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H.264 CUDA Encoder DirectShow Filter in C#

by Maxim Kartavenkov

Article describes how to make H.264 Video Encoder DirectShow Filter using NVIDIA encoder API in C#

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

by Michael Dunn

A tutorial on using owner-drawn menus in a context menu shell extensions, and on making a context menu extension that responds to a right-click in a directory background.

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

DirectX and Pure Assembly Language: Doing What Can't be Done - Part I

by CMalcheski

How to Create a Complete DirectX Game in Assembly Language

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ScreenCapture: Single Header DirectX Library with HDR ability

by Michael Chourdakis

DirectX hardware screen capture and encoding with audio mixing capabilities. H264/H265/VP80/VP90/FLAC/MP3. HDR supported.

Run Client in Lua Script Completely

by flyhigh

By implementing a UI library and exporting its necessary components to lua script, we can create a beautiful UI and implement relevant logic in Lua script completely.

Multiple Precision Arithmetic: A Multiplication Algorithm

by Andrea Simonassi

The first and simplest of the multiplication algorithms, fast enough to multiply not too large numbers

How to Use GPU in VBA/Excel

by Excel-lent

This article shows how to compile and execute OpenCL code from VBA.

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Extending Classic (6.0) Visual Basic – Part 1

4 Sep 2019 by Chris Boss

Visual Basic 6.0 just doesn’t want to disappear. Why ? Likely many have written vital applications using VB 6.0 and Visual Basic dot.net is so different that it is not a viable option.

Creating a Side Menu for ASP.NET Core using a View Component

11 Dec 2018 by Chris A. Johnson

This article is about creating a dynamic menuing system for ASP.NET core.

Installing a Free SSL Certificate on Azure

14 Jan 2020 by Chris A. Johnson

This article explains exactly how to setup an SSL certificate for FREE on your Azure account. The existing free SSL with Azure only works on 'non-naked' domains, making it pretty much worthless. This is a 100% free method which ensures your site will be 100% secure.

How to get rid of the XAML Design view inside Visual Studio IDE?

7 Aug 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to get rid of the XAML Design view inside Visual Studio IDE?

Extracting Table Data from Word Document using Aspose Words

10 Aug 2013 by Manas Bhardwaj

How to extract table data from Word document using Aspose Words

Introduction into an Automated C++ Build Setup with Jenkins and CMake

26 Mar 2019 by thoughts-on-coding

Introduction into an Automated C++ Build Setup with Jenkins and CMake

Numerical Methods in C++ Part 2: Gauss-Legendre Integration

25 Apr 2019 by thoughts-on-coding

Implementation of Numerical Integrations with Trapezoidal and Simpson Rule Approach.

The Kindergarten, the Construction site, and the Assembly Line

26 Feb 2020 by Lukasz Szyrmer

Experimenting with output using three different alternative ways of working

Integrating SharePoint with OutSystems

22 Aug 2018 by Chris A. Johnson

By Chris Johnson @ kolaberate.com Integrating SharePoint with Out Systems Introduction This article is about accessing your Office 365 SharePoint application via the SharePoint API to fetch or update its resources specifically using REST API services from OutSystems.

Creating Multiple Identical VMs in Microsoft Azure

27 Jan 2019 by Gaston Verelst

In this post, I show how to create an image from a VM in Microsoft Azure, and use this to create identical VMs.

Spring Boot 2 Rest Security – Basic Authentication

25 Mar 2019 by James A. Brannan

In this tutorial, we secure a simple Rest API. We begin with a simple example, progress to using a custom UserDetailsService, and finish by adding method level security.

Rest Using Spring Boot, Http Post

25 Mar 2019 by James A. Brannan

In this tutorial, we create a simple Rest application using POST.

Java Streams – A Simple MapReduce Example

26 Mar 2019 by James A. Brannan

How to convert a List of Strings to a List of Integers using the MapReduce programming paradigm

Numerical Methods with C++ Part 4: Introduction Into Decomposition Methods of Linear Equation Systems

3 Dec 2019 by thoughts-on-coding

Matrices are a key concept in solving linear equation systems. Efficient implementations of matrices are not only considering computation complexity but also space complexity of the matrix data.

Creating a Smart Hydrophone Processing System- Hardware

22 Feb 2021 by grilialex

In scientific projects, it is often needed to sample sounds from remote locations, for classification or other purposes. As data link rates may be low or unreliable, transmitting raw samples to inland processing centers may not be an option. An alternative is to do off-line processing in batches.

Spring Rest Using Spring Boot

26 Mar 2019 by James A. Brannan

Spring Rest Using Spring Boot

Creating Transacted Files in Windows Vista

18 Mar 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

Learn how to create transactional vista using C# and Windows Vista (and higher) SDK.

WCF Claims, STS and Federation – Layman’s View – 2

23 Dec 2010 by M Sheik Uduman Ali

In the previous post, we have seen the service configuration of WCF federation. In this post, let us see the STS configuration.

COM and .NET: Cleaning up

7 Sep 2011 by Steve L. Powell

COM and .NET: Cleaning up

ASP.NET, MVC 3, the Razor View Engine and Google Maps

5 Nov 2011 by TheyCallMeMrJames

With the release of MVC 3, the updated project templates and the Razor view engine we have several new features and tool improvements at our disposal. I wanted to see how hard it would be to get a quick mash-up of some ASP.NET goodness and the Google Maps API.

A Little HTML5: Using JSON and File API to View Starred Google Reader Posts

28 May 2013 by Keyhole Software

Using JSON and File API to view starred Google Reader posts.

Generate Genealogy View in ASP.NET C# using Google Organizational Chart

24 Jun 2015 by Arkadeep De

How to create a genealogy view in ASP.NET C# using Google Organizational Chart

Elevate permission on a SQL login having read only access to Execute Stored Procedures and to View Database Schemas

26 Oct 2015 by Manjuke Fernando

Due to an unavoidable situation, it was decided that all the write access to a particular server (SQL Server) was required to be removed immediately. And only few people should be able to access the server with full privileges.

Iterating/Loop Through Your Component Property in Render Function in React

29 Oct 2018 by Sibeesh Passion

How to loop through component property in Render function

[TinyERP: SPA for Enterprise Application]Add new staff

19 Nov 2018 by tranthanhtu.vn

Overview. As mentioned in "Manage Staffs - Part 2" part, It was easy to query the list of staffs as they were prepared before hand.. All necessary preparation steps occurred in "Add/ update staff information".. Let see "Add staff" first.. Add the following line into staffs.

[TinyERP: SPA for Enterprise Application]Multiple languages

9 Dec 2018 by tranthanhtu.vn

Overview. In this article, let see how we use multiple languages in TinyERP.. Currently, In html files, ts file for HRM were still using hard-code value (I mean hard-code value of string). And this was not good for enterprise application which supports multi languages as default..

A Short Introduction into IEEE 754 Floating-Point Model

3 Apr 2019 by thoughts-on-coding

A short introduction into IEEE 754 Floating-Point Model

Share Code Like a Boss: Part 1 - Private NuGet Feeds in Azure DevOps

29 Apr 2019 by Lee P Richardson

Private NuGet Feeds in Azure DevOps

A Beginner step towards Alibaba Cloud OSS (Object storage services)

7 Oct 2019 by Rajat-Indiandotnet

Objective: In this post, we, try to understand what is Object Storage Service in Alibaba Cloud and how to create your first Object Storage Service. We will try to understand the different business scenario where we can utilize this OSS service.

Sending Data to Kinesis Firehose Using Python

7 Mar 2020 by James A. Brannan

In this tutorial, you create a simple Python client that sends records to an AWS Kinesis Firehose stream.

Amazon Web Services Simple Queue Service (AWS SQS) Using the Java 2 Software Development Kit

6 Apr 2020 by James A. Brannan

Introduction AWS SQS Message Queues are a way to exchange messages between applications. Senders, send data objects to a queue and receivers, receive objects from a queue.

AWS Key Management System (KMS) to Encrypt and Decrypt Using the ASW Java 2 SDK

17 Jun 2019 by James A. Brannan

Exploring the AWS Key Management System (KMS) to encrypt and decrypt data via the AWS Java 2 SDK

Add Column Header to Custom ViewBase (ListView.View)

12 May 2010 by Leung Yat Chun

Add column header to custom ViewBase (ListView.View)

XML Document Sourced SSRS Report Using HTTP URL

11 May 2015 by Sifiso W Ndlovu

XML Document Sourced SSRS Report Using HTTP URL

Azure .NET Core Web App and Where to Locate Static Files

11 Feb 2019 by frez

In Azure your web app is written to the “d:\home\site\wwwroot” folder, and if you deploy with Visual Studio and choose “Remove additional files at destination” anything not in your project will be removed from “d:\home\site\wwwroot”.

A Workaround for Lambda ODR Violations

15 Apr 2019 by John Bandela

As brought up in the a reddit post with lambdas in inline functions you can run into ODR violations and thus undefined behavior.

System Jobs monitoring using Flow

15 Apr 2019 by YawerIqbal

System Jobs AsyncOperation or System Job is an important Dynamcis 365 system entity. Usually we don’t create its records, rather they are created automatically. A record represents a single execution of an asynchronous resource.

Create contact from received Email using Flow

15 Apr 2019 by YawerIqbal

Last week in a meeting client explained requirement: “.. we receive emails in a mail box, and we manually create contacts in CRM using sender name and address for further processing, we want to automate this.. .

Cross-Platform Selenium with DotNet Core

24 May 2019 by Andrew Blank

A bit about this project I was asked by a co-worker for an example of using Selenium Web Browser Automation with C# so I wrote a quick example in C# with MSTest and DotNet Core and I posted it to Github. https://github.com/andyrblank/Selenium-C-Sharp-Example What is Selenium?

Building a data form with validation in 3 minutes using AOP

26 Aug 2019 by DotnetShtien

Building a data form with validation in 3 minutes using xamarin and postsharp. Having a data form is very common in modern mobile applications , and of course in most cases you will need to validate user input before allowing him to submit the form..

Return the First Rows from Your Result

29 Dec 2019 by essentialSQL

How to select top rows within a query

AWS Key Management System ( AWS KMS) to Encrypt and Decrypt Using the AWS Java 2 SDK

5 Apr 2020 by James A. Brannan

Exploring AWS KMS to encrypt and decrypt data via the AWS Java 2 SDK

Day 85 of 100 Days of VR: Endless Flyer – Creating a Magnet Power-Up

6 Feb 2019 by IAmJoshChang

How to create a magnet power up

Amazon’s AWS S3 Java API 2.0 (Using Spring Boot as Client)

21 Apr 2019 by James A. Brannan

In this tutorial, we explore creating, reading, updating, listing, and deleting objects and buckets stored in S3 storage using the AWS Java SDK 2.0 to access Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3).

Articles: Login to Azure with PowerShell Non-interactively

9 Feb 2020 by OwenDavies

How to non-interactively login to Azure with PowerShell

Setting up Prometheus and Grafana Monitoring

9 Feb 2020 by Sacha Barber

In this post I want to talk about how to get started with some very nice monitoring tools, namely Prometheus Grafana

“View this as root” – A Solution Navigator features in VS 2010 Productivity Power Tools

20 Jul 2010 by Abhijit Jana

A Solution Navigator features in VS 2010 Productivity Power Tools

Visual Neural Network Designer in ANNdotNET

26 Sep 2018 by Bahrudin Hrnjica

Visual Neural Network Designer in ANNdotNET

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Best Practice in Writing a COM-Visible Assembly (C#)

5 Mar 2014 by Zhuyun Dai

I summarized some best practice rules in writing a COM-visible assembly according to my recent work.

Mastering External Web APIs in ASP.NET Core and ABP with Swagger, ApiExplorer, and NSwag

1 Jun 2020 by Lee P Richardson

This post is the story of how to generate an unauthenticated client.

WCF Claims, STS and Federation – Layman’s View

15 Dec 2010 by M Sheik Uduman Ali

WCF Claims, STS and Federation – Layman’s View

Migrating SQL Database To Azure SQL Instance using Microsoft Database Migration Assistant (DMA) Tool

24 Nov 2018 by Vivek Johari

Migrating SQL Database To Azure SQL Instance using Microsoft Database Migration Assistant (DMA) Tool Contents Introduction Microsoft Database Migration Assistant (DMA) tool Migrate SQL Server database To Azure SQL Instance using DMA tool Detecting the compatibility issues using Assessment Type

Your ADO is Broken

17 Jul 2011 by WebBiscuit

Microsoft has violated the holy rules of COM and broken their msado15.dll. The violation occurs after the installation of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (version 6.1.7601.17514).

Optional passed by reference parameters with C# for VBA COM APIs

5 Sep 2015 by Pragmateek

Introduction If you've already developed COM APIs with .Net, typically in C# with VBA as the consuming language, you've probably leveraged two powerful features: by-reference parameter passing that allows the API to change the input object itself, not only its ... Continue reading ...

Action Based ViewModel and Model Validation

16 Apr 2009 by Pete O'Hanlon

Action based ViewModel and Model Validation

Creating a Custom View Mode that Supports a Template Selector

14 Apr 2010 by Derek Lakin

Creating a Custom View Mode that Supports a Template Selector

Parameterized View in Oracle

20 Oct 2010 by Sabarinathan A

The primary purpose of a Parameterized View lets you retrieve PL/SQL record collection structures in a SQL context.

Adjusting View so Keyboard Doesn’t Hide a UIController

27 Feb 2015 by Dennis E White

Adjusting View so Keyboard doesn’t hide a UIController

PowerBuilder – Using C# Visual Objects in PB Classic Applications

1 Nov 2017 by Matt Balent

How to use C# Visual objects in PB classic applications

Using SSIS to Import HTTP-Based XML Document

17 May 2015 by Sifiso W Ndlovu

IntroductionThe post, XML Document Sourced SSRS Report Using HTTP URL, demonstrated how a SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) data source can be used to reference an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document located via Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) protocol-based URL.

Office Interop Object Collection Technique – The right way

4 Jan 2010 by Samir Sameja

In this article, I will write about the way to release interop references.

Creating, Modifying and Updating Docker Image from Container

11 Jan 2021 by Benktesh Sharma

How to create, modify and update Docker image from container

Leverage the .NET framework classes from VBA

24 Apr 2014 by Pragmateek

Introduction Following my previous article on a similar subject, Extend your VBA code with C#, VB.Net or C++/CLI, I’ve received an interesting feedback from a VBA developer who wanted to leverage the advanced support of the .Net framework for regular … Continue reading →

Introduction into C++ Builds with Gradle

10 Apr 2019 by thoughts-on-coding

A short introduction into the modern build system gradle

Office Interop Object Collection Technique – Ghost Excel Instance

4 Jan 2010 by Samir Sameja

Office Interop Object Collection Technique – Ghost Excel Instance

How to Convert Android View to PDF

7 May 2015 by Val Okafor

In this blog post, I discuss how to convert Android View to PDF.

Coding in Education, a programmers point of view!

3 Mar 2019 by Chris Boss

I have followed stories about learning to code in education and am intrigued by what I have read.

.NET and COM interop story

2 Jun 2009 by Adrian Dorache

Let's see a short example using COM objects exposed by Internet Explorer. The code below changes the color of every link in an HTML document.

Create a SQL Pivot Table in Six Steps

13 Mar 2019 by essentialSQL

In this episode of SQL Minute I want to share with you how to create a pivot or cross tab chart.

Azure – Creating an Azure SQL Database

27 Dec 2018 by Vivek Johari

Creating an Azure SQL Database Contents Introduction Creation of Azure SQL Database Step 1: Select Database Name Step 2: Select Azure Subscription Step 3: Choose Resource Group Step 4: Choose Database Source Step 5: Choose SQL Server Step 6: Choose Elastic Pool Option Step 7: Choose Service Tier for

Use A Google Sheet To Send Reminder Emails To Your Team For Free

26 May 2019 by Rob Kraft

A lot of small teams could use reminder emails when it is time for a team member to perform a task, but there are not a lot of products where you can easily set up reminder emails for team members for free. But you can do it easily with a Google Sheet. Building on the […]

2020: The Year of Data

27 Dec 2020 by Jeremy Likness

In this post, I will continue the tradition which I started in a 2015 blog post of celebrating the year and looking back at highlights.

Browser Selector – A simple windows app to associate different urls to different browsers

23 Sep 2019 by Shameel

This article introduces you to BrowserSelector, an open source app that acts like a bootstrap to associate urls to different browsers installed on your machine,.