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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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Open 16-bit Windows Applications Natively on 64-bit Windows Using OTVDM/winevdm

10 Apr 2023 by Tough Developer

How to open 16-bit Win apps natively on 64-bit Windows using OTVDM/winevdm

Migrating your Old TFVC Repository to Git with Full History in Azure DevOps

15 Mar 2021 by Arun Endapally

How to migrate your old repositories in TFVC to Git with full history

Working with Shared Files in Remote Server using SMB in Java

10 Jan 2021 by Benktesh Sharma

A demo to show reading resources in the remote server using SMB protocol

ScoopBox

26 Nov 2020 by H. Hasanov

ScoopBox is a C# library that automates the configuration file building and generates a script which inside contains commands to execute using PowerShell.

Setting Up VS Code for Scala Development on WSL

19 Nov 2020 by Shun Huang

How to set up Visual Studio Code for Scala development on WSL

Windows Authentication with Angular and .NET Core Web API

8 Nov 2020 by DotNetLead.com

This article shows you how to add Windows Authentication to Angular and .NET Core Web API projects.

How to Implement eWay Client Side Encription in Windows Form Application

22 Aug 2020 by Sergi Ortiz Gomez

My solution that can work with eWay payments from Windows Form Applications

Troubleshoot: Kafka Setup on Windows

8 Aug 2020 by Sandeep Mewara

Issues faced while setting up Kafka on Windows OS and how I resolved it

FileSystem Syncher – Part 3

22 May 2020 by Vlad Neculai Vizitiu

FileSystem Syncher

Sending Notifications with Corona Updates to Thousands of Doctors (using Azure Notification Hub)

10 May 2020 by Gaston Verelst

How to send out regular notification updates using Azure Notification Hub

Building and Deploying a Jekyll Site via GitHub Actions

3 May 2020 by Christian Specht

How to build and deploy a Jekyll site via GitHub actions

Chocolatey - Package Management for Windows

22 Mar 2020 by OwenDavies

A quick look at what is Chocolatey and how to install it

Setting Up CI for this Site with Bitbucket Pipelines and SSH

28 Feb 2020 by Christian Specht

After years of executing a “build and upload per FTP” batch on my machine, I now have a GitHub Pages-like experience when updating this site..

Articles: Create Azure AKS Cluster with Windows Server Containers Preview

18 Feb 2020 by OwenDavies

Microsoft announced back in May of the Windows Server Containers support in Azure Kubernetes Service Preview. Finally we can run Windows containers on the AKS service. It’s still only in preview, but fingers crossed will be coming to General Availability soon..

Controlling Azure Virtual Machines from PowerShell

10 Feb 2020 by OwenDavies

Windows Azure portal has the full breadth of Azure visually displayed for you to see your Azure subscription and discover new things on the platform. But manually clicking through to provision a new VM or restart a VM isn’t the dream.

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Mouse automation with AutoItX

9 Feb 2020 by Vlad Neculai Vizitiu

Hello and welcome, In this post, we are going to talk about how we can automate part of the windows desktop environment using AutoItX. What is AutoItX? Before we can talk about AutoItX first we need to talk a little bit about AutoIt.

Articles: How to create an Azure Virtual Machine with PowerShell

9 Feb 2020 by OwenDavies

So you want to create a Virtual Machine on Azure, this can be done in the portal. But really we want this scriptable, so that we can run it at a later date if needed and also so we can leverage this work and use it to create other virtual machines at a later date..

Explore WebAssembly System Interface (WASI for Wasm) From Your Browser

10 Jan 2020 by Jeremy Likness

WebAssembly now lives outside of the browser thanks to the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) and runtimes like Wasmer and Wasmtime. Learn how to build and run your own WASI modules without leaving your favorite browser.

Custom Terminals and User Interface (UI) in Windows Terminal

20 Nov 2019 by Jeremy Likness

How to customize the new Windows Terminal for Windows 10 for custom font, look and feel, as well as setup terminals for git-bash, Node.js, PowerShell, and Azure Cloud Shell.

Keeping the lights on! – Architecting for availability?

5 Nov 2019 by Kevin Mack

Hello all, It’s been a while since I did a blog post outside of the weekly updates. But I wanted to do one in terms of conversations that I’ve been having a lot lately and seems to be largely universal. High Availability.

Configuring Application Server Role, Web Server (IIS) Role Error in Installing SharePoint 2013 in Windows Server 2012

2 Nov 2019 by Melick

Configuring Application Server Role, Web Server (IIS) Role Error in Installing SharePoint 2013 in Windows Server 2012

Using Visual Studio Code with Windows Subsystem for Linux

2 Nov 2019 by Shun Huang

How to use Visual Studio code with Windows subsystem for Linux

How to Enable gzip Compression in IIS7

2 Nov 2019 by Ghanshyam N Patel

How to enable gzip compression in IIS7

New Features and Enhancements in .NET Core 3.0

25 Sep 2019 by Shameel

.NET Core 3.0, with a significant number of changes and improvements, was released on 23rd September 2019. The most important changes are discussed in this article. The post New Features and Enhancements in .NET Core 3.0 appeared first on The Developer Space.

Browser Selector – A simple windows app to associate different urls to different browsers

23 Sep 2019 by Shameel

This article introduces you to BrowserSelector, an open source app that acts like a bootstrap to associate urls to different browsers installed on your machine,.

Extending Classic (6.0) Visual Basic – Part 1

4 Sep 2019 by Chris Boss

Visual Basic 6.0 just doesn’t want to disappear. Why ? Likely many have written vital applications using VB 6.0 and Visual Basic dot.net is so different that it is not a viable option.

What is SQLite3?

14 Aug 2019 by essentialSQL

SQLite3 is a compact free database you can use easily to create and use a database. Learn more about it in this blog post.

GetMyMusicOffOfMyIpodAndOntoMyComputer Application in VB

19 Jul 2019 by timtocci

Originally this application was a console application that I developed to get the music off of my iPod. After my post on transparent forms in VIsual Basic I decided to port it to a Widget format to make it easier to use and demonstrate what goes into creating a transparent Windows Forms application.

Cross-Platform Selenium with DotNet Core

24 May 2019 by Andrew Blank

A bit about this project I was asked by a co-worker for an example of using Selenium Web Browser Automation with C# so I wrote a quick example in C# with MSTest and DotNet Core and I posted it to Github. https://github.com/andyrblank/Selenium-C-Sharp-Example What is Selenium?

Effective Shell Interlude: Understanding the Shell

22 May 2019 by Dave Kerr

You may be familar with the shell, but it can be useful to understand some of the surrounding concepts in detail. How does a shell differ from a terminal? What is a tty? How do shells really work? Hopefully as you read this article you'll discovery something that you didn't know about shells.

The Eternal Battle with Disk Space

15 May 2019 by Simon Jackson

The eternal battle with disk space

Slightly Rough Exchanges: Troubleshooting Transactional Issues with TransactionScope

3 May 2019 by Rion Williams

In my previous post, I discussed the use of TransactionScope within C# and how it might simplify how transactions are managed within your applications.

Programmatic iOS UI Development

30 Apr 2019 by Dennis E White

Programmatic iOS UI Development

Designing your Azure MySQL DB with a UWP Demo

15 Apr 2019 by Abdelrahman El Kinani

Azure MySQL DB, how to design it, basic UWP todo demo

3D Engine, from GLUT to GLFW

14 Apr 2019 by Martin Vorbrodt

3D Engine, from GLUT to GLFW

Introduction into C++ Builds with Gradle

10 Apr 2019 by thoughts-on-coding

A short introduction into the modern build system gradle

Visual Studio Tips - Window Management

4 Apr 2019 by Jeremy Hutchinson

Window Management in Visual Studio

Memory Barriers and Thread Synchronization

14 Mar 2019 by Martin Vorbrodt

Memory barriers and thread synchronization

How Do I Handle a “Error converting data type” Error?

13 Mar 2019 by essentialSQL

An answer to fix an error converting data type from varchar to float

Get Started with Power BI Desktop

13 Mar 2019 by essentialSQL

In this guide, I’ll show you how to get started using Power BI. We’ll then get some sample data and use it to build a simple project.

Coding in Education, a programmers point of view!

3 Mar 2019 by Chris Boss

I have followed stories about learning to code in education and am intrigued by what I have read.

Creating Multiple Identical VMs in Microsoft Azure

27 Jan 2019 by Gaston Verelst

In this post, I show how to create an image from a VM in Microsoft Azure, and use this to create identical VMs.

Faster than Reflection: Delegates. Part 1.

25 Dec 2018 by n.podbielski

This article is first part of the series of three. Next ones you can find here and here.. Code for all three articles, with new features and bug fixes is available on GitHub and as Nuget package.. Why not Reflection?. If you working with .

Games as a Service?

13 Nov 2018 by Vlad Neculai Vizitiu

Games as a service

Getting started with Python

15 Sep 2018 by ashish__shukla

What is Python? Python is a general purpose,interpreted and high-level programming language.It is object-oriented and dynamically typed programming language.Dynamically typed means that variables are not required to be declared before using them.Instead you directly assign value to a variable.

Few Features of ASP.NET Core 2.0

23 Jul 2018 by Passion4Code

This post lists a few features of ASP.NET Core 2.0.

Windows 10 File Explorer – File Selection Crashes (Tip)

7 Jul 2018 by Steve Naidamast

The other day I noticed as tried to prepare a selection of files to be packaged into a Zip file, after one or more selections on a random basis, Windows 10’s File Explorer would either hang or crash. In all the years I had been working with various Windows versions I had never come across […]

System Jobs monitoring using Flow

9 Jun 2018 by YawerIqbal

System Jobs AsyncOperation or System Job is an important Dynamcis 365 system entity. Usually we don’t create its records, rather they are created automatically. A record represents a single execution of an asynchronous resource.

Asynchronous Programming in .NET – Motivation and Unit Testing

21 May 2018 by Nikola M. Živković

Asynchronous Programming in .NET – Motivation and Unit Testing

mongo-monitor - A Simple CLI to Monitor Your MongoDB Cluster

16 May 2018 by Dave Kerr

mongo-monitor - A Simple CLI to Monitor Your MongoDB Cluster

Implementing Simple Neural Network in C#

19 Apr 2018 by Nikola M. Živković

What was initially just a thought exercise grew into quite a cool mini side-project

Raspberry Pi 2: Installing the Operting System

8 Apr 2018 by Sabarinathan A

Installing the Raspberry Pi.

Beginners guide to Angular CLI

11 Mar 2018 by santosh.yadav198613

Hello Everyone in this blog we will learn how to utilize the functionalities provided by Angular CLI to create a new Angular 5 App. And we will see different commands available in Angular CLI to increase our productivity.

The Art of WIN32 Programming – the Elusive Control Spy Utility and More !

2 Feb 2018 by Chris Boss

The elusive Control Spy utility is a WIN32 programmers friend. Control Spy is a unique set of examples of how the common controls work when writing software using the WIN32 API. The last version I personally downloaded was the 2.

Schedule Internet Access for Devices in Your Home using IFTTT and Disney’s Circle

30 Jan 2018 by BC3Tech

Disney's new Circle internet parental control service provides good feature on its free tier that can be enhanced with other services. Here's how you can use IFTTT to schedule the internet to turn on and off for your entire household or just specific devices in your household... CodeProject -->...

WPF Master Details MVVM Application

13 Jan 2018 by DevLake

WPF Master Details MVVM Application

CNTK 106 Tutorial – Time Series Prediction with LSTM using C#

7 Dec 2017 by Bahrudin Hrnjica

How to implement CNTK 106 Tutorial in C# - this tutorial lecture is written in Python and there is no related example in C#. For this reason, I decided to translate this very good tutorial into C#.

FileSystemWatcher vs Locked Files

7 Dec 2017 by Ben Hall (failingfast.io)

You monitor a folder for new files with FileSystemWatcher and try to move those them on arrival. You get an IOException: ...being used by another process. The copying had not finished. Here, I offer a fairly robust solution to this.

MongoDb and LINQ: How to Aggregate and Join Collections

15 Nov 2017 by Petru Faurescu

Insights in data aggregations and joining collections with MongoDB and .NET Driver

Testing and Validation CNTK Models using C#

15 Nov 2017 by Bahrudin Hrnjica

Once the model is built and Loss and Validation functions satisfy our expectation, we need to validate and test the model using the data which was not part of the training data set (unseen data).

PowerBuilder – Using C# Visual Objects in PB Classic Applications

1 Nov 2017 by Matt Balent

How to use C# Visual objects in PB classic applications

Effective Shell Part 2 - Become a Clipboard Gymnast

10 Oct 2017 by Dave Kerr

In this article, I'll show you how you can use the shell as an efficient tool to compliment how you use the clipboard.

Madcap Idea 11: Finishing the ‘View Rating’ Page

28 Sep 2017 by Sacha Barber

Finishing the 'view rating' page

ASP.NET Core 2.0 Razor Pages

29 Aug 2017 by User 1043264

How to use Razor Pages in ASP.NET Core 2.0. Continue reading

Mobile Development: Yet Another Kiosk Mode Library

13 Jul 2017 by hjgode

How to disable StartMenu clicks and Win key for kiosk mode application using a library

Schedule a Daily Backup with SQL Server Express

30 Jun 2017 by outcoldman

Schedule a daily backup with SQL Server Express

TSQL: Passing Array/List/Set to Stored Procedure (Microsoft SQL Server)

29 Jun 2017 by outcoldman

TSQL: Passing array/list/set to stored procedure (Microsoft SQL Server)

HTML 5 and jQuery – A Match Made in Heaven

15 Jun 2017 by Steve Wellens

What are HTML 5 Custom Data Attributes?

Using ngrok to Test Web Apps on Mobile While Developing

17 May 2017 by Gordon Beeming

Using ngrok to Test Web Apps on Mobile while developing

Installing ASP.NET Core Docker For Windows

7 May 2017 by Sibeesh Passion

Installing ASP.NET Core Docker For Windows

User Experience (UX) Design

1 May 2017 by Gautham Prabhu K

In recent years User Experience(UX) Design has become very important part of software industry. As multiple softwares are providing similar service to users a good UX can mean life or death for your software product\service and in worst case your company.

Using Property Name Without Typos

18 Apr 2017 by Aoi Karasu

Referring to a property via a string containing its name

Another Way to Get Windows XP OS Bit Version in VB.NET

9 Apr 2017 by ledtech3

How to get Windows XP OS bit version in VB.NET.

Account Unknown

31 Mar 2017 by ledtech3

Account unknown

Meteor Tutorial for Web and Mobile App Development

24 Mar 2017 by Imran Abdul Ghani

Meteor is one of the most popular JavaScript platform for web and mobile application development. Just like Ionic (we covered in previous Mobile App Development Tutorial), we will explore various features of Meteor as a web and mobile app development platform.

Getting Started with MonoGame using Visual Studio

15 Mar 2017 by Simon Jackson

MonoGame (for those of you not yet aware) is a Game Building Framework / API born from the ashes that was the Microsoft XNA Framework that provides a very easy to use API to build games.

Building Your First MEAN Stack Web Application – Part 2

13 Mar 2017 by Imran Abdul Ghani

Part-2 in the series of developing a basic Web Application using MEAN Stack

ASP.NET Web Services Dependency Injection using Unity

14 Feb 2017 by Rui Jarimba

Web Services Dependency Injection using Unity

Resolving Windows Folder Access Denied Error

31 Jan 2017 by Sifiso W Ndlovu

Resolving Windows folder access denied error

WPF TabControl Focus Behavior With Invisible Tabs (MVVM)

29 Jan 2017 by HeWillem

How to solve the TabControl focus behavior with invisible tabs

OpenGL 4 with OpenTK in C# Part 1: Initialize the GameWindow

27 Jan 2017 by Eowind

OpenGL 4 with OpenTK in C# Part 1: Initialize the GameWindow

OpenGL 4 with OpenTK in C# Part 2: Compiling Shaders and Linking Them

27 Jan 2017 by Eowind

OpenGL 4 with OpenTK in C# Part 2: Compiling Shaders and linking them

Custom Serilog Sink Development

16 Jan 2017 by Bob Crowley

Custom Serilog Sink Development

Kinect for Windows: Find User Height Accurately

14 Jan 2017 by Vangos Pterneas

Kinect for Windows: Find user height accurately

Book Review: Continuous Integration in .NET

6 Jan 2017 by Nathan Gloyn

For a newcomer to CI in the .NET world, I would recommend you read this book as it will provide you with information and guidance to help you get your CI process in place.

Converting DirectX .X Files for Use in Games

14 Dec 2016 by Simon Jackson

How to convert DirectX .X files for use in games

Visual Studio Code – Connect to Twitter with Python

12 Dec 2016 by Petru Faurescu

How to use Visual Studio Code to edit and run Python code and access Twitter API

HOWTO Configure the Windows Firewall on a Windows Server

8 Dec 2016 by Sujay Sarma

How to configure the Windows Firewall on a Windows Server

SCRIPT Open ports in Windows Firewall for SQL Server Connectivity

8 Dec 2016 by Sujay Sarma

SCRIPT Open ports in Windows Firewall for SQL Server connectivity

Export Multiple Windows Tasks

5 Dec 2016 by Sujay Sarma

How to export multiple Windows Tasks

Add More Space to Your Windows Virtual Machine System (C:) Drive

5 Dec 2016 by Sujay Sarma

Here's how to add more space to your Windows Virtual Machine System (C:) drive

Use Command Prompt to Put a Windows Computer to Sleep

4 Dec 2016 by Sujay Sarma

How to use command prompt to put a Windows computer to sleep

PowerShell Script – Windows Server – How to Enumerate Windows Server Shutdown Reasons

4 Dec 2016 by Sujay Sarma

How to enumerate Windows Server shutdown reasons

Dynamically Formatting Phone Field with JavaScript

30 Nov 2016 by Alvin Bunk

How to dynamically format Phone field with JavaScript

Windows – Continuous Disk Write + WebCacheV01.dat + V01.log – Issue

30 Nov 2016 by Sujay Sarma

Windows – Continuous Disk Write + WebCacheV01.dat + V01.log – Issue

Android Navigation Bar Menu Tutorial using Bottom Bar Library

25 Nov 2016 by Andy Point

How to create Android Navigation Bar Menu using Bottom bar Library

Windows Mobile: Watch the Memory Footstep of Running Processes

14 Nov 2016 by hjgode

Tool for logging memory

Building apps & games for Xbox One using UWP – Build once and target many

14 Nov 2016 by Simon Jackson

For my sins, I was asked back to FutureDecoded again this year to give a talk on the Microsoft UWP platform, specifically about bringing games to the XboxOne using UWP. By all accounts the session went well (especially as there was standing room only by the time the …

Continuous Delivery with TFS / VSTS – Server Configuration and Application Deployment with Release Management

4 Nov 2016 by Graham D Smith

At this point in my blog series on Continuous Delivery with TFS / VSTS we have finally reached the stage where we are ready to start using the new web-based release management capabilities of VSTS and TFS. The functionality has been in VSTS for a little while now but only came to TFS with Update 2 o

Continuous Delivery with TFS / VSTS – Server Configuration as Code with PowerShell DSC

4 Nov 2016 by Graham D Smith

I suspect I’m on reasonably safe ground when I venture to suggest that most software engineers developing applications for Windows servers (and the organisations they work for) have yet to make the leap from just writing the application code to writing both the application code and the code th