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by Martin Mitáš

How to support scrolling within your controls.

Synchronization with Visual C++ and the Windows API

by Espen Harlinn

Choosing the right synchronization mechanisms when working with threads, thread-pools, and I/O Completion ports to create high performance asynchronous servers in C++

Intermediate Data Clustering with k-means

by Andy Allinger

Add features to k-means for missing data, mixed data, and choosing the number of clusters

Authenticated Encryption

by Jeffrey Walton

Perform authenticated encryption with Crypto++.

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rxcg: A Simple Text Matcher C Code Generator for IoT

by honey the codewitch

Generate tight C code to match text based on regular expressions

Partial Sum of Binomial Coefficients

by Tasos Kipriotis

A quicker way to calculate the partial sum of binomial coefficients

Integer Factorization: Reversing the Multiplication

by Patrice T

Another approach to Optimize Trial Division Algorithm

XMLFoundation

by Brian Aberle

XMLFoundation is the fastest XML Parser available. It is also a framework foundation for an application that uses XML to enable Object-XML mappings and Application Layer binding to XML Data objects.

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C

Custom Controls in Win32 API: Scrolling

26 Feb 2018 by Martin Mitáš

How to support scrolling within your controls.

Windows

Win64

Visual-Studio

Synchronization with Visual C++ and the Windows API

23 Mar 2021 by Espen Harlinn

Choosing the right synchronization mechanisms when working with threads, thread-pools, and I/O Completion ports to create high performance asynchronous servers in C++

Intermediate Data Clustering with k-means

7 Jun 2023 by Andy Allinger

Add features to k-means for missing data, mixed data, and choosing the number of clusters

Authenticated Encryption

23 Mar 2009 by Jeffrey Walton

Perform authenticated encryption with Crypto++.

Create An Awesome WPF UI for Your C++/QT Applications

6 Jan 2020 by The Ænema

This article will teach you how to create an amazing, clean and smooth WPF/Winform UI for your native application without using any complex, unsafe, ActiveXish methods, etc.

A Note on How Functions are Called

28 Jun 2023 by Dr. Song Li

This is a note on how compilers implement function calls to pass the parameters to and get the return value from the called functions.

Using C Calling Convention Callback Functions in C# and VB - The Easy Way

13 Sep 2005 by Jecho Jekov

Provides an easy way to use C calling convention callback functions in C# and VB

Driver Loader [DLoad] from Scratch

2 Nov 2009 by csrss

A tool for loading device drivers

64-bit Structured Exception Handling (SEH) in ASM

2 Nov 2017 by Jose A Pascoa

Rolling up a practical solution

ASM

C++

Windows

Never Buy A Garage Door Remote Again: Open Your Door With Your Android Phone (via Bluetooth)

27 Jul 2016 by raddevus

Steps for building a device you can add to your existing garage door, which implements an atmega328, bluetooth (hc-05) and relay module which will allow you to open your garage door from any paired Android device.

Practical Electronics for Makers (Part 4 of N)

20 May 2018 by raddevus

Chapter 4 - Resistors and Resistance

Arduino

electronics

From WAV to Graphics to MIDI

12 Aug 2023 by Andy Allinger

Convert audio to image. (Edit the image.) Convert image to music.

Computer Vision Sandbox

4 Apr 2019 by Andrew Kirillov

An open source application to acquire and process video from cameras

The OpenGL and GLUT: A Powerful Graphics Library and Utility Kit

10 Sep 2010 by logicchild

An article that explains how to use this library

Recursive Internetworking

10 Sep 2018 by Kewin Rausch

Moving forward in the future networks evolution

Duck Three Ways: File I/O and String Performance Comparison Between C#, C++, and C

27 Sep 2022 by Michael Sydney Balloni

Different languages and approaches are evaluated for a file and string processing benchmark

Remote control based on c8051 with 433MHz radio modules

3 Feb 2010 by ingvar8

Remote control based on c8051 with 433MHz radio modules.

Dev

Debugger for Arduino

18 Jan 2018 by Jan Dolinay

Source level debugger for Arduino with GDB and Eclipse

The Secrets of Google Chrome Credentials

30 Jan 2017 by Michael Haephrati

Chrome stores all passwords and other credentials in an encrypted database but guess what: they can be retrieved by anyone with the proper knowledge. This article will show you how.

Karatsuba Long Multiplication Algorithm

11 Jan 2023 by Andrea Simonassi

A simple yet powerful multiplication algorithm

algorithm

Adventures with the Pi ... part 4

17 Sep 2017 by leon de boer

Introducing SmartStart something like a BIOS for the Pi

ASM

assembler

Raspberry-Pi

New Features of C# 8

7 Nov 2019 by koolprasad2003

This article will give you a brief idea about what's new in C# 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.

C#7.0

Debugging an Arduino project with GDB on Classic ATtiny and Small ATmega MCUs

12 Mar 2022 by Bernhard Nebel

A tutorial for people who finally want to debug their Arduino projects that run on AVR MCUs using the GNU project debugger GDB

A Fixed Block Memory Allocator in C

24 Dec 2018 by David Lafreniere

Unique allocator features improve performance and protect against heap fragmentation faults on any C or C++ project.

COM in plain C, Part 7

8 Aug 2006 by Jeff Glatt

An ActiveX Script Host with custom COM objects. This allows a script to call C functions in your app.

Easy OpenCL Multiple Device Load Balancing and Pipelining For C#: Cekirdekler API

5 Oct 2017 by tugrulGtx

Multi-device OpenCL load balancer and pipeliner for C# in few lines of code.

Embedding AWK in a C program

5 Apr 2020 by Mircea Neacsu

An AWK interpreter converted to a C-callable library

C++

C/C++ Headers and Source Files: How Do They Work?

3 Sep 2022 by honey the codewitch

Understand the difference between headers and source files, what they do, and how they work together.

C++

Introduction to Web Assembly with C/C++

8 Nov 2019 by Joel Ivory Johnson

An introduction to web assembly using the C/C++ language, part 1. In this part, I introduce web assembly, walk you through setting up the development tools, and go through a couple of introductory programs.

C++

Perceptual Hash based Image Comparison: Coded in "plain old C". An Anecdotal View

4 Jun 2023 by GeorgeDS

An anecdotal report describing issues encountered in coding a minimal perceptual hash capability, in plain old C, in to 35 year old rolling development, with the goal of running on a noob Win 10/11 installation.

algorithm

Implementing a Universal Turing Machine With Only mov Instructions

5 Feb 2017 by Gregory Morse

UTM based on mov is Turing-complete paper x86 and x86-64

A USB HID Keyboard, Mouse, Touchscreen emulator with Teensy

13 Nov 2017 by Elmue

This article describes how to use a Teensy 3.1 board from PJRC.com to simulate keyboard, mouse and touch screen USB HID devices at the same time. This allows to remote-control a computer through one USB cable.

Fast Fourier Transform Caterpillar Method

3 Jul 2017 by Alexander Semjonov

Developing fastest FFT implementation based on precompile tool using data driven approach

C++

FFT

data

Evolution of Polymorphic Malware

14 Apr 2018 by Kewin Rausch

An introduction on how these applications self-defend themselves against scanning techniques, and how they could have evolved from simple and naive forms to more sophisticated ones.

dwl::fractalBrowser

17 Jan 2021 by David O'Neil

Everybody Loves the Mandelbrot Set! Here's a browser for it!

Never Type A Password Again (The Continuing Saga)

24 Jun 2018 by raddevus

Build this Arduino-driven device which incorporates a touch-screen and Bluetooth and you'll never have to type a password again.

Arduino

electronics

Arduino Home Distillery

18 Dec 2021 by Christ Kennedy

Distil hand-sanitizer and other social lubricants using an Arduino

Arduino

Another Star Trek Game (The Retro One)

27 Aug 2008 by BadKarma

The Star Trek game reworked, using a 2D retro look

A Simple, Portable Yet Efficient Quicksort Implementation in C

13 Oct 2013 by Member 9294701

A simple, portable yet efficient Quicksort implementation in C

algorithm

sorting

Introducing Semtrex

11 Apr 2015 by Marc Clifton, Arthur Brock, Eric Harris-Braun

Semtrex is a semantic tree expression evaluator

A Novice's Guide to the BeagleBone Platform and Software Development Using C++

8 Mar 2017 by Eric D Schmidt

A crash course in working with the BeagleBone and its built-in A/D converter, GPIO, and I2C bus using C++

Parallel Scalable Burrows-Wheeler Transformation (BWT) Using Intel® Threading Building Blocks and OpenMP Libraries

2 May 2017 by Arthur V. Ratz

This article is a practical guide on using Intel® Threading Building Blocks (TBB) and OpenMP libraries for C++ based on the example of delivering parallel scalable code that implements Burrows-Wheeler Transformation (BWT) algorithm.

The Structure of import Library File (.lib)

1 Aug 2018 by Member 13737597

This article show the structure of import library file (.lib) used along with header to link against DLL

Windows

linker

Asynchronous Multicast Callbacks in C

29 Jan 2019 by David Lafreniere

Simplify passing data between threads with this portable C language callback library.

Toolset to Cross Compile/Remote Debug Raspberry from Windows Host

30 Jan 2020 by fd9750

Overview of required tools to cross compile/build/remote debug C/C++ projects on a Windows host ( 10 ) for a Raspberry PI 3B

Dark Corners and Pitfalls of C++

15 Aug 2019 by SimbirSoft

C++: love and intrigue

C++

WinAPI

secure

A Tour of the Arduino Mega 2560+WiFi R3

30 Oct 2020 by honey the codewitch

Using this cheap, powerful little device to make magic

The Secrets of Firefox Credentials

30 Jan 2017 by Michael Haephrati

Way to fetch stored credentials in more recent versions of Firefox

C++

Windows

Firefox

Email Search Engine

11 Jan 2015 by SarmadAsghar

Building on My SQL Storage Engines and APIs to Conduct Complex Analysis Using SQL Query Language: Part 5

Building and configuring OpenSSL in Visual Studio (MSBuild).

30 Mar 2015 by Eugene Sadovoi

Integrating third party tools and libraries into Visual Studio (MSBuild) configuration environment.

RPI3 B+ - Adventures in Pi-land part 3 (Updated Supports Pi1 & 2)

18 Jan 2017 by leon de boer

Third in the series of frustrations and adventures with the Raspberry Pi

ASM

Raspberry-Pi

Event Tracing for Windows: Reducing Everest to Pike's Peak

8 Jun 2017 by David A. Gray

Historically, ETW has been portrayed as having a very steep learning curve, along the lines of the effort required to summit Everest. Realizing its potential value, I set about to reduce the effort to that required to summit Pike's Peak.

Design and Develop an Anonymous Network

15 Oct 2017 by Kewin Rausch

Design and development of a TOR-like protocol to keep your communication secure and your identity unknown

Linux

cryptography

Vga Text Mode: To Hell and Back

10 May 2018 by Member 13737597

This article shows how to enter vga text mode and return from it on Windows 7

C++

Windows

WDM

Simple Socket Protocol for Embedded Systems

2 Jan 2022 by David Lafreniere

A portable C language socket-based software transport protocol library for any hardware communication interface on any platform

WinDrawLib

11 Apr 2016 by Martin Mitáš

Direct2D or GDI+? Perhaps both, with a help of the right library.

cobj: Polymorphism in Plain C

7 Jun 2016 by GProssliner

cobj is a preprocessor based generator for interface based polymorphism

Writing MATLAB to C converter: Parser and Code Generator created with Bison/Flex

21 Nov 2017 by Shmuel Safonov

Using Bison/Flex for creation of the code convertor from subset of MATLAB language to C code. The converter is used for building native applications and libraries from MATLAB code.

Heat The Box - Temperature Control with Arduino Nano

7 Aug 2018 by CPallini

This article describes one of my experiments: a temperature control system for a cartoon box.

Arduino

Dev

x64 Memory Access Monitor

23 Apr 2019 by Member 13737597

This article shows how to automatically catch memory access (read /write) for some memory region and log these changes into file

ASM

C++

Windows

Compiling Your C Code to .NET - Part 2

14 Dec 2019 by Alexandre Bencz

With this new OrangeC/C++ compiler back-end, you can compile your C code to .NET.

XML

ASM

C++

Check It Out 2.0, One Step Win32 SDK C Checked Combo and List Boxes

23 Dec 2021 by David MacDermot

This article describes adding checkboxes to the standard combobox and listbox control.

C++

WinAPI

Creating Arduino programs in Eclipse

23 Jun 2015 by Jan Dolinay

Article on setting up Eclipse to build programs for Arduino Uno.

Getting Video Stream from USB Web-camera on Arduino Due - Part 8: Streaming

9 Aug 2015 by Sergiy Bogdancev

Understanding streaming data

Linux Ethernet Driver using Qemu

1 Apr 2016 by Nagaraj Krishnamurthy

This article goes into the details of how to write a Linux Device Driver for a pseudo Ethernet device simulated on a Qemu platform.

Hosting .NET Core Components in Unmanaged C/C++ Process in Windows and Linux

4 Feb 2019 by Igor Ladnik

Compact infrastructure for custom hosting of .NET Core component in unmanaged C/C++ code with reciprocal methods calls between the parts running in Windows and Linux. Section Threads and Processes

A True Random Number Generator in Arduino (AVR ATmega in that case)

23 Aug 2021 by umar.techBOY

A hardware-based random number generator that exploits the line capacitance and natural frequency of the circuitry of a micro controller to generate a truly random number.

Arduino

Dev

ARM Tutorial Part 2 Timers

12 Mar 2023 by Mike Hankey

A look at the STM32 Timer peripheral

ARM

Dev

Run a C Language Interpreter on Your ESP32

31 May 2019 by Rick Lunglhofer

Details the Implementation and use of a C Language Interpreter with a browser Interface running on an ESP32

rxcg: A Simple Text Matcher C Code Generator for IoT

15 Nov 2023 by honey the codewitch

Generate tight C code to match text based on regular expressions

IoT

regular-expression

CrashRptEx - An Extension to the CrashRpt Crash Reporting System

23 May 2018 by Andreas Schoenle

How to use CrashRptEx, to avoid some of the pitfalls of crash reporting in MFC apps or if you want the ability to continue your application after a crash

Syntax analysis: an example

12 Nov 2014 by Lộc Nguyễn

Top-down parsing

Getting video stream from USB web-camera on Arduino Due - Part 4: USB module initialization and general interrupts

7 Apr 2015 by Sergiy Bogdancev

USB module initialization and general interrupts

An Industrial IoT framework with Samsung Artik 10 and Temboo: Water Resource Management Case Study

4 Aug 2016 by Abhishek Nandy

Introducing powerful industrial Temboo Choreos to scale industrial IoT framework and ecosystem

IoT

Executing and verifying successful process execution in Linux

8 Aug 2017 by Wajeeh Ahmed

This article is about launching a secondary process from within a process and verifying the successful launch.

C++

Linux

STM32 Dark/Blue Pill Board Example

16 Jul 2021 by wqaxs36

Making a HID device out of dark/blue pill board using STM32CubeIDE

USB

C++ and Microcontrollers: Using and Testing

29 Feb 2016 by Alexandr Surkov

My experience of using C++ with microcontrollers

Selection Overlay DLL

18 Jun 2012 by Mark Kruger

API which shows a Selection Overlay and notifies the caller when it's resizing and notifies the final rectangle.

Performance testing of ORM layers in Python and C++

28 Jan 2015 by Vaclav Naydenov

Comparing the performance of two similar CRUD server apps, one written in Python and SQLAlchemy, the other in C++ and YB.ORM.

A 2D List Implementation in MASM Assembly

27 Feb 2016 by John Jiyang Hou

A List data structure implementation in MASM Assembly with C function realloc

An Introduction to XCB Programming

5 Apr 2016 by Matt Scarpino

Developing Low-Level Linux Applications with XCB (X protocol C-language Binding)

Attacking the Stack

4 Aug 2018 by David A. Gray

Beware the abandoned stack frame, for it can be plundered at will.

Basic Cryptographic Protocols: Key Exchange

25 Aug 2018 by Kewin Rausch

Introduction to protocols to manage Key Exchange in secure channels communication

Deploy Node.js Application Running on Microsoft IIS 10 To Docker's Windows Server Core 2016 Containers

2 Sep 2018 by Arthur V. Ratz

In this brief article, we will demonstrate how to deploy a Node.js application and run it on Docker's Windows Server Core 2016 Containers

Basic x86-64bit Buffer Overflows in Linux

30 Aug 2019 by Oscar-Tark

If you are looking into white hat hacking, it's good to know old school tactics used for overflows.

Perl

assembler

Dither: Ordered and Floyd-Steinberg, Monochrome & Colored

27 Feb 2020 by Svetoslav Chekanov

A collection of image dithering algorithms

C++

Visual-Studio

Dev

P/Invoke Jujitsu: A Data Kata

11 Jul 2020 by honey the codewitch

Exploit the memory layout of your data to make your P/Invoke code more accessible and maintainable

Automatic Network Configuration of ESP8266 IoT Devices

5 Nov 2020 by honey the codewitch

A walkthrough and source code for automatically configuring your ESP8266 IoT devices

Keeping time with the PCF8583 Real Time Clock and AVR

13 Feb 2012 by Mike Hankey

A Real Time Clock development board.

A Gentle Introduction to the Message Passing Interface (MPI)

18 Apr 2015 by Matt Scarpino

This article provides an overview of MPI development for C programmers.

C++

Dev

Quick Math Game with Arduino

6 Aug 2018 by ron85262

Let's make a small Math game with Arduino

C++

Arduino

A Simple 32bit Ret2libc Attack in Linux

27 May 2021 by Oscar-Tark

In this article, we will be looking at a more advanced version of a buffer overflow attack.

Beginning with the ST32F3DISCOVERY Microcontroller Board from STMicroelectronics

14 Oct 2021 by Richard Chambers

An introduction and a first walkthrough of using STM32CubeIDE with the ST32F3DISCOVERY board.

OpenVPN for Windows XP

29 Jan 2022 by Kai Schtrom

OpenVPN v2.5.4 patched for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003

Win32

SysAdmin

Dev

Arduino - KVM Remote

5 Feb 2022 by Christ Kennedy

Build a remote control for a cumbersome wire tangled KVM that fits better hidden under your desk

Arduino

Dev

Adding Macro Scripting language support to existing ATL/WTL Application

30 Sep 2002 by Ernest Laurentin

Shows how to use Microsoft Script Hosting inside existing ATL/WTL Application

Load Balance and Parallel Performance

8 Apr 2010 by Intel ISN

Load balancing an application workload among threads is critical to performance. However, achieving perfect load balance is non-trivial, and it depends on the parallelism within the application, workload, the number of threads, load balancing policy, and the threading implementation.

Dev

product-showcase

Low-level text rendering

14 Sep 2010 by Ohmu