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Creating Assembly Language DLL Modules for Windows

by CMalcheski

A full-scale all-assembly .DLL module for the situations that warrant it can offer a tremendous power and speed boost over using inline ASM or intrinsics alone.

Easy ToolStrip - Let your UserControl display beyond the Containers/Form limits (C# and VB.NET)

by Avelino Ferreira

The easiest way to implement the ToolStripControlHost and ToolStripDropDown classes, in a UserControl, in order to display a Container/Control beyond the limits of its Parent Container and Parent Form, with very few lines of code. Let's uncomplicate ...

Designing the Interface of DLLs in C/C++ Projects

by pasztorpisti

An advice to make your DLL interface more attractive and easier-to-maintain even in cross-platform projects

Voice and Text Conferencing Library

by Irfan alam

A library for creating a voice and text conferencing application

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Introduction to Native DLLs - Part 2: Exporting Functions

by Bruno van Dooren

An introduction to exporting functions from DLLs

Introduction to Native DLLs - Part 1: Boilerplate

by Bruno van Dooren

In this article, I explain how to create win32 style DLLs and what the various significant intricacies are.

How to Ensure Proper Dynamic Library Boundary Crossing for Objects using Smart Pointers' Custom Deleters

by Philippe Cayouette, Sebastien Gibeau

Solution using smart pointers' custom deleters

Creating a Resource-Only DLL

by vblover Programmer

Create a resource-only DLL

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Designing the Interface of DLLs in C/C++ Projects

19 Feb 2016 by pasztorpisti

An advice to make your DLL interface more attractive and easier-to-maintain even in cross-platform projects

DLL with configuration file

11 Nov 2011 by lewax00

Unless I'm misunderstanding something, you can just go to properties for the project, Settings tab, and click "This project does not contain a default settings file. Click here to create one.".

Changing Version Number Dynamically

23 Aug 2012 by Purushotham Agaraharam

Dynamic changing of version number using SolutionInfo.cs through out the application.

.Gif viewer / Snipper Control

27 Jun 2015 by Pedram_Niloufari

C# .Gif viewer / Snipper control

C# An Example of a COM Parser, Embed COM Interface DLLs in a *.cs file

24 Jan 2011 by Darki699

Another way to use the code above is to create dynamic "dynamic linking", to download dlls and embed them during runtime!How to do this:1. Add a project reference to a COM object, but DO NOT include the DLL in the executable folder2. Do not call any of the functions from the COM ref...

Get Windows Win32 Error Text - Simplified

31 Jul 2013 by Thomas B Dignan

Getting the text of Win32 Error codes for 99% of cases.

How to make gradient colored Controls in Windows Forms

26 Aug 2010 by Ahmed_Said

List Exported Functions of DLL

17 Feb 2010 by Shining Legend

The following command lists all the functions which are exported from a DLL.Dumpbin/exports filenameType the following command in Visual Studio command prompt.Dumpbin/exports Csp2.dllCommand name will list all the exported functionanmes from the DLL

ILMerge [dll_portable]

1 Jul 2010 by emicroxxx

Transforming ILMerge.exe to DLL [for convenient usage only]

How to make a callback to C# from C/C++ code

26 Jun 2013 by Tecfield

This post shows how to make a callback to C# from C/C++

EF Core ApplyConfigurations Implementation

3 Jun 2018 by saadishahin

A quick psedu-code for EF Core that's equivalent to modelBuilder.Configurations.AddFromAssembly in entity framework

Send/Receive classes through UDP

26 Jul 2012 by Amir Hesami

A library which can get any class you pass to it, convert it to bytes, and send it to the other end.

Checking for exported symbols/functions in a DLL without loading it

19 Dec 2010 by pasztorpisti

You can find out if a DLL exports some symbols/functions without calling LoadLibrary() on it

Windows Software Licensing Data and Information in a Nutshell

2 Jul 2015 by Andrew Rober

Windows software licensing data and information in a nutshell

User32.dll - Lock the computer

21 Apr 2014 by Marco Bertschi

A short example how you can programmatically lock the computer using user32.dll.

DLL with configuration file

22 May 2011 by fmsalmeida

Using configuration files in DLL is not trivial, but is very simple.

Getting the address of a function in a DLL loaded in another process

27 Dec 2010 by Mr Nukealizer

Ideal for finding LoadLibrary() in 32 bit programs from a 64 bit program but it works for any function in any DLL and supports forwarded functions and ordinals.

C# An Example of a COM Parser, Embed COM Interface DLLs in a *.cs file

21 Jan 2011 by Darki699

This is an example of how you may take a COM *.dll file, and binary-embed it inside your C# project as a *.cs file. You can create a fully functional COM interface in managed enviroment using the steps described in the project.

HelloWorld.dll: The simplest way to create your first DLL

7 Feb 2013 by pasztorpisti

How to create your first DLL without coding too much... :)

How to enable the 64bit compatibility on IIS6 and IIS7?

21 Dec 2010 by techbird

Enabling 64bit compatiblity on IIS for 64bit ASP.NET applications

MySQL Connector for Visual Basic

17 Jan 2015 by rolandomontero

MySQL Connector for Visual Basic, obtaining a data table

AlSayed Color TrackBar

5 Jun 2012 by Abed AlSayed

AlSayed ColorBar is a TrackBar best for professional color picker, like the one used in Adobe Photoshop.

Creating a Resource-Only DLL

15 Dec 2022 by vblover Programmer

Create a resource-only DLL