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Complete Library for using the Windows 7 Ribbon from C#, including 18 samples and 21 blog posts documenting the Ribbon features
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19 Oct 2010 by "Fish" (David B. Trout)
Simple parsing of VS_VERSIONINFO version information strings displayed in an XP-style file-properties "Version" tab
24 May 2006 by --==## Andy74 ##==--
How to detect network connections using the SENS Network Events component.
3 Aug 2000 by .Shoaib
A step by step guide to write a COM server using C++ without MFC or ATL.
18 Dec 2005 by .Suchit
COM/OLE based technology for Process Control - An Overview.
4 Jul 2008 by 2b|!2b==?
A command-line program that backs up folders and files specified in a text file to CD-W
15 Oct 2010 by 401unauthorized
Allows working with most .NET classes in any COM-aware programming or scripting language
31 Jul 2001 by @deel@bbas
A simple COM server that is based on multiple inheritance
17 Jun 2004 by Aamir Butt
An article on how to put and get information to an OLE Structured Document.
13 Jan 2004 by Abbas_Riazi
Employing COM features of MATLAB to host an ActiveX control.
27 Feb 2004 by Abbas_Riazi
Building COM components that can be called from any IDEs that support COM with MATLAB COMBuilder toolbox
2 Mar 2004 by Abbas_Riazi
Building COM components that can be called from any IDE that supports COM with MATLAB COMBuilder toolbox.
5 Jul 2004 by Abdul Hye
An understanding of ActiveX controls.
27 Sep 2011 by abhinav_soni
The ATL COM DLL that captures requests from individual Webbrowser Control
24 May 2007 by Abhishek Joshi
When we use COM components in our application sometimes an error occurs stating that the API failed, which is from the COM component. This article will help solve this problem.
3 Apr 2009 by abhishek pareek2009
This article contains a DLL with sample code which is used as a reference in a C# Windows application to import FOB to Navision.
14 Dec 2010 by abhishek pareek2009
This article will demonstrate that after sending the data from Axapta to Temperature conversion application, how we can post back the converted temperature to Axapta.
13 Jun 2013 by Adam Tibi
Exposing .NET functions to be consumed as Excel functions, otherwise known in Excel as "User Defined Functions" . Those .NET exposed functions can be easily used from Excel's cells. This article presents two ways to achieve this and the pros and cons of each.
19 May 2002 by Adrian Bacaianu
This module is designed to solve the old problem of directory replication.
28 Jun 2002 by Adrian Bacaianu
This article will demonstrate how to build and use a COM Add-In using Visual Basic. An useful sample is also provided.
18 Feb 2009 by Adrian Dorache
Component used to convert a numeric value into English/Romanian words in Excel
26 Feb 2009 by Adrian Dorache
Scripting the clipboard content in Windows Script Host.
1 Aug 2018 by Ajcek84
Client-side music notation rendering in Blazor
3 Apr 2019 by Akhil Mittal
How to create Azure functions in Visual Studio 2017
10 Sep 2008 by akiran
This article details how to create, install and use side-by-side native assemblies from C# and MC++.
29 Jun 2010 by aleksey_m_t
MSVS Add-in for Doxygen documentation system
16 Dec 2017 by aleksey_m_t
MSVS2015 chart view trace extension
28 Aug 2009 by Alex Blekhman
A simple Calendar utility that demonstrates basic Shell extensibility techniques: desk band, tray notification icon, locales.
14 Oct 2009 by Alex Blekhman
Example of handling real-life challenges when hosting WebBrowser control: separate creation of hosting window and the control, keyboard shortcuts, control's dimensions, etc.
21 Jan 2003 by Alex C. Punnen
This article is intended to explain the concept behind connection points with a clear practical example, which will demonstrate an in-process COM server and an MFC client that uses the server.
12 Aug 2012 by Alex Fotios
How to enumerate and mute all audio capture endpoints using Core Audio API
12 Aug 2012 by Alex Fotios
How to enumerate and mute all microphone components under all mixer devices using the Audio Mixer API
15 Jul 2003 by Alex Hazanov
A library that allows you to embed scripting functionality to your C++ MFC application.
23 Sep 2003 by Alex Hazanov
How to propogate non COM properties to COM client through custom interface
19 Jan 2010 by alex turner
VBScript may be old and ugly, but there are some quick and dirty tricks for which it is still really handy.
9 Feb 2011 by alex_zero
A solution that can extract various file contents using an IFilter implementation. Special thanks to Eyal Post and his article 'Using IFilter in C# '.
7 Nov 2013 by Alexander Chernosvitov
ActiveX component for 3D visualization, embedded in different client applications.
20 Apr 2021 by Alexander Yumashev
The code compacts and repairs an MS Access database from C# code using a JRO.JetEngine COM-object. Binding occurs at runtime, no references, no interops. Pure System.Reflection.
9 Sep 2008 by Alexandr Golovanov
The article describes the work principles and ways of use of IEToolbarEngine. This is a toolbar for Internet Explorer, which has a reusable architecture.
13 Apr 2008 by Alexandre GRANVAUD
Automate your data classes initialization from an XML file.
25 Jan 2011 by Alexey Merson
This article demonstrates how to get the Excel Range object from the Clipboard using the CF_LINKSOURCE Clipboard format.
13 Jul 2009 by amatecki
The article describes how to use the Microsoft's UPnP Control Point API for finding and controlling UPnP devices, and includes a description of simple library to facilitate the application of Control Point API in your own programs, together with an example of MFC and WinForms applications.
26 Apr 2011 by Amir Eshaq
This code demostrates how to use Silverlight with OOB+elevated trust to play a local video (.avi).
8 May 2001 by Amit Dey
This article shows how to handle custom events generated in a VB ActiveX component in a Visual C++ client.
30 Apr 2003 by Amit Dey
This article shows how to program an Outlook2000/2K+ COM addin using a pure ATL COM object.
13 Apr 2003 by Amit Dey
Writing a Word Addin using COM and VB Macros
9 Apr 2007 by Amit M patel
This Article represents that .net based application which is used in web based publication work flow with the use of XML and indesign file
5 Jan 2017 by Andre van Dun
Graphviz graphs from dot specification
6 Apr 2005 by Andrea Cacciarru
This article explains how to publicize and retrieve data from custom Outlook forms programmatically.
11 Jun 2022 by Andrea Simonassi
The first and simplest of the multiplication algorithms, fast enough to multiply not too large numbers
23 Aug 2019 by Andreask84
A command line tool and a simple C# class with a complete set of functions to easily upload videos on Vimeo
13 Jan 2019 by Andreask84
In this article, I propose a simple application written entirely in Python that allows you to capture images from a camera using DirectShow and to perform simple processing on them using OpenCV.
29 Oct 2007 by Andrei Smolin
This article describes the ways a VB.NET developer can create a COM Add-in for Microsoft Office 2000, 2002 (XP), 2003, and 2007 in order to customize Office applications including adding UI elements and event handling.
4 Aug 2008 by Andrei Smolin
Outlook Today is a sample of a custom Outlook home folder page. In this article, you will learn how to create such a page in VBScript and in .NET (VB, C#, C++).
4 Sep 2014 by Andres Cassagnes
wxWidgets resources examples and COM port communication.
11 Aug 2004 by Andrew Wirger
This article describes how to ensure that the MFC state is properly maintained when sinking ActiveX events
3 May 2004 by Andrew Wirger
29 Sep 2009 by Andrey Chuvahin
Example dynamic configuration of DTS-packages for transferring DBF files to SQL Server with VB
11 May 2009 by andywilsonuk
A C# application that uses the Windows Media Player API to export all audio metadata to an XML file
29 Nov 2008 by Angel Kafazov
This article explains how to write your custom DirectShow SampleGrabber filter for Windows Mobile.
24 Feb 2002 by Anishcv
An article that demonstrates automation by showing how to split a MS-Word file based on Bookmarks
16 Oct 2005 by Anthony Dass
Developing a high-performance provider in WMI using C++.
26 Nov 2010 by Antonio Sandoval
Wrapper C# class written in C++\CLI and a sample implementation in C# to render PDF files.
10 Aug 2004 by Antti Keskinen
Augmenting the interface access level provided by automatic code generation.
23 Jul 2009 by Apriorit Inc, Alex Kolesnyk
This article describes the first steps in low-level programming on the example of developing of simple boot loader
2 Jun 2009 by araud
Your own transport for DCOM
17 Apr 2004 by Aria Ansari
An article about COM.
17 Apr 2004 by Aria Ansari
An article about COM Library.
17 Apr 2004 by Aria Ansari
An article about COM Containment.
22 Feb 2010 by Aric Wang
The article will give you an idea on how to design a source filter.The source filter creates samples and outputs it from its output pin.
31 Jan 2010 by Arik Poznanski
Complete Library for using the Windows 7 Ribbon from C#, including 18 samples and 21 blog posts documenting the Ribbon features
5 Jan 2019 by Arkadeep De
Azure Storage Account - what is blob?
23 Jan 2010 by Arman Ghazanchyan
The Desktop Alarm Clock is a very useful application that can perform several tasks.
29 May 2008 by arnshea
A short example of how to access a managed ArrayList of Strings from Native C++/ATL
28 Aug 2008 by Ashutosh Bhawasinka
An article on how to use the IOlkAccountManger to get email accounts configured in Outlook
14 Dec 2016 by ashwanisihag
Extend windows shell in c#.
14 Oct 2018 by Bahrudin Hrnjica
ANNdotNET v1.0 has been released
17 Oct 2018 by Bahrudin Hrnjica
Sentiment analysis using ANNdotNET
1 Nov 2018 by Bahrudin Hrnjica
Export options in ANNdotNET
1 Apr 2009 by Bala Rajesh
Managed C++ wrapper to a native C++ library
26 Mar 2001 by Bashir Irfan Malik
This article is about using Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) as a DCOM transport layer to send a Microsoft Word document across the internet or your local LAN.
9 Aug 2012 by bChen@sh
This article explores the rules of how AddRef and Release are called in RCW and COM, which addresses the issue of RCW memory leaks.
3 Sep 2018 by Bhairav Thakkar
Basic modal analysis for dynamic response of structures in Python
1 Feb 2008 by Bharat Mallapur, sriraj
How to make your C# component callback a Perl subroutine
9 Mar 2007 by bjdodo
Two example classes: one in C# that registers itself to the ROT, the other one in MFC/C++ that is using that object
22 Jun 2005 by Blue_Aqua
view the contents of BSTR in debugger
23 Jun 2005 by Blue_Aqua
Good interview question COM
5 Sep 2007 by Boaz V
How to receive events from a COM object using the application message loop in a console application.
18 Jun 2007 by Bogdan Apostol
Enables applications written in Visual Basic 6 to use function pointers and shows how to embed native code
9 Jan 2006 by Brian C Hart
This tutorial shows you how to write DCOM software, with all the latest features, in a simple, straightforward manner.
11 Aug 2000 by Brian C Hart
Brian's detailed answers to your most frequently asked questions about his DCOM tutorial.
11 Aug 2000 by Brian C Hart
We modify starter files, provided by the ATL COM AppWizard, to improve the user-friendliness of our server.
11 Aug 2000 by Brian C Hart
In this step we add a simple COM object to our server using the New ATL Object Wizard.
11 Aug 2000 by Brian C Hart
Here we add a method to our DCOM-remoted object, and start on implementing its functionality.
11 Aug 2000 by Brian C Hart
We look at connection points and set up the server's end of one. We'll also finish implementing our SayHello() method.
8 May 2005 by Brian C Hart
We build our new server and install it on the server machine.
21 Dec 2003 by Brian C Hart
At last! We finish our tutorial by writing a client with MFC, AppWizard, and ClassWizard, like back in the good ol' days (sighhh...)
7 Jan 2009 by Brian C Hart
This tutorial guides you through the step-by-step details of how to use Visual Studio .NET 2003 to develop DCOM client/server applications.
7 Jan 2009 by Brian C Hart
We modify starter files provided by the ATL project wizard, to improve user-friendliness and provide security for our server. I also show you how to do a Replace/Replace All across the whole project.
7 Jan 2009 by Brian C Hart
In this step, we add a simple COM object to our server using the ATL Simple Object wizard. Plus, properly initialize and cleanup your COM objects with FinalConstruct() and FinalRelease().
7 Jan 2009 by Brian C Hart
Add a method, SayHello(), to the server, that fires the event which the client handles.