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by Adrian Dorache

Let's see a short example using COM objects exposed by Internet Explorer. The code below changes the color of every link in an HTML document.

.NET and COM Object Events in Console Applications

by Boaz V

How to receive events from a COM object using the application message loop in a console application.

.NET Appications Automation

by Yuriy Kyyan

An article on creation automated interface for .NET applications.

.NET COM Interop using Postbuild

by Florian Rosmann

COM Interop using a little post compiler. As a result, it is possible to use multithreading in combination with COM interfaces.

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.NET and COM interop story

by Adrian Dorache

Let's see a short example using COM objects exposed by Internet Explorer. The code below changes the color of every link in an HTML document.

.NET and COM Object Events in Console Applications

by Boaz V

How to receive events from a COM object using the application message loop in a console application.

.NET Appications Automation

by Yuriy Kyyan

An article on creation automated interface for .NET applications.

.NET COM Interop using Postbuild

by Florian Rosmann

COM Interop using a little post compiler. As a result, it is possible to use multithreading in combination with COM interfaces.

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COM

.NET and COM Object Events in Console Applications

by Boaz V

How to receive events from a COM object using the application message loop in a console application.

.NET Appications Automation

by Yuriy Kyyan

An article on creation automated interface for .NET applications.

.NET COM Interop using Postbuild

by Florian Rosmann

COM Interop using a little post compiler. As a result, it is possible to use multithreading in combination with COM interfaces.

.NET COM interoperation - Fighting with RCW memory leaks

by bChen@sh

This article explores the rules of how AddRef and Release are called in RCW and COM, which addresses the issue of RCW memory leaks.

.NET Core Razor Page Email Form using SendGrid and reCaptcha

by frez

.NET Core Razor Page Email Form using SendGrid and reCaptcha

.Net Script Editor (C#,Vb.net Mini IDE)

by Rajneesh Noonia

The source code / article published here is to provide features of MS Script control (Functions like AddObject) and some features of VSA/Visual Studio editor like intellisence, code completion etc

.NET Shell Extensions - Deploying SharpShell Servers

by Dave Kerr

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

[TinyERP: SPA for Enterprise Application] Handle Error/ Validation

by tranthanhtu.vn

[TinyERP: SPA for Enterprise Application] Handle Error/ Validation

[TinyERP: SPA for Enterprise Application] Manage Staffs

by tranthanhtu.vn

Steps to add new "Manage Staff" feature

[TinyERP: SPA for Enterprise Application]Cross Modules/ Domains Communication

by tranthanhtu.vn

[TinyERP: SPA for Enterprise Application]Cross Modules/ Domains Communication

[TinyERP: SPA for Enterprise Application]Manage Staffs - Part 2

by tranthanhtu.vn

[TinyERP: SPA for Enterprise Application]Manage Staffs - Part 2

[TinyERP: SPA for Enterprise Application]Overview

by tranthanhtu.vn

TinyERP: SPA for Enterprise Application

A Beginner Tutorial for Writing Simple COM/ATL DLL and Using it with .NET

by ThatsAlok

Article touching simple issues like property, method and event and using it in .NET applications

A Beginner Tutorial for Writing Simple COM/ATL DLL For VS2012

by ThatsAlok

Article touching simple programming instrument like Property, Method, Event and invoking ATL Dialogs from ATL/COM Component

A Beginner's Tutorial for Connection Points Using VC++ and ATL

by Ranjan Banerji

A tutorial on how to create connection points using VC++ and ATL

A better WPF-Browser-Control (IE-Wrapper)

by Robert Köpferl

This article provides a better browser control than the one included in WPF

A Brief Tutorial On How To Develop DirectShow Source Filter For Beginners

by Aric Wang

The article will give you an idea on how to design a source filter.The source filter creates samples and outputs it from its output pin.

A BSTR Wrapper for Operations with Binary Data

by George Anescu

Presenting a C++ class for correct operations on BSTR strings with binary data contents

A C++ Firefox component intercepting/operating HTML DOM

by Jia.Chen

This article uses a simple example to show how to build a Firefox component intercepting/operating DOM

A class wrapper for Matlab(c) ActiveX Control

by Jonathan de Halleux

Eases up the use of the Matlab(c) COM server...

A COM class (DLL) for embedding an embeddable OLE object

by William.Wang

A COM class (DLL) that embeds an embeddable OLE object.

A COM class wizard for VS.NET 2003

by mav.northwind

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

A COM Smart Pointer

by Skeeter

A wrapper class to any COM interface pointer.

A command line tool to deploy COM components in COM+

by Tomer Doron

In a mixed .NET/COM COM+ based environment, one may find a need for a command line tool to deploy COM components in COM+.

A Complete ActiveX Web Control Tutorial

by David Marcionek

This article is intended to help you get up to speed quickly with developing an ActiveX control. It will show you the basic concepts you need to know about ActiveX, such as methods, properties, and events, and how to communicate between an ActiveX control and a web page.

A Containment Sample

by Ramchandra.kk

An illustration of the concept of Containment.

A Cool Vista Sidebar Gadget Style CPUInfo Animate Control! (Fixed)

by Davidwu

A Cool Vista Sidebar Gadget Style CPUInfo Animate Control! (Fixed)

A Developer's Survival Guide to IE Protected Mode

by Michael Dunn

Busted features? APIs failing? Use this guide to get your IE plugin up and running again in protected mode!

A Fast CSV Writer Using ATL

by callmepls

A Fast CSV Writer Using ATL

A File Checksum Shell Menu Extension DLL

by Jeffrey Walton

Create a File Checksum Shell Menu Extension using ATL and Crypto++

A Friendly Approach to COM Basics

by Renjith Ramachandran

This article will help you to approach COM basics in a friendly manner.

A GAC Manager Utility and API

by Dave Kerr

Manage the Global Assembly Cache with this handy tool - or roll your own with the provided API!

A Gadget for Browsing the Astronomy Picture of the Day

by Michael Dunn

This article shows a Vista Sidebar gadget that you can use to browse the APOD site and view previews of each day's picture.

A Gadget to Control a Cell Phone

by sghctoma

An article on creating a Vista Sidebar Gadget, that communicates/controls a mobile phone through a serial (COM) port.

A Helper Class for Calling Invoke

by Ranjan Banerji

SRComHelper makes it easier to call invoke specially in cases where there are several calls to Invoke

A light wrapper class for GUID

by Jozef Bozek

A CGuid class for manipulating the GUID structure.

A Look At What's Wrong With Objects

by Marc Clifton

A look at what is wrong with OOD/OOP based on CPian responses to the question "What is wrong with objects?"

A Multiple Inheritance based COM Framework

by @deel@bbas

A simple COM server that is based on multiple inheritance

A simple class for using serial COM ports

by Jason Hamilton

This article introduces and explains the use of the serial_interface class. An easy way to add serial port interfaces to your C++ code.

A simple console DirectShow player

by Sumi, Eo, WajihUllahBaig

How DirectShow can be used to play a video in console mode.

A simple Firefox Addon with XP-COM Component

by KarstenK

Beginning a Firefox Addon with the power of XP-COM

A simple solution for managing state of stateless transactional COM+ components

by Ivo Ivanov

A reusable object-oriented framework for preserving state of stateless components.

A Simple Way to Create Word Documents by Template in Java under Windows Platform

by jackyxinli

Using JNI and COM technology generate Word documents in Java under Windows platform

A Simple Windows HTTP Wrapper Using C++

by shicheng

Gets the content of a web page into a project without the WinHttp APIs mixed in my source code using a WinHttp wrapper.

A Simple XML Validator, using VOLE

by Matt (D) Wilson

A simple command-line utility that validates XML files, implemented using MSXML via the VOLE COM/Automation driver library

A Simple Yet Debuggable COM Skeleton Code

by Stephane Rodriguez.

Tutorial showing how to build COM components from scratch (DLL, EXE, automation)

A smart critical section wrapper for COM objects

by Jeremiah Talkar

An extremely simple class that wraps the win32 CRITICAL_SECTION. Ideal for the COM STA or MTA.

A SOAP based COM+ component Stress Tool

by davyuan

This tool parses a SOAP request and calls the COM+ component to stress test it.

A VC++ Outlook COM Add-in that publicizes a custom form

by Andrea Cacciarru

This article explains how to publicize and retrieve data from custom Outlook forms programmatically.

A very simple COM server without ATL or MFC

by .Shoaib

A step by step guide to write a COM server using C++ without MFC or ATL.

A Word add-in to syntax highlight selected text

by sswater shi

A Word addin to syntax highlight selected text. The toolbar is permanent, with a transparent button icon.

Access-Control-Allow-Origin: Dealing with CORS Errors in React and Express

by Dave Ceddia

Access-Control-Allow-Origin: Dealing with CORS Errors in React and Express

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 Hardware in Silverlight using COM

by esaulsberry

An example of a COM object written in C# that allows access to hardware from Silverlight

Accessing Outgoing Message Queues (MSMQ)

by M. Aamir Malik

An article describing how to access messages in the Outgoing Message Queue.

Accessing songs and playlists from ITunes using C#

by yann bertaud

How to get the song list, song information from ITunes using .NET.

ActiveX Controls for interactive Runtime Debugging of COM Objects

by Frank Boettger

Three ActiveX controls that allow the runtime-browsing of the object model hierarchy of a COM-Object, its implemented interfaces and the browsing and interactive changing of its properties and methods (a somewhat extended combination of VB's property- and debug-windows).

ActiveX Events and MFC State

by Andrew Wirger

This article describes how to ensure that the MFC state is properly maintained when sinking ActiveX events

ActiveX EXE Wrappers

by DonSn

How to expose a .NET EXE assembly to a COM compliant client application (such as VB6 or VBScript) and force the client application to use the running instance of the .NET EXE assembly.

Add JavaScript and VBScript to Your .NET Apps

by honey the codewitch

Easily add scripting support to your apps using Microsoft's active script technology

Add-in Programming

by hamityildirim

Add-in - add-on programming and an example for Outlook add-in regions, views, rules, and reports.

Adding automation to MFC applications

by roel_v2

Step-by-step instructions on how to add OLE automation to an already existing application. In addition, it illustrates how to do things without using the code as provided by the application wizard.

Adding COM Automation Support To Win32 Applications

by Mohammed El-Afifi

Given an existing win32 application, how to provide COM automation capability to it?

Adding Macro Scripting language support to existing MFC Application

by Ernest Laurentin

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

Adding scripting support to your Application using minimalistic aproach

by Ladislav Nevery

One very simple way to add scripting support to your app without need to install or distribute anything

Adding Spell Check and Synonym Info to a Text Editor, using Word Automation

by pratheesh

An article on adding spell check and synonym info functionality to an editor using MS Word Automation.

Adding VBScript and JScript support in your C++ applications

by Ernest Laurentin

Introduce to MSSCRIPT.OCX and calling JScript and VBScript in your C++ Application

Additional custom panel in Microsoft Outlook

by Lukas Neumann

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

Administering Printer Settings in C# for Flexible Printing

by ggraham412

An article on setting printer settings from within a .NET program

Aggregation explained

by Ramchandra.kk

Article describing the steps involved to attain aggregation relation between COM components

Amazon Web Services Simple Queue Service Using the Java 2 Software Development Kit

by James A. Brannan

Amazon Web Services Simple Queue Service using the Java 2 Software Development Kit

An almost complete Namespace Extension Sample

by Pascal Hurni

An implementation of a shell namespace extension that uses the system provided ShellView (SHCreateShellFolderView)

An ATL Component in C++ that fires COM events

by Neville Dastur

A COM component that implements interprocess communication, and illustrates firing events to a COM container such as Visual Basic

An ATL Toolbox control like that of VS.NET 2003

by Jozef Bozek

An ATL toolbox control.

An Autoit Script to Generate a PowerPoint Presentation from MSWord Document

by Member 4206974

A program for generating a PowerPoint presentation from a structured MSWord document

An explorative peek into generating deterministic primes through a multi-level multi-language tunneling apparatus

by Nish Nishant, Professor Cuthbert Calculus, Glenn Quagmire

This paper is a summary of a research exercise conducted in conjunction by Nish Sivakumar, Professor Cuthbert Calculus, and Glenn Quagmire.

An eXtensible Car Description format with ATL COM

by Stan_1964

Introduces the XCD format that describes cars as collections grouped by Make and Year, and provides an API ported into a COM library to access the collections.

An extensible math expression parser with plug-ins

by Mathieu Jacques

Design and code for an extensible, maintainable, robust, and easy to use math parser.

An introduction to callbacks and connection points with ATL

by Mayur Mahajan

Article giving a general perspective on implement callback interfaces and general notion of connectable objects and connection points.

An introduction to MFC's COM Interface Macros

by Rob Manderson

How to define and implement COM interfaces inside an MFC class

ANNdotNET v1.0 Has Been Released

by Bahrudin Hrnjica

ANNdotNET v1.0 has been released

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.

Anti-Reflector .NET Code Protection

by Igor Ladnik

Article presents a technique allowing developers to protect their .NET code from reverse engineering by reflection of executable files

Append Multiple Colored Texts to a RichTextBox using VB.NET

by EAHMK

This is an alternative for "Multiple Colored Texts in RichTextBox using C#"

Application Configuration Settings .NET & VB 6 With XML

by Nelson Kosta Souto

Application configuration settings .NET & VB 6 with XML

Application Integration through Microsoft Technologies

by Naveed Bajwa

Describes Application Integration and discusses Different Microsoft technologies Related to Application integration

Arduino, C#, and Serial Interface

by Marco Bertschi

Serial communication with an Arduino Board via C# and the SerialPort class from the System.IO.Ports namespace

Associating a Class/Structure with a Window

by Captain Price

Several ways of associating a class or a structure with a window and their differences

Asynchronous calls in C++ and MFC using boost and tbb

by Alfred Molnar

Call methods of an existing class in MFC asynchronously, while still preserving the thread affinity required by MFC and COM.

ATL COM Based Addin / Plugin Framework With Dynamic Toolbars and Menus

by thomas_tom99

An article on ATL COM Based Addin / Plugin Framework With Dynamic Toolbars and Menus, based on VC++ Addin Architecture.

ATL COM EXE Server with MFC support

by Huang Wei

Adding MFC support to the ATL COM EXE Server.

ATL COM Shared Add Ins Using C++ - The Easy Way

by Doug Richards

ATL COM Shared Add Ins Using C++ - The Easy Way

ATL Windowless ActiveX Media Container

by Ernest Laurentin

Full-fledged ATL Windowless ActiveX Container. Ideal for hosting Windows Media Player, Transparent Flash and Silverlight Animations.

Authoring and Consuming Classic COM Components with WRL

by Marius Bancila

Provides an overview for creating an consuming classic COM components for desktop applications with the Windows Runtime C++ Template Library

AutoCompleteML - auto completion for multiline edit box

by Pavel Martyanov

COM object for easy user input in multiline edit boxes

Automate multiple Excel instances

by JamesFaix

.NET library to access to any running instance of Excel.

Automatic C++ object initialization from XML

by Alexandre GRANVAUD

Automate your data classes initialization from an XML file.

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-Office applications

by VGirish

This tutorial helps you to automate PowerPoint, with hints to automate other MS-Office applications

Automating the MSN Messenger

by Tili

Explains a little bit about event sinking and events of MSN Messenger

Automating VMWare Tasks in C# with the VIX API

by dB.

A VMWare C# tasks library.

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.

Automating Windows Applications Using Azure AppFabric Service Bus

by Igor Ladnik

Unmanaged Windows GUI application with no exported program interface gets automated with injected code. A WCF aware injected component allows world-wide located clients to communicate with automated application via Azure AppFabric Service Bus despite firewalls and dynamic IP addresses

Automation of COM Dialogs in a DLL

by intensely_radioactive

Automation of COM Dialogs in a DLL

Automation of Form Views

by intensely_radioactive

An article on how to add automation to a form view

Autoupdate NAV with C#

by abhishek pareek2009

This article contains a DLL with sample code which is used as a reference in a C# Windows application to import FOB to Navision.

Azure Storage Account Part 1: What is Blob?

by Arkadeep De

Azure Storage Account - what is blob?

Basic Arts of Exception Handling

by farhanx

This article is about the art of how to track bugs in programs and handle them beautifuly. Make yourself understand perfectly the reasons for exceptions and bugs.

Basics of an IDL file

by Sabitha Abraham

This article describes the basics of an IDL file.

Beginner's Tutorial: Calling Visual Basic ActiveX DLLs from Visual C++

by C. Lung

Beware of global variables in Visual Basic COM objects

by Jeremiah Talkar

A note for C++ programmers about global varaibles in Apartment threaded VB COM objects

Blendability Part III – View Model Locator Replacement using MEF

by Tomer Shamam

Blendability Part III – View Model Locator Replacement using MEF

Borland C++ MS Word Automation

by Vahe Karamian

This code will demonstrate how to automate and get content from a MS Word document.

Braintree Payment - ASP.Net Core2.1

by Shashangka Shekhar

In this post, we are going to implement braintree payment gateway with ASP.NET Core 2.1

BrowserSelector

by Shameel

Browser Selector is a WinForms app written in C# that allows you to associate different urls with different browsers.

Building a LOCAL COM Server and Client: A Step by Step Example

by liyang yu

A step-by-step introduction to how to build your own Local COM server and client.

Building an Office2K COM addin with VC++/ATL

by Amit Dey

This article shows how to program an Outlook2000/2K+ COM addin using a pure ATL COM object.

Building COM Components Using MATLAB - Part I

by Abbas_Riazi

Building COM components that can be called from any IDEs that support COM with MATLAB COMBuilder toolbox

Building COM Components Using MATLAB - Part II

by Abbas_Riazi

Building COM components that can be called from any IDE that supports COM with MATLAB COMBuilder toolbox.

Building Your First Hello TypeScript Application -- TypeScript Tutorial for Beginners

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

In this post, you will learn how to write code in TypeScript

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

by Eric Haddan

Using the Image Mastering API in C#.

Burning CD/DVD Media with the Image Mastering API Version 2.0 (IMAPI2)

by Eric Haddan

Example of a CD/DVD burning application using IMAPI2.

C# ATLCOM Interop code snipperts - Part 1

by Gopi Krishna Nuti

Code snippets detailing Interop programming in C# and ATLCOM

C# COM Late Binding Event

by yincekara

This article is a guide to building a .NET component, using it in a VB6 project at runtime using late binding, attaching its events and get a callback.

C# COM Object for Use In JavaScript / HTML, Including Event Handling

by Jerome Terry

A complete example of how to create a C# COM object for use in JavaScript / HTML, including event handling

C#: Scheduling with Quartz, My First Desktop Schedule Job!

by DiponRoy

Making schedule jobs exe using Quartz scheduler

C++ Memory Management Innovation: GC Allocator

by xushiwei

Most of the C++ programmers do not benefit from "Garbage Collection" technique (GC). Here is a new memory management technique named "GC Allocator" (Note it is not "GC").

C++ Template Classes to Make COM Marshalling Simple

by Leif Simon Goodwin

I have created two C++ template classes which allow a COM interface to be marshalled between threads with no fuss and no pain

Callback Functions and .NET C# COM Components

by Bharat Mallapur, sriraj

How to make your C# component callback a Perl subroutine

Camera_Net Library

by free5lot

Camera_Net is a FLOSS library for using video-cameras and video-inputs in .NET projects easily

Capture image from a streaming URL using different ISampleGrabber modes

by R@jeev K R

This articles shows how to capture an image from a streaming URL using different ISampleGrabber modes.

Capturing Images from Camera using Python and DirectShow

by Andreask84

In this article, I propose a simple application written entirely in Python that allows you to capture images from a camera using DirectShow and to perform simple processing on them using OpenCV.

CBSTRStream - A simple BSTR stream implementation

by Morten Abrahamsen

CBSTRStream is a simple BSTR stream implemenation with some useful data type conversion functions.

CD Burner - console version

by 2b|!2b==?

A command-line program that backs up folders and files specified in a text file to CD-W

CEnBSTR - A simple _bstr_t extension

by Morten Abrahamsen

A simple _bstr_t extension to wrap basic string functionality (find, mid, replace aso)

Change File Extension Context Menu

by T800G

An easy and flexible way to change file extensions.

Changing Windows XP's Bootskin, Windows File Protection, and Themes programmatically

by Naren Neelamegam

Vistra code walkthrough article, to explain a few of the interesting things about Windows.

ChartPoints

by aleksey_m_t

MSVS2015 chart view trace extension

Classic Shell

by Ivo Beltchev

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

Client/Server connection using DCOM, with anonymous access

by Vigen Dolbakyan

Quick implementation of client/server connection using DCOM.

Cloud Service to Automate Windows Desktop Applications

by Won Dong

To utilize cloud service as an anonymous desktop environment in Amazon S3 and EC2 Windows instances

CLR Hosting - Customizing the CLR - Part 2

by Mattias Högström

.NET apps are run by the .NET runtime. There exists an unmanaged API which allows you to run apps under a customized runtime. This API lets you strengthen security, provide a different deployment strategy, add framework logging, provide your own memory management implementation, and sandbox an appli

Collections Interoperability

by Meir Bechor

This article describes how to move collections between native and managed code.

COM Calculator

by sbaladevan

This simple program, which I develop for my understanding. This may help you for understanding the com coding and using it VB

COM Concept : Containment

by Dinesh Ahuja

COM Concept : Containment

COM Concept : Unleashing Aggregation

by Dinesh Ahuja

Unleashing Aggregation

COM connection point callback for a C++/CLI client

by Mitendra Anand

How to implement COM connection point callback for a C++\CLI client.

COM Connection Points

by Alex C. Punnen

This article is intended to explain the concept behind connection points with a clear practical example, which will demonstrate an in-process COM server and an MFC client that uses the server.

COM delegation using the COM channel hook mechanism

by Paul Barvinko

Allows a low-privileged COM client to delegate calls to a COM server that is running under a higher-priveleged NT user account.

COM from scratch - PART ONE

by Aria Ansari

An article about COM.

COM from scratch - PART THREE

by Aria Ansari

An article about COM Containment.

COM from scratch - PART TWO

by Aria Ansari

An article about COM Library.

COM IDs & Registry keys in a nutshell

by Joao C. Morais

An article about COM IDs and the Registry

COM in .NET

by sudeesh

An article about COM in .NET

COM in C++

by valeriyabobko

create COM with no ATL, just C++

COM in plain C

by Jeff Glatt

How to create/use COM components in plain C, without MFC, ATL, WTL, or any other framework.

COM in plain C, Part 2

by Jeff Glatt

How to write a COM component in C that can be used by script languages such as VBscript, Visual BASIC, jscript, etc.

COM in plain C, Part 3

by Jeff Glatt

COM collections in C

COM in plain C, Part 4

by Jeff Glatt

Make a COM object with multiple interfaces, in C.

COM in plain C, Part 5

by Jeff Glatt

Add a connectable object (source/sink).

COM in plain C, Part 6

by Jeff Glatt

How to write an ActiveX Script Host in C.

COM in plain C, Part 7

by Jeff Glatt

An ActiveX Script Host with custom COM objects. This allows a script to call C functions in your app.

COM in plain C, part 8

by Jeff Glatt

Miscellaneous Script Host details

COM Interface Basics

by Yaron Nir

The article is a brief introduction to what is actually going on behind the scenes of a COM interface.

COM Interface Hooking and Its Application - Part I

by Zhefu Zhang

Interaction with MSN Messenger 6.0

COM Interop the Hard Way

by keesp

A COM Newbie's Journey Through DLL Hell

COM Interoperability in .NET Framework: Part I

by Prashant M. Tailor

Using COM components in .NET framework.

COM Interview Questions

by Blue_Aqua

Good interview question COM

COM Macro Architecture Topology - Clients

by Joao C. Morais

An article about COM Architecture, COM Clients and the Registry

COM Macro Architecture Topology - Servers

by Joao C. Morais

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

COM Mailslots - Designing asynchonous COM components for VB

by Len Holgate

This example COM component provides 3 COM objects for using the Win32 Mailslot IPC mechanism. The component may be useful if you need to communicate from VB using Mailslots.

COM+ Object Pooling

by Jeremiah Talkar

An introduction to the COM+ Object Pooling service

COM+ Running Process

by M_Rizwan

Monitoring COM+ running applications.

COMLicenceFinder: A small tool able to retrieve the Runtime Licence text of ActiveX controls

by CPallini

Explains how to obtain the runtime licence of an ActiveX control in order to use it inside a script.

Command Line Tool and C# Class for Uploading Videos on Vimeo

by Andreask84

A command line tool and a simple C# class with a complete set of functions to easily upload videos on Vimeo

Comment Reflower Add-in for Visual Studio .NET

by Ian Nowland

A Visual Studio .NET 2003 add-in that reflows (rewraps) text in comments to make them easier to read.

Compact and Repair Access Database using C# and Late Binding

by Alexander Yumashev

The code compacts and repairs an MS Access database from C# code using a JRO.JetEngine COM-object. Binding occurs at runtime, no references, no interops. Pure System.Reflection.

Compact and Repair an Access Database Programmatically Using C#

by Jeremy T. Fuller

A simple method that compacts and repairs a Microsoft Access database file using the Microsoft Jet library and C# COM interop. The example code is meant to be integrated into an ASP.NET web site.

Compilers Demystified: Function Pointers in Visual Basic 6.0

by Bogdan Apostol

Enables applications written in Visual Basic 6 to use function pointers and shows how to embed native code

Complete Guide to Install SharePoint in a Three Server Farm using AutoSPInstaller

by Melick

This is a complete guide to install SharePoint in a three server farm using AutoSPInstaller

Component Category Manager wrapper classes

by Len Holgate

COM objects can be categorised using the Component Category Manager. The code here makes it easier to use these categories in your code.

Compressing attachments before sending the mail

by Karl Josefsson

Compressing attachments before sending the mail

Configuring Terraform Development Environment

by Kevin Mack

How to configure Terraform Development Environment

Control Scanners & Webcams in JavaScript

by Dynamsoft

Control Scanners & Webcams in JavaScript.

Convert Word-Documents to PDF on an ASP.NET Server

by pottwalblog

Convert Word-Documents to PDF-Files using Word 2007 on a Server

Copy Protection for Windows Applications

by Foolomon

Describes the implementation of a key registration, installation, and validation methodology for Windows applications.

Copy Protection for Windows Applications (Part 2)

by Foolomon

Describes the implementation of a key registration, installation, and validation methodology for Windows applications.

Copy Protection for Windows Applications (Part 3)

by Foolomon

Describes the implementation of a key registration, installation, and validation methodology for Windows applications

Copy Protection for Windows Applications (Part 4)

by Foolomon

Describes the implementation of a key registration, installation, and validation methodology for Windows applications

CoreObjects/GoliahCore17: *.* for plain C

by Sauro Abbondanzieri

UWP, COM, C++/WinRT, OOP in plain C. What else?

Create an Outlook 2007 Form Region by using VSTO 2008

by Helmut Obertanner

In this article, we will create a form region that shows all contacts within the same category.

Create Word table using OpenXML and C# Without Automation/Interop

by koolprasad2003

This article help you to create word table using OpenXML without interop object

Creating a COM DLL with VS 2005: Advanced Walkthrough

by CS Rocks

This article demonstrates how to manually create a COM DLL with VS 2005.

Creating a COM DLL with VS 2005: A Walkthrough

by CS Rocks

The article demonstrates how to create a COM DLL in VS2005.

Creating a Dictionary using Word Automation and Text-to-Speech Control

by pratheesh

An MFC based implementation of a MS Word Speller.

Creating a Managed Automated Information Agent (mBot)

by RTC-LCS-Developer

mBot manages multiple RTC Client objects and exposes interfaces to them via .NET Remoting and .NET Web Services so that they can be managed and used remotely by other .NET applications or by entirely different platforms such as a Java J2EE/SOAP application like Jabber IM running on Linux or Windows.

Creating a shortcut programmatically in C++

by Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer

This illustrate how to create shortcut to objects (both file and non-file like printers, folders, files. Drives, etc) in Win32 C++

Creating a Turing Machine in Rust

by Philipp_Engelmann

In this series, I am going to rewrite the Turing machine I wrote in Creating a Turing machine in Python.

Creating a Yahoo! Mail Client using IWebBrowser2 and DHTML

by pratheesh

Describes a practical use of the HTML interfaces available in C++.

Creating An ActiveX Control using VC++.NET

by Abdul Hye

An understanding of ActiveX controls.

Creating an Outlook 2010 Add-In with a Custom Send Button

by Turay Melo

This is an alternative for "Creating an Outlook 2010 Add-In"

Creating Audio CDs using IMAPI2

by Eric Haddan

Using the Image Mastering API to create Red Book Audio CDs

Creating Custom DirectShow SampleGrabber Filter for Windows Mobile

by Angel Kafazov

This article explains how to write your custom DirectShow SampleGrabber filter for Windows Mobile.

Creating DeskBands with an ATL Object Wizard

by Erik Thompson

An ATL Object Wizard that helps create a COM Object implementation of a DeskBand. Web Accessories for Internet Explorer and the Desktop. History, Favorites, Search, Radio, and Address Bands ... You have seen them since Internet Explorer 4.0. Now create your own!

Creating JavaScript arrays and other objects from C++

by imagiro

How to create JavasSript arrays and other objects from C++ code and pass them to the script.

Creating Microsoft SAPI Compliant Application(s)

by itsdkg

This article will explain how to create a Microsoft SAPI compliant Application or Integrating a TTS with SAPI.

Creating mini media player

by Gindi Bar Yahav

Creating mini media player using Windows Media Player COM

Creating System Restore Points using PInvoke

by ub3rst4r

How to create system restore points for Windows in C# with PInvoke

Custom API using .NET SDK for SQL API at Azure Cosmos DB

by Srinivasa Dinesh Parupalli

Custom APIs using .NET SDK for SQL API

Custom Functions in Excel: Part V, XLL-RTDs

by Steve L. Powell

IntroductionWhy would you want to call an RTD from an XLL? Recall that the way to call an RTD is through the RTD function in Excel, so the user needs to somehow remember how many parameters your function takes and in what order to supply them and even what the function is called. Good luck explaini

CXml - A Wrapping Class for MSXML 3.0/4.0/5.0/6.0

by Jerry.Wang

This wrapping class will try to use the latest version of MSXML in the machine, and it is easy because of using auto_ptr.

DART2 Prima Plus - Tutorial 4 - OOPS

by ThatsAlok

Object Oriented Programming in DART

Data Driven Layout in Server-side Blazor

by Jeremy Hutchinson

Data driven layout in server-side Blazor

dbAx: a C++ Library for ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)

by Ross White

C++ class wrapper for ADO

DCOM Access Denied Problem

by Shadi Al-Kahwaji

This article will walk you through configuring two computers to share a COM component as a distributed component(DCOM).

DCOM D-Mystified.NET 2003: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 1

by Brian C Hart

This tutorial guides you through the step-by-step details of how to use Visual Studio .NET 2003 to develop DCOM client/server applications.

DCOM D-Mystified.NET 2003: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 2

by Brian C Hart

We modify starter files provided by the ATL project wizard, to improve user-friendliness and provide security for our server. I also show you how to do a Replace/Replace All across the whole project.

DCOM D-Mystified.NET 2003: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 3

by Brian C Hart

In this step, we add a simple COM object to our server using the ATL Simple Object wizard. Plus, properly initialize and cleanup your COM objects with FinalConstruct() and FinalRelease().

DCOM D-Mystified.NET 2003: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 4

by Brian C Hart

Add a method, SayHello(), to the server, that fires the event which the client handles.

DCOM D-Mystified.NET 2003: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 5

by Brian C Hart

We look at connection points, and set up the server's end of one, for our simple DCOM "Hello, World!" server.

DCOM D-Mystified: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 1

by Brian C Hart

This tutorial shows you how to write DCOM software, with all the latest features, in a simple, straightforward manner.

DCOM D-Mystified: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 2

by Brian C Hart

We modify starter files, provided by the ATL COM AppWizard, to improve the user-friendliness of our server.

DCOM D-Mystified: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 3

by Brian C Hart

In this step we add a simple COM object to our server using the New ATL Object Wizard.

DCOM D-Mystified: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 4

by Brian C Hart

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

DCOM D-Mystified: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 5

by Brian C Hart

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

DCOM D-Mystified: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 6

by Brian C Hart

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

DCOM D-Mystified: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 7

by Brian C Hart

At last! We finish our tutorial by writing a client with MFC, AppWizard, and ClassWizard, like back in the good ol' days (sighhh...)

DCOM D-Mystified: Questions and Answers

by Brian C Hart

Brian's detailed answers to your most frequently asked questions about his DCOM tutorial.

DCOM Transport

by araud

Your own transport for DCOM

Dealing with Excel objects

by Ganesh_IT

This article outlines the issue faced by most developers when it comes to dealing with Excel objects. Here, you will find code that will help in getting rid of Excel objects from the memory once they are no longer required.

Debugging Through the Debugger

by Jeffrey Walton

Using WinDbg to survive in a .NET world.

DECIMAL Wrapper Class

by Jörgen Sigvardsson

A simple DECIMAL wrapper class suitable for C++ code interfacing VB scripts/OLE automation code etc.

Demonstration of OLE Automation of MS Word

by Anishcv

An article that demonstrates automation by showing how to split a MS-Word file based on Bookmarks

Designing Asynchronous Processing Using COM+ Queued Services

by Partha Kuchana

An introduction to COM+ queued services.

Desktop Alarm Clock

by Arman Ghazanchyan

The Desktop Alarm Clock is a very useful application that can perform several tasks.

Desktop Duplication API in Delphi

by Jose A Pascoa

Desktop Duplication API in Delphi

Desktop Search Application: Part 1

by Dan Letecky

Building an application that searches your Office documents in tenths of a second.

Desktop Sharing using RDP APIs and Socket

by nuclear_sun

You can share a peer's desktop with any others using this software, designate the sharer and viewers in any way you can imagine. Detailed development document and user manual can be found in the Download.

Detect CD / DVD Insertion / Ejection

by Kazi Zakir Hossain

How to detect the media insertion / ejection in ROM in VB6

Determining if Excel is in Edit mode with Win32 Interop

by Viktor Hamori

In this article, one can find a possible solution how to check or to be notified if the Excel Application is in Edit mode

Develop a Cross-Platform Document Imaging Web App

by Dynamsoft

The article will show you how to develop a cross-platform document imaging solution that works with all mainstream browsers by using ImageCapture Suite.

Develop high performance distributed applications with batching, asynchrony, and parallel computation

by Yuancai (Charlie) Ye

Performance comparison between SocketPro and .NET remoting.

Developing COM Add-ins for Microsoft Office in VB.NET

by Andrei Smolin

This article describes the ways a VB.NET developer can create a COM Add-in for Microsoft Office 2000, 2002 (XP), 2003, and 2007 in order to customize Office applications including adding UI elements and event handling.

Developing WMI Hi-Perf Provider using C++

by Anthony Dass

Developing a high-performance provider in WMI using C++.

Digital Clock & Timer ActiveX Control

by Tzoockee

This is an ActiveX control that can be used as a digital clock, or as a timer.

DirectShow Editing Services (DES) and combining AVI files

by Ian Bell, #2

A sample C++ project that uses DES to combine two or more AVI files.

DirectShow Filters - What They Are

by tanvon malik

This article is about DirectShow filters and how to create them

DirectShow Video and Audio Trimming

by Kovalev Maxim

How to cut off specified parts of media file using DirectShow

DirectX and Pure Assembly Language: Doing What Can't be Done - Part I

by CMalcheski

How to Create a Complete DirectX Game in Assembly Language

Disable Ctrl+Alt+Del Windows XP

by gabrielmaldi

A very simple way of doing it.

Discover COM. Realtime feed for Excel

by Adrian Bacaianu

This article will demonstrate how to build and use a COM Add-In using Visual Basic. An useful sample is also provided.

Discover COM: Connection Points versus Mailslots in Replication Directory.

by Adrian Bacaianu

This module is designed to solve the old problem of directory replication.

Docking ActiveX Controls: Principles and Implementation

by Dmitri Sviridov

The article decribes how to implement docking ActiveX control using MFC and ATL

Downloading Podcasts from Changelog

by Philipp_Engelmann

Due to busy lives in the 21st century, finding time to learn about new topics and keeping up to date with technological trends becomes more and more difficult.

Drag and drop Outlook attachments

by Javed Akhtar Ansari

This article demostrates how to do drag and drop Outlook attachments on a tree view node and describes the private Clipboard format of Outlook.

Driving Microsoft Word, using VOLE

by Matt (D) Wilson

An alternative take on describing the VOLE Automation library

Driving or Automating GUI Applications

by daluu

GUI automation for the purpose of driving or controlling an application via its GUI

DShow based player

by DoItFreely

a media file player based on DShow

Dynamic and Configurable Availability Zones in Terraform

by Dave Kerr

Dynamic and Configurable Availability Zones in Terraform

Dynamic Creation of DTS-packages in VB

by Andrey Chuvahin

Example dynamic configuration of DTS-packages for transferring DBF files to SQL Server with VB

Dynamic Creation of IDispatch interfaces using simple classes

by dswigger

Create dynamic objects that you can pass using IDispatch interfaces

Dynamic Events in VB.NET

by Vozzie2

How to handle dynamic, late binding, events for COM objects in VB.NET.

Dynamic Line Drawing Activex Control

by SandeepBera

Activex Control for Line Drawing at runtime

Dynamic Structures

by rahulagarwal33

allocates a memory filled with the variable with appropriate padding

Effortless ActiveX Twain Scanning with Atalasoft’s DotTwain SDK

by Richard Minerich

In general, .NET ActiveX Wrappers are painful to build and deploy. This is because there are a large number of steps involved in the building of signed .NET ActiveX Web Applications. In order to reduce the complexity of this problem, we’ve created a sample solution which works out of the box.

Elevating your application for dummies: A step-by-step guide to elevate and write in the Registry

by joseangelmt

We are going to enable your application to write entries in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, elevating your application when necessary.

Embed an HTML control in your own window using plain C

by Jeff Glatt

Specifically shows how to embed a browser OLE object in your own window, and more generally demonstrates how to manipulate and create COM/OLE objects, in plain C (ie, no MFC, WTL, ATL, .NET, C#, nor even C++). The latter is applicable to many other uses, such as creating your own script engine.

Embeddable script editor for MFC applications

by Alex Hazanov

A library that allows you to embed scripting functionality to your C++ MFC application.

Embedding .PNG Images into a RichEdit Document

by Jose A Pascoa

Although most Windows programmers have already used the RichEdit Control, many of them are not aware of all its capabilities. One such capability is image embedding.

Embedding Google Earth in a C# Application

by Joseph Armbruster

How to embed the Google Earth scene in a C# application.

Embedding of VB6 form in .NET applications

by Eduardo Campano

This article explains how to open a VB6 MDI child form inside a .NET MDI form

Embedding PowerPoint presentation player into a WPF application

by Vsevolod Belousov

In this article I explain how to embed presentation player into a WPF application and describe the way this solution was found

Emulating CoCreateInstance()

by Elias Bachaalany

Describes how to use COM objects without registration.

Enhanced Transparent Flash Control in C++

by Fred van Lieshout

OLE container implementation for hosting a Flash Player control using C++, with support for calls and callbacks between C++ and Flash ActionScript.

Event Sinks

by Doug Richards

An introduction to event sinks in C++ in the context of ATL COM Add Ins.

EVR Presenter in pure C# with Direct3D Video Rendering

by Maxim Kartavenkov

Articles describes how to make pure C# rendering video on EVR with custom presenter over Direct3D in .NET

Excel user defined functions unlimited

by HerbD

Describes how to return tables of values as the result of user defined functions (UDF) in Excel.

Excel VSTO SQL Server Browser

by Joao Tito Livio

Pull data directly from SQL Server to Excel using C# and VSTO.

Execute DTS Through VB.NET

by Suresh Suthar

How to execute DTS packages through VB.NET and use global variables.

Expand Microsoft SharePoint to Create the Ultimate Document Management Solution

by Dynamsoft

In this article, we will see how to use Dynamic Web TWAIN to acquire, edit images, and upload them to Microsoft SharePoint.

Exploring Network Configuration with the INetCfg COM Interface

by KarstenK

Getting information about installed network drivers on a PC.

Export Options in ANNdotNET

by Bahrudin Hrnjica

Export options in ANNdotNET

Export Windows Media Player Music Metadata to XML File

by andywilsonuk

A C# application that uses the Windows Media Player API to export all audio metadata to an XML file

Extending CComPtr for remote activation

by Bruno van Dooren

Extending CComPtr for remote activation of DCOM objects on a remote server, in a convenient matter

Extending COM object with runtime properties through custom interface

by Alex Hazanov

How to propogate non COM properties to COM client through custom interface

Extending Outlook with new features

by Karl Josefsson

Learn how to add buttons and how to interact with Outlook.

Extending the Internet Explorer Scripting Engine

by stereo

This article shows you how to extend IE's scripting engine by adding custom event sinks and objects

Fetching Data from Microsoft Excel using SQL

by Rashutosh Paul

How to fetch data from Microsoft Excel using SQL

File Compare And Hash extension for Windows explorer

by dmihailescu

A windows explorer extension for easy binary/text file comparisons and calculating the MD5, SHA1, SHA256 hashes.

File Explorer using Silverlight 4 COM Interoperability

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

In this article I will guide you creating a File Explorer in Silverlight 4. This step-by-step guide will help yoou understanding the API call and how to access local files, folders and drives using the Silverlight 4 COM APIs.

File Rating - a practical example of shell extension

by Emanuele Ruffaldi

A shell extension that provides a new Rating column for folders, that allows to sort files by user interest

Find in CWebBrowser Control

by jerry0davis

How to display the "Find" window in a CWebBrowser control.

Finding Undisposed Objects

by S. Senthil Kumar

An application to find undisposed objects in your .NET application.

Firing Events among ActiveX controls on IE

by Yasuhiko Yoshimura

The ActiveX control fires events to others using IConnectionPointContainer interface on the Internet Explorer.

Forms Designer Friendly Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) wrapper

by RodgerB

Create BITS copy jobs using the Forms Designer. All features of BITS are available, and easy to use managed wrapper with all COM interop details hidden.

From Table to TreeView…Displaying Hierarchies

by Steve Wellens

Who remembers Object Databases? At one time they were going to dominate the programming world. But, as with a lot of over-hyped technology (Lisp, AI, ADA, Virtual Reality) they were destined to a small niche segment of the market. Relational Databases remain king. Why? Because Relational Databases

Full Power on the Phone

by KarstenK

Emporing C++ on the Windows Phone 8.0

Fully Control Your Webcam in Your Web Browser with Dynamsoft

by Dynamsoft

Capture images and video streams from your webcams in IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera.

Fun with Google Text To Speech eBook reader using minimalistic approach

by Ladislav Nevery

Let Google read your eBooks aloud or convert to MP3! This free TTS engine used by Android phone just sounds fantastic so here is a simple eBook reader app with C++ source code

Function Call Tracing in JScript

by Keith Skilling

Comprehensive JScript function call tracing without code modification.

Functors in VBA

by Yiannis Spyridakis

This articles describes the implementation of functors (of sorts) for VBA using C++ ATL.

Generating IDL and Manifest Files with TypeLibInfoTool

by Federico Aponte

An application to inspect a COM TypeLib and generate IDL and .manifest files. The tool is made as an HTML application using JavaScript for the logic.

Get all the types a COM object implements

by David Thielen

How to return all types that a COM object implements.

Getting an (ATL) ActiveX control to print from Office Applications

by Peter Mares

Getting an ActiveX control to be printable from within an Office application can be difficult. This article shows you why, and how to make things work.

Getting Started with VB.NET's Microsoft Outlook Standard Plugin Creator

by Erwin Wolff

Getting started with VB.NET's Microsoft Outlook standard plugin creator

Getting the Excel Range object from the Clipboard through the IStream interface

by Alexey Merson

This article demonstrates how to get the Excel Range object from the Clipboard using the CF_LINKSOURCE Clipboard format.

Global Interface Table: An Easy Way to Marshal an Interface Pointer

by ThatsAlok

An easy way to marshal your interface pointer between threads!

Google Map Joiner

by kesmellon

Merge some small print-screen maps to a big one

Gracefully shutting down Outlook from a .NET application using AppDomain

by jmh1000

Shows how to utilize Outlook automation without leaving a mess behind.

H.264 CUDA Encoder DirectShow Filter in C#

by Maxim Kartavenkov

Article describes how to make H.264 Video Encoder DirectShow Filter using NVIDIA encoder API in C#

Handling .NET forms and their events in VB6 main application

by Emad Al-Ashi

How to handle .NET forms (and their events ) used as objects in legacy VB6 application.

Handling Touch, Pen, or Mouse Digitizer input in your .NET Application

by Todd Landstad

A simple application that shows how you can determine whether user input is from a mouse, tablet digitizer, or touch.

Handling VB ActiveX Events in Visual C++ Client

by Amit Dey

This article shows how to handle custom events generated in a VB ActiveX component in a Visual C++ client.

Harnessing the task scheduler

by Software Developer's Journal

Using the Task Scheduler interface in applications can be tricky, as it requires a detailed knowledge of the COM technology. This article presents a practical solution to this problem, based on simplifying communications with the interface.

Hello World in COM using ATL

by Imran Ebrahim

The objective of this tutorial is to demonstrate how to build a COM Server and an MFC Client using Visual C++ 6.0. We are going to develop a COM server that takes in a string as input parameter and returns the string prefixed with a "Hello".

Hex Converter

by Mukesh Gupta

Converts a lump of binary/text data to hex format.

Hooking the Real COM Objects: Intercepting IHTMLDocument3 Functions

by Yonghwi Kwon

This article presents a problem on hooking real COM objects and shows solutions on it.

Host Silverlight Control in C++ using ATL

by Syed Aftab Naqvi

Hosting Silverlight control in C++ using ATL

How I Came to Love COM Interoperability

by L. Michael

This article provides a practical approach for exposing a .NET assembly to COM.

How the new C# dynamic type can simplify access to a late bound COM object

by Igor Merabishvili

Explains how the new dynamic type can simplify access to late bound COM objects.

How to avoid stubborn Windows applications from showing up

by Matchpoint

How to avoid stubborn Windows applications from showing up.

How To Build an Assembly that Exposes Win32 APIs and Native COM Objects

by dmihailescu

Make managed and unmanaged calls into a DLL library

How to Call CoEEShutDownCom in .NET Framework 4.0 and Use It to Solve Hang Issue When Connection Point Being Used Between .NET and Native COM Object

by Simon M Li

Force .NET Framework release RCW objects when necessary

How to Create Outlook AddIN / Plugin

by chaitanya shah

When i had searched on the net I found out that there is too less information for outlook addin creation in vc.I was only getting vb application on then Internet so here I have created application with all web site link which I found helpful to you. Now You can create plugin in vc easily.

How to develop your own Boot Loader

by Apriorit Inc, Alex Kolesnyk

This article describes the first steps in low-level programming on the example of developing of simple boot loader

How to Find a COM Object Connected to Internet Explorer

by Yonghwi Kwon

An article on how to retrieve information from a COM object to determine COM DLL filename.

How to find the name for interfaces implemented by a COM object

by Mikelangelo

The article descibes how can you find the interfaces implemented by a COM object

How to generate a log file in VC++ or Embedded VC++ (For Pocket PC or WinCE devices)

by kishore Gaddam

Log generation functions including COM error information logging and MFC exception information logging.

How to Harness the Power of XHTML and XForms in your .NET Applications

by Phil Booth

XForms is an important recommendation from the W3C that enables complex XML-handling applications to be defined in a simple, declarative syntax. This article demonstrates how you can leverage this power in your own applications.

How to Integrate an OLE Object with SQL Server

by Md. Marufuzzaman

This article will demonstrate how we can integrate T-SQL with an external application.

How to Integrate C# Window in C++ Project

by Daniel Yanovsky

This article describes how to integrate C# Window Form in C++ Project

How to Make PHP Barcode Reader with Windows COM Object?

by Dynamsoft

This article illustrates how to implement an online barcode reader using PHP and Windows Component Object Model (COM).

How to Migrate SQL Database to Azure SQL Database using SSMS Deploy

by Vivek Johari

This post discusses how to migrate SQL database to Azure SQL database using SSMS deploy.

How to Migrate SQL Database to Azure SQL Database using SSMS Export/Import

by Vivek Johari

Migrating SQL Database to Azure SQL Database using SSMS Export/Import Contents

How to operate controls in an HTML file, using C++

by Johnson Zhou

A class can operate on HTML in reusing Web browser.

How to Read in Memory Code of .NET Application Protected with Anti-Reflector

by Igor Ladnik

Technique to obtain in memory code of running .NET application (even wrapped into unmanaged code for binary files anti-reflection) is presented and implemented with workable sample

How to Script Out SQL Server Objects

by ozkary

A VBScript script which allows to script out all the SQL Server objects in each independent file

How to Support the Ribbon and a Menu in the Same Executable

by Paul M. Parks

You can provide a Ribbon in Windows 7, but still support menu input, while only releasing one executable.

How to use .NET C# COM objects in plain C

by Qmpel7

Step-by-step walkthrough to communicate C classes with COM objects created in C#.

How to use DAO in Visual C++ without MFC

by Yuriy Tkachenko

Use the #import directive and discover the DAO type library.

How to Use GPU in VBA/Excel

by Excel-lent

This article shows how to compile and execute OpenCL code from VBA.

How to Use IMessageFilter: the complete edition

by Ohad Redlich

This article shows you exactly how to create a COM object that uses IMessageFilter - both in client and server sides.

How to Use the IMessageFilter

by Ohad Redlich

This article explains how to use the IMessageFilter.

How to Validate COM Interface

by Yonghwi Kwon

Explains how to validate COM interface and legacy IsValidateInteface

How to write an updatable ActiveX control for web page in VB6

by Matt Sciotto

This article will explain how to write an embeddable ActiveX control to use in a web page, that can be updated and reinstalled from the web page.

HTML Control

by Oleg Izmerly

A simple and powerful library for HTML based GUI

HTTP Monitor for Webbrowser Control

by abhinav_soni

The ATL COM DLL that captures requests from individual Webbrowser Control

IBAN Verification in C#, Excel Automation Add-in, Word SmartTag

by Serdar Altug

IBAN verification algorithm in C# and used in Excel UDF and Word SmartTag.

Icon,Contextmenu,Column and Tooltip handler in c#

by ashwanisihag

Extend windows shell in c#.

Image Scanning & Uploading in Web App

by Dynamsoft

Image Scanning & Uploading in Web App

Implementation and Subscription for the SENS Network Events Component

by --==## Andy74 ##==--

How to detect network connections using the SENS Network Events component.

Implementing a TextReader to extract various files contents using IFilter

by alex_zero

A solution that can extract various file contents using an IFilter implementation. Special thanks to Eyal Post and his article 'Using IFilter in C# '.

Implementing COM Interfaces with C++0x Variadic Templates

by Kirill Osipov

A step-by-step illustration of a minimalistic pattern for implementing a series of COM interfaces with little code

Importing contacts from Outlook

by Deepesh Dhapola

Exmaple source code to import items from Outlook using the Office/Outlook Object Model.

Indian Prime Minister 2019 Live Poll – Analysis using Microsoft Form, Microsoft Flow and Power BI Live

by Rajat-Indiandotnet

Live Poll – Analysis using Microsoft Form, Microsoft Flow and Power BI Live

In-process Servers and DCOMCNFG Utility

by George Poulose

Discusses DLL surrogates and how legacy in-process components can participate in a distributed environment

Inside COM

by sbaladevan

COM without the complexity. To put it simply, inside COM is written for you.

Installation IDs Based on Truncated Hashing

by Jeffrey Walton

Create Semi-Anonymous Installation Fingerprints Using Truncated Hashing and Crypto++

Installing and Using side-by-side native assemblies from C# and MC++

by akiran

This article details how to create, install and use side-by-side native assemblies from C# and MC++.

Integrate Microsoft Dynamics Axapta with Temperature Conversion C# Application - Part II

by abhishek pareek2009

This article will demonstrate that after sending the data from Axapta to Temperature conversion application, how we can post back the converted temperature to Axapta.

Integrate the latest MSDN with VC6 and Hook functions of COM

by Chunhua Liu

Integrate the latest MSDN with VC6 and Hook functions of COM.

Integrating WCF and HTML5 to monitor system resources

by gtheta

Overall architecture of a monitoring system.

Intercepting Calls to COM Interfaces

by Volodymyr Shamray, Apriorit Inc

In this article, I’m going to describe how to implement COM interface hooks.

Interface-based Programming, Runtime Class Discovery, Dynamic Class Loading from DLL

by steveb

Interface-based programming, Runtime class discovery, Dynamic class loading from DLL

Internet Explorer Late Binding Automation

by yincekara

Internet Explorer automation sample code using late binding, without Microsoft.mshtml and shdocvw dependency.

Interoping .NET and C++ through COM

by Marius Bancila

Create COM visible types in C# and consume them from C++

Interoping .NET and C++ through Registration-free COM

by Marius Bancila

Using managed COM objects in C++ without registering the server in Windows Registry

Introduction to COM - What It Is and How to Use It.

by Michael Dunn

A tutorial for programmers new to COM that explains how to reuse existing COM components, for example, components in the Windows shell.

Introduction to COM Part II - Behind the Scenes of a COM Server

by Michael Dunn

A tutorial for programmers new to COM that explains the internals of COM servers, and how to write your own interfaces in C++

Introduction to Interop with Outlook, VSTO and C#

by Christoph Schick

This article shows you how to create an Outlook addin with VSTO and read some information about contacts

Introduction to Microsoft Active Accessibility

by Joseph Dempsey

This article details is one in a series dedicated to explaining the MSAA architecture and how to use it

Introduction to the Volume Shadow Copy Service API in C++

by didierjeanphi

Introduction to Volume Shadow Copy API in C++

iPod touch UI

by Dr.Luiji

It's a Media Player that works with transparency effects, plays MP3 and Wav files, displays the tag if present, and displays the album art image if present.

IProgressDialog .NET

by Igor Velikorossov

A .NET wrapper for IProgressDialog interface and a COM object to allow use of the standard Windows progress dialog with AVI animation and built-in time remaining calculation.

ISCSI development tutorial on Windows

by Kushagra Tiwari

This article will help you to integrate ISCSI functionalities available on Windows with your base application in C++

IWebBrowser2 Wrapper Class

by David Johns

A class that wraps the IWebBrowser2 interface of Microsoft Internet Explorer to enable you to browse, print and save web content programatically

Java: Retrieving User's Information, Such As Email and Position, from Active Directory Using COM4J

by Ohad Redlich

This article shows how Java application can retrieve user's data from the Active Directory

JavaScript call from C++

by Eugene Khodakovsky

A class for easy implementation of JavaScript calls from C++ code.

JavaScript function access from plain C++: An example

by davemaster99

How to execute JavaScript functions with parameters from C++ code.

JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript: Chapter 2

by raddevus

JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript

JException - Have Meaningful Exceptions in C++

by Yalon Lotan

C++ exceptions with embedded stack trace and cause.

LambdaTest Selenium Testing Tool Tutorial with Examples in 2019

by Haseeb A. Basil

LambdaTest Selenium Testing Tool Tutorial with examples in 2019

Launch and control MSIE using IWebBrowser2

by klein_jr

A simple interface for launching MSIE and controlling IE components.

Learning Azure Functions: Creating Azure Functions in Visual Studio 2017

by Akhil Mittal

How to create Azure functions in Visual Studio 2017

LED Candle Light with Timer

by hjgode

LED candle light with timer

Let's customize Google to show previous searches

by HiteshSharma

The application adds a custom button and a few anchor elements on Google page which link to a previously searched text on google.

LevelDB DLL for Windows - A New Approach to Exporting C++ Classes from a DLL

by John Bandela

Describes a build of leveldb for windows that works in both g++ and visual c++ using the same dll

LicenceProvider

by CPallini

A small COM component (DLL) enabling scrips to provide Runtime Licence text for ActiveX controls.

by Priyank Bolia

An automation client that connects to the automation server for verifying user ID and password.

by Priyank Bolia

A remote login automation example used over the network by DCOM.

by Priyank Bolia

An automation server that verifies the user ID and password from a MS-Access database for the remote client.

Lotus Notes COM Class Wrapper for .NET

by LeeBear

This is just a VB.NET class wrapper for the Lotus Notes interfaces.

Low Latency Audio using ASIO Drivers in .NET

by Rob Philpott

Demonstrates access to your sound hardware with ASIO drivers

LyricsFetcher - The Easiest Way to Find Lyrics for your Songs

by Phillip Piper

An article describing the development of a non-trivial C#/.NET application to fetch lyrics for songs.

Make your Skype Bot in .NET

by Praveen Nair (NinethSense)

This article explains how to make a Skype bot in .NET.

Managed Code Error Reporting

by cjbarth

Module to generate a MiniDump on unhandled errors and allow the user to handle the error.

Managed Word Add-in: The Initial Design

by Pavan K Kulkarni

This article looks at all the options available and trades-off each of them for developing a Word add-in. It aims to help the developer choose the best option according to the requirements.

Managing the Unmanaged Code

by Bala Rajesh

Managed C++ wrapper to a native C++ library

MebhiChokiDAR – Tweet Sentiment Analysis and More Using Microsoft Flow

by Rajat-Indiandotnet

How to do sentiment analysis using few clicks and see live graphical representation using Power BI live feed

Memory(-Leak) and Exception Trace (CRT and COM Leaks)

by Jochen Kalmbach [MVP VC++]

With this utility you can simply find memory leaks (CRT and COM) in your program (with almost no time-cost during runtime). Each leak is written to a file with the callstack of the allocation.

Method Enumeration in ATL COM Components

by s.prabhakarreddy

Explains Enumerating Methods in ATL COM

MFC Active Document Servers

by Maciej Pirog

An article about MFC Active Documents (things that you can put into Wordpad, Excel, Word and other applications documents)

MFC GDI+ ActiveX Arrow Control For Excel

by Hing

An article on how to create an ActiveX control for Excel, and the technique to create an arrow using GDI+, some secondary school mathematics here, and some technique to link cell with Excel.

Microsft Visual Studio 2005 Doxygen Add-In

by aleksey_m_t

MSVS Add-in for Doxygen documentation system

Microsoft Interop API to convert the .doc, .docx, .dot, .dotx and .xls,.xlsx, .rtf to HTML

by Vijay Tanwar

Convert Word documents, Excel sheets to HTML files using Microsoft Office Interop API and render the result back to a client browser.

Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File Version Changer

by kim.david.hauser

Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File Version Changer - for Visual Studio versions 2002, 2003, 2005, 2008 and 2010

Minimalist In-Process Interface Marshaling

by Catalin Patulea

Implementing in-process cross-apartment COM interface marshaling without type libraries or registry changes.

Modal Analysis of Plane Truss using Python

by Bhairav Thakkar

Basic modal analysis for dynamic response of structures in Python

MP3, Wav, and PCM Audio Recorder Using iTunes in C#

by Lukasz Kwiecinski, Istrib, Ed Nutting

A program that integrates with iTunes and DirectSound to record music

MS Office OLE Automation Using C++

by Naren Neelamegam

A simple guide to automate MS Word and MS Excel using C++.

MSI for a .NET COM Component with NAnt

by stoyac

Creating MSI with NAnt.

MSN Floating Personal Message

by cagatay.yildir.im

Showing floating text message on the MSN Messenger as a personal message

MSN Messenger Timer AddIn

by Talha Ekram

An article on Messenger AddIn development using Timers

Multidevice ASIO output plugin for WinAMP

by Domagoj Šarić

A tiny WinAMP output DLL that uses a C++ replacement of the official ASIO SDK that supports multiple ASIO devices.

Multimedia Transcoding Across Multiple Computers with LEADTOOLS

by LEADTOOLS Support

The benefits of grid and distributed computing are well established and indisputable. However, implementing them can be a nightmare – converting audio/video files in separate chunks can result in video hiccups and out of sync audio – but not with LEADTOOLS!

Multiple Precision Arithmetic: A Multiplication Algorithm

by Andrea Simonassi

The first and simplest of the multiplication algorithms, fast enough to multiply not too large numbers

Music Notation in Blazor - Part I

by Ajcek84

Client-side music notation rendering in Blazor

Muting All Microphones on Vista/Win7

by Alex Fotios

How to enumerate and mute all audio capture endpoints using Core Audio API

Muting all microphones on WinXP

by Alex Fotios

How to enumerate and mute all microphone components under all mixer devices using the Audio Mixer API

NASA Space Shuttle TV Schedule Transfer to Outlook Calendar

by RalphHightower

NASA Space Shuttle Mission Schedule reads Excel files published by NASA containing the television schedule for Space Shuttle missions and provides the ability to enter and update the schedule in Outlook’s Calendar.

Native & Managed Interop Made Simple

by Filipe Pereira

This article presents a simple calculator component example by using COM Interoperability basics.

Native (Delphi) callbacks in .NET (C#) COM assembly

by Issam Ali

How to pass native (Delphi) callback pointer to a .net COM assembly

Notifying Windows Explorer about files in use

by Lukasz Sw.

How to notify Windows Explorer about which files are used and locked by your application.

Number Speller COM-ponent

by Adrian Dorache

Component used to convert a numeric value into English/Romanian words in Excel

Numerical Methods in C++ Part 1: Newton-Cotes Integration

by thoughts-on-coding

Implementation of Numerical Integrations with Trapezoidal and Simpson Rule Approach

Numerical Methods with C++ Part 3: Root Approximation Algorithms

by thoughts-on-coding

Implementation of Root Approximation Algorithms such as Bisection, Newton, Dekker and Brent

ObjectLookup Utility

by Christian S Andersen

A small utility for looking up an object based on a CLSID or progid

Office Web Components - Line Graph (Date as X-Axis)

by chkmos

This is an article about using line graph in Office Web Components, where date is used in the X-Axis.

OPC Technology

by .Suchit

COM/OLE based technology for Process Control - An Overview.

OpenCover and ReportGenerator Unit Test Coverage in Visual Studio 2013 and 2015

by frez

OpenCover and ReportGenerator Unit Test Coverage in Visual Studio 2013 and 2015

Outlook add-in integrating Skype

by Cristian Amarie

Outlook add-in integration for Skype IM: Skype events, Outlook Skype ribbon, and more.

Outlook add-in to unlock blocked attachments in .NET

by TheCodeKing

An Outlook add-in written in .NET which allows blocked file attachments to be unlocked.

Outlook add-in using VC++ ATL/COM

by Gokulnath007

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

Outlook Drag and Drop in C#

by David Ewen

How to drag and drop multiple Outlook mail messages or message attachments to a C# WinForm.

Outlook2003 AddIN / Plugin Moving Items(Mail)

by chaitanya shah

Whenever new mail is coming to inbox AddIN will move that mail to specific folder inside inbox.

Overriding MFC's Default Client Site to Implement IServiceProvider

by R Hartman

Describes how to override the default control container provided by MFC in order to provide a custom client site for provisioning of services to ActiveX controls hosted by the container.

Part 2: Overcoming Windows 8.1's Deprecation of GetVersionEx and GetVersion APIs

by Ehsan A Samani

Get Windows Version from WMI

Passing C++ classes across DCOM

by Eugene Khodakovsky

Two classes that provide richer interfaces and easier semantics to pass classes via COM/DCOM

Passing C++ Object in ATL DLL Server

by Uttam Kumar Unik!

This article explains how to pass a C++ object across a COM server.

PHP Executed From ActiveX

by Daaron

Execute PHP without having to install PHP.

Placing images in Excel using automation

by Keith Thoresz

How to place pictures in Excel programmatically

Play AVI files in Silverlight 4 using MediaElement and MediaStreamSource

by Amir Eshaq

This code demostrates how to use Silverlight with OOB+elevated trust to play a local video (.avi).

Play Wave file with DirectSound and display its spectrum in real time

by jackyxinli

An article to show how to play a Wave file with DirectSound and display its spectrum in real time.

Pluggable Components using Component Categories - Part II

by Zac Howland

An article on using component categories to create pluggable components

Pluggable Components using Component Categories Part I

by Zac Howland

An article on using component categories to create pluggable components

PngSkin - Per Pixel Forms Skin

by Rajneesh Noonia

PngSkin – ActiveX Control used to apply eye catching skins to Windows Forms with minimal code

Portable JRE API Hooking (IAT)

by Thilak Raj S

Making JRE truely portable by API hooking.

PowerPoint timer (addin)

by hevesir

Timer clock for PowerPoint 2007 (PPT add-in).

PreTranslateMessage (and TAB + ARROW key) Support in Modeless Dialogs inside COM/ActiveX

by Mukit, Ataul

A solution to the problem of PreTranslateMessage not being called for modeless dialogs inside COM/Active-X. It also addresses the problem of Arrow and Tab keys not working inside COM/ActiveX

Pretty IE Toolbar in C#

by Alexandr Golovanov

The article describes the work principles and ways of use of IEToolbarEngine. This is a toolbar for Internet Explorer, which has a reusable architecture.

Prevent attacks on your website

by PSK_

Using a simple example, I'll explain how to prevent a program that can register thousands of dummy users to your database and play with your database and application performance.

Printing ActiveX Controls

by Andrew Wirger

Printing ActiveX Controls

Problem due to insufficient privileges on Component Services to IIS Users

by Abhishek Joshi

When we use COM components in our application sometimes an error occurs stating that the API failed, which is from the COM component. This article will help solve this problem.

Procedural Smiles - Animating SVG with Pure JavaScript

by Dave Kerr

How to animate SVG with pure JavaScript

Programmable Vector Graphics

by StasSV

Creating vector graphics editor, implementing vector graphics ActiveX.

Programmatic administration of COM+ Applications with the COM+ Admin objects in VC++

by Ranjeet Chakraborty

An introduction to the COM+ administration objects used to provide a way to access and manipulate all of the COM+ configuration data.

Programming control point application using the UPnP Control Point API

by amatecki

The article describes how to use the Microsoft's UPnP Control Point API for finding and controlling UPnP devices, and includes a description of simple library to facilitate the application of Control Point API in your own programs, together with an example of MFC and WinForms applications.

Programming Microsoft Agent in Windows Forms

by Mohammad Elsheimy

Learn how to program with Microsoft Agent in Windows Forms applications

Protect word document using C# and Word Automation

by koolprasad2003

This article explain you How to protect word document using C# and Word automation

Pure .NET DirectShow Filters in C#

by Maxim Kartavenkov

Article describes how to make DirectShow Filters in .NET, it consist of BaseClasses and couple of samples

RC Car Control Programming

by solalem

High level design of RC car with programming the microcontroller and user interface on a PC

Read M4A tags in C#

by jesseseger

How to read M4A file information such as author and song title.

Read Write Excel file with OLEDB in C# (without Interop)

by koolprasad2003

Read write Excel file without interop using OLEDB in C#

Reading and Writing Messages in Outlook Express

by Pablo Yabo

This article was done to provide an example of IStoreNamespace / IStoreFolder.

Reading Barcodes from an Image in a Web App

by Dynamsoft

This article will show you how to decode barcodes from an image captured or scanned in a web application with the help of ImageCapture Suite.

Reading contents of Web Folders in C#

by Roman Koreshkov

An analysis of the different ways of getting the list of files in a web folder (including SharePoint) programmatically, and a simple solution. The sample code is for C# 2.0.

Reading quota information on an NTFS volume

by David Crow

A class wrapping most of the functionality of the IDiskQuotaControl interface.

RealNews - WinForms RSS Reader similar to FeedReader

by Mehdi Gholam

I tried out many other RSS readers like RSSOwl (which is also unsupported) but none of them felt right, so I decided to write my own.

Real-time video image processing / frame grabber using a minimalistic approach

by Ladislav Nevery

Probably the simplest possible sample for video image grabber on Windows. Supports AVI, MPG, QTV, Webcam,TVTuner, etc.

Receiving Events from late-bound COM servers

by Uwe Keim

An article demonstrating how to receive events from a late-bound COM server using Microsoft Word as an example COM server.

Recursive Assertions Obscure The Real Problem with a Phantom Assertion

by CurtD

Assertions are a very effective debugging tool for C/C++ code. But, a very subtle problem exists with assertions that can cause you to waste a lot of debugging time chasing the wrong problem.

Reference counted smart pointer

by orouit

This article presents a solution to manage pointers in C++ in a similar way as COM.

Referencing binary incompatible versions of COM components in Visual Studio .NET

by Sriram Chitturi

This tutorial explains how to configure Visual Studio .NET projects when working with COM components whose binary compatibility is broken but the library name and method signatures are retained.

Registering a COM DLL with VS 2005: A Walk-Through

by CS Rocks

This article demonstrates how to register a COM DLL with Visual Studio 2005.

Registering any COM component through coding

by Jigar Mehta

Registering any COM component through coding.

Registration Free Activation of .NET Assembly with fox-pro Application through COM and SXS

by Mohammed Abdulla (ABSS)

Step by step procedure to xcopy deploy .NET assembly into fox-pro application

regsvr42: Generate SxS Manifest Files from Native DLLs for Registration-Free COM

by Cristian Adam

This tool will spy on COM registration process and create side by side (SxS) manifest file(s)

regsvr42: Generate SxS Manifest Files from Native DLLs for Registration-Free COM

by fahadzukie

This is an alternative for "regsvr42: Generate SxS Manifest Files from Native DLLs for Registration-Free COM"

Remote Assistance in XP: Programmatically establish an RDP session

by Michael Chourdakis

The way to automate the help assistant process in C++ without dirty scripting code.

Remote connection point

by whitesurfer

Client in client PC gets info from server in server PC by connection point

Remote NT Service Control COM Component and WPF Client Application

by deBUGer!

Sample application demonstrating variety of MS technologies

Removing Macro from Microsoft Word 2003, Word 2007

by senguptaamlan

This utility program can be used for removing macros from Microsoft Word 2007

Replacing ICON resources in EXE and DLL files

by Maria Nadejde

An easy example of how to read a *.ico file and how to replace an icon resource.

Replacing sp_depends with sys.dm_sql_referencing_entities and sys.dm_sql_referenced_entities

by Manjuke Fernando

How to replace sp_depends with sys.dm_sql_referencing_entities and sys.dm_sql_referenced_entities

Resolving Variants

by Fabian von Romberg

Dereferincing and resolving Variants and IDispatch

Reverse Geocoding with C# and MapPoint 2009

by james.wren

Use C# and MapPoint 2009 to find a street address from a latitude/longitude.

Rotating Passwords in Active Directory

by dB.

A tool to rotate Windows Active Directory passwords.

RTSP Server Made Easy with LEADTOOLS

by LEADTOOLS Support

RTSP Server Made Easy with LEADTOOLS

Running Any Command Line exe Remotely Using the Process Class

by Dan Randolph

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

Running Object Table: Provider in .NET, consumer in MFC

by bjdodo

Two example classes: one in C# that registers itself to the ROT, the other one in MFC/C++ that is using that object

RunTime COM Object Inspection

by TRiVo

How to inspect COM object contents at runtime.

Runtime Generated WCF Service Exposing .NET or COM Types

by Igor Ladnik

A WCF service wrapper is generated at runtime around a .NET or COM type to expose its interface.

SafeCOMWrapper - Managed Disposable Strongly Typed safe wrapper to late bound COM

by Omar Al Zabir

Make version independent COM wrapper using late bound calls yet providing strongly type and disposable interfaces. A version independent managed Outlook Automation Library.

SCCM 2007 User Interactive Task Sequence

by Joshua Lunsford

This is a tutorial on expanding the behavior of a SCCM 2007 Task Sequence to interact with a user

Scientific Data Visualizer

by Alexander Chernosvitov

ActiveX component for 3D visualization, embedded in different client applications.

ScreenCapture: Single Header DirectX Library with HDR ability

by Michael Chourdakis

DirectX hardware screen capture and encoding with audio mixing capabilities. H264/H265/VP80/VP90/FLAC/MP3. HDR supported.

Search User in SAP and LDAP Databases or Create User in SAP

by snp157

Use Bapi in C#

Secure BSTR and Other Data Wrappers

by Philip Painter

This atricle introduces a secure wrapper framework for any in-memory data class and discusses its application to the Microsoft bstr_t and CComBSTR wrappers for the COM data type BSTR.

Send Fax with fax-modem in C#

by Md. Faroque Hossain

Sending Faxes with fax-modem and telephone line in C#

Send Lotus Notes Email Using C#

by kheaton1111

How to send email to Lotus Notes from C#.

Sending an array of doubles from Excel VBA to C# (using COM interop)

by smurfy34

Tips on sending an array of data from an Excel VBA to C#.

Sensor API: Make your Win32 applications environment-aware in Windows 7

by Michael Chourdakis

A "Sensor Explorer" demonstration of the Sensor API in Windows 7.

Sentiment Analysis using ANNdotNET

by Bahrudin Hrnjica

Sentiment analysis using ANNdotNET

Serialization of COM objects using MFC

by Pierre Chalamet

A neat way to use MFCs built in serialization to store COM objects

Service Manager

by Tina83

Search the service based on the description

SFMT in Action: Part II – Object oriented implementation of SIMD-oriented Fast Mersenne Twister (SFMT) in C#

by Emre Özgür İnce

The new SIMD-oriented Fast Mersenne Twister (SFMT) library was developed using object oriented technologies such as UML, composition, aggregation, generalization, multiplicity, and Design Patterns.

SharePoint 2016 Installation using AutoSPInstaller Online Part 1 – Setting up the Environment and Service Accounts

by Melick

SharePoint 2016 Installation using AutoSPInstaller Online - how to set up the environment and service accounts

SharpBITS.NET - A Wrapper for the BITS API

by xidar

A BITS wrapper library for .NET 2.0.

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

by Alex Blekhman

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

Showing an animated image over running video

by tanvon malik

An easy class which hides all nastiness of DirectShow, and helps in showing an image over playing video, and you can also control the image's transparency. Briefly described is how to do this all.

Simple Example to show the functioning of ActiveX control with VB client in ATL COM

by MADHANMOHAN

Using an ActiveX control in COM Server. Accessing the Server using a VB Client.

Single class object for multiple COM classes

by Dinesh Ahuja

Creation of multiple COM object types using a single Class Factory implementation

Sinking connection points in C++ objects

by Len Holgate

Sometimes it would be nice to be able to use a simple C++ object as a sink for Connection Point notifications. This article shows you how.

Sinking events from managed code in unmanaged C++

by Uri Kogan

Raising events in managed code and sinking it in unmanaged C++.

Skin Based ActiveX Control to Change Mic and Speaker Voice Intensity

by m_ali_

A skin based ActiveX control to change mic and speaker voice intensity.

Skype Status Changer

by savbace

Change Skype status when user locks Windows.

Skype4COM Event Handler Example for ALL Skype API Messages

by TheUberOverLord

Monitors All Skype4COM and API Messages for Skype Includes Command Input. Shows What Goes On Behind The Scenes with Skype Message Processing using the API and Skype4COM Library. Includes Microsoft ClickOnce Deployment Technology As Well As ClickOnce Automatic Updates Examples. A Must Have Tool!

Sleeper Music Player

by Mickster04

A playlist player for Windows that ends at a user specified time

SMTP Client ActiveX component

by Kashif Manzoor

An SMTP Client ActiveX component, that can be used in ASP, VC, VB, Excel etc.

Socks Wrapper

by M Ravi Kiran

Establishes socket through Socks Proxy version 4 and version 5

Solving Jumble Puzzles Using a Recursive Algorithm

by Gary Stafford

Find all words that can be derived from a character string using recursion, LINQ, and COM

Source code generator for any data type

by Guillaume Hanique

How to extend Visual Studio so it can generate code for any data type.

SP Numeric Edit Control

by Sergei_VP

Masked numeric edit ActiveX control.

Spell Check in .NET without adding a reference ahead of time - version agnostic!

by puschusb

Run Spell Check in your .NET apps through any version of Word, without having to make a reference at design time.

Spokes SDK 5-Minute Quick-Start Blog!

by Plantronics

Spokes SDK 5-Minute Quick-start blog!

Spring Boot 2 – REST Exceptions

by James A. Brannan

Spring Boot 2 – REST Exceptions

STA threading model issues

by Leon Finker

Describes STA threading issues

Standard of Excellence

by Dmitry Khudorozhkov

Learn how to integrate MS Excel functionality with your JScript/WSH scripting solutions.

STL Compliant Class for SafeArrays

by Julian Brown

Encapsulates the details of SafeArray in a manner consistent with STL. Hides all the messy details.

Stock Quote Add-In For Excel 2007

by Jürgen Bäurle

Creating an MSN-like Stock Quotes add-in for Excel 2007 using User-Defined Functions and Ribbons.

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

by Len Holgate

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

Streaming Server using Direct Show and Windows Media Format

by R@jeev K R

A simple streaming server using Direct Show and Windows Media Format SDK

Symbols File Locator

by marc ochsenmeier

How to use the Debug Interface Access (DIA) Application Programming Interface to locate the debug symbols file referenced by an assembly.

System - Virtual Desktop Manager

by Damian Suess

Xeno Innovations' - Virtual Desktop Manager allows you to run 4 different desktops without filling up the taskbar and minimized GDI usage. (virtual window manager vdm vwm)

Take a Photo from a Desktop Webcam and Upload in a Web Browser with Dynamsoft

by Dynamsoft

Control web cameras or the built-in laptop webcams inside IE, Firefox and Chrome with JavaScript.

Talk to Sun One LDAP with .NET DirectoryServices

by rogwabbit5

Add, Update, Delete and Search Sun One LDAP with .NET DirectoryServices

Task Manager for Windows Mobile and Windows CE

by Werner Willemsens

Source code for writing your own Task Manager for Windows Mobile or Windows CE based devices

Test Driven Development - Automate COM+ Administration Task

by Venkata Kancharla

A Test Driven Development approach for automating the COM+ Administration Task.

Testing using Newman on TFS with Docker

by Santosh Vijay Patil

Continuous Testing using Newman (Postman) on TFS 2017 with Docker

The Business Object Hierarchy Tree [For those who can't code or design]

by RedSunBeer

An article on system design

The COM Macro-Architecture Topology

by Joao C. Morais

An article about COM Architecture, and deployment of COM Clients and COM Servers

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Shell Extensions - Part I

by Michael Dunn

A step-by-step tutorial on writing shell extensions

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Shell Extensions - Part VII

by Michael Dunn

A tutorial on using owner-drawn menus in a context menu shell extensions, and on making a context menu extension that responds to a right-click in a directory background.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Shell Extensions - Part VIII

by Michael Dunn

A tutorial on adding columns to Explorer's details view via a column handler shell extension.

The 'dynamic' keyword for higher productivity: Windows Firewall API example

by Sandrino Di Mattia

This dynamic keyword can be put to good use when doing COM. And in turn, you could be more productive when you need to complete tasks regarding the Windows API (that expose COM functionality).

The Explorer Imperative

by Jaxon7

File System Viewer with Font Zoom

The Explorer Imperative - Partie Trois

by Jaxon7

Restoring UI Responsiveness FromContinuations (Asynch file IO)

The Mini Shell Extension Framework – Part I

by Victor Derks

Discussion of a small C++ framework to create Windows shell extensions.

The Simplest COM Tutorial in Visual Studio 2008

by Zhiwei Liu

A beginner's guide to creating COM/DCOM server and client under .NET 2008 environment.

The Windows Native Ribbon Part 1.5: Laying out Controls and Groups

by Michael Dunn

This article describes how to lay out controls in the Windows native Ribbon

The Windows Native Ribbon Part 2: Setting Ribbon Properties at Runtime

by Michael Dunn

This article shows how to control various Ribbon and command properties at runtime

The Windows Native Ribbon Part 3: Buttons and Menus

by Michael Dunn

This article demonstrates new button and menu features of the Ribbon

Thunk and its uses

by John_Tang

An introduction to thunk and its uses in callback handling, interface marshaling, and supporting multiple inheritance in C++.

Thunking MouseProc in IE add-in

by JaeWook Choi

An article on thunking MouseProc in IE add-in using BHO.

Tips in Writing Namespace Extensions (II) - Implement Create and Delete Object Operations

by zengxi

This article describes how to implement IContextMenu interface to enable users to create or delete objects in Namespace Extension.

To Convert your Text or .txt File to Speech or AudioFile in .wav Format

by saketbit

A converter to Convert user's Text or any .txt File into Speech or .wav AudioFile

Transparent Flash Control in Plain C++

by Makarov Igor

OLE container implementation for hosting a Transparent Flash Player control using plain C++. No ATL, MFC or other libraries are used.

Transporting persistent data over the internet using MSMQ

by Bashir Irfan Malik

This article is about using Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) as a DCOM transport layer to send a Microsoft Word document across the internet or your local LAN.

Troubleshooting Registration Free COM

by Nisamudheen

How to troubleshoot Registration Free COM using Tools

Two More Words

by Dmitry Khudorozhkov

Learn how to integrate MS Word functionality with your JScript/WSH scripting solutions.

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

by Chesnokov Yuriy

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

Understanding Capsule Network Architecture

by Intel

Understanding Capsule Network Architecture

Understanding COM Event Handling

by Lim Bio Liong

Learn the fundamental principles of COM Event Handling via a C++ template class that allows for generic handling of dispinterface COM events.

Understanding Custom Marshaling Part 1

by Lim Bio Liong

Learn the fundamental principles of COM custom marshaling by code examples.

Understanding The COM Single-Threaded Apartment Part 1

by Lim Bio Liong

Learn the fundamental principles of the COM Single-Threaded Apartment Model by code examples.

Understanding The COM Single-Threaded Apartment Part 2

by Lim Bio Liong

Learn the fundamental principles of the COM Single-Threaded Apartment Model by code examples.

Undocumented List View Features

by Timo Kunze

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

Universal COM Callable Wrapper

by 401unauthorized

Allows working with most .NET classes in any COM-aware programming or scripting language

Updating and Adding Database Records Through ADO

by saqib chuadhry

An article on OLE DB and ODBC API's uses through vc++ (MFC). And with little bit comparision.

Upload Scanned Images Multithreaded & Async in JS

by Dynamsoft

The article will show you how to increase the efficiency of image uploading/downloading by embedding ImageCapture Suite.

Use Adobe's Indesign COM in asp.net application with automatic publication flow

by Amit M patel

This Article represents that .net based application which is used in web based publication work flow with the use of XML and indesign file

Using .NET Collections from Native Code

by shea-c4

A short example of how to access a managed ArrayList of Strings from Native C++/ATL

Using .NET DLL in VB6

by Ismael M.

A generic DLL that call any .NET DLL in VB6.

Using a BSTR to Transport C++ Objects Across the DCOM Interface

by Richard Warg

Using Account Management API (IOlkAccountManger) to List Outlook Email Accounts

by Ashutosh Bhawasinka

An article on how to use the IOlkAccountManger to get email accounts configured in Outlook

Using ActiveX Control Inside MATLAB

by Abbas_Riazi

Employing COM features of MATLAB to host an ActiveX control.

Using ActiveX Controls Example: Insert Internet Explorer into your Dialogs

by Hazem Nasereddin

Inserting an ActiveX control (Internet Explorer) into your dialogs and handling relevant events.

Using ActiveX controls in MFC more efficiently

by Antti Keskinen

Augmenting the interface access level provided by automatic code generation.

Using an Access, MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite Database from VBA

by Pragmateek

Using an Access, MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite Database from VBA

Using C# .NET User Defined Functions (UDF) in Excel

by Adam Tibi

Exposing .NET functions to be consumed as Excel functions, otherwise known in Excel as "User Defined Functions" . Those .NET exposed functions can be easily used from Excel's cells. This article presents two ways to achieve this and the pros and cons of each.

Using COM aware DotNet Library in MFC Application

by ThatsAlok

Article about using C# DLL in unmanaged VC++ application

Using COM in Gadgets without Installation

by msbsoftware

This article shows how to create gadgets that use COM, without requiring installation or administrator permission.

Using ExecWB with the native .NET 2.0 WebBrowser control

by Rocco Labellarte

How to zoom the standard WebBrowser control by accessing ExecWB.

Using Graphviz in your project to create graphs from dot files

by Andre van Dun

Graphviz graphs from dot specification

Using MS Office in an MFC Application

by Igor Tkachev

Integrating MS Office in your MFC Application using ActiveX Document mode.

Using Network List Manager (C++)

by Jithesh Chandrasekharan

This article explains how to use Network List Manager service to identify and retrieve properties of each network that PC Connects to.

Using RecyclerView in Android

by Madhur Kapoor

How to use RecyclerView in Android

Using some resources, timers and COM ports in wxWidgets

by Andres Cassagnes

wxWidgets resources examples and COM port communication.

Using the AWS DynamoDB Low-Level Java API – Spring Boot Rest Application

by James A. Brannan

How to use AWS Java 2 API to create a Rest application using Spring Boot that reads and writes to a DynamoDB database

Using the Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) and Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) COM Interfaces

by Tony Selke

The NetworkConnectionCollection is a strongly-typed interface that is meant to simplify access to the Internet Connection Sharing and Internet Connection Firewall interfaces for each of the network connections registered on the machine.

Using the new Windows 7 features for an iTunes Taskbar application

by Eric Haddan

Demonstrates WPF C# examples of Windows Touch, Thumbnails, Task Dialogs, Thumbnail Toolbars, Overlay Icons, and Progress bars using the .NET Framework 3.51.

Using User Defined Types in COM & ATL

by ioannhs_s

A Step by Step tutorial on SAFEARRAYs and UDTs in COM

Variants and COM

by zam664

Tips on using Variants with COM

VB Events in C++

by Mikel

How to use events from Visual Basic ActiveX controls in C++

VBA Composite Control Object Model

by Joel C Graff

A method for managing complex, event-driven interactions between controls

VBE CreateToolWindow

by Sam Gerené

Create a custom dockable window in the VBA editor.

VBScript to read binary files and load data into Excel - Life in the old dog yet

by alex turner

VBScript may be old and ugly, but there are some quick and dirty tricks for which it is still really handy.

Version reading component (as in Explorer's Version tab)

by Masoom Shaikh

Version APIs wrapped in a simple component.

Very Fast Table Copy from an ODBC Source into Microsoft Access within a C# Project

by David Catriel

An extremely fast and efficient way to import a table from any ODBC-capable database into MS Access (while running in a C# project), by using the Microsoft Access built-in import functionality.

Video Effects in Direct3D. Part 1

by Maxim Kartavenkov

Article shows how easy to make various video effects using PixelShaders in Direct3D.

View PDF files in C# using the Xpdf and muPDF library, Print PostScript.

by Antonio Sandoval

Wrapper C# class written in C++\CLI and a sample implementation in C# to render PDF files.

view the contents of BSTR in debugger? good tips and notes

by Blue_Aqua

view the contents of BSTR in debugger

Visio Add-On Getting Started

by Krasnikov, Eugene

Getting Started in Visio Add-On creation (VSL project)

Visual C++ and WinRT/Metro - Databinding Basics

by Nish Nishant

An introduction to using WinRT databinding with Visual C++

Visual C++ and WinRT/Metro - Some fundamentals

by Nish Nishant

The fundamentals of using Visual C++ to consume and create WinRT objects

VMR9 Allocator Presenter in C# with Direct3D Video Rendering

by Maxim Kartavenkov

Articles describes how to make pure C# rendering video on VMR9 with custom allocator presenter over Direct3D in .NET

VS Style Tooltips and A Whole Lot More...

by John Underhill

A tooltip replacement class

VSS tool – mass unchecking

by G. Filkov

VSS mass undo-checkout workaround.

VSTO 2005 add-ins and Outlook 2003

by RENJUR

Adding a command bar to Outlook 2003.

Web Application - Advanced Hosting of WebBrowser Control with ATL

by Alex Blekhman

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

Web Technologies for Desktop Application Development

by Maxim Komlev

Example of WebBrowser customization and http/https server on localhost as engine for cross-platform application based on web technologies.

Web-based Active Directory Login

by Faisal Haroon

Web-based Active Directory Login

WebService Call From VC++6.0

by chaitanya shah

Useful for beginners who want to call Webserive from VC6.0

What are the Basic Data Types in TypeScript? -- TypeScript Tutorial for Beginners

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Basic data types of TypeScript with examples

What Web Developers Need to Know About Content Security Policy

by Shao Voon Wong

This article discusses what web developers need to know about content security policy.

Winamp Playlist Infotip

by T800G

Infotip shell extension for quick preview of music playlists

Windows 7 File-properties "Version" Tab Shell Extension

by "Fish" (David B. Trout)

Simple parsing of VS_VERSIONINFO version information strings displayed in an XP-style file-properties "Version" tab

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

by Michael Dunn

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

Windows 7 Goodies in C++: Introduction to the Ribbon

by Michael Dunn

A tutorial that shows how to get started using the Ribbon in your applications

Windows 7 Goodies in C++: Jump Lists

by Michael Dunn

An intro to using jump lists with your Windows 7 applications

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

by Michael Dunn

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

Windows 7 Ribbon – Part 2 – How to Handle Ribbon Control Events?

by Sarath C

In this installment, let’s see how to handle the events of Windows 7 native ribbon control.

Windows 7: Exploration of 7 exciting new programming features in a single application!

by Michael Chourdakis

Demonstration of seven new programming technologies.

Windows Development in C++, COM API Clients

by Espen Harlinn

Using the Facade Pattern to simplify development with COM based APIs

Windows Live Messenger Plug-in Development Bible

by IndioX86

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

Windows Messenger Private API

by DL!

Explains how to use Windows Messenger's private API, and provides a wrapper class for the challenge-response process

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 0 – Table of Contents

by Arik Poznanski

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

Windows toast notifications without a COM server

by Martin Chrzan

An easy way to react on windows toasts activation without using a COM server

Windows XP SP2 Firewall Controller

by moah

How to control a base firewall included in Windows XP SP2 using COM.

Workaround for IShellLink::GetPath()

by Peter Thoemmes

Workaround for IShellLink::GetPath(), which sometimes fails and crashes the application.

Working with custom COM interfaces from Python

by Yaroslav Kourovtsev

Step-by-step tutorial to begin using the comtypes package.

WPF UIAutomation test suite development

by Wang Ruofeng, Dirk Bahle

A guide to UIAutomation testing with WPF. Make test code easy to write and maintain.

Wrapper class for MsAgent characters

by Michael Mac

An article providing an easy way to use msagent characters

Writing a BHO in Plain C++

by cefarix

How to write an Internet Explorer plug-in (Browser Helper Object - BHO) using just C++ and the Windows API; no ATL or MFC involved!

Writing a shell extension in plain C++

by huys03

This article describe how to write a shell extension in plain C++ without ATL

Writing An Extensible COM Application

by thowra

Writing extensible COM applications using component categorisation and interface inheritance

Writing an MS Word addin

by Amit Dey

Writing a Word Addin using COM and VB Macros

Writing an useful cmdlet for Windows PowerShell

by Joakim Möller

This article describes my findings while developing an integration of Copernic Desktop Search into Windows PowerShell.

Writing DirectShow Demultiplexors in C#. Part 1 - Windows Media Splitter example.

by Maxim Kartavenkov

Article describes basic task which are requre to solve for developing your own DirectShow Splitter filters.

Writing DirectShow Demultiplexors in C#. Part 2 - AVI File Source example

by Maxim Kartavenkov

Article describes basic tasks for implementing your own File Source DirectShow filters.

Writing extensible applications

by Len Holgate

Using simple in-process COM objects you can make an application easy to extend without the need for recompilation of the main app.

WSH Clipboard Access

by Adrian Dorache

Scripting the clipboard content in Windows Script Host.

WYSIWYG HTML Editor in .NET 2.0 C# version

by ssalakasharp

Barebones Example on how to use .NET 2.0 Components to build a WYSIWYG HTML Editor

XML Property Bag Implementation

by Jörgen Sigvardsson

This is an ATL/COM-port of Don Box' excellent XML property bag implementation.

XML Schema Reader Writer Plugin for VS 2005/2008

by JadBenAutho

Schema based XML reader writer implemented as .NET COM generator