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50 OpenGL MFC Projects in One

by Petrov Vladimir

Former NeHe OpenGL Lessons adapted to MSVS-15 pro MFC in INICODE and the samples of the Joystick implementation

A Class to Combine Slider Control and Progress Bar Windows

by Cem KARACA

An article on how to combine Slider Controls and Progress bar into one class using custom draw

A Foldable Content Control for UWP

by Nuwan Karunarathna

This a foldable content control for UWP platform.

A glimpse into the windows 10 upgrade notification

by Rey Bango

Over the last few months, more than 14 million people upgraded to Windows 10. Learn how our team at Microsoft helped ensure a smooth upgrade experience.

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50 OpenGL MFC Projects in One

by Petrov Vladimir

Former NeHe OpenGL Lessons adapted to MSVS-15 pro MFC in INICODE and the samples of the Joystick implementation

A Class to Combine Slider Control and Progress Bar Windows

by Cem KARACA

An article on how to combine Slider Controls and Progress bar into one class using custom draw

A Foldable Content Control for UWP

by Nuwan Karunarathna

This a foldable content control for UWP platform.

A glimpse into the windows 10 upgrade notification

by Rey Bango

Over the last few months, more than 14 million people upgraded to Windows 10. Learn how our team at Microsoft helped ensure a smooth upgrade experience.

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50 OpenGL MFC Projects in One

by Petrov Vladimir

Former NeHe OpenGL Lessons adapted to MSVS-15 pro MFC in INICODE and the samples of the Joystick implementation

A Class to Combine Slider Control and Progress Bar Windows

by Cem KARACA

An article on how to combine Slider Controls and Progress bar into one class using custom draw

A glimpse into the windows 10 upgrade notification

by Rey Bango

Over the last few months, more than 14 million people upgraded to Windows 10. Learn how our team at Microsoft helped ensure a smooth upgrade experience.

A Lap Around @ChakraCore

by Microsoft Developers

Earlier this year, we open-sourced ChakraCore, the heart of the JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft Edge and the Windows 10 Universal App Platform. Today we'll walk you through what's new and what's next in ChakraCore, including some upcoming work like Modules, WebAssembly, ES2017 and beyond.

A Very Basic Recursive Binary Search Tree For Excel VBA

by WhiskeyBeforeWater

An unbalanced basic recursive Binary Search Tree for Excel VBA with functions (insert, search, delete, in order, pre-order, post-order, minimum, and maximum)

A WPF-Friendly Shell_NotifyIcon Wrapper Class - Part 2: Minimize to System Tray

by Ronald M. Martin

This series of articles explores a new WPF-friendly wrapper class for Shell_NotifyIcon.

A WPF-Friendly Shell_NotifyIcon Wrapper Class - Part 3: Ad Blocker Front End

by Ronald M. Martin

This article provides a walk-through of the front end of a convenient ad blocking application that lives behind a notify icon.

A WPF-Friendly Shell_NotifyIcon Wrapper Class - Part 4: Ad Blocker Back End

by Ronald M. Martin

A walk-through of the front end of a convenient ad blocking application that lives behind a notify icon

Advanced View States for Windows 10 apps

by Juan Pablo G.C.

StateTriggers with multiple properties and initialization, setters for attached properties, deep property path, set values to null,custom attached properties, visual state group as resource and trigger inside datatemplates workaround

An Easy Cross-Platform Floating Action Menu using Qt/QML

by PatGulotta

An easy to use C++/Qt/Qml Floating Action Menu providing the ability to add Floating Actions Menus to a Qt/Qml cross-platform project.

Animation Editor - Bring Cartoon Color to Your Otherwise Drab Covid World

by Christ Kennedy

Combine your own sprites with any MP4 you choose using this Animation Editor

Avi from Image Files in One Click

by Petrov Vladimir

Simple solution for small avi demo performance from Image files of any kind

Build a Microservice with Service Fabric on Windows Server

by Shawn1Xu

Build a microservice with Service Fabric on Windows Server 2012 using ASP.NET 5 and Service Fabric SDK

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

by Jon Campbell

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

Cloudant Data Layer

by Mihail Mateev

IBM Cloudant Data Layer Local Edition is a database management system (DBMS) platform designed to resemble IBM Cloudant Database as a service (DBaaS) in the privacy of your own data center.

Communicating With a Direct2D Graphics Thread

by Ben Aldhouse

How I stopped worrying and learned to love Direct2D.

Computed Tomography - Generation of the Sinogram Image in C#

by Amarnath S

An article describing the computation of the Sinogram of an image in C#, using the Radon Transform of the image.

Computer Temperatures, Fan Speeds, etc.

by JL Doty

Fully exploit features of OpenHardwareMonitorLib.dll

Configuring Terraform Development Environment

by Kevin Mack

How to configure Terraform Development Environment

Creating a Settings Screen for UWP with Codon

by Daniel Vaughan

Create a dynamic settings screen for your UWP app. Add a setting with a single line of code.

Determining the Monitor's On/Off (sleep) Status

by rbrunton

How to determine whether the monitor is on or off as a result of a Windows Power Scheme action

DICOM Image Viewer

by Harsha T, Amarnath S, S Mahesh Reddy

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.

DirectX and Pure Assembly Language: Doing What Can't be Done - Part IV(b): the Full DirectX App

by CMalcheski

A Full DirectX Sample Application Created in Pure Assembly Language

Elasticsearch, Kibana and Docker using .NET Standard 2

by Juan G. Carmona

Advanced logging in modern .NET applications. A Sunday-morning-proof-of-concept.

ES6 Arrow functions - The new fat and concise syntax in JavaScript

by Kyle Pennell

Arrow functions are a new ES6 syntax for writing JavaScript functions. They will save developers time and simplify function scope.

Event Tracing for Windows: Reducing Everest to Pike's Peak

by David A. Gray

Historically, ETW has been portrayed as having a very steep learning curve, along the lines of the effort required to summit Everest. Realizing its potential value, I set about to reduce the effort to that required to summit Pike's Peak.

Exploring Computational Number Theory (Part 3)

by William Hey

Factoring classic integers

Extending MFC shell controls functionality

by Vladimir Misovsky

Overriding CMFCShellTreeCtrl and CMFCShellListCtrl classes

General Purpose MultiSlider

by John Trinder

Comprehensive Multi-Slider(-Range) that can add, delete and move arrows (thumbs)

Get HDD Serial Number with C#

by hasan bozkurt

How to obtain HDD information with C#

Getting All "Special Folders" via VB.NET

by Jalapeno Bob

A VB.NET version of Ray Koopa's 21 Mar 2016 article, Getting All "Special Folders" in .NET

Getting Started with Mean Stack

by Ashwin. Shetty

Writing your first app using Mean Stack (M = MongoDB, E = Express.JS, A = Angular.JS and N = Node.js)

Hosting .NET Core Components in Unmanaged C/C++ Process in Windows and Linux

by Igor Ladnik

Compact infrastructure for custom hosting of .NET Core component in unmanaged C/C++ code with reciprocal methods calls between the parts running in Windows and Linux. Section Threads and Processes

How to Use Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) in C++ with gSOAP

by Chris Moutsos

How to connect to Amazon S3 with gSOAP to store and retrieve data

Implementing Windows 10 GridView for UWP Apps

by TrevyBurgess

Implementing Windows 10 GridView for UWP Apps

Install Visual Studio 6.0 on Windows 10

by Kirk Stowell

A tutorial for installing Visual Studio 6.0 on Windows 10

Intel IoT Gateway: Windows 10 Getting Started Guide

by Intel

This document describes the steps needed to deploy a Microsoft Windows 10 IoT Gateway and explains how to set up security features, software access points, and other management and development tools.

Introduction to AllJoyn platform on RaspberryPi and Windows IoT - and gourmet sous-vide cooking as a bonus

by Mikolaj Barwicki

How I built a sous-vide cooking device on Raspberry PI with Windows IoT controlled via AllJoyn protocol from Android smartphone.

Invisible Ink

by Daniel Vaughan

Using steganography to conceal text within a document or watermark a code file, using a whitespace encoder. Hide text in plain sight!

Joystick Win32 and MFC Projects

by Petrov Vladimir

Joystick Win32 and MFC Projects Templates ready to use

Lee Algorithm Mazesolver

by Shao Voon Wong

Lee Algorithm Mazesolver in MFC and Direct2D

LevelDB for UWP Applications

by Zohaib Sibte Hassan

Getting started on using LevelDB for your UWP application

Live uploading of video from web camera on YouTube service on Windows 8 and Windows 10

by Evgeny Pereguda

Simple imitation of direct streaming of live video from web cam on YouTube service on Windows 8 and Windows 10

Magic Formula of the Intersection Point of Two Line Segments

by Petrov Vladimir

Compact and simply Vector Formula of the Intersection Point of Two Line Segments

PDF password recovery tool, The smart, the brute and the list.

by Mohamed Kalmoua

In this article, I will discuss a PDF password recovery tool that I created in WPF using Visual Studio 2015.

Performance Considerations for Resource Binding in Microsoft DirectX 12

by Intel

This article describes how to pick different resource binding mechanisms to run an application efficiently on specific Intel’s GPUs.

PolyHook - The C++11 x86/x64 Hooking Library

by stevemk14ebr

A modern, universal, c++ hooking library.

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (11 of N)

by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 11 LoadFileFromStorage - When changes from this chapter are complete you'll have an app which saves all entries and loads them from files.

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (12 of N)

by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 12 Working with the ListView - Setting up ListView style via XAML, using data binding and anonymous types in C#.

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (13 of N)

by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForms) Chapter 13 : Deployment, Sideloading a UWA - How easy/difficult is it, really?

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (14 of N)

by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForms) Chapter 14: Add ability to delete an entry with a pop up confirmation dialog, add AccessKeys (keyboard shortcuts) and fix some bugs in our DailyJournal app.

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (15 of 15)

by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForms) Chapter 15: Final chapter delves into various XAML Windows Controls showing examples and dealing with simple layouts.

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (4 of N)

by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 4 Adding Windows Controls (Building the DailyJournal app)

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (5 of N)

by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 5 Adding Tabs (Pivot) For Multiple Journal Entries

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (6 of N)

by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 6 Programmatically Adding Tabs (Pivot) for Multiple entries in DailyJournal (includes CommandBar and Menu concepts)

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (7 of N)

by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 7 Saving journal entries in the file system

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (8 of N)

by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 8 Applied OOP, Designing Objects, SoC and going deeper into designing the DailyJournal app.

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (9 of N)

by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 9 Refactor (MVC thinking), More OOP, Designing Objects, SoC continuing work on DailyJournal app.

Programming Windows 10: UWP Focus (1 of N)

by raddevus

Using C# for Desktop Development: Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) --Intro & Chapter 1

Programming Windows 10: UWP Focus (2 of N)

by raddevus

Using C# for Desktop Development: Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) -- Chapter 2

Programming Windows 10: UWP Focus (3 of N)

by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 3: The Challenges of Making Our Apps Look Good

Proper Bash Scripting on Windows: Associate SH Scripts to WSL (Windows 10) (Enable drag-and-drop to .sh) (+other Linux Executables)

by Alex the Green Apple

Guide to properly set up Windows 10 for Shell scripting

Put a Search Engine in Your Windows 10 Universal (UWP) Applications

by Jeffrey T. Fritz

Introducing the dtSearch Engine for UWP. Also available from this author (see article for links): the dtSearch Engine for Android and advanced faceted searching using the dtSearch Engine.

Selenium Series: Chapter 2, By Types getting into the good stuff of Selenium

by Sean Rand

This is an article to demonstrate different uses of ByType Selectors within Selenium. This is the heart of the API, Finding Element(s) using By Types. Understanding these ByType's are key in navigating, selecting and using web elements to test. Lets get going in Automation Testing!

SemanticZoom in Windows 10

by Juan Pablo G.C.

ListView with MVVM grouping, context menu, templates in detail.

Simple Service-Based System for Massive Data Processing with ZooKeeper-Kafka and Redis

by Igor Ladnik

Basic infrastructure for massive continuous data acquisition and processing using ZooKeeper-Kafka and Redis

Simple SignalR Data Streaming Infrastructure Out-of-the-Box

by Igor Ladnik

The article presents infrastructure components for data streaming from server to clients and bidirectional communication with SignalR .NET Core.

Sorted Page from Distributed Unsorted Data Sets

by Igor Ladnik

Algorithm and code to create sorted page out of several large volatile unsorted data sets.

Sprite Editor 2019: My Little Gymnast

by Christ Kennedy

Draw multiple sprites of different appearances with a single instance of classSprite

SpriteEditor 2019 - How to Use the Code - Bugs!

by Christ Kennedy

Put your sprites to use with an example that will give new meaning to buggy code

Streaming Engine Data to Azure with Windows IoT

by Joel Ivory Johnson

Using a the OBD II Port and a Windows IoT Device (DragonBoard 410c or Raspberry Pi) to push real time engine data to the Azure Cloud for Analysis

Strong Authentication and the Road to FIDO

by Microsoft Developers

In this talk, we'll introduce you to .msCredential, anexperimental version of the FIDO API implemented in Microsoft Edge, powered byWindows Hello.

Take three tablets and call me in the morning - the Chuwi Hi12

by OriginalGriff

The Nexus 7, the Amazon Fire 7 inch, and the Chuwi Hi12. A personal review.

Texture Mapping in OpenGL using Class CImage

by Petrov Vladimir

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

The "SMAT" Subsystem for C++

by Doctor Autonomy

A surprisingly easy way to avoid memory leaks with new/delete allocations in C++

The Quest for the SSDTs

by Jose A Pascoa

The much talked about Kernel data structures

Theano Machine Learning on a GPU on Windows 10

by Dino Konstantopoulos

Running Theano with an Nvidia 1070 GPU on Windows 10, with CUDA 8 and Visual Studio 2015

To And From Binary Literals

by Mark Kruger

To And From Binary Literals for all standard .net numeric value types.

UpdaterApp - a Library for Easy Update

by William Costa Rodrigues

This article explains an easy method to download and update your WinForms application

Useful Techniques for Platform Independent Web Software Development

by Igor Ladnik

The article presents a collection of Web technologies. Multi-OS servers written in ASP.NET Core and node.js along with HTML / JavaScript / TypeScript single-page client construct scrollable table sample.

Using Graphviz in your project to create graphs from dot files

by Andre van Dun

Graphviz graphs from dot specification

Using SQLite, Leverage the create_aggregate(), and SQL's Between Operator to Create a Normal Probability Distribution Histogram, or What is More...

by rerhart585

Using SQLite, leverage the create_aggregate(), and SQL's Between Operator to create a Normal Probability Distribution Histogram, or what is more commonly referred to as a Bell Curve.

Using the Media Capture API in the Browser

by Dave_Voyles

Today I’d like to experiment with the Media Capture and Streams API, developed jointly at the W3C by the Web Real-Time Communications Working Group and the Device APIs Working Group.

Using the Windows MIDI SYSEX API in .NET

by Steve Grundy

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

UWP Form Validation with Calcium

by Daniel Vaughan

Implementing synchronous and asynchronous form validation for XAML based apps.

Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 Reviewed

by Dirk_Strauss

This review will dig a little deeper under the hood and show what Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 can do for your development team.

VS2015 RC Windows Universal App With Windows 10 Technical Preview

by syed shanu

Learn to create simple Windows Universal App using Visual Studio 2015 RC