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by vishalkmehta

This article demonstrates how to leverage the power of images and inheritance to achieve a "skinned" look for your Windows applications.

[tut 3] Graphics Program using C# Drag & Drop & Delete Objects

by The Zakies

Part 3 of a tutorial to show a graphics program using C# using GDI and SVG drag and drop and delete objects

[tut 7] Drag & Drop points in lines

by The Zakies

in this tut we will create a technique to enable the user to control points within a drawn line, by drawing circles around points of the line , when the user clicks a circle he would control the corresponding point.

[tut 8] Hand tool

by The Zakies

we would create Hand_tool to pan through the drawing form, and we would use a custom cursor of open and closed hands

Latest Articles

"Skinned" UI control library (VC++)

by vishalkmehta

This article demonstrates how to leverage the power of images and inheritance to achieve a "skinned" look for your Windows applications.

[tut 3] Graphics Program using C# Drag & Drop & Delete Objects

by The Zakies

Part 3 of a tutorial to show a graphics program using C# using GDI and SVG drag and drop and delete objects

[tut 7] Drag & Drop points in lines

by The Zakies

[tut 8] Hand tool

by The Zakies

we would create Hand_tool to pan through the drawing form, and we would use a custom cursor of open and closed hands

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"Skinned" UI control library (VC++)

by vishalkmehta

This article demonstrates how to leverage the power of images and inheritance to achieve a "skinned" look for your Windows applications.

2D Animated Charts

by darkoman

An article on creating 2D animated charts using Windows GDI.

2D FFT of an Image in C#

by Dr. Vinayak Ashok Bharadi

Two dimensional Fast Fourier Transform of an image in C#.

2D LUA Based Robot Simulator

by auralius manurung

An article on designing your own robot simulator

2D Map Editor

by Anthony Mushrow

Create and edit 2D maps using tiles

2D Polyline Vertex Smoothing

by veen_rp

Smooth a 2D polyline through interpolation (Catmull-Rom) or approximation (Chaikin)

3D Software Rendering Engine - Part I

by darkoman

This article is about the 3D software rendering engine.

3DHelper

by MikeTheDwarf

Helper class to display 3D data

A basic Particles System

by Itay Sagui

Introduction to the basic idea of the particle systems, and how to create basic effects such as explosions and water fountains.

A Bicho Hunting Multiplayer Game

by see1see

A practice of using Windows GDI and Winsock.

A Cool GDI Pattern Brush Tool with C++ Source Code

by ucc801

A cool GDI pattern brush tool with C++ source code. You can create a new office XP style pattern fill mode quickly.

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

by Davidwu

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

A custom drawing application based on the .NET Panel class

by Naveen Karamchetti

Creation of a custom drawing application based on the .NET Panel class.

A Free Draw Library: Easy to Snap/zoom/undo/redo/copy/paste

by realtang

A free draw you can use my example to do

A fully customizable PropertyGrid

by Nicolas Bonamy

A grid to display and edit properties of objects (as in Visual Studio)

A Guide to WIN32 Clipping Regions

by Paul M Watt

Guide to understand the three different types of clipping regions, and how they relate to the Device Context

A Multi-selectable Tree Control Supports Transparent Selection Rectangle

by yonken

A multi-select tree control that is based on Richard's implementation

A Picture Viewer Class that can Scroll and Zoom using API

by Mohammed Abd Alla

This is a simple class that can view scroll and zoom pictures

A Powerful and Flexible Text Drawing Function which has Simple Markup Tags

by YoungJin Shin

This function makes for you to draw a fancy text easy.

A simple custom progressbar

by P.Sandgren

A simple custom progressbar.

A Simple Digital LCD Demo

by Aric Wang

Just a simple digital LCD class and do not use an external bitmap.You can use and change it.

A Simple HTML Drawing Class

by BadJerry

Drawing HTML text onto a device context

A Small GDI+ Sprite Animation Library

by Polymorpher

Animate and control sprites using GDI+.

Adding Lightbox Effect to Winform Applications

by Dave Franco

Adding Lightbox effect to Winform Applications

Adding or Retrofitting Aero Glass into Legacy Windows Applications

by Stefan Kuhr

Adding Aero Glass to Windows applications while keeping them backwards-compatible with legacy Windows versions

Advanced Image Control

by Patrik Mlekuž

Image Control for viewing most common image formats with advanced features included (Import Image, Preview, Resize, Position, Pan, Zoom, Export Image, Extract Resource Icon).

Alternative to MFC for GDI Programming

by lano1106

Exploring the MFC GDI classes' inner working and proposing an alternative

An Alpha Channel Composited Windows Form with Designer Support

by Jeff J Anderson

An alpha channel composited form for image based Window frames

An Apple Style Docking Bar Implemented by eGui lib

by YangXiaoWang

An apple style docking bar implemented by eGui lib

An HTML5 Remote Desktop - Part I

by Gustavo Ricardi

A Remote Desktop software built on AJAX, JSON and HTML5

An Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements

by Terry O'Nolley

An article using GDI to create a scalable periodic table of the elements

Animated Dialog Windows

by Anton Stuck

A class that provides some simple, yet spectacular window animation effects. Try the demo!

Animated Image Slide Show

by syed shanu

Animated Image Slide Show for Winforms using C#

Another Flexible ListView Control

by Hoang Khanh Nguyen

A highly object-oriented ListView control with varying-height items and support of complex data types

Antialiasing Using Windows GDI

by darkoman

An article on a simple but efficient method to do antialiasing using plain Windows GDI

Antialiasing: Wu Algorithm

by .Suchit

Generating smooth lines with antialiasing; sample code for animation is included

Article on Screen Resolution

by Barretto VN

Article on changing screen resolution

ASCII Animation (Just for Fun)

by Jason Henderson

Draw and animate ASCII characters to a window using this COM object.

Audio Book Player

by brochpirate

Audio player designed specifically for listening to audio books

Automatic Font Handling Class

by Jamie Nordmeyer

A class to make working with LOGFONTs easier

Autopanning All Windows, Views and Controls

by Maximilian Pasternak

Autopan within your own application

Barry's Screen Capture

by Barretto VN

An article showing methods of screen capture

Beginners - Starting a 2D Game with GDI+

by codiemorgan

Basics for setting up a 2D Game using GDI+, Renderloop, and Threading. And a few tips.

boost 2: shared_ptr wraps resource handles

by peterchen

Using boost, we can write "almost perfect" wrappers for GDI and other resource handles, in a few lines of code.

Burn the Edges of Your Windows to Give Them Character

by Michael Dunn

No, that's not a typo

C# \ VB.NET Camera Communication Libraries

by shynet

Stream a live camera video stream or single images between applications using the TCP protocol.

C# Rubber Rectangle

by Giawa

Implements a Rubber Rectangle in C#.

Calendar DayView Control

by Ertan Tike

A calendar DayView control.

CAP_FontInstaller - A basic (un)installer class for application specific fonts

by Franc Morales

A simple wrapper to dynamically install/uninstall application specific fonts from compiled resources.

Capturing the Mouse

by Chris Becke

Notes on TrackMouseEvent, and SetCapture on Win32

CAutoPen Class - A CPen that IS Correctly Destroyed

by Anneke Sicherer-Roetman

CAutoPen Class - a CPen that is correctly destroyed

CBitmapEx - Free C++ Bitmap Manipulation Class

by darkoman

An article on a free C++ bitmap manipulation class

CBufferDC: A Simple MFC Class for Automatic Flicker Free Drawing

by Elia Sarti

A CPaintDC replacement in OnPaint painting. Simply change CPaintDC dc(this) in CBufferDC dc(this), and you're done.

CCanvas - A Reusable Class to Draw a Simple Graph

by auralius manurung

A reusable class for drawing a simple graph

CCustomBitmapButton - MFC Bitmap Button

by Andrzej Markowski

An owner-draw bitmap button and a frame for the caption bar, in one class.

CFontListBox

by lgaudouen

A ListBox which could display and allow selection of fonts, with special features.

Choose Color Dialog

by PPresedo

This article demonstrates a tool for previewing foreground and background color combinations.

Color class with support for named colors and HSV values

by David Hall

An article describing the CColor class - an RGB encapsulation which supports named colors, system colors and translation to HSV values.

Color gradient in fullscreen window

by Emmanuel Arun Vinod

Creates a full screen window and shows a color gradient on it

ColorTextBox

by Chrisi476

This article describes ColorTextBox, a customizable User Control which was written completely from scratch and is intended to fill the gap between the TextBox and RichTextBox controls found in the .NET 2.0 library.

Colorz - The RGB Assistant

by Jeremy Falcon

Aids developers with color intensities

Comboling

by Alberto_Martinez

Very addictive game that demonstrates some GDI, sound, and 100% solvable puzzle creation (from all the testing so far).

Comparing Two Bitmaps for Equality

by PJ Arends

Code snippet that compares two HBITMAP handles to see if the bitmaps they contain are the same

Control Chart Using .NET

by syed shanu

USL/LSL Control Chart using .NET for Quality Control

Controlling Drawn Shapes in C#

by rld1971

How to draw and manage shapes onscreen via mouse gestures

CreateGrayscaleIcon which supports 24 and 32 bpp icons

by Elia Sarti

A c++ function which uses GDI to create a channel based version of an icon. Using all the channels you can create a gray scale one

CreateRegionFromFile

by Yuriy Zaporozhets

Very primitive function that creates region from *.bmp files

Creating a True Dotted Pen

by MaxHacker

A fix for creating pens using PS_DOT.

Creating Alternate GUI using Vector Art

by Keith Rule

Create visually complex, yet programmatically simple, non-rectangular GUIs

Creating Holes in a Window

by Amir Zalzberg

How to create a window with holes in it

Creating Semi-Transparent Watermarks for Images in VB.NET

by Paul C Smith

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

CRoundButton2 - A fancy graphical button

by JtR1977

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

CStatic derivative CSpeedoMeter class

by Henry Tan Setiawan

A simple SpeedoMeter class based on CStatic base class.

CTGraphics - Anti-Alias C++ Drawing

by darkoman

An article on anti-aliased C++ drawing.

Curve representation by ICAS (Inner Centered Arcs)

by T.Kojima

Suggestion about another curve representation

Custom Captions (Including Multi-line Captions)

by Dave Lorde

Simple customised Window captions, including multi-line captions

Custom Light-weight Regions

by valdok

Regions encapsulation in light-weight C++ objects.

Custom ToolTips for MFC Projects

by kenearle

Put anything you want in a ToolTip

Customizing the Appearance of CSliderCtrl Using Custom Draw

by Mike O'Neill

How to use custom draw to change the appearance of a Track Bar control and CSliderCtrl.

CWebImageDC

by Randy More

Provides a memory based DC into which an image may be drawn using standard GDI calls.

Design WinForms Controls using Photoshop

by Alaa Ben Fatma

Use your skills as a designer to create gorgeous control

Desktop Puzzle Game

by Hadi Dayvary

A Desktop puzzle game.

Detecting the Display Font Size

by Chen Su

Simple function to enable you to programmatically detect the user-selected font at runtime

Device Context Utilities

by Jason Troitsky

A class that encapsulates some useful, GUI related, static functions

Different Resolutions for Different Users

by maciejr

A resolution changer to get per-user resolution settings

Digital Analog Clock

by Barretto VN

Digital analog clock

Digitizer interface in C# using VBTablet

by Dr. Vinayak Ashok Bharadi

Digitzer device interface using VBTablet in C#.

Display Animated Cursors stored in Resources

by Bernd Wißler

Demonstrates how to use an animated gif stored in your resource file as an animated cursor

Do a Flicker-free Drawing using MFC Methods

by lucy

How to achieve flicker-free drawing when using the methods MFC provides

Double Buffered DC Class

by Alex Kolesnichenko

CDC descendant with double buffering abilities

Download a Google Map with Win32, C++ and WinInet

by Paula Scholz

Using pure Win32, WinInet, and STL Vectors, we open an Internet connection, download, and display a Google map on a Windows Mobile phone.

Draw Behind Desktop Icons in Windows 8+

by Gerald Degeneve

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

Draw Your Control's Skin using a Pattern Brush

by Wooseok Seo

You can implement skin control by returning a brush from the OnCtlColor() method.

DrawHTML

by Thiadmer Riemersma

A drop-in replacement for the DrawText() SDK function with minimal HTML support

Drawing Arrows

by Jamie Hale

How to draw arrows (with arrowheads) to an arbitrary DC

Drawing Images With Sizing Paddings

by Ray K

Visual Style-like image stretching for custom skinning

Drawing Lines, Shapes, or Text on Bitmaps

by Davide Pizzolato

Quick reference to draw lines, shapes, or text on bitmaps

Drawing Qubic Bezier-splines on Pocket PC

by Henrik Pettersson

Functions for drawing Bezier splines on Pocket PC. Since they are missing in GDI for Pocket PC.

Drawing Rich Text with GDI+

by Andy De Filippo

Render Rich Text with GDI+ by tapping into the power of API hooking

Drawing Techniques

by Joseph M. Newcomer

Learn how to effectively draw your dialogs

Drawing Vertical Text

by Waldermort

An extension to the GDI DrawText

dwl::fractalBrowser

by David O'Neil

Everybody Loves the Mandelbrot Set! Here's a browser for it!

Dynamic DC

by Craig Henderson

A Device Context class to draw on a window outside of a WM_PAINT handler

Dynamic Menu and ToolBar from XML Configuration File

by Toufiqur Rahman Chowdhury (TRC)

This article is about an application that parses a XML Configuration File and creates Menus and ToolBar dynamically.

Dynamic validation with Regular expression and ErrorProvider

by Ardavan Sharifi

in this Article we following how to dynamic validation data with defind validation type and use of regular expression

EAN13 Barcode Control

by Tammam Koujan

Demonstrates creating EAN-13 Barcodes with VB.NET

EBDT (Mono Embedded Bitmap Data in TrueType Font) to BM (BitMap)

by LeisureBamboo

Randomly read any embedded_mono_matrix in TTF file, export it to bitmap files (in package)

eGUI, a anmiated UI develop kit

by Yang XiaoWang

A easy-to-use widget libary to develop the animation GUI based on Windows GDI

E-Mail Notifier - notifies users when new mail is received on multiple GMail (and other) accounts

by Catalin Stavaru

This light, yet very usable, application notifies users when new mail is received on multiple GMail (and other) accounts. Written in C++/MFC. No .NET framework, no browser instances launched, low system resource requirements!

E-mail Sender with HTML Editor & Quick Drawer

by AntounPG

Send E-mail via Application with an HTML editor and a drawer to draw your own attachments and send them immediately.

EMF Record Rotation for EMR_POLYGON16

by Devin

EMF record rotation for EMR_POLYGON16

EnhancedImage Project

by otigli

An article about how to enhance current image characteristics

EnigmaPuzzle

by Michael Hodel

Enigma Puzzle – a game as difficult as the Rubik's cube

Explore 3D

by Chris Boss

OpenGL based 3D learning software

Extreme Realtime Music Visualizer

by Novar Striker

Multi technics in one application, for an extreme relaxation moment

Falling Blocks Board and Shape Control

by Yang Kok Wah

Implementing the all time favourite game as .NET custom controls, complete with animation and sound for full gaming experience

Falling Snow on Your Desktop!

by Igor Tolmachev

This article explains how to create an application that makes it snow on the desktop.

Fast statistical calculations of sub matrices for image processing

by ediazc

Describes the summed area table algorithm of Franklin Crow.

FilePreviewCtrl - Preview Files in Text, HEX and Image Format

by OlegKrivtsov

This article demonstrates a file preview control in a WTL application.

Find GDI Leaks With Windows Debugger

by Shao Voon Wong

Tracing GDI Leaks with Windows Debugger

Finding a Font file from a Font name

by Hans Dietrich

How to find the name of a font file, given the display name of a font

Finding a Font file from a Font name (VB.Net version)

by Mohamed Elzahaby

how to get the Font File Name from the Font Name

Flicker Free Drawing In MFC

by Keith Rule

A simple animation example which is used to show CMemDC in several modes

Flicker free drawing without using double buffer

by ringphone

Flicker free drawing without using double buffer

Flicker Free Redrawing and Background Buffering of Drawing with Two Simple Classes

by Ernst Versteeg

Two classes that make double buffering simple

Flicker free resizable custom control

by JanKotowski

This dynamically reziable control does not flicker. The article describes the problem and the technique used to solve the flickering.

Frequency Analyser V2.0 - Have you ever wondered what will make tones sound in tune with each other?

by Windmiller

This graphical application will play and display frequencies and mix them together so that you can analyze what's really going on with sounds that we call intone. Handling a basic DFT version that will prove to us which frequencies are involved. It was originally made in plain C.

GDI Drawing and Printing

by Mattias Högström

Learn the basics of how to draw with GDI on screen and to printer. We will look closer at the different GDI map modes, and how to do proper adjustments when you need to send the output to a printer. We will also create a metafile and load it back in again.

Generating Aesthetic Line Styles

by Durga Prasad Dhulipudi

This is useful mainly in CAD/GIS and allied applications where there is a need for customized line types.

Get icons from Exe or DLL the PE way

by ejor

Get icons from Exe or DLL the PE way or how to emulate PrivateExtractIcons.

Glow and Shadow Effects using Windows GDI

by darkoman

An article on creating glow and shadow effects using plain Windows GDI

Graphical BinaryTrees

by Mojtaba Hosseini

A graphical binary tree. Features: add, remove, or search for a node. Recursive algorithm has been used

GtProject: A C++ Project Management Control for GT Graphical User Interface Library

by trident99

GtProject is intended to provide the user a Microsoft Project equivalent control to use for scheduling tasks.

Guide to Image Composition with Win32 MsImg32.dll

by Paul M Watt

With respect to Image Composition, your imagination is your only limit.

Guide to Win32 Memory DC

by Paul M Watt

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

Guide to WIN32 Paint for Beginners

by Paul M Watt

Beginner's guide to understanding how to paint to a window in the WIN32 SDK environment

Guide to WIN32 Paint for Intermediates

by Paul M Watt

Guide to understanding how Windows generates WM_PAINT messages, manages the update region for a window, and how to use all common type DCs.

Guide to WIN32 Regions

by Paul M Watt

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

Hershey Font wrapper class

by Randy More

Using Hershey vector fonts for faster rendering

How to Set a Font for All Child Windows

by Zoran M. Todorovic

A technique for changing the font for all child windows in your main application

How to Use a Font Without Installing it

by Shao Voon Wong

How to use a font without installing it first on user systems

How to use a TrueType structure to render user-defined geometric shapes

by ChaoJui

To learn the usages of TrueType structures, TTPOLYGONHEADER and TTPOLYCURVE.

How to use sharepoint webservices in web application

by T.Ashraf

How to use sharepoint webservices in web application

HTML to Image in C#

by mariscn

Capture an HTML document as an image.

HTML to Image in VB

by Terence Wallace

This is an alternative for "HTML to Image in C#"

Image Per Pixel Enumeration, Pixel Format Conversion and More

by Smart K8

A set of handy extension methods to help you with quick Image modifications

Image Transformation: Grayscale to Color

by Maxim_Barsuk

Algorithm for easy transformation images

Import Adobe Photoshop (.psd) images

by ihaml

A generic class to import Adobe's Photoshop (.psd) images.

Instantly Increase the Value of your Windows Application

by gricardi

As users are migrating from traditional desktops to mobile devices, transitioning your Windows application to the web is the next step to increasing your exposure. Thinfinity VirtualUI delivers your Windows applications to users on any device, anywhere.

Internal Supply Chain Management System, Visibility

by Syed Hasan Hyder

Internal supply chain management system's objective is to visualize organization's activities and events spawn during its work flow and offers panoramic view of upstream and downstream activities

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

by Syed Hasan Hyder

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

Introduction to Drawing in Windows

by William T. Block

A simple introduction to using DCs to draw in Windows

Irregular or non rectangular shaped bitmap

by vikas maan

Convert rectangular bitmap into non rectangular bitmap (.ppg)

IsoGame Engine

by darkoman

Article about the 2D isometric game engine

KanjiFont

by Eric Crahen

Display Chinese & Japanese characters on unicode & non-unicode systems

Learning Binary and Hexadecimal

by Jeremy Falcon

A beginner's guide to talking like a computer.

Magnifying Cursor

by Aniket Nayak

This cursor can magnify...

Matrix Printer Class

by PJ Arends

A C++ class that makes it easy to print text in clearly defined rows and columns

MBGlassPanel Using VB.NET 2008

by Manoj K Bhoir

MBGlassPanel with Microsoft Office Ribbon Visual Style

Method for Edge Detection in Color Images, Using 1-Dimensional Liner Image

by tumbledDown2earth

Method for edge detection in color images, using 1-Dimensional liner image or scan line, sampled at 1 pixel intervals, at any arbitary angle

MFC Classes for Multiple Monitors

by Don Kackman

Class wrappers around the Win32 multi-monitor API

Modified Bresenham's Line Drawing Algorthm

by darkoman

A modified version of the Bresenham's line drawing algorithm

MSI Packages Manager

by JOHN11

This article shows how to process one or many MSI packages just by providing a configuration file. It gives also many useful hints and tricks that can be used in other projects.

Multipage TIF Viewer

by Matjaz-xyz

A simple and useful viewer of multipage TIF/TIFF images

Naming Common Colors

by Ales Krajnc

An include file that allows you to specify colors by name instead of RGB value

Nice Libraries

by Tarmo Kalda

Nice Libraries offers you a set of libraries and helper applications

Oil Paint Effect: Implementation of Oil Painting Effect on an Image

by Santhosh G_

Applying oil painting effect on an image.

OpenGL in Python with TKinter

by Samuel Teixeira

Why simple if we can be complex?

PDF Merger and Protector

by Sunasara Imdadhusen

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

Per Pixel Alpha Blend

by Rui Lopes

Demonstrates how to create per pixel alpha blending windows

Perfect Semi-transparent & Shaped Dialogs with Standard, ActiveX, and Translucent Controls for Windows 2000+

by D.K.Wang

This article tries to find a way to show standard controls, ActiveX controls, translucent controls on layered windows. Native MFC source code provided.

phos: A Console GUI Component

by Michael Mangelsdorf

A DLL implemented in assembler featuring a console GUI component

Pick Fashion with WPF

by Horia Tudosie

Produces color sets by adveraging areas of colors from scanned pictures

PicSplitter - Dual Screen Wallpaper Utility

by wduros1

A small utility that splits an image into two images for use with dual monitor wallpaper setups.

Plain C Resampling DLL

by CPallini

A small DLL providing two functions to resample GDI-based bitmap

Play Audio Files with DirectSound and Display its Spectrum in Real Time - Part 3

by jackyxinli

An article to show how to play audio file with DirectSound and display its spectrum in real time accurately

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.

Play Wave Files with DirectSound and Display its Spectrum in Real Time - Part 2

by jackyxinli

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

Process viewer

by Nibu babu thomas

Lists out the details of running processes in a system, loaded drivers, loaded dlls, version of each dll and process, process times, command line, owner, priority, GDI resource usage, privileges, loaded symbols, window heirarchy, autostart app finding and more.

Program for Format Conversion of An Image

by Mohd Arshad Malik

.NET provides extensive support for image conversion. Any image can be processed from one format to another. The most common formats which .NET support are .BMP, .EMF, .GIF, .ICO, .JPG, .PNG, .TIF and .WMF.

Program for Optimization and Resizing of an Image

by Mohd Arshad Malik

This article guides about optimization of the size of an image file (in bytes) and resizing its dimensions (in pixels).

Program for Watermarking an Image

by Mohd Arshad Malik

To uniquely identify the images from our storage, we watermark them with some text (usually company / portal name)

Progress Indicator a'la Google

by gggustafson

This article presents code for a WinForms implementation of the Google-like compact progress indicator.

Property Header Control for Windows Mobile

by Simon Hart

Ever wanted to create a standard look and feel property header type control as seen in many Microsoft applications on Windows Mobile? Well, here is the code to do it.

PSD for PocketPC Windows Mobile 2003

by ihaml

A generic class to import Adobe's Photoshop (.psd) images under PocketPC Windows Mobile 2003.

Quadrilateral Distortion

by CaldasGSM

Non-affine transformations, four-point distortions, or whatever you want to call it.

QuickDialogs - A Library for Creating Dialogs Quickly and Elegantly

by Rotted Frog

A library for creating simple dialogs declaratively with minimal overhead

QuickFill: An Efficient Flood Fill Algorithm

by John R. Shaw

Design and implementation of efficient flood fill algorithms.

Ramblings about your own, fast C# Maths library

by Inaki Ayucar

Why not building your own C# Maths library instead of using the ones included in APIs like DirectX or XNA?

Rendering Shapefile in OpenGL

by Durga Prasad Dhulipudi

Rendering ESRI Shapefiles(.shp) using OpenGL

Rendering Text on Top of a Bitmap

by David Crow

Rendering text on top of a bitmap

Replacing Part of an Existing Bitmap

by #realJSOP

Copy a bitmap over a portion of another bitmap

Replacing the Default MFC Icon

by Shahzad Khan

How to replace the default MFC icon in your application

Retrieving Font Name from TTF File

by Philip Patrick

Explains how to retrieve a font name from TrueType or OpenType files (.ttf)

Reversi for Windows Mobile

by Ziad Elmalki

The game Reversi for Windows Mobile using the Compact Framework.

Rich Text Drawing, Printing Preview and Printing to Paper (GDI only)

by kellyonlyone

To help you build Rich Text Drawing, Print Preview, Printing to paper support report application quickly and easily, includes source code

Rotate Your Graphics - Advanced Memory Device Context

by Hans Bühler

A memory DC that allows you to rotate your graphics

S.I.V.: A Simple Pie Chart with Legend

by T1TAN

Simplicity Is Virtue : how do draw a simple pie chart almost anywhere

Saving Drawing Contexts

by Joseph M. Newcomer

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

Screen Capture on Multiple Monitors

by mittaltarsem

Utility to capture full or part of screen with support for multiple screens.

Screen Color Picker

by Florin Vasilescu

A simple application that retrieves the color codes from any area of your screen, with some cool options.

ScreenTool

by JJMatthews

Screenshot Tool

Selection Overlay DLL

by Mark Kruger

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

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.

Simple AJAX, ASP.NET, and C# implementation for a page wait or process screen

by Lalith Bommera

A simple AJAX approach that includes an HTML page client, and a JavaScript making an AJAX call and receiving a response. A remote page will receive the parameter information and respond to the JavaScript call method with the necessary information.

Simple IFS Engine (Iterated Function System)

by Maxim_Barsuk

How to build and visualize IF-systems.

Simple Text Rotation

by iucon

A simple function to rotate text around its center point within a rectangle

SoftG Application Framework 1.62

by HotSoftG

Automation framework application development, realize the software functions and software frame separation. Support plug-in support theme

Solitaire Puzzle with Backtracking

by Paolo Martinoli

A program to play Solitaire puzzle and to seek solutions using backtracking.

Solving Eight Queens Puzzle with Genetic Algorithm in C#

by Ravimal Bandara

A C# code for solving eight queens puzzle using genetic algorithm

Solving Starvation in Dining Philosopher Problem: Using Inverse Semaphore

by Bharath NS

Multithreaded GUI solution for starvation in Dining Philosopher problem

SonicUI - A Convenient GUI Engine You've Never Seen

by Sonic Guan

A convenient and high-powered GUI engine with plenty of tricks

Sound Activated Recorder with Spectrogram in C#

by Jeff Morton

Audio event processing with visual display

Sound visualizer in C#

by Jeff Morton

Simple sound sampler with visualization

SPC XBAR and Range Chart

by syed shanu

XBAR and Range Chart using C#

Special 'Graphics' Objects to Draw Anywhere on Your Window

by Mohammad Dehghan

Creating special 'Graphics' objects to draw anywhere on your window, including non-client area

Target Eye Revealed: Part 2 - Target Eye's Screen Capturing

by Michael Haephrati

How Target Eye's screen capturing mechanism works

Task Manager

by Shakeel Iqbal

Manage your daily tasks and To-Do list using some exciting features of Windows 7.

TCX Owner Draw Engine

by Thales P. Carvalho

A class that helps writing owner-drawn controls with text formatting capabilities

Tearing-free Drawing with GDI

by wheregone

Drawing with VSYNC locked and low CPU usage

Textout with wordwrapping and Text Selection

by selom ofori

This is a simple text display view with wordwrapping and text selection capabilities.

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

by Michael Dunn

A tutorial on writing an extension to customize the icons displayed for a file type.

The Dining philosophers

by Dr.Sai

A multi-threaded GDI simulation of the famous problem

The GDI Magic - Rendering Reflections and Smooth Shadows

by darkoman

An article on rendering reflections and shadows using Windows GDI

The RGN Generator

by Richard de Oude

Creating non-rectangular dialog boxes

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

TimeBarControl

by Evgeniy Stepanow

Control to display the time progress line

ToggleSwitch Winforms Control

by Johnny J.

A ToggleSwitch that presents on/off values in a more interesting way than a standard CheckBox

Towers of Hanoi with True GUI using Win32 and C++

by Redwan Albougha

Shows how to solve Towers of Hanoi puzzle visually using Win32 and C++

Transfer Data from MSFlexGrid to Graph Chart

by Mostafa Kaisoun

View one row numeric data of MSFlexGrid as Graph Chart

Transparent Button with Region and Anti-Aliased Edges

by Bob Carboni

Code for creating transparent, blended bitmapped buttons.

Transparent UI for .NET and .NETCF

by christ_A

How to make your customized UI using transparent components?

TransparentSplash Control

by TwinLane

A non rectangular/transparent splash screen control that starts life before the Application Form

Unicode Buddy

by yetibrain

Unicode Buddy is a tool to inspect unicode files. It can detect orphaned surrogates and invalid utf-8 sequences. It is able to show the encoding/decoding of a certain codepoint. It is not an editor but a viewer.

UPV – UNIPEN online handwriting recognition database viewer control

by Vietdungiitb

UPV – UNIPEN online handwriting recognition database viewer control

Useful Functions for Region

by jedyking

Functions for tiling region and stretching region.

Using "RDP Encoder Mirror Driver" to Capture Screen

by Amazing LED Display

High Performance Method for Capturing Screen

Using Assembler and SSE2/SSE3 instructions for drawing optimization

by SergStrashko

Introduce the algorithm and technique for pre-drawing process speed up.

Using Buffering Techniques for Large List Controls

by Chris Copeland

Making use of buffering techniques to efficiently and flawlessly render large quantities of items in list controls

Using color gradients as backgrounds in your dialogs and views

by Nish Nishant

Beginner article that shows how you can create horizontal, vertical and diagonal backgrounds. Also tells you what to watch out for, to avoid flickering when doing complicated drawing.

Using Color Gradients in Win32/SDK Programs

by einst992

How to create a color gradient as a background in a SDK application.

Using SetWorldTransform() to Rotate Basic Shapes by Any Angle

by lucy

How to use SetWorldTransform() to draw basic shapes rotated by any angle

Using Subscripts and Superscripts When Showing Text in the Device Context

by Victor Ricklefs

Extended version of ExtTextOut supporting subscripts and superscripts

Using the AlphaBlend Function

by Wooseok Seo

A sample application that uses the AlphaBlend function to produce a transparent splash screen

Using the DeferWindowPos APIs

by William E. Kempf

Presents a class to wrap the BeginDeferWindowPos/EndDeferWindowPos/DeferWindowPos APIs

Using the DrawAnimatedRects() function

by Chris Maunder, NormDroid, Santosh Rao

Shows how to use the DrawAnimatedRects function to improve the look of your apps.

Vista Goodies in C++: Monitoring the Computer's Power Status

by Michael Dunn

How to use power status notifications to make your applications conserve power when necessary.

Vista Goodies in C++: Using Glass in Your UI

by Michael Dunn

How to add glass to your application's main window.

Visualization of the 2D Voronoi Diagram and the Delaunay Triangulation

by Maxim_Barsuk

An add-on for the Fortune's algorithm.

VisualStudio-Like TabControl

by Alaa Ben Fatma

Inherits the awesome style of Visual Studio's TabControl for better exploiting

Webcamera, Multithreading and VFW

by Zaur Nasibov

An article on webcamera frame-grabbing in a multi-thread environment

Who Owns the GUI?

by Joseph M. Newcomer

Learn about who owns the GUI definition and pitfalls of GUI programming

Width of Text in Italic Font

by Alexandru Matei

Shows an alternative to GetCharABCWidths and GetCharABCWidthsFloat

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 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 Mobile Remote Controller

by João Paulo Figueira

Control your Windows Mobile device from your desktop.

Windows Vista Icons

by Vlasta_

Describes changes in .ico format in Windows Vista and explains how to compile Vista icons into your applications.

Windows XP Grayscale Shutdown Effect in Windows Forms

by Rizwan Qureshi

How to create a Windows Shutdown effect in Windows Forms using C# and .NET.

WinForms Tab Control with properly drawn bottom tabs

by Vladimir Svyatski

How to correctly draw WinForms Tab Control with bottom alignment when visual styles are enabled

WowButtons with the GdiDrawStream function

by Zakaria Butskhrikdize

A very simple owner-draw button using the GdiDrawStream function.

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

by FatCatProgrammer

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

Writing GIS and Mapping Software for .NET

by Jon Person, A. Philip Smith

In part three of the series, the authors of the "GIS.NET" mapping component for .NET explain how to write a geographic mapping engine which can display geographic coordinates. Source code is provided which can pan and zoom a sample geographic object (the state of Nebraska), in C# and VB.NET.

Writing SQL queries in XML – A support intensive approach

by _Asif_

Article that helps writing SQL in XML to provide better support

WTL for MFC Programmers, Part V - Advanced Dialog UI Classes

by Michael Dunn

Using the new WTL classes that implement advanced dialog UI elements

XBreadCrumbBar - Draw breadcrumb trail with hyperlinks and HTML

by Hans Dietrich

XBreadCrumbBar is a windowless non-MFC class that allows you to display a breadcrumb trail as HTML text, with support for web links and APP: links.

XFont - Get font name and file information

by Hans Dietrich

XFont retrieves the name of the font file from the regsitry, and the font name from the font file

XFontCombo - An OpenType-aware font combobox

by Hans Dietrich

XFontCombo demonstrates the use of IsOpenType(), a function that determines if a font is OpenType

XHtmlDraw - Draw text with HTML tags and anchor links

by Hans Dietrich

XHtmlDraw allows you to display a single line HTML text as easily as using DrawText(), including web links and APP: links, no MFC

XPTable - .NET ListView meets Java's JTable

by Mathew Hall

A fully customisable ListView style control based on Java's JTable.

Zoom An Image With Different Interpolation Types

by Santhosh G_

Implementation of different interpolations[Bi-Linear and Bi-Cubic] with OpenGL.