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Custom Controls in Win32 API: Scrolling

by Martin Mitáš

How to support scrolling within your controls.

Understanding the Insides of the SMTP Mail Protocol: Part 1

by Higty

This article describes the mail sending process using the SMTP mail protocol.

by David Rogers Dev

Learn how to load related entities using the Entity Framework with simple examples

The Impossibly Fast C++ Delegates, Fixed

by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Derived work based on the article by Sergey Ryazanov "The Impossibly Fast C++ Delegates": this good solution is fixed and further developed using C++11.

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FingerPrintf: A Small Library for Quick Usage of the Biometric API, Fingerprint and Camera

by Michael Chourdakis

Use your sensors for identification and verification

Pathfinding Algorithms in C#

by KristianEkman

A comparison of Dijkstra and Astar

Visual Studio Extensibility (Day 2): Deploying Visual Studio Extension on Staging Server and GIT via Continuous Integration

by Akhil Mittal

Directly check in VS extension to Git repo and automatically deploy to staging server via continuous integration

Making HTTP REST Request in C++

by Shao Voon Wong

Example of making HTTP REST Request in C++

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Visual Studio 2013

.Gif viewer / Snipper Control

27 Jun 2015 by Pedram_Niloufari

C# .Gif viewer / Snipper control

.NET

Win64

Visual-Studio

.NET Code Comment Utilities

19 Mar 2015 by Peter T. Ringering

A program that makes editing code comments and XML comments easier.

.Net custom Culture with use case

6 May 2015 by Etienne Louise (974)

In this article I'll show how to create custom culture and then show an exemple of how to use it in an ASP.Net MVC application.

.NET Interprocess Communication using Named Pipe

25 Dec 2014 by Amir Hamza Md. Kayes

.NET interprocess communication using named pipe

.NET XML Input Parameter to RESTful API & ByPassing SSL Certificate

23 Oct 2015 by Yaseer Mumtaz

XML input parameter to RESTful API using HttpClient and bypassing the SSL certificate

.NET ZLib Implementation

16 Feb 2018 by Alberto M.

Zlib compress / decompress implementation using .NET 4.5.1, with no external DLLs

.NET

VS2013

ZLib

10 Tips to Improve Visual Studio Build Performance

24 Oct 2015 by Kailash Shastri

Tips and tricks to speed up your VS.NET builds

2 Options to Remove a Windows Service (and a Dummy do-nothing Windows Service for You to Play With)

24 Aug 2018 by simonp_ca

How to remove Windows service from Service List (not just stop/disable it, but to delete it from the list totally)

2D Character Design With F# And GDI+

2 Nov 2015 by Farhad Reza

We will design two interesting characters in this tip. The first one is Code Project Bob sticker and the second one is Magpie bird which is the national bird of Bangladesh.

[tut 6] Line Drag & Drop & Line Selection

20 Jun 2016 by The Zakies

we will build an outline line around the drawn lines so we would test the mouse click on this outline to know which line is selected. and we would in the coming update build a select function inside the move tool

[tut 7] Drag & Drop points in lines

24 Jun 2016 by The Zakies

in this tut we will create a technique to enable the user to control points within a drawn line, by drawing circles around points of the line , when the user clicks a circle he would control the corresponding point.

[tut 8] Hand tool

29 Jun 2016 by The Zakies

we would create Hand_tool to pan through the drawing form, and we would use a custom cursor of open and closed hands

[tut 9] hand tool (part 2) navigator panel

3 Jul 2016 by The Zakies

we will continue the functionality of the hand tool with having a navigator panel which works as a map, we will also have a red rectangle which tells the user where he is actually viewing inside the whole form, also it can be moved to pan the form

[tut4] Draw Lines with Circle and Rectangle End

7 Jun 2016 by The Zakies

[tut4] how to draw lines & to draw different types on end shapes like rectangle and circle using C#

[tut5] form communication,multi tab program, custom cursor for each tool

20 Jun 2016 by The Zakies

Learn how to implement a tecnique of a parent form that createes and controls other forms , through the tecnique of using the tab control, also learn how to implement a menu for the tools, and how to add cutom cursor for each tool

A .NET Approach to EmguCV

25 Feb 2015 by saad_lah

Complete guide for beginner to setup EmguCV project and run first program in Visual Studio

A Basic MVC Application and UI Testing through Selenium Web Driver

30 Nov 2014 by SrikantSahu

This is a simple application developed using C# MVC and jquery for basic CRUD operations. The application can be unit tested using selenium web drivers.

A Beginner's CRUD Using WCF in ASP.NET

16 Jul 2015 by Math08avan

A simple example for CRUD actions using WCF service in ASP.NET

A Converter (TryParse) Concept for Properties

15 Mar 2016 by Clifford Nelson

There is a Parse and TryParse for fields, but they cannot be used for properties. Here is a concept to create TryParse that will work for properties.

.NET

VS2013

A Custom TAUS Data Provider for Microsoft's Multilingual App Toolkit Using Google Translate

13 Mar 2016 by Gregory Morse

Custom TAUS Data Provider to allow increased multilingual support using Google Translate's web interface

A Dive into ASP.NET Page Life Cycle

26 Nov 2014 by Sambhav Yadav - Sam D Silva

ASP.NET page/master page/user control's life cycle from the perspective of Session and View State

A Generic ADO.NET Overlay to Simplify DB Calls to SQL Server and Oracle

12 Jan 2016 by shijo joseph

An ADO.NET Layer for SQL Server and Oracle which makes it easier for interfacing with database

A High-Quality IconBitmapEncoder for WPF

11 Nov 2017 by Herbert Lausmann

An IconBitmapEncoder that produces high-quality icons, written in VB.NET and C#, WPF

A Lightweight File Backup Manager

24 Jan 2015 by shijo joseph

A file backup manager with simple user interface and all the essential functionalities.

A Little Bit of Fun with Face Detection in Windows Phone 8

22 Oct 2014 by S.Prateek

This is a fun and short tutorial to try face detection on Windows Phone using FaceDetectionWP8 library.

Windows-Phone-8

VS2013

A Low Maintenance XML Settings Mechanism

14 Mar 2015 by RickZeeland

An easy way to edit and exchange XML config settings

A Micro Web Server Using WCF

7 Jul 2014 by Michael Bergman

Using Windows Communication Foundation to build a simple web server

A Month/Year Date Picker in VB.NET

3 Nov 2014 by Paul M Cohen

A month/year date picker in VB.NET

VS2013

A Navigation System for UWP Apps

20 Dec 2015 by Akash Gutha

This tip is aimed at providing a simple solution for simple page to page navigation system for your UWP apps.

A New Skin for Ye Olde GroupBox

13 Jun 2015 by RickZeeland

Creating a custom GroupBox in WinForms that supports skinning

Windows

VS2013

Dev

A Plug and Play Logging Library for Dummies

20 Dec 2015 by shijo joseph

An easy to implement yet powerful logging library which requires absolute zero learning curve

A PostgreSQL Notification Example

15 Oct 2020 by RickZeeland

PostgreSQL notifications Windows Forms application

A Powerful Chart Control

20 Dec 2015 by Blaž Umek

A control that displays multiple graphs simultaneously and automatically adds different scales

.NET

VS2013

A Quick and Dirty Extension Method to Get the Full Exception Details, Including Inner Exceptions

1 Apr 2017 by Marco Bertschi

This tip presents an easy way of verbosely converting an exception and its inner exceptions to a string in order to get access to all details.

VS2013

exceptions

logging

A quick overview of NUnit tests

31 Jul 2014 by G.TR

how to use NUnit to code tests

A Simple App to Make Julian Date Calculator

14 Oct 2015 by MarcusCole6833

A basic Windows Forms Desktop Application to return a Julian Date

.NET

VS2013

Dev

A Simple C# Console Menu

17 Jan 2015 by LLLLGGGG

A really simple implementation of a C# menu for console applications

A Simple Calculator in Windows Forms

14 Dec 2014 by Yvan Rodrigues

A demonstation of accumulators and operators

.NET

Windows

VS2013

A Simple File System

2 Jul 2015 by Paw Møller

Implementing a simple file system as a file.

VS2013

file-system

A Simple RTF Print Form

1 Oct 2016 by Howard 9448490

A WYSIWYG Printer Interface for Rich text

A Simple USB desktop locker

26 Oct 2014 by Arkadeep De

Windows

VS2013

A Very Simple C# Asynchronous Timed Message Box

9 Feb 2018 by Tony Zackin

A very simple yet customizable pop-up message box which auto-closes after a specified number of milliseconds.

A WPF CheckBox ListBox

11 Oct 2017 by Clifford Nelson

This tip presents a way to display checkboxes for selection of ListBox Items instead of the default highlighting

A WPF StackPanel-Surrogate with Shared-sizing Scope Ability

14 Sep 2014 by Mario Vernari

Here is a simple trick for simulating the shared-sizing feature of the WPF Grid even in a StackPanel fashion.

Accessing FilePath in MVC 6 via Dependency Injection

1 Jun 2015 by Mostafa Asaduzzaman

How to access files within the application using DI

Add "Zooming" to a WPF Window or User Control

6 Jan 2015 by MarkLTX

Allow users to "magnify" your WPF application!

Add-In for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 Console (SCVMM 2012 R2)

9 Mar 2017 by Vladan.Obradovic

Display additional properties for each VM inside SCVMM 2012 R2 console (VLAn, IP addres, VM Path, Mounted ISO, Number of Checkpoint)

Adding a "transparent" Background to Your Buttons

15 Oct 2014 by Arthur Caputo

Tutorial on setting a false transparency onto your button's edges.

Adding Checkbox to a List View Column Header in C# WindowsForm Application

7 Feb 2018 by Santosh Kokatnur

Adding Checkbox to a List View Column Header in C# WindowsForm application

Adding Transformation Files in the .NET Windows Service

9 Dec 2016 by Shesh Lamichhane

Step by step to add the transformation files of app.config in your .NET Windows service

Additional Helper Methods to the ExcelDataReader Package

10 Aug 2015 by E.F. Nijboer

ExcelDataReaderHelper: Functionality similar to LinqToExcel using the ExcelDataReader package

ADO.Net Connectivity using Stored Procedure and Output parameters

10 May 2015 by Ankit Bansal MVP

This articles explains the insertion of data into SQL Database using Stored Procedures with Output Parameters. Some Bootstrapping is also used to create a good looking HTML.

Advanced WPF TreeView with Multi-Level Binding (Code Behind - No XAML!)

21 Dec 2017 by Peter Sun (247)

Demonstrate how to create WPF TrewView with multiple levels of HierarchicalDataTemplate from C# code-behind without XAML using MVVM for data binding

Alarm in C#

6 Oct 2014 by Shah Ankita

This code sample demonstrates how to set an alarm notification.

An elegant command line options parser

14 Feb 2015 by Liu Junfeng

A simple and powerful command line options parser.

An Observable Generic Tree Collection

11 Nov 2015 by Yuriy Magurdumov

Simple generic data structure to maintain hierarchical objects

AngularJS & Web API Active Directory Security

28 Aug 2015 by Bert O Neill

AngularJS and Web API Active Directory Security (Authorisation)

AngularJS 1.x using TypeScript

29 Nov 2015 by anujk0292

Create AngularJS 1.x web application using Microsoft Typescript

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.

AngularJS Example

15 May 2015 by Tony Jen

An anatomy of an AngularJS project I created. We will discuss parts of the application from HTML elements, to back end controllers and services.

HTML

VS2013

AngularJs

AngularJS RibbonBar

2 Sep 2015 by Bert O Neill

AngularJS RibbonBar written with HTML & CSS (and a little JQuery)

AngularJS Validation Using Custom Directives

21 May 2015 by Tony Jen

Custom validation in AngularJS using custom directives

Animation Storyboard using XAML and C#

8 Aug 2014 by Anis Derbel

The easiest way to animate your object using Storyboard

AppJs Framework

30 Jun 2017 by Tyrone Roson

Fun with Interchangeable UI Controls

Arduino Code Printing

15 Nov 2015 by David Vanson

A small application to pretty print Arduino code with syntax highlighting

VB10

VS2013

VS2010

ASP.NET Gridview with Row Drag and Drop using Jquery TableDnD

17 Sep 2014 by virang_21

This article describes how to implement row drag and drop inside ASP.NET Gridview using Jquery TableDnD plugin and how to pass reordered sequence back to server

ASP.NET MVC 5 Multiple Image Uploader with Crop

15 Apr 2015 by Mikhail Vasilchenko

ASP.NET MVC 5 Multiple Image Uploader with Crop

ASP.NET MVC 5 SignalR, SqlDependency and EntityFramework 6

1 Feb 2016 by Luis Manuel Prospero Mano Batista

ASP.NET MVC 5 SignalR, SqlDependency and EntityFramework 6

ASP.NET MVC 5 – Entity Framework 6, CRUD Operations on Visual Studio 2015

7 Nov 2015 by JoaoSousa23

ASP.NET MVC 5 – Entity Framework 6, CRUD Operations on Visual Studio 2015

ASP.NET MVC HangFire - Execute Jobs in Background using SQLServer

15 Sep 2015 by JoaoSousa23

An easy way to perform fire-and-forget, delayed and recurring tasks inside ASP.NET applications

ASP.NET MVC RequireJS Module Optimization

6 Jan 2015 by Riverama

Improve ASP.NET MVC based SPA application performance by using script Bundles with requireJS

ASP.NET MVC WebAPI Email Templating and Localization

9 Apr 2015 by Parvathaneni Mamatha

How to use Razor Views as Email Templates and Localize them using sample WebAPI

ASP.NET WebApi: MultipartDataMediaFormatter

5 Jun 2017 by Alexander Kozlovskiy

Used for binding custom types (including files) when sending and receiving multipart encoded form data

VS2013

ASP.NET

WebAPI

ASP.NET Website and C# with Multi-Language

23 Sep 2016 by ChienVH

This article will guide you how to implement ASP.NET website with multi-language

ASP:NET MVC 5 Confirm Registration Email

6 May 2016 by congiuluc

How to check Email address during user registration with ASP.NET MVC 5

AssemblyQualifiedName Parser

22 Jul 2013 by Christophe Bertrand

A parser for AssemblyQualifiedName for .NET

async / await example

13 Jul 2014 by Sharath C V

A simple async / await example

Async and Await Tutorial

18 Jan 2015 by Gaurav Goel (Team Lead)

This tip teaches you the basic use of async and await, how threads work internally

Windows

VS2013

Asynchronous Programming in C# 5.0 using async and await

14 May 2013 by Assil

A light article about a new feature in C# 5 and .NET 4.5

Asynchronous SQL Database Wrapper

7 Apr 2015 by Amir Dashti

A simple but powerful class to simplify executing T-SQL commands asynchronously

Audio Pitch Shifter

2 Mar 2016 by ahmet_uzun

Audio pitch shifter application using the CSCore library

Auto Complete in ASP.NET MVC

25 Jun 2014 by Sreenivas Chinni

This is an article / tip that I am trying to giving an idea of creating a general auto complete helper for asp.net MVC 5 developers

AutoCompleteExtender working with EntityFramework! (Reload 2015)

12 Nov 2015 by Eduardo Yost

Creating a Web User Control containing an AutoCompleteExtender for data through WCF (JSON) allowing to store the entity selected through EntityFramework. Entity object serialization from the server to the client and the client to the server.

AutoMapper 4.2.1

18 Jun 2016 by saurabhsharmacs