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
A tool to generate face images and animated gif files for different angles and lighting using only a single face image. Also includes Face Matcher using Microsoft Face API.
Looking for a way to draw 2D line graphs with C#? Here's yet another charting class library with a high degree of configurability, that is also easy to use.
A Margin structure that can be used in a variety of situations, like layout, drawing and printing. Now comes with a custom TypeConverter and a usage sample.
A joystick control using a simplified polar coordinate system to return an orientation and magnitude, and a custom Vehicle UserControl with an Offset method that uses the said coordinate system.
The LEDBulb is a .NET user control for Windows Forms that emulates an LED light. Its purpose is to provide a sleek looking representation of an LED light that is sizable, has a transparent background and can be set to different colors.
Easily develop software to create fully custom Code 39 Barcodes for printing on Avery 8167 labels (document and box labels, or more based on customization).
Image Control for viewing most common image formats with advanced features included (Import Image, Preview, Resize, Position, Pan, Zoom, Export Image, Extract Resource Icon).
Alpha blending allows two objects to be visually blended together. This article gives a brief explanation about the Alpha Blending technique and how to do it using GDI+.
The following script makes it difficult for automatic tools to submit forms. The steps involved in this basic script are create a drawing space, allocate colors, fill the background, draw characters, add distortions, and output the image to the browser.
This article describes a very easy approach to building an image conversion utility that will permit the user to open a supported image type and convert it to another supported image type.
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.
The RbmBinaryImage control will help you display images directly from your database. You could bind the Image field directly to the ImageContent property, and also specify whether you want the display to be as a thumbnail and provide the thumbnail size.
This is a fully drawn GDI+ custom scrollbar control class. All of its drawing methods are overrideable, allowing developers to paint it however they choose.
An owner-drawn CTreeCtrl that has checkboxes and open/close controls aligned vertically on the right hand edge of the tree for easy viewing regardless of the horizontal scroll position.
A simple viewer of images stored in the DICOM 3.0 File Format (C#). The file should have raw pixel data, uncompressed. Window Level functionality is also provided.
Atalasoft DotImage includes many tools for manipulating or analyzing images. Included in it is a class ImageSource which allows to work effectively with an arbitrary number of images without worrying about the details of where they come from and how they’re managed. Read on...
The article demonstrates face detection SSE optimized C++ library for color and gray scale data with skin detection, motion estimation for faster processing, small sized SVM and NN rough face prefiltering, PCA/LDA/ICA/any dimensionality reduction/projection and final NN classification
.NET Spreadsheet Control written in C#. Supports Cells Merge, Border Style, Pattern Background Color, Data Format, Freeze, Formula, Macro and Script execution.
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.
Gallery Server Pro is a complete, stable ASP.NET gallery for sharing photos, video, audio and other media. This article presents the overall architecture and major features.
If you have a lot of code invested in WinForms and GDI+ and are frustrated by the lack of deep color (> 24 bits-per-pixel) support in GDI+, then read on for the principles of a workaround
GMap.NET is a powerful, free, cross platform, Open Source .NET control. It enables the use of routing, geocoding, and maps from Google, Yahoo!, OpenStreet in Windows Forms and Presentation, and supports caching!
This article revises an earlier revision of the Gradient Color Picker (V2). The incentive for the revision was a reader request for a larger number of initial color choices.
Many web pages have a color graded banner as a background. GradientMaker is a simple graphics utility that allows you to create such images. You can also add text to these images. These can also be used as banners, backgrounds or logos.
This article discusses the usage of a custom class that caches custom images. The class, GraphicsBuffer, is best used to cache visual states for controls without concern for control flicker and unnecessary processor usage.
An icon control that zooms and fades-in when your mouse hovers over it, which creates interesting visual effects if your application uses icons instead of buttons.
The article is about a UserControl I wrote. Opposed to PictureBoxes and other methods of displaying images on your forms, this one provides a totally different approach.
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.
It's an interface that works with transparency effects. As a sample, I used an interface just like the iPhone one. In this tutorial, I explain how simple it is to work with transparency on Windows Mobile.
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.
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.
Windows has built inn support for a lot of keyboard languages, this class makes it possible to extract that info in an easy manner and present it to screen.
A sidebar in the lower left that emulates the sidebar in Outlook 2003. Other features implemented include theming, snapping buttons, unique button system, etc.
A chat server that can be setup as a service or application. Opens listening port and awaits connections from Java clients or .NET clients. You could setup even a HTML refresh with a little JavaScript knowhow. I've included the server only because I would like some feedback on the way I do threads.
An httpmodule designed to create one image out of many for faster loading and fewer web server HTTP requests. Module creates auto generated CSS image maps of positions for displaying on a webpage using background positioning. The module also handles creating mouse over image effects.
This is the first in a series of articles on Owner Drawn controls, featuring the ListBox control. The basic fuctionality and some handy tips are included to help get you started in developing your own Owner Drawn controls.
Smoothly panning and zooming very large images can be a challenge. Here’s a control, with source code, that demonstrates one way of overcoming this challenge, as well as a few "Extra" image processing features.
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 ???
This article tries to find a way to show standard controls, ActiveX controls, translucent controls on layered windows. Native MFC source code provided.
This article discusses a way of communicating to a web page from its popup or child window, both on a server and client level. One way a grid is populated from a popup: when editing rows in a grid, you show the edited records in the parent simutaneously without postback from a child popup window.
The article describes the work principles and ways of use of IEToolbarEngine. This is a toolbar for Internet Explorer, which has a reusable architecture.
An article on how to print a .NET businessinfo object class containing simple properties and collections within the .NET application without the print dialog
.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.
This Windows utility enables you to launch applications simply by typing their name or part of it. It saves you the need to search for it in the hierarchical 'Start-->All-Programs' menus or to create a big ‘Quick Launch’ folder in your task bar.
The purpose of this article is to show one way of adapting John R. Shaw’s excellent QuickFill algorithm, such that it will work with GDI+ and the .NET Framework.
This article describes an object tracking approach by estimating a time averaged background scene for tracking static and moving objects in real-time on down-scaled image data.
Scanning image dimensions can take a few milliseconds, so when scanning multiple images, a BackgroundWorker thread comes in handy. The progress is updated to a ListView and shown in a ProgressBar.
This article describes an easy approach to building a simple image mapping utility that may be used to mark and store points as pixel based coordinates from an image file or directly from a web page.
This article describes a .NET component to draw a "rubber-band rectangle" as determined by the user mouse activity (which is replaced by "marching ants" after the selection is complete) on the surface of an attached control and return the rectangle co-ordinates via an event.
This is a strategy board game which I used to enjoy playing with my neighbour when I was a teen in the 80s that I developed in Java, then ported to C#.
The Grouper is a special groupbox control that is rounded and fully customizable. The control can paint borders, drop shadows, and has other features like gradient and solid backgrounds, custom text, and custom icons.
This article explains how to retrieve valuable image information from the Exif data found in JPEG images, and provides a Silverlight class library to perform this task entirely on the client's machine
An article on how to make an application that lets you change the size of the thumbnails in Windows. These are the thumbnails you'll see when you click View -> Thumbnails in Windows Explorer.
A UserControl for WinForms VB.NET that has child controls that it contains and is scrollable. This example shows how to draw your own controls and build your custom container to list them.
Generate a word cloud form some input text. A word cloud is a randomly arranged set of words used in your text. The size and the color of each word expresses its usage frequency. Rarely used words are small and pale. The control is clickable and allows to identify a word under mouse.
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.
