiavelli

This program shows an example of how to manipulate lots of files to convert their size, quality and get a thumbnail image.

A simple progress bar web user control

by Steven Campbell

Lightweight HTML table based (no image) progress bar

A simple RadioButtonList in a Web DataGrid Column

by Socrate1

A very simple and practical way, how a single RadioButton acts as a RadioButtonList in a web DataGrid server control column.

A simple range structure

by Goran Mitrovic

As its name suggests, it consists of two fields, the start and the end, which define inclusive bounds of a range the structure represents.

A simple TCP/IP Chat client/server

by GMachiavelli

An article useful to understand simple thread use, TCP/IP networking, and basic use of XML.

A Simple TextBox TraceListener

by Adam Crawford

A tracelistener class that allows you to view the results of the trace in your Windows UI test harness

A Simple UDP Messaging Client Toolkit

by Andre Trollip

A simple set of classes to make creating Peer to Peer messaging easy using UDP. Features built-in message concatenation and delivery receipts for reliable transmission.

A Simple VB.NET Freehand Drawing method

by John Buettner

The code uses a System.Drawing.Drawing2D.GraphicsPath method to follow the users mouse movements. The path is then painted in the control.

A Simple Web Page Template Parser And A Template Pool

by Agemo

A simple web page template parser to separate layout from code.

A simple Windows Forms image viewer

by corvado

This is a simple viewer application which allows you to apply basic operation on images such as Rotate, Flip, ROI (Region of interest) zoom and Panning.

A simple Windows Forms Login Control component

by Erik Schmidt

A simple Windows Forms Login Control component.

A Simple Windows Forms Properties Spy

by Rama Krishna Vavilala

A utility that can be used to spy the properties of any Windows forms control in the system

A Simple XML DOM Viewer/Navigator Using MC++

by liyang yu

A simple GUI written in MC++ providing a DOM tree and XPath navigator for XML files

A Simple XML Validator

by David Salter

A simple application for validating XML files from within Windows Explorer.

A simple XP/VS.NET style button control

by Jan Tielens

Why another button control? Because I searched the net for a control that would mimic the XP/VS.NET style buttons, but I couldn't find a decent one. I think this button has all needed functionality: cool style, shortcut keys, icons, alignment, ...

A Simple Yahtzee Game

by Mike Kitchen

An article on creating a simple dice game with C#.

A Single Instance Control Component in C#

by Chandra Hundigam Venkat

A Single Instance control component which checks whether any instance of your application is running on the system.

A Slide Form Base

by nimbus3d

A slide form class from which to derive your forms from

A Small Class for Simplifying the Work with URL Parameters

by Uwe Keim

An article describing a simple class that makes working with URL parameters a little bit easier

A SoundEx implementation in .NET

by Richard Birkby

Demonstrates an OO implementation of 4 SoundEx variants in .NET

A spam safe link control

by Jos Branders

This control can show an e-mail address as a link on a web page without the risk of the address being captured by spammers.

A sparse array input control

by je_gonzalez

An article on a simple control to enter sparse values or ranges of values in an array.

A statistical analysis of the performance variations of assorted managed and unmanaged languages

by Rama Krishna Vavilala, Nish Nishant

This article compares and contrasts the relative performances of various languages like native C++, Visual Basic 6, C#, VB.NET, Managed C++, MC++ and native code mix, ngen'd assemblies etc. using a prime number generation function as a generic benchmark

A Status Bar Text Provider for Menu Items and Form Controls

by Eric Woodruff

A status bar text provider for menu items and form controls in Windows Forms applications similar to the feature found in MFC and Microsoft Access applications.

A TCP client that uses MSN protocol

by Luna Thong

A TCP client that uses MSN protocol

A Templated databound Repeater control with per-row template selection

by Rob van der Veer

This control allows you to select a template for each different row in your Repeater, based on the content of that row.

A text-based Name List + Lookup Control

by uTILLIty

A usable sample on how to build an outlook-style name-lookup control

A Time-Of-Day Picker control

by ClearlyDotNet

A simple control that allows the user to pick time periods in the day

A Tool for Dynamic Compile and Run of C# or VB.NET Code

by dstang2000

A tool for dynamic compiling and running of C# or VB.NET code in memory without having to create a project

A TraceListener that sends messages via UDP

by Mayank Gupta

An implementation of a TraceListener that sends messages across the network.

A UDP-based Reliable Data Transfer Library

by lilyco

Introduces an open source UDP-based data transfer library.

A UITypeEditor for easy editing of flag enum properties in the property browser

by LogicNP

A UITypeEditor for easy editing of flag enum properties in the property browser.

A useful UrlBuilder class

by lotuspro

A simple way to generate and manipulate URLs.

A Useful WMI Tool & How To Find USB to Serial Adaptors

by surf uk

An article to illustrate a useful tool for WMI (WMICodeCreator) & using WMI to find USB Serial / COM port adaptors

A Utility to Convert VS.NET 2003 Project Files

by dacris

This utility converts projects and solutions from VS.NET 7.0 to VS.NET 7.1 and vice versa.

A variation on the default TrackBar

by Guinness4Strength

Multi-Color and multi-directional TrackBar.

A VB.NET class useful for basic linear algebra

by yvdh

Some vector and matrix manipulation routines.

A VB.NET Fluid Effect Image box

by X-caiver

An article on a VB.NET ripple image control

A very simple BrowseForFolder class

by Francesco Natali

A very simple class to include the browse for folder window into your C# project

A Visit to Redmond - Part 3

by Chris Maunder

For those who are curious as to what a hastily scheduled trip to Redmond is like.

A VS.Net-like ToolBox

by Iulian Serban

This is a Visual Studio .NET like ToolBox control with animation and drag and drop support.

A web based dialup Internet application

by Dan_P

A web application to connect and disconnect from a dial up Internet session

A Web based SMTP client program

by Ravindra Sadaphule

This is a a web based SMTP client program that can be used to send an email through a SMTP server.

A Win32 Library for .NET

by Wesner Moise

Provides a class library containing Win32 API function calls, constants, and structures.

A Windows Installer Database Diff Tool

by Don Kackman

A command line tool that generates XML and/or HTML Diff reports of two Windows installer databases.

A Windows Logon, Web User Control Implementation - in ASP.NET

by User 30735

A classic example of implementing reusable web user control, with supporting controls and classes to keep the code manageable

A WTL Dim Edit control

by Paul A. Howes

A WTL adaptation of James Twine's Dim Edit control.

AboutTrees

by Mr.PoorEnglish

Sensational botanic discovery: the smallest Tree on Earth! About a generic Tree, and looping it with ForEach

Absolute beginner's introduction to remoting

by Nish Nishant

Introduces .NET remoting and the use of asynchronous callbacks using simple code snippets

Accepting Signatures from Hand-Held Devices

by Zeeshan Haneef

An article on drawing graphics on a hand-held device touch screen.

Access Active Directory - The .NET Way

by Manas Bhardwaj

Accessing Active Directory

Access Database Editor in C#

by Anthony Roach

This project presents an Access Database Editor written in C#

Access Modifiers for Beginners

by Faisal(mfrony)

Understand access modifiers before using them.

Accessing Adobe InDesign CS COM Objects from .NET

by elmer_torensma

An article showing how to access Adobe InDesign CS COM objects from .NET

Accessing an EJB from .NET Using IIOP.NET: an Example

by Patrik Reali

Accessing an EJB from .NET Using IIOP.NET: an Example

Accessing ASP objects from XSL

by Philip Patrick

Shows an easy way to access ASP built-in objects such as Request from XSL template.

Accessing COM+ component using C#

by Imtiaz Alam

This article provides a step by step explanation on how to access COM+ applications using C#.

Accessing LDAP User list using VB.NET

by Chandrashekhar Kulkarni

This article will explain how to access LDAP service using VB.NET.

Accessing Remote Exchange Server To read/delete mails using WEBDAV

by amit.arora

Accessing Remote Exchange Server To read/delete mails using WEBDAV

Accessing Row based data in an efficient and maintainable manner

by Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr.

Methods for accessing row based data in C# (.NET)

Accessing the data of ASP.NET templated controls from client-side script

by John Wadie

The article demonstrates an easy method to access the data of templated controls (Repeater, DataList, DataGrid) from client-side scripts.

Action Tags

by Mike Ellison

An approach to encapsulating functionality in server controls, separate from a user interface.

ActionLists for Windows.Forms

by Serge Weinstock

Implementation of Delphi's ActionList for Windows.Forms

ActiveSync File Filter in C#

by Peter Tewkesbury

This article shows how to write an ActiveSync file filter in C#.

Add a Checkbox Control to the DataGrid Control

by cuepack

Add CheckBox to ASP.NET DataGrid control (VB.NET version).

Add a context menu to the Windows Explorer

by dmihailescu

Add a context menu to the Windows Explorer using Registry only.

Add a custom template to Visual Studio .NET 2003

by Sarvesvara (BVKS) Dasa

An article that explains a method to add your own custom template in the Visual Studio .NET 2003 IDE.

Add a 'Dont show this dialog again' Checkbox with minimal effort

by mav.northwind

A control to let the user select to never see a dialog again.

Add a header and footer control to all web pages in a web application, using HTTP module

by Chun Li

Use the HTTP module to automatically add a header and footer control to all ASP.NET pages.

Add a Tree Menu to DataGrid Header Text

by Florence FZ Li

This article shows how to add a JavaScript tree menu to a DataGrid head text.

Add multimedia effect to system clock

by A.k.joshi

This article focuses on how to add a virtual multimedia effect to the system clock.

Add run-time functionality to your application by providing a plug-in mechanism

by Roy Osherove

Use Activator and IConfigurationSectionHandler in perfect harmony to add plugin abilities to your application

Add some Style to your DataGrids

by Steven Campbell

Use CSS style sheets to apply re-usable styles across all of your grids.

Add Support for "Set" Collections to .NET

by JasonSmith

An implementation of "Sets" for .NET

Adding and deleting multiple selected rows in a table using JavaScript

by Raman Tayal

This article will help the user in adding rows to a table in ASP.NET and deleting multiple selected rows from the table using JavaScript.

Adding a CheckBox Column to a DataGrid

by Dan_P

Shows how to add a checkbox column to a datagrid

Adding a CheckBox column to your DataGrid

by Shaun Wilde

A CheckBox column that is can be used and bound in a DataGrid

Adding a zip filter to web services

by DaberElay

Passing large amounts of data through web services can become a huge bottle-neck in a WAN application architecture (i.e., server is on the web), and in any case, a real load on the network traffic. This is one solution for downsizing the network costs.

Adding an LED to your radiobuttons

by Duane Lunday

Enhance the visual impact of your radio buttons

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

by Narb M

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

Adding and Using RadioButton to DataGrid in ASP.NET

by Mustafa Dikgitmez

Adding and using RadioButton to DataGrid in ASP.NET.

Adding Balloon Windows to a .NET Application

by Peter Rilling

Introduction to the BalloonWindow class which allows .NET applications to implement balloon windows similar to what is available in Windows XP. Complete customization allows both the appearence and shape to be configured as well as projecting an alpha-blended shadow.

Adding click event to rows in a DataGrid

by ssjvackar

A simple way to select a DataGrid row by clicking it.

Adding custom XPath functions to XSL

by Stefan Popov

This article shows you how to add context aware XPath functions to an XSL transformation. This is done by a hack using reflection.

Adding designable borders to user controls

by Jason Dorie

A tutorial on adding design-time enabled borders to user controls. Covers topics including atributes, interop, and custom overrides

Adding Drag and Drop support to a VB.NET control

by Matthew Day

Article explaining how to add drag and drop support to a VB.NET control

Adding Drag and Drop to an Explorer Tree Control

by Jim Parsells

ExpTree part 2: Adding drag and drop to the ExpTree control.

Adding features to a C# search engine/web spider

by craigd

Adding advanced search-engine features (and persistent catalog) to Searcharoo project

Adding Icons to Menus in VB.NET

by Retana Padilla

A simple extension of the menu control that displays icons

Adding Images to Menu

by SeeSharp

Adding images to MenuItems

Adding line numbers to text

by Ken Mackenzie

How to easily add line numbers to source code or text.

Adding tray icons and context menus

by Nish Nishant

Beginner's Tutorial on adding tray icons and setting context menus

AderPlotter

by Werdna

Simple graphics calculator.

ADO Connection Strings

by Carlos Antollini

A list of ODBC DSN Connection Strings.

ADO Data Access through COM Interop in .NET

by Kannan Kalyanaraman

The article explains how to make use of COM objects from .NET

ADO.NET – Get the notification events from Managed Providers

by Naveen K Kohli

How to use the event handlers for various ADO.NET connection & data objects.

ADO.NET 101: SQL Connection

by mysorian

A tutorial on connecting to SQL 2000 Server.

ADO.NET and OPENXML to Perform Bulk Database Operations

by mfmaneef

Explains how to send bulk records to a database using OPENXML.

ADO.NET Primer using Managed C++

by Bill Ferreira

A primer on using ADO.NET with Managed extensions for Visual C++ .NET

ADO.NET Programmer's Reference - Chapter 16 - COM Interoperability

by Wrox

This chapter explains how to use Interop to incorporate the features from our existing unmanaged components and other classic ADO objects.

Advanced Asynchoronous WebServices

by Shail_Srivastav

Advanced asynchoronous WebServices.

Advanced File Explorer

by Shail_Srivastav

An enhanced Windows Explorer application which consists of a tree view where someone can see the files available in the existing drives up to certain levels.

Advanced message box for .NET

by Sergiy Stoyan

A replacement of .NET MessageBox class that provides additional features and improvements like possibility to show any number of buttons, ‘apply-my-answer-by-default’ checkbox, intelligence layout and more.

Advanced MessageBoxing with the C# MessageBoxIndirect Wrapper

by Scott McMaster

This article presents a friendly C# wrapper class for the MessageBoxIndirect API. The MessageBoxIndirect class allows you to add a help button, custom icon, locale-aware buttons, and different modalities to a message box.

Advanced Phone Number Type Implementation

by Flamewave4

A phone number structure that can be used for parsing, validating, and normalizing phone numbers.

Advanced Shape Control

by Sreenivas Vemulapalli

Advanced Shape Control

Advanced text searching

by Cd-MaN

Building a simple query language with the OR and AND boolean operators

Advantages of .Net Compare to VB6.0 and ASP3.0

by narendra Bute

This will give the list of Advantages of .Net as compare to the VB6.0 and ASP3.0

Airplane War 0.2

by Joaquin Grech (Creative1)

Airplane War is a basic flight simulator designed in C# and directx 9

AJAX Auto-Suggest Textbox User Control

by subbiahkk

An AJAX textbox user control with auto-suggest functionality.

AJAX DataGrid

by Ekaterina Kostrioukova

The article shows how to update data in a DataGrid (DataView) control with AJAX.

Ajax DataGrid Sample

by Ekaterina Kostrioukova

An article on how to implement DataGrid

AJAX IN ASP.NET

by Islam Khalil Saber

The article show how to implementi AJAX in Asp.Net using XMLHttpRequest Object

AJAX Was Here - Part 1: Client Side Framework

by Bill Pierce

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML with ASP.NET integration.

AJAX Was Here - Part 2: ASP.NET Integration

by Bill Pierce

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML with ASP.NET.

AJAX WAS Here - Part 3 : Auto Complete TextBox

by Bill Pierce

A custom AJAX - ASP.NET control.

All About .NET

by Jason Clark

Just what is .NET? Jason Clark gives an overview of .NET and what it means to you as a developer.

All about abstract classes.

by Jayababu

This article provides a quick introduction to abstract classes in .NET.

All about Cryptography in .NET

by AtulMalhotra

Cryptography classes available in .NET.

All about Installers - Customizing Windows and Web setup projects

by avnrao

This article guides how to customize an installer for specific needs of the application.

All about PrintForm component 1.0

by vridhichowdhry

How to print a Form in VB.NET using the Printform Component. Describes the various ways with examples on how to customize the printed output according to your need.

All In One Dot Net Deployment

by Jeff Turner

Installing .NET framework with your application.

Alphanumeric increment in C#

by Sandip Dalvi Tung

This code is very useful when you want to auto increment number using A-Z and 1-9 with possible combinationYou can pass any string and system will return next possible number e.g. You can Pass number "PRO01A9" then You will get "PRO01B1"

Amazon Explorer - An adventure with ASP.NET & the Amazon Web Service

by Okeno Palmer

Create an ASP.NET application that uses the Amazon Web Service to search the Amazon catalogs.

Amicable Number Calculator

by zeltera

Amicable number (pairs between 1 and 2 million)

Amzi! Prolog + Logic Server ASP.NET Wrapper Class

by Amzi! inc.

C++ ASP.NET interface to Amzi! Prolog + Logic Server for building Rule-Based Expert Systems

An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Printing in .NET

by Duncan Edwards Jones

Introduces and discusses the Common Language Runtime framework classes used in printing from a .NET Windows Forms application.

An Alternate Way of Writing a Multithreaded GUI in C#

by Keith Balaam

An article on writing a responsive multithreaded GUI, but not the Microsoft way

An Alternative Implementation of the NotifyIcon Class

by Joel Matthias

A wrapper class for notification icons (tray icons) with support for balloon tips.

An alternative to HTML and current web browsers

by Toby Jacob Rhodes

Creating web pages using GRML.

An analyzer for MPEG 2 Program Stream files

by ro_angel_bv

Simple program that interprets a MPEG 2 file.

An Aqua Button Control Written in C# for .NET

by Rad1cal

I have written a number of applications and have always been a little disappointed at how drab they look using the standard VS controls. I had been looking for an easy way for brightening up these apps and in the end resorted to writing my own button control.

An ASP.NET thumbnail solution

by Philipos Sakellaropoulos

An article describing a set of ASP.NET tools for generation of thumbnails and thumbnail views.

An Autobiography of a Windows Forms custom control in its own words [ComboView] – Part I.

by Rajesh Pillai

Who am I? What am I doing here at CodeProject? Well, I'll answer myself all these questions and others.

An auto-resize C# ListBox

by Christian Tratz

A custom ListBox that can resize its items automatically

An Easy-To-Use CacheManager

by Zhong Yu

A .NET class that manages ASP.NET data cache

An editable multi-line listbox for .NET

by Nish Nishant

An owner drawn listbox that supports multi-line word-wrapped text as well as in-place editing.

An Elementary HTML Parser

by James T. Johnson

A class to parse HTML - a part of the ScreenSaver competition

An Example of Strategy Design Pattern for Beginners

by Niladri_Biswas

This example shows how and where to implement the strategy design pattern.

An Excellent Reference for Managed C++

by markmalin

Book Review of Programming With Managed Extensions for Microsoft Visual C++.NET 2003

An Extended ListBox Control

by ClearlyDotNet

A control that offers extensible entry specification and full keyboard support

An Extensible Expression Evaluation Package (EEEP!)

by Jeff Varszegi

Provides runtime evaluation of mathematical and string-based expressions.

An Extension for a Configuration Settings Class in .NET

by Nick Parker

A class to allow easy access and updating to configuration settings for your .NET application

An Image Viewer with Lossless Rotation, EXIF and Other Goodies

by Frank Eden

This article demonstrates a simple viewer for JPEG images.

An improvement to RegisterClientScriptBlock

by Chris Maunder

A simpler and more flexible method of registering client-side Javascript within ASP.NET pages and controls.

An INI file handling class using C#

by BLaZiNiX

A C# class that exposes the INI file handling functions from Kernal32.dll

An instrumented synchronous/asynchronous event manager utilizing EventHandler and Reflection

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.

An Interface Based Implementation by ATL

by Modesty Zhang

This article presents a practical technique to achieve interface based object implementation by ATL only. This technique implements basic COM concepts about interface while doesn't rely on COM runtime.

An interview with Chris Anderson of Microsoft

by Chris Maunder

Chris Anderson is a lead developer on the .NET platform who has worked on Web Forms, Windows Forms, CodeDOM, RegularExpressions, and the ASP.NET tracing features.

An interview with John Robbins of Wintellect

by Chris Maunder

John Robbins talks about .NET and life at Wintellect

An interview with Microsoft's new Visual C++ Architect Stanley Lippman

by Chris Maunder

Stanley Lippman talks about the future of Visual C++ .NET

An Intro to Constructors in C#

by Neeraj Saluja

This is an article on Constructors in C#, for the beginner level programmers. It covers simple constructors, constructors overloading, behaviour of constructors in inheritance, constructor chaining and static constructors. At the end, it contains the general FAQs about constructors.

An Introduction to a Post-relational Database for .NET, Matisse - Part 1

by John Sasak

Step by step introduction to a new generation database for .NET

An Introduction to a Post-relational Database for .NET, Matisse - Part 2

by John Sasak

Step by step introduction to a new generation database for .NET: Schema definition

An Introduction to a Post-relational Database for .NET, Matisse - Part 3

by John Sasak

Step by step guide for .NET programming with a Post-Relational Database

An Introduction to Business Objects in C#

by Kevin McFarlane

An Introduction to Business Objects in C# using a simple Person object as an example

An Introduction To Performance Counters

by Michael Groeger

An introduction to monitoring performance of applications.

An Introduction to SQL Server Notification Services

by Jason R. Hall

This article will provide you with enough information to peak your interest in one of Microsoft’s newest services designed to run under SQL Server 2000, and to take advantage of the .NET initiative.

An introduction to Web Service Security using WSE - Part I

by HENDRIK R

This article explains the first steps to build secure Web Services. It introduces the WSE specification and the easiest authentication mechanism based on username identification and password validation.

An Introduction to Web Services: Daily Dilbert

by Matt Berther

An introduction to web services via creating a web service to retrieve the daily Dilbert image and a client to consume this service.

An Observer Pattern and an Extended ListView Event Model

by Simon Segal

Implementing an Observer Pattern for an Extended ListView Event Model

An Outlook Bar Implementation

by Marc Clifton

Illustrates in a step-by-step manner the design and implementation of an Outlook style icon bar.

An overview of interior pointers in C++/CLI

by Nish Nishant

Tries to explain the syntax, usage and behavior of interior pointers in C++/CLI

An SMPPLIB with COM Support

by Jack Hui

It is an SMPP implementation of v3.3 and v3.4 ( partial support). You can use it to connect to SMSC and send/receive SMS.

An SVG framework in C# and an SVG-GDI+ bridge

by Ben Peterson

Svg.Net is a C# framework for creating SVG images. A GDI-SVG bridge is implemented on top of it.

An XML- and State Machine-based Design of a WinForms Control

by Igor Ladnik

Usage of state machine and comprehensive XML description of control helps its user to considerably simplify control handling code.

An XML Based (we)blog with RSS Feed

by Johan Danforth

A BLOG tool ready to use. Post weblogs to an XML file from a windows application via Web Service. Uses SOAP Headers for authentication. Uses simple XSL Transformation for the RSS feed.

An XML Database Schema And Data Editor

by Marc Clifton

View and edit your XML database schema and data

An XML Schema Definition (XSD) Editor

by Marc Clifton

An editor capable of producing common XSD documents

An XSD to .NET Language Code Class Generator that Adds Real Punch to Microsoft's XSD Tool

by Willem Fourie

This tool extends the Microsoft XSD tool to provide quality and robust auto-generated code that is easy to use.

Analog Clock

by Nidhi S

An analog clock control that can raise alarm at a given time and that can also set a count down alarm.

Analyze IL and say hello to your performance

by Hugo Pais Batista

Avoid unnecessary variable declaration and redundant instructions. Analyzing and understanding the compiler and generated IL instructions in a simple example, saving your performance.

Andrew's CodeProject Screen Saver

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.

Animate the Mainform of your Application

by Marc Schneider

Shows how to change the visual style of the application form with an animation.

Animated Counter Control

by Adrian Tosca

An animated counter control with different themes

Announcer in C#.NET using Microsoft Agent

by Ashraf Mohamed

A tool to announce message, sing a song and tell a joke.

Another class factory

by Yoramo

Class Factory based on C# events & delegate

Another OLE Doc Viewer but with editing facility

by Aamir Butt

An article on how to put and get information to an OLE Structured Document.

Another wizard for .NET using tab control

by nimbus3d

Another wizard for .NET using tab control

Answers to your MFC/ATL questions from the Visual C++ .NET Product Manager.

by Chris Maunder

The definitive set of 'What's the deal with MFC' answers from Microsoft's Nick Hodapp.

Anti BPX

by Marcello Cantelmo

Simple check for break-points on eXecution of a system debugger!

Anti Flicker Graphics using Double Buffering and how to make simple graphic moves.

by MeterMan

This example will show you how to use doublebuffering and hopefully allows you to make images move across your screen.

ANTS Profiler by Red Gate Software

by Redgate Software

ANTS Profiler allows you to identify slow lines of code in .NET applications within 5 minutes of installation, allowing you to get on with what you do best – writing code.

API Browser

by kbrryder

A Windows API browser that shows you all the definitions and help on API methods.

AppBar using C#

by Mad__

How to make AppBar for .NET

Application and component configuration

by Robin Galloway-Lunn

Application and component configuration from XML .config files.

Application Data Utility Class

by Michael Mumcuoglu

ApplicationData is a generic utility library class for managing an application's data

Application Event Handler for WinForms

by Saurabhdotnet

In this article, you will get a walkthrough of creating an Application Event Handler Component (AEHC) for any WinForms application in .NET.

Application for uploading modified Files to a FTP Server

by Uwe Keim

Simple C# Console Application that uses a local MS-Access Database to store modification Dates of Files and uploads modified Files to a FTP Server

Application of Fraction class: Matrix class in C#

by Syed Mehroz Alam

An article on developing a matrix class consisting of fractions.

Application Security Model

by Michał Kosmala

Article describes an easy and light way to secure access to methods in your application.

Application settings based on public class properties

by Chris Richner

Application settings based on public class properties, dynamically filled into a UI

Application Suite Template

by Not Active

An example of building an application suite using reflection and custom attributes to dynamically discover and add child applications.

Applied .NET: Developing People-Oriented Software Using C#

by Chanda Leary-Coutu

Applied.NET illustrates development of several .NET applications using C#.

Applied Reflection or stop SWITCHing

by Serge Lobko-Lobanovsky

This article illustrates a practical implementation of one of the common tasks that developers face every day, using reflection.

AppLogger, a Simple Distributed Application Logger - Part 1

by sebma

An article on distributed application logging

Apply Single-Sign-On to your application

by Softwaremaker

Explains the pros and cons of implementing Single-Sign-On to your application and the code implementation to do it via VB.NET and LDAP.

Applying Observer Pattern in .NET Remoting

by Liong Ng

This article describes the steps to develop simple chat applications using .NET remoting and the Observer pattern.

Applying Observer Pattern in C++ Applications

by T. Kulathu Sarma

This article explains how to avoid object dependencies using the Observer Pattern with a simple example.

Applying Security to Server controls

by Makesh Sanwal

You may have to give access or hide controls based on the user logged in. This article would help you write custom code to show/hide or enable/disable controls

AquaButton: A Sample Custom Button Control with a Mac OS X Look

by No Namegiven

Sample custom button control to help you write your own custom controls

Aquarium Database Keeper

by centuriJon

A program that can keep track of different chemical levels in an aquarium, using DataGrid with DataSet and DataTable and other Windows Forms

Arcball Module in C# - Tao.OpenGL

by Kam

Arcball module using Tao.OpenGL in C#.

Arcball OpenGL in C#

by Kam

An Arcball module using CsGL in C#.

Arithmetic Overflow Checking using checked/unchecked

by Andrew Phillips

How to use overflow checking effectively and avoid some pitfalls.

Arithmetics of huge numbers

by Vladimir S.

Tutorial on how to manipulate numbers vastly exceeding the built-in types.

ArrayLists, Generic Lists, Is There A Way To Insert Items Faster?

by Pascal Ganaye

In this article, I try to highlight some issues in the .NET Framework generic list and how to circumvent them

ASC2XXX - Two classes for parsing delimited text files

by Member 96

Convert delimited text files to XML file or DataSet object

ASCX Control Parser

by Ben van Klinken

A program that allows you to convert .ascx User Controls into redistributable controls

ASP .NET Kick Start Chapter 3: Creating Basic Web Form Pages

by Sams Publishing

In this chapter, you learn how to build Web Form Pages.

ASP FileOpen Dialog

by Govardhana Reddy

This article will help in getting the fileopen dialog in an ASP.NET Web Application.

ASP TreeList Control (Requires Internet Explorer 5.0+)

by Nathan Ridley

An ASP class (Classic ASP) that generates a dynamic html tree list control that looks the same as a windows explorer tree but allows multiple columns of data per tree node

ASP.NET - Drag and Drop on a Webpage

by Kenneth Young

Drag and drop contained objects on a webpage.

ASP.NET Web Matrix

by Kundan Narendra

Free Software Tool...go get it

ASP.NET 1.1 Panel Enter Key Handler

by Roger Chapman

How to handle the Enter key when there are multiple forms.

ASP.NET AJAX Extender for multicolumn drag and drop

by Omar Al Zabir

An extender that allows content to be dragged and dropped within columns and across columns. Allows column-wise content flow and reorganization.

ASP.NET Client Side Focus Helper

by McGiv

Helper class that generates and registers a client side script which sets focus to a control during the loading of the page.

ASP.NET Color DropDown Control

by Mike Ellison

An example of persisting and parsing a custom collection in an ASP.NET server control.

ASP.NET Common Web Page Class Library - Part 1

by Eric Woodruff

A set of common, reusable page classes for ASP.NET applications.

ASP.NET Common Web Page Class Library - Part 2

by Eric Woodruff

Detecting changes in data controls in ASP.NET Web Forms.

ASP.NET Common Web Page Class Library - Part 3

by Eric Woodruff

An ASP.NET page class that has the ability to e-mail its rendered content.

ASP.NET Common Web Page Class Library - Part 4

by Eric Woodruff

A utility class containing some useful features for ASP.NET applications.

ASP.NET Content Scroller Control

by Rahul Singla

Scroll any ASP.NET server side or HTML controls vertically or horizontally in any direction

ASP.NET Controls to prevent automatic registrations from bots

by Paul Ingles

A set of controls that when placed on a web form help to prevent abuse of registration pages by forcing users to enter the security code displayed in a picture.

ASP.NET Custom Controls - Client-Side Script Generation

by Steven Betts

Produce controls that encapsulate client-side script that are easily reused and provide dynamic behavior without incurring the overhead of frequent calls to the server.

ASP.NET DataGrid Extension [Client Side Sortable/Dragable....] - Part I

by Muhammad Abubakar Dar

An extension to the ASP.NET DataGrid control with built-in client side sorting, column dragging, fixed header, check all, uncheck all, highlight selected row, and more...

ASP.NET DataGrid Header Slider Control

by Tony Truong

ASP.NET DataGrid Header plug-in that allows the header to stay on screen.

ASP.NET DataGrid UpDown Column

by vasacheh

The ASP.NET DataGrid UpDownColumn represents a DataGrid column up-down control that displays a list's selected values.

ASP.NET Developer's Cookbook Chapter 3: Custom Controls

by Sams Publishing

The most common techniques in building custom controls in ASP.NET.

ASP.NET Dynamic XML Web Menu Control based on JavaScript

by Krishna_accent

ASP.NET dynamic XML web menu control based on JavaScript.

ASP.NET email with multiple attachments

by Luc Archambault

A simple web form that lets the user upload multiple attachments to create and send email.

ASP.NET Expand/Contract DataGrid

by Tony Truong

ASP.NET Expand/Contract DataGrid that allows you to show/hide details without posting back.

ASP.NET Expense reference application

by Infragistics Inc

The Expense reference application demonstrates rich client features in a thin-client application using Infragistics NetAdvantage toolset, web services, client side java scripting, XML data binding and other real world code samples.

ASP.NET Extended DataGrid UI Features

by Kenneth Young

The ASP.NET DataGrid Server Control is a versatile control. The control displays data bound information in a HTML table. There are several key UI features that the DataGrid does not have. For instance, many HTML tables that show data in a list, change the color of the row when the mouse hovers over.

ASP.NET GridView Extension [Client Side Sortable/Dragable....] Part I

by Muhammad Abubakar Dar

Extension to the ASP.NET GridView control, with built-in client side sorting, column dragging, fixed header etc.

ASP.NET Guest Entry Form

by mysorian

Guest Entry form with an XML control.

ASP.NET Guestbook Application

by Uwe Keim

A one-to-one ASP to ASP.NET port of a simple guestbook application using ASP and an Access database

ASP.NET Guestbook using MS Access

by Dilbert2004

Shows an easy way of building a guestbook using ADO.NET and Access

ASP.NET Letter Paging Based on Data Content

by Jeff X. Chang

Paged table data display in DataGrid by selecting letter from a letter list which is derived from existing data.

ASP.NET Optimistic Concurrency Control

by Teo

How to implement the optimistic concurrency control without the DataSet

ASP.NET Page Templates - Using Inheritance

by Peter Provost

A tutorial showing how to create page templates that use object-oriented inheritance.

ASP.NET Runtime Cache - Clone Objects to Preserve Cached Data

by Mark Graham

An article about the importance of object cloning if cached data is to be preserved in the .NET cache

ASP.NET Server Control - Updown Control 1

by Softomatix

A tutorial on imeplementing an ASP.Net custom server control

ASP.NET Server-Side Charting with OWC11

by ravie gopal

ASP.NET Server-Side Charting with OWC11

ASP.Net State Management Techniques

by Member 2356127

ASP.Net State Management Techniques

ASP.NET Table Searching

by Humayun Shabbir

Searching database and showing results in DataGrid control.

ASP.NET To Do List Application

by John Lyon-Smith

A simple application that demonstrates key ASP.NET features.

ASP.NET User Controls - Notify One Control Of Changes In Other Control

by Softomatix

A tutorial on how to use delegate model to notify one ASP.NET user control of changes in the other user control.

ASP.NET Validators Unclouded

by Paul Riley

Demistifying the mysterious ASP.NET validator controls, allowing fast and painless validation of Web Forms.

ASP.NET web client for Google Web API

by milan

Exploring Google Web API

ASP.NET with Managed C++

by TigerNinja_

Use Managed C++ as your code-behind file for ASP.NET web pages

ASP.NET: How to Resolve Client ID

by ozkary

A method to resolve the client IDs of controls in containers.

ASP-DHTML MDI Framework for Site Administration

by Davy Mitchell

An ASP-DHTML MDI framework for site administration.

Aspect Oriented Programming / Aspect Oriented Software Design

by Marc Clifton

Everything you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask about AOP/AOSD

Assembly Attributes

by Ahmed Alhosaini

Programmatically inspecting assembly attributes.

Assembly Explorer 1.0

by Leon Langleyben

Simple utility to browse assembly object hierarchy

Assembly Manipulation and C# / VB.NET Code Injection

by Sebastien Lebreton

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

Assert Enhancements

by Wesner Moise

This article describes an ready-to-use enhanced Assert dialog and its implementation. The dialog offers features such as "Always Ignore" and displays the actual Assert expression that failed.

Assuring Database Portability with ODBC and .NET

by Teo

Managing portability of your source code among different RDBMS, reducing developing time and maintenance.

Asynchronous Communication with .NET WebServices

by Kumar Gaurav Khanna

Explains how to communicate asynchronously with .NET webservices

Asynchronous Socket Communication

by John McTainsh

An article on using sockets to communicate in a non-blocking manner. The sample works through building a simple chat client and server.

Asynchronous Socket Communications Using the .NET Framework

by Scott McCain

An article on asynchronous socket communications using the .NET framework.

ATL Server Tutorial - TipOfTheDay

by Erik Thompson

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

Attributes in C#

by sadaf alvi

In this tutorial we will see how we can create and attach attributes to various program entities, and how we can retrieve attribute information in a run-time environment.

Attributes Inspector

by Hzi

Simple program to inspect custom attributes in assemblies

Audio DSP with C#

by Não Interessa!!!

A .NET class library for audio processing.

Audio Library Part I - (Windows Mixer Control)

by CastorTiu

Library to control Windows Mixer from C#

Aumplib: C# Namespace And Classes For Audio Conversion

by gilad-ap

A namespace of various classes that provide audio conversion capabilities, and can convert between many audio formats, including MP3.

Authentication for Web Services (using SOAP headers)

by Dan_P

Simple authentication for web services using SOAP headers.

Auto generate hyperlinks from a text file

by S.S. Ahmed

Autolink automatically generates a text file containing a list of hyperlinks. You provide a list of htm pages and a list of page names as input.

Auto sizing DataGrid

by Wouter van Vugt

A DataGrid that is able to resize its last column.

Autocaster - Implicit interfaces for .NET

by Rüdiger Klaehn

An implementation of latent typing or implicit interface casting for .NET.

AutoComplete ComboBox in VB.Net

by Daryl

2 Simple Functions to call from ComboBox events to Autocomplete. Will work with Data Bound combos.

Autocomplete combobox using VB.NET

by Kunal Mukherjee

Autocomplete combobox using VB.NET

Autocomplete Textbox Control

by kelly123

A textbox control that will complete what the user types. It allows the user to choose what to remember for autocompletion.

Automated Class Builder for Database Tables

by Nirosh

This will create a set of classes that generate a set of C# class files which map into the database tables. They will have the class name same as the table name and they will have a set of properties that are same as the table attributes.

Automated Data Acquisition Through Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Facilitated Using PowerShell

by jkunken

In this article, we will describe how information generated on data acquisition devices connected to servers running Windows Server 2003 can be efficiently integrated into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 using Windows PowerShell.

Automated PDF Conversion using the PDF995 and FreePDF_XP Freeware Printers

by keenthinker

An object oriented class automating the creation of PDF files from any file using freeware tools.

Automatic Build Versioning in Visual Studio

by Beau Skinner

Automatic build version awareness, incrementing, and archiving.

Automatic Command Line Parsing in C#

by Ray Hayes

A utility class allowing automatic command line switches and parsing.

Automatic sorted list

by Eric Marchesin

Here is an advanced ArrayList which uses IComparable or IComparer interface to sort its objects and which provides some other useful functions such as duplicates limitation.

Automatic Undo/Redo for .NET classes

by Matt Davison

A unique spin on implementing generic Undo/Redo funcionality for .NET classes using method invocation interception...

Automating a specific instance of Visual Studio .NET using C#

by Mohamed Hendawi

Get a list of running Visual Studio instances, and a reference to the automation server.

Automating MS Excel Documents

by Govardhana Reddy

This article will help demonstrate how to automate and get content from an MS Excel document.

Automating MS PowerPoint Presentations

by Govardhana Reddy

This article will demonstrate how to automate and get content from an MS PowerPoint presentation.

Automating Windows Applications

by Igor Ladnik

A Windows application that does not export any program interface, may be converted to automation server with COM object(s) injected into the application process.

Auto-resize list view using a shortcut trick

by Francesco Natali

This is a little trick to auto-resize the columns width of a listview with only one line of code

AutoSig: A browser helper object that automatically adds a different signature when you post a message to a CP forum

by Rama Krishna Vavilala

A browser helper object that automatically adds a different signature when you post a message to a CP forum

Autosize the last column in a ListView control using WndProc

by Chris Beckett

Shows a quick and dirty way to auto-size the last column of a ListView control.

AutoText V2.2: A component for word-complete as the user is typing

by Windmiller

A component that will find similar words in a lexicon as the user is writing on to make it easy to word-complete for the user. For use in Win32 graphical or console applications.

Avoid Max Open Cursor Error In .NET

by Vivek Shaurya

Handling Oracle Max Open cursor error when fetching multiple rows in .NET.

BAC Calc

by Adam McKee

Blood-alcohol level calculator.

Background Highlighting with the RichTextBox the System way.

by LokiSD

Adds support for setting the background color in the RichTextBox more directly than volking's article.

BackgroundWorker Threads and Supporting Cancel

by Andrew D. Weiss

Using a BackgroundWorker Thread to improve responsiveness in your UI, support cancel and display progress.

Backup Utility in C#

by rbala

A utility to backup directories and stick a datestamp on the folder, and remove folders older than N days, where N is configurable.

Balloon Windows for .NET

by Rama Krishna Vavilala

A class that allows for balloon shaped forms in .NET

Bandwidth throttling

by P.J. van de Sande

Save bandwidth and get QoS with bandwidth throttling.

Base class for cloning an object in C#

by Amir Harel

This class implements the ICloneable for you.

Base To Base Converter

by Phil Sykes

The project converts numbers from one base to another - windows forms front end

Basic Content Management System with ASP.NET and MS Access

by aa2max

A very basic web-based content management system using ASP.NET and MS Access

Basic Skin Creator for DotNetNuke

by R2B2

An application to create skins for DotNetNuke portals with a browser preview

Basic stuff on Files, Directories and Streams

by Nish Nishant

Demonstrates the use of the reader/writer classes as well as the file/directory info classes

Basics of Bing Search API using .NET

by Abhishek Sur

This article will enable you to add custom search rules to your application using Bing Search API with much more

Basics of Using a .NET Assembly in MS SQLServer - User Functions

by MrTimmins

Introduction to using CLR .NET assemblies in Microsoft SQL Server.

Batch Converting Linux ASCII Files to Windows

by Seth Webster

This article explains using the Drag and Drop events to filter for files from the system. It also converts line ends from Linux (or other operating systems) to Windows style \n (new line) \r (carriage return) line ends.

Batch Net Send

by Francisco Prata

Send network messages to several recipients

Beginners guide to accessing SQL Server through C#

by Matt Newman

A beginners guide to accessing a SQL or MSDE Server with C#

Beginners Guide to Threading in .NET: Part 5 of n

by Sacha Barber

This article will be all about how to thread different types of UIs.

Beginners Introduction to ASP.NET

by sudhirmangla

An article giving basic introduction to ASP.NET ,Underlying technologies and Advantages of ASP.NET over asp

Beginning C# - Chapter 13: Using Windows Form Controls

by Wrox

An introduction to using Windows Forms in your C# applications.

Behind the scenes of ASPX files

by Natty Gur

Describes what goes with ASPX files and how ASPX files affect the page life cycle.

Benchmarking Direct, Delegate and Reflection Method Invocations

by Marc Clifton

This console mode applet illustrates the significant performance hit of methods invoked using reflection.

Bending .NET PropertyGrid to your will with a Custom Type Editor

by SoTTo

Example of using the propertybag class of Tony Allowatt in vb.net with a custom type editor

Bending the .NET PropertyGrid to Your Will

by Tony Allowatt

A set of classes to simplify using custom properties in the .NET PropertyGrid control.

Best Practice for Binding WinForms ListControls

by Scott McMaster

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

BetterCalendar WebControl

by BrainJar

A replacement for the System.Web.UI.WebControls.Calendar control.

Bidirectional Hashtable

by Todd C. Gleason

Demonstrates an easy-to-use bidirectional Hashtable to facilitate reverse lookups.

Bienz.SysInfo - System Information the .NET way

by Jared Bienz

A library that assists in gathering system information such as disk volumes, labels and even disk icons.

Bienz.UI - Cross-Device User Controls

by Jared Bienz

A .NET library with several controls that work in both Windows and on Pocket PC

Big O Algorithm Analyzer for .NET

by dawright, ProtoBytes

A heurisitc graphing tool to help discover 'Big O Notation' function thru infinite asymptotic's and instrumentation.

Binary streaming of large images from Database

by Tingu Abraham

Explains how to perform drawing on a large image retrieved from the database, and then stream the image with the "Open/Save" option.

Bit wise operations in C#

by Chandra Hundigam Venkat

Using bitwise operators in C#

Blackjack - a real world OOD example

by Dan Fontanesi

Learn OOD in .NET by examining a Blackjack game

Blending of images, raster operations and basic color adjustments with GDI+

by Konstantin Vasserman

An article on blending of images using raster operations as well as simulating blending modes like those found in Photoshop.

Blue Yonder

by Majid bin Ali

This is an implementation of Microsoft Blue Yonder tutorial that comes with Beta 2 SDK.

Bob Custom XML Serializer

by Babak Ansari

A custom XML serializer using .NET.

BoneBoxes .Net Data Access Tools and Data Tier Generator

by BoneHead

BoneBoxes is a data access library that provides you with SQL statements and data validation based on the data set's properties

Book review : “MCSD Certification Toolkit (Exam 70-483): Programming in C#”

by Pragmateek

"MCSD Certification Toolkit (Exam 70-483): Programming in C#” - book review

Bottleneck - a tool for finding code bottlenecks in C#

by Christian Graus

A simple tool that can be used to time how long different parts of your code take to execute, and where bottlenecks occur

Bounded Blocking Queue (One Lock)

by staceyw

A fast and flexible Bounded Blocking Queue. Great for general Producer/Consumer needs such as network queues and pipelines.

Boxing and unboxing in C#

by Arun Ganesh

An introduction to boxing and unboxing using C#

Brainnet - Introducing a declarative neural network library

by Anoop Pillai

This article is expected to (0) Introduce Brainnet, a declarative neural network library we developed (1) Demonstrate some practical uses neural network programming (2) Give you a fair idea regarding neurons, neural networks and their applications (3) Introduce BrainNet library - an open source

Bringing Back FlowLayout to WinForms Controls

by Matt Dockins

This article describes how to create a Panel that allows FlowLayout positioning for WinForms.

Browser Detection using ASP.NET

by Chris Maunder

Using and updating your machine.config file to better detect browser type in ASP.NET

Browsing Via Directories or HTTP, with ASP.NET

by Bobby Ryzhy

An article on browsing via directories or HTTP, with ASP.NET.

Bug in managed c++

by J0ker

Looks like bug in managed c++ with unmanaget template class/struct

Bug Submitter Dialog

by Jeroen De Dauw

Dialog that enables user to submit various types of bugs via a webservice

Build .NET Applications Without Hand-coding

by Miles Gibson

Iron Speed Designer builds database, forms, and reporting applications for .NET – without hand-coding. Quickly create feature-complete custom applications that integrate Web pages, controls, data access, validation and security. Accelerate development and eliminate infrastructure programming.

Build Number Automation for Visual Studio .NET Projects

by User 159454

A Visual Studio .NET macro to automatically update the build number written in AssemblyInfo.cs.

Build solution from command line or with contexmenu item with Microsoft VS.NET

by Chris Richner

Shows how to build solution files from command line or via contextmenu item.

Build Stack Array for Formatting or Searching Data

by Dave Brighton

This article builds stacks to filter or format data.

Building a Graph control in 7 easy steps.

by Harshawardhan Desai

This article shows you how to build a simple user control by creating a graph control in 7 easy steps.

Building a Distributed Object System with .NET and J2EE Using IIOP.NET

by Patrik Reali

This article demonstrates the use of IIOP.NET

Building a Middle Tier Component using NHibernate and Spring.NET

by Moim Hossain

Building a highly pluggable middle-tier component with NHibernate and Spring.Net.

Building a puzzle game using Generics

by Carlos R. Lacerda

This article describes how to build a simple game using a doubly linked list

Building a Refactoring Plugin for VS.NET

by Stephan Meyn

This article describes how to develop a refactoring addin for Visual Studio.NET

Building a Refactoring Plug-in for VS.NET - the Sequel

by Stephan Meyn

Describes how to extend the original refactor add-in with additional features.

Building a web based RSS Feed Viewer using System.XML

by CARPETBURNER

This article illustrates building a class to parse RSS Feeds and return the details in a form that they can be eaisly manipulated and displayed.

Building an ASP.NET custom web control: a textbox and validator in one

by Wim Hollebrandse

In this article we will have a look at implementing a custom web control. This web control will inherit from the TextBox web control, and will automatically add a required field validator at run-time.

Building applications with Mono

by victor vatamanescu

Developing .NET cross platform applications using mono and IBM DB2

Building COM Objects in C#

by Mubbasher Adeel

Building COM Objects in C#.

Building Map Enabled Applications in .NET with Map Suite

by Donald King

.NET Development Component for adding maps to your Windows desktop or ASP.NET web applications.

Building professional .NET applications using asynchronous message communication based on MCM-Framework.Net

by Pawel idzikowski

How to effectively build modular .NET applications of any size using messages, commands and components of MCM-Framework.Net?

Building Reusable Components in .NET

by SriSamp

This article explains how to build reusble components in .NET so that they can be used in container applications like Visual Studio .NET for RAD.

Building robust middle tier

by rafael_p

One of the many solutions to build a quick and robust middle tier.

Building Security Awareness in .NET Assemblies : Part 1 - Learn to break a .NET Assembly

by Chua Wen Ching

Building Security Awareness in .NET Assemblies : Part 1 of 3

Building Security Awareness in .NET Assemblies : Part 2 - Learn to protect your .NET assemblies from being tampered

by Chua Wen Ching

Building Security Awareness in .NET Assemblies : Part 2 of 3

Building web services with persistent state

by Alexandru Ghiondea

Describes a way of creating a web service that persists its state between sequent calls.

Business Façade Logic in distributed n-tier applications

by Tingu Abraham

Explains how to implement a Business Façade logic layer between the Presentation logic and the Business logic in an n-tier application

Buttons and Floating containers supporting user defined themes

by cnurse

Provides an XP look and feel over which you have ultimate control

Bypass Graphics.MeasureString limitations

by Pierre Arnaud

This sample code computes the width of the string, as drawn by Graphics.DrawString

C Sharp Ripper

by Idael Cardoso

C# code to handle CDROM drives and read CD tracks

C# and the .NET Platform - Chapter 6

by Stephanie Rodriguez

Assemblies, Threads, and AppDomains

C# Asteroids without DirectX

by Profox Jase

An implementation of the classic asteroids game using 2D Drawing classes

C# Barcode Generator WebService

by Rui Miguel Barbosa

Create a code39 barcode using a webservice in C#

C# BigInteger Class

by Chew Keong TAN

Implementation of a BigInteger Class in C#

C# Code profiling

by Vincent DUVERNET (Nolmë Informatique)

Optimize your code

C# CodeDOM parser

by Ivan Zderadièka

This is a utility which parses C# source code and creates the CODEDOM tree of the code.

C# Coding Standards and Best Programming Practices

by T Manjaly

Anybody can write code! With a few months of programming experience, you can write "working applications." Making it work is easy, but doing it the most efficient way requires more work than just making it work!

C# Compiler

by Konrad Rotuski

A simple C# [VB.NET] compiler without using csc.exe

C# Creating Dynamic Menus

by Barretto VN

Creating Menus Dymanically in C#.

C# Data Class

by SimonS

A generalised method for calling parameterized stored procedures

C# DateTime Library

by Michael Ceranski

Common DateTime routines for C#.

C# Documenting and Commenting

by Patrick Long

Use C# Comment tags to produce great documentation and code

C# does Shell, Part 1

by Arik Poznanski

This article introduces shell programming using C#. It includes developing several utility classes for working with the shell and a class that wraps the extensible Browse for Folder dialog.

C# does Shell, Part 2

by Arik Poznanski

This article continues shell programming using C#. It includes Launching applications, doing Shell file operations (Copy, Move, Delete) with the proper shell response, adding files to Recent Documents list and doing some printer operations.

C# does Shell, Part 3

by Arik Poznanski

This article is about Application Desktop Toolbars, which are applications that can align to the screen much like the taskbar. The article will develop a base class for developing such apps.

C# does Shell, Part 4

by Arik Poznanski

This article is about the AutoComplete features enabled by windows and how to use them with C#. AutoComplete is the ability to expand strings written in an edit box. The article will develop a class for using this functionality in you applications.

C# Events: Create class events and use that class

by popnadrian

Educational article about C# events

C# Form Location Manager

by Tupps

An article containing details of a class that handles form locations without adding code to each form

C# grid control

by linjie

A C# grid control.

C# Header control

by Sergei_VP

.NET wrapper of the system Header control.

C# List View v1.3

by Allen Anderson

A fully featured completely managed C# ListView.

C# managed DirectX HexEngine - Part I

by Ben Kloosterman

A simple Hex engine using DirectX

C# MaskedEdit Control

by Oscar Bowyer

C# MaskedEdit Control similiar to the MS Access masked edit control

C# MIDI Toolkit

by Leslie Sanford

A toolkit for creating MIDI applications with C#.

C# MP3 Compressor

by Idael Cardoso

A C# MP3 compressor using "lame_enc.dll" from the LAME project.

C# RangeBar control

by Detlef Neunherz

A control that combines two scrollbars for choosing two related values

C# Rect Tracker

by nashcontrol

C# Rect Tracker (like CRectTracker on C++).

C# Relational Database

by Dave Brighton

This article describes how to write a relational database using C#.

C# Scheduler

by Anthony Roach

This article demonstrates writing a service in C# and the setup options .NET provides.

C# Script Engine tutorial

by zhangzq71

Introduces how to use Microsoft.vsa to make your programs have script functions

C# Sockets and Serialization

by Fadhel Al-Hashim

A simple game that runs based on client server programming.

C# Star Rating Control

by Andrey Butov

A C# star rating control.

C# TreeView with multiple selection

by Stephane Rodriguez.

Enable multiple selection in .NET treeview controls

C# Validating TextBox Control

by Martin Haesemeyer

A TextBox Control with Input Validation written in C#

C# WebCam Service with FTP and Installer

by Dan Glass

C# WebCam Windows Service with FTP upload, Windows Service Installer, and file rotation.

C# WEPkey generator

by Mark Peters 21575

A Wepkey generator for protecting your wireless LAN.

C# Windows Forms ImageMap Control

by Ryan LaNeve

An ImageMap control for use in Windows Forms applications

C# Windows Media Format SDK Translation

by Idael Cardoso

In this article, I describe a translation of most of the WMF SDK interfaces, data structures, constants, and functions into C#.

C# Wrapper to the FreeImage DLL for graphical image format conversion

by David Boland

This article provides a simplified C# wrapper to the FreeImage project for graphical file format conversion.

C# XML Directory Lister

by Greg Hack

Generates a directory list as XML

C#/.NET Command Line Arguments Parser

by GriffonRL

Class to parse command line arguments and store/retrieve them.

C#/XML Based State Engine

by Russ Quinn

How to create an XML based state engine for controlling a simple real-time system

C#: A-Star is born

by Eric Marchesin

Understand graphs and A* path-finding algorithm with C#

C++ Wrappers for the Expat XML Parser

by Tim Smith

The included class definitions provide complete and easy to use C++ wrappers for the Expat C API

Cache, Session, and ViewState

by Rajib Ahmed

Properly using cache, session, and viewstate objects in your asp.net application

Caching in ASP.NET

by Joydeep Ghosh

Demonstrates data caching in ASP.NET

Caching in ASP.NET

by Smitha Nishant

An overview of caching in ASP.NET.

Caching in ASP.NET

by Akash Thakural

Page caching in ASP.NET. We can increase performance of the web page using caching, and also reduce server request traffic.The way to improve the throughput is to use caching in web pages.

Calculate system idle time without hooks

by Qaiser_Iftikhar

An article to demonstrate how to calculate system idle time without installing any system wide keybaord/mouse hooks.

Calculating Christian Holidays

by Jan Schreuder

Calculate dates for christian holidays such as Easter, Ascension day etc.

Calculator with Proportionaly Resizable Controls. Using Hashtable() to store default locations of controls.

by diSant

This article shows you how to use Hashtable() to store data, foreach() to cycle through collections of elements, and some other functions that you can usually see in most of the applications.

Calling API functions using C#

by Ajit Mungale

This article helps you to get an idea about calling API functions in C#.

Calling C# assembly functions having same name differing only by case, in VB.NET

by r@hu!

Calling C# assembly functions having same name differing only by case, in VB.NET.

Calling Managed .NET Function from Unmanaged Windows Custom DLL.

by hasansheik

It will help you to call a managed function from unmanaged DLL function.

Calling methods from Dll compiled in 'C' from C#

by Thor's Kettle

Describes how to interface 'C' code with C# through Dlls compiled in 'C'

Camera Vision - video surveillance on C#

by Andrew Kirillov

A C# video surveillance application, which allows monitoring several IP cameras simultaneously.

Cancellable Thread Pool

by Al Gardner

A replacement ThreadPool with Abort and Resume functionality.

Canvas implementation for C#

by Eduard Baranovsky

Design and implementation of canvas in C#

CAPTCHA Image

by BrainJar

Using CAPTCHA images to prevent automated form submission

Capture Sample with DirectX and .NET

by Blas5

A solution to capture video and frames simultaneously

Capturing the Running IE Instances in C#

by Manisha Mehta

How to find the running instances of Internet Explorer on your machine.

Capturing the Screen Image in C#

by Agha Ali Raza

An article on capturing the Screen using Win32 APIs in C#

Cascade XSL

by Kastellanos Nikos

An engine that transforms XML files on a web server.

Cassini and Apache 101

by Per S

This article describes how to get ASP.NET up and running on Apache 2.x for Windows

CAutoMate: a tiny utility class to run a mate function automatically in code block

by JaeWook Choi

An article on a tiny utility class to run a mate function (Win32 API and CRT functions) automatically in code block.

CBarChart

by Hamed Musavi

CBarChart is a simple MFC control derived from CWnd. It can load data from a table or a stored procedure using ODBC.

CCryptoTokenizer

by raymond.fung, Norman Fung

CCryptoTokenizer

Centralize Show Form Validation Logic

by Jason Apergis

This article will show how to centralize your logic when opening a Windows Form.

Chaining channels in .NET Remoting

by Roman Kiss

This article describes how to design and implement remoting over chained channels (standard and custom) using the logical url address connectivity.

Change Crystal Report Connection at Runtime in Visual studio 2005

by Imran A Momin

This project help you to change ur database at the runtime

Change Over All Georgian(Miladi) Dates that Exist in Dataset to Shamsi Date

by SirAsad

This Control can change the Georgian dates in Dataset to Shamsi date (For Report)

Change Video Signal Format with DirectX library

by hpAng

An enhancement for the DirectX video stream and frame capture sample.

Changing a column in multiple DataGrid rows using checkboxes

by Mesrop Simonian

This article demonstrates how to apply a dropdownlist value to multiple rows in a DataGrid.

Changing the background color of cells in a DataGrid

by Mazdak

How to change the background color of cells in a DataGrid depending on their value

Changing the default limit of 25 threads of ThreadPool class

by Yash malge

Changing the default limit of 25 threads of ThreadPool class

Changing the Visual Studio .NET Add-in Default Tool Menu Item Icon

by Nathan Blomquist

This article discusses how to change the icon that is placed on the tools menu by the Visual Studio .NET Add-in Wizard

Changing ToolTip's Fore color and Back color using Windows API classes

by Amol Jaysingpure

Changing ToolTip's Fore color and Back color using Windows API classes

Chapter 7 - Programming with XML

by Erik Westermann

Sample chapter from Learn XML In A Weekend by Erik Westermann

ChartControl

by Amit Goel

In This User Control 10 Types Of Charts are Created Dynamically Depending upon type of Chart Selected by User That Chart is Displayed .It also Changes BackColor and ForeColor of Chart

Cheat Sheet - Casting in VB.NET and C#

by Rudi Breedenraedt

Describes several casting and type related operations in VB.NET and C#.

Check Help Links Tool

by Nicholas Butler

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

Check If A String Value Is Numeric

by Leon Kovach

A way to determine if a string value has a specific Style Number And/OR Culture

Check if an XmlNode is a child node in an XML DOM tree

by G. Kiran

A recursive procedure to check if an XML node is a child node of another XML node in an XML DOM tree.

Check User’s Permissions On A File or Folder

by Softomatix

A component to check if given user has a particular access rights on a file/folder or not.

Checkable Detail List View

by Tomislav Petrovic [per0]

ListView which supports checkable subitems and returns the clicked subitem

Checking for an existing instance of a Windows application, and setting the MDI parent form of an MDI child

by Rehan Ahmad Abbasi

How to check for an existing instance of a Windows application, and how to set the MDI parent form of an MDI child, how to list all MDI children, etc., in a C# Windows application.

Christian and James' Code Project Screensaver

by Christian Graus, James T. Johnson

Our attempt at a screen saver with a Code Project theme, written in C#

CHTMLLogFile class in C#

by DUMITRU Guraliuc

The CHTMLLogFile class presented in this article implements an HTML format for a log file with some (useful) features.

Circuit Engine

by Emre Guldogan

A System for Simulation and Analysis of Logic Circuits

Circular Buffer

by Robert Hinrichs

C# implementation of a Circular Buffer

Cisco configuration download and upload - Part II

by firat kocak

The second section of cisco configuration download and upload. In this section, the win SNMP api is explained a litle bit.

Classic Encryption

by immaad

This code implements classic encryption technique in an easy and reusable way.

CleanUp Files using C Sharp

by Shankara Narayanan

Describes the File Access, Persistance with C Sharp

Cliche RollOvers - Revisted

by Jason McBurney

Want to use a simple image rollover control?

Clickable Splitter

by Carel

A custom control in C# based on the standard splitter showing embedded resources.

Client Application Services Walkthrough

by swellbow

A walkthrough to set up client application services for user logon in a Windows application using ASP.NET membership providers

Client Callbacks in ASP.NET 2.0

by Karl Seguin

Using Client Callbacks in ASP.NET 2.0

Client side script helper

by Visionsoft

Class helps to write client side scripting inside .NET code.

Client-Side Caching for .NET Applications

by Chris Wuestefeld

Uses a cache on the client side of a distributed .NET application to improve performance.

Clipboard handling with .NET

by Nish Nishant

An introduction to using the clipboard

Clipboard handling with .NET - Part II

by James T. Johnson

Builds on part 1, showing how to use custom/multiple formats

CLRDebugEnable: A Visual Studio .NET add-in that allows non-admin accounts to debug CLR applications running under different logon credentials

by Rama Krishna Vavilala

A Visual Studio .NET addin that allows non-admin accounts to debug CLR applications running under different logon credentials.

CM_ConfigBuilder 1.2g: Visual Studio 6/Visual Studio 2005/Visual Studio 2008 Code Generator for Application Settings Graphic Management

by Stefano Basili

CM_ConfigBuilder generates and compiles the required files to manage your application's settings/preferences and to store/retrieve them in XML format.

CObjBroker - Limited Resource Broker class

by Cho, Kyung-min

If you are working with limited resources in a multithreaded scenario, ObjBroker will help you...

Code Access Security from the perspective of the Developer and Administrator

by benjaminwootton

Looking at Code Access Security From the Perspective of the Developer and Administrator

Code Editor (Part 1)

by Jason Barrera

Create a Code/Text editor. Line numbering with or without wordwrap enabled.

Code generation at runtime

by Software Developer's Journal

The .NET platform contains no extensions which would allow for the use of advanced aspect oriented programming. But it does contain mechanisms which makes it possible to build components which provide similar functionality. We will find out how to achieve this in this article.

Code Generation tools complementing generics

by cminusminus

A palette of code generation tools for VS.NET.

Code Project Article Writer Helper

by Jason Henderson

Some HTML and JavaScript that helps you write and preview CP articles.

Code Review Checklist

by Ebenezar John Paul

An Ideal Code Review Checklist that applies for most programming languages

Code Store - A VS.NET Add-in

by Derek Lakin

A Visual Studio .NET add-in to provide instant integrated access to an online repository of .NET components.

Code Template Add-In for Visual Studio .NET

by Eddie Velasquez

A Visual Studio .NET addin that provides a mechanism for inserting commonly used code snippets.

Code usability

by oferudi

Macro to add description to any function written by developers.

CodeProject Quoter

by Kant

Simple tool for storing and retrieving the quotes and using them in the signatures.

Coding an N-Tier Application in C# without any Wizard - Part I

by Vimalsoft(Pty) Ltd

Beginner to intermediate in N-Tier

Coding Blog Engine with MetaWeblog API Support and Using it with Windows Live Writer

by George Trifonov

Describes the MetaWeblog API interface and how to create your own blog engine with MetaWeblog API support.

Coding in Tiers - Part I

by Salil Pitkar

Automate UI Form population

Coding in Tiers - Part II

by Salil Pitkar

Reuse code in Windows and Web forms

CollapseAll Macro for Visual Studio .NET

by Edwin Evans

A simple macro to collapse all the project nodes in the Solution Explorer

Collapsible Panel

by Sufian Mehmood Sheikh

A collapsible panel user control.

Collapsible Splitter control in C#

by Furty

A Mozilla-style collapsing splitter control in C#

Collecting Remote System Information With WMI

by Crazyloon (N. Smith)

An article explaining how to connect and collect information from a remote computer using the WMI interface.

Collision - A C# Game, Part 1: Parallax Scrolling

by Christian Graus

In which I attempt to write a simple game in C#

Collision - A C# Game, Part 2: Tracking Game Elements and Adding Interaction

by Christian Graus

Continuing my attempt at a simple game in C#

Collision - A C# Game, Part 3: Pixel Perfect Collision Detection

by Christian Graus

Finishing my attempt at a simple game in C#

Color ProgressBar

by Alan Zhao

An attractive and fancier ProgressBar.

ColorComboBox

by pseudonym67

Selecting colors with a combo box.

Coloring items in a ListBox

by Richard Parsons

This article describes the "bug/feature" in the ASP.NET ListBox.

Coloring Tab Control

by sreejith ss nair

Coloring Tab Control

COM and component creation in C#

by Arun Ganesh

A discussion on COM component creation in C#

COM port made simple with VB.NET

by WillemM

Using the com port in windows, using any .NET Language

COM+ and .NET - A practical approach - Part 1

by Natty Gur

A look at COM+ and .NET

COM+ and .NET - A practical approach - Part 2

by Natty Gur

A look at COM+ and .NET

COM+ and .NET - A practical approach - Part 3

by Natty Gur

A look at COM+ and .NET

COM+ Subscription Viewer

by Roman Kiss

This sample shows how to retrieve a subscriptions registered in the Event System store using C#.

Combinatorial algorithms in C#

by gybrush

Some basic combinatorial algoritms for use in the NET framework

Combine RegularExpression Validation Control with RequiredField Validation Control

by Gaurang Desai

RequiredField and Regular Expression validation together... you can use this control in place of group required field and regular expression validation controls.

ComboBox WebControl

by khoi pham

IE ComboBox WebControl

Command Line Windows Services Manager

by Haidong Chen

How to manipulate Windows services on local or remote computers.

Command Line Written in C#

by Roman Kuzmin

The article is about how to use command lines written in C#.

Command Prompt Explorer Bar

by Pavel Zolnikov

This tool extends explorer with functionality of a command prompt. Implemented as a band object completely in C#. Demonstrates COM Interop and P/Invoke, windows hooking and API interception. Finally you can run all these .Net SDK tools and ‘Hello World!’ programs without leaving explorer shell.

Commenter - A CodeRush Plugin which Helps you to Comment your Code

by DeltaEngine

Writing a CodeRush plugin commenter will help you to comment your code and make it easier to navigate through your code.

Comparing Values for Equality in .NET: Identity and Equivalence

by richnewman

An article clarifying the various ways of comparing two values for equality in .NET

CompilationCleaner: Efficient File Searching With a CLR Interface

by Jeff J

Developer utility to clean up multiple compilations.

Complex Data Binding a Collection Implementing IBindingList and ITypedList

by Dan Glass

Complex Data Binding a collection implementing IBindingList and ITypedList

Component-Based Development with Visual C#

by Wiley Technology Publishing

Chapter 8: Creating Front Ends with the WebBrowser Component

ComponentOne DataObjects for .NET

by John Juback

ComponentOne DataObjects for .NET (C1DataObjects) is based on Microsoft ADO.NET technology and enhances it in many significant ways to streamline database application development.

Computer Conversions (Hexadecimal, Decimal, Octal and Binary)

by Scott Klawitter

An article to demonstrate how to convert from one base 2, 8, 10 or 16 to another of base 2, 8, 10, 16

Conditional Formatting ASP.NET DataGrid Columns

by Softomatix

How to format ASP.NET datagrid columns by handling ItemDataBound event at run time.

Configurable WebService Servers

by DudleyDoorite

Change WebService server locations at runtime.

Configuring Exceptions Using Web.config

by M. Furqan Hameedi

An article on handling exceptions using custom handlers, by a custom configuration section, making it independent from using the application.

Connect the Excel Database from C# .Net

by Senthil Rajan

It Explains how to make a connection to the Excel and how to get the data using C# .Net

Connect to a web service through a Proxy Server

by Bruno Capuano

Connect to a web service through a Proxy Server

Connecting to MSN messenger with the MSNP9 protocol

by Paul Wijntjes (dominion99)

This article explains how you can connect to MSN using the MSNP9 protocol. It also refers to another article I wrote.

Considerations for implementing trace facilities in release builds of .NET applications

by Vagif Abilov

What is the best technique to produce trace output in release build of .NET application, i.e. when application is shipped to a customer or runs in a production environment? The article discusses pros and cons of standard .NET trace facilities, and presents some alternatives.

Console App for deleting files in a specified directory based on user inputted timestamp

by Arunkumar Viswanathan

Very useful in running as a scheduled task to delete unwanted files accumulating in a directory

Console Enhancements

by Wesner Moise

This article enhances console support in .NET such as clearing, colored text, and more; enables console support in Windows apps as well as DOS apps; and also eases testing and debugging of .NET applications.

Console FTP in C#

by Hasani

A basic FTP client in C#.

Console User Information Creater

by sdk_codemaker_2005

Creates User Information from Input into a Text File - C#

Constructing a Simple LINQ Database Application

by Matthew Hazlett

More about the technology, but the demo app is ASP.NET

Constructors, Destructors and MSIL

by Filip Bulovic

Using ILDASM to view custom destructors in C#

Consuming .NET My Services from Managed C++

by Diana Mitran (MSFT)

This white paper guides you through the process of writing a client application that will consume a sample .NET My Services service

Consuming SOAP web services - Amazon, Google et al.

by benjaminwootton

This article describes how to build and use static proxy classes to access a web service

Consuming Web Services from a Win Forms Application

by Jason Henderson

How to access and use a web service from a C# application, using the CodeProject Web Services.

ContainerListView and TreeListView: Writing VS.NET design-surface compatible controls

by Jon Rista

Learn how to properly integrate your custom .NET control into the Visual Studio .NET design environment with TypeConverters and UITypeEditors. The article includes two useful controls, a container ListView, and a complete, feature-loaded TreeListView.

Context Help authoring anywhere/anytime/anyone for .NET application

by ZhaoRuFei

Write context Help anywhere/anytime/anyone for .NET application

Context Menu for ListView Column Manipulation

by Larry1024

This article implements a simple context menu for the column headers in a ListView control. After clicking on a column, the user can set the column alignment, edit its name, delete the selected column or add a new column to the ListView control. ListView's built-in column reorder option is explained

Control in Focus in Other Processes

by Andrec

Retrieve the hWnd of focused controls in other applications.

ControlInspector - monitor Windows Forms events as they are fired (like Spy++ for .net)

by Jabes

ControlInspector hooks on to all events on a given control, user-control or form and shows when they are fired, along with any eventargs. It even handles custom events and custom event args using dynamically generated assemblies.

Controlling object life time and garbage collection in .NET

by Sriram Chitturi

This article discusses scenarios where we have to take care of an object's life time and cannot rely on JIT's marking of objects for garbage collection.

Conversion of Decimal to any Base (Binary, Octal or Hexa) and vice-versa (C#)

by Balamurali Balaji

Generic functions written in C# to convert a binary,octal or a hexa-decimal to a decimal number and vice-versa.

Conversion operators

by ali_reza_zareian

A conversion operator converts an object of your class into another type

Convert a Delegate to a Function pointer to Implement Callback function

by kero

Convert a delegate to a function pointer to implement callback function, for mixed Managed C++ and unmanaged C++ coding, and for DLL call.

Convert a normal e-mail to an embedded resource e-mail

by Fabricio Miranda

This article describes, and provides a short (not optimized) function that will convert a normal HTML input to an e-mail with embedded resources.

Convert a Text File to a PDF File

by Florence FZ Li

This article shows how to convert a text file to PDF.

Convert any URL to a MHTML archive using native .NET code

by wumpus1

A native .NET class for saving URLs: text-only, HTML page, HTML archive, or HTML complete.

Convert ASP.NET DataTable to JSON, to use a DataTable in JavaScript

by blue_arc

This class will help developers to convert their data table into a ready to use JSON string on the client end JavaScript.

Convert DateTime To .NET Ticks Using T-SQL

by Eron Wright

Convert a datetime value to .NET-compatible Ticks using a T-SQL User-Defined Function. Useful for interoperation between .NET and unmanaged environments such as ASP and VB6

Convert Enums to DataTables

by ferran9

An article on converting Enums to DataTables

Convert Excel to XML file/XML Schema, and validate Excel against XML Schema

by Gaurang Desai

Provides a utility and code library to convert an Excel file to XML file as well as generate XML Schema. It validates an Excel file against XML Schema.

Convert INI file to XML

by Loki

You probably need to convert your old INI files into XML. Read on for a solution.

Convert Number to Word

by Patel Pranav

Convert any decimal number to word using vb.net

Convert RSSBandit XML files to OPML format

by Matthew Hazlett

Convert your RSS Feeds to OPML.

Convert VB6 forms to C#

by JarekNET

Convert VB6 forms to C#

Converting , extracting preview image in asp.net via ffmpeg

by sadegh hsn

how to use ffmpeg

Converting Database records to Excel file(Very simple code)

by Raja Chandrasekaran

This is project is to know about how to convert the retrieved data from database to Excel file thro' c# code

Converting Hexadecimal String to/from Byte Array in C#

by neilck

Provides and demonstrates a hexadecimal string encoding/decoding class

Converting JScript.NET to C#.

by essence

Want to make it easy to make the jump to C#? Here's the answer.

Cookieless ASP.NET forms authentication

by brutal

They say it is not possible to use cookieless forms authentication in .NET. Well it is, and relatively easy to accomplish!

Cool Angle Select Control (Photoshop style)

by Roey C

A cool control to select angles.

Cool Scrollbar - Scrollbar like Windows Media Player's

by superliu

A cool scrollbar control.

Copy as HTML to clipboard from Internet Explorer

by Bee Master

A simple workaround to copy HTML source of selected text to clipboard from context-menu in Internet Explorer.

Copy from FTP server to local Server through VB.Net

by Nakul Lande

This code helps you to explain how to copy/downloads files from FTP server to local server

Copying graphics with BitBlt (.NET Style)

by Matthew Hazlett

When Graphics.Clone() just won't do.

Core Custom Scrollbar Class

by M@dHatter

This is a fully drawn GDI+ custom scrollbar control class. All of its drawing methods are overrideable, allowing developers to paint it however they choose.

Correct theme support for the .NET CheckBox control

by Boris Byk

An article on adding correct theme support to the .NET CheckBox control without taking over the drawing of the control, in C#.

Count pages in MS Word Document

by Shelly Jain

A simple way of using C# to access a Word document's properties

Count with Letters

by zeltera

A way to use letters instead of numbers to count

Counting Lines of Code in C#

by Seato

An article on recursively counting lines of code in files from a given directory.

Counting Semaphore (Dijkstra) in C#

by staceyw

C# implementation of a Dijkstra counting Semaphore.

CountryListBox ASP.NET Web Control, lists countries and automatically detects country of visitors.

by Paul Ingles

A DropDownList derived control that lists all countries and performs an IP Address database lookup, to determine the country of visitors automatically.

CP+ Visual Studio.NET Add-In

by Paul Watson

An app which retrieves the latest Articles and Lounge Posts from CP and displays them to you within your VS.NET IDE

CPBar for latest article briefs (RSS feed)

by Weiye Chen

This article is about creating a vertical explorer bar which displays CodeProject's latest article briefs from its RSS feed.

CRC Encoding

by Marcel de Wijs

An article on using CRCxxx checksum calculations in C#, combined with the serialstreamreader example found on this site.

CrcStream stream checksum calculator

by Rei Miyasaka

Make better use of time by calculating CRCs on-the-fly.

Create a Breadcrumb Menu in VB.NET WinForms

by chrishuff

Provide a dynamic menu for drilling through data, or using the new Vista style of breadcrumbing for menu control.

Create a Business Logic Layer, Data Access Layer classes, and Stored Procedure scripts from a database table

by Syeda Anila Nusrat

Create a Business Logic Layer, Data Access Layer classes, and Stored Procedure scripts from a database table.

Create a Fractal Christmas Tree

by Marc Clifton

This program explores how trees are made using a simple fractal algorithm.

Create a jQuery Context Menu for Treeview

by Ronald G. Carrigan

jQuery Context Menu for Treeview

Create a Remote Process using WMI in C#

by Moorthi N

Create a remote process using WMI in C#

Create A Web Service Method to Get NT Service Information

by aleksisa

An article on creating a Web service method to get NT service information

Create ActiveX in .NET Step by Step

by Michał Kosmala

Article describes how to create ActiveX in .NET and how to use it on an HTML page step by step.

Create an Automation Add-In for Excel using .NET

by Govert van Drimmelen

Describes how to create an automation add-in for Excel using .NET.

Create and manipulate PDF documents - 100% .NET

by Frank Rem

TallPDF.NET and PDFKit.NET are 100% .NET components written entirely in C# for creating, manipulating and reading PDF documents and PDF forms.The focus is to ease the task of integrating our component in a larger application.

Create animation in dotNet with alpha-blending PNG images by calling API

by nguyenthanhtungtinbk

This article shows you the advantage of PNG images with alpha-blending feature in creating animation and demonstates how to use PNG images in Framework.NET application by calling API

Create Desktop Widget Using Embedded IE Browser

by Yiyi Sun

Desktop Widgets are small applications that provide frequently used functions such as an alarm clock, a text box linked to Google etc. They can also decorate the desktop. This article will describe a way to create desktop widgets on PCs using embedded IE browser.

Create Dynamic Header, Footer, Side Menu

by codeajay

Creating dynamic header, footer, side menu for ASP.NET pages.

Create Icons for Folders in Windows Explorer, Using C#

by InteractiveLogic

This article describes how to assign an icon to a folder in Windows Explorer, using C#.

Create multilingual web pages very easily

by Stephan Pilz

Create multilingual web pages very easily, without using localization and resources.

Create Transparent Windows using C#

by M.A.K.Jeelani

This article demonstrates various new UI features such as Transparent Windows, Control Anchoring and Control Docking.

Create Typed Session State in ASP.NET

by Scott Juranek

Wrap the Session object in ASP.NET to prevent programming errors and keep code clean

Create WAP Push SMS Messages

by Adam Bird

How to generate a WAP Push SMS message for sending content to mobile phones.

Create your own Web Server using C#

by Imtiaz Alam

A step by step introduction to writing a Web Server using C#.

Creating a C# Service Step-by-Step Lesson II

by Terry Denham

A multi-article contribution describing in step-by-step detail on creating your own service with integrated support for setup and custom event logs. This lesson we'll add multiple child services as well as updating the installer to install these services as well.

Creating a C# Service Step-by-Step: Lesson I

by Terry Denham

A multi-article contribution describing in step-by-step detail on creating your own service with integrated support for setup and custom event logs.

Creating a control with the .NET SDK using C#

by NormDroid

A quickstart guide to creating your first control in C#

Creating a custom wizard to generate managed C++.NET applications with a default form

by zebbedi

Creating a custom wizard to generate managed C++.NET applications with a default form

Creating a dynamic browsable interface for your photos and movies

by Perumaal.Shanmugam

This allows you to copy some files of interest to a folder (local/network) and let ASP.NET write the UI (run time dynamically) to maintain a browsable interface.

Creating a Flexible Dynamic Plugin Architecture under .NET

by Paul Hounshell

This article demonstrates how to create a simple class which can be extended to assist with plugin creation and management.

Creating a global Whois class

by yetanotherchris

Lookup a domain name for any tld (top level domain)

Creating a host application for the .NET Common Language Runtime.

by Ranjeet Chakraborty

This article explains how easy it is to write custom host applications for the .NET Common Language Runtime to run managed code.

Creating a Mechanical Trading System Part 2: Four Percent Trading System

by Alejandro Simon

An article describing how to implement and test a mechanical trading system such as Ned Davis 4 percent model using a C# simulator.

Creating a Multi-Page Windows Forms Control with Design Time Support

by Kirill Osipov

A step-by-step guide to creating a control and adding design time support to it

Creating a non rectangular form using GDI+

by MinaFawzi

This article descibes ways to creating a non rectangular form using GDI+.

Creating a Secure, Efficient Backup Client

by Steven Campbell

Describes some underlying concepts and techniques that are helpful when needing to copy data securely and efficiently.

Creating a shell extension with C#

by Richard Birkby

Demonstrates building a Windows Explorer shell extension using C# and COM Interop.

Creating a watermark ("") textbox control

by PuReBRaiNZ

This article describes the implementation of a watermark textbox control.

Creating a Watermarked Photograph with GDI+ for .NET

by Joel Neubeck

This article describes the process of overlaying a Watermark image on top of a photograph using GDI+ and C# for .NET.

Creating advanced C# custom events

by Erdogan Gulsoy

Hooking up C# objects with delegate events.

Creating an Extensible User Interface with .NET, Part 1

by Keith Jacquemin

An architecture for extending the User Interface of a program via plug-in components.

Creating an Extensible User Interface with .NET, Part 2

by Keith Jacquemin

Accessing application level user interface elements from plug-in components.

Creating an HTML Text Area Server Side Control

by Sameers Javed

Using VB.NET and Java Script to Create ASP.NET Rich Edit Server Side Control.

Creating an Internet Explorer Favorites Control

by Jeff Bramwell

How to create an Internet Explorer favorites control.

Creating and Calling C Function DLL from .NET

by harunmip

Explain how to call C function DLL from .NET

Creating and Deleting Custom Menus in Visio using C#

by Shashidhar Rao Nellutla

Creating the Visio custom menus and handling the click event from C# programs.This project requires that Visio application should run and it requires a default drawing to be open.

Creating and Deploying Reporting Services using Custom Assembly

by alifaraze

Custom assembly and reporting services

Creating and Using Attributes in your .NET application

by James T. Johnson

Shows how to use existing attributes and how to create and use your own attributes

Creating Bitmap Regions for Forms and Buttons

by Weiye Chen

This article describes on how to create bitmap regions for WinForms and buttons.

Creating Collection-Based Controls with Rich Design-Time Support

by Tim Dawson

An article on writing advanced collection-based Windows Forms Controls and the best way to give them advanced design-time support. Includes full C# source code for a sample toolbar-like control.

Creating COM+ Objects using EnterpriseServices in .NET

by Giles

An article on using .NET to create COM+ distributed components acting with a transaction across multiple databases.

Creating Cool Agent User Interfaces

by Nikhil Dabas

This article describes using Microsoft agent to create user interfaces that display characters, like Office 2000 Office Assistants.

Creating Custom Configurations

by Karl Seguin

Create isolated settings, strongly-typed objects and collections inside your web.config by leveraging the flexibility of .NET to create your own configuration sections and handler.

Creating Custom Shaped Windows Forms in .NET

by Haroon Rehman

Creating custom shaped Windows Forms in .NET.

Creating Custom Web Controls

by Venugopal Mallarapu

This article explains how to extend the base functionality of standard web controls.

Creating Guestbook using XML and ADO.NET

by Enrico Elizar Samuel

Demonstrates capabilities of ADO.NET to deal with XML, by creating a guestbook.

Creating Instances of UserControls Declaratively and Programmatically

by Aysha Qaiser

This articles explains creating Instance of User Controls Declaratively and Programmatically

Creating MDI application using C# (Walkthrough)

by irfan patel

If you are a beginner(or intermediate) and want to develop an MDI application in C# then this one is for you!!

Creating Movable Child Window Controls

by saud_ad

A walkthrough on building a Windows control that can be moved by the user at runtime.

Creating Multilingual Websites - Part 1

by Karl Seguin

Extend the existing globalization capabilities of .NET to create flexible and powerful multilgual web sites. First, create a custom ResourceManager, and then create custom localized-capable server controls to easily deploy multilingual functionality.

Creating RapTier Templates

by Mike Sashnikov

Gives an insight in the design of RapTier templates, and demonstates the steps you need to take to create your own template.

Creating Search Pages with Index Server and .NET

by Heath Stewart

Combine the ADO.NET techniques you know - and perhaps some you don't know - with the power and flexibility of Microsoft Index Server and ASP.NET to create easy - yet powerful - custom search pages for your Web site.

Creating Semi-Transparent Watermarks for Images in VB.NET

by Paul C Smith

Apply a translucent watermark to a JPEG image using VB.NET.

Creating Shell Links (Shortcuts) in .NET Programs Using WSH

by Jim Hollenhorst

It's easy to create shortcuts using the Windows Script Host Object Model

Creating some cool buttons and groupboxes

by Shouvik

Using GDI+ functions to add cool stuff.

Creating Your First C# Windows Application

by Nick Parker

Learn how to create your first Visual C# Windows application.

Creating/Moving/Sizing Controls at Runtime

by Soumya92

How to create and manage controls at runtime by providing the user with 'handles' for sizing the controls.

Creation and Update Comment Stamps Macro

by Modesty Zhang

This is a Visual Studio .NET 2003 macro, it can automatically insert comment blocks to your source files about copyright, creation date, author and update, etc., basically anything you want for your source files’ header.

Creation of XML for Microsoft Tree View Control from SQL Server 2000 Database

by SquaredRomi

Tree is used for hierarchical display of data and permits you to create effective user interfaces while easing development and maintenance time.

Creational Pattern - Abstract Factory

by Ashish Jaiman

Abstract Factory Design Pattern and sample implementation in C# and VB .NET

Credit Card Validator control for ASP.NET

by Paul Ingles

Article outlining how to create a credit card validator control fully derived from BaseValidator.

Cross language inheritance in .NET

by Chris Maunder

An introduction to cross-language inheritence in .NET.

Cross Language Web Service Implementation

by Nick Parker

Cross Language XML based Web Service Implementation between Managed C++ and C#.

Crossbrowser SmartNavigation Alternative

by ibrahimuludag

An article on how to create a server control that preserves the scroll position in longer pages.

Crossbrowser SmartNavigation Alternative II

by ibrahimuludag

An article describing how to create a server control that preserves the scroll position in longer pages.

Cross-Platform .NET Development: Using Mono, Portable.NET, and Microsoft .NET - By Mark Easton, Jason King

by Profox Jase

Sample from the book - Chapter 5

CRoundButton2 - A fancy graphical button

by JtR1977

A self drawing, round button for different styles and usages.

Cryptography in .NET

by Manuel Permuy

Cryptography in .NET using the Windows PKI

Cryptography in .NET (part 1)

by Sameers Javed

Use the .NET Framework's Cryptography Classes to secure your data.

Cryptography with symmetric key using bitmaps

by GINGISHAN2003

Cryptography with symmetric key using bitmaps

Crystal Report with DataSet and DataTable using C#

by Rehan Ahmad Abbasi

Crystal Report with Dataset and DataTable using C#

Crystal Reports 10

by Business Objects

Simplify your workload. Spend less time reporting, and more time on core application development.

Crystal Reports PUSH method using ASP.NET

by Omkar Bhave M

This article explains how to use PUSH method for drawing reports.

Crystall Motion

by Mamad876

Control LCD connected to parallel port

CSC.EXE CMDLGen

by peter2713

Simple utility for generating csc.exe command line options

Culture Invariant DateTime values

by Alan Dean

Demonstration of how to represent DateTime values in a culture-invariant format in C#.

Custom AntiAliasing with GDI+

by Keith Rule

Alternate Antialiasing in GDI+

Custom application configuration. [With Editor Demo]

by Gevik Babakhani

This class helps you to create and modify custom configuration files for your application.

Custom Authentication provider by implementing IHttpModule, IPrincipal and IIdentity

by I Piscean

An article on writing Custom Authentication provider in ASP.NET

Custom Button with Color and Shape

by Alan Zhao

Another simple custom button control with color and shape.

Custom ComboBoxes with Advanced Drop-down Features

by Oleksandr Kucherenko

Contains several ComboBoxes which uses Windows themes and contains ComboBoxes with CheckBoxed lists and TreeViews

Custom Control: Numeric TextBox: TextBox that alow you to enter only numbers

by zeltera

Sometimes we need to control the user input to some specific values. The following article explain how to do this with a TextBox

Custom Controls Library (MaskEdit, Statusbar with Progress Panel, and more)

by Moditha(KK)

Custom Controls Library (MaskEdit, Statusbar with Progress Panel, and more).

Custom Data Grid with Field Chooser functionality

by GKris

A datagrid control with field chooser context menu

Custom Data Paging in ASP.NET

by Zeke Le

How to do data paging using Repeater control and some T-SQL programming.

Custom DataGrid with Progress Bar control

by Pavel Sich

Shows how to create a custom control based on the DataGrid control with progress column

Custom Draw TreeView in VB.NET

by Carlos J. Quintero

An owner draw implementation of a VB.NET treeview to show some bold text in nodes.

Custom editable Datagrid with paging and sorting

by Elph

How to create a grid control for easy editing

Custom Errors in ASP.NET

by Amit Kukreja

In this article I will talk about customizing the default error page, manipulating the configuration file and sending notification to the administrator about errors.

Custom Exceptions in Custom Components

by Artem Smirnov

This article is about when to throw an exception, why take some effort and define a custom exception class, how to provide more information to the developers that consume your component, and, finally, how to unit test your exceptions.

Custom Objects From the App.Config file

by Mark Focas

Defining custom objects in the App.Config file, and retrieving them via the IConfigurationSectionHandler Interface.

Custom Resource Reader

by Palwinder Singh

Implementing custom resource reader with database

Custom String Formatting in .NET

by Heath Stewart

Discusses the implementation of custom format providers for existing types and custom formatting for user-defined types.

Custom Validation Summary in ASP.NET

by jeffshantz

Replace the ugly ValidationSummary control text with your own, customizable popup summary window.

Custom XPath Functions

by Not Active

Using custom functions to extend XPath expressions

Customisable WinForms Progressbar Control VB.NET

by David Vanson

A progress bar control you can customize

Customised ASP.NET Printing for Data Grids

by Russ Quinn

A solution to provide custom printing for data grids in ASP.NET

Customizable MainMenu on C#

by João Martins

An article on custom main menus and owner drawing.

Customize Validation Summary

by Sunasara Imdadhusen

The ASP.NET Validation Summary control with customized CSS and Style to display a summary of all validation errors that occur in a web page.

Customized ListView Control

by kennedy_franklin

This is a customized ListView control having facility for sorting, finding an element in the list, selecting necessary rows from the list by using a checkbox, selecting all rows in the list and inverting the selection.

Customized Text - Orientated Controls in C# - Part I (Label Control)

by Chester Ragel

Label which can display text in any orientation and shape.

Customized Text Document .NET HTTP Handler

by Matthew So (Hong Kong)

Customized text document .NET HTTP handler to process text file not with standard extensions, like .aaa, .xxx.

Customizing C# Wizard Templates in Visual Studio .NET 2003

by Jónas Antonsson

How to customize VS.NET 2003 C# templates to accommodate default comments and Visual SourceSafe keywords.

Customizing SectionGroups and Sections in Web.config

by Sadish Kumar.V

To add our own SectionGroups and Sections in the Configuration sections of web.config.

Customizing the header control in a ListView

by Georgi Atanasov

This article describes how to extend the default header control in a ListView in details mode.

Customizing Visual Studio's Code Generation Templates

by sh856531

A simple tutorial showing how we can customise the templates used by VS when it generates source code for us.

Cute Splash Windows and About Boxes using .NET

by Sriram Chitturi

Building good looking Splash Windows on application startup and About boxes with special effects

DAL Class and Transact-SQL Generator for C# and VB.NET

by Hamidreza-Ghasemkhah

Automatically generates the required class and stored procedure to work with SQL databases

Dancing Links Library

by Miran.Uhan

A VB.NET library with all necessary classes for exact cover solving with dancing links.

Dangers of using OnChange/ViewState for validation.

by A Berglas

This article demonstrates serious bugs and security vulnerabilities that can be easily introduced by using the ASP.NET OnChange event for validation.

Dartboard User Control in C#

by O c t a v i e

Shows a dartboard on which you can click and which returns the score thrown

Dashboards Are For Driving

by Steven A. Lowe

Dashboards are immensely useful not only for business data but also for business applications, but only if they display metrics that can be used to "drive" (or "steer") in real-time.

Data Access and Transaction Handling Framework

by Deyan Petrov

Generic data access component for different datasources, sprocs/SQL, implicitly propagated transactions, explicitly managed transaction contexts etc.

Data Access Component - declarative transactions at the method level without EnterpriseServices, different data sources supported, Part 1

by Deyan Petrov

Data Access Component - thin wrapper of ADO.NET eliminating the need for the transactional support provided by COM+, supplying a uniform interface to different data sources thus allowing for easy switching to another data source eventually

Data Accessor Class for VB.NET and ASP.NET

by David Bernett

Wrap up Routine Data Accessing Code into a class

Data Application Block for Firebird SQL

by Xela220

Data Application Block for Firebird SQL intended to speed the development of applications

Data Archive

by Nikolai Serdiuk

This article describes creating indexed search systems using relational databases

Data Binding in WebControls

by Shaun Wilde

An article on how to actually support data binding in your WebControl such that you can manipulate them in the Properties window.

Data Binding TreeView in C#

by LZF

C# implementation of data binding TreeView.

Data bound ListView control

by Alex Cherkasov

C# implementation of data bound ListView control

Data Form Wizard for ASP.NET with only 3 lines of code

by Mahmoud Nasr

Data form wizard for ASP.NET similar to that for the Windows applications.

Data Paging in ASP.NET

by Konstantin Vasserman

How to display multiple pages of records in ASP.NET

Data paging in the database (an ASP.NET approach)

by Horatiu CRISTEA

This article presents a data paging solution in the database. The paging operation was moved on the data layer.

Database application programming for the Pocket PC using SQL CE

by Nigel-Findlater

This demonstrates how to program a SQL CE application. It also shows a design pattern that can be easily modified and extended to create other database applications

Database Build Tool

by Duncan Edwards Jones

An extensible tool to package and deploy database schema objects

Database fields merge for any Office product, just with XML

by mc_kappa

Using this simple, yet elegant and powerful code, you can provide to your users efficient Office document merging; simply exploiting XML technology and basic string manipulation.

Database Image Viewer

by Zoodio

This application will permit the user to create tables in SQL 2000. It will also permit the user to save and view images from the database

Database Independent Access

by Jaryl Sim

Use different database providers without tying implementation to one.

Database Logging in .NET

by David Hall

Component that caches updates to a log and then persists them to a database on a timed interval.

Database Manipulation with ADO.NET for Beginners

by Huseyin Altindag

Personal address book using ADO.NET and C#

Database Navigator

by JulianArevalo

An easy way to navigate through records using VCR-style controls

Database Schema Comparison Utility

by Sean Goodpasture

An article describing a way to find the differences between two database instances

Database Script Generator

by Ajey Dudhe

This utility can be used to compare two MS Access databases for changes in the data. You have the option of generating the SQL scripts and\or a summary XML

Databinding the SqlTypes

by Dan Glass

Databinding the SqlTypes using the PropertyDescriptor class and the ITypedList Interface

DataGrid Formatting

by sreejith ss nair

Applying DataGridTableStyle class In WinForm DataGrid control.

DataGrid Printing Class V1.0b

by nashcontrol

A DataGrid printing class.

DataGrid101: Using Windows.Forms DataGrid

by omri

Tutorial on the usage of Windows.Forms.DataGrid

DataGridDemo

by Not Active

Using the ASP.NET DataGrid for fun and profit

DataGridHelper tool

by Jakob Farian Krarup

A utility class to ease adding CSS classes and confirmation dialogs to the ASP.NET DataGrid component.

DataGrid's ViewState optimization

by Daniel Fruzynski

How to reduce DataGrid's ViewState size, while maintaining all DataGrid's functionalities.

DataGrids, Forms and Delegates.

by Brent Thompson

This article describes using a Delegate to pass data from a DataGrid in one form, to set of controls in another form.

DataGridSample in MC++

by Peter C. Gallati

An article on implementing a DataGrid control bound to nested ArrayLists in a Windows Form

DataPlotter - linear or logarithmic display of 2D data

by Hans-Jürgen Schmidt

The DataPlotter is a .NET control for graphical display of 2D data. For both the X and Y axis a linear or logarithmic (any base) scaling can be selected.

DataQuicker 0.9.0

by Eunge

DataQuicker takes the transparent level, speeds up your application building and reduces the coupling between application and database. It supports convertion from table/view to DAL directly with accessional tools. It can nearly cut off all your efforts on DAL design and coding...

Date Validator Custom Web Control

by manowar

A custom web control to validate a user hand-inserted date.

DateTimePicker Web Control

by jithus

DateTimePicker control making use of the ASP.NET Calendar control.

Daytime, Internet Time Service Class

by Alastair Dallas

Methods for updating the system time based on an Internet reference.

DBTree

by MH2538

A DB Base Tree that load it's nodes from a table

DDEListener Component (open your Document Files with Explorer)

by Alexander Werner

Handles DDE_EXECUTE messages

Deadlock Detection in Existing Code

by eransha

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

Debug Console Window

by dake / calodox

A console window class useful for debugging, reporting events during runtime and saving logs on disk.

Debugging XPath Queries

by goerge@Mailinator.com

An application to visualize XPath Queries

Declarative ASP.NET globalization

by Sami Vaaraniemi

An article on how to implement globalization support for ASP.NET pages through attributes and reflection

Declarative QueryString Parameter Binding

by piers7

Describes using reflection to automatically populate member parameters from the Form and Querystring.

Declarative Transactions using ADO.NET and without Enterprise Services

by Sandy Place

Sometimes, it is nice to prototype up a simple database application. This code may help, by providing the automatic transactional model of COM+ in a non-COM+ environment. This example uses "Interception" to provide automatic transactioning support for non-COM+ classes.

Decrypting Data in Crystal Reports

by Simon Segal

How to decrypt data for Crystal Reports using formulae to automate your managed code with User Function Libraries.

Deep copy of objects in C#

by Hakger

How to do a deep copy of objects using System.Reflection.

Delegate Behind the Scenes

by Karthikeyan Govindan

Describing complete class of delegate and asynchronous processing

Delegate: What is this?

by Bachan1968

This article contains explanation of delegate concept.

Delegates - a 15 minutes quick start tutorial

by devvvy

Teaches you about delegates using an example program

Delegates and Events

by KaushikS

This article briefly introduces the concepts of delegates, events and how they are used in the .NET framework's base class libraries.

Delegates And Events - The Uncensored Story - Part 1

by A. Abdul Azeez

This is a part of a series of articles that aims at fully understanding delegates and events

Delegates for Dummies

by Andrew D. Weiss

Primer - The basics about delegates, how to define them and use them

Delegates in managed C++

by Chris Maunder

This sample demonstrates single- and multi-cast delegates using C++, including declaration, creation and usage, and a discussion on type safety.

Delegates Tutorial - MC++ and C# - The dual perspective

by Nish Nishant

Introduces and walks you through the use of delegates in .NET. Compares and contrasts the different approaches that MC++ and C# adopt in the use of delegates. With examples in both languages

Demonstrating Custom Attributes: Build An Assembly Searching Tool.

by Lim Bio Liong

Build an assembly searching system via custom attributes and reflection.

Demystify LINQ in 10 Minutes

by abhigad

Journey of C# up to LINQ in less than 10/15 minutes

Demystifying the .NET Global Assembly Cache

by Jeremiah Talkar

An explanation of the workings of the Global Assembly Cache

Dependency-Grapher for C++-Projects

by SteveKing

An add-in written in VB.NET to generate an inheritance and/or dependency graph of a c++-project. Uses the graphviz library from AT&T.

Deploying the .NET Framework and MDAC

by Dwight Johnson

Install the .NET Framework and MDAC along with your .NET application in a single, smooth installation process

Deploying Web Applications using Visual Studio .NET

by Majid Shahabfar

Deploying an ASP.NET project using the Visual Studio .NET Windows Installer

Derived Class Manager

by Eitsop

Demonstrates how to manage derived classes using run-time reflection.

Design by Contract Demystified

by jmheidly

To who believe thei coding style is missing something - Interfaces.

Design by Contract Framework

by Kevin McFarlane

A C# library that implements Design by Contract

Design pattern FAQ part 4

by Shivprasad koirala

Bridge Pattern, Composite Pattern, Facade Pattern, Chain Of Responsibility, Proxy Pattern, Template pattern

Design Patterns Implementation in a Storage Explorer Application

by Breman Sinaga

A design patterns approach for designing and explaining a Storage Explorer application. The application is used to explore file composition in a computer storage.

Design Patterns using VB.NET

by Gopi Subramanian

Creating Desing Patterns using VB.NET

Design Your Soccer Engine, and Learn How To Apply Design Patterns (Observer, Decorator, Strategy and Builder Patterns) - Part I and II

by Anoop Pillai

This article is expected to (1) Introduce patterns to you in a simple, human readable way (2) Train you how to really identify and apply patterns (3) Demonstrate step by step methods to solve a design problem using patterns

Design Your Soccer Engine, and Learn How To Apply Design Patterns (Observer, Decorator, Strategy, and Builder Patterns) - Part III and IV

by Anoop Pillai

This article is a continuation of the previous article, and in this article, we will discuss (1) Applying the Strategy pattern to solve design problems related with 'Team' and 'TeamStrategy', and (2) Applying the Decorator pattern to solve design problems related with the 'Player'.

Designer centric Wizard control

by Al Gardner

A Wizard control designed for design time development.

Designing and implementing a versatile data access tier for an ASP.NET application

by Paul Abarham

In this article, we will drill down deeper in to the design of a n-tier architecture and our focus will be on the data access tier (DAT)

Designing And Implementing A Neural Network Library For Handwriting Detection, Image Analysis etc.- The BrainNet Library - Full Code, Simplified...

by Anoop Pillai

This article will explain the actual concepts and implementation of Backward Propagation Neural Networks very easily - see project code and samples, like a simple pattern detector, a hand writing detection pad, an xml based neural network processing language etc in the source zip.

Designing and Integrating Crystal Reports

by Muhammad Asad Siddiqi

For Professional looking reports within your application

Designing Exception Hierarchy in C#

by Sumit Jain

How Exception Hierarchy be designed in C#

Desktop Bob - Instant CP notifications

by Daniel Turini

A tool for acessing CodeProject and have instant notifications of Codeproject's posts

Desktop Switching

by Nnamdi Onyeyiri

An article showing how desktop switching can be achieved

Detect if JavaScript is enabled in ASPX

by ShawnDevin

Check if the browser has JavaScript enabled in the Page_Load method.

Detect the browser using ASP.NET and C#

by Agus Kurniawan

A Simple ASP.NET program for detecting browser type that clients use

Determining Threading Limits For Multi-Threaded Network Applications

by John Aldrich

This article will explain a method of benchmarking a W9X/W2K/XP based computer to determine the maximum safe level of thread usage while keeping the system able to process other input without entering into a freeze condition.

Deterministic Destruction in C++/CLI

by Nish Nishant

Looks at how deterministic destruction is possible with C++/CLI

Developing a Secure Solution using Commerce Server 2002 and .NET

by Khalid A1

Developing a secure solution using Commerce Server 2002 and .NET.

Developing ASP.NET applications without VS.NET

by Ricki

This article will explain how to create and develop ASP.NET applications without using VS.NET.

Developing Facebook Connect Application using ASP.NET

by Shahriar Iqbal Chowdhury/Galib

Step approach for developing a Facebook connect application with ASP.NET

Developing OutlookBar user control in ASP.NET

by Gokuldas

OutlookBar User Control in ASP.NET.

Developing Windows Forms Control using MFC and Managed C++

by Rama Krishna Vavilala

Demonstrates different ways to move MFC based controls to .NET Windows Forms

DevGlobalCache – A way to Cache and Share data between processes

by Natty Gur

A way to Cache and Share data between processes

DfsmvPorty - XML-configurable Port Scanner

by Uwe Keim

A small utility to notify you by e-mail when ports on servers are not available.

Different Methods of ClickOnce Deployment

by MSDN_MCP

There are four ways of publishing an application using ClickOnce, which we are going to see the advantages and disadvantages of here.

DirectShow MediaPlayer in C#

by Daniel Strigl

This article shows how to play a Media File in a C# Windows Application.

DirectShow.NET

by NETMaster

DirectShow for DVD and file playback, capture and sample grabber

DirectShow: Examples for Using SampleGrabber for Grabbing a Frame and Building a VU Meter

by almere109

DirectX.Capture class examples showing how to grab a frame from video and how to make a VU meter for audio

DirectX 9 - Get Ambient With DirectSound

by v3ct0r m4yh3m

Create an ambient environment with DirectSound.

DirectX Video Stream and frame capture

by hpAng

A library that can capture video stream and frame together

DirectX.Capture Class Library

by Brian Low

A .NET class library for capturing video and audio to AVI files.

Discover SQL: Dynamically recomputing columns

by Adrian Bacaianu

How to perform different computations for each row of a certain table, with each computation involving several columns.

Display a non-US-ASCII filename in File Download dialog box

by minhpc_bk

Simple ways to display a non-US-ASCII filename in the File Download dialog box.

Display MS Excel Sheets and Charts in ASPX Pages using C#

by Gnanandam Gopalan

How to display an Excel sheet with its format and also charts in an ASPX page.

Display records in a table using ASP

by Megan Forbes

A beginners guide to displaying records from a database in a table using ASP

Display the Current Temperature in the System Tray

by Douglas Earl

Use a web service to retrieve the temperature for a given zipcode and display it in the taskbar system tray

Displaying , Exporting and Printing Crystal Reports in ASP.NET

by patelsachin

Displaying , exporting and printing crystal reports in ASP.NET with source code.

Displaying a Notify Icon's Balloon Tool Tip

by Joel Matthias

Displaying a balloon tool tip for a notification icon.

Displaying and Working with Forms

by Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu

Whether you are new to development, or coming from Visual Basic, C++, Java, or Delphi, managing forms in WinForms can be initially confusing. This is an article targeted at beginners in WinForms programming to demonstrate how to easily manage and work with forms in a WinForms application.

Displaying the .NET Image Codecs with ASP.NET

by Erik Brown

Using ASP.NET and reflection to display the ImageCodecInfo objects available on the server machine.

DIY Intellisense

by yetanotherchris

Do it yourself intellisense/autocompletion.

Dll Profiler in C#

by Ashraf Mohamed

A debugging tool for applications using multiple DLLs.

Do more with your ASP.NET Page Template

by Sajid Rehman

Page templates can provide more than just design consistency

DocMounter 2: A tool to build VS.NET documentation (now with Sandcastle)

by 10Tec, Sergey Gorbenko

Tool for creating MS Visual Studio documentation files - XML Summaries, HxS/MSHC help solutions and manuals.

Domain Forwarding with IHttpHandler

by Andi Fleischmann

Use HttpHandlers to forward the user to different webpages depending on the requested hostname (domainname).

Dot Net Script

by jconwell

Write and execute C# or VB.NET as if they were scripting languages (using the CodeDom)

Dotnet eXtended framework

by Hugo Pais Batista

Extend the .NET framework power with DotNetX - free libraries that allow you to generate code, cache database objects, etc.

dotNetInstaller - Setup Bootstrapper for .NET Application

by Davide Icardi

With this tool the developer can define the application prerequisites and install the correct version of these components in the correct order based on the user operating system type and language, allow the user to download these components from the web or install these components directly.

dotNETSender - Windows Messenger like GUI for net send command

by Sunil TG

Windows Messenger like GUI for net send command

DotNetStress

by Room2Shroom

A simple stress tester for .NET

Double-click on the Trace Message in the Output Window in Developer Studio to Get to the Line of Code

by Sheng Jiang 蒋晟

Take advantage of the output window in Developer Studio

Doubly-Linked List Implementation

by Rodney S. Foley

An inspired implementation of a doubly-linked list in C# for the .NET Framework.