Win7- CodeProject

This is a working example of clients in queued correspondence with a service, sending messages to it, recieving unsolicited messages from it while both client and service can queue messages to the other while the other is offline.

A Beginner's Primer to OpenMP

by logicchild

An article written with the purpose to help any beginner to use OpenMP.

A BLOB on a DataGridView column (with Command Button column, XML, and layering)

by Ger Hayden

This is a working example of a BLOB column on a DataGridView for a Windows Form using C++/CLI where data is drawn from an XML document.

A Brief Test on the Code Efficiency of CUDA and Thrust

by Wayne Wood

Verify the execution efficiency of a short CUDA program when using the library thrust

A Brief Test on the Efficiency of a .NET 4.0 Parallel Code Example

by Wayne Wood

Verify the execution efficiency of a series of short .NET 4.0 parallel programming samples

A C# Threading Reference Manual

by logicchild

An article that defines managed threading from the basics to the intermediate.

A Calculator via Visual C

by logicchild

An Article the Demonstrates How to Build a Windows Forms Calculator

A Complete Impersonation Demo in C#.NET

by Wayne Ye

This is a complete Impersonation demo in C#, impersonating a user and accessing its files and HKCU Registry entries.

A Currency-Masked TextBox from TextBox Class

by JRINC

This is an useful control that masks the input text with currency symbol and thousands and decimals separators.

A File Checksum Shell Menu Extension DLL

by Jeffrey Walton

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

A Framework in C# for Fingerprint Verification

by Octavio Loyola-González, Miguel Angel Medina-Pérez, Andres Eduardo Gutierrez Rodriguez, Milton García Borroto

In this article, we introduce a framework in C# for fingerprint verification, we briefly explain how to perform fingerprint verification experiments and how to integrate your algorithms to the framework.

A Link to LINQ and a Look at the Binary Search Tree

by logicchild

A Comprehensive Look at LINQ and the Binary Search Tree Data Structure

A MFC/GDI+ LCD Control

by Frédéric Pailloux

Nice 7/16/Matric Segment LCD Control derived from CStatic and using GDI+ library

A multithreaded, OpenGL-enabled application.

by Jeremy Falcon

Provides a base to use when programming OpenGL-enabled applications for the real world, rather than a simple hello world.

A New Perspective on Viewing

by John Hilton

Simple yet comprehensive viewing code for OpenGL and Direct3D.

A n-level Nested Directory Tree WPF Demo

by Lộc Nguyễn

Example of data binding for nested tree structure, and MVVM pattern.

A Palindrome Program in SSIS using Copy Column, Derived Column, Character Map and Conditional Split Transformation

by Niladri_Biswas

This article will discuss about Copy Column, Derived Column, Character Map and Conditional Split Transformation in SSIS with a palindrome example.

A Pendulum and its Corresponding Oscillations Shown in WPF

by logicchild

An article that illustrates how to simulate a pendulum.

A Performance Meter Used In Call Center Software

by Voicent Support

How to make a performance meter that looks like the one in Windows Task Manager

A Practical Means to Perform Functions with Administrator Privilege (Elevate Process Privilege)

by McArthor Lee

Elevate process privilege without restarting it

A Primer of DirectX Basics and the DirectX3D API

by logicchild

An article that desribes some essentials to help learn the DirectX technology.

A Purely XAML Coded Animated Bezier Curve via WPF

by logicchild

Using animation via XAML code to draw a Bezier curve object.

A Quick Guideline for Microsoft Windows PowerShell - Part 2

by Md. Marufuzzaman

The objective of this article (Part 2) is to introduce you to using of VB / Microsoft .NET library, Function, Methods as well in your Microsoft Windows PowerShell script.

A Quick Guideline for Microsoft Windows PowerShell - Part 4

by Md. Marufuzzaman

The objective of this article (Part 4) is to give you an introduction on how to integrate Microsoft Windows PowerShell with the Microsoft .NET library

A Quick guideline for Microsoft Windows PowerShell Part-1.

by Md. Marufuzzaman

The objective of this article (Part-1) is to introduce you with Microsoft Windows PowerShell.

A Quick Guideline for Microsoft Windows PowerShell: Part 3

by Md. Marufuzzaman

The objective of this article (Part 3) is to introduce you to Microsoft Windows PowerShell and learn some basic command of windows PowerShell.

A Simple C++ Profiler on x64

by Babu_Abdulsalam

A Simple Profiler for C++ apps on x64 platform

A simple Compass

by Philipp Katscher

How to draw a compass and feed it with NMEA device data (i.e. a GPS Compass)

A simple NewsTicker - Two implementations

by Graham Lemon (UK)

Implementing a simple News Ticker custom control for Winforms .NET to reduce flicker as much as possible.

A Simple Wait Window

by The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Showing a wait window during a long running process

A Simple Windows Vista/7 Gadget to Preview CodeProject's Featured Articles

by Arthur V. Ratz

Use HTML/CSS/JavaScript/Ajax for creating a simple lightweight Windows Vista/7 sidebar desktop gadget

A Simple WPF Text Clock Gadget for Windows

by Agent__007

A simple WPF text clock gadget for Windows

A Simple Wrapper for Asynchronous File I/O (ReadFileEx, WriteFileEx)

by Sudheesh.P.S

AsyncFile is a small wrapper class for simplifying the usage of asynchronous file APIs.

A Simplified Solution for Hiding the Taskbar and Start Orb in Vista and Windows 7

by Waylon Flinn

This article describes a simple solution for hiding the Taskbar and the Start Orb that works on both Vista and Windows 7.

A Star Wars Scroller Demo written in OpenGL (GLUT) using Visual C++ 6.0

by Software_Developer

A Star Wars Scroller Demo that moves smoothly from the bottom to the top in OpenGL (GLUT)

A TCP/IP Chat Program

by Andrew Courtice

A TCP/IP chat program coded in Microsoft Visual Basic .NET.

A USB Library to Detect USB Devices

by slelong

A USB library to detect USB devices, and manage Attach and Detach events

A WPF Television Application

by logicchild

An article that presents a TV Player via WPF

Advanced .NET Debugging Extracting Information from Memory

by Rene Pally

Advanced .NET Debugging Extracting Information from Memory

AI- Simple Implementation of Uninformed Search Strategies

by Sara El-Sayed El-Metwally

Simple implementation of Uninformed Search Strategies in AI course.

Alternative tnsping utility

by hevesir

Alternative tnsping for Oracle Instant Client.

Alternative way for Window services to interact with desktop where operating > XP

by sashidhar

Alternative way for Window services to interact with desktop where operating > XP

An Educated Look at the WPF Capabilities for Brushes, Media, and Animations

by logicchild

An article that demonstrates how to use video, images and animations via WPF

An English Thesaurus for Windows Forms Applications

by Alan Burkhart

A thesaurus based on data from the WordNet database, easily implemented

An HTTP web server opening media files in the server screen, using QR-Codes and a REST architecture

by Jon Larborn

A command promt web server that starts an application or opens a file given in as an argument in an HTTP address. Could potentially be used to show media on screen using QR-codes.

An indespensible SSIS transformation component - Script Component

by Niladri_Biswas

This article will demonstrate as how to work with SSIS Script component with two live example

An Introduction to Disqus (Pluggable Commenting System) with ASP.NET MVC 3

by Karthik. A

This article discusses ways by which you could utilize Disqus in your web applications.

An Introduction to Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) - Part I

by Niladri_Biswas

This article will disscuss about MEF, how to start working in this, etc.

An introduction to OpenCV (Part II): Implementing mouse events, manipulating images, and creating video clips

by Markus Koppensteiner

Shows how to use OpenCV to write videos, how to implement mouse events, and presents some commands on image manipulation as well.

An Introduction to OpenCV: Displaying and Manipulating Video and Motion Data

by Markus Koppensteiner

Explains how to use some OpenCV commands for video manipulation.

An Introduction to Sql 11 (Code Name Denali) –Part I (SSMS Features in CTP 1)

by Niladri_Biswas

In this article we will explore on the new features that Denali has offer us from a SSMS perspective

An Introduction to Sql 11 (Code Name Denali) –Part II (T-Sql Features in CTP 1)

by Niladri_Biswas

In this article we will explore on the new features that Denali has offer us from a T-Sql perspective

An Introduction to Sql 11 (Code Name Denali) –Part III (SSIS Features in CTP 1)

by Niladri_Biswas

In this article we will explore on the new features that Denali has offer us from SSIS perspective

An Introduction to Sql 11 (Code Name Denali) -Part IV (Contained Database in CTP 1)

by Niladri_Biswas

In this article we will look into the basics of Contained Database that has been shipped with Sql 11 (Code Name: Denali) CTP 1

An Introduction to Sql 11 (Code Name Denali) –Part V (SSIS Features in CTP 3)

by Niladri_Biswas

In this article we will explore on the new features that Denali CTP3 has offer us from SSIS perspective

An Introduction to Sql 11 (Code Name Denali) –Part VI (T-Sql Features in CTP 3)

by Niladri_Biswas

In this article we will explore on the new features that Denali CTP 3 has offer us from a T-Sql perspective

An Introduction to Sql 11 (Code Name Denali) –Part VII (Column Store Index in CTP 3)

by Niladri_Biswas

In this article we will explore on the Column Store Index- A new feature in SSIS Denali CTP3

An Introduction to Sql 11 (Code Name Denali) –Part VIII (Data Quality Services(DQS) in CTP 3)

by Niladri_Biswas

In this article we will explore the Data Quality Services(DQS)- A new feature in SSIS Denali CTP3

An Introduction to SSIS Balanced Data Distributor Transformation Component

by Niladri_Biswas

In this tutorial, we will learn about SSIS Balanced Data Distributor (BDD)

An MFC-CListCtrl derived class that allows other ‘controls’ to be inserted into a particular cell

by Christopher Camacho

A class derived from CListCtrl that allows edit controls, combo boxes, check boxes, date pickers, and color pickers to be inserted into or removed from particular cells extremely easily. The inserted 'controls' are not CWnd-derived.

An UMDF Driver for a Virtual Smart Card Reader

by Fabio Ottavi

A simple implementation of a driver for a virtual smart card reader, based on UMDF

Analog Digital Clock Screen Saver and App

by John Orendt

Combination Analog Digital Clock Screen Saver and App, settings include Colors and update interval.

Android Style Screen Pattern for Login

by Unnikrishnan_S_N

Draw pattern instead of password for login screen.

Android-Style (Toast) Notification for .NET

by John J Espiritu

An android-style notification component for .NET Framework.

AngularJS and REST API

by charles922

AngularJS and REST API Tutorial

AngularJS and REST API - Part 2

by charles922

AngularJS and REST API Tutorial - Part 2

AngularJS and REST API: Part 3

by charles922

AngularJS and REST API Tutorial: Part 3

AngularJS and REST API: Part 4

by charles922

AngularJS and REST API Tutorial - Part 4

Another Look at Achieving Concurrency using C++

by logicchild

An article that provides ways to achieve concurrency via C++

Another Screensaver with WPF

by Ruxo Zheng

Lessons learnt from writing a screensaver with WPF

Another Thread Pool

by imagiro

A simple thread pool with minimal dependencies

AnyLinkRichTextBox

by Israel Sant'Anna

This is an alternative for "Links with arbitrary text in a RichTextBox".

Application Management

by Tiago Conceição

Application Management makes your application's life easier. It will automatically do memory management, handle and log unhandled exceptions, profile your functions, make your application single instance, and also provide utility functions to get system information.

Application Recovery and Restart C# Quick Reference

by Arik Poznanski

Application recovery and restart C# quick reference

Architecture Guide: Windows Forms, Generics, Auto-Mapper, Entity Framework, Framework Design, and many more..

by Nirosh

Architecting a Windows Forms based system on top of a framework. This will help you develop a form based application faster.

Arkitech Platform Framework

by Terence Wallace

The primary purpose of this article is to provide quality sample source code for VB.NET developers interested in building data-centric applications using the .NET Framework.

ASM.Net - x86 Emulation

by Drag0nHunter

ASM.Net a assembly x86 emulator which emulates the language the managed way

Async Drag 'n Drop or Drag 'n Drop from external server/device

by User008

Drag 'n Drop asynchronous files from an external server or device

Asynchronous Progress Using Microsoft.DirectX.AudioVideoPlayback in C#

by CRayGoodwin

Custom windows control that mimics Windows 7 diming & asynchronous aero progress animation

Asynchronous TCP Part 2

by bkelly13

Goal: Describe how asynchronous or non-blocking TCP code works

Asynchronous web services call in ASP.NET

by KK Kod

This document describes how to use the web service method calls efficiently and effectively, by making use of Asynchronous calling Mechanism.

Autogenerate Playlists for iTunes in Directory Order

by shijo joseph

This article demonstrates a tool which can auto-generate playlists for iTunes.

Automated Testing Of Web Pages Using Selenium-Web Driver

by Gautham Prabhu K

A quick look into Selenium which allows us to automate testing of web pages.

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

Autoshutdown Service in C#

by Kees van Spelde

This is an alternative for "AutoShut, my first program in C#"

AvalonDock [2.0] Tutorial Part 1 - Adding a Tool Window

by Dirk Bahle

How to create a new tool window in AvalonDock [2.0]

AvalonDock [2.0] Tutorial Part 2 - Adding a Start Page

by Dirk Bahle

How to create a start page based on AvalonDock [2.0].

AvalonDock [2.0] Tutorial Part 3 - AvalonEdit in AvalonDock

by Dirk Bahle

How to integrate AvalonEdit into AvalonDock [2.0] using MVVM

AvalonDock [2.0] Tutorial Part 4 - Integrating AvalonEdit Options

by Dirk Bahle

Integrate AvalonEdit with text editing options into AvalonDock [2.0]

Avi from Image Files in One Click

by Petrov Vladimir

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

Avoid tedious coding with LeMP

by Qwertie

The Lexical Macro Processor transforms your C# code with a LISP-inspired macro system. Nice substitute for T4 templates, with Visual Studio integration and a Linux-compatible editor.

Basic Calculating TextBox in VB.NET

by Member 10951710

A simple extension to the original TextBox, allowing simple calculations (+, /, *, -)

Basics of Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)

by logicchild

Using SIMD instructions with C# via the Intel MKL.

Batch Image Resizer

by JimBob SquarePants

A tool for resizing batches of images

Big Number

by Roger65

Displaying big integers in dialogs.

Box2D and Direct2D

by arussell

Box2D DebugDraw Implemented using DirectX 2D and win32

Bridge Design Pattern

by Allen _ Wang

This article shows a case study about how we use the Bridge Pattern to Elizabeth's Day Care Center

Browsing xkcd in a Windows 7 way

by Giorgi Dalakishvili

A desktop application with new Windows 7 features for browsing xkcd.

BSOD Saver - Blue Screen of Death Screen Saver

by nbugalia

A screen saver simulating blue screen of death and Windows XP restart

Bug Finder, A Real Win32 Extensible Passive Debugger

by Antonio Petricca

Win32, compiler independent, and extensible passive debugger

Bugfix: TreeView indentation on Vista & Win7

by OrlandoCurioso

Native TreeView is unusable with a non-default Indent setting.

Building a Docking Window Management Solution in WPF

by Ashish Kaila

A docking window solution using WPF as part of Synergy toolkit

Building a Microsoft Gadget Clone (v 1)

by ralph1957

A Windows Form User Control which clones some features of Microsoft Sidebar gadgets

C# Application with XML File

by Leo Koach

Using an XML file as a database

C# Delegates: Step by Step

by logicchild

An article to help the beginner understand delegates

C# FileAssociation Class

by User 5806422

Allows you to quickly create, edit, and delete file associations in your registry. A file extension's default icon, description, executable application, etc.

C# Photo Album Viewer

by Not Active

A C# Windows application to store and retrieve photos from a SQL Server database.

C# Snooker

by Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

Sound-enabled pool game for C#.

C# Speech to Text

by Sperneder Patrick

This article describes how to handle and use the SpeechRecognitionEngine class that is shipped with and since .NET 3.0.

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

C++11 Concurrency

by Babu_Abdulsalam

Various features supporting Concurrency in C++11

Calcoolation: A Math Puzzle Board Game

by Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

Demo for a math puzzle board game

Calculating Subnet Ranges With VBScript

by MatthewPainter

This is my adventure of discovery - I set out to write a script and learnt a whole lot more.

Calendar - calendar with notes using the Qt framework

by alexey_t

A simple calendar with notes support

Calendar.NET

by icemanind

A day and month calendar control for .NET and Winforms applications written in C#

Calling All Stations

by KarstenK

Interoperability: Calling C++ from C#

Cannot Alter Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Table Object in Design Mode

by Md. Marufuzzaman

Cannot alter Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Table Object in design mode

Capturing Live-video from Web-camera on Windows 7 and Windows 8

by Evgeny Pereguda

Simple lib for capturing live-video from web-camera by using Media Foundation

Carrom+ AIO

by Talha Naqvi

The best and most unconventional virtual carrom application optimized for AIO!

Change WINVER

by Roger65

How to change #define WINVER 0x0502 to 0x0601

Changing the dropdown list subset on a DataGridView combobox column at runtime

by Ger Hayden

This is a working example of of a DataGridView on a Windows Form where the dropdown list on a combobox coluum changes during execution, written using C++/CLI.

Character Map in WPF

by Jawahar Suresh Babu

Character Map is a free utility found in Windows Machines. It is similar to the "Insert Symbol" tool in few MS Office applications. This article explains how to implement this tool using WPF.

Classic Shell

by Ivo Beltchev

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

Clipping Plane in WPF 3D

by charles922

Demonstrate Clipping Plane in WPF 3D

Clipping Plane in WPF 3D - Part 3

by charles922

Demonstrate Clipping Plane in WPF 3D - Part 3

Clipping Plane in WPF 3D, Part 2

by charles922

Demonstrate Clipping Plane in WPF 3D, Part 2

Clipz - A Friendly Introduction to the Windows 7 Taskbar Features

by TylerBrinks

An overview of the Windows 7 taskbar features, and how to use then in your own applications.

Clock

by karthik cad/cam

Simple clock using line transform

Close a Work Item only if Child Work items are closed

by Suresh Malluri

Team Foundation Server is an ALM tool. It can be extended as per the business requirement. Controls can be created so as to populate them on the work item form. We can add additional business functionality by creating the controls. The API provided by TFS makes this possible.

Close a Work Item Only if Child Work Items are Closed - WebAccess

by Suresh Malluri

Custom controls over WebAccess of TFS

CLR Stored Procedure and Creating It Step by Step

by Virat Kothari

CLR Stored procedures are very simple and can be used in most complex scenarios when dealing with database.

Code Project Forums : New Posts Monitor

by Nish Nishant

This application monitors for new posts in the Code Project forums.

Code Snippet Manager

by Richard MacCutchan

A little tool to keep a list of code or text snippets ready to put in the clipboard

Code to Host a Third Party Application in our Process Window (e.g. Google Chrome, Internet Explorer 8)

by Sharan Basappa

This code shows how to host a third party application inside your own process Window, like Google Chrome & Internet Explorer 8

Common issues in WCF

by Member 10763717

Common issues faced while implementing WCF in Project

Comparing Ruby and C# Performance

by Marc Clifton

A quick test of Ruby performance vs. C#

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 IIS, ASP.NET, and SQL Server

by Juan Davel

This article is an updated one discussing the configuration of IIS, ASP.NET and SQL Server.

Connecting to MySQL from ASP.NET MVC using Visual Studio Express for Web

by Ger Hayden

This article shows how to connect to MySql without an ORM when using Visual Studio Express 2013 for ASP.NET MVC development.

Connecting to Team Foundation Server 2008

by David Schiffer

A simple WinForms application that lets you connect to Team Foundation Server 2008.

Considerations to Take When Writing Reusable Software Components

by logicchild

An article that defines some rules to follow when writing resuable software.

Consuming a Web Service .NET with VB6.0 App

by Rene Bustos

I will show you how to get a response from a Web Service developed over .NET (version does not matter)

Consuming a Web Service created through Sql Server HTTP Endpoints via Web Service task in SSIS

by Niladri_Biswas

In this article we will see how we can consume a web service expose through HTTP Endpoint via Web Service Task of SSIS

Consuming ASP.NET WEB API using ASP.NET MVC4 and RestSharp

by Gaurav Aroraa

In this article, we will learn how to consume ASP.NET WEB API hosted on another server (as a REST services only) using ASP.NET MVC4 (as a client) with RESTSHARP.

Controlling IP traffic from Internet to DMZ or Intranet

by snp157

Controlling IP traffic from Internet to DMZ or Intranet

Convert BusinessEntityCollection to a DataTable

by sohaibahmad

Convert an MS Dynamics CRM 4 BusinessEntityCollection to a DataTable.

Copy Files from One Location to Another and Rename Them after Putting Time Stamp

by Niladri_Biswas

A program to demonstrate the copy files from one location to another and rename them after putting time stamp by using Sequence Container, Foreach Loop Container, File System Task and Script task

Countdown Reminders

by Marc Clifton

Create countdown timers to remind you of upcoming events.

CPerlWrap - A class wrapper for embedding Perl into your MFC program

by Harold Bamford

Simple class to allow fast, easy access to Perl and Perl variables.

CQRS Event Sourcing pattern with NServiceBus, ASP.NET MVC and SignalR

by Michael Trembovler

The current article might be useful for users attempting to use NServiceBus. It contains detailed instruction for creating pairs: publisher-subscriber through ServiceMatrix. Solution architects may find this technique useful in many CQRS scenarios as a good alternative to WCF.

Crash While Closing Application that Uses Windows Ribbon Framework

by Arik Poznanski

Crash while closing application that uses Windows Ribbon Framework

Create a WPF Custom Control, Part 2

by David Veeneman

How to create a WPF custom control, using Expression Blend and Visual Studio

Create custom transformation component(Email Validator) in SSIS- Step by step

by Niladri_Biswas

In this article we will look into how we can make a custom SSIS transformation component.The custom component is a simple

Create Custom Windows in WPF with Ease

by Ashish Kaila

Declaratively and visually create custom windows in WPF

Create First SSRS Report with SQL Server Analysis Services OLAP Cube

by Mubin M. Shaikh

This Article will give you a good start for Creating SSRS Report First time with SQL Server Analysis Services OLAP Cube

Create Simple Palette Animation

by Aric Wang

To show you how to create a easy animation with palette

Create your own Snipping Tool

by Eder A. Castro

This tool captures a screen shot of anything on your desktop, like a picture or a section of webpage. This tool allows you to select a partial section of the whole screen with shortcut key.

Create/Read/Edit Advance Excel 2007/2010 Report in C#.Net using EPPlus

by Debopam Pal

Export Advance Excel 2007 Report

Creating a Facebook Like Website Previewer

by icemanind

How to create a Facebook like website previewer user control for Winforms in C#

Creating a NFO Viewer in C# as a beginner

by DarkTyranno

A small application which converts a .nfo text file and views it in a custom form with music and automatic scrolling text!

Creating a 'Progress Cursor'

by Pieter Van Parys

Utility to display a circular progressbar as cursor.

Creating a Timer Using the Amazing New Windows 7 Features

by Dimitri Witkowski

This article shows how to create a simple egg timer that uses features new to Windows 7.

Creating GMail Checker extension with Kango - cross-browser extension framework

by andrej33@yandex.ru

How to create cross-browser extensions with few lines in JavaScript

Creating System Restore Points using PInvoke

by ub3rst4r

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

Creation of Menu and submenu in WPF desktop application

by Deb Kumar Ghosal

Here in this article, I would like to cover for beginners of how to approach for the coding and design of a normal desktop application using WPF.

Cropping Particular Region In Image Using C#

by furkanavcu

Image Cropping GUI For General Purpose

CSHA1 - A C++ Class Implementation of the SHA-1 Hash Algorithm

by Dominik Reichl

CSHA1 - A C++ class implementation of the SHA-1 hash algorithm

Custom Role Providers

by Karthik. A

An introduction to custom role providers in an ASP.NET MVC 3 application using the Entity Framework for ORM.

Customisation with VB - Changing Logon Backgrounds in Windows 7

by Saul Johnson

Using VB to change Windows 7 logon backgrounds

Database to Excel Spreadsheet

by rwg

Select data from SQL databases into Excel spreadsheet, with headings and formatting

DbExpressions - A Step Towards Independency

by seesharper

An abstract syntax tree implementation for SQL

Delete Functionality in GridView with Confirmation Using jQuery UI Dialog

by junnark

You're using a GridView web control to list records from a particular data source and you want a delete functionality for each row of data. A dialog must be presented to the user to confirm deletion. You also want to show a dialog to the user when an error occurs during deletion.

Delete Undeletable Folders under Vista or Windows 7

by Pascal Ganaye

A small utility that will help you get rid of the hard to remove protected or system folders

Detect Internet Network Availability

by stevenmcohn

Detect network availability, specifically to the Internet, and monitor status changes

Detecting the UpTime of Web Server

by Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

Sometimes it would be necessary to check how long our web server has been running or if our web server is being restarted too many times. Here we discuss a simple solution for the same.

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

Developing a REST Web Service using C# - A walkthrough

by anshudutta

This article concentrates on building the Web Service from scratch using HttpHandlers, and will give a detailed understanding of operations that happen “under the hood”.

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.

Digitizer interface in C# using VBTablet

by Dr. Vinayak Ashok Bharadi

Digitzer device interface using VBTablet in C#.

Direct2D: Hardware Acceleration in Windows 7 Plotting

by Michael Chourdakis

Draw your vectors using a new, ActiveX based hardware accelerated interface.

Directory Comparer - A recursive tool to compare 2 folders

by Karthik. A

Directory Comparer is an extensible tool that could be used to compare 2 folders

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 Development Part 1: Video Rendering with Direct2D

by Roman Ginzburg

This article is about DirectShow development in general and filters development in detail.

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

DirectX10 Geometry Shader with Stream Output

by Asif Bahrainwala

GS-SO tutorial for basic effects

Display Progress and Overlay Icons for Multiple Views from .NET in Windows 7 Taskbar

by George Mamaladze

This article describes how to use Windows 7 new taskbar features, progress indication and overlay icon, from unmanaged .NET code. The second part shows you how to manage progress indication and overlay icons in case of multiple views (windows) and provides appropriate missing classes for Windows API

DLNA made easy with "Play To" from any device

by Dr Gadgit

Covers SSDP messages and XML replies plus how to stream a play-list

DNA Sequence Alignment using Dynamic Programming Algorithm

by Sara El-Sayed El-Metwally

Comparing Two Sequences using Dynamic Programming Algorithm

Document Preview Application

by Tamer Oz

An application to preview your documents and files such as PDF, Doc, JPG, PPT, XSL.

Drag List Box with Multiple Selection and Inter-List Dragging

by ckorda

A replacement for MFC's CDragListBox that supports multiple selection and dragging between lists

Draw custom caption with bitmap in Windows 7/Vista Aero theme

by Mukit, Ataul

Display a bitmap and control its transparency in the caption of a window, as well as custom draw the caption in the Aero theme of Windows 7/Vista.

Drawing Fractals via WPF

by logicchild

Why recursion in C# works well when using WPF.

Easily Get and Compare OS Version Information

by Nicholas Butler

A couple of classes to make checking the host OS version easy and error-free

Easy WinForms Accordion Control

by Alan Burkhart

Quick and dirty Accordion control for WinForms in about 50 lines of code.

eBookReader

by rspercy65

This is a e-Book Reader for text files that uses a file splitter

Embedded Scripting using F#

by Vladimir Ivanovskiy

This article shows how to compile and run F# code during runtime.

Encrypting Editor Notepad Replacement

by Frank T. Clark

A C# .NET 3.5 (Win7) Windows Forms Application with source code

End-to-end Email Address Verification for Applications

by Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

In this article, we would discuss a very brief and overall technique to verify the email addresses of the users that signup for a web account.

Engineering Calculator VOLTA-814

by DrABELL

Engineering Calculator VOLTA-814 (Productivity Software contest submission) was originally developed as HTML5 web application and later converted into desktop app using Intel’s AppUp encapsulator. The latest version for Win 7/8 released in 2014 is built on .NET/WPF.

EnigmaPuzzle

by Michael Hodel

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

Enumerate and Auto-Detect USB Drives

by stevenmcohn

This article describes how to use the .NET System.Management WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) wrappers to enumerate and describe USB disk drives. It also includes a non-Interop solution for detecting drive state changes as they come online or go offline.

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.

Evolving Windows Forms Event Handling With Loosely Coupled Methods

by IAbstract

Reduce the exposure of OwnerObject members or resources by interfacing methods to child or sibling objects.

Exception Handling in 3-Tier Architecture

by Sohail Maroof, Farrukh Hashmi

Exception handling in 3-Tier Architecture using Enterprise Library

EXE Launcher for Java Desktop Application

by b4rc0ll0

A useful launcher for JAR executable files, with Splash Image function

Explore 3D

by Chris Boss

OpenGL based 3D learning software

Exploring GoogleGears Wi-Fi Geo Locator Secrets

by Mohammad Said Hefny

This is a C# application that uses the Google Location service to retrieve location information using Wi-Fi towers.

Export and Archive your Projects on Schedule via Powershell => made easy!

by Mikhail-T

How to write a Powershell script, which will first export all your projects (excluding source control data), then pack them with 7-Zip.

Expression Blend - Playing with Sample Data (WPF , Windows Phone)

by Saad_Mahmood

Expression Blend - Playing with Sample Data (WPF , Windows Phone)

ExpTreeLib Version 3 - Explorer-like Navigation and Operation for your Forms

by Jim Parsells

A Class Library for building Forms with a folder navigation TreeView and form specific ListViews that can be tailored for your application and behave like Windows Explorer. Full documentation.

Extended Windows Service Controller

by Antonio Petricca

.NET ServiceController class extension

Extending DirectoryInfoEx to support Archives

by Leung Yat Chun

Allow users to make virtual directories and use them via a similar interface as DirectoryInfo.

Extending MFC shell controls functionality

by Vladimir Misovsky

Overriding CMFCShellTreeCtrl and CMFCShellListCtrl classes

Extending the My namespace

by drummerboy0511

Learn how to extend the My namespace in Visual Basic 2005 / 2008!

Fast Image Blurring with CUDA

by ChaoJui

High performance and good quality of image blurring

Fatek and Facon PLCs Communication Protocol Serial Interface

by Mahdi Mansouri

Easily Surpass any OPC Component and use a user friendly .NET based class to interface Fatek and Facon PLC Series

Fault Tolerance for Large Files on Cranky Hardware

by sbarnes

WPF and Form utilities that do a better job copying and comparing large files on cranky hardware. Plea for software manufacturers to consider fault tolerance.

Few Step(s) to Remove SQL Server Database User(s)

by Md. Marufuzzaman

Few step(s) to remove SQL Server database user(s) when you are facing error like “The database principal owns a database role and cannot be dropped.” for dropping a user.

FieldList Control

by Leo Koach

A coding control for document coding or QCing applications.

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.

FileDiff Contest Entry

by Matthew Hazlett

Text Difference between two files

FilePreviewCtrl - Preview Files in Text, HEX and Image Format

by OlegKrivtsov

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

Flex Development using Visual Studio and Amethyst

by Azim Zahir

Demonstration of building Flex applications using Visual Studio 2008 and Amethyst

Formless System Tray Application

by R. Giskard Reventlov

Create a formless system tray application.

FreeNAS or Ubuntu

by Mike Hankey

Turn an old computer layng around into a NAS or Ubuntu Server

FTP Client Class

by otom

A non-MFC class to encapsulate the FTP protocol.

Fun with the Console, Animating the American Flag (Visual C++ 6.0)

by Software_Developer

Have some fun with the console, animate the American flag

G3log, asynchronous logging the easy way

by KjellKod.cc

Asynchronous, "crash safe" logging with dynamic logging sinks

GadgetPacker - Windows Gadget Build Tool

by DaveAuld

A simple automated build tool to assist with Windows Gadget development

Game Engine

by Member 3873633

A game engine first prototype

GBackupSolution - Visual Studio Extension VSX 2008/2010

by Tiep Le

Visual Studio 2008/2010 Extension for backing-up your solution to Gmail.

GDrive Explorer - For Google Drive

by tumbledDown2earth

Browse your Google Drive and integrate your windows explorer with a Google's storage Cloud

General Windows Service: Debugged as Console Application and Managed with System Tray

by Igor Ladnik

General solution for the Windows service: run as console for debugging, self-installing and -uninstalling, providing description, queuing and processing of messages, status observation and control with icon in system tray. The code may be reused for virtually any Windows service.

Generate .chm based documentation of your project using SandCastle tool

by Vijay Tanwar

.Chm based documentation generator for .net projects

Genesis Hybrid Smart Client Framework - Part VII

by Stephan Johnson

This is part VII of a VII part series. This article covers the source code in a breakdown of each project's function.

Genesis Hybrid Smart Client Framework part VI

by Stephan Johnson

This is part VI of a VII part series. This article covers how to manage the hosted applications, user interface and security using the Genesis Management System

Gesture Recognition for Touch Devices (Touch Gestures)

by The Manoj Kumar

A multi-touch simple and compound gesture recognition implementation for Windows 7 in WPF.

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 most of the Kinect SDK in C# - Part 1 of ?: Initialization

by Jarek Kruza

A series about experimenting with Kinect for Windows SDK.

Getting Operating System Version Info - Even for Windows 10!

by Johnny J., Brisingr Aerowing

Get the operating system version and edition, updated with Windows 10

Getting Started with Azure API Management

by Gaurav Aroraa

In this article, we will discuss basics of Azure API Management to manage our Web API.

Getting the most of Kinect SDK in C# - Part 2 of ?: ImageStreams

by Jarek Kruza

A series about experimenting with Kinect for Windows SDK.

Glass Effect Extender Library for your Applications

by Ragheed Al-Tayeb

This library enables you to control the glass effect of Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Global Positioning Device Software

by sajidhussainbaloch, Umair Mukati, Naveed Ahmed

A C# based application to trace the location of a GPS device.

Gmail for Windows 7

by Vance Kessler

A little application to notify you of new Gmail using new Windows 7 features

GPU Computing Using CUDA, Eclipse, and Java with JCuda

by Mark H Bishop

Tutorial: GPU computing with JCuda and Nsight (Eclipse)

Guess My Drawing!

by Albara Hakami

A Windows Forms application to share a whiteboard with many clients with only one drawer, in a gamy way.

Gurux Data Refinery

by Gurux Ltd

Retrieve data from a physical device, process it, and visualize the results

Handling Enhanced Mouse Wheels in your Application

by Tanvi K Shah, Steve H Davis

How to give your users a smooth scrolling experience with High Resolution Mouse Wheels

Header Editable Tab Control in WPF

by Amit Kumar Dutta

Providing a ControlTemplate so that the Tab Header can be editable

Head-to-head benchmark: C++ vs .NET

by Qwertie

How fast is C++ compared to C#? Let's compare code ported directly between the two languages.

Hello B4A: Develop Native Android Apps using Visual Basic Syntax

by Anele 'Mashy' Mbanga

Using Basic4Android, develop your first Android Native App

Hello Windows Azure

by bhavik1st

An introductory article on Windows Azure - a cloud computing initiative by Microsoft

Hierarchical GridView Control Using AJAX

by Sakthivel Ganesan

Explains how to create a hierarchical GridView control in ASP.NET using AJAX

Highlight GridView rows in JavaScript and CSS

by Fandango68

Use JavaScript to manage control layouts, formatting and highlights, without the need for Postback which is not so clean.

Hosting IFRAMEs using the JQuery UI Tabs plug-in - Part 1

by Matt Esterak

Using JQuery UI Tabs to host web pages via IFRAMEs.

How to Access and Encrypt Your Files via Windows Forms

by logicchild

An article that demonstrates how to encrypt your directory files

How to access SQL database from an iPhone app Via RESTful WCF service hosted on IIS 7.5

by Samer M. Abdallah

Access SQL database from iPhone Via WCF and JSON hosted on IIS 7.5

How to Add a Checkbox to a List View Column Header

by Vince Valenti

An example of how to add a checkbox to a list view column header. We also implement select/unselect all when a user toggles the checkbox.

How to Add a Menu Item in Microsoft Office Word 7/10 Application Context Menu

by Md. Marufuzzaman

How to add a menu item in Microsoft Office Word 7/10 application context menu

How to Build a .NET Softphone in C# with SIP, SDP, RTP and RTCP

by Esteban Murandi

Essay and tutorial about how to easily build a softphone application

How to build ultimate XBMC HTPC for less than $200 (Kodi)

by lepipele

Enjoy watching your videos on the big screen by building your own Home Theater PC and using XBMC / Kodi. Article also touches on other Media Players like Roku 3, Apple TV, Android TV Boxes...

How To Check if Computer has .NET Installed

by Kambaa

How to check whether .NET is installed in PC Visual Basic 6 code

How to copy files remotely

by Santiago Sanchez

Two applications to copy files remotely using sockets.

How to Create a Custom Jumplist with Custom Events in Windows Forms

by Ahmed_Said

Creating a custom Jumplist with custom events and examining all of its features in Windows Forms 3.5

How to Create a Joke Jukebox in Visual Basic 6.0

by Software_Developer

An article about how to create a Joke Jukebox in Visual Basic 6.0

How to Create a Random Joke Generator in Java

by Software_Developer

How to create a Random Joke Generator in Java

How to create a UserControl (WPF) which allows the user to pick a directory

by LLLLGGGG

In this article we are going to build a UserControl in WPF which is intended to make the user choose a directory in his FIleSystem

How to Create your First SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Package - Part 1

by Md. Marufuzzaman

How to create your first SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package - part 1

How to create your own map on Google Maps

by hevesir

A simple way to create your own Google map from several locations.

How to create your own virtual machine -- Part 2

by icemanind

This article takes you through a step-by-step process of creating your own virtual machine.

How to Develop an Yearly Interest Calculator

by logicchild

An article that uses C# to develop a yearly calculation utility.

How to do some magic with indexedDB

by David Fahlander

Discover the hidden features of indexedDB!

How to execute multiple long running SQL Statements Asynchronously in small chunks

by Khorshed Alam, Dhaka

How to execute multiple long running SQL Statement Asynchronously in smaller chunks

How to Generate Machine Key in IIS7

by composeme

Machine key generates a unique key which helps you on single form because it helps to protect your Form Authentication cookies and page level View state

How To Learn F#

by logicchild

An article that explains some ways to learn the F# language

How to perform fading transitions on Textures in XNA 4.0 using Interpolation Timers

by CJ Kent

Create an Interpolating Timer and use it to fade textures in and out in XNA 4.0

How to Prepare a USB Drive for Safe Removal

by Armanisoft

This is an alternative for "How to Prepare a USB Drive for Safe Removal"

How To Send Mail Using SQL Server: Part 2

by Manish kumar choudhary

In this article, you will learn how to select data from a table and send that data to an email using SQL Server 2008.

How to Send Mail Using SQL Server: Part 3

by Manish kumar choudhary

In this article, I will explain how to schedule a daily mail from SQL Server 2008.

How to Setup IIS 6.0 on Windows 7 to Allow Classic ASP Sites to Run

by butchzn

How to setup IIS 6.0 on Windows 7 to allow Classic ASP sites to run

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 test Internet Explorer on Android, iOS, and Mac OS X

by Rey Bango

This article is part of the web dev tech series from Microsoft intended to share Project Spartan and its new rendering engine.

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

HRESULT Error Check Simplifier

by Wanderley Caloni

Exception based error check that automates the FAILED() comparison.

HUD window 64-bit (DWM composition)

by zapsolution

DWM composition

Identification numbers and check digit algorithms

by Shine Jayakumar

Identification numbers and check digit algorithms with their C implementations.

IlPad

by icemanind

A program to compile C# code into MSIL code

Image in Azure: Upload, Deep Zoom Viewing, Mark Out and Annotation

by Igor Ladnik

Article presents Azure based software to image upload, viewing with Silverlight MultiScaleImage control, mark out and annotation. Browser performs the operations with no additional installation on user machine/device (the viewing browser should support Silverlight).

Image Manipulation in Multitouch Development

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

In this article, I will describe Image manipulation in Windows 7 multitouch Environment

Image Warping using Simplified MLS in C#/WPF

by wim4you

Demo Program WarpImage, Creating and Dragging linked points(Thumbnails,MVVM), access all pixels from/to WPF image, rigid MLS algorithm

Improving user experience using WPF and LINQ

by quicoli

Building a control to search MenuItems of a Menu.

Increase the performance of your LINQ application with a few .NET tricks

by HaymakerAJW

This article will show an easy way to increase the performance of LINQ using .NET 3.5 and C#.

Injecting MVC Architecture into ASP.NET Web Forms Application

by Sachin Dev Tripathi

How to use ASP.NET MVC architecture into old ASP.NET Web Forms application.

InputManager library - Track user input and simulate input (mouse and keyboard)

by shynet

A library that contains classes to simulate user input and track user input (mouse and keyboard), in C# and VB.NET.

Install Cuda and Use Managed Code with VS 2008 Express on Windows 7-x64

by Mark H Bishop

Getting Cuda started on a VS Express budget

Installer and Patching Program using Visual Studio 2010

by Versile

A How-To Guide for replacing the integrated ClickOnce technology built into Visual Studio, and control the install/update process using Visual Studio tools

Installing SharePoint Server 2010 on Windows 7 x64

by Sandrino Di Mattia

A small guide to installing SP2010 on your client OS

Integrating WCF and HTML5 to monitor system resources

by gtheta

Overall architecture of a monitoring system.

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.

Internet Explorer 8 for Developers

by dougturn

An overview of the IE 8 feature set

Internet Explorer 9 RC Performance/Web Standard Enhancement

by Wayne Ye

Microsoft announced Internet Explorer 9 RC on Feb 10th, 2011, I summarized its most significant enhancement points including JS performance enhancement and better Web Standard Support.

Introducing PresentationWindows

by AlexKven

PresentationWindows is a WPF class library that introduces three new types derived from the Window class, enabling many previously difficult to access features of windows.

Introduction - DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime)

by Md. Marufuzzaman

Using dynamic types in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (Framework 4.0)

Introduction to Composite WPF (CAL, Prism): Part 2

by Jammer

An article showing an extremely simple implementation of CompositeWPF.

Introduction to Numerical Methods

by charles922

Introduction to Numerical Methods and Updated Polynomial Class

Introduction to Programming with LEADTOOLS .NET OCR - Multi-threaded OCR SDK for 32 and 64 Bit Development

by LEADTOOLS Support

Introduce you to the key features of the new .NET OCR classes, provide you with a step-by-step approach for creating an OCR application, and provide you with sample code.

Introduction to RPC - Part 1

by Anders Dalvander

An introduction to RPC programming. A simple RPC client/server application is explained.

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

by didierjeanphi

Introduction to Volume Shadow Copy API in C++

Inversion of Control/Dependency Injection with Repository Pattern, Fluent Nhibernate, and LightCore Framework

by Dr. Curtis Shull

Using IOC/DI and Repository Factory with LightCore.

Iron Web Analyzer

by Hamed J.I

Analyze website content for Search Engine Optimization and technical problems (using Iron Python)

IRTB2

by Globin

This is an alternative for "Improved RichTextBox - IRTB". 2.3 is out! Finnaly with some Regex Fixing and Alpha of Alphas in identing!

Is Your ASP.NET Development Server Not Working?

by Paulo Morgado

Is Your ASP.NET Development Server Not Working?

J-AXE: A File Splitter in C#

by jawed.ace

J-AXE file splitter is a Windows application developed using C# .NET to split file into time interval based on size and total files after splits.

Joystick Win32 and MFC Projects

by Petrov Vladimir

Joystick Win32 and MFC Projects Templates ready to use

Keep everyone away from breaking your database object naming convention with SQL Server Policy Based Management.

by Khorshed Alam, Dhaka

Standardization database object name with SQL Server Policy Based Management.

Keyword Extraction Based On Entropy Difference

by BjutCS

Here ,we provide simple and practical keyword extraction software and dll for long text

Kinect – Getting Started – Become The Incredible Hulk

by Shai Raiten

Getting Started with Kinect - Create Project, Control the Camera Angle and use Skeleton Tracking

Last branch records and branch tracing

by nick.p.everdox

Usage of Intel/AMD extended processor features.

Learn How To Do Alphablending with CUDA

by ChaoJui

Image processing with a burst of performance from CUDA

Learn to Write Custom MDX Query First Time

by Mubin M. Shaikh

Learn Custom MDX Query Step by Step

Learning Test Driven Development with TDD Katas

by Gaurav Aroraa

In this article, we will discuss all about TDD Katas and how we can get hands-on with Test Driven Development (TDD).

Lee Algorithm Mazesolver

by Shao Voon Wong

Lee Algorithm Mazesolver in MFC and Direct2D

Library for online handwriting recognition system using UNIPEN database.

by Vietdungiitb

a library for handwriting recognition system which can recognize 99% to digit or 90% to capital letter+ digit

Line Fitting in Images Using Orthogonal Linear Regression

by Jonathan Nethercott

Describes an algorithm for calculating the equation of a line in an image using orthogonal linear regression.

LINQ to SQL - Detach Entities

by Eric J. Smith, Shannon Davidson

Easily detach entities when using LINQ to SQL

LINQ to SQL - Many to Many Relationships

by Eric J. Smith, Shannon Davidson

Easily support many to many relationships when using LINQ to SQL.

LINQ-to-EF Efficiency: A Cautionary Tale

by meduff

Avoid Entity Framework lazy-loading relationship navigation when iterating large record sets.

Loading keyboard layout (KbdLayerDescriptor) in 32/64-bit environment

by Lars [Large] Werner

When loading a keyboard dll as a 32-bit application on a 64-bit system, the keyboard-dll-files does not work as expected, this class fixes that problem

Loading settings from config file

by sergaz

How to load settings from app.config without recompiling the code.

Logon to a One Click Windows application using a SmartCard in C#

by Steven Richardson

M3U-Copy a tool for playlists

by Winfried Wille

M3U-Copy copies the entries of a playlist in the M3U format to a target directory or rewrites the playlist

Mac OS X Theme for Windows Forms

by John J Espiritu

Apply Mac OS window theme to your application.

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

Making 3D Application with WPF

by crashandburn5

WPF_3D_Application

Making an Audio Spectrum analyzer with Bass.dll, C# and Arduino

by webmaster442

A mini howto on using bass.dll & bass.net wrapper.

Making the CMFCLinkCtrl Class More Developer-Friendly

by Dennis Dykstra

Enabling font and formatting changes in the MFC hyperlink control

Making the most out of IIS compression - Part 1: Configuring IIS 7 compression

by Matt Perdeck

In this two part series, I'll show how to get the most out of the compression features built into IIS 7 and IIS 6. This first article focuses specifically on IIS 7.

Managed DirectX via F#

by logicchild

An article that illustrates referencing DirectX Libraries in an F# application

Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) Plugin for Rhinoceros RhinoCommon

by marceloarguello700

Load a Rhinoceros plugin through MEF

Mastering Debugging in Visual Studio 2010 - A Beginner's Guide

by Abhijit Jana

Describes all debugging features like Breakpoints, DataTips, Watch Windows, Multithreaded Debugging, Parallel Program Debugging and IntelliTrace Debugging

Math Function Tutor: Part 2

by charles922

Math Function Tutor, Part 2

Math Function Tutor: Part 3

by charles922

Math Function Tutor: Part 3

Math Parser .NET

by icemanind

A very easy to use mathematical parser library for .NET.

Metro UI (Zune like) Interface (form)

by lipinho

How to create a Zune UI Borderless form in VB.NET

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Business Application Development

by Member 7656529

A review of the book Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Business Application Development.

Middle Mouse Button (or Wheel) to Doubleclick (VC6)

by kim.david.hauser

This is a small but handy tool I'm using every day. It converts a middle mouse button click in to a left mouse button double click.

Midnight Timer - A Way to Detect When it is Midnight

by DanielBrownAU

An article on how to detect when it is midnight

MinHook - The Minimalistic x86/x64 API Hooking Library

by Tsuda Kageyu

Provides the basic part of Microsoft Detours functionality for both x64/x86 environments.

Minimal Key Logger Using RAWINPUT

by Mike G. P.Mee

An alternative to hooked key logging.

Minimal Key Logger Using RAWINPUT

by joejames111

This is a VB.NET and C# version of "Minimal Key Logger Using RAWINPUT".

MixModes Synergy Toolkit for Windows Phone 7

by Ashish Kaila

Describes features in Synergy Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 Version 1.0

Mo+ - A model oriented programming language and IDE for model oriented development

by Dave Clemmer

Mo+ is the first technology that fully supports model oriented development, allowing software developers to powerfully scale the work they already do.

Monocular Navigation - Part I

by CyberTrone

How to build a navigation system for a simple transport robot

Most Recently Used (MRU) File Manager Component

by David Hall

An MRU Manager Component that can be dropped on a Windows Form or WPF Window and integrates with Menu, MenuStrip, Application Settings, Registry, and Windows Recent Files.

MP3 Player for Windows 7

by Shoban Kumar

MP3 player which has Windows 7 features like Progressbar and Thumbnail toolbar

MSDTC Service enable issues when Using .NET TransactionScope.

by Md. Marufuzzaman

How to use .NET TransactionScope & enable Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC)

Multi language on-screen keyboard using Windows keyboard DLLs

by Lars [Large] Werner

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.

MultiBinding for WPF Command Combining

by Leonid Osmolovski

Techniques for joint execution of a group of commands after single user interface action.

Multiple DataGridViews on a Form

by Ger Hayden

This is a working example of three DataGridViews on a windows form where the values on the second and third grid change during execution written using C++/CLI.

Multi-touch development with WPF - A multi-touch RSS reader

by Roberto Sonnino

A multi-touch RSS reader built with Multi-Touch Vista.

Multi-Touch Robot Control on Windows 7 using WPF 4.0

by theRobotGeek

Control a Lego NXT robot using multi-touch on Windows 7.

Muting All Microphones on Vista/Win7

by Alex Fotios

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

My Photo Editor

by Long Nguyen (xyz)

This is about how to make a simple sofware like photoshop using Visual Studio C++ and OpenCV

NET Debugging: Dump All Strings from a Managed Code Process Running

by Rene Pally

Advanced Debugging Processes

NetMeeting for Windows 7

by KMSRao

Share Desktops between Windows 7 Systems

NetMQ+ RX (Streaming Data Demo App 2 of 2)

by Sacha Barber, Doron Somech

Small demo app showing how to create a streaming Publisher / Resilient clients using NetMQ + RX

Network Activity Indicator for Windows 7

by Igor Tolmachev

Displays the old "two monitors" icon in Windows 7 that flashed blue to show network activity on the System Tray.

NvramRestorer - dumping and restoring BIOS settings in Windows

by kinke

This tiny tool allows for low-level R/W access to NVRAM bytes 14 to 127.

OAG Library (OpenGL) Part 1 - Setting Up the Library for an MFC Application

by Eduardo Tucci

OAG is a library written in C++. With this library, you can create OpenGL based applications.

OAG Library (OpenGL) Part 2.1 - Drawing Objects 2D using the Mouse and Programatically

by Eduardo Tucci

This tutorial shows Library Code for Geometries 2D how to draw them programatically and how draw to objects using the mouse in an application MFC.

OAG Library (OpenGL) Part 2.2 - Drawing 2D Texts Using the Mouse and Programatically

by Eduardo Tucci

This tutorial shows library code for 2D Texts and how to draw them programatically using the mouse in an MFC application.

OAG Library (OpenGL) Part 2.3 - Drawing 2D Textures Using the Mouse and Programatically

by Eduardo Tucci

This tutorial shows library code for 2D Textures and how to draw them programatically using the mouse in an MFC application.

Old Games Launcher

by webmaster442

A DirectDraw game launcher & DosBox frontend written in C#

One Way, Two Way and One Time Bindings using Silverlight

by Shivprasad koirala

This article will talk about three ways of binding object properties with Silverlight user interfaces.

Open cmd.exe from Explorer

by kim.david.hauser

Open a cmd console from almost anywhere in Explorer via context menu

OpenMP for image processing

by jung-kreidler

OpenMP for image processing

Oracle 12c Installation on Windows 7 (Step by Step Solution)

by Sadique KT

How to Install Oracle 12c, How to create listener, How to create TablesSpaces and How to restore database

Ordermate

by Terence Wallace

Ordermate can be used as a basic example of utilizing the XMLSerializer class to automate the creation of invoice forms.

OSIcon

by Tiago Conceição

Library for handling and retrieving system icons

Outline Text With DirectWrite

by Shao Voon Wong

Draw text outline using DirectWrite

Outlook 2007 Add-in Using Microsoft Visual C#.NET- Part 2

by Md. Marufuzzaman

How we can communicate with the Microsoft Office Outlook using “Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook” delegate & event.

Outlook add-in using VC++ ATL/COM

by Gokulnath007

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

Package that speeds up loading of JavaScript, CSS and image files

by Matt Perdeck

Improves web site performance by combining and minifying JavaScript and CSS files on the fly. Processes ASP.NET AJAX toolkit .axd files too. Improves image caching and loading. Very easy to add to any ASP.NET web site.

Parallel Computing and Data Parallelism

by logicchild

An article that focuses on Data Parallelism based on the Multi-Core Processor Technology.

Parallel Containers

by logicchild

An article that describes concurrent collections.

Parallel Extensions to the .NET 4.0 Runtime

by logicchild

An article that mainly focuses on the TPL

Parallel fast compression unleashing the power of multi-core machines using the .NET TPL (Task Parallel Library)

by Bharath K A

Parallel fast compression uses TPL to achieve complete usage of a multi-core system. Fast compression compresses files nX times faster, where n = the number of processors in the machine.

Parallel Operations in .NET using Task Parallel Library

by abhichak

Describing use of Parallel.Invoke and Tasks

Parallel Programming Essentials via the Intel TBB

by logicchild

An article meant to introduce and expand upon the Intel Threading Building Blocks threading library

Parallel Tasks in .NET 3.0

by David Cruwys

Provide a mechanism to execute a list of tasks in parallel on multiple threads and communicate back to the calling thread useful states such as exceptions, timeouts, and successful task completion.

Parsing Windows 7 Libraries Without .NET 4 or the Windows7 API Codepack

by Diamonddrake

This article details enumerating available Windows 7 libraries and their contained folders by parsing them as XML

PerCGameBox

by Abhishek Nandy

An app that contains heavy dosage of perceptual games

Persian DateTime

by Mohammad Mir mostafa

A structure like System.DateTime which is designed to support Persian calendar

Personal Phone Numbers Rolodex, Using WinForms

by rspercy65

This app stores First Name, Last Name, and Phone Numbers in rolodex style. This is the WinForms version of Steve Krile's Ajax Slider using SSDiver2112's CButton and gTrackBar controls.

PHP A to Z

by Gazmend Jakupi

Tutorial for developing in PHP

Play With Control Templates

by Atul C

An introduction on how to give a custom look and behaviour to any regular control.

Plot Path using Google Maps JavaScript API

by VaibhavTiparadi

This article describes how to plot path on Google map using array of latitude & longitude points.

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

by stevemk14ebr

A modern, universal, c++ hooking library.

Polymorphism in JavaScript

by Joe BTrez

How does Polymorphism work in JavaScript.

Pong in a Win32 Console

by Software_Developer

Pong in a Win32 Console

PowerPoint template generator

by roli.hof

This article describes a windows forms application which automates MS Office PowerPoint 2007 in order to replace predefined text of a template with your input

PracticeSharp (or Practice#) - A Utility for Practicing your Musical Instrument with Playback

by Yuval Naveh

A playback practice tool for musicians that allows slowing down, changing pitch, defining presets and loops on music files.

Programmatically resize Desktop icons to a small list in Windows Vista and Windows 7

by Rei Resurreccion

Experience small and compact desktop icons view in Vista and Windows 7.

Programming Direct2D – Part 1

by Sarath C

Introduction to Direct2D API

Programming Memory-Mapped Files with the .NET Framework

by Jun Du

An introduction to MMF and shared memory in .NET applications.

Progress Bar Google Chrome

by VallarasuS

A Google Chrome themed progress, with customizable gradients.

Progress Indicator - Customizable

by VallarasuS

This article demonstrates a customizable busy progress indicator for Windows Forms applications.

Progress Indicator a'la Google

by gggustafson

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

Prototype Design Pattern

by Allen _ Wang

This article shows a case study about how we use the Prototype pattern to Elizabeth's fun activity

PSAM WPF Control Library

by Ajcek84

PSAM Control Library ported over to WPF

Push Messages in RESTful WCF Web Application with Comet Approach

by Igor Ladnik

The article discusses a RESTful WCF based mechanism for server-to-client asynchronous (Push) notifications in web applications. Execution of WCF service notification method is suspended until either server event or timeout lapse.

QML QtQuick TreeView/Model - Part-II

by Spandan_Sharma

Manipulations in a Qt Quick Tree View

Quantum Striker

by Florian Rappl

Architecture, design and implementation of a cross-platform Windows Desktop / Windows Store space shoot-em-up game.

Querying Wireless Settings and Decrypting Wireless Key

by Jithesh Chandrasekharan

This article explains how to get the wireless settings and decrypting the wireless key using the Crypto APIs.

Re-Active Disabled Controls

by Pieter Alec Myburgh

Re-Activate disabled windows controls

Reactive Face Using Reactive Extensions (Rx)

by Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

A simple WPF usage of Reactive Extensions (Rx)

Reading and Writing Photo Metadata Programmatically Using Microsoft Pro Photo Tools

by Dexter Legaspi

A way to update photo metadata (EXIF, XMP, IPTC, etc.) using the DLLs used by Microsoft Pro Photo Tools.

Real time. Windows Runs in the Ring2 (x86 32 bit OS)

by khavkin18@yandex.ru

This article presents the Hadcon's real time module for Windows 7/XP

Realtime Animation of a Mandelbrot Zoom in a Win32 Console with Visual C++ 6.0

by Software_Developer

This article describes how to create a Realtime animation of a Mandelbrot Zoom in a Win32 Console with Visual C++ 6.0

Recursion, Stacks, and Queues

by logicchild

An article that hopes to function as a primer for algorithms.

Recursive VBA JSON Parser for Excel

by Tim Ski

JSON parser for VBA class module, allows recursive data

Reflection optimization techniques

by Jain, Ajay

The article presents some .NET techniques for using Reflection optimally and efficiently.

Relook your Old and New Native Applications with a Ribbon UI under Vista or Windows 7 (WTL)

by Alain Rist

Including a Ribbon UI Implementation Guide with examples and a dual UI enabled legacy application

Remofi - Your Own PowerPoint Controller for Mobile Devices

by Zhipeng Li

This article shows you an example of how to control your computer program like PPT through your mobile WIFI device.

Remote Desktop Control with Automated Skype

by Igor Ladnik

Skype automation allows a user to control desktop of another user with built-in screen sharing.

Remote Shutdown in VB.NET 2003 and C#.NET 2008

by Hari Om Prakash Sharma

Shutdown, reboot, and log-off your remote PCs.

Remote windows mobile Device Using Winsock

by emranallan

Server Application to remote your mobile device through wireless/wire connection not based on RAPI

Remove Skype Chat History for Single Contact

by lkgamage

A small C# utility to clear a single contact chat history, since Skype by default only deletes full chat history.

Rendering Text with Direct2D & DirectWrite

by Espen Harlinn

Direct2D, DirectWrite, Windows API, C++, std::shared_ptr and more

Replacing TreeView with ListBox

by H. S. Masud

TreeView is not good enough to support millions of nodes. Simulating using a ListBox might help.

RESTful WCF + Azure AppFabric Service Bus = Access to Remote Desktop from Browser

by Igor Ladnik

Technique combining RESTful WCF with Azure AppFabric Service Bus enables browser access to remote desktop with minimum code

Retrieve the Assembly Identities from a Manifest using C++

by marc ochsenmeier

A set of C++ interfaces to retrieve the side-by-side information of a manifest embedded in an image file.

Rich Text Box With Intellisense Ability

by wnfk

By expanding RichTextBox, this article tries to show you a demo of RichTextBox with Intellisense, which is most like Visual studio, a powerful IDE. The custom control lets you add intellisense to your project in a much easier way.

Running the AxWebBrowser Control in a separate process

by bssrini

Browser control plays an important role in hybrid application development, when browser controls are used for a prolonged time its memory foot print starts to increase gradually. This article explains a way to host the browser control in a separate process which can be loaded/unloaded as needed.

Save all Outlook Mail Items to Separate Files

by E.F. Nijboer

Source code for saving mail items to separate files and keeping folder structure

Save Zip File in Access Database With File Encryption in C#

by A. Najafzadeh

Saving zip files in access database with encrypting bytes when file saved in access database and decrypting bytes when extracting files from database . . .

Saving and Loading All Control Values to User Settings

by Alexandros Pappas

This article provides a program to demonstrate how to save and load all control values to user settings.

Say Hello To Behavior Driven Development (BDD) - Part 2

by Mahmudul Haque Azad

This article contains step by step instructions to implement BDD in .NET project using Specflow and MBUnit.

Scientific Data Visualizer

by Alexander Chernosvitov

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

Scrambler

by Leo Koach

Create Encrypted text that changes each time for the same message!

Screen Brightness Control for Laptops and Tablets

by stepe

A tiny program for quickly adjusting the screen brightness of your laptop or tablet PC

Screen Capture

by Tarun Mangukiya

Capture the parts of the screen while surfing, working with any software and save it automatically

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Enhancement in ASP.NET 4.0

by Samir NIGAM

This article explains the MetaKeywords and MetaDescription properties related to SEO enhancement in ASP.NET 4.0.

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

by snp157

Use Bapi in C#

Searchable WPF TreeView

by Fredrik Bornander

Showing how to prune nodes of a TreeView as a means of searching

Searching and Sorting Algorithms via C#

by logicchild

An article that details coding algorithms with C#.

Secure Function Pointer and Callbacks in Windows Programming

by Selvam R

This article explains the usage of function pointer and callback in Windows application programming Interface (API).

Secure String Handling in Windows Applications

by Selvam R

This article explains about Strsafe, Secured C run time library (CRT) and safe STL functions.

Securing Data With Application Role

by Surath Rath - 2010

This article introduces the fundamental concepts behind SQL Server 2008 Application Role and illustrates its use in securing data and database objects.

Selecting Form's Controls at Design Time

by _Plutonix

Accessing the Form's Controls in your UIDesigner

Semi-Prime Ordered Sequences (Part 2)

by William Hey

Semi-Prime Ordered Sequences (Part 2) is the follow-on to “Exploring Computational Number Theory (Part 1)” and describes a process for ordering the semi-prime base sequences.

Send Fax with fax-modem in C#

by Md. Faroque Hossain

Sending Faxes with fax-modem and telephone line in 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.

Setting up a full fledged kernel debug environment for Windows Kernel Drivers using a single server

by Rajkumar-Kannan

This article helps users to setup a full fledged debug environment for Windows device drivers using a Virtual Machine (VMware). The user need not have to configure a debugger and debugee and connect them with null modem cables.

Sharing memory across different running applications

by My Bones

A simple way to share data across your diffrent applications.

Sharpening Notepad++

by Oleg Shilo

This article describes the CS-Script C# Intellisense plugin for Notepad++ (CSScriptNpp).

SharpZipLib or DotNetZip... Which Should You Use?

by pdoxtader

A comparison of these two free zip libraries, complete with a multi-threaded VB.NET class wrapper for each

Shatter Ball

by Sudhanshu SP Gupta

A multilevel puzzle game to apply some arrangement through touch and click to destroy every target under given tap chances !!

Side by Side Configuration Incorrect

by John Samuel Vekal

Application has failed to start because side by side configuration is incorrect

SignalR + RX (Streaming Data Demo App 1 of 2)

by Sacha Barber

Small demo app showing how to create a streaming Publisher / Resilient clients using SignalR + RX

Silverlight 3.0 DropDownMenu

by Alexei Prokudin

This is an implementaion of SL 3.0 DropDown Menu like Application MainMenu

Silverlight 4: Accessing Windows 7 Taskbar using the new COM API

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Silverlight 4 has the power to talk with any other application using the COM API. After reading this article, you will be able to pin/unpin any Windows application to your Windows 7 taskbar directly from your Silverlight 4 out-of-browser application.

Silverlight Hierarchy Tree Control

by RobCroll

A Hierarchy Tree with the ability to display any control as a node

Simple Object Serializer

by Thorsten_Loos

Simple object serializer using .NET Reflection and XML

Simple Password Manager with Google API validation

by Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

This is an alternative for "Simple Password Manager Using System.Security"

Simple Programming Challenge: Arbitrary Iteration

by Allen C. Copeland Jr

Gives an example of code to arbitrarily iterate through the elements of a .NET Array using an iterator in C#

Simple Tri-State TreeView

by DreamCatcher2k10

Provides another, simple way to get a tri-state TreeView, ensuring compatibility to all Windows UIs / styles

Simple Tri-State TreeView

by Fred_Informatix

This is an alternative for "Simple Tri-State TreeView"

Simple Web Server in c#

by Pritesh Dhokchaule

Single Page Application performing database CRUD operations using Backbone and ASP.NET Web API

by Khademul Basher

Single Page Application development using Backbone and performing database operations using Web API services.

Single Page Application using Knockout JS and ASP.NET MVC 4 and Web API

by Khademul Basher

Single Page Application development using Knockout JS, ASP.NET MVC 4 and Web API

Smart Thread Pool

by Ami Bar

A .NET Thread Pool fully implemented in C# with many features.

SmartObject Class (Objective-C like Memory Management) for C++ (A substitute for Smart Pointer maybe?)

by Chris La

This article explains Objective-C like C++ memory management class, SmartObject.

Snake Game in a Win32 Console

by Software_Developer

A Snake game in a Win32 Console

SnapWindows - StickyWindows reloaded

by Mr.PoorEnglish

A new approach to 2D - geometric computation replaces Point, Size, and Rectangle.

SOAP Web Services: Create Once, Consume Everywhere

by Mohamad K. Ayyash

A detailed development of a simple ASP.NET web service, in addition to configuring IIS server to host the service, finally creating an ASP.NET, Java and PHP web clients that consume the service.

SongBird - a Twitter Hybrid Smart Client

by Pete O'Hanlon

Using the WCF RESTful services to create a Twitter hybrid Smart Client.

Sort Windows on the Windows Taskbar or Minimize them to System Tray

by StehtimSchilf

TaskbarSorterXP is a small utility which allows the user to sort the windows on the Windows Taskbar. Additionally windows can be minimized to system tray

Speech Binding For WPF

by Prafulla Hunde

Shows how speech recognition can be used with WPF.

Speech recognition, speech to text, text to speech, and speech synthesis in C#

by Thomas Daniels

This article explains speech recognition, speech to text, text to speech and speech synthesis in C#.

Splitter Control for Dialog

by libbyliugang

A splitter control for dialog can auto change the linked window's position

SQL Framework

by Abdul Quader Mamun

Framework makes application more organized and efficient way to coding. It is helpful for newly assigned developer to understand code structure within a short time. It is essential for large application.

SQLXAgent - Jobs for SQL Express - Part 1 of 6

by #realJSOP

Create and run jobs kinda like SQL Server Enterprise - Users Guide

SQLXAgent - Jobs for SQL Express - Part 2 of 6

by #realJSOP

Create and run jobs kinda like SQL Server Enterprise - Architecture and design decisions

SQLXAgent - Jobs for SQL Express - Part 3 of 6

by #realJSOP

Create and run jobs kinda like SQL Server Enterprise - The CSV and Excel Importer Code

SQLXAgent - Jobs for SQL Express - Part 4 of 6

by #realJSOP

Create and run jobs kinda like SQL Server Enterprise - Job Scheduling Code

SQLXAgent - Jobs for SQL Express - Part 5 of 6

by #realJSOP

Create and run jobs kinda like SQL Server Enterprise - How Packages Are Run

SQLXAgent - Jobs for SQL Express - Part 6 of 6

by #realJSOP

Create and run jobs kinda like SQL Server Enterprise - Interesting Coding

SSE2 Vectorization of Alphablend Code

by Shao Voon Wong

Using SSE2 to speed up alphablending.

SSRS Series Part I: Various ways of Report creation, deployment and invocation

by Niladri_Biswas

This article will help in understanding the myraid ways of report creation, deployment and invocation of report from various client applications

SSRS Series Part II: Working with Subreports, DrillDown Reports, Expressions and Custom codes, Databars, Indicators, Custom Sorting and Paging and...

by Niladri_Biswas

In this article we will learn creation of subreports, drilldown reports, custom coding and expression, web service and wcf service consumption frm SSRS,custom paging and sorting, working with databars and indicators with real time examples

Steganography programming with Visual Studio 2012 (Nostega paradigm)‏

by Palavos

A paradigm of Noiseless Steganography for secretely transmitting messages via Excel graphs.

Stopwatch

by Espen Harlinn

Benchmark C++ std::vector vs raw arrays, move assignable/constructable & copy assignable/constructable

Storing and Retrieving Images from SQL Server Using Strored Procedures and C#

by Thilina Chandima

An introduction on how to store and retrieve images from SQL Server 2008 by using Stored Procedures and C#.

Storm - the world's best IDE framework for .NET

by WebMaster

Create fast, flexible, and extensible IDE applications easily with Storm - it takes nearly no code at all!

Surfaces in Windows Presentation Foundation

by logicchild

An article that demonstrates how both Simple and Parametric surfaces are drawn

Symbol Inserter

by Mitchell J.

An application allowing you to enter your top ten symbols without your fingers leaving the keyboard.

Taming the tessellator

by Asif Bahrainwala

Hull, Domain shader

Task Manager

by Shakeel Iqbal

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

TCP Socket Off-the-shelf

by Igor Ladnik

Wrapper to facilitate usage of TCP sockets

TexasQuest v.2.0

by Terence Wallace

TexasQuest is a 2D side scroller platform game similiar to Super Mario

Text Box with Delayed Binding

by Aran Mulholland

A TextBox that waits a user defined interval of time after the user has stopped typing to update its binding source

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 Arabic Writer

by knightofbaghdad

Write Arabic in programs that don't support the Arabic language, using Unicode.

The Basics of Task Parallelism via C#

by logicchild

An article that explains the basics of task parallel programming.

The Explorer Imperative - Going Native

by Jaxon7

File search synchronised with TreeView/ListView. Climbing up and down the tree.

The Explorer Imperative - Partie Trois

by Jaxon7

Restoring UI Responsiveness FromContinuations (Asynch file IO)

The Game Development Framework

by CaptainSeeSharp

Simple Game Dev Fx in C# (Maps, Graphics, Path-finding AI)

The Loyc LL(k) Parser Generator: Part 3

by Qwertie

Lots of new stuff this time, including an (almost) complete C# parser demo

The Loyc LL(k) Parser Generator: Part 4

by Qwertie

The ambivalent world of ambiguity, the slash, greedy and nongreedy. At the end, in lieu of refreshments, there will be an API reference.

The OpenGL and GLUT: A Powerful Graphics Library and Utility Kit

by logicchild

An article that explains how to use this library

The Paper Hanger

by rspercy65

A visual Logon UI and Desktop background Paper Hanger (changer) with JPEG file compression.

The Quest for the SSDTs

by Jose A Pascoa

The much talked about Kernel data structures

The Spectre Framework

by Alexander Wieser

The Spectre Framework is an attempt to introduce HTML5 as a first class citizen UI language for CLR based applications.

The Time Machine and the PWCT Visual Programming Language

by Mahmoud Samir Fayed

The idea behind using the Time Machine inside Programming Without Coding Technology

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

The Winter is Too Cold, the Dialog Begins to Shake!

by Aric Wang

The article demonstrates a method to shake the window using multithreading. Just like some IM tools, you click a button, then the dialog begins to shake.

Things to do in Graphics Land

by logicchild

Basic and advanced graphics via C#.

To And From Binary Literals

by Mark Kruger

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

To Create A COOL Desktop Lyrics Demo (A Gift To All People On CP)

by Aric Wang

Many popular MP3 players have cool desktop lyrics, this demo uses a simple method to realize it. Happy new year!

Toolbar Editor for Visual Studio

by Francesco Aruta

A toolbar editor for Visual Studio. It can modify, add and create buttons, images and all that is needed for a toolbar.

Tree Control Offering Drag and Drop, Folder Auto-expansion, New/edit/delete, and Button Move

by Phil Outram

A basic tree control that ties together all the functionality to make items fully editable and moveable.

T-Rex animation

by zapsolution

Self contained EXE animation

Tri-State Tree View

by RikTheVeggie

A Tri-State Tree View designed for Directory Browsing and Installers

Turn Off Monitor when PC is Locked

by Mayank Rai

Turn Off Monitor when PC is locked

Twitter API v1.1 with OAuth

by Rajan Patekar

Twitter API v1.1 with OAuth.

Type-safe (but generic) import of 'char' separated line based files into objects

by Christian Vogt

An article on a generic approach for importing text based data into objects, using Reflection. Supports mass data processing, filter, advanced processing and converting, and some other gimmicks.

Understanding Direct3D 10 Application Code

by logicchild

An article that describes some of the important parts of Direct3D program code.

Undocumented List View Features

by Timo Kunze

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

Uninstalling inf files related to a driver file

by Sharath C V

This article explains how to get a list of inf files related to a driver and uninstall the inf files.

UNITY 3D – Leap Motion Integration

by Vahe Karamian

This article will cover the basics of Leap Motion integration into your Unity 3D project. We will look at the basic setup and implementation of the basics to get you started. In order for you to try the code, you will need to have the Leap Motion hardware.

Unleashing Grids in Expression Blend and it's Major Role in Responsive Design

by Saad_Mahmood

Unleashing Grids in Expression Blend and it's Major Role in Responsive Design

UpdaterApp - a Library for Easy Update

by William Costa Rodrigues

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

Updating Jumplists On The Fly

by Cylentwolf

This article shows the basics of using jumplists; creating tasks in them linking to another excutable and updating them on the fly.

Use Excel in PowerShell without a full version of Excel

by Douglas M. Weems

Easily import Excel Sheets into PowerShell as PS Objects

Using an Enum Class in a DataGridView Combobox Column

by Ger Hayden

This is a working example of an enum class column on a DataGridView for a Windows Form using C++/CLI where data is drawn from multiple datasources.

Using BizTalk360

by Lex Hegt

This article describes how BizTalk360 fills the gaps left by the BizTalk Server Administration Console and the capabilities of BizTalk360 V5.

Using Conditional Split data Transfer in SSIS 2008

by Surath Rath - 2010

This article introduces the fundamental concepts behind SQL Server 2008 Integration Services Conditional Split Data Flow Transformation element to transfer data from a set of flat files to SQL Server database tables...

Using Direct2D with WPF

by Samuel Cragg

Hosting Direct2D content in WPF controls.

Using Graphviz in your project to create graphs from dot files

by Andre van Dun

Graphviz graphs from dot specification

Using Lambdas for WPF or Silverlight Animation

by Dmitri Nеstеruk

Shows how to use lambdas and higher-order functions for WPF/Silverlight graphics work

Using Microsoft Tag API

by Tamer Oz

This article describes how to use Microsoft Tag API

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 OpenTK/OpenAL to Develop Cross Platform DIS VOIP Application

by pesmith

Application allows voice communications (VOIP) utilizing the Distributed Interactive Simulation protocol (IEEE 1278.1)

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 System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement

by Tamer Oz

In this article, we will be focusing on creating, editing, and deleting both user accounts or groups on the Active Directory or Machine SAM by using the System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement namespace that .NET Framework 3.5 includes.

Using the AWS SDK

by netfed

A Winforms application for configuring EC2 security groups - a future winforms ec2 console

Using the Linked List via C#

by logicchild

An article meant to encourage the use of the Linked List in C#

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 the RawInput API to Process MultiTouch Digitizers

by Jason Stern2

A demonstration of how to use Windows' RawInput API to manually process MultiTouch data.

Using the Windows MIDI SYSEX API in .NET

by Steve Grundy

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

Using VBA to run Outlook Rules for one or more accounts

by Dracula

Run all rules for all accounts on all messages; also useful as Outlook Rule debug tool.

VB 9.0, C# 3.0 API Viewer

by rspercy65

This is a remake of Pramod Kumar Sing's 2002 API Viewer.

Versatile Tree Control

by Babu_Abdulsalam

Tree control with custom checkbox with several other features.

Version Helper API for .NET

by Petr Alexeev

Version Helper API for .NET – checking version of Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012 R2 without Environment.OSVersion or application manifest

Visual Studio LightSwitch Application Database Script Generator

by Jaganathan Bantheswaran

A tool to generate SQL server DB script from the LightSwitch internal database

VMSTAT Analyzer

by Biswas, Sumit

Helps UNIX / Linux administrators to analyze VMSTAT files for system resource utilization.

Voice and Text Conferencing Library

by Irfan alam

A library for creating a voice and text conferencing application

Wake the PC from standby or hibernation

by Daniele Di Sarli

How to automatically wake up the PC at some time in the future.

Weather Logger

by Venkat Krishna Turlapati

Automated process of downloading a XML file and inserting the contents into a database.

WeatherBar - Weather in the Taskbar

by Dennis Delimarsky

An application designed for Windows 7 to display the weather in a specific location

Web app using Web API, SignalR and AngularJS

by bob.bumsuk.lee

Web app that manages customer complaints and demonstrate how to use Web API, SignalR and AngularJS technologies

Web Browser with C#

by Leo Koach

New functionalities for a web browser (for beginners).

Weiler-Atherton Algorithm in 3D

by Petrov Vladimir

Weiler-Atherton algorithm in 3D codes demo implementation

Weiler-Atherton Algorithm in MFC

by Petrov Vladimir

Weiler-Atherton algorithm in MFC codes demo implementation

WestWorld - Part 4

by Terence Wallace

A demonstration of Finite State Machines (FSM) where agents inhabit an Old West style gold mining town called West World.

WF4 Custom activities for message mediation

by Roman Kiss

This article describes a design, implementation, and usage of custom message mediation activities for a XAML workflow.

What’s In Your Toolbox? Deliver Great User Experiences with the Right Tools

by J. Ambrose Little

Your boss says he wants your next app to look like Windows 7, have the work scheduling features of Microsoft Project and display crisp conditionally-formatted, filtered data like Microsoft Excel. You look in your toolbox, and hope it contains Infragistics’ latest NetAdvantage® for .NET 2010 Volume 1

When Can I Logon to Windows?

by David Crow

A brief explanation on how to interpret the 'logon hours' member of the USER_INFO structures

Win32 Window Minimal

by Jani Mäkinen

Getting started with Win32 programming through creating a window with minimum code and complexity

Windows 7 / VS2010 demo app

by Sacha Barber

Using Windows7 / VS2010 and some of the new bits such as TaskBar/JumpList and Drag & Drop

Windows 7 Features Controls

by Dotnetifier

The Windows 7 New Features Controls

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 Multitouch Application Development (Part – II)

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Windows 7 Multitouch Application Development

Windows 7 new features: Step by step in VB.NET and C#

by Helmy.m

Explaining all the new must have features in Windows 7 to make your application look shiny and professional, like the new features of the task bar and more.

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 Ribbon: The Time Has Come, Your Win32 Application Will Change

by Michael Chourdakis

Learn how to use the new Ribbon under Windows 7

Windows 7 Taskbar: Check if a program or window is pinned

by Jochen Baier

Example code to check if a program or window is pinned on the Windows 7 taskbar.

Windows 7 Trigger Start Service

by Abhishek Sur

Implement services that start/stop automatically to some events like Device attached, Network Availability, Firewall port modified, Domain join, Group Policy change etc

Windows 7 workaround to drag & drop DLLs to GAC

by Chuck Bevitt

Drag & drop libraries to install and delete DLLs on Windows 7.

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

by Michael Chourdakis

Demonstration of seven new programming technologies.

Windows 7: New Features Explained using .NET

by Abhishek Sur

New Win7 features explained with simple demo applications

Windows API Code Pack v1.1 Released!

by Arik Poznanski

Windows API Code Pack v1.1

Windows Authentication Using Form Authentication

by Muhammad Akhtar Shiekh

An article on "How to authenticate windows user using form authentication in ASP.NET?"

Windows Development in C++, Working with Menus

by Espen Harlinn

Windows API, menus, C++ lambda expressions, std::enable_shared_from_this

Windows Federated Search using OpenSearch for PHP

by jeff00seattle

How to build an OpenSearch data source that can be searched using Windows 7 Federated Search functionality. Following the best practices, you can enable rich integration of your remote data sources with Windows 7 Explorer without having to write any client-side code.

Windows Forms, Random Number Generators, and Parallel Programming

by logicchild

An article that demonstrates building a Windows Forms application via Parallel computing

Windows' Permission 1.5

by Mahdi Nejadsahebi

This program protects and locks every window in Windows, and encrypts files without any problem.

Windows Post Install and 64 bit Registry tweaks

by Snoepie

WPI and 64 bit Registry integration.

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 Ribbon for WinForms, Part 1 – Introduction

by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present the background information needed on the latest Windows 7 Ribbon Framework.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 10 – Working With Images

by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to work with images in the ribbon.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 11 – DropDownGallery, SplitButtonGallery, and InRibbonGallery

by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon drop down gallery, split button gallery, and in ribbon gallery controls.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 12 – CheckBox and ToggleButton

by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon check box and toggle button controls.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 13 – DropDownColorPicker

by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon drop down color picker control.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 14 – FontControl

by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon font control.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 15 – Use Ribbon as External DLL

by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to load ribbon resources from external DLLs.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 16 – ApplicationModes

by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to work with ribbon application modes.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 17 – Contextual Tabs

by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to work with ribbon contextual tabs.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 18 – ContextPopup

by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to work with ribbon context popup.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 19 – RecentItems

by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to work with the ribbon recent items control.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 2 - Basic Ribbon Wrapper

by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present the basic .NET wrappers for the Windows 7 Ribbon Framework.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 20 – QuickAccessToolbar

by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to work with the ribbon quick access toolbar.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 21 – SizeDefinition

by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to define custom size definitions for ribbon group elements.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 3 - First WinForms Ribbon Application

by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to create an empty WinForms application with Windows 7 ribbon support.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 4 - Application Menu with Buttons

by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon application menu.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 5 - Application Menu with SplitButton and DropButton

by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon application menu with ribbon split button and ribbon drop button controls.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 6 – Tabs, Groups and HelpButton

by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to use ribbon tabs, groups and the ribbon help button control.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 7 – Spinner

by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon spinner control.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 8 – ComboBox

by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon combo box control.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 9 – Changing Ribbon Colors

by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to change the ribbon colors.

Windows Ribbon Framework in Win32 C Application

by Stephen Wiria

Adding native Windows Ribbon Framework in Win32 C Application (NO MFC OR ATL)

Windows Sensor Driver and WinUSB - Sensor Driver for iNemo

by noam-meir

This article will cover the basics of the Sensor API and WinUSB.

Windows-Service for Multithreading with Remote Control GUI

by J.Starkl

A windows-service which can handle different operations in separate threads and which can be controlled by a small GUI program

WinForm Extended

by Fabio Franco

A WinForm that extend the standard features provided by Microsoft

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

Wobbly Menu - An Inspiration from iPhone

by Thulasee Shan

iPhone like menu system and wobbly re-arrangement technique with a useful sample application

Word Automation using Late binding - Usage of dynamic Keyword

by Prathapachandran

This article gives a brief idea about word automation using late binding and dynamic keyword in .NET Framework 4.0

Wordnet Rightfully Transmogrified

by Jim Meadors

String manipulation of XML files

Work Load System

by Allen _ Wang

Calculating the workload for speech language pathologists is a very complex process. A systematic approach has to be developed in order to calculate the workload and setup a standard.

Working with Custom Background Bitmaps in Dialog Boxes and Property Sheets

by Ingo A. Kubbilun

This article shows how to deal with controls that do not properly paint their background when using custom background bitmaps.

Working with Pivot and UnPivot Transformation

by Niladri_Biswas

This article will describe in simple ways as how to work with Pivot and Unpivot transformation component

Working With Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) - Part 2

by Rajkumar-Kannan

In the second part of this article, I primarily focus on using WMI and C# to develop routines that can manage a Hyper-V Virtual Machine

WPF Bug with a Workaround: Double Invocation of Button.Click

by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

A button click event is invoked twice through an access character if an exception is thrown, caught and handled

WPF ColorPicker and BrushEditor

by Matthew Searles

Similar to KAXAML's.

WPF DataGrid Custommization using Style and Template

by Hiren Khirsaria

customize DataGridRowHeader, DataGridColumnHeader, DataGridCell, DataGridRow styles & templates and change the ScrollBar style in DataGrid

WPF DataGrid With Excel Style Column Filter

by Nayan Choudhary

WPF DataGrid with columns having drop down filter option (Excel style)

WPF GIF Animation

by Artem S. Dmitriev

This article shows the best way to play GIF animation in your WPF project.

WPF Loading Splash Screen

by amr azab

Simple animated loading text, like last MSN messenger, show animation and transparent mask in WPF

WPF Localization for Dummies

by Igor Vigdorchik

Explains how to easily localize a WPF application

WPF TaskDialog Wrapper and Emulator

by Sean A. Hanley

A TaskDialog wrapper class with fallback emulator (for XP and earlier).

WPF Window Allows Tabbing by Drag and Drop

by Suk H. Lee

WPF Window allows tabbing by drag and drop

WPF x FileExplorer x MVVM

by Leung Yat Chun

This article describe how to construct FileExplorer controls included DirectoryTree and FileList, using Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern.

WPF: Getting data from the Windows 7 power management system

by Josué Yeray Julián Ferreiro

In my opinion, one of the big challenges developers have today is exploiting all the advantages offered by the Operating System.

WPF: Integrating our application with the Windows 7 Taskbar (I)

by Josué Yeray Julián Ferreiro

The taskbar of Windows 7 is one of the major changes in the Operating System, and brings many advantages.

WPF: Integrating Our Application with the Windows 7 Taskbar (II)

by Josué Yeray Julián Ferreiro

Let your user interact with your application using the new features of the Windows 7 Taskbar

WPF: MVVM (Model View View-Model) Simplified

by Alphakoda

Provides a clear and simple sample that clearly illustrates MVVM and its usage

WPF: Where to Put Value Converters?

by Arik Poznanski

The question this posts tries to address is: Where to put value converters?

WPF: Windows 7 like Button Color Hot Tracking

by rudigrobler, Raul Mainardi Neto

A nice idea that you can apply to your code

Wpf-Tabcontrol, saving its visual TabItem-States (Alternative)

by Mr.PoorEnglish

Understanding Tabcontrol right enables a lightweigth solution

Writing a Platform and GUI Toolkit Independent OpenGL Class

by Sharjith

Article showing how to write OS and GUI toolkit portable OpenGL view class

Writing a Sensor Driver for the Wiimote on Windows 7

by Rajasekharan Vengalil

How to write a Sensor driver that provides access to the 3-axis accelerometer on a Nintendo Wiimote on Windows 7

XNA Snooker Club

by Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

WCF-enabled multi-player XNA game for the Windows platform.

Yet Another Way for ViewModel - ViewModel Communications in MVVM - Part 1 of 2

by Leonid Osmolovski

Techniques for MultiBinding based ViewModel - ViewModel communications in the MVVM pattern.

Your Own Quadrics in OpenGL MFC

by Petrov Vladimir

The alternative Quadrics in OpenGL MFC for your Own design and Universal Polyhedron Procedure.

Your Own Recent File List(s)

by Petrov Vladimir

The alternative way of recent files handling with the direct access to the list of the files notepad edit including.

Your Own Word Bookmark Editor

by Petrov Vladimir

Word Bookmark Editor for Word Reports easy handling

Zoom An Image With Different Interpolation Types

by Santhosh G_

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

Win7

Great Reads

Latest Articles

All Articles

Win7