This article will help you to open an MS-Word Document (Document or Document template) or MS-Excel sheet from server side code (ASP.NET) with minimum configuration efforts.

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# Nullable DateEdit Control

15 Jun 2003 by Oscar Bowyer

A Nullable C# DateEdit Control

'Encryption/Decryption with .NET' Modified (Frank Fangs' Code) CCW and VB

19 May 2002 by Dan Elebash

Modified version of Frank Fang's code ported to VB and made CCW.

.NET Chaînes Utilitaires (String Utils)

15 Mar 2004 by Romelard Fabrice (Alias F___)

Classes Library for String manipulations in Your .NET projects

.NET Client Classes for openldap/winldap

11 Mar 2003 by Leon Finker

An example of using LDAP/OpenLDAP with .Net

.NET Color Picker Controls

6 Nov 2001 by Philip Lee

A control library containing three color picker controls written in C#

.NET COM+ Transactions

12 Aug 2005 by hadhmy

Implementation of .NET COM+ Transactions

.NET Command Line Tools

1 Mar 2007 by TheKarateKid

Various Command Line Tools Available under .NET Development Environment

.NET Diagnostics - II, A Threads Monitoring Application Using C#

4 Feb 2001 by Naveen K Kohli

Using the ProcessThread class to monitor the states of threads inside a process.

.NET Diagnostics – IV, Use the Environment class to get your environment

19 Mar 2001 by Naveen K Kohli

Use of the Environment class explained to extract information like Operating System, Environment Variables, etc.

.NET DUMeter clone

10 Feb 2003 by leppie

A DUMeter clone, but with some better/different reporting features.

.NET Dynamic Software Load Balancing

9 Dec 2002 by Stoyan Damov

A Draft Implementation of an Idea for .NET Dynamic Software Load Balancing

.NET Encryption Simplified

28 Jan 2007 by wumpus1

A simple, string-oriented class for symmetric encryption, asymmetric encryption, and hashing.

.NET Interactions with j2EE based Web Applications

12 Aug 2004 by Chellam

An article on .NET applications' interaction with j2EE based web applications.

.NET LCD MatrixControl and GDI+

19 Jun 2004 by Mikhail Cholokhov

Implementation of a LCD User Control in .NET using C#.

.NET multi-threading and communication between threads

29 Dec 2002 by Gopinath Krishnamurthy

An article that explains the messaging between main and worker threads

.NET MySQL Connexion V 1.2

17 Jul 2003 by Romelard Fabrice (Alias F___)

Class Library for MySQL request

.NET Remoting - Events. Events? Events!

3 Nov 2003 by Dmitry_Belikov

You have the server and several clients. You want the server to fire an event and all of the clients or only some specific must receive it. This article describes several approaches to the problem.

.NET Remoting : Long-duration invocations

7 Oct 2003 by Dmitry Belikov

Sometimes server needs to perform lengthy calculations in reply to the client’s request. If such calls are rare or do not take too much time, it’s not a problem. If your solution shows a tendency to have about 20-30 such invocations being performed concurrently at the same time, you should read this

.NET Remoting Customization Made Easy: Custom Sinks

20 May 2003 by Motti Shaked

.NET Remoting customization – it doesn't have to be so hard!

.NET Remoting in Simple English (Really, it's that simple)

26 Jun 2003 by Daniel Ang Chee Meng

This article is meant to be a step by step guide to give its reader a gist of .NET Remoting. This tutorial guides the reader to set up a fully functional chat program.

.NET Remoting Message Redirection Channel Sinks

20 Jun 2003 by zhi

An upper logic layer transparent way to redirect .NET remoting calls, enabling exposure of .NET remoting services behind firewall/NAT, to anywhere.

.NET Remoting Spied On

5 Feb 2001 by Naveen K Kohli

Microsoft's RemSpy sample's implementation has been explained and more remoting explanations.

.NET Remoting – Basic Maneuvers

6 Oct 2003 by raymond.fung, Norman Fung

A tutorial on .NET Remoting

.NET style Side Tab Control

25 Apr 2002 by helloravi

.NET Side Tab

.NET system wide hotkey component

18 Apr 2006 by Duncan Edwards Jones

A component to respond to a hotkey combination, system-wide.

.NET TimePicker

27 Jun 2007 by Louis-Philippe Carignan

A variation on the standard .NET date-time picker

.NET TWAIN image scanner

12 May 2002 by NETMaster

Using TWAIN API to scan images

.Net Wizard Control

22 Jul 2007 by Yasin HINISLIOGLU

This article is about creating wizard style user interface

.NET wrapper for libbz2

14 Jul 2003 by leppie

.NET wrapper for libbz2, written in MC++

.NET XML Serialization - A Settings Class

20 May 2002 by James T. Johnson

A settings class that can be used to store values in an XML document

2D "Nim" Game Development and Animation in C# (Part 2)

16 Aug 2007 by Volynsky Alex

Part 2 in a series of articles on a two-player mathematical game of strategy

2D Blits in DirectX 9

19 Apr 2005 by Karel Donk

Describes how to do 2D Blits in DirectX 9 with direct surface access between various surface formats (using color conversion).

2D Poligon Drawer-Animator

1 Aug 2004 by andrea contoli

Draw poligons, manipulate them, and animate them.

2Find Toolbar for IE - Yet Another Sample

15 Jun 2003 by Mike Melnikov

Google-like Toolbar with customization from xml file and update from web features

4 steps to create free SSL certificate for development

4 May 2009 by Shivprasad koirala

4 steps to create free SSL certificate for development

[Debugging] - Symbols

21 Jun 2007 by Jonathan [Darka]

Setting up a Microsoft Symbol Server

A .NET assembly viewer

28 Nov 2002 by Ben Peterson

An application to examine .NET assemblies both directly and with reflection

A .NET Progress Dialog

26 Aug 2003 by Matthew Adams

A progress dialog for asynchronous workers

A Basic iButton Interface

7 Mar 2003 by Marc Clifton

An Example Of How To Interface To Dallas Semiconductor's iButton And 1-Wire Network

A basic Particles System

19 Apr 2005 by Itay Sagui

Introduction to the basic idea of the particle systems, and how to create basic effects such as explosions and water fountains.

A Beginner's Guide To Events

11 Jun 2007 by sharpiesharpie

An article for beginners explaining how to make those fancy events you always see on visual studio controls in 5 simple steps.

A Bitmap Manipulation Class With Support For Format Conversion, Bitmap Retrieval from a URL, Overlays, etc.

31 Aug 2003 by Adam Nelson

Provides an overview and discussion of the author's BitmapManipulator C# class, including examples of each feature, as well as numerous .NET/GDI+ caveats.

A brute force search algo

7 Jun 2004 by Giannakakis Kostas

A generic class implementing an exhaustive searching algorithm for solving a variety of puzzles and riddles

A C# class that deals with System Registry

31 Mar 2002 by Alexandr_K

This C# class retrieves, creates, deletes Registry values and keys, and even more...

A C# ColorListBox

29 May 2002 by Sanjay Ahuja

In this article we will see how to write an owner drawn ListBox

A C# idiom to simulate global functions

22 Sep 2001 by another

When what you really want is a global function.

A C# Image Converter

3 Jan 2003 by George Anescu

Presenting a smal C# Windows Application for converting images between different graphical formats

A C# implementation of Reversi (Othello) Game for PocketPC and Windows

4 Aug 2004 by George Mamaladze

A C# implementation of Reversi (Othello) Game for PocketPC and Windows.

A C# MPEG1 Image Compression Class

22 Jan 2004 by Mike Donovan

This article shows how to compress an image using the MPEG1 format

A C# Scrolling Text Control

27 Feb 2003 by Manster

This article shows you how to create a scrolling text/scrolling marquee control in C#.

A C# Visual Studio.Net, Excel, and InterDev tab control.

21 Apr 2001 by Italo Silveira

A C# tab control that mimics the Visual Studio.Net, Excel, and InterDev tab styles.

A C# water effect picture control

29 Aug 2002 by Christian Tratz

A C# implementation of the popular water surface effect.

A C++ Breakout Game Clone in Less than 64 Lines

23 Feb 2007 by Ronounours

I propose a simple version of a Breakout (or Arkanoid) game in few C++ lines.

A Charting Custom Control using Microsoft OWC

15 Sep 2004 by Catiger

This is a .NET custom control for web-based charting using Office Web Component technology.

A Checkbox Tree Control for Use in Filtering Selections

23 Feb 2003 by Magerusan Grigore Cosmin

An ATL filter control

A CHexEdit Control - For HEX and DEC number input

15 Aug 2005 by Luo Pei'en

An article on how to write an Edit control used for HEX and DEC number input.

A class for sending emails with attachments in C#.

28 Feb 2003 by Steaven Woyan

A class for sending emails with attachments in C#.

A Class to Combine Slider Control and Progress Bar Windows

23 Jan 2018 by Cem KARACA

An article on how to combine Slider Controls and Progress bar into one class using custom draw

A class to download files from the net

16 Apr 2002 by Chris Maunder

A simple class to ease the task of downloading files from the net

A class to parse graphical fonts

3 Jan 2004 by Matthew Hazlett

How to use graphical fonts in your games

A class to put a ProgressBar or any control into a StatusBar

18 May 2005 by Eric Marcon

How to simply display a control inside the StatusBar of your program.

A clickable button

13 Jun 2002 by Chris Sells

An immensely handy clickable button.

A closer look at XML Data Binding, including a product appraisal

18 Aug 2004 by Sprotty

An introduction to XML Data Binding, and a review of a number of leading products.

A COM class wizard for VS.NET 2003

15 Aug 2004 by mav.northwind

A wizard to bring easy COM class creation to C#.

A completely customizable Google API Web Client

15 Jul 2003 by Vasudevanms

A web based Google Web services client using ASP.NET.

A component that prints any control, including ListViews, TreeViews, DataGridViews, and Forms

29 Jun 2006 by Nader Elshehabi

The ultimate printing component. Use it to print ListBoxes, ListViews, TreeViews, DataGridViews, Forms, TabPages, or even your own UserControls.

A control class for browsing through the Network Neighborhood

3 Sep 2004 by JurgenVanGorp

If you want to have an easy-to-use Dialog Box to browse through the network, have a look at this. This library allows for selecting network shares, directories, files, ... and will ask for a user name and password, if needed.

A CountDownTimer inherited from System.Windows.Forms.Timer

28 Oct 2003 by Sven So.

A timer that will only run the number of times you specifed.

A custom control for images with annotations

7 Mar 2004 by yvdh

An article about a custom control for displaying images with the possibility of adding annotations.

A designable PropertyTree for VS.NET

6 Mar 2003 by Russell Morris

A TabControl-like options dialog based on a TreeView

A fast and performing gauge, now in a dll for vb users

10 Mar 2007 by keno2oo1

A short procedure for adding a nice gauge to your VS toolbox

A flag editor

17 Oct 2002 by Thierry Bouquain

This piece of code is the implementation of a simple flags editor. It can be used to edit flags in a property grid.

A flexible charting library for .NET

6 Jun 2007 by JChampion

Looking for a way to draw 2D line graphs with C#? Here's yet another charting class library with a high degree of configurability, that is also easy to use.

A floating-point Margin structure, now with TypeConverter

29 Mar 2007 by AlwiNus

A Margin structure that can be used in a variety of situations, like layout, drawing and printing. Now comes with a custom TypeConverter and a usage sample.

A Form with Customized Caption Bar and Flexible Border

10 Apr 2007 by Arijit Datta

An article on how to customize caption bar (e.g. displaying image on caption bar) and change border width and border color.

A full-duplex audio player in C# using the waveIn/waveOut APIs

31 Aug 2003 by Ianier Munoz

An article on low-level audio capture and playback using the waveIn/waveOut APIs through P/Invoke in C#.

A general purpose NT Service Class

6 Jul 2004 by Stefan Voitel

Build a NT Service

A High Performance TCP/IP Socket Server COM Component for VB

25 Jun 2002 by Len Holgate

Although socket based TCP/IP servers using IO Completion Ports are often written in C++, it's sometimes useful to write such a server in Visual Basic.

A library to simplify access to image metadata

3 Aug 2004 by George Mamaladze

A library to simplify access to image metadata.

A linked list collection class in MC++

24 Jun 2002 by sultan_of_6string

The .NET ArrayList class provides "dynamic arrays" which, to a C++ programmer should seem really innane. Here's a linked list collection class that can be used in any .NET language.

A ListView Dialog using Win32 API

31 Aug 2004 by zjsmile

A Dialog using Listview in report style and icon style

A Little Encryption Utility that will turn all your keys from the keyboard in to a binary file

9 Dec 2004 by gamitech

This program will take all lettlers from a given file and turn them into a binary code defined by me. Attention, it only encrypts keys that are on you keyboard and it is not case sensitive.

A Localizable Currency TextBox

23 Sep 2005 by Stephen Muecke

A localizable Currency textbox control.

A low-level audio player in C#

27 Aug 2003 by Ianier Munoz

This article describes a sample application that uses the waveout API in C#.

A Magical Edit Menu Manager

12 Oct 2018 by Tom Clement

A magical edit menu that works with no connections to the rest of your project

A managed "Send To" menu class

20 May 2002 by Alexey Sinutin

An article on a small managed C++ class which gives ability to use the "Send To" feature of Windows Explorer.

A Managed C++ Email Validator Control for ASP.NET

3 Jan 2003 by Paul Ingles

An ASP.NET Validator Control implemented in Managed C++ that can be used to verify email addresses by connecting to SMTP servers listed as Mail eXchangers for a domain, includes example of Win32 API Interoperability with C++ .NET. The validation is not RegEx based.

A marquee control in C#

19 Feb 2003 by Josh Smith

A marquee control written in C#

A More Complete DLL Injection Solution Using CreateRemoteThread

17 Aug 2007 by Drew_Benton

This article explores a more complete method of injecting a DLL into another process using the CreateRemoteThread approach.

A new software protection method (Objantihack)

29 Nov 2006 by kookoo

This article intruduce you a new software encryption method.

A nice multiline ToolTipCtrl example.

8 Feb 2004 by TomKat

A nice multiline ToolTipCtrl example looking like the one available in Delphi.

A numeric edit control

1 Jun 2005 by kennedy_franklin

This is a control which will allow the user to input only numbers. And it also has some special features like, if we enter negative values, we can show it in a different color.

A policy based reference counting implementation for compound objects

26 May 2005 by Emilio Garavaglia

Reference counting smart pointers and handles of various flavours.

A POP3 Client in C# .NET

9 Feb 2004 by Desmond McCarter

A POP3 client in C# .NET for reading and processing emails (including attachments).

A Popup Progress Window

21 Apr 2002 by Chris Maunder

A popup window containing a progress control and cancel button - no resource file needed

A Property Table Editor

11 Aug 2004 by skybirdcao

An article showing a property table editor like VC7.0's property table.

A real time log file viewer

17 May 2004 by amleth

A real time log file viewer.

A Remoting Event (Simple and Efficient for Enterprise Solutions)

21 Aug 2006 by Hossein Ghahvei Araghi

This article contains the simplest solutions for: the security problem for DelegateSerializationHolder, the IO problem, and the messaging speed problem. Note: Messaging speed problem will appear when your application has worked for a long time.

A Resource Server Handler Class For Custom Controls

4 Apr 2006 by Eric Woodruff

A class implementing IHttpHandler for use in custom controls, to send embedded resources such as scripts, images, and style sheets to the client.