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XQueue - a non-MFC C++ class to manage an interprocess queue

by Hans Dietrich

XQueue implements a shared-memory first-in first-out (FIFO) queue, based on memory-mapped files, that works on all versions of Windows.

Control Message Bar

by Paul Vickery

Code to add a message bar to virtually any existing Windows control.

XResFile - Files Stored in Resources: Part 2 - Zip Files

by Hans Dietrich

This series of articles is a step-by-step guide to reading files stored in your program's resources. Along the way I will present some non-MFC classes to assist you in reading text, binary, zip, and even encrypted files that have been compiled into your program as resources.

Guide to WIN32 Regions

by Paul M Watt

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

Latest Articles

by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

Task Manager shows you the programs, processes, and services that are currently running on your computer. You can use Task Manager to monitor your computer’s performance or to close a program that is not responding.

IntelliFile - An Alternative Windows Version to the Famous Total Commander

by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

This article is about the IntelliFile application which is a free alternative Windows version to Total Commander and uses many components that have been published on CodeProject.

by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

An alternative Windows version to XML Sitemap online generators

Tile Grid Control

by PJ Arends

An MFC CWnd derived grid of user definable tiles

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Trace SOAP Request/Response XML with TraceExtension

17 Aug 2009 by Arindam Sinha

SOAP Request/Response XML can be logged with TraceExtension

Step by Step Guide to Building a Cross-Platform Application in HTML, CSS & JavaScript

12 Aug 2014 by Ben Liebert

Here is a step by step guide to building a cross-platform application in HTML, CSS and JavaScript

WPF : Binding to global App properties

9 Apr 2009 by Sacha Barber

I was working on something for an upcoming article that I am writing where I am messing around with 3D, and I was having a small issue with a VisualBrush (something to do with Freezable, I never did quite figure it out and came up with a better solution), but along the way of trying [...]

How to Categorize Control Properties for XAML View Inside Blend and Visual Studio?

10 Jul 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Organizing custom control properties inside Visual Studio and Expression Blend

Expression-blend

Python – Search Youtube for Video

5 Feb 2015 by Grant Curell

This code is for Python 3. I was surprised to discover that I couldn’t really find a good way to do this when I Googled for a solution. I just kept getting results for Google’s youtube API, which is great… but also massive overkill for what I wanted to do.

Inline spreadsheet-style edit mode for the Related Items control on a SharePoint form

18 Sep 2015 by Dmitriy Kozlov

Forms Designer has just gotten a new feature: the related items control is now able to do inline spreadsheet-style quick editing. This feature is supported in SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online in Office 365.

Having Fun With HTML 5 History API – Part Three

22 Jul 2016 by Andrei Ion Rînea

Having fun with HTML 5 history API - Part 3

Image Sprites and CSS Classes creator

1 Feb 2011 by AlexCode

Image Sprites and CSS Classes creator

An alternative way to create the menu bar

22 Jul 2011 by João Paulo Figueira

An alternative way to create the menu bar

TinyMCE Additional HTML Elements

25 Jul 2014 by Thomas Maierhofer (Tom)

TinyMCE additional HTML elements

Embedded Programming – Getting Started With the Netduino - Part 2

8 Apr 2016 by Codeman the Barbarian

Embedded Programming – Getting Started With the Netduino - Part 2

CSS: Creating nested numbered list using CSS-Counters

31 Aug 2015 by Prava-MFS

Hello everyone, today I am going to share one basic thing, which you all may know about it. I am going to explain how can we create numbered list using CSS. So, let’s go through it quickly without wasting much of our time :). HTML provides us few ways of creating lists.

A Tale of Two Flags: DS_CONTROL and WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT

5 Oct 2012 by Marius Bancila

A tale of two flags: DS_CONTROL and WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT

Simulating CWinApp::OnIdle in C

18 Mar 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

Learn how to create your CWinApp::OnIdle in C

How to Use ASP.NET “Property Pages” to create or host a Silverlight application in ASP.NET Site?

25 Nov 2010 by Abhijit Jana

How to Use ASP.NET “Property Pages” to create or host a Silverlight application in ASP.NET Site?

Computer Algorithms: Quicksort

25 Mar 2012 by stoimenpopov

Quicksort is a very elegant general purpose sorting algorithm and every developer should be familiar with its principles.

Create Multiple jQuery Mobile Pages and Link them - Part 2

29 Aug 2013 by Talking Dotnet

In my previous post about Writing your first jQuery Mobile app - Part 1, I have explained about creating single page, changing themes and creating navigation button.

Format Text Out as a Table (Format-Table) in PowerShell

20 Sep 2013 by Melick

Format text out as a table (format-table) in PowerShell

Architecting Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

17 Aug 2014 by Ben Liebert

How to architect CSS

Learning The S.O.L.I.D Programming Principles: Dependency inversion principle [Part - VI]

16 Oct 2014 by Gaurav Aroraa

In our previous posts we learned ‘What is S.O.L.I.D. Programming Principles and a detailed explanation with code of Single Responsibility Principle, Open/closed Principle, Liskov Substitution Principle and Interface Segregation Principle.

How To Become A Web Developer. Part 4: Functional Programming

6 Nov 2014 by Stephen C Young

Functional Programming

WPF TabControl Focus Behavior with Invisible Tabs (MVVM)

27 Dec 2014 by HeWillem

WPF TabControl Focus Behavior with Invisible Tabs (MVVM)

Implement Accelerators in a Dialog-Based Application

4 Jul 2012 by Jonathan Wood

Getting accelerators to work in a dialog box.

Beautiful Gilded Text with CSS

11 Feb 2013 by Benaiah Mischenko

Ever want to create beautiful gilding beside your text with CSS? (Here’s a demo, if you’re in a modern browser) It’s actually quite easy. Here’s how… First, some simple HTML. I’ll just give you this one: Concept 1 Minstrel Then, you need [...]

If your plumbing doesn’t work you’re just not using enough pipes

25 Jun 2013 by Pragmateek

Introduction The following article is my response to “John” comment on my other post about native C++/C# interop using C++/CLI. The initial request was rather simple: for whatever reason John wanted to use the C++/CLI wrapper from Python and not … Continue reading →

How to Create a Hierarchical Menu Using HTML, CSS and jQuery

28 Apr 2014 by Nitesh Kejriwal

How to create a Hierarchical Menu using HTML, CSS and jQuery

Learning The S.O.L.I.D Programming Principles: Liskov substitution principle [Part - IV]

16 Oct 2014 by Gaurav Aroraa

History: In our previous posts we learned ‘What is S.O.L.I.D. Programing Principles’ and a detailed explanation with code of Single Responsibility Principle and Open/closed Principle. S.O.L.I.D. is an acronym introduced by Michael Feathers as: 1.

Meta Programming in ANKHOR

12 Dec 2014 by Alexander Golde

Meta Programming is a concept that dates back to languages such as LISP or Smalltalk. The term is used for programs that write or modify other programs – or perform operations on themselves.

Office 365 Video & Office 365 APIs

4 Jun 2015 by abin jaik

Office 365 Video & Office 365 APIs

HTML iframe Without src Attribute

2 Nov 2015 by Duleeka Gunatilake

The HTML tag is intended to embed an inline frame within an HTML document. This article explores the possibility to inject HTML content from the same source to the inline frame.

Having Fun with HTML 5 History API – Part Two

18 Jul 2016 by Andrei Ion Rînea

Having fun with HTML 5 History API – part two

Working with Delegates in Visual Form Files

8 Apr 2009 by Jim Crafton

How to work with delegates in Visual Form Files.

How to make Video splash

16 Sep 2009 by Mohamed M. Shaheen

This blog has been contributed to Forum Nokia Wiki at http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/How_to_make_Video_splash In those a few lines you will find a code of how to create easy startup splash screen that can play video files of any format (GIF,AVI,mpg,3gpp,real etc..)video splash classpack

We Don't Usually Know What Kind of Parents Had Our Grandparents

5 Mar 2010 by teebot

(or How to Retrieve a Type of Parent Control Using an Extension Method)Here's a situation where I had to retrieve the next Parent Control of a certain type.

Strategy Pattern at work

12 Mar 2010 by Nizar Noorani

We recently ran into a challenging design issue at work...

How to install and configure Xdebug to work with PHP5 on Ubuntu

15 Jul 2010 by DareenH

The Xdebug extension helps you debugging your script by providing a lot of valuable debug information.Before you install xdebug you should have PHP5 and Apache2 already working properly.

Who’s the Boss

5 Sep 2010 by rudigrobler

Who's the boss?

A Collaboration White Board Using HTML 5 and SignalR

2 Oct 2012 by Anuraj Parameswaran

A very simple and lightweight collaboration white board using HTML5 canvas API, JQuery and SignalR

Functional Programming in a Nutshell

11 Feb 2013 by Luis D. Aguilar

Functional programming is a programming paradigm that treats application operations as a sequential execution of functions.

DataGridView – Stacked Header – Export to HTML/Excel

22 Jun 2014 by Deepak-VS

DataGridView – Stacked Header – Export to HTML/Excel

Accordion Panel with CSS

11 May 2015 by John Bhatt

Accordion Panel with CSS

MVC Attribute to Restrict Users to Enter Any Kind of HTML Tags in the Input Fields

18 Aug 2015 by nirman b doshi

MVC attribute to restrict users to enter any kind of HTML tags in the input fields

Effective Shell Part 2 - Become a Clipboard Gymnast

10 Oct 2017 by Dave Kerr

In this article, I'll show you how you can use the shell as an efficient tool to compliment how you use the clipboard.

CSS: Custom HTML5 Form Validation with Visual Effects using Pseudo Class

7 Oct 2014 by Prava-MFS

CSS: Custom HTML5 Form Validation with Visual Effects using Pseudo Class

Networking and Socket Programming Tutorial in C

21 Aug 2014 by Edison Heng

Networking and Socket programming tutorial in C.

C++ static members and function

25 Nov 2013 by pi19404

This article describes basic concepts of C++ Storage Access Specifiers.

Inline CSS Styles for HTML Emails with HttpModule

12 Dec 2012 by Leland Richardson

HTML-based emails are one of those evil things in the life of a web-developer that we would all rather never have to do... but alas, it needs to be done.

Programming Direct2D – Part 2 – Basic Geometry

24 Sep 2010 by Sarath C

In this installment, let’s cover basic primitives. The basic primitives are the mostly used shapes like lines, rectangle, rounded rectangle, circle etc.

C++: Template Meta-Programming 2.0

5 Jun 2015 by Paul M Watt

C++: Template Meta-Programming 2.0

Evaluating Harmon.ie For IBM Notes 9

31 Oct 2013 by James Carr (Crashcarr)

The results have been pleasantly surprising in adding additional functionality to Notes and SharePoint.

Lessons Learned from Legacy Windows Programming

2 Jun 2015 by Chris Boss

Lessons learned from legacy Windows programming

Windows 7: How to display progress bar on taskbar icon?

12 May 2010 by Sarath C

Simple method to display progressbar over taskbar button

Improve CSS Development Productivity using Sass and Compass Part 1 - Configure Environment

16 Nov 2015 by Andy Feng

Improve CSS Development Productivity using Sass and Compass Part 1 - Configure Environment

C# 4.0: Dynamic Programming

18 Apr 2010 by Paulo Morgado

The major feature of C# 4.0 is dynamic programming - not just dynamic typing, but dynamic in a broader sense, which means talking to anything that is not statically typed to be a .NET object.

The bug in MFC tool tip control

13 Sep 2010 by Andrey Permamedov

The bug in MFC tool tip control

The S.O.L.I.D. Object Oriented Programming(OOP) Principles

25 Feb 2010 by micahs

What does it take to be an Object Oriented Programmer?

The Art of WIN32 Programming – the Elusive Control Spy Utility and More !

2 Feb 2018 by Chris Boss

The elusive Control Spy utility is a WIN32 programmers friend. Control Spy is a unique set of examples of how the common controls work when writing software using the WIN32 API. The last version I personally downloaded was the 2.

How to Enable Drag and Drop for an Elevated MFC Application on Vista/Windows 7

25 Aug 2010 by HelgeKlein

How to enable drag and drop for an elevated MFC application on Vista/Windows 7

Windows-Phone-7

CSS: Nested Selector vs Modular Selector

12 May 2016 by Prava-MFS

CSS: Nested Selector vs Modular Selector

Dysfunctional Programming 101

11 Mar 2012 by AlexTatiyants

Functional programming has been all the rage lately, yet surprisingly few have heard about an intriguing alternative known as Dysfunctional (or FUctional) programming.

How To Implement Back To Top Feature in Html/Asp.Net/PhP

6 May 2014 by Nitesh Kejriwal

Friends, In many websites having long contents we have seen a “Back To Top” or “Scroll To Top” button when clicked takes you to the top of the webpage. We see this kind of feature normally on the product listing pages of e-commerce websites.

Objective-C @property Attributes

30 Sep 2015 by Eric Anderson IO

With the Apple watch coming soon there has been an influx of new iOS developers. Because of this I keep seeing the same type of conversations and pull requests centered around this one topic property attributes.

Beginners guide on CSS Selectors

28 Dec 2014 by Prava-MFS

As we all know about CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a language used for styling the web pages written in HTML, XML or XHTML. In CSS, selectors play a vital role to declare which part of the web page, the style applies to and it is done by matching the tags or attributes present in […]

Export Hierarchical (Multi-Level) HTML Table With Styles Using jQuery

13 Aug 2015 by Sibeesh Passion

Export Hierarchical (Multi-Level) HTML Table With Styles Using jQuery

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

Template Meta-Programming

23 Dec 2013 by Paul M Watt

Template meta-programming is the practice of using templates to generate types and functions to perform computations at compile-time and generate programs.

MessageBoxes and worker threads

25 Oct 2010 by Ivan Krivyakov

MessageBoxes and worker threads

CSS Divide Page into Sections

5 Nov 2014 by Víctor Sumozas

CSS divide page into sections

High Performance HTML Forms

26 Jul 2015 by Camilo Reyes

High Performance HTML Forms

Java SE 8 new features tour: Functional programming with Lambda Expression.

25 Jul 2014 by Mohamed Taman

Understanding lambda expressions....This article of the “Java SE 8 new features tour” series will deep dive into understanding Lambda expressions. I will show you a few different uses of Lambda Expressions. They all have in common the implementation of functional interfaces.

User profile synchronization service starting issues

29 Jul 2011 by Melick

User profile synchronization service starting issues

Android Navigation Bar Menu Tutorial using Bottom Bar Library

25 Nov 2016 by Andy Point

How to create Android Navigation Bar Menu using Bottom bar Library

How to Get Started in Computer Programming?

8 Dec 2015 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

I was compiling a few things I would recommend to every beginner in computer programming. Here it is.

Design Modern HTML Forms

30 Sep 2015 by Camilo Reyes

The word “modern” gets thrown around a lot in UI design. I feel like it often gets misinterpreted into meaning whatever you want. To add to the confusion, a quick look in the dictionary defines modern as.

Stuff – WPF Line of Business Using MVVM Video Tutorial

10 May 2010 by User 271009

Stuff is an example application I wrote for WPF Line of Business Tour at Redmond event. During some of the event sessions I used the code in Stuff to demonstrate topics I was teaching. During the event, we did not do an end-to-end examination of Stuff, that is the purpose of this bl

Programming for Performance Part 3: Normalization Gone Mad!

22 Jan 2010 by Charles Boyung

This is the third part in my series on programming for performance.

HTML to PDF in ASP.NET

8 Mar 2015 by M.Hussain.

This post is about conversion of HTML to PDF in ASP.NET using a free third party library (nReco htmltopdf) and exe (wkhtmltopdf).

Making the Compiler Do the Work

4 Jan 2011 by sashan govender

This was a program I wrote a while ago (2003) to demonstrate what can be done with template metaprogramming in C++.

Apply CSS Important In JQuery And CSS

29 Sep 2015 by Sibeesh Passion

In this post we will discuss how we can apply CSS important in JQuery. We all know that we can not apply a important CSS property directly to an element. It does not work. But still there is a solution for that. Here I am going to share you that. I hope you will like […]

Creating a File Uploader Using JavaScript and HTML 5

7 Oct 2013 by Arpit Jain

This article explains how to upload a file using HTML 5 and JavaScript.

Escape or Sanitize HTML in Angular

7 Jan 2016 by Dave Ceddia

Escape or sanitize HTML in Angular

Sort a JSON Array Programmatically by a Property

16 Jun 2015 by Sibeesh Passion

Sort a JSON Array Programmatically by a Property

Game Programming using JavaScript, React, Canvas2D and CSS – Part 2

22 Dec 2017 by Philipp_Engelmann

How to implement state management to switch from the title screen to the playing-screen, add a player-controlled ship-class and finally some invaders for the player to fight.

Threads and a Bicycle-built-for-two

27 May 2011 by Member 7950660

Threads and a Bicycle-built-for-two

Meta Programming in ANKHOR

12 Nov 2013 by Alexander Golde

Meta Programming is a concept that dates back to languages such as LISP or Smalltalk. The term is used for programs that write or modify other programs – or perform operations on themselves.

IE 8 - IP Address Mapping Accelerator

1 Apr 2009 by Steve Wellens

On the ASP.NET forums where I moderate, the poster's IP address is displayed at the bottom of the post. Often I am curious and paste the poster's IP address into an IP locator web page to find out where they are posting from. This was tedious.

Binding Checkbox in GridView (A work around)

16 Sep 2010 by Syed Mujtaba Hassan

I needed to bind a checkbox in gridview to a database field but to my disappointment I found that this was not easy. We could bind “Text” property but what if I don’t want to display the value I am binding (e.g. ID of that record). Here is a work around.

HTML Parsers: The Journey to a More Semantic yet Forgiving Web

8 Dec 2011 by danielthesolver

HTML5 is the next major revision of the html standard. If all works well, it should become the dominant markup in the nearest future ousting both html4 and xhtml1 from their cozy locations. A lot of people say HTML5 is the next big thing. In some sense, yes. But in another no.

Using HTML 5 Geolocation, Google Maps to Generate Driving Distance

1 Oct 2012 by Jason N. Gaylord

HTML5 will introduce many new and exciting features including the addition of geolocation. Geolocation allows a device to determine a global position of the device (latitude and longitude), it’s accuracy (horizontal accuracy and vertical accuracy), altitude, and speed.

A Crash Course In CSS Sprites

19 Feb 2013 by Zac Gery

A Crash Course In CSS Sprites

Better Algorithm for Finding UpdatePanel that will be Updated During Page Request

18 May 2013 by n.podbielski

A better algorithm for finding UpdatePanel that will be updated during page request

Grandia's initiative bar

26 Jun 2013 by Victor Rene

Gradia's initiative bar

Programming Perfection: Noble Quest or Fool's Gold?

14 Dec 2013 by Zac Gery

The topic of perfection is a common discussion at the programming dinner table. Is it good? It is bad? It is healthy? Is it possible? Is it realistic? As expected, a topic with this many questions has a wide variety of entrenched opinions.

Javascript and CSS file versioning

20 Mar 2014 by Bibhu Dutta

Lately, I was in conversation with our QA lead, which made us realize of an issue that, certainly will cause inconvenience to the end users of the web application on which we are working on. Although the issue is very … Continue reading →

Creating Code Snippet View Panel on an HTML Page

3 Oct 2016 by Thomas Cooper

How to create code snippet view panel on an HTML page

How to embed a Video in SharePoint?

14 Sep 2015 by Imran Abdul Ghani

There are several ways a user can add audio or video clips to a SharePoint page when editing the page in browser. Here we are going to discuss the following ways to embed a video to SharePoint. We will follow a step by step approach to achieve the desired output.

Using Property Name Without Typos

18 Apr 2017 by Aoi Karasu

Referring to a property via a string containing its name

Rock the Cache Bar, Rock the Cache Bar

2 Apr 2009 by Steve Wellens

It's possible you may develop dozens of web sites without ever doing any data caching. However, if you are trying to increase performance, data caching can be a key tool. The Asp.Net Cache object is remarkably easy to use, but it has many settings which makes it extremely powerful.

Having Fun with HTML 5 History API – Part One

18 Jul 2016 by Andrei Ion Rînea

Having fun with HTML5 History API - Part One

Reading and Writing CSV Files in MFC

4 Jul 2012 by Jonathan Wood

How to read and write CSV files in MFC