Many developers use ".cur" cursor files. Using them myself in Visual Studio 2008, they are not the easiest things to work with for many reasons.They are not easy to create without expensive software. (unless you are using the editor within Visual Studio)They cannot easily be ported in the...

.NET

Visual-Studio

WIA Scanner in C# Windows Forms

4 Jul 2014 by Chakravarthi Elchuri

How to use WIA supported scanner using C#

How to Control TP-Link Smart Plug HS1XX

27 Dec 2017 by Alberto M.

How to control TP-Link Smart Plug (HS100 or HS110) with C#

M1.NET - Decrypt Arcade Audio

6 Feb 2023 by shunninghuang

Software named M1.NET which shows the details of decrypting arcade game audio

Using of .NET TransactionScope

24 Jan 2010 by Md. Marufuzzaman

Using of .NET TransactionScope

.NET

.NET3.5

Visual-Studio

Adding INotifyPropertyChanged to Entity Framework Classes

14 Dec 2014 by MarkLTX

Automatically implement INotifyPropertyChanged for every property in Entity Framework 6.0 entity classes

Make Buzzer (Internal Speaker) Sound in Windows 7/8/10 32bit / 64bit

14 Jan 2022 by Andreoli Carlo

In our company, we find ourselves in need of using the internal PC (buzzer) on Windows7 64bit. At the end, we figured out how to do it.

Extract Tables from PDFs

15 Oct 2018 by moneema14

A parser event listener for PDF tables to .NET Dataset object

XML

VS2013

Visual-Studio

Regex to remove someone's overzealous use of regions.

23 Nov 2009 by Daniel Vaughan

A Visual Studio regex to remove someone's overzealous use of regions in VS. Find and replace: (^.*\#region.*$)|(^.*\#endregion.*$) Remember to enable regular expressions in the Visual Studio find and replace dialog.

Visual-Studio

regular-expression

Get DataBase Connection Strings in Easy Way

16 Feb 2011 by jim lahey

Or you could just pop over to:http://www.connectionstrings.com/[^]Use the exhaustive samples they provide and not hard code your connection strings by using a standard .NET configuration file:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1xtk877y.aspx[^]

Working with Keyboard Events and their Codes in JavaScript

14 Sep 2014 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

How to use the keyboard events of the user and use them to dynamically change the User Interface or to perform some actions

Create a Drop Down Calculator Opens like DateTimePicker

24 Jun 2015 by Nadun Liyanage

This tip describes creating a user control to display a drop down calculator that pops out like the DateTimePicker in Visual Studio

Passing Object Collections to ASP.NET Web API

16 Jan 2014 by Tom Glick Philadelphia, US

POC to demonstrate passing of collections of complex objects to ASP.NET Web API Controllers.

VTK in MFC

10 Jul 2014 by _Flaviu

A small guide to use VTK in MFC

Using Built-in Visual Studio Diff Tool in VS Extension

19 Feb 2021 by Mykola Tarasyuk

An approach to call built-in Visual Studio commands from within Visual Studio extensions

Visual-Studio

diff

extension

Many Questions Answered at Once — Collaboration between Windows Forms or WPF Windows

26 Mar 2015 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Popular question on Forms collaboration, also answered for WPF

Google reCaptcha v2 with MVC5

9 Apr 2015 by Royston Malcomber

Setting up Google reCaptcha version 2 with MVC5

Executing Stored Procedure with User Defined Table Type Parameter in Entity Framework Using EntityFrameworkExtras

26 Sep 2015 by AshishShukla6

This tip describes step by step implementation of executing stored procedure having user-defined table type as a parameter in entity framework using EntityFrameworkExtras package.

How can we get the security access information.

5 Jul 2010 by Md. Marufuzzaman

For programmers it is more important that you identify whether you are allowed to do something.

Visual-Studio

VS2008

Needleman Wunsch Algorithm in C#

23 Aug 2013 by BlackMirrh

Sequence Alignment using Needleman Wunsch algorithm in C#

VS2010

Visual-Studio

Rules Engine

15 Nov 2014 by Member 3531622

Create a Rules Engine in less than 50 lines of code which is extremely powerful, extensible and adaptable

How to Sort a Table in ASP.NET and MVC

26 Feb 2015 by Shridhar Gowda

This tip will explain how to sort a table / GridView on an ASP.NET or MVC(AngularJs) application. I am demonstrating both client side and server side sorting. I am sure you will have a great knowledge on this topic after reading it.

Calculating Permutation without Recursion - Part 2

7 Apr 2015 by perspolis

Calculating permutation in a non-recursive way

[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

DMath is DirectXMath for All

5 Mar 2017 by Jose A Pascoa

Part 1 - Using DMath from C#

Getting all the ip-addresses on subnet and filtering by availability

11 Oct 2014 by Nosey Parker

How to calculate subnet fast and get active ip-addresses

.NET

Windows

Visual-Studio

How to Create SQL Server Database Project With Visual Studio

4 Apr 2021 by Rijwan Ansari

Learn about SQL Server Database Project (Template) available in VS

Code Coverage And Generics

2 Apr 2011 by Andrew Rissing

How to get that last little nagging line to be covered...

Visual-Studio

generics

Installing the WTL Wizard for Visual Studio 2010

19 Sep 2011 by Yvan Rodrigues

How to install the WTL Wizard for Visual Studio 2010.

WTL

Visual-Studio

setup

Multilevel Nested Gridview in ASP.NET

2 Jul 2014 by Chakravarthi Elchuri

Display data in Multi nested gridview using C# in ASP.NET

Simple Model/Entity Mapper in C#

2 Sep 2014 by DiponRoy

Let’s see how to make a simple model or Entity mapper using reflections in C#

Resetting the Visual Studio Experimental Instance

23 Oct 2014 by Mario Majčica

A quick guide on how to reset the Visual Studio Experimental instance environment

Visual-Studio

Just Another .NET AOP Framework: NConcern

7 May 2017 by Jung Hyun, Nam

Introducing NConcern, a free open source compile-time AOP framework

DependentTaskRunner - How to Run Tasks with Dependencies and Stay Sane

10 Jun 2017 by Alon Lek

Running tasks in parallel while taking into account the dependencies between them

Prevent code executing at Design Time in Visual Studio for Winforms Apps

28 Apr 2010 by Keith Barrow

If you have a Winforms application that auto loads data, there is no doubt that you’ll have come across the problem of data loading at design time (i.e. when opening the code in the designer). At best, this slows the designer down, at worst it might crash VS and prevent the control from...

Remove blank lines from code in Visual Studio

19 Oct 2010 by Ziv Nitzan

There is also a Visual Studio extention called CodeMaid that has a lot of cleaning options http://bit.ly/diMTaR

How to display or hide standard button cues.

18 Nov 2010 by priyamtheone

C#3.5

Visual-Studio

VS2008

DLL with configuration file

11 Nov 2011 by lewax00

Unless I'm misunderstanding something, you can just go to properties for the project, Settings tab, and click "This project does not contain a default settings file. Click here to create one.".

VS2010

Visual-Studio

DLL

LinesGrid control - An easy way to draw a grid in WPF

13 Nov 2012 by maximaximum

The article describes how to draw a grid of vertical and horizontal lines in WPF.

Splash Screen using ProgressBar on Windows Phone

9 Jul 2012 by Christian Amado

In this tutorial, we will discuss on ProgressBar & Background worker. Follow the step-by-step tutorial to know how to use these clases.

Overlooked reason for debug step slow-down in Visual-Studio

24 Jan 2013 by Itai Basel

If your VS debgger is running slow and you checked out all other tips with no help - maybe you unchecked this one and forgot to recheck it after you were done.

Visual-Studio

debugger

Entity Model to Excel using LINQ in C#

31 Oct 2013 by Debopam Pal

How to bring data from Entity model to Excel file using LINQ.

Automated Creation of NuGet Packages

6 Aug 2014 by DannyVarod

Fast, stable and powerful creation of NuGet packages

A Tiny Custom List Control

25 Aug 2014 by HateCoding

A tiny custom list control

Word Automation using C#: Create a Word Table Programatically

13 Sep 2014 by koolprasad2003

This tip gives you an idea about how to create Word table using C# (Word automation)

Syrilium.Caching

19 Mar 2015 by Hrvoje Batrnek

Easy and seamless caching implementation of any virtual method in any class

WPF/MVVM Application for showing SystemColors list

4 Sep 2015 by Igor Sorokin

In this article I would like to describe simple WPF application for showing System.Windows.SystemColors list.

String Format ValueConverter

9 Aug 2015 by Clifford Nelson

This tip provides an alternate way to combine data with text in a WPF control using a ValueConverter that could be considered easier.

Self-Cleanable Collection and Self-Cleanable Event

27 Jan 2020 by Vassili Kravtchenko-Berejnoi

Use of System.WeakReference for self-cleanable registration of (short-life) objects

Color Block Overlay for DataGridView

27 May 2014 by Matus Kovacik

This component allows to overlay grid with colored blocks spanning across multiple columns.

Visual Studio 2010 Black-Out

9 Jun 2010 by Anshul R

A solution for Visual Studio 2010 black-out

Visual-Studio

Temporarily Hide IntelliSense

9 Jul 2010 by TheyCallMeMrJames

Here's how you might word this to be a little more clear:When IntelliSense is invoked in Visual Studio it can sometimes obscure text or information from the code block below the line you're editing. To momentarily reveal the covered area below the IntelliSense window, press and hold the...

Visual-Studio

Shortcut: Open Containing Folder

20 Nov 2010 by Ajay Vijayvargiya

Open the Folder of current file with a simple keystroke

Self-debugger attach to process

14 Sep 2011 by Mauro Leggieri

C++

Visual-Studio

debugging

Preventing stubbed methods from being released

14 Oct 2011 by Julien Villers

Nice tip! I'm also a proponent of using your friend the preprocessor to stop you from making big mistakes, along with your best friend, the compiler.You can combine both using this alternative code:private bool ValidateUserDetails(string userName, string password){ //TODO: Default value...

Visual-Studio

How To Hide Or Show .NET Tabs Programmatically

20 Nov 2011 by Bernhard Hiller

That's far too obscure.All you need to do is store a reference to the TabPage instance which was removed from the TabPages collection of the TabControl. You may use the form where the TabControl is placed for that purpose.You could also create your own TabControl which has an extra property...

Bug Fixes for Reading Barcodes from an Image - III

5 Jul 2012 by Matthias Böhnke

Bug Fixes for Reading Barcodes from an Image - III

Rendering Text with OpenType Fonts Using GDI

6 Mar 2013 by wmjordan

Rendering text with OpenType fonts by P/Invoking GDI API in WinForm applications.

Designer Debugging in WinRT

9 May 2013 by Vinoth Kumar J

Designer debugging in WinRT

How to Split a GIF Frame By Frame and Save Them to Memory

14 Oct 2013 by blitzkrieged

This is a demonstration of splicing an animated GIF (or any image) frame by frame without having to write to the disc.

Dynamically creating a predicate delegate

29 May 2014 by Randy Kroeger

Created a POC that dynamically builds a predicate using Expression and Reflection.

Kinect Version 2 Depth Frame to .mat File Exporter Tool

16 Sep 2014 by SergentMT

Tool for extracting depth frames from Kinect v2 to .mat files, with point cloud generator script. Ready to use!

Virtual Cache

10 Oct 2014 by Gerardo Recinto

Virtualization of RAM & Disk for high-speed, low-footprint & scalable data caching

2D Drawing on Windows Forms and the Use of Transformation Matrices While Demonstrating the Trapezoid

18 Dec 2014 by charles922

Use of the Trapezoidal Rule to integrate a function

Treeview Dropdown With Search

9 Jan 2015 by Er. Puneet Goel

This tip implements the TreeView like DropDownList with Search Functionality using Telerik Kendo.

Electronic Signature with Canvas and JavaScript

5 Feb 2015 by Miller Nguyen

This article will show you how to implement a complete solution of electronic signature by using HTML5 canvas in ASP.NET (VB).

PictureBox with a ScrollBar

28 Mar 2015 by Alaa Ben Fatma

Surf your PictureBox using scrolling bars

Validation Dimensions of Physical Quantities .NET

1 Jul 2015 by Oleksiy Hornostal

This is the simple and fast validator for physical quantities and units. The validator can compare them using loaded physical expressions

.NET

Windows

Visual-Studio

A Custom Numeric UpDown Control

24 Jan 2023 by RickZeeland

A Custom Flat-style Numeric UpDown Control with a simple demo application written in .NET 6

.NET6

.NET

Visual-Studio

log4net for Multiple Build Configurations

18 Jul 2014 by Ryszard Dżegan

How to prepare log4net or other custom, XML-based configuration file for particular build or environment

Conditional Sum for Rdlc (aka ReportViewer)

13 Jul 2010 by _Groker

Code for summing by group in a RDLC report

.NET

Visual-Studio

Dev

Using Visual Studio Macros for Creating NHibernate Mapping file and Entity class

11 Aug 2010 by Santx - Santosh

C#2.0

Visual-Studio

Visual Studio Shortcuts

20 Aug 2010 by Steve Maier

Microsoft has posted some posters that can be printed out with this information in table form for each language. The newest ones are for VS2010, but they have others as well.VS2010 Keyboard Shortcuts for C# VB C++ F#[^]

Visual-Studio

ASP.NET

Remove all the HTML tags and display a plain text only inside (in case XML is not well formed)

19 Dec 2010 by PIEBALDconsult

How about loading it into an XmlDocument and getting the InnerText? (Provided the HTML is well-formed XML, of course.)

Remove all the HTML tags and display a plain text only inside (in case XML is not well formed)

20 Dec 2010 by JHoye

Consider using the open source HTML Agility Pack library (htmlagilitypack.codeplex.com).It lets you use XPATH queries to access very specific parts of an HMTL document, and the HTML does not have to be valid, well-formed XML. In addition to accessing the raw inner text of an element you can...

Display line number in Visual Studio

24 Jan 2011 by Henry Minute

I know that some people like to have line numbers and it is particularly useful if you are sending code to somebody else, like posting it on CP in Q&A when asking for help with a problem, for example. In cases like that, it is much easier to say "the error is on line 123".However, I don't...

Visual-Studio

How to Distribute C run-time (CRT) Libraries with Your Application

16 Jun 2011 by OlegKrivtsov

Some tips on available ways of distributing CRT DLLs with your Visual C++ application

C++

Visual-Studio

MAPI/Exhange Server Name

8 Dec 2011 by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

How to get the MAPI server nane

Duplicate Notifier for a List using ObservableCollection

7 Mar 2012 by Sunil_Sebastian

Duplicate Notifier for a List using ObservableCollection.

Add User to Active Directory

28 Jan 2013 by MehdiNaseri

A simple application for adding users to active directory

Win Form Project Deployment VS2012

19 Apr 2013 by Bob Clegg

Deploying with WIX

VS2012

Visual-Studio

How-To Convert a String Collection to a Multi-Enum Item Using TryParse

14 Feb 2014 by BenScharbach

How-To Convert a String Collection to a Multi-Enum item using TryParse

Custom Seed Serializer for Entity Framework Code First C#

11 Jun 2014 by DiponRoy

Custom Seed Serializer for Entity Framework Code First C#

MVVM Taskbar Notifier

20 Jun 2014 by NobsterTheLobster

Implements a taskbar notifier using an invisible window and a popup control

Minimal Undo - An Undo/Redo Framework

26 Jun 2014 by zdf

A solution for conversion of a non-undoable application to an undoable one.

Session Manager Utility for ASP.NET

6 Jul 2014 by DiponRoy

Session Manager Utility for ASP.NET

Custom String to ValueType Converter

25 Jul 2014 by Kishor Deshpande

Methods which facilitate the conversion from string to value type

Entity Framework Code First Migrations Alternative

30 Jul 2014 by DiponRoy

How to handle database scheme changes with normal SQL scripts, without migration in Entity Framework code first

OctTree Implementation for overlap detection in C#

28 Jul 2014 by sajjad kardani moghadam

Octa Tree is a 3D space partitioning algorithm

Use Webclient to Make An Auto Updater

17 Sep 2014 by BlueMaple_chief

To make a simple auto updater demo, I use webclient 'interfaces' to download the file and monitor the progress.

Autos Window in Visual Studio 2013

31 Oct 2014 by Abhishekv 11

Autos Window in Visual Studio 2013

Visual-Studio

Creating ConcurrentPartitionedDictionary

11 Nov 2014 by D Sarthi Maheshwari

A suggested solution to create serializable Partition based ConcurrentDictionary (reducing chances of OOM errors, reduced memory consumption and adding capability to hold bigger KVP set in Dictionary).

How to programmatically warm boot a Windows CE device

13 Jan 2015 by B. Clay Shannon

Simple way to warm boot a Windows CE device