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C# USB HID Interface

by Szymon Roslowski

Just another approach to understanding communication between HID devices and C#.

Cryptographic Interoperability: Keys

by Jeffrey Walton

Import and export Cryptographic Keys in PKCS#8 and X.509 formats, using Crypto++, C#, and Java.

Custom Controls in Win32 API: Scrolling

by Martin Mitáš

How to support scrolling within your controls.

XColorSpectrumCtrl - a non-MFC color picker control that displays a color spectrum

by Hans Dietrich

XColorSpectrumCtrl displays a color spectrum that allows user selection, and provides APIs for color based on RGB and HSL color models.

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Machine Learning for C++ developers - the hard way: DirectML

by Michael Chourdakis

An introduction to machine learning with working C++ code that trains a linear regression model.

by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

Task Manager shows you the programs, processes, and services that are currently running on your computer. You can use Task Manager to monitor your computer’s performance or to close a program that is not responding.

IntelliFile - An Alternative Windows Version to the Famous Total Commander

by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

This article is about the IntelliFile application which is a free alternative Windows version to Total Commander and uses many components that have been published on CodeProject.

ScreenCapture: Single Header DirectX Library with HDR ability

by Michael Chourdakis

DirectX hardware screen capture and encoding with audio mixing capabilities. H264/H265/VP80/VP90/FLAC/MP3. HDR supported.

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.Gif viewer / Snipper Control

27 Jun 2015 by Pedram_Niloufari

C# .Gif viewer / Snipper control

.NET WinForms Tray Icon Implemenation with Win7 and Vista Features

23 Oct 2014 by BrokenEvent

.NET WinForms Tray icon implemenation with Win7 and Vista features: GUID identification, large custom icons, custom UI instead of the hint, etc.

A 64 Bit Version of ODBCTracer

7 Sep 2012 by zippy1981

This is an alternative for "ODBCTracer"

A Good Desktop Software in Users' Eyes

26 Sep 2015 by Southmountain

Some take-away to improve the quality of desktop software

A Simple Screensaver in C through Win32: CodeRain

16 Aug 2012 by AshakiranBhatter

ScreensSaver through fullscreen mode using Win32 APIs in C.

A Very Basic Singely Linked List for VBA

16 Mar 2019 by WhiskeyBeforeWater

A nodular Singely Linked List for VBA with some basic functions

A Visual Studio 2010 style ToolBox control

26 Nov 2012 by nilotpalbarpujari

VS 2010 style toolbox written in C#

Accesing DB2 Databse using DB2 CLI

4 Oct 2012 by Ritesh_Singh

C++ code to connect/access DB2 database using DB2 call level interface(CLI)

Add music to a simple Windows 8 Store App

25 Sep 2012 by sam stokes

This is a really simple implementation of JavaScript and HTML5 to be used in a Windows 8 Store app.

Add-in Word - Simple Paste PrintScreen

13 May 2013 by Douglas de Alvarenga Silva

Add-in Word for PrintScreen

All about owned windows

6 Jul 2011 by Mukit, Ataul

This tip, taken from MSDN tells the basic of ownership in windows.

Alternative Short Syntax For Last Anonymous Objective Variables Scope in C#

9 Dec 2015 by U_IO

Consider possibility of alternative syntax usage to refer and access to last anonymous objective variables in C# instead of using construction in code.

Alternative to URLDownloadToFile function

20 Aug 2023 by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

How to download files from an HTTP server.

Approach to Paste a Bitmap into an Icon Image on ReactOS (and Consequently on Windows XP and Newer Versions, using Win32 API)

27 Dec 2020 by Steffen Ploetz

Step-by-step instructions and source code snippets for inserting a bitmap (or a section of it) into an icon image.

Automatically Disappearing Dialog, Used to Provide VERIFY and ASSERT on ReactOS

8 Jan 2020 by Steffen Ploetz

Automatically Disappearing Dialog

Avoid Out-of-memory Troubles with Very Large Lists(Of T)

15 Jan 2016 by veen_rp

Big lists (>1,000,000 items) can cause out-of-memory errors raised by .NET. Manage them by a List of List(Of T)

Away to always load BHO in a popup window

27 Mar 2012 by MinamiTiaki

BHO

Badges for Windows 7

9 Mar 2012 by Grigory Avdyushin

Short description how to create a sexy badge for windows 7 taskbar

Bigger Directories

15 Dec 2017 by Laurie Stearn

Dialogex with Listbox to manipulate long paths in Windows

Binarizing image (Thresholding) using EmguCV

6 Jul 2013 by hirosht

Step by step method of thresholding a image using the EmguCV API in C#

image-processing

Bug Fixes for Reading Barcodes from an Image - III

5 Jul 2012 by Matthias Böhnke

Bug Fixes for Reading Barcodes from an Image - III

Build Your Own SDN Network

10 Dec 2015 by JinWenQiang

Get started with your own SDN (Software Defined Network) simulation network

C# - Fast Memory Copy Method with x86 Assembly Usage

19 Dec 2014 by OKarpov

How to use ASM in C#.NET and most fast memory copy method

C# / VB.NET / C++ CLI and WinAPI: How to Programmatically Press Mouse Button, and Check if Mouse Button or Keyboard Key Pressed

29 Sep 2014 by Emiliarge

Using WinAPI functions - GetAsyncKeyState and mouse_event

C# / VB.NET / C++ CLI: Create, read and write MS Access (mdb, accdb), MySQL, SQL Server, SQL Server Compact and SQLite databases

13 Nov 2014 by Emiliarge

Both MS Access formats (mdb and new - accdb), MSSQL 2008 R2, MSSQL CE, SQLite, MySQL

C# / VB.NET / C++ CLI: Read and write MS Access (mdb) database without ADO and SQL via Microsoft DAO

18 Aug 2014 by Emiliarge

Read and write data to Access databases without limitations caused by the use of the SQL.

C# Class To Download Files Synchronously, That Supports Cancel/Resuming And All Other Information

17 Jan 2016 by Ahmed Amer Jaf

Downloading files from the Internet with one line without Freezing Form

C# Class to generate Math. Combinations

7 May 2014 by ehab_nour

Fast algorithm

C# USB HID Interface

2 Sep 2013 by Szymon Roslowski

Just another approach to understanding communication between HID devices and C#.

C# Web File Download with BITSadmin

27 Mar 2013 by metastruct

When WebClient, HttpRequest, and all else fail, BITSadmin solves your download woes

C#: Read and Write Excel (*.xls and *.xlsx) Files Content without Excel Automation (using NPOI and ADO.NET)

30 Aug 2014 by Emiliarge

2 ways to read and write data to *.xls and *.xls files and display it on DataGridView.

Calculator Interface Design In Rust Language

15 Dec 2016 by Farhad Reza

This tip describes how we can design application interface using Win32 API in Rust Programming language.

Capture screen of webpage in different formats

26 May 2013 by maftahur

Capturing web screen in different formats without any browser(PhantomJS)

CD / DVD Tray Locker

13 Jan 2011 by DaveyM69

How to prevent a CD/DVD drive from being opened.

CD / DVD Tray Locker

13 Jan 2011 by Steve Maier

To get this to work in .NET 4, you have to change the DLLImport signature.[DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError = true)]private static extern IntPtr CreateFile( string lpFileName, uint dwDesiredAccess, int dwShareMode, ref SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpSecurityAttributes, ...

Change to Global Keyboard and Mouse Hooks behavior in Windows 7

19 Jan 2011 by Dave Kreskowiak

This is probably why your global keyboard and mouse hooks stopped working on Windows 7

Changing Windows Aero Color

24 Jun 2013 by Tejashwi Kalp Taru

Ever wanted to change the Windows Aero color without restarting the DWM?

Changing Windows Parental Controls in VB.NET

8 Oct 2012 by djdynamix

A little workaround to enable a VB.NET application to read and alter the WPC settings for any user.

Cinchoo - Using Windows registry as configuration source

25 Jan 2013 by Cinchoo

This article show how to consume Windows registry information using Cinchoo Configuration Manager.

Communication Library Files - LMS5lib | Connection and Structure

16 Apr 2015 by Chris Jorna

Communication Library Files - LMS5lib | Connection and structure

Communication Library Files - NetTools | IsSameSubnet

15 Apr 2015 by Chris Jorna

Communication Library Files - NetTools | IsSameSubnet

Communication Library Files - TCP Client/Server

2 Apr 2015 by Chris Jorna

Source code and demo on general TCP client & server library mainly usable for / tested on SICK lidar devices

Communication Library Files - UDP Broadcast

5 Apr 2015 by Chris Jorna

Communication library files - UDP broadcast

Console simple progress

1 Feb 2013 by aaverian

A very simple console progress bar.

convert a win32 rc file to XML

20 Jul 2011 by Mukit, Ataul

this tip tells about a tool that converts a win32 rc file to XML

Convert Dialog Resource Units to Pixels

15 Sep 2011 by Mukit, Ataul

This tip shows you how to convert the dimension values in the .rc file of a dialog into pixels

Convert doc/docx Documents to PDF with Foxit Reader

10 Apr 2015 by El_Codero

Convert doc/docx documents to pdf with Foxit Reader Printer. Works without use of Word Interop/SharePoint.

Convert XML File to Excel File

27 Nov 2017 by Altaf Ansari

Converting XML Data into DataTable and Exporting DataTable into Excel File

Create a service

15 Jan 2011 by Mukit, Ataul

This tip shows how to create a service

Creating A Window In Go Language

1 Dec 2015 by Farhad Reza

This tip describes how we can create a simple window in Go programming language using Win32 API functions.

CTRL+ I is received as TAB in the OnChar event of a window

15 Sep 2011 by Mukit, Ataul

This is not so much of a trick, just a little tip about how CTRL+I is interpretated in a window

Custom combobox dropdown Close Problem

2 Sep 2014 by Mike Hankey

A simple solution to rolling up a Custom ComboBox list on mouse leave.

Custom Context Menu

28 Mar 2014 by Alex Culea

Shows how to create a window that behaves like a context menu

Custom disk clean up using WSH VBScript

1 Aug 2014 by Gautham Prabhu K

Perform custom disk clean up when hard disk free space goes low

Customize List View Column Headers

20 Sep 2023 by Javad Taheri (drjackool)

Show or hide, reorder, save and restore list view column headers

Dapper.NET Sample with MVC 4- Add,Edit,Update,Delete

12 Aug 2014 by Gihan Liyanage

Simple Dapper.NET Example with MVC

Debugging Release Projects in C++ - Finding the Lost Object Information

26 Jul 2016 by Yochai Timmer

Debugging C++ projects in release. Finding the lost object information

Disable APM for Hard Drive in Windows

20 Aug 2014 by slaon77

Setting APM level for SATA hard drive

Disabling "Restart Now" Windows message after automatic OS updates

22 Jan 2013 by Vinod Viswanath

Are you annoyed of the "Restart now" message in Windows? Here is a solution for that.

Displaying vtable when debugging

30 Jun 2010 by Niklas L

This tip show how to display all entries from a C++ vtable in the VS debugger.

DMath is DirectXMath for All

5 Mar 2017 by Jose A Pascoa

Part 1 - Using DMath from C#

Doing a NotifyIcon Program the Right Way

29 Jul 2013 by Johnny J.

How to do a program whose main graphic interface consists of an icon in system tray

Download Mail Details With attachment using IMAP

23 Feb 2015 by Sujith Karivelil

This article Describes Connectivity to Gmail using IMAP, and also guide you to download and save mail content along with attachment.

Dynamically Bound Dictionary to Windows Grid

2 Oct 2012 by Clifford Nelson

This article presents a way to display totally dynamic data in a windows grid using a dictionary.

Easy SFTP (Secure FTP) With C# and PSFTP

3 Feb 2014 by metastruct

SFTP Files using PLINK as a process in C#

Easy way to simulate keyboard press and release keys

6 Mar 2013 by Ahmed Elkafrawy

An easy way to simulate keyboard press & release keys to another application

Elevated Privileges through command line in windows

28 Jul 2014 by Muhammad Muddasar Yamin

The article is about launching elevated processes through command line

Embed HTML in a Word Document using Aspose.Words

23 Jul 2014 by Brandon Rohrer

Embed HTML in a Word Document

Enabling and Disabling TaskManager

27 Jun 2011 by charles henington

Enabling and Disabling TaskManager

28 Jun 2011 by George Swan

Couldn't the class RegEdit be replaced by one simple method?private void SetKey(bool enableTaskManager) { using ( var mKey = Registry.CurrentUser.CreateSubKey("Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Policies\\System")) {...

Ensure Your Code First DB is Always Initialized

27 Jun 2012 by Brady Kelly

A quick and easy way to ensure that your Code First DB Initializer is always run when your app starts, not just on the first data access operation

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.

SQL-Server-2008

Extract List of Codes of Windows-Messages from WinUser.H

23 Feb 2014 by Saeed Masoumy Rad

Face Detection with 10 Lines of Code - VB.NET

23 Mar 2013 by Dejan Mauer

Probably the easiest way to detect faces in images by using Accord.net framework

Facebook blocker

10 Oct 2012 by pavan1361

adding require blocking site in hosts file

Fast base64 functions for encode/decode

29 Aug 2014 by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

A quick solution to transform binary data to plain text

Fast Bluetooth Sharing From Windows

2 Jun 2016 by Eric Payne

The simplest, fastest way to send a file from your computer using Bluetooth!

Fetch reboot time of remote servers

6 Sep 2012 by Suraj S Koneri

Test whether your remote server rebooted or not from C# code.

Find All Windows Operating Systems

13 Aug 2010 by Not Active

Plagiarized from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724429(VS.85).aspx[^]

Fixing Daylight Saving Time of Windows for Next 100 years

30 Sep 2014 by Vahid_N

Microsoft has not updated Iran's daylight saving time information since 2009. Let's find out how it works and then fix it for the next 100 years!

Flicker Free Text Scrolling with Double Buffering

24 Jun 2013 by Tejashwi Kalp Taru

When we have to scroll some text in the dialog box with a background image, you can see flicker. Here's the technique of double buffer to solve this problem

Formatted MessageBox/AfxMessageBox

20 Oct 2010 by Ajay Vijayvargiya

Need to Format/sprintf a string before displaying a messagebox? Here is solution!

Formatted MessageBox/AfxMessageBox

21 Oct 2010 by Aescleal

printf is so 1980s. If you don't want to dig out your shoulder pads and big hair why not go for a more modern C++ approach?Instead of a function try a stream buffer:class message_box_stream_buf : public std::basic_streambuf{ public: message_box_stream_buf( const...

Free Space Cleaner

25 Aug 2012 by Rich Turner

Free space cleaner to overwrite empty space on logical disks

Geert van Horrik's 'Updater' in Visual Studio Community Edition With Small Changes

30 Nov 2014 by David O'Neil

I needed an 'Update' solution for a project, and modified Geert van Horrik's 'Updater' to do so. This is the solution in Visual Studio Community Edition

Gems for typedef and namespace in C

10 Mar 2017 by Southmountain

Gems for typedef and namespace in C

Generate temporary files with any extension

12 Jan 2012 by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

How to get temporary files with any extension.

Get a Collection of All Running Excel Instances

26 Nov 2016 by JamesFaix

Get a collection of all running Excel interop Application objects (not just the active one)

Get a list of physical disks and the partitions on them in VB.NET the easy way

8 Jun 2012 by pdoxtader

Use DeviceIoControl, QueryDosDevice and WNetOpenEnum to get information about your system.

Get Windows Win32 Error Text - Simplified

31 Jul 2013 by Thomas B Dignan

Getting the text of Win32 Error codes for 99% of cases.

GetLastError as std::string

19 Oct 2012 by Orjan Westin

Simple function to get the text message corresponding to a system error.

Getting the address of a function in a DLL loaded in another process

27 Dec 2010 by Mr Nukealizer

Ideal for finding LoadLibrary() in 32 bit programs from a 64 bit program but it works for any function in any DLL and supports forwarded functions and ordinals.

Github: Show Update Information from your C# Application

10 Nov 2015 by John Torjo

Want to automatically let your users know when you've posted an update of your application? If your project is hosted on github, you're in luck!

Guarantee Correct Spacing for toolbar Separators on Multiple TB_ADDBUTTONS Calls

15 Jan 2020 by Steffen Ploetz

A solution for: If the toolbar is created button by button with single TB_ADDBUTTONS calls, the width of the separators is not calculated correctly.

Handling Excel Lists with Interop

29 Sep 2015 by HP2M

This tip covers handling two Excel lists using Interop.

Helper Methods for Working with Shares

27 Jun 2018 by Clifford Nelson

These are some methods I created to help with creating and deleting Windows shared directories.

High Performance Streaming with My Little MIDI Library

27 Jun 2020 by honey the codewitch

Extensive performance and API improvements for streaming MIDI and more

Homomorphic Filtering in C#.NET

28 Sep 2012 by Dr. Vinayak Ashok Bharadi

Homomorphic filtering is a generalized technique for signal and image processing, involving a nonlinear mapping to a different domain in which linear filter techniques are applied, followed by mapping back to the original domain.

Hook Unmanaged Processes Using VB.NET DLLs

24 Jan 2013 by Simon-Benyo

Hooking unmanaged processes using VB.NET.

How to avoid multiple instances of your Windows application

27 Sep 2010 by bleedingfingers

I want to share a simple class I use for this purpose. The class operates on kernel objects.