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	Code Complete (2nd ed.) - On Every Desk? 31 Jan 2007 Updated: 31 Jan 2007 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.45 Licence: CPOL Views: 50,755 Bookmarked: 17 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. 900 pages that fill the gap between the coder and the developer.
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MFC	MDISnap 9 Oct 2001 Updated: 29 Nov 2004 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 24 Popularity: 6.81 Licence: CPOL Views: 127,014 Bookmarked: 47 Downloaded: 3,923 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Do your users a favor - add snapping edges to MDI child windows (or anywhere else).
	CPath - juggling file names made easy 19 Jun 2004 Updated: 9 Sep 2005 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 29 Popularity: 6.83 Licence: CPOL Views: 156,865 Bookmarked: 78 Downloaded: 3,620 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A wrapper class for path strings based on (and improving) the Shell Lightweight utility API.
	WndImage Control 16 May 2000 Updated: 6 May 2002 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 6.15 Licence: CPOL Views: 120,611 Bookmarked: 79 Downloaded: 6,216 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An easy-to-use control to display bitmaps (stretch, scale, tile)
Windows Forms	FileSelect - Hassle Free Implementation of the File Menu 29 Mar 2009 Updated: 4 May 2009 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.35 Licence: CPOL Views: 50,486 Bookmarked: 38 Downloaded: 510 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A WinForms user control that implements the details of file handling commands for any document-centric application
	Visual Studio Project MRU List Editor IV 3 Oct 2010 Updated: 9 Oct 2010 Rating: 4.33/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.07 Licence: CPOL Views: 29,190 Bookmarked: 18 Downloaded: 565 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An update the class core for editing Visual Studio's MRU list
WTL	10 Minutes to document your code 19 Jan 2003 Updated: 19 Jan 2003 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 155 Popularity: 10.69 Licence: CPOL Views: 1,103,268 Bookmarked: 397 Downloaded: 6,866 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Setting up doxygen, a free tool to document your code, in a few simple steps.
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GDI	boost 2: shared_ptr wraps resource handles 4 Oct 2004 Updated: 16 Nov 2004 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 41 Popularity: 7.71 Licence: Not specified Views: 224,585 Bookmarked: 56 Downloaded: 1,327 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using boost, we can write "almost perfect" wrappers for GDI and other resource handles, in a few lines of code.
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C#	Adding Default Parameters to C# 21 Apr 2007 Updated: 16 Dec 2007 Rating: 4.54/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 5.70 Licence: CPOL Views: 132,857 Bookmarked: 26 Downloaded: 542 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A small code generator generating the necessary overloads for default parameters
	Visual Studio Project MRU List Editor II 19 Apr 2007 Updated: 6 Jun 2008 Rating: 4.81/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 49,341 Bookmarked: 20 Downloaded: 522 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Improving Josh Beach's Visual Studio Project List editor
	Visual Studio Project MRU List Editor III 8 May 2008 Updated: 23 Apr 2010 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 6.18 Licence: CPOL Views: 68,460 Bookmarked: 35 Downloaded: 589 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An update to a stand-alone tool for editing Visual Studio's MRU list
	Generic Tree <T> in C# 3 Jan 2006 Updated: 28 Jan 2006 Rating: 4.69/5 Votes: 26 Popularity: 6.56 Licence: CPOL Views: 349,085 Bookmarked: 107 Downloaded: 5,903 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A generic 1:(0..N) tree container with change events and automatic updating of a TreeView.
	Linkify Add-in for Visual Studio 15 Aug 2006 Updated: 2 Aug 2008 Rating: 4.59/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 6.16 Licence: CPOL Views: 167,535 Bookmarked: 99 Downloaded: 429 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Link source code comments to your bug tracker, MSDN, development Wiki and more.
C++	RCStamp - add build counts and more to your .rc files 23 Apr 2002 Updated: 23 Apr 2002 Rating: 4.87/5 Votes: 22 Popularity: 6.34 Licence: CPOL Views: 142,022 Bookmarked: 45 Downloaded: 2,588 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. RCStamp is a flexible command line tool to modify the FILEVERSION entries in a .rc Resource script (source included)
	PathBreaker - WTL utility to easily edit PATH-like strings 6 Jul 2004 Updated: 6 Jul 2004 Rating: 4.38/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.02 Licence: CPOL Views: 54,662 Bookmarked: 31 Downloaded: 1,333 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Editing environment strings like PATH, INCLUDE and LIB is painful? Not anymore.
	Time Format Conversion Made Easy 8 Jan 2011 Updated: 11 Apr 2012 Rating: 4.87/5 Votes: 60 Popularity: 8.65 Licence: CPOL Views: 152,902 Bookmarked: 124 Downloaded: 2,405 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Conversion of and musing about common Windows time formats
	Smart Pointers to boost your code 27 Sep 2004 Updated: 27 Sep 2004 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 122 Popularity: 10.19 Licence: CPOL Views: 1,051,369 Bookmarked: 227 Downloaded: 2,522 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A beginner's introduction to the smart pointers provided by the boost library.
C++/CLI	Agile Programming 3 Jan 2003 Updated: 3 Jan 2003 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 46 Popularity: 7.79 Licence: Not specified Views: 217,387 Bookmarked: 102 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. What it is, why you need it, and how to sell to your boss?
SQL	Generating Keys for a Custom Sort Order 5 Sep 2012 Updated: 7 Sep 2012 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.62 Licence: CPOL Views: 34,115 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 153 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. ORDER BY what-the-user-said
XML	Addin Manager for VS 2002-2005 23 Dec 2006 Updated: 21 Mar 2007 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.88 Licence: CPOL Views: 52,532 Bookmarked: 46 Downloaded: 375 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Full control over addins loaded into VS2002-2005 - for power users or addin developers

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C++	Reusable safe_bool Implementation [Tip/Trick] 12 Jan 2010 Updated: 12 Jan 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,830 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Reusable safe_bool implementation

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peterchen

Klippel

Germany

Peter is tired of being called "Mr. Chen", even so certain individuals insist on it. No, he's not chinese.

Peter has seen lots of boxes you youngsters wouldn't even accept as calculators. He is proud of having visited the insides of a 16 Bit Machine.

In his spare time he ponders new ways of turning groceries into biohazards, or tries to coax South American officials to add some stamps to his passport.

Beyond these trivialities Peter works for Klippel[^], a small german company that wants to make mankind happier by selling them novel loudspeaker measurement equipment.

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