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How to Make Your Own Sandbox: Simple Sandbox Explained

by Eugene Balabanov

A tiny sandbox primer

Simulator 6 Axis Articulated Robots

by jurhas

A small simulator for a 6 axis articulated robot

Interoping .NET and C++ through Registration-free COM

by Marius Bancila

Using managed COM objects in C++ without registering the server in Windows Registry

Introduction to B-trees: Concepts and Applications

by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

How to solve real-life problems using B-trees

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Visual Studio Intellisense is Not Working? Try This.

by Avtem

A couple of fixes when your Visual Studio Intellisense becomes buggy

Drag & Drop Images and Drop Descriptions for MFC Applications

by Jochen Arndt

Add drag & drop support with drag images and drop descriptions to your MFC applications

TabCtrl - Adjustable Control with Zooming and Scrolling Tabs

by Baradzenka Aleh

In this article, you will learn about an adjustable control that has zooming and scrolling tabs, dragging with the mouse, custom drawing and much more.

OutlookTabCtrl - Another Kind of Tab

by Baradzenka Aleh

This control is another kind of tab. Tabs are displayed as horizontal stripes and can be collapsed into buttons. Each tab is assigned its own window, which is shown when you click on the tab.

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VC++

How to Make Your Own Sandbox: Simple Sandbox Explained

2 Oct 2016

Eugene Balabanov

A tiny sandbox primer

Simulator 6 Axis Articulated Robots

7 Apr 2014

jurhas

A small simulator for a 6 axis articulated robot

microcontroller

Interoping .NET and C++ through Registration-free COM

2 Aug 2017

Marius Bancila

Using managed COM objects in C++ without registering the server in Windows Registry

Introduction to B-trees: Concepts and Applications

15 Aug 2014

Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

How to solve real-life problems using B-trees

Weiler-Atherton Algorithm in MFC

25 Feb 2018

Petrov Vladimir

Weiler-Atherton algorithm in MFC codes demo implementation

Building and configuring OpenSSL in Visual Studio (MSBuild).

30 Mar 2015

Eugene Sadovoi

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

Use mplayer as our Audio Decoder – Part 2

12 Dec 2011

jackyxinli

This article demonstrates how to use mplayer as an audio decoder and display real time spectrum during playback process

A 2D List Implementation in MASM Assembly

27 Feb 2016

John Jiyang Hou

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

Collision Proof Shared String Resources

12 Jul 2016

David A. Gray

Share Win32 string resources without the risk of conflicting resource IDs

AppRunner – Simple ‘desktop shortcut’ replacement

8 Feb 2015

tkontos

A WTL based, XML driven shortcut replacement

AMR Audio Encoding

17 Feb 2012

potluri_suresh

Raw Audio data is encoded to AMR-NB audio using opencore-amr library

VC++ Common Versioning

31 Jul 2013

shailesh91082

This article explains how to implement Common Versioning Mechanism which helps in easy maintenance of product

Compiler and language 2

5 May 2015

Asif Bahrainwala

Ved Startup Manager

3 Feb 2017

Satish Jagtap

This article is written in VC++ as utility to manage startup applications of Windows.

SafeHandles Handles library

20 Jan 2015

Frankie-C

Safehandles is a library for management of data structure using robust and safe handles.

How to develop Native Android* Apps with Intel® INDE 2015 Visual Studio* IDE Integration?

20 Jan 2015

Android on Intel

This tutorial will guide you through writing a native “Hello World” Android* app in Visual Studio* through the IDE Integration feature of Intel® INDE 2015.

25 May 2015

Mostafa A. Ali

An introduction to HLA simulation and HLA Listener

How To Optimize A Parallel Stable Sort Performance Using The Revolutionary Intel® oneAPI HPC Toolkit

8 May 2020

Arthur V. Ratz

In this article I will thoroughly discuss about the several aspects of using the revolutionary new Intel® oneAPI HPC Toolkit to deliver a modern code that implements a parallel “stable” sort

Owner Draw List Control with Design Pattern (Strategy)

1 Jun 2018

YangManWoo

This article describes how to create custom controls using strategy patterns.

The "SMAT" Subsystem for C++

6 Apr 2020

Doctor Autonomy

A surprisingly easy way to avoid memory leaks with new/delete allocations in C++

An implementation of a list splicing and traversing library

7 Jan 2015

Richard Chambers

Providing a C library with primitives for manipulating a list including splice, for each, and algorithms.

A Simple C++ Profiler on x64

5 Aug 2014

Babu_Abdulsalam

A Simple Profiler for C++ apps on x64 platform

Implementing Parallel Scalable Distribution Counting Algorithm (DCA) with CUDA 8.0 Runtime API

9 Dec 2016

Arthur V. Ratz

In this article, we'll demonstrate an approach the allows to increase the performance (up to 600%) of the code that implements the conventional distribution counting algorithm (DCA) using NVIDIA CUDA 8.0 Runtime API

Applying Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms to Solve the Traveling Salesman Problem

13 Sep 2013

geoyar

Applying Ant Colony Optimization algorithms to solve the Traveling Salesman Problem.

artificial-intelligence

TabCtrl - Adjustable Control with Zooming and Scrolling Tabs

25 Mar 2021

Baradzenka Aleh

In this article, you will learn about an adjustable control that has zooming and scrolling tabs, dragging with the mouse, custom drawing and much more.

PNG Image Steganography with libpng

22 Apr 2013

Grant Curell

Performing steganography on PNG images

MFC Grid control 2.27

6 May 2010

Chris Maunder

A fully featured MFC grid control for displaying tabular data. The grid is a custom control derived from CWnd

Windows dialog design in C++ without dialog templates.

3 Jun 2015

john morrison leon

An alternative approach in which dialogs are entirely specified as C++ code that requires neither IDE support to be written nor IDE generated resources to be executed. Powered by the C++ type system.

Understanding C/C++ Code Behavior by Analyzing Assembler Output

23 Apr 2017

Zuoliu Ding

A discussion on how Visual C/C++ code works with bit-wise logical and shift operators, as well as a loop optimization.

Compiler and language

3 Aug 2014

Asif Bahrainwala

Design your own language and write a compiler/ interpreter for it

Automating Word 2016 using Visual C++ MFC in Visual Studio 2015

23 Oct 2016

hoanganhtdh1

This article demonstrates some techniques to automate Word 2016 using Visual C++ MFC in Visual Studio 2015.

cpplinq - LINQ Query Operators for C++ Sequences

4 Nov 2012

Marius Bancila

An introduction to cpplinq, a open-source template library that provides LINQ-like operators for querying collections (arrays and STL containers) in C++11.

Indexed Search Filter Using ASP.NET MVC, jQuery and Ajax Requests

16 Dec 2016

Arthur V. Ratz

In this article we'll discuss an approach of using jQuery's Ajax requests to implement an indexed search filter based on an example of creating a simple phone book web application with ASP.NET MVC.

Units of measurement types in C++. Using compile time template programming.

8 Dec 2014

john morrison leon

A lightweight library allowing diverse unit types, seamless implicit scaling between them and the ability to work efficiently with multiple factor-less base unit systems (e.g. MKS and cgs).

sprintf_s: Speed Bumps Ahead

19 Jan 2016

David A. Gray

This article documents issues that I have identified in the new secure overloads of the CRT buffered print routines.

Building and configuring boost in Visual Studio (MSBuild).

25 Mar 2015

Eugene Sadovoi

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

Implementing the Huffman adaptive algorithm to compress 256 colors depth graphics images

22 Aug 2015

Arthur V. Ratz

This article demonstrates how to implement the Huffman adaptive compression alogrithm to compress graphics images of 256 colors depth and other multimedia files

Drag & Drop Images and Drop Descriptions for MFC Applications

26 Mar 2021

Jochen Arndt

Add drag & drop support with drag images and drop descriptions to your MFC applications

Advanced Image Control

18 Jun 2016

Patrik Mlekuž

Image Control for viewing most common image formats with advanced features included (Import Image, Preview, Resize, Position, Pan, Zoom, Export Image, Extract Resource Icon).

A Working TCP Client and Server With SSL

24 Sep 2018

David Maw

A working example of a Windows client and server using SSL over TCP.

Crunching Numbers with AVX and AVX2

2 Apr 2016

Matt Scarpino

This article explains how to perform mathematical SIMD processing in C/C++ with Intel's Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) intrinsic functions.

Capturing Live-video from Web-camera on Windows 7 and Windows 8

24 May 2015

Evgeny Pereguda

Simple lib for capturing live-video from web-camera by using Media Foundation

Implementing AI Evolutionary binary distribution algorithm for solving the numeric approximation problem

14 Jul 2015

Arthur V. Ratz

This article demostrates the C++ code that implements AI binary distribution evolutionary algorithm for finding the "nearest" neighbor values of the given value of x in the array of N elements.

7 reasons C++ devs will love the VS 14 CTP

25 Jul 2014

Nish Nishant

The article goes through sevean language and IDE features in the VS 14 CTP 2 that are specific to C++ development

Image Binarization Using 10 Program Languages

3 May 2016

Lai Taiyu

A simple image binarization

image-processing

Image Segmentation using Unsupervised Watershed Algorithm with an Over-segmentation Reduction Technique

3 Jul 2014

Ravimal Bandara

An implementation of unsupervised watershed algorithm to image segmentation with histogram matching technique for reduce over-segmentation by using openCV.

image-processing

machine-learning

A multithreaded, OpenGL-enabled application.

26 Nov 2014

Jeremy Falcon

Provides a base to use when programming OpenGL-enabled applications for the real world, rather than a simple hello world.

Nightmare on (Overwh)Elm Street: The 64-bit Calling Convention

13 May 2017

CMalcheski

64-bit calling convention

OutlookTabCtrl - Another Kind of Tab

16 Mar 2021

Baradzenka Aleh

This control is another kind of tab. Tabs are displayed as horizontal stripes and can be collapsed into buttons. Each tab is assigned its own window, which is shown when you click on the tab.

5 Sep 2017

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.

Zoom An Image With Different Interpolation Types

21 Sep 2011

Santhosh G_

Implementation of different interpolations[Bi-Linear and Bi-Cubic] with OpenGL.

SplitterCtrl - A control for the partition of some window by several parts

16 Mar 2021

Baradzenka Aleh

In this article, you will learn about a control that is necessary for the partition of the dialog, main or child window of your program by several parts.

Integrate Windows Azure Face APIs in a C++ Application

8 May 2015

Marius Bancila

Learn how to integrate the new Windows Azure machine-learning APIs in a C++ application using C++ REST SDK

CGridListCtrlEx - Grid Control Based on CListCtrl

16 Mar 2015

Rolf Kristensen

A custom draw CListCtrl with subitem editing and formatting

A .NET like Dictionary in C++

13 May 2014

Paulo Zemek

This article presents a .NET like Dictionary implemented in C++, which has better performance and consumes less memory than the STL's unordered_map class.

How to Improve VC++ Project Build Time

23 Dec 2011

Hilmi Jauffer

The article provides some guidelines to improve VC++ project build time.

C++11 Concurrency

30 Dec 2014

Babu_Abdulsalam

Various features supporting Concurrency in C++11

multi-threading

Oil Paint Effect: Implementation of Oil Painting Effect on an Image

20 Oct 2012

Santhosh G_

Applying oil painting effect on an image.

Scalable Socket Server

10 Aug 2015

DriveByCoder

How fast can your PC serve up data?

Using SQLite Databases in Any Folder in WinRT

9 Mar 2015

Peter Moore - Chicago

By writing your own Virtual File System with a little C++, you can escape ApplicationData.LocalFolder and read and write databases in any folder your app has access to.

Simple-Look Scope Guard for Visual C++ 2010

18 Jun 2014

Tsuda Kageyu

Implement a simple-look substitution of BOOST_SCOPE_EXIT using some of the new features of C++0x

Object Oriented Programming with C++

24 Nov 2014

David O'Neil

A short introduction to Object Oriented Programming with C++, showing the basics of objects and virtual functions in an approachable manner.

Embedding Java VM into C application and using JNI with JSON

21 Jan 2015

Richard Chambers

Exploring how to embed a Java VM into a C application and developing a native library for a Java application using JNI.

2 Dec 2014

PJ Arends

A CTreeCtrl derived control that has four checkbox states

An exploration of Project Anarchy with Android build

5 Oct 2014

Abhishek Nandy

a simple walk through of project anarchy Wild Card

Use mplayer as our Audio Decoder

7 Dec 2011

jackyxinli

This article demonstrates how to use mplayer as an audio decoder by callback functions.

Target Eye Revealed - Part 7 - The Privacy Protection Mode

8 Sep 2015

Michael Haephrati

Pixelating images for privacy protection while running a monitoring and surveillance software

Enabling MFC Collections to Work in Range-based for Loops

30 Oct 2014

Marius Bancila

MFC Collection Utilities is a small open-source library that enables you to use any MFC collection with range-based for loops.

Modernizing Legacy C++ Code

14 Dec 2014

Marius Bancila

Experiences and recommendations from modernizing legacy C++ code using C++11/14

Full Power on the Phone

27 May 2014

KarstenK

Emporing C++ on the Windows Phone 8.0

Windows-Phone-7

C++ Implementations of Quicksort Methods for Sorting Arrays with Lots of Duplicates

31 Aug 2015

Mikhail Semenov

Efficient Quicksort methods for sorting arrays with lots of duplicate elements

multi-threading

Concept of NaN, IND, INF and DEN

3 Oct 2014

Nisamudheen

Numerical concepts of NaN, IND, INF and DEN using C++.

A Simple C++ Class Framework for Services

10 Jun 2014

Hari Mahadevan

A simple C++ class framework for writing Windows services

Embedding Python program in a C/C++ code

21 Sep 2014

arnavguddu

How to Embed Python interpreter in your C/C++ code and dynamically change the code path of compiled native code.

doctest - the lightest C++ unit testing framework

21 Nov 2016

onqtam

The article consists of an introduction to the testing framework, motivation behind it's creation (what makes it unique) and a few important points about it's capabilities.

Protection & Decompiling Software - Start Point Info

20 Aug 2018

NewPast

Software protection & Decompiling software as a new cracking method

Convenient Constructs For Stepping Through a Range of Values

23 Mar 2015

Mikhail Semenov

This articles proposes an implementation of a collection of constructs for writing loops in C++11, as an alternative to the standard C-style for-loop.

Smart observers to use with unique_ptr

18 Sep 2015

john morrison leon

observer_ptr, a smart observer guaranteed to always be either valid or test as null. Transparently harnessing unique_ptr's custom deleter feature to detect object destruction.

Muting all microphones on WinXP

12 Aug 2012

Alex Fotios

How to enumerate and mute all microphone components under all mixer devices using the Audio Mixer API

Using Static Buffers to Improve Error Reporting Success

2 Jun 2015

David A. Gray

Use static buffers to guarantee that error message reporting succeeds, even when token replacement is required, and memory is low.

Active Directory change tracking

9 Jan 2016

Snorri Kristjansson

Active Directory change auditing solution. A Windows Service that stores selected AD change events from the Security log of all Domain Controllers to an SQL database.

Calling Java from C++ with JNI

19 May 2015

cth027

A tutorial to master the Java Native Interface with C++

MeTem: A C++ measuring framework

27 May 2014

Francisco José Sen del Prado

A C++ framework to measure things

jRead - An in-place JSON Element Reader

11 Mar 2018

tonywilk

Not 'Just Another Parser', this reads elements from JSON simply and without memory overhead in C

C++/CLI for Beginners

13 Feb 2015

Vladimir Svyatski

I'm going to show you some not quite evident things if you're about to write a C++/CLI application.

11 Dec 2016

Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

Did you spot any bugs today? Than this tool might save some of your time

GMIS: Turn All Your Devices into Robots

15 Apr 2015

HongBing75

A general robot operating system

artificial-intelligence

parallel-processing

Flexible Particle System - Updaters

8 Jun 2014

Bartlomiej Filipek

Flexible Particle System - Updaters

Static Value Lists

25 Aug 2011

Doc Lobster

An introduction to advanced template metaprogramming using an explanatory project

Connecting to MySQL from ASP.NET MVC using Visual Studio Express for Web

23 Sep 2014

Ger Hayden

This article shows how to connect to MySql without an ORM when using Visual Studio Express 2013 for ASP.NET MVC development.

Consuming ZLib in Boost using Visual Studio (MSBuild) project reference system

22 Mar 2015

Eugene Sadovoi

Integrating third party tools and libraries into Visual Studio (MSBuild) build and reference system.

Another way to Import and Export MySQL database using C++

31 Mar 2015

Satish Jagtap

This article explains how to import database to MySQL server and how to export database from MySQL server without using batch files.

Dependency Analysis in Visual C++

7 Oct 2016

Zebedee Mason

Use graphs and metrics to analyse static architecture

Referencing native projects in Visual Studio (MSBuild).

20 Mar 2015

Eugene Sadovoi

Integrating Boost library into Visual Studio (MSBuild) build and reference system.

LitmusV - Validity Verification for Variables

8 Jul 2011

Yonghwi Kwon

A simple and easy way to check validity of variables in native C++ language

Calling All Stations

5 Dec 2014

KarstenK

Interoperability: Calling C++ from C#

C++ serialization framework/library

26 Jun 2016

bishopnator29a

Saving, Loading and data migration in compact library

2D-DFT for Color Image - VC++ GUI Implementation

10 May 2017

Raghavendra Hosad

2D DFT for Color Image - GUI implementation

Angular 2 & .NET Core Developing Web App From Scratch Part 1: Implementing Restful Web Server

2 Feb 2017

O.Nasri

Great article to learn how you can create web application from scratch using Angular2 & .NET Core Web API

SQL-Server-2014

How to install driver dynamically or install driver as a service for Windows

2 Dec 2011

Jim Charles

Install driver dynamically or install driver as a service for Windows.

Interoping .NET and C++ through Registration-free COM

2 Aug 2017

Marius Bancila

Using managed COM objects in C++ without registering the server in Windows Registry

Introduction to B-trees: Concepts and Applications

15 Aug 2014

Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

How to solve real-life problems using B-trees