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A Look into the Future - Source Code Generation by the Bots

by Dmitriy Gakh

The perspectives of creating bots that write programs with two simple examples.

ANNT : Convolutional neural networks

by Andrew Kirillov

The article demonstrates usage of ANNT library for creating convolutional ANNs and applying them to image classification tasks.

CppEvent - How to Implement Events using Standard C++

by Shmuel Zang

This article shows how we can implement a thread-safe events (similar to .NET events) mechanism using the standard C++ library.

Hashcash or "Proof of Work"

by Marc Clifton

Hashcash is a proof-of-work system used to limit email spam and denial-of-service attacks, and more recently has become known for its use in bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) as part of the mining algorithm.

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Your Own AVI Shop

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Build up our own AVI editing application and explore some fun techniques using simple code additions

ToDoList 8.2 - An Effective and Flexible Way to Keep on Top of Your Tasks

by .dan.g.

A hierarchical task manager with native XML support for custom reporting

VB .NET/WinForms: Create Form's MainMenu by Load Menu from Resource-Only DLL

by vblover Programmer

Load Menu from Resource-Only DLL (created by VC++) and Set for Form As MainMenu by API Functions.

EXTENDED Version of Extended Rich Text Box (RichTextBoxEx)

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I've created an enhanced version of the Extended RichTextBox created by Razi Syed.

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Visual Studio 2015

"The application is in break mode" error in VS2015

4 Jun 2018 by User 4180254

Hi. I am facing strange error "the application is in break mode" when trying to debug my unit test methods. Even clicking on the link as shown in suggested actions it just disconnects and nothing happens. Suggested action links are - 1. Show Diagnostic Tools 2. Check fro running TASKS 3....

"The application is in break mode" error in VS2015

4 Jun 2018 by gael12334

Is it a Windows Form app? if so, check if the class is the first in your .cs file. You may also look at the Program.cs...

"Xxx.ipdb"': permission denied in visual studio 2015, how to solve ?

20 Jun 2019 by Member 13323088

when i compile (build) the project in release mode that time "Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Error C1083 Cannot open compiler intermediate file: 'E:\Working\Release\xxx.ipdb': Permission denied.project version.cpp". if anyone give solutions, It would be helpfull...

"Xxx.ipdb"': permission denied in visual studio 2015, how to solve ?

20 Jun 2019 by Andrey Chertov

I had this problem when migrated to the new PC where I decided to keep all my stuff on the Google Drive. So I built successfully the debug version. But when tried to build the Release, all of a sudden had this error: 1>g:\my drive\...\proj_globals.cpp : fatal error C1083: Cannot open compiler...

50 OpenGL MFC Projects in One

10 May 2017 by Petrov Vladimir

Former NeHe OpenGL Lessons adapted to MSVS-15 pro MFC in INICODE and the samples of the Joystick implementation

[Help] why memory leakage during managed automation object creation / destruction ?

25 Aug 2016 by SuperMiQi

Hello Everyone,I would like to share with you the following stranged issue:How is it possible to have memory leakage just by creating and releasing an instance to an empty automation class ?What is the magic behind ? Is there a leakage between managed and unmanaged inter-connection...

[Help] why memory leakage during managed automation object creation / destruction ?

25 Aug 2016 by Dave Kreskowiak

Probably because you're looking in Task Manager for memory usage of a .NET app. Don't. It's lying to you.Task Manager shows how much memory is RESERVED for your app, not how much it's actually using.For better memory statistics, use PerfMon and the .NET Memory counters or a dedicated...

[Sql to azure] run schema compare automatically

23 Mar 2016 by Luiey Ichigo

Hi all,I have connect both SQL Server(Source) on my notebook and Azure SQL(Target) using Visual Studio Pro 2015.How to do automation for running schema for some interval e.g every one hour check for comparison? This function will be placed to somewhere else without any IT guy to update...

SQL-Server-2012

A Bridge From Fortran to C#

21 Feb 2017 by Member 1895422

This article discusses bridging from Fortran to the .NET language C#.

A Look into the Future - Source Code Generation by the Bots

14 Dec 2018 by Dmitriy Gakh

The perspectives of creating bots that write programs with two simple examples.

artificial-intelligence

machine-learning

A Responsive Design Technique for WinForms

17 Oct 2016 by Mehedi Shams

Design to scale automatically to different screen resolutions

A Very Basic Recursive Binary Search Tree For Excel VBA

24 Feb 2019 by WhiskeyBeforeWater

An unbalanced basic recursive Binary Search Tree for Excel VBA with functions (insert, search, delete, in order, pre-order, post-order, minimum, and maximum)

A Windows Forms based text editor with HTML output

2 Jul 2013 by kevin delafield

A Windows Forms based text editor with HTML output, implemented with a browser control in edit mode.

Ad1.lib not found in vs2015 (vc++ project)

22 Jun 2017 by Coder969

We are migrating our project from vs2005 to vs2015 . In one of the project we are using Ad1.lib .When I build that project in vs2015 getting the error saying Ad1.lib not found . In vs2005 this lib was present in " C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\PlatformSDK\Lib " but I...

Ad1.lib not found in vs2015 (vc++ project)

22 Jun 2017 by RickZeeland

You can try to copy the Ad1.lib to your project and include it, if you still have it. Then under the file properties set "Copy to working directory" to always. If that fails, try this: visual studio - VS2005 and Windows SDK 7.1 - Stack Overflow[ ]

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 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

Windows-service

Additional information: there was no endpoint listening at http://localhost:61787/service1forimages.svc/getdata that could accept the message. This is often caused by an incorrect address or SOAP

29 Mar 2016 by granger007

I have made a simple MVC project and added a .svc file to it and trying to call the function under the .svc file from another client project but every time i am getting the error for Additional information: There was no endpoint listening at...

AGENT Smartwatch All in One Apps using C#

24 Sep 2015 by syed shanu

Creating a simple App for AGENT Smartwatch

All About MFC Serialization

9 Jan 2019 by steveb

Describes all aspects of MFC serialization mechanism

Angular 2 Custom Controls with ASP.NET Core WebAPI

25 Jan 2017 by Nesreen Maged

Angular 2 Type Script Custom Controls Integrated with ASP.NET Core web API

Angular JS Application with MVC 6, Web API 2, ASPNET 5 and Gulp – Part 1

6 Jul 2015 by Mostafa Asaduzzaman

Building Angular JS Application using Web API 2 in MVC 6

AngularJS and REST API - Part 2

19 Apr 2018 by charles922

AngularJS and REST API Tutorial - Part 2

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AngularJS and REST API: Part 3

27 Apr 2018 by charles922

AngularJS and REST API Tutorial: Part 3

AngularJS and REST API: Part 4

12 Jul 2018 by charles922

AngularJS and REST API Tutorial - Part 4

ANNT : Convolutional neural networks

28 Oct 2018 by Andrew Kirillov

The article demonstrates usage of ANNT library for creating convolutional ANNs and applying them to image classification tasks.

artificial-intelligence

App for CPU Temps, Fan Speeds, etc.

20 Feb 2019 by JL Doty

Minimalist app to monitor a system's sensors

App for CPU Temps, Fan Speeds, etc., Part II

20 Feb 2019 by JL Doty

App to monitor a system's sensors, with added features

Artisan.Orm or How to Reinvent the Wheel

15 Jun 2020 by Vadim Loboda

ADO.NET Micro-ORM to SQL Server

ASP.NET Core and Angular 2 Code Venture - Part 1

13 Oct 2016 by Vincent Maverick Durano

This article will walk you through on building a data-driven web app from scratch within the context of ASP.NET Core 1.0 using Angular 2 and Web API 2.

ASP.NET Core and Web API: A Custom Wrapper for Managing Exceptions and Consistent Responses

4 Jun 2020 by Vincent Maverick Durano

This article will talk about how to implement a custom wrapper for your ASP.NET Core and Web API applications for managing exceptions, providing meaningful and consistent responses to consumers.

ASP.NET Core Angular 2 EF 1.0.1 Web API Using Template Pack

25 Dec 2016 by syed shanu

In this article, let’s see how to create our first ASP.NET Core Angular 2 Starter Application (.NET Core) using Template pack using Entity Framework 1.0.1 and Web API to display data from the database to our Angular2 and ASP.NET Core web application.

ASP.NET Core, WEB API and Repository Class

16 Nov 2016 by syed shanu

In this article, we will see in detail how to create ASP.NET Core with Repository pattern in the WEB API.

ASP.NET Multiple Selection DropDownList Using .NET C#

17 Mar 2019 by Nitin_Rajurkar

ASP.NET Multiple Selection Drop Down List using C# and ASP.NET

ASP.NET MVC Hotel Booking System Using AngularJS

27 Oct 2016 by syed shanu

Tutorial for creating a simple web based Hotel Room Booking System using MVC, AngularJS, and WebAPI

ASP.NET MVC User Role Base Menu Management Using WEB API And AngularJS

28 Feb 2016 by syed shanu

In this article, we will see how to create and manage a User Role based menu using ASP.NET MVC, WEB API and AngularJS.

ASP.NET MVC: Build Your Custom Blog Engine (CMS) - Part 1 of 2 (Own ASP.NET MVC)

20 Jan 2016 by raddevus

Walkthrough building a re-usable blog engine which will help you create your web site using MVC while you learn ASP.NET MVC from beginning to intermediate level.

ASP.NET Web API - Keeping It Simple

25 Nov 2016 by kannankeril

This article is an attempt at splitting out the controller layer to reduce its complexity and improve quality and maintainability of the resulting code.

ASP.NET Web Greeting Card Tool

14 Jan 2016 by syed shanu

In this article, we will see how to create a web based Greeting Card tool using ASP.NET and jQuery.

Aspect Oriented RequestObject(DTO) Validation in WCF with FluentValidation and CastleWindsor

15 Feb 2016 by Oğuzhan Soykan

Automated monkey or specific validations for WCF or REST services with Fluentvalidation and CastleWindsor

Asynchronous Multicast Callbacks with Inter-Thread Messaging

25 Jan 2019 by David Lafreniere

Simplify passing data between threads using this multithreaded, portable C++ asynchronous callback framework

multi-threading

Audio Pitch Shifter

2 Mar 2016 by ahmet_uzun

Audio pitch shifter application using the CSCore library

Authentication and authorization in WPF

1 Sep 2016 by MrLonely_2

Hi guys,I try to find any good tutorials about Authentication and Authorization in WPF but i could not found any thingall i found are about ASP.NET and WCF and MVC I want complete and good tutorials about that for WPFWhat I have tried:I try to find any good tutorials about...

Authentication and authorization in WPF

18 Jul 2016 by Leo Chapiro

Please take a look at this article, that was the very first I've found by google with "Authentication and authorization in WPF" :)"WPF: Implementing Custom Authentication And Authorization - TechNet Articles - United States (English) - TechNet Wiki[^]This article provides a step-by-step...

Authentication and authorization in WPF

1 Sep 2016 by f-fect

Hi MrProgrammer_78I have to agree with the post from _duDE_. I do not think it is that simple solution provided by Magnus Montin in his article. Magnus is Microsoft MVP which means he has some solid and proven knowledge of .NET technologies. In addition, the article has been reviewed by a...

Automating Word 2016 using Visual C++ MFC in Visual Studio 2015

23 Oct 2016 by hoanganhtdh1

This article demonstrates some techniques to automate Word 2016 using Visual C++ MFC in Visual Studio 2015.

Avi from Image Files in One Click

27 Dec 2017 by Petrov Vladimir

Simple solution for small avi demo performance from Image files of any kind

Bare Metal MVVM - Where the Code Meets the Road - Part 2

5 Jan 2017 by Pete O'Hanlon

Learning MVVM from the nuts and bolts

Bare Metal MVVM - Where the Code Meets the Road - Part 3

23 Feb 2017 by Pete O'Hanlon

Templates and how we can use them to support developing MVVM applications

Beginner Tutorial: A Unity 5 Number Guessing Game

25 Oct 2015 by defwebserver

In this tutorial, we will cover creating a simple number guessing game. The user will guess a number between 1 and 10.

Beginners Guide for Creating GridView in ASP.NET MVC 5

14 Jun 2017 by Ehsan Sajjad

A guide on how to implement gridview in ASP.NET MVC 5

Binary Inspector

24 Mar 2016 by Ramon.Pinho

A Windows Forms Application that can open, view and edit binary files in a simple way

BreakPoint Configuration and New Error List in Visual Studio 2015

25 May 2016 by Akhil Mittal

This article covers the debugging improvements that Visual Studio 2015 has come up with.

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

Building web apps with ASP.NET 5 MVC and Entity Framework 7

27 Sep 2015 by Fiyaz Hasan

Building a technical event management application with ASP.net 5 MVC and Entity Framework 7

entity-framework

Building Your First App for Windows 10 IoT using C#

11 Feb 2016 by Martin Gmuca

Quick guide to develop first app for Windows 10 IoT core

Business Logic Server as Windows Service (Architectural Prototype)

23 Jan 2016 by Igor_A

An architectural prototype of a business logic server as Windows Service. Sample service implementation and test utility.

entity-framework

C# 2015 - datagridviewcellformatting event ok on form load, but not working properly on textchange event

12 Aug 2019 by JC Carmo

Hello guys, Greetings from Brazil! I'm a beginner programmer developing a Visual Studio 2015 C# WinForms database application with MySQL. I have a DataGridViewCellFormatting event on the form and it works perfectly when the form loads, but when the DataGridView is updated triggered by a...

C# 2015 - datagridviewcellformatting event ok on form load, but not working properly on textchange event

12 Aug 2019 by JC Carmo

I've found the solution! It had absolutely nothing to do with binding sources or the like. All I had to do was change my CellFormatting code to the following: private void caixaDataGridView_CellFormatting(object sender, DataGridViewCellFormattingEventArgs e) { ...

C# Merge Excel Sheets into one Sheet

15 Oct 2014 by chadchen

Hello Expert:I have Excel reports generated by application. the format is xls.Due to row limits, it will split the content into multiple sheets if the total number of records is bigger than 65536.I am trying to copy all records from each sheet and merge them into one sheet then save...

16 Jan 2016 by Shekhar Shashangka

Today, we will create our own web browser(starter) with the web Browser Control in Visual Studio 2015.

C# WPF Master-Detail View Navigation: A Data-Driven Approach

5 Jul 2018 by Peter Sun (247)

Master-detail view navigation using manageable data-driven and code-behind techniques

C++ Object Relational Mapping (ORM)- Eating the Bun - Part 1 of N

20 Apr 2019 by BrainlessLabs.com, sibani.p

Creating a simple ORM for C++ on-top of SQL database

C++ State Machine with Asynchronous Multicast Delegates

23 Oct 2019 by David Lafreniere

A framework combining state machines with asynchronous multicast delegates

C++ State Machine with Threads

26 Jan 2019 by David Lafreniere

A framework combining state machines and multicast asynchronous callbacks

C++17: string_view Conversion to Integral Types

5 Jun 2018 by Shao Voon Wong

Implementing string_view conversion to integral types using Boost Spirit Qi v2

C++: Avoiding Allocation/Sharing/Locking

1 Oct 2016 by Shao Voon Wong

Using C++11 thread_local to Avoid Allocation, Sharing and Minimize Locking

Cache<T>: A threadsafe, Simple, Efficient, Generic In-memory Cache

16 Oct 2015 by Mike (Prof. Chuck)

Easier than MemoryCache, less distraction

Caching via system.web.httpruntime.cache with file dependency is not refreshing

9 Nov 2018 by dada2010

Hello everybody i have problems with some code : I try to cache some value from a config file in the global.asax, with a timer. The global goal of the project is to check some data and push messages for all webusers (via SignalR) every 20s. i add dependency on a file, but when updating this...

Call a Web Service using SSIS then Store and Query the Results

7 May 2017 by Michael Lockwood

How to call a web service using SSIS, store XML results and then query XML using XQuery

Call Excel Function in C#

9 Sep 2012 by Jitendra_rtpl

hi,i have one vsto project(office 2007 Workbook). i want to expose the function from workBook Project and access it in c# application.this is not a AddIn project. how can i do this...

Call Excel Function in C#

9 Sep 2012 by Kuthuparakkal

Try this :http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306683[^]

Can someone correct my code ? using ffmpeg to decode and then encode media file, but get black screen, ,

2 Aug 2016 by Li Lei

const char* SRC_FILE = "C:\\Users\\Administrator\\Videos\\20160720105256.mp4";const char* OUT_FILE = "outfile.h264";const char* OUT_FMT_FILE = "outfmtfile.mp4";av_register_all(); AVFormatContext* pFormat = NULL; if (avformat_open_input(&pFormat, SRC_FILE, NULL, NULL)

Can someone correct my code ? using ffmpeg to decode and then encode media file, but get black screen, ,

2 Aug 2016 by KarstenK

Audio and Video must have aligned time stamps, so the decoder can fetch the approbiate pieces. You can cross check whether the video gets written, by commenting out these lines. If the output file is smaller you know that the video is written.For the further development you better study the...

Case Insensitive Search Filter in OData ASP.NET Core 2.0 Web API as an OWIN Middleware

31 Jan 2018 by Pawel idzikowski

How to replace the web API request query string to provide case insensitive OData search

Cast error for ComImport IRTDServer interface

9 Dec 2013 by Sergey Vaselenko

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel has the IRtdServer interface.This interface is imported into a server app as _Public Interface IRtdServer Function...

Cast error for ComImport IRTDServer interface

9 Dec 2013 by Maxim Kartavenkov

Hello,Probably it display an error that unable to cast due QueryInterface fails this mean that the object you trying to create does not support such interface. Internally it calls query interface with Guid specified in interface declaration, so check that guid too.Also try to obtain the...

Cfg-NET

9 Feb 2017 by dale.newman

An alternative to .NET Configuration Handler

ChartPoints

16 Dec 2017 by aleksey_m_t

MSVS2015 chart view trace extension

click once uploading a new project

29 Oct 2012 by Member 8021019

Hi,We have a VSTO project-excel- that is deployed with clickonce technology.For some reasons- I can't use this project any more ,So we recreated a new project using the same file as in the old project.Project name and solution name are the same and the PFX file too.Now I want to...

Clipping Plane in WPF 3D

14 Aug 2018 by charles922

Demonstrate Clipping Plane in WPF 3D

Clipping Plane in WPF 3D - Part 3

5 Feb 2019 by charles922

Demonstrate Clipping Plane in WPF 3D - Part 3

Clipping Plane in WPF 3D, Part 2

21 Aug 2018 by charles922

Demonstrate Clipping Plane in WPF 3D, Part 2

Clsid_domdocument40 undeclared identifier in vs2015

10 Jun 2017 by Coder969

Hi all, We are migrating our projects from from vs2005 to vs2015 . As part of this migration we also want to remove msxml4 and use msxml6 . To use MSXML6 I am importing the msxml6.dll and removed msxml4.dll in my code.But when I built it I am getting errors saying below three identifiers are...

Clsid_domdocument40 undeclared identifier in vs2015

10 Jun 2017 by Richard MacCutchan

Don't know what you Googled for but I found this quite easily: MSXML 6.0 GUIDs and ProgIDs[^].

Code Analyzers in Visual Studio 2015

6 May 2016 by Akhil Mittal

In this article, we’ll cover another interesting and very useful featureof Visual Studio 2015: Live Static Code Analysis.

Code Assistance Feature in Visual Studio 2015

4 May 2016 by Akhil Mittal

In this section of the series I’ll cover how development with Visual Studio 2015 can increase your productivity to n times and enables you to write cleaner and more optimized code.

Code Refactoring in Visual Studio 2015

10 May 2016 by Akhil Mittal

In this article I show how you can leverage the capability of Visual Studio 2015 in optimizing your code.

Combination of Id-ParentId and HierarchyId Approaches to Hierarchical Data

17 Jul 2017 by Vadim Loboda

Combine Id-ParentId and HierarchyId approaches to keep and fetch the data in hierarchical and alphabetical order

Compare SQL data programmatically

5 Sep 2016 by Luiey Ichigo

Hi,How do I develop a program to compare data on schema? Currently, I'm using a Visual Studio Data Comparison which I see the comparison was very fast and include of matching each data.How to code for SQLDataCompare as the tools using C# or VB.NET? I would like to run it as program and...

Compare SQL data programmatically

5 Sep 2016 by NaibedyaKar

There is a SQL compare tool from Redgate that you can try. Of course it is not free. You might check the trial version of it.If you really want to do it pro grammatically, then I would recommend you to use JOINs. That might be little efficient for you. Else I afraid you have to load 2...

Compare SQL data programmatically

5 Sep 2016 by Maciej Los

Whatever you mean by "compare data on shcema", i'd say it isn't simple job. Check this: CodeProject Knowledge Base[^]

Compile a C file with external resources in vs 2015

11 Jul 2016 by Member 3892343

Hi,I have made a c program and want to compile it in VS 2015, I have tried this Walkthrough: Compiling a C Program[^] but the c source file has also dependencies .c and .h files and the compiler gives error that can't find them, I have these dependencies, how can I include them in the...

Compile a C file with external resources in vs 2015

11 Jul 2016 by KarstenK

At first find these files and copy them into your project directory. You need to include these files in your project via "Add existing files to project". If you you further problems: Google for it or include the full error messages in your question!!!

Const variable name with katakana dot

29 Feb 2016 by chimcham

Hi Good Day,I would like to ask.. I met this code and I tried to run in VS 2013 in it is okay..public const string my●var = " "; But when I tried to run in VS 2015, Please help. Thanks.What I have tried:Already researched about const variable name with dot.. but...

Const variable name with katakana dot

29 Feb 2016 by Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

If this code compiles on 2012 and 2013 (I doubt that), than it is a bug...According to C# specification such a sign can not be part of of a variable name (see 2.4.2 Identifiers)...For sure it does not compile in 2008/2010/2015...

Const variable name with katakana dot

29 Feb 2016 by OriginalGriff

Just to complete what Peter says: that code doesn't compile under VS2013 either:Error 1 Unexpected character '●'It's not a legal character in variable names in C# of whatever vintage.

Continued code execution after (throwing) an Exception

3 Jan 2018 by Jasper Lammers

A method to easily toggle the way exceptions are being handled (either being thrown or handled by custom code), while still conserving the stack trace when exceptions are not being thrown.

Controlling Installed Services via ServiceController in WinForms

18 Feb 2016 by Admir Tershalla

Learn how to control Windows services via ServiceController in Windows Forms Application

Convert HTML to Word Document using CKEditor and MariGold.OpenXHTML

29 Sep 2017 by Kannan Ar

Implement an online HTML to Word converter using CKEditor and MariGold.OpenXHTML