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Introduction to D3DImage

by Dr. WPF

.NET 3.5 SP1 is here! It's time to break out your DirectX skills. This article provides the information necessary to get started using a new DirectX interop feature in WPF called D3DImage.

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.

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AWS LocalStack - Installing & Configuring Locally on Windows for SQS

by Bert O Neill

This article explains how to install and configure AWS LocalStack on a Windows machine for SQS (Simple Queue Service).

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.

Reorganize and Rebuild Indexes and Update Statistics

by GabrieleTronchin

A simple stored procedure to add at your database to keep it reactive

Automatic Missing Indexes Creation Statements

by GabrieleTronchin

Automatic creation of non clustered indexes using system SQL entities

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"A setup package is either missing or damaged” error while installing visual studio 2015 on windows 8.1

22 May 2016 by OriginalGriff

Have a look in the install log and see if there is anything obvious there: Download Microsoft Visual Studio and .NET Framework Log Collection Tool from Official Microsoft Download Center[^] will put a CAB file into your Temp folder containing teh install-so-far info. It may be of use.If it...

"A setup package is either missing or damaged” error while installing visual studio 2015 on windows 8.1

22 May 2016 by wardakhan

First, I downloaded VS 2015 on windows 8(not IOS file) thrice I installed VS while installing I got an error packages missing or damage. I clicked to download from the internet, but nothing happened. Then I installed windows 8.1 and downloaded VS 2015- community(IOS file) and I got same errors...

"An advanced, low-level programmer's guide to Windows NT Kernel, Native API and drivers"

10 May 2011 by GAMerritt

Tomasz Nowak's "Undocumented Windows NT" original .chm file about ntdll.dll

"Avalon" Application Type (By Deployment)

23 Aug 2005 by Its Piyush Gupta

In the Vista world, application type selection is based on security requirement and deployment method but not on user interface requirements. This article describes various application types supported by Avalon sub-system of the Vista operating system.

"Browse For Folder" dialog alike with source

5 Sep 2001 by Marat Bedretdinov

Shell interfaces in use. IShellFolder, IEnumIDList, etc.

"ClassWizard" in VS.NET 2003

29 May 2003 by Nicolas Bonamy

Simulate the Class Wizard in VS.NET 2003

"Do not ask again" Message Boxes

4 Feb 2003 by Nicolas Bonamy

Two simple ways to add "Do not ask again" Message Boxes to your application.

"error CS1513: } expected" in my "Form1.cs" HELP! :(

26 Jul 2013 by ChopzModz

Hello, I am having a really big problem that is bugging me, and it seems like it only needs a simple change, but I don't know what! I am using Visual Studio 2010.Here is my code:private void checkBox1_CheckedChanged(object sender, EventArgs e){ if(checkBox1.Checked) { ...

"error CS1513: } expected" in my "Form1.cs" HELP! :(

26 Jul 2013 by Thomas Daniels

You should add a bracket { after the else keyword. You should also add another bracket at the end of your method:private void checkBox1_CheckedChanged(object sender, EventArgs e){ if(checkBox1.Checked) { FlashingName = true; timer1.Enabled = true; ...

"error CS1513: } expected" in my "Form1.cs" HELP! :(

26 Jul 2013 by OriginalGriff

Yes. It's missing!Your method must start, and end with a "}", but I suspect from the indentation, that what you've actually done is forgotten the opening bracket of the else condition:private void checkBox1_CheckedChanged(object sender, EventArgs e){ if(checkBox1.Checked) { ...

"error CS1513: } expected" in my "Form1.cs" HELP! :(

27 Jul 2013 by ChopzModz

Basically, I looked further up in my code and where there were different "}", you just have to add more at the bottom of your code, but in line with them. Hope this makes sense :)private void checkBox1_CheckedChanged(object sender, EventArgs e) { if...

"Filmstrip" or CatalogView Photo Gallery Sample

4 Nov 2005 by eug_acc (Eugene Akimov)

A photo images gallery browsing template - CatalogView style.

"Hello Amazon!" - Making a first request to the Amazon Product API

24 Jun 2009 by kcs2c

This demo allows you to verify that you have a valid key and can format a request..

"Hey! Is That My Car? How to Sharpen a QuickBird Satellite Image Using DotImage"

12 Nov 2007 by Lou Franco

Atalasoft leverages their DotImage toolkit to manipulate color channels for the purpose of image enhancement, in this case satellite images. The article is a tutorial on image enhancement and it includes all source code and test images.

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"Liberty Profile" - IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5

5 May 2015 by Jitendra_Jain04

IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Liberty profile is a flexible and dynamic server profile of WAS which enables the WAS server to deploy only required custom features instead of deploying a big set of available JEE components.

"new" crashed from our application

10 Dec 2010 by 5883

Hi, i don't know how to describe this clearly.We have an windows application under win7, it has some "UAC" (user access control) functionality. After we install our whole SW package, reboot the pc.The 1st time to run this application, it givesThe Just-in-Time Error error dialog appears...

"OSQL Utility" for SSAS 2005

18 Jun 2008 by Igor Krupitsky

A script that lets you run many XMLA files against a SSAS 2005 database.

"Paint.exe" in CsGL

16 Dec 2003 by Todd.Harvey

Imitate Windows Paint.exe using C# and CsGL

"PfCreateInterface" It does not work on Windows7-64bit ?

25 Jan 2013 by jeongjin yi

if ((dwLastErrorCode = PfCreateInterface( 1, PF_ACTION_FORWARD, PF_ACTION_FORWARD, FALSE, TRUE, &hInterface )) != NO_ERROR) { return ; (

"Protecting" Your Process with RtlSetProcessIsCritical

6 Nov 2009 by hxhl95

Escalating a process to system critical status using a Win32 kernel function

"Select Computer" Dialog

16 Apr 2001 by Igor Sukhov

The ATL and MFC versions of the class that implements a dialog for selecting users(computers) within the Windows Network.

"SetWindowPos " promblem

7 May 2013 by m33707

I use "SetWindowPos " in Win7 by ActiveX, but it does not work well, IE is dead,it can work well in XP,Who can help me? (I am a chinese, so English is...)::SetWindowPos(ieHandle,HWND_TOPMOST, 0, 0, cxScreen, cyScreen, SWP_NOMOVE|SWP_NOSIZE);the problem is the param of "HWND_TOPMOST"...

"Skinned" UI control library (VC++)

27 Mar 2007 by vishalkmehta

This article demonstrates how to leverage the power of images and inheritance to achieve a "skinned" look for your Windows applications.

"Taskbar and Start Menu Properties Dialog" showing made easy

19 Sep 2006 by tanvon malik

This article shows you ways to run Control Panel applets from VC++, even those that don't have a cpl extension file.

"The type or namespace name 'SSCommuniLib' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference

20 Nov 2012 by ascentit solutions

I am using a class library in my windows service. I have added the dll as well as used using derective, but still it is giving me error "The type or namespace name 'SSCommuniLib' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)"I removed and added the dll...

"The type or namespace name 'SSCommuniLib' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference

20 Nov 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

You are not adding anything with using directive. You totally misunderstood its purpose. It is only used to change the naming of the types in the code of some namespace. It is not related to assemblies at all, it is only related to namespaces; for example, naming of the types in the code can be...

"There is insufficient memory or disk space. Save the document now" - Opening MS Word from ASP.NET

5 Oct 2005 by Sadish Kumar.V

This article will help you to open an MS-Word Document (Document or Document template) or MS-Excel sheet from server side code (ASP.NET) with minimum configuration efforts.

"unable to find version of the runtime to run this application"

30 Mar 2013 by tarun00197

I developed an dotnet windows application(exam aaplication).. iam getting an problem while making set up file.I developed the application in VS 2010 with targeting .NET framework 3.5.. .. My appication running fine in my system..(Windows 7 Home Premium) 64 bit operating system...When i...

"unable to find version of the runtime to run this application"

30 Mar 2013 by Maciej Los

Try to compile program for any cpu type: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/5b4eyb0k%28v=vs.100%29.aspx[^]. By default on Win 64bit, Visual Studio uses 64 bit.

"Unrecognized Tag" problem while changing the namespace for a custom Atlas control project

16 Oct 2006 by azharkhan

This article provides the steps to solve the "Unrecognized Tag" problem for an Atlas control.

"Using" a non-existent item

30 Oct 2010 by GenJerDan

Not having a system readily available to test this on, what happens if I create an app that uses "wmp.dll", but wmp.dll is not on the system? (Like the "N" versions of Windows)? My app uses an embedded Media Player for video preview. Can easily I catch the error, or "pre-detect" the...

"Using" a non-existent item

30 Oct 2010 by Nish Nishant

Depending on how a DLL is accessed, you may get an error on startup or you may get an error on the first attempt to access it. In your case, you seem to be using COM interop via C#, so you'll most likely not get an error per se, although you'll obviously not see the ActiveX control in your UI....

"Zero Web.config Configuration" Deployment / "No touch web.config" Application Deployment

2 Dec 2004 by nssidhu

No web.config modifications required, for deployment.

# Nullable DateEdit Control

15 Jun 2003 by Oscar Bowyer

A Nullable C# DateEdit Control

#zlib - Modifying Archives

14 May 2007 by TyronM

A way to modify Zip archives without extracting them completely.

'configure' error with cygwin, no gcc installed

7 May 2010 by into_the_wild

I installed a Cygwin system on my windows XP platform, following is what I get when use './configure':$ sh ./configureloading cache ./config.cachechecking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -cchecking whether build environment is sane... yeschecking whether make sets...

'configure' error with cygwin, no gcc installed

22 Apr 2010 by Michel Godfroid

You are probably missing required bits of Cygwin. Why are you using ./configure directly? The GUI download normally takes care of all that for you. And yes, the bit you are missing is most probably the GCC compiler. You should select it in your Cygwin installer.

'configure' error with cygwin, no gcc installed

22 Apr 2010 by CPallini

I doubt Cygwin will use the Microsoft compiler.You probably should download the gcc compiler (the Cygwin setup will do it for you). :)

'configure' error with cygwin, no gcc installed

22 Apr 2010 by into_the_wild

I have downloaded a gcc zip file, then unzip it under the same directory of the cygwin files.Restart the configure command again but still failed,the error information is as follow:$ ./configureloading cache ./config.cachechecking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install...

'configure' error with cygwin, no gcc installed

23 Apr 2010 by Tony Richards

Use the cygwin setup program again to add the GCC package. It should set up your $PATH variable for you. This is far safer than just downloading the archive.

'Copy To' & 'Move To' in Shell Context Menu.

7 Jan 2001 by Mumtaz Zaheer

This article is all about how to create a context menu shell extension. 'Copy To' & 'Move To' will be added to the files/folder context menu.

'CreateEvent' function In Virtual Box

8 Jan 2013 by Member 7857575

Recently, I get a problem in one of my Win32 applications. The application calls CreateEvent with a unique string, to determain whether another instance of the application is already running. Then the application exits if the call’s GetLastError() == ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS. It works as expected...

'CreateEvent' function In Virtual Box

9 Jan 2013 by H.Brydon

A very thorough treatment of the whole subject can be found here[^] in an article by Jeff Prosise (who I have a great deal of respect for). The article is a bit old but the answers are still relevant.If you are using VS2008 or greater, you can apparently go to the project properties and...

'Encryption/Decryption with .NET' Modified (Frank Fangs' Code) CCW and VB

19 May 2002 by Dan Elebash

Modified version of Frank Fang's code ported to VB and made CCW.

'Exception 1 message:exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.

18 Jun 2021 by FullStackVale

Issue: IN windows form Application, Application is deployed on three server, on two server same users are able to access the feature of application. But when users try to access same feature in the application remaining one out of three server ...

'Find Function headers' macro for Visual Studio .NET

28 May 2002 by Wooseok Seo

This macro will help you when you want to quickly move between function headers in your code.

'Inheriting' from an Internal WinForms Designer

26 Jan 2011 by OrlandoCurioso

Customize an internal designer by encapsulation in a custom component designer

'minValue' cannot be greater than maxValue error.

9 Oct 2013 by Glen Childs

Hello, I am trying to read in a text file (Words.txt) and then select a word out from the "Words.txt" file. However I am now receiving a 'minValue' cannot be greater than maxValue error.Can anyone help me with what I may have done wrong? My WordListHelper class:public class...

'minValue' cannot be greater than maxValue error.

9 Oct 2013 by lukeer

Looks like _wordList.Count equals zero.Are you sure that _wordlist is filled with all the data needed when you call GetWord()?

'minValue' cannot be greater than maxValue error.

9 Oct 2013 by phil.o

It seems _wordList is empty, so _wordList.Count - 1 = -1First of all since _wordList is declared at your class level you should not prefix its use with type in the ProjectFile() method: private async void ProjectFile() { var _Folder =...

'unable to start debugging on the webserver' error with IIs7.0 and visual studio 8

24 Jun 2013 by ashriv

I did these two things and Issue resolved -1. Enable 32-bit application settings set as True.for this , right click on Application Pool -> Advance Setting -> Enable 32 bit Application -> TRUE2. Assign this Application Pool to my project Virtual directory.There are some other...

'unable to start debugging on the webserver' error with IIs7.0 and visual studio 8

6 Jan 2014 by Member 10336592

1) Right click on your project in VS2005 or VS2008 or VS2010.2) 2) Click on Properties3) 3) Click on Web tab4) 4) Under Servers, click on the radio button Use Visual Studio Development Server 5) Check Auto Assign Port radio button5) 6) Uncheck NTLM Authentication...

'which' utility for Windows

6 Jul 2005 by SathishVJ

Find all possible locations of an executable.

'You Who?' - Trust in Web 2.0

12 Apr 2007 by Trenton Moss

Issues of online trust have evolved as web 2.0 is becoming more widespread - find out what implications this has for your website.

(AI) Sliding Puzzle Solution Analyzer

17 Apr 2012 by Mehmet Mutlu

Details of my solution algorithms, implemented programs, and the results I have concluded.

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(ASP.NET)Sending mail using SMTP in HTML format using IP settings in web.config file

20 Feb 2006 by creativesri

This article briefs you about sending mail using SMTP in HTML Format, which takes the default SMTP settings from web.config file

(C#) command line length limits

5 Apr 2010 by Chris Meech

Just something else to look at. I've had similar issues where the space character being embedded in one of the folder names caused problems. Generally the highlighted files end up being tokenized by a space character and so an embedded one causes one filename to be split across two arguments.

(C++) How to use Windows message Queue between different applications.

10 Sep 2013 by Saurabh Raoot

Hi, I have two different Win32 consol applications. Both these applications has multiple threads. I want to send message from thead_1 of application_1 to thread_1 of applcation_2. Can I do this ?? If yes .. then what all I need to do ??I have used message queue beween threads of same...

(C++) How to use Windows message Queue between different applications.

10 Sep 2013 by User 59241

What you seek to do is called inter process communication (IPC). It is more complex than communicating between threads within a process. There are many mechanisms to achieve this.An overview is given...

(Desktop) Falling Snowflakes

3 Oct 2007 by User 2739121

Using GDI+ and a transparent form

(Get-wmiobject win32_computersystem).username returns invalid value

16 Apr 2019 by OriginalGriff

Deleting doesn't seem to be working: so I'll post this here to remove it from the "unanswered" queue and delete it later when the DB is feeling less "fragile"... This is the same question as you posted yesterday: Power shell commands returning the improper user name format[^] Please do not...

(Improved) Fast syntax highlighting control!

1 Feb 2013 by Yvar Birx

Syntax highlighting has never been so easy!

(Memory and Resource) Leak Detection for WinCE

23 May 2012 by Sergeant Kolja

This is an alternative for "Memory leak detection for WinCE".

(Visual studio) combobox that open file location when clicking the button. PLEASE HELP

27 Aug 2021 by OriginalGriff

Quote: BUT I DONT KNOW HOW AND I DONT NEED TO LEARN IT I JUST NEED A SIMPLE CODE WHY YOU GUYS CANT HELP ME EVERYONE ON EVERY PLACE SAY IT AGAIN AND DOSENT HELP Well ... probably because you haven't tried, and don't want to learn: you just want...

(Windows)Sleep in kernel driver

4 Aug 2013 by xXTariqoO

Hello,i started to learn about driver programmingi want to make my driver do a thing every 2000 ms for exampleand in c++ i will be like thiswhile(true){Sleep(2000);//(2 Seconds)DoSomething();}the question is :how to do like it in c driverit must be like...

(Windows)Sleep in kernel driver

4 Aug 2013 by User 59241

The principle is exactly the same as creating delays in user mode. Sleep() has very limited value and you can use Google to find out why. Ultimately you need waitable timers.(1) Create a kernel timer via...

(Windows)Sleep in kernel driver

25 May 2014 by zaki al

Also you can use KeDelayExcutionThreadThird parameter of this function is in 100 nano seconds(0.01 micro seconds)http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff551986%28v=vs.85%29.aspx[^]

(Yet Another) Windows Role Provider - For Enterprise Environment

20 Feb 2014 by Zoltán Zörgő

Implementing custom RoleProvider for both AD and local machine for use with Forms Authentication

*SOLVED* 2.3.4 & 2.4.7 code AI will not install the code ai service - unraid VM

11 Jan 2024 by 95gtspeedemon

*SOLVED* 2.3.4 & 2.4.7 code AI will not install the code ai service in a win 10 VM on unraid. heres what i did: install .net 7 & see if code ai works. copy regedit key for code ai service if its missing from services list. (taken from another...

*SOLVED* 2.3.4 & 2.4.7 code AI will not install the code ai service - unraid VM

11 Jan 2024 by OriginalGriff

Answered only to remove from unanswered queue.

,net 2.0 form stays in originall size

25 Mar 2013 by theitmueller

Bit difficult to describe.A form with a panel (DOCK BOTTOM) and a TableLayoutPanel (DOCK FILL).TableLayoutPanel has 2 rows, 1 column each with a user-written control.Sizing the form in the development environment works fine.If I start the application, create an instance of the form...

,net 2.0 form stays in originall size

25 Mar 2013 by OriginalGriff

I tried to do exactly the same, and I can't duplicate your problem.A form, with a panel, Dock bottom, and a TableLayoutPanal Dock fill and various ways to maximise teh form on startup - the panels appear as I expect. The TLP fills the screen, with a smaller panel overlaying in at the...

.001,.002, ... Part Files Combiner

4 Oct 2007 by tahouri

This program simply generates a batch file that you can extract your .00x files

.LESS Web.config/DotlessConfiguration Options

14 Jan 2014 by Cindy Potvin

Many options of the .LESS CSS parser can be set directly from the Web.config file, but many of them are not clearly described. Here is my attempt to document them.

.mht showing in Crystal Report

28 Nov 2012 by s.dewang

Hello, When i add CrstalReport1.rpt item to my Windows Application, it becomes .mht file How to use rpt in this application on Visual Studio 2010. Please let me know step by step how to overcome this problem ?Thanks & RegardsDewang Sharma

.mht showing in Crystal Report

28 Nov 2012 by Yasir Farooq

You download and installhttp://www.businessobjects.com/jump/xi/crvs2010/default.asp[^]and it also provide in your .mht

.NET - COM Interoperability

16 Sep 2003 by KRISHNA PRASAD.N

This paper provides a technical overview of .NET and COM interoperability.

.NET - Diving into System Programming - Part 1

8 Mar 2004 by Vladimir Afanasyev

Device configuration using C# (Part 1)

.NET - Diving into System Programming - Part 2

9 Mar 2004 by Vladimir Afanasyev

Device configuration using C# (Part 2) . How to enumerate devices.

.NET - Diving into System Programming - Part 3

10 Mar 2004 by Vladimir Afanasyev

Device configuration using C# (Part 3). Device resources - IRQ, DMA, etc.

.NET - Localization using Resource file

15 Nov 2003 by Prakash Kumar Singh

This article explains and demonstrates various ways to implement localization in your .NET application.

.NET / XML Serialization

11 Oct 2007 by aSarafian

An article that tries to clear up the concept of serialization.

.Net 2.0 Applications and Windows 2008 Server

27 Jun 2010 by sund7wells

We have set of applications developed in .Net Framework 2.0 (both Windows and Web Applications) running in Windows 2003 Server. Now management decided to upgrade it to Windows 2008 Server. Any changes required in Application side?. If not, those applications work with full potential of windows...

.Net 2.0 Applications and Windows 2008 Server

28 Jun 2010 by Syed Saqib Ali Tipu

Unless and until you're into using new technologies and you perfer choosing technologies on the basis of trends rather than the domain of the project, you need no change. There are many new changes that you will prefer adapting in the future, but just because they are there doesn't mean what...

.NET 2010 Windows.Forms.WebBrower's Print Method does not work. How to Print?

2 Aug 2011 by obhasha07

Hi, I'm creating a function where it edits an HTML file, loads it into a web browser control and then print the HTML document. The web browser loads the HTML file but doesn't print it. It's all in one function. I even tried using ShowPrintDialog method. But it does nothing!!! Not even an error...

.NET 3.0 WPF Tools and Examples

22 Mar 2007 by Sacha Barber

An article which shows how to achieve some of the common XAML concepts.

.NET 3.5 under Windows 10: If Everything Else Fails During the Feature Install

17 May 2017 by Marco Bertschi

Starting with Windows 8, .NET 3.5 comes more or less tightly coupled to the OS, as a Windows Feature.