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by Hans Dietrich
XColorSpectrumCtrl displays a color spectrum that allows user selection, and provides APIs for color based on RGB and HSL color models.
by Paul Vickery
Code to add a message bar to virtually any existing Windows control.
by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
Display names and descriptions for enumeration members: a non-intrusive, reliable, localizeable method.
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.

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4 Apr 2008 by Hans Dietrich
XColorSpectrumCtrl displays a color spectrum that allows user selection, and provides APIs for color based on RGB and HSL color models.
23 Oct 2008 by Paul Vickery
Code to add a message bar to virtually any existing Windows control.
8 Mar 2017 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
Display names and descriptions for enumeration members: a non-intrusive, reliable, localizeable method.
19 Jul 2007 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.
24 Aug 2009 by Steve Krile
Fully AJAX-enabled user control used to select names from a database in a drop-down format.
6 May 2007 by Josh Smith
Reviews a pattern which enables new possibilities for data binding.
30 May 2005 by dotnetdan
VS 2005 debug visualizers for DataSet, DataTable, DataView, DataRow and DataColumn objects.
4 Dec 2007 by Ned Thompson
This article will demo how a free Flyout can help to save space on your webpage.
5 Nov 2008 by Tolgahan ALBAYRAK
Read, Write, Save INI files without using Windows APIs.
7 Aug 2007 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.
28 Mar 2010 by Alex Blekhman
Find any file in solution using incremental search and advanced filtering
18 Sep 2006 by Tim Almdal
Implementing an Autoplay handler in C#.
9 Jan 2008 by Mike Gavaghan
Vincenty's Formula is an iterative solution for calculating the distance and direction between two points along the surface of Earth.
14 Jul 2007 by Josh Smith
Demonstrates how to create unit tests for a class which uses a DispatcherTimer.
29 Dec 2006 by Michael Dunn
How to use power status notifications to make your applications conserve power when necessary.
21 Mar 2007 by peterchen
Full control over addins loaded into VS2002-2005 - for power users or addin developers
8 May 2007 by Ming.Chen
A LINQ Implementation for Google Images/Groups Search
1 May 2006 by jconwell
Part 2 of an introduction to creating dynamic types. This article shows how to actually generate the methods in a dynamic type and how to call them.
9 Oct 2008 by Paul M Watt
Macro based framework written for C++ applications that will allow basic instrumentation and profiling features
17 Aug 2009 by vic_ch2000
A nullable datetime column in .NET DataGrid with DateTimePicker.
11 Jan 2008 by eransha
The article briefly discusses deadlocks behavior, and presents an easy way to detect them.
22 Jun 2009 by Victor A. Milokum, Apriorit Inc
In this article, we will try to make our algorithms work faster using the methods of low-level optimization of memory allocation in C++.
8 Jun 2012 by Joshi, Rushikesh
This is an alternative for "Generate Sample XML from XSD".
16 Sep 2007 by Rajasekharan Vengalil
How to switch the thread that a routine is running on.
4 Sep 2007 by Brian Chavez
Slink is a code generating Framework that generates type safe URLs for ASP.NET. With Slink URLs, you increase code quality, increase maintainability, and get compile time checking of your URLs in all your ASPX pages (code-behind and non-codebehind).
18 Oct 2018 by Gavin Sinai
Using the open source Saxon library, .NET programmers can benefit from XSL 2.0 and XQuery 1.0.
4 Feb 2010 by daylightdj
When using DisplayMember / ValueMember on a ComboBox, this problem often occurs.
4 Nov 2006 by Craig G. Wilson
How to flatten collections for an ObjectDataSource using the Adapter Pattern.
21 Nov 2017 by Shmuel Safonov
Using Bison/Flex for creation of the code convertor from subset of MATLAB language to C code. The converter is used for building native applications and libraries from MATLAB code.
11 Jun 2007 by Mahdi Abdulhamid
SharePoint 2007 Flash Animation Web Part
21 Jul 2012 by Juan Manuel Elosegui
A plug-in that allows you to "destroy" items from TFVC using the "Team Foundation Sidekicks" tool.
21 Dec 2007 by Keng_Mycos
Using Amazon FPS as an alternate to Paypal and Google Checkout.
31 May 2016 by William Hey
Semi-Prime Ordered Sequences (Part 2) is the follow-on to “Exploring Computational Number Theory (Part 1)” and describes a process for ordering the semi-prime base sequences.
7 Jan 2008 by S.SRIVATHSAN
Implementation Nhibernate concept in VB.NET
9 Jan 2009 by pablodg
Workaround to get the correct LocalDateTime of files no matter which date settings your computer has.
29 Jun 2012 by Horatiu-Andrei Stoianovici
This is an alternative for "Fast, memory efficient Levenshtein algorithm"
16 Dec 2014 by Suvabrata Roy
Here is a help on NxBRE (Rule Engine) for basic business rules
24 Aug 2018 by darkoman
C# implementation of the serverless OLAP engine
29 Aug 2009 by _Khallaf
How To Do Precise 2-Way Rijndael CryptoStream Communication
14 Jan 2009 by Anil_gupta
This article describes how to get notification when a Windows CE based device is connected or disconnected from a desktop machine.
3 Apr 2008 by slkr171
This article describes how to build a lightweight test bench for testing user interfaces which are written entirely in C#/.NET, using NUnit or any other unit test framework.
15 Dec 2010 by EFEaglehouse
Windows CE/Mobile printing client for LPR, LPRng, and Socket API.
12 Sep 2014 by Jan Bakker
This is an alternative for "Custom TreeView Layout in WPF"
12 Apr 2016 by Jalapeno Bob
A VB.NET version of Ray Koopa's 21 Mar 2016 article, Getting All "Special Folders" in .NET
31 Jul 2007 by Froz3n
Using the Windows Media Player Component
6 Sep 2008 by David Catriel
A simple and straightforward tool to monitor and report SourceSafe database changes.
22 Feb 2009 by Ponnurangam D
BlackBerry Java application development using Visual Studio.
23 May 2012 by Sergeant Kolja
This is an alternative for "Memory leak detection for WinCE".
14 Dec 2007 by Jonas_Martinsson
Introduction to Mainsoft's SharePoint Federator for WebSphere Portal, a Visual Studio®-based software development kit (SDK) that enables you to deliver an integrated user experience across Microsoft® SharePoint sites, .NET and Java™ applications, without sacrificing your workgroup's autonomy.
28 Feb 2010 by NetDave
Demonstrates how to manage a Netflix subscriber's movie queue
20 Sep 2010 by Florian DREVET
Brings you the ability to personalize your configuration files per developer, per machine, per configuration...
11 Oct 2006 by Gammill
A .NET control meant to accomplish a task similar to MFC’s CRectTacker().
12 Oct 2006 by yshrestha
Creating data rich maps is a challenge. Making them easy to manipulate further complicates this task. Learn how to overcome both of these challenges using Dundas Map's AJAX-driven zooming, panning, and navigation functionalities, and how to add further interactivity to your Dundas Map applications.
30 Apr 2007 by Frank Rem
PDFKit.NET 2.0 is a 100% .NET (verifiable) component for creating and manipulating PDF documents. In this article I will focus on its digital signature capabilities. Digital signatures can be used to authenticate the source of a PDF document, and to provide the integrity of a PDF document.
10 Mar 2008 by Szymon Pobiega
An introduction to NetMX - a lightweight .NET management solution.
14 Aug 2008 by Yasser M. Jaffal
In this article, I discuss an example of how you can use information retrieval to grab data out of MSN Money pages to get a free Web Service for currency exchange rates and other quotes.
26 Sep 2008 by Max Paulousky
This article describes MS TFS Proxy efficiency testing depending on the internet channel rate between TFS and TFS Proxy, TFS commands, and TFS Proxy cache state. Also, this article describes the advantages of using the MS TFS Proxy on slow Internet channels.
7 Jan 2013 by LEADTOOLS Support
Introduce you to the key features of the new .NET OCR classes, provide you with a step-by-step approach for creating an OCR application, and provide you with sample code.
21 Apr 2009 by Talya Gendler
Implementing localization which depends on the gender of the registered user (ASP.NET).
9 Sep 2009 by NetDave
Demonstrates how to access the Netflix Catalog resources
9 Sep 2009 by NetDave
Demonstrates how to access the Netflix subscriber's account information
21 May 2010 by Bee Mobile
Download data from the local mobile database within sdf file. Create iPhone-like GUI on Windows Mobile to display the data. Create functionality to search the table data. Polish the app by adding some cool features such as round buttons, vibration, glass effect. Find out how to detect the current re
29 Jun 2010 by aleksey_m_t
MSVS Add-in for Doxygen documentation system
5 Mar 2012 by Fred_Informatix
This is an alternative for "Simple Tri-State TreeView"
15 Dec 2014 by Sergey Nozhenko
This is an alternative for "PipeStream, a Memory Efficient and Thread-Safe Stream"
2 Nov 2005 by Gabriel Torok
Using Dotfuscator to protect your .NET source code from decompilers.
30 Mar 2006 by Whole Tomato Software
Read on to learn the real reason my co-workers virtually dragged me to our purchasing agent to get my very own license for Visual Assist X!
2 May 2006 by Petr Palas
This article compares various approaches to storing, editing, and displaying structured content on the web. It shows the advantages and disadvantages of using XML and relational SQL databases.
4 May 2006 by Simon Galbraith
The architect of ANTS Profiler talks about his work.
5 Jun 2006 by Dundas Data Visualization
Learn how AJAX features provide interactivity and zooming/scrolling to Dundas Chart.
21 Sep 2006 by SlickEdit Inc.
Introducing a set of tools designed to speed up development and dramatically increase productivity.
18 Sep 2006 by Laurence Moroney
Test the next generation of cross-platform development using the Visual Studio 2005 IDE, C# 2.0 features, and ASP.NET 2.0 controls. Recompile and deploy C# Web applications on Linux and other Java-enabled platforms running on Tomcat.
2 Oct 2006 by Redgate Software
This article describes how you can use ANTS Profiler to eliminate performance hotspots and memory leaks from your .NET applications.
10 Oct 2006 by Whole Tomato Software
A review of the code refactoring tools in Visual Assist X - by John Krajewski, Senior AI Programmer, Pandemic Studios.
21 Dec 2006 by CodeProject
a solution for sending forms to email with visual web develpoer 2005 and asp.net 2.0
21 Dec 2006 by CodeProject
a solution for sending forms to email with visual web develpoer 2005 and asp.net 2.0
7 Dec 2006 by James Westgate
Use an agile managed database framework, and feel you've finally reached programming heaven.
29 Dec 2006 by SlickEdit Inc.
Introducing a free set of tools designed to speed up development and add some fun to Visual Studio® 2005.
7 Jan 2007 by Redgate Software
How to configure your hardware to minimize the need to restore a backup.
7 Jan 2007 by Andras Belokosztolszki
SQL Refactor tool is designed to help SQL Server developers and DBAs work much more productively and quickly with legacy code, help them improve the design and maintainability of database code, and to greatly reduce the time and effort involved in performing more complex database refactorings.
7 Jan 2007 by Grant Fritchey
There are things you can do to protect the data under your care and one of the most important is running regular backups of that data
7 Jan 2007 by Redgate Software
Key members of the Red Gate development team offer insight into some of the major new features, and the technical challenges they faced in implementing SQL Bundle 5
7 Jan 2007 by Richard Mitchell
Richard Mitchell and Steven Davidson, the developers on the project, describe how they used Red Gate's database schema-comparison tool, SQL Compare, as an integral part of their project environment when overhauling Red Gate's ASP.NET based website
13 Jan 2009 by JoeSox
Extract data from text documents, HTML, etc., and easily convert it to CSV.
28 Feb 2007 by gamon02
An MSN MessengerLive Addin: featuring links, bots, and encryption
24 Mar 2007 by arie_schwartzman
This article explains how to draw strings with tagging information, such as different background color for a substring.
3 Mar 2007 by Slavka Petrova
The article presents the Ribbon interface and discusses techniques for effectively using a r.a.d.ribbonbar for WinForms in custom applications
6 Mar 2007 by James, Lu Zuheng
An XML Web Service using ATL Server and Called by MFC Client
4 May 2007 by JetBrains s.r.o.
Are you spending most of your development time coding the simplest things by hand? Discover high gear .NET development, made possible with ReSharper 2.5, and join thousands of C# and ASP.NET developers who are benefiting daily from boosted productivity and a more enjoyable coding experience.
10 Apr 2007 by Petr Palas
Do you spend days and nights developing dynamic web sites in ASP.NET? Do you need to simplify your job, get more sites done and gain more clients? Kentico CMS for .NET will help you.
14 May 2007 by SlickEdit Inc.
Describes how we use some of our favorite features from our own Tools® plug-in product.
25 Jun 2007 by Pallavi Bhoite
In this article, we will add a column for delete in GridView, with an image button and confirmation.
2 Jun 2007 by CJCraft.com
Learn more about the Mashup creator, Popfly space, and the Web page creator.
29 Jun 2007 by SlickEdit Inc.
Using SlickEdit 2007 For Windows Development
5 Jul 2007 by Philippe_Cohen, RoyOsherove
We all know and love Microsoft Visual Studio, but did you know that you can use it to build server and Web applications that run on Linux and other Java EE-enabled platforms? Here’s how…