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Document Processing Part II: Request Driven OCR

by Martin Welker

To get qualified access to paper based information, sometimes more than plain OCR is needed. This article shows why, and offers a solution to increase OCR quality by semi-automatic table extraction.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Shell Extensions - Part VI

by Michael Dunn

A tutorial on writing a shell extension that can be used on the Send To menu.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Shell Extensions - Part VII

by Michael Dunn

A tutorial on using owner-drawn menus in a context menu shell extensions, and on making a context menu extension that responds to a right-click in a directory background.

Using C Calling Convention Callback Functions in C# and VB - The Easy Way

by Jecho Jekov

Provides an easy way to use C calling convention callback functions in C# and VB

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Writing Microsoft CRM 3.0 Callouts – Sample Code: Turkish Citizen Number Validator

by Alen M

This article focuses on callout development for MS CRM 3.0. As an example Turkish Citizen Number Validator code is written.

XSL Transform Code Generator for Visual Studio .NET

by Chris Stefano

A custom tool for Visual Studio .NET which runs an XSL transformation to generate code

Serialize Custom Collections of CollectionBase

by Eric P Schneider

Basic demo on how to serialize and deserialize custom collections

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Writing Microsoft CRM 3.0 Callouts – Sample Code: Turkish Citizen Number Validator

29 Aug 2023 by Alen M

This article focuses on callout development for MS CRM 3.0. As an example Turkish Citizen Number Validator code is written.

XSL Transform Code Generator for Visual Studio .NET

13 Feb 2021 by Chris Stefano

A custom tool for Visual Studio .NET which runs an XSL transformation to generate code

Serialize Custom Collections of CollectionBase

31 Jan 2019 by Eric P Schneider

Basic demo on how to serialize and deserialize custom collections

18 Oct 2018 by Emre Guldogan

A System for Simulation and Analysis of Logic Circuits

Inherit setactiveview issue

25 Aug 2018 by Richard MacCutchan

Looking at the documentation: CFrameWnd Class[^], this is not a virtual function, which means it is not overridable.

Inherit setactiveview issue

25 Aug 2018 by Member 13916604

Hello, I have an old MFC project in C++ on VS NET 2003 and I have the following issue. My project is a SDI in which I put a SplitterWnd to have two views. And I would like to detect view activation change to perform some activations/desactivations. As it seems to correspond exactly to what I...

DaReport PrintDocument - A Printing Utility for .NET

7 Jun 2018 by Predrag Dukanac

A printing utility for .NET

[Solved] Could not load type '_Default.' in VS.NET when compiling website

15 May 2018 by Brian C Hart

I am so confused, and I don't know what I could be doing wrong.in VS2010, I create a project with a ProjectDAL class library, another class library called ProjectCommonObjecs and another class library called ProjectBLL and fill them all with code and it all compiles. Next, I add an ASP.NET...

DecompressLibrary - A General Library to Decompress a zip, gz, or tar.gz File into a Memory Buffer

21 Feb 2018 by Marius Daniel Ciorecan

A library that provides an easy to use class (CDecompressLibrary) that will detect and decompress into memory buffers an archive file (zip, gz, tar.gz).

FreeCal - GPIB Instrument Automation for Metrology Test and Measurement

4 Sep 2017 by Scott Page

FreeCal is a free 100% .NET suite of utilities and instrument drivers for controlling multiple instruments in a Test and Measurement environment.

A Portable and Efficient Generic Parser for Flat Files

2 Aug 2017 by Andrew Rissing

GenericParser is a C# implementation of a parser for delimited and fixed width format files.

Circular Reference-proof ATL Object Collections

13 Jul 2017 by Midi_Mick

Using ATL and STL to create collections of COM objects without circular references

Developing a SOHO web filter step by step

9 Jun 2017 by Reza Shademani

The main goal of this article is to explain the practical details of low level network security programming.

Shape Control for .NET

23 Mar 2017 by Yang Kok Wah

Implementing shape control that supports transparency, custom design-time editors and simple animation

Gems for typedef and namespace in C

10 Mar 2017 by Southmountain

Gems for typedef and namespace in C

Build My Own 3D Graphics Engine Step By Step

1 Feb 2017 by Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

How to build my own 3D graphics engine from ZERO step by step

How to Secure Your Application with Matching Processor Id Complete [the DLL source code]

23 Nov 2016 by skhurams

the source code is available

TraceTool 12.7: The Swiss-Army Knife of Trace

20 Nov 2016 by Thierry Parent

A C#, C++, Delphi, ActiveX , Javascript , NodeJs and Java trace framework and a trace viewer: Tail, OutputDebugString, event log, and with Log4J, Log4Net, and Microsoft Enterprise Instrumentation Framework (EIF) support. This also comes with full support for Pocket PC, Silverlight, and Android.

Custom MessageBox with checkbox

11 Sep 2016 by Avatar2400

This is a simple class that allows you to have message box with checkbox and other small features.

Matrix Transformation of Images using .NET GDI+

1 Jul 2016 by Yang Kok Wah

Use of GDI+ Matrix class to perform image transformation.

Automatically Create Data Access Layers and Business Layers From Microsoft Access or SQL Server Databases

27 May 2016 by icemanind

How to automatically create data access layers and business layers from a Microsoft Access or a SQL Server database

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DayPilot - Building an Outlook-Like Calendar Component for ASP.NET

8 May 2016 by Dan Letecky

A good-looking ASP.NET control that shows events visually arranged in a day calendar. Includes design-time support and data binding.

How To Send and Receive SMS using GSM Modem

2 Mar 2016 by Ranjan.D

SMS Client - Server Software is used for sending, reading, deleting messages. It uses GSM modem for sending SMS. It listens for incoming messages to arrive, processes the read message and takes action accordingly. This SMS software requires GSMComm Library which you can also download.

A Class to Print and Print Preview a DataGrid or DataGridView Control

24 Jan 2016 by Duncan Edwards Jones

A class to add to your application to generate nicely formatted prints from a DataGrid.

A Fast CSV Reader

13 Jan 2016 by Sebastien Lorion

A reader that provides fast, non-cached, forward-only access to CSV data.

GLFW: A (Simple) OpenGL Framework Library

23 Dec 2015 by Simone Serponi

An easy to use library to quickly setup and run OpenGL applications.

LayerGenMMX

2 Nov 2015 by icemanind

Easily create Business and Data Layers!

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Does Visual Studio 6.0 have a known defect? see code below

13 Oct 2015 by Jochen Arndt

By default the Visual C/C++ compiler will align structure members at 8 byte boundaries inserting padding bytes if necessary. See the MSDN article Working with Packing Structures[^].To avoid this, you can use pack pragma[^] to specifiy 1 byte alignment.When using bit fields it is even...

Does Visual Studio 6.0 have a known defect? see code below

13 Oct 2015 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Probably you forgot to specify the bit size for msg_size, and that may put data alignment if effect. Please check up.One more thing: short and long are among so called "fundamental types"; their actual size depends on platform:...

Does Visual Studio 6.0 have a known defect? see code below

13 Oct 2015 by Member 1790757

In my application I have a .h file that contains a struct which defines the header of a message that gets sent out on a UDP multicast socket. If I hand count the bytes of all the members of the struct I get 16 bytes, which is what it is supposed to be.In my code where I use the struct,...

AngularJS 2.0 Getting Started with Visual Studio

5 Sep 2015 by Thinira

In this tip, we will discuss how to setup Angular 2.0 in Visual Studio and write a very basic “Todo” application.

FileHelpers v3.1 - Delimited (CSV) or Fixed Data Import/Export Framework

17 Aug 2015 by Marcos Meli

An easy to use .NET library to read/write strong typed data from files with fixed length or delimited records (CSV). Also has support to import/export data from different data storages (Excel, Acces, SqlServer, MySql)

Implementing AI Evolutionary binary distribution algorithm for solving the numeric approximation problem

14 Jul 2015 by Arthur V. Ratz

This article demostrates the C++ code that implements AI binary distribution evolutionary algorithm for finding the "nearest" neighbor values of the given value of x in the array of N elements.

Converting PDF to Text in C#

19 Apr 2015 by Dan Letecky

Parsing PDF files in .NET using PDFBox and IKVM.NET (managed code).

A Study of Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility for Automated Measuring Systems using VB.NET

24 Jan 2015 by syed shanu

Gage R&R using VB.NET.

Fully Customizable XP Progress Bar (with examples)

20 Jan 2015 by Marcos Meli

A progress bar like the WinXP progress bar control, but completely customizable.

Web Ink/Drawing Control

8 Dec 2014 by daluu

An article on creating and using a web browser (IE only) compatible ink or drawing control using the Microsoft Tablet PC SDK version 1.7. A sample pre-built control is provided for use and demonstration.

Optical Flow or Motion Estimation Using the Watson-Ahumada (WA) Algorithm

24 Nov 2014 by SIDDHARTH_JAIN

Optical Flow or Motion Estimation Using the Watson-Ahumada (WA) Algorithm

Using HttpModules with URL Re-writing to Handle Fake Directory Requests

30 Oct 2014 by Terrence Sheflin

Explains how to use HttpModule in conjunction with IIS to handle requests to fake directories

CRUD with SPA, ASP.NET Web API and Angular.js

26 Oct 2014 by mdshohelrana

CRUD with SPA, ASP.NET Web API and Angular.js

VJHandShaker1.0: A Tool For Making Easy Java (Core) Interface Design From Visual Basic 6.0

23 Sep 2014 by Niladri_Biswas

VJHandShaker1.0 is an attempt to make an easy Java (Core) interface from VB.

XEndian: Fast and Extensible Header-Only Endian-Aware Serializer (or The Fight for DRY)

12 Sep 2014 by Alex Puchades

In this tip, XEndian, a header-only library will be presented

Change of Basis for Rotations and Vectors

3 Sep 2014 by milkboy31415

This code transforms rotations and vectors between reference frames such as Unreal, 3d Studio Max, etc.

C# Script: The Missing Puzzle Piece

6 Aug 2014 by Oleg Shilo

An article on a "scripting engine" for the C# language

How to send a command to a Zebra QLn220 Printer from a Compact Framework app

1 Aug 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

Sending commands in a Compact Framework app via C# to a Zebra QLn220 printer

Extending C# to Support SQL Syntax at Compile Time

23 Jul 2014 by Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu

Ever wished you could truly embed SQL functionality in your C# code without using strings or late binding? Imagine being able to write complex Where clauses purely in C#.

How to Validate ASP.NET and MVC Web Forms Using Business Rules Engine

14 Jul 2014 by Misha1964

Learn how to validate complex web forms using business rules engine

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Picture Chat for .NET

10 Jul 2014 by Yang Kok Wah

A chat program that supports Unicode input and picture transfer.

Falling Blocks Board and Shape Control

2 Jul 2014 by Yang Kok Wah

Implementing the all time favourite game as .NET custom controls, complete with animation and sound for full gaming experience

Adding COM Automation Support To Win32 Applications

2 Jul 2014 by Mohammed El-Afifi

Given an existing win32 application, how to provide COM automation capability to it?

A Pretty Good Splash Screen in C#

28 Jun 2014 by Tom Clement

A splash screen with some neat predictive progress bar features

Why Response.Redirect is not working in all IE versions below 11 in IIS 7.5?

18 Jun 2014 by Jafarinejadvazifehkhorani

As you know FormsAuthentaication.Redirect creates a authentication cookie, So you need to make sure that Cookies are enabled in IE.If it doesn't work give us more detail about the exact error message that is happening right after redirection

Why Response.Redirect is not working in all IE versions below 11 in IIS 7.5?

18 Jun 2014 by Rahul 105

Why Response.Redirect is not working in all IE versions below 11 in IIS 7.5? I am using VS 2003 with c#.Tried FormsAuthentaication.Redirect on IIS server. In chrome and mozilla and IE 11 redirection is working fine on IIS 7.5.

Structured Print Document Utility

14 Jun 2014 by Duncan Edwards Jones

A set of classes for creating structured documents

Monitoring a Printer Queue from VB.NET

2 May 2014 by Duncan Edwards Jones

How to monitor a printer queue from Visual Basic .NET

prevent a goback to the previous page and refresh the current page in asp.net 1.0 app

14 Apr 2014 by Mack Ait-Aoudia

This article describe a solution to prevent some browser's functionnalities

License Key Generation

7 Mar 2014 by Adamanteus

This is an alternative for "License Key Generation"

ASP.NET Caching Interview Questions: Part 2

4 Mar 2014 by Shivprasad koirala

ASP.NET Caching Interview Questions Part 2

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Faxing with XP and C#

5 Jan 2014 by Leon van Wyk

Send faxes with C# using Win 2k or XP

How to Create excel sheet

29 Dec 2013 by DretenX

Hi, here i am againhere you have the code to export grid to excel or wordExp = "Word" Then 'export to wordExp = "Excel" Then 'export to exceltemplate= preconfigured template file in excel or wordrgrds,Public Function ExportDataGridView(ByRef dgv As DataGridView, ByVal Fname As...

How to Create excel sheet

29 Dec 2013 by DretenX

Hi, try this to save datagridview to file:(use a .csv filename as output; this can be read in excel...)Private Sub SaveGridDataInFile(ByVal DGV As Object, ByRef fName As String) Dim I As Integer = 0 Dim j As Integer = 0 Dim cellvalue$ Dim rowLine As...

How to Create excel sheet

11 Dec 2013 by VenuKalyan

hi to alli want to create a excel file from dataset.please help me to solve this problem.im using vs2003 with vb.net

Versioning Controlled Build

8 Dec 2013 by Julijan Sribar

A Visual Studio add-in and command-line utility that automates versioning of .NET and VC++ projects

How to Update a lable text in a for loop : server side code

7 Nov 2013 by VenuKalyan

Hi to allI want to update a lable text in a for loop .ASP.NETplz help me

How to Update a lable text in a for loop : server side code

7 Nov 2013 by Dave Kreskowiak

Considering server-side code has no access at all to a client UI, either in a Windows Forms app, WPF, or ASP.NET (you didn't specify), that's going to be impossible to do.

Machine Solution to Einstein's Riddle Revisited

29 Oct 2013 by Dezhi Zhao

This article shows a fast solution to Einstein's Riddle by using brutal search.

The Essence Pattern in C#

7 Oct 2013 by Dr Herbie

An implementation of the Essence Pattern in C#

Task List Feature of Visual Studio Framework

30 Sep 2013 by Sandesh M Patil

This is all about Task list window which is helpful in managing our comments within the code.

Get DataBase Connection Strings in an Easy Way

27 Sep 2013 by dontumindit

Communication with database in .NET is easy but sometimes one gets stuck by wrong format of connection string

Write error log in a text file for Custom Assembly being used in Reporting Services

19 Sep 2013 by alifaraze

writing error in a text file is very easy but writing error from a custom assembly in reporting services requires permissions

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Code generation at runtime

28 Aug 2013 by Software Developer's Journal

The .NET platform contains no extensions which would allow for the use of advanced aspect oriented programming. But it does contain mechanisms which makes it possible to build components which provide similar functionality. We will find out how to achieve this in this article.

Remote Scripting in ASP.NET

28 Aug 2013 by Software Developer's Journal

A remote scripting system performs remote server function calls from the browser level. This allows to save the time necessary to completely resend and build a page due to a query working somewhere in the background and supplying small amounts of data at a time.

Artificial Neural Networks made easy with the FANN library

28 Aug 2013 by Software Developer's Journal

Neural networks are typically associated with specialised applications, developed only by select groups of experts. This misconception has had a highly negative effect on its popularity. Hopefully, the FANN library will help fill this gap.

SourceGrid - Open Source C# Grid Control

4 Aug 2013 by Davide Icardi

SourceGrid is a free open source grid control. Supports virtual grid, custom cells and editors, advanced formatting options and many others features

Protecting an Application's Unauthorized Copy

2 Aug 2013 by Manish K. Agarwal

To protect your application's unauthorized copy by using image integrity functions (Platform SDK's ImageHlp APIs) and to manage certificates in a portable executable (PE) image file.

Save a TreeView into an XML File

24 Jul 2013 by Norbert Eder

The article includes a sample project showing how to save the nodes of a TreeView into an XML file.

Architecture FAQ for Localization and Globalization: Part 2

18 Jun 2013 by Shivprasad koirala

Architecture FAQ for localization and globalization: Part 2.

Convert Text Represented Number to Numeric String

7 Jun 2013 by FatzBomb

How to convert a written number to a numerical value anywhere in a string.

Querying a SharePoint Portal Server (SPPS) Index using a WebDAV request

6 Jun 2013 by Naveen Karamchetti

An article on querying a SharePoint Portal Server (SPPS) Index using a WebDAV request.

Enhanced BrowseForFolder Styled TreeView

27 May 2013 by Chris Richner

Supports Explorer, SingleChecked and RecursiveChecked mode (checkboxes). Lets you specify the displayed drive types, etc...

Zipping of files in C# 4.0

20 May 2013 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

For working with ZIP, you can use the open-source fully native .NET library called SharpCompress: http://sharpcompress.codeplex.com[^].Another option is #ziplib: http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sharpziplib/[^].And yet another open-source option is using SevenZipSharp, a .NET...

Zipping of files in C# 4.0

20 May 2013 by Rekha Ravula

Hi,I would like to Archieve files for last three months in corresponding subfolders in a directory with no thrird party dlls.And they have to zip to the specific folder in their each subfolder with format name of the folder-yyyy/mm//dd.Please help me with this.Thanks

Magic Library Docking Manager Designer

16 May 2013 by Chris Richner

Provides docking support without writing one line of code.

Y(et)A(nother)TabControl: A Custom Tab Control With Owner Drawn Tabs

6 May 2013 by Curtis Schlak.

A foray into the world of creating composite custom controls with design-time support.

Visual Studio 2010 Reading SVN Revision and Updating File and Product Version (Easy Way)

27 Apr 2013 by prodrigues1990

Easy Assembly Version reflecting SVN working revision

Assembly Manipulation and C# / VB.NET Code Injection

26 Apr 2013 by Sebastien Lebreton

Reflexil is an assembly editor and runs as a plug-in for Reflector or JustDecompile. Reflexil is able to manipulate IL code and save the modified assemblies to disk. Reflexil also supports "on-the-fly" C#/VB.NET code injection.

Repointing localhost after upgrading VS2003 project to VS2005

24 Apr 2013 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

It's hard to see where did you screw up this without seeing all your steps. Usually, running a valid ASP.NET application presents no problems.I would advise the following: create a simple Web site from scratch. The URI http://localhost is used for testing/debugging on an development computer...

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Repointing localhost after upgrading VS2003 project to VS2005

24 Apr 2013 by theskiguy

I’ve been a VB.net Winforms developer the past few years and I now have a need to work on my 1st Web app. A couple of years ago I took a series of 1 day courses on ASP.Net but until now I haven’t had a chance to put that knowledge to work. I’ve been tasked to upgrade/rewrite an existing VS2003...

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Create an SQL Server Database Using C#

24 Apr 2013 by Phuong Thanh Nguyen

Create a SQL Server database using C#.

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__inline int swprintf

20 Mar 2013 by RaymondM

The code that I have in VS 2003 works without problem, but when compiled in VS 2005 I get a load of errors relating to __inline swprintf. How do I get around this ?RaymondM

Pragmatic Unit Tests using "yield return" for providing test cases

5 Feb 2013 by Pawel idzikowski

How to gain better control over the testing process reducing the amount of test methods in a unit test.

Can we run the VS 2003 application in Windows 7 operating System.

24 Jan 2013 by fjdiewornncalwe

This tutorial is a little older, but I remember using it back in the day: Using Visual Studio 2003 on Windows 7[^]I also found this thread: social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums[^]This is the steps I take to successfully install Visual Studio .Net 2003 on my Windows 7 Enterprise machine :1)...

Persistence is the Key

24 Jan 2013 by Jay Kint

Tutorial for using the Calvin C++ persistence library.

Can we run the VS 2003 application in Windows 7 operating System.

23 Jan 2013 by Abhishek Pant

Error: Unable to Start Debugging on the Web Server[^]BUG: "Unable to start debugging on the Web server" error message when you run an ASP.NET Web application[^]I hope this will solve your issue.Happy Coding!!

Can we run the VS 2003 application in Windows 7 operating System.

23 Jan 2013 by DurgaBhavani

Hi All,I Installed the VS 2003 in my system(Windows 7) i just created a web application and am trying to run that application. The application is not running instead it is displaying the error messages "Error while trying to run project:Unable to start debugging on the web server".How...

Ajaxion - Standalone AJAX - Part 2 of 2 - C# and Java Example

22 Jan 2013 by radumi

An article about how to keep AJAX simple as it is and get the most out of it.

RSS 2.0 Framework

19 Jan 2013 by Chris Richner

RSS 2.0 framework implements the RSS 2.0 specification in strongly typed classes. The framework enables you to create and consume valid RSS 2.0 feeds in your code in just a few minutes.

Guess My Drawing!

9 Jan 2013 by Albara Hakami

A Windows Forms application to share a whiteboard with many clients with only one drawer, in a gamy way.

Coding an N-Tier Application in C# Without Any Wizard: Part II

5 Jan 2013 by Vimalsoft(Pty) Ltd

Coding an N-Tier application in C# without using Wizards.

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Building professional .NET applications using asynchronous message communication based on MCM-Framework.Net

4 Jan 2013 by Pawel idzikowski

How to effectively build modular .NET applications of any size using messages, commands and components of MCM-Framework.Net?