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Guide to WIN32 Regions

by Paul M Watt

Guide to understanding how to create and use regions with the WIN32 SDK

Find GDI Leaks With Windows Debugger

by Shao Voon Wong

Tracing GDI Leaks with Windows Debugger

XBreadCrumbBar - Draw breadcrumb trail with hyperlinks and HTML

by Hans Dietrich

XBreadCrumbBar is a windowless non-MFC class that allows you to display a breadcrumb trail as HTML text, with support for web links and APP: links.

Creating Alternate GUI using Vector Art

by Keith Rule

Create visually complex, yet programmatically simple, non-rectangular GUIs

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Find GDI Leaks With Windows Debugger

by Shao Voon Wong

Tracing GDI Leaks with Windows Debugger

Drawing Rich Text with GDI+

by Andy De Filippo

Render Rich Text with GDI+ by tapping into the power of API hooking

Reflected Image in C# with GDI and Unchecked Code

by AdventureDriver

Creating a optionally sheared mirrored image from a source image in a collage

dwl::fractalBrowser

by David O'Neil

Everybody Loves the Mandelbrot Set! Here's a browser for it!

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String Concatenation vs Memory Allocation in C# .NET

21 Nov 2015 by zenwalker1985

Dear Reader, I would like to bring into your attention an old article written on this topic. This article explains alot about strings concatenation and does very good performance analysis. Here is a glimpse about this article: Over the years, plenty has been written about... Read More

What’s New in C# 6.0? - String Interpolation

25 Nov 2014 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

String interpolation in C# 6.0

Sample Code to Scramble a Word using C# String object

19 Sep 2014 by T Manjaly

This post shows sample code to scramble a word using C# string object

Safe Cast string to enum

2 Mar 2014 by n.podbielski

Safe cast string to enum

Interoperability returning a string from a Win32 DLL

27 Aug 2013 by Praveen Kumar Katiyar

Returning a string from a Win32 DLL using Interop.

String Interning

1 Aug 2013 by Sandeep Shankar

String interning

MVC Complex Model Postback: Bind Field to JSON string

20 Jul 2013 by m_kramar

MVC Complex model postback: bind field to JSON string

Creating a Multi-paged Container Control with Design Time Support

27 Aug 2012 by Richard James Moss

This article describes adding design time support for a TabControl-like component which renders the same way the Project Properties in Visual Studio 2012.

Windows and GDI-objects

5 Jun 2012 by Michael Banzon

Windows and GDI-objects

Regular Expressions – Big daddy o’ string manipulation

2 Feb 2012 by Jyothikarthik_N

Regular Expressions – Big daddy o’ string manipulation

Creating a GroupBox Containing an Image and a Custom Display Rectangle

29 Jan 2012 by Richard James Moss

This post describes how to create a GroupBox control similar to those used in Microsoft Outlook

Binding and Handling JSON Field In jQuery Repeater

26 Dec 2011 by zoyobar

Binding and Handling JSON Field In jQuery Repeater

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String to Integer conversion Internals

5 Nov 2011 by zenwalker1985

String to Integer conversion Internals

String Split Utility

25 Jul 2011 by Pranay Rana

Note: Split function has more no of overload method but the below two I found useful. You may found other overloads helpful in your code.In this post I am going to discuss about two important thing about Split function of String class.

Embedding Font To Resources

7 Sep 2010 by Ernest Poletaev

How to load and use custom font, embedded in assembly resources

Load And Use Custom Font Without Installing It

7 Sep 2010 by Ernest Poletaev

How to load and use font, not installed in the system?

TIP: Improve Readability with Shorter String.Format Statements

3 Jul 2010 by Martin Jarvis

How to improve readability with shorter String.Format statements

Converting Colors to Gray Shades

18 Mar 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

Convert colors to gray shades, detect Print Preview mode, and detect Black-and-White printers

BeginPaint/EndPaint or GetDC/ReleaseDC?

18 Mar 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

Which is better, to use BeginPaint/EndPaint, or to use GetDC/ReleaseDC?

Handling Cookies with Redirects and HttpWebRequest

28 Dec 2009 by Joel Ivory Johnson

The HttpWebRequest handles redirects automatically. That's usually a nice feature but it can actually get in the way when the web server is setting cookies in the same response in which it is sending a redirect.

String Truncation Function for C#

17 Dec 2009 by Charles Boyung

This post discusses the string truncation function for C#

Banishing String Literals from XAML Resource References

3 Oct 2009 by Daniel Vaughan

Banishing String Literals from XAML Resource References