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

by Retired Author

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.

# Nullable DateEdit Control

by Retired Author

A Nullable C# DateEdit Control

.NET Chaînes Utilitaires (String Utils)

by Retired Author

Classes Library for String manipulations in Your .NET projects

.NET Client Classes for openldap/winldap

by Retired Author

An example of using LDAP/OpenLDAP with .Net

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

by Retired Author

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.

# Nullable DateEdit Control

by Retired Author

A Nullable C# DateEdit Control

.NET Chaînes Utilitaires (String Utils)

by Retired Author

Classes Library for String manipulations in Your .NET projects

.NET Client Classes for openldap/winldap

by Retired Author

An example of using LDAP/OpenLDAP with .Net

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

by Retired Author

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.

# Nullable DateEdit Control

by Retired Author

A Nullable C# DateEdit Control

.NET Chaînes Utilitaires (String Utils)

by Retired Author

Classes Library for String manipulations in Your .NET projects

.NET Client Classes for openldap/winldap

by Retired Author

An example of using LDAP/OpenLDAP with .Net

.NET Color Picker Controls

by Retired Author

A control library containing three color picker controls written in C#

.NET COM+ Transactions

by Retired Author

Implementation of .NET COM+ Transactions

.NET Command Line Tools

by Retired Author

Various Command Line Tools Available under .NET Development Environment

.NET Diagnostics - II, A Threads Monitoring Application Using C#

by Retired Author

Using the ProcessThread class to monitor the states of threads inside a process.

.NET Diagnostics – IV, Use the Environment class to get your environment

by Retired Author

Use of the Environment class explained to extract information like Operating System, Environment Variables, etc.

.NET DUMeter clone

by Retired Author

A DUMeter clone, but with some better/different reporting features.

.NET Dynamic Software Load Balancing

by Retired Author

A Draft Implementation of an Idea for .NET Dynamic Software Load Balancing

.NET Encryption Simplified

by Retired Author

A simple, string-oriented class for symmetric encryption, asymmetric encryption, and hashing.

.NET Interactions with j2EE based Web Applications

by Retired Author

An article on .NET applications' interaction with j2EE based web applications.

.NET LCD MatrixControl and GDI+

by Retired Author

Implementation of a LCD User Control in .NET using C#.

.NET multi-threading and communication between threads

by Retired Author

An article that explains the messaging between main and worker threads

.NET MySQL Connexion V 1.2

by Retired Author

Class Library for MySQL request

.NET Remoting – Basic Maneuvers

by Retired Author

A tutorial on .NET Remoting

.NET Remoting - Events. Events? Events!

by Retired Author

You have the server and several clients. You want the server to fire an event and all of the clients or only some specific must receive it. This article describes several approaches to the problem.

.NET Remoting : Long-duration invocations

by Retired Author

Sometimes server needs to perform lengthy calculations in reply to the client’s request. If such calls are rare or do not take too much time, it’s not a problem. If your solution shows a tendency to have about 20-30 such invocations being performed concurrently at the same time, you should read this

.NET Remoting Customization Made Easy: Custom Sinks

by Retired Author

.NET Remoting customization – it doesn't have to be so hard!

.NET Remoting in Simple English (Really, it's that simple)

by Retired Author

This article is meant to be a step by step guide to give its reader a gist of .NET Remoting. This tutorial guides the reader to set up a fully functional chat program.

.NET Remoting Message Redirection Channel Sinks

by Retired Author

An upper logic layer transparent way to redirect .NET remoting calls, enabling exposure of .NET remoting services behind firewall/NAT, to anywhere.

.NET Remoting Spied On

by Retired Author

Microsoft's RemSpy sample's implementation has been explained and more remoting explanations.

.NET style Side Tab Control

by Retired Author

.NET Side Tab

.NET system wide hotkey component

by Retired Author

A component to respond to a hotkey combination, system-wide.

.NET TimePicker

by Retired Author

A variation on the standard .NET date-time picker

.NET TWAIN image scanner

by Retired Author

Using TWAIN API to scan images

.Net Wizard Control

by Retired Author

This article is about creating wizard style user interface

.NET wrapper for libbz2

by Retired Author

.NET wrapper for libbz2, written in MC++

.NET XML Serialization - A Settings Class

by Retired Author

A settings class that can be used to store values in an XML document

[Debugging] - Symbols

by Retired Author

Setting up a Microsoft Symbol Server

2D "Nim" Game Development and Animation in C# (Part 2)

by Retired Author

Part 2 in a series of articles on a two-player mathematical game of strategy

2D Blits in DirectX 9

by Retired Author

Describes how to do 2D Blits in DirectX 9 with direct surface access between various surface formats (using color conversion).

2D Poligon Drawer-Animator

by Retired Author

Draw poligons, manipulate them, and animate them.

2Find Toolbar for IE - Yet Another Sample

by Retired Author

Google-like Toolbar with customization from xml file and update from web features

4 steps to create free SSL certificate for development

by Retired Author

4 steps to create free SSL certificate for development

A .NET assembly viewer

by Retired Author

An application to examine .NET assemblies both directly and with reflection

A .NET Progress Dialog

by Retired Author

A progress dialog for asynchronous workers

A Basic iButton Interface

by Retired Author

An Example Of How To Interface To Dallas Semiconductor's iButton And 1-Wire Network

A basic Particles System

by Retired Author

Introduction to the basic idea of the particle systems, and how to create basic effects such as explosions and water fountains.

A Beginner's Guide To Events

by Retired Author

An article for beginners explaining how to make those fancy events you always see on visual studio controls in 5 simple steps.

A Bitmap Manipulation Class With Support For Format Conversion, Bitmap Retrieval from a URL, Overlays, etc.

by Retired Author

Provides an overview and discussion of the author's BitmapManipulator C# class, including examples of each feature, as well as numerous .NET/GDI+ caveats.

A brute force search algo

by Retired Author

A generic class implementing an exhaustive searching algorithm for solving a variety of puzzles and riddles

A C# class that deals with System Registry

by Retired Author

This C# class retrieves, creates, deletes Registry values and keys, and even more...

A C# ColorListBox

by Retired Author

In this article we will see how to write an owner drawn ListBox

A C# idiom to simulate global functions

by Retired Author

When what you really want is a global function.

A C# Image Converter

by Retired Author

Presenting a smal C# Windows Application for converting images between different graphical formats

A C# implementation of Reversi (Othello) Game for PocketPC and Windows

by Retired Author

A C# implementation of Reversi (Othello) Game for PocketPC and Windows.

A C# MPEG1 Image Compression Class

by Retired Author

This article shows how to compress an image using the MPEG1 format

A C# Scrolling Text Control

by Retired Author

This article shows you how to create a scrolling text/scrolling marquee control in C#.

A C# Visual Studio.Net, Excel, and InterDev tab control.

by Retired Author

A C# tab control that mimics the Visual Studio.Net, Excel, and InterDev tab styles.

A C# water effect picture control

by Retired Author

A C# implementation of the popular water surface effect.

A C++ Breakout Game Clone in Less than 64 Lines

by Retired Author

I propose a simple version of a Breakout (or Arkanoid) game in few C++ lines.

A Charting Custom Control using Microsoft OWC

by Retired Author

This is a .NET custom control for web-based charting using Office Web Component technology.

A Checkbox Tree Control for Use in Filtering Selections

by Retired Author

An ATL filter control

A CHexEdit Control - For HEX and DEC number input

by Retired Author

An article on how to write an Edit control used for HEX and DEC number input.

A class for sending emails with attachments in C#.

by Retired Author

A class for sending emails with attachments in C#.

A Class to Combine Slider Control and Progress Bar Windows

by Retired Author

An article on how to combine Slider Controls and Progress bar into one class using custom draw

A class to download files from the net

by Retired Author

A simple class to ease the task of downloading files from the net

A class to parse graphical fonts

by Retired Author

How to use graphical fonts in your games

A class to put a ProgressBar or any control into a StatusBar

by Retired Author

How to simply display a control inside the StatusBar of your program.

A clickable button

by Retired Author

An immensely handy clickable button.

A closer look at XML Data Binding, including a product appraisal

by Retired Author

An introduction to XML Data Binding, and a review of a number of leading products.

A COM class wizard for VS.NET 2003

by Retired Author

A wizard to bring easy COM class creation to C#.

A completely customizable Google API Web Client

by Retired Author

A web based Google Web services client using ASP.NET.

A component that prints any control, including ListViews, TreeViews, DataGridViews, and Forms

by Retired Author

The ultimate printing component. Use it to print ListBoxes, ListViews, TreeViews, DataGridViews, Forms, TabPages, or even your own UserControls.

A control class for browsing through the Network Neighborhood

by Retired Author

If you want to have an easy-to-use Dialog Box to browse through the network, have a look at this. This library allows for selecting network shares, directories, files, ... and will ask for a user name and password, if needed.

A CountDownTimer inherited from System.Windows.Forms.Timer

by Retired Author

A timer that will only run the number of times you specifed.

A custom control for images with annotations

by Retired Author

An article about a custom control for displaying images with the possibility of adding annotations.

A designable PropertyTree for VS.NET

by Retired Author

A TabControl-like options dialog based on a TreeView

A fast and performing gauge, now in a dll for vb users

by Retired Author

A short procedure for adding a nice gauge to your VS toolbox

A flag editor

by Retired Author

This piece of code is the implementation of a simple flags editor. It can be used to edit flags in a property grid.

A flexible charting library for .NET

by Retired Author

Looking for a way to draw 2D line graphs with C#? Here's yet another charting class library with a high degree of configurability, that is also easy to use.

A floating-point Margin structure, now with TypeConverter

by Retired Author

A Margin structure that can be used in a variety of situations, like layout, drawing and printing. Now comes with a custom TypeConverter and a usage sample.

A Form with Customized Caption Bar and Flexible Border

by Retired Author

An article on how to customize caption bar (e.g. displaying image on caption bar) and change border width and border color.

A full-duplex audio player in C# using the waveIn/waveOut APIs

by Retired Author

An article on low-level audio capture and playback using the waveIn/waveOut APIs through P/Invoke in C#.

A general purpose NT Service Class

by Retired Author

Build a NT Service

A High Performance TCP/IP Socket Server COM Component for VB

by Retired Author

Although socket based TCP/IP servers using IO Completion Ports are often written in C++, it's sometimes useful to write such a server in Visual Basic.

A library to simplify access to image metadata

by Retired Author

A library to simplify access to image metadata.

A linked list collection class in MC++

by Retired Author

The .NET ArrayList class provides "dynamic arrays" which, to a C++ programmer should seem really innane. Here's a linked list collection class that can be used in any .NET language.

A ListView Dialog using Win32 API

by Retired Author

A Dialog using Listview in report style and icon style

A Little Encryption Utility that will turn all your keys from the keyboard in to a binary file

by Retired Author

This program will take all lettlers from a given file and turn them into a binary code defined by me. Attention, it only encrypts keys that are on you keyboard and it is not case sensitive.

A Localizable Currency TextBox

by Retired Author

A localizable Currency textbox control.

A low-level audio player in C#

by Retired Author

This article describes a sample application that uses the waveout API in C#.

A Magical Edit Menu Manager

by Retired Author

A magical edit menu that works with no connections to the rest of your project

A managed "Send To" menu class

by Retired Author

An article on a small managed C++ class which gives ability to use the "Send To" feature of Windows Explorer.

A Managed C++ Email Validator Control for ASP.NET

by Retired Author

An ASP.NET Validator Control implemented in Managed C++ that can be used to verify email addresses by connecting to SMTP servers listed as Mail eXchangers for a domain, includes example of Win32 API Interoperability with C++ .NET. The validation is not RegEx based.

A marquee control in C#

by Retired Author

A marquee control written in C#

A More Complete DLL Injection Solution Using CreateRemoteThread

by Retired Author

This article explores a more complete method of injecting a DLL into another process using the CreateRemoteThread approach.

A new software protection method (Objantihack)

by Retired Author

This article intruduce you a new software encryption method.

A nice multiline ToolTipCtrl example.

by Retired Author

A nice multiline ToolTipCtrl example looking like the one available in Delphi.

A numeric edit control

by Retired Author

This is a control which will allow the user to input only numbers. And it also has some special features like, if we enter negative values, we can show it in a different color.

A policy based reference counting implementation for compound objects

by Retired Author

Reference counting smart pointers and handles of various flavours.

A POP3 Client in C# .NET

by Retired Author

A POP3 client in C# .NET for reading and processing emails (including attachments).

A Popup Progress Window

by Retired Author

A popup window containing a progress control and cancel button - no resource file needed

A Property Table Editor

by Retired Author

An article showing a property table editor like VC7.0's property table.

A real time log file viewer

by Retired Author

A real time log file viewer.

A Remoting Event (Simple and Efficient for Enterprise Solutions)

by Retired Author

This article contains the simplest solutions for: the security problem for DelegateSerializationHolder, the IO problem, and the messaging speed problem. Note: Messaging speed problem will appear when your application has worked for a long time.

A Resource Server Handler Class For Custom Controls

by Retired Author

A class implementing IHttpHandler for use in custom controls, to send embedded resources such as scripts, images, and style sheets to the client.

A Reusable, High Performance, Socket Server Class - Part 1

by Retired Author

Writing a high performance server that runs on Windows NT and uses sockets to communicate with the outside world isn't that hard once you dig through the API references. What's more, most of the code is common between all of the servers that you're likely to want to write.

A reusable, high performance, socket server class - Part 2

by Retired Author

To maintain performance a socket server shouldn't make blocking calls from its IO threads. This article builds on the previous one to add a business logic thread pool to our example server.

A Reusable, High Performance, Socket Server Class - Part 3

by Retired Author

When a server has to deal with lots of short lived client connections, it's advisable to use the Microsoft extension function for WinSock, AcceptEx(), to accept connections.

A scripted SQL query generation framework with IDE: SQLpp (v1.4)

by Retired Author

A helper framework for generation of SQL queries in C++ and Lua

A Secure Software Distributon SDK

by Retired Author

SSD SDK provides security for your shareware programs through strong cryptographic techniques.

A Separator Combo-box

by Retired Author

A CComboBox derived combo-box class

A set of classes to create the IE-style GUI

by Retired Author

The article gives a sample of how to implement Internet Explorer-style sizable re-bar and menu bar controls.

A Shaped Windows Form Application with Variable Opacity

by Retired Author

How to create a Shaped Windows Application with Variable Opacity

A Simple 2 User Whiteboard application in C#/.NET

by Retired Author

This article is my attempt at developing an extremely simple Whiteboard application in C#/ WinForms and sockets for messaging, to be used simultaneously by 2 users.

A simple architecture to read arbitrarily formatted flat files into ADO DataSets

by Retired Author

This article gives a simple architecture of using StreamReaders and DataSets together to read data from arbitrarily formatted flat files into DataSets, using ini files as an example

A Simple C# Genetic Algorithm

by Retired Author

In this article we shall produce a simple genetic algorithm in C#

A Simple C# Toolbar Docking Framework

by Retired Author

An example framework for toolbar handling, written in C#.

A simple C++ code generator (Sample Usage of my XML Wrapper class)

by Retired Author

Generate C++ classes using XML & XSL

A Simple Chat Application Using .NET Remoting

by Retired Author

This application demonstrates .NET remoting in LAN.

A simple class to allow you to play Wavs in C#

by Retired Author

The framework, from what I have seen, does not include a function to play sound. So, after looking around and gathering information on how to do such, I ended up making a class. I like to use this for error messages. I simply imported the DLL file winmm.dll and used the PlaySound function from it.

A Simple Compiler for the Common Language Runtime

by Retired Author

An end-to-end example of a bottom up LALR(1) compiler for a fictitious language targeting the Common Language Runtime

A Simple Customizable Windows Event Logger Application

by Retired Author

An article on writing a simple Windows Event Logger.

A Simple DataGrid Row Tooltip For Beginners.

by Retired Author

A simple DataGrid Row Tooltip for beginners.

A Simple FTP Application

by Retired Author

This is a brief description.

A simple guide to WMI providers

by Retired Author

How to write WMI providers in C#

A Simple Immutable ArrayList for C#

by Retired Author

An ArrayList container wrapper class that permits the table to be filled with data in an early phase of a program, but then made read-only (Immutable) for subsequent usage.

A Simple Immutable Hashtable for C#

by Retired Author

A Hashtable wrapper class that permits the table to be filled with data in an early phase of a program, but then made read-only (Immutable) for subsequent usage.

A simple in-process semaphore using C#

by Retired Author

Creating a semaphore to limit a given number of threads accessing a resource in a process.

A Simple Photo Publisher Program

by Retired Author

This program shows an example of how to manipulate lots of files to convert their size, quality and get a thumbnail image.

A simple RadioButtonList in a Web DataGrid Column

by Retired Author

A very simple and practical way, how a single RadioButton acts as a RadioButtonList in a web DataGrid server control column.

A simple TCP/IP Chat client/server

by Retired Author

An article useful to understand simple thread use, TCP/IP networking, and basic use of XML.

A simple transparent CStatic-derived class

by Retired Author

This class allows you to create transparent static controls. For instance, you can add text on a bitmap in a dialog.

A Simple VB.NET Freehand Drawing method

by Retired Author

The code uses a System.Drawing.Drawing2D.GraphicsPath method to follow the users mouse movements. The path is then painted in the control.

A Simple Web Page Template Parser And A Template Pool

by Retired Author

A simple web page template parser to separate layout from code.

A simple Windows Forms image viewer

by Retired Author

This is a simple viewer application which allows you to apply basic operation on images such as Rotate, Flip, ROI (Region of interest) zoom and Panning.

A simple Windows Forms Login Control component

by Retired Author

A simple Windows Forms Login Control component.

A Simple Windows Forms Properties Spy

by Retired Author

A utility that can be used to spy the properties of any Windows forms control in the system

A simple wrapper to control Acrobat Reader from your application

by Retired Author

This class wraps some useful DDE messages to control Acrobat from your application

A simple XML Parser

by Retired Author

A class to read and write non validated XML files

A Simple XML Validator

by Retired Author

A simple application for validating XML files from within Windows Explorer.

A simple XP/VS.NET style button control

by Retired Author

Why another button control? Because I searched the net for a control that would mimic the XP/VS.NET style buttons, but I couldn't find a decent one. I think this button has all needed functionality: cool style, shortcut keys, icons, alignment, ...

A statistical analysis of the performance variations of assorted managed and unmanaged languages

by Retired Author

This article compares and contrasts the relative performances of various languages like native C++, Visual Basic 6, C#, VB.NET, Managed C++, MC++ and native code mix, ngen'd assemblies etc. using a prime number generation function as a generic benchmark

A Status Bar Text Provider for Menu Items and Form Controls

by Retired Author

A status bar text provider for menu items and form controls in Windows Forms applications similar to the feature found in MFC and Microsoft Access applications.

A Tabbed MDI Frame Window

by Retired Author

A tabbed frame window to show several views of a document in a single frame.

A TCHAR style header file for STL strings and streams

by Retired Author

Presents a header file that allows a single source file that uses STL to be built in either ANSI or Unicode, without any changes or lots of #ifdefs.

A Templated databound Repeater control with per-row template selection

by Retired Author

This control allows you to select a template for each different row in your Repeater, based on the content of that row.

A Time-Of-Day Picker control

by Retired Author

A simple control that allows the user to pick time periods in the day

A Tool for Dynamic Compile and Run of C# or VB.NET Code

by Retired Author

A tool for dynamic compiling and running of C# or VB.NET code in memory without having to create a project

A UDP-based Reliable Data Transfer Library

by Retired Author

Introduces an open source UDP-based data transfer library.

A useful UrlBuilder class

by Retired Author

A simple way to generate and manipulate URLs.

A variation on the default TrackBar

by Retired Author

Multi-Color and multi-directional TrackBar.

A VB.NET class useful for basic linear algebra

by Retired Author

Some vector and matrix manipulation routines.

A VB.NET Fluid Effect Image box

by Retired Author

An article on a VB.NET ripple image control

A very simple BrowseForFolder class

by Retired Author

A very simple class to include the browse for folder window into your C# project

A VS.Net-like ToolBox

by Retired Author

This is a Visual Studio .NET like ToolBox control with animation and drag and drop support.

ABCs of Pro*C

by Retired Author

Basic understanding of Pro*C

About CObect , CRuntimeClass and related macros.

by Retired Author

What is the useful of CObject , CRuntimeClass and related macros.

Access Database Editor in C#

by Retired Author

This project presents an Access Database Editor written in C#

Access database using XML without SQL-XML

by Retired Author

How to access RDBMS liks MS SQL or Orcale using XML. The core part using COM technology and ATL.

Accessing data source using ADODB

by Retired Author

Using this dll anyone can access 3 databases i.e Oracle,SQLServer,Access

Accessing LDAP User list using VB.NET

by Retired Author

This article will explain how to access LDAP service using VB.NET.

Accessing the data of ASP.NET templated controls from client-side script

by Retired Author

The article demonstrates an easy method to access the data of templated controls (Repeater, DataList, DataGrid) from client-side scripts.

ActionLists for Windows.Forms

by Retired Author

Implementation of Delphi's ActionList for Windows.Forms

ActiveSync File Filter in C#

by Retired Author

This article shows how to write an ActiveSync file filter in C#.

Add a header and footer control to all web pages in a web application, using HTTP module

by Retired Author

Use the HTTP module to automatically add a header and footer control to all ASP.NET pages.

Add a Tree Menu to DataGrid Header Text

by Retired Author

This article shows how to add a JavaScript tree menu to a DataGrid head text.

Add a user in SQL Server using Visual C++

by Retired Author

The article explains adding a user in SQL Server programmatically, using VC++

Add an uninstall start menu item to your .NET deployment project

by Retired Author

The simple way to add an uninstall menu item to your .NET deployment project

Add multimedia effect to system clock

by Retired Author

This article focuses on how to add a virtual multimedia effect to the system clock.

Add zooming to WTL CScrollImpl

by Retired Author

CZoomScrollImpl extends WTL CScrollImpl to allow continuous zooming.

Adding "Merge cells" support to the MFC GridControl

by Retired Author

Adding "Merge cells" support to the MFC GridControl.

Adding and deleting multiple selected rows in a table using JavaScript

by Retired Author

This article will help the user in adding rows to a table in ASP.NET and deleting multiple selected rows from the table using JavaScript.

Adding a zip filter to web services

by Retired Author

Passing large amounts of data through web services can become a huge bottle-neck in a WAN application architecture (i.e., server is on the web), and in any case, a real load on the network traffic. This is one solution for downsizing the network costs.

Adding an LED to your radiobuttons

by Retired Author

Enhance the visual impact of your radio buttons

Adding automation to MFC applications

by Retired Author

Step-by-step instructions on how to add OLE automation to an already existing application. In addition, it illustrates how to do things without using the code as provided by the application wizard.

Adding Balloon Windows to a .NET Application

by Retired Author

Introduction to the BalloonWindow class which allows .NET applications to implement balloon windows similar to what is available in Windows XP. Complete customization allows both the appearence and shape to be configured as well as projecting an alpha-blended shadow.

Adding custom XPath functions to XSL

by Retired Author

This article shows you how to add context aware XPath functions to an XSL transformation. This is done by a hack using reflection.

Adding Descriptions to your Enumerations

by Retired Author

Describes how to use a [Description] attribute on an enumeration

Adding Drag and Drop support to a VB.NET control

by Retired Author

Article explaining how to add drag and drop support to a VB.NET control

Adding features to a C# search engine/web spider

by Retired Author

Adding advanced search-engine features (and persistent catalog) to Searcharoo project

Adding Icons to Menus in VB.NET

by Retired Author

A simple extension of the menu control that displays icons

Adding Images to Menu

by Retired Author

Adding images to MenuItems

Adding line numbers to text

by Retired Author

How to easily add line numbers to source code or text.

ADO Data Access through COM Interop in .NET

by Retired Author

The article explains how to make use of COM objects from .NET

ADO.NET – Get the notification events from Managed Providers

by Retired Author

How to use the event handlers for various ADO.NET connection & data objects.

ADO.NET 101: SQL Connection

by Retired Author

A tutorial on connecting to SQL 2000 Server.

Advanced Shape Control

by Retired Author

Advanced Shape Control

Advanced text searching

by Retired Author

Building a simple query language with the OR and AND boolean operators

AJAX Was Here - Part 1: Client Side Framework

by Retired Author

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML with ASP.NET integration.

AJAX Was Here - Part 2: ASP.NET Integration

by Retired Author

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML with ASP.NET.

All about Installers - Customizing Windows and Web setup projects

by Retired Author

This article guides how to customize an installer for specific needs of the application.

All about PrintForm component 1.0

by Retired Author

How to print a Form in VB.NET using the Printform Component. Describes the various ways with examples on how to customize the printed output according to your need.

Allow editable content on your asp.net web pages.

by Retired Author

Allow editable content on your asp.net web pages.

Allow the User to Resize Controls at Runtime

by Retired Author

Enable resizing of controls on a form at runtime with this class and two lines of code.

Alphanumeric increment in C#

by Retired Author

This code is very useful when you want to auto increment number using A-Z and 1-9 with possible combinationYou can pass any string and system will return next possible number e.g. You can Pass number "PRO01A9" then You will get "PRO01B1"

Always on Top

by Retired Author

A DLL which creates a system hook to trap WM_INITMENUPOPUP and append an "Always on Top" option to all system menus.

ALXParser - a single expression dBase parser

by Retired Author

A dBASE syntax parser of one expression. Functions and variables are supported.

AMLog, easy logging

by Retired Author

A small utility to make easy logging to files

Amzi! Prolog + Logic Server ASP.NET Wrapper Class

by Retired Author

C++ ASP.NET interface to Amzi! Prolog + Logic Server for building Rule-Based Expert Systems

An advanced rendering class

by Retired Author

A rendering class with full customizations for novice or advanced users.

An Alternative Implementation of the NotifyIcon Class

by Retired Author

A wrapper class for notification icons (tray icons) with support for balloon tips.

An analyzer for MPEG 2 Program Stream files

by Retired Author

Simple program that interprets a MPEG 2 file.

An Autobiography of a Windows Forms custom control in its own words [ComboView] – Part I.

by Retired Author

Who am I? What am I doing here at CodeProject? Well, I'll answer myself all these questions and others.

An auto-resize C# ListBox

by Retired Author

A custom ListBox that can resize its items automatically

An Easy Technique to Improve the Drawing of Background Images of Windows Forms

by Retired Author

Improve drawing of controls with transparent background over a form with image background

An easy to use class to list Active Directory Users

by Retired Author

A very simple class which can list all the Active Directory users just by calling a single member function.

An editable multi-line listbox for .NET

by Retired Author

An owner drawn listbox that supports multi-line word-wrapped text as well as in-place editing.

An Elementary HTML Parser

by Retired Author

A class to parse HTML - a part of the ScreenSaver competition

An example of a non progress bar

by Retired Author

This shows how to use a "working" progress bar like Windows XP does.

An Extended ListBox Control

by Retired Author

A control that offers extensible entry specification and full keyboard support

An Extension for a Configuration Settings Class in .NET

by Retired Author

A class to allow easy access and updating to configuration settings for your .NET application

An HTTP Module for ASP.NET Error Handling

by Retired Author

A simple HTTP module to be used as a "last-resort" error handler for ASP.NET applications. It does not require changes to existing code, and can be "dropped-in" to an already running site.

An image preview dialog for adjusting brightness and contrast

by Retired Author

An image preview dialog for adjusting brightness and contrast

An Image Viewer with Lossless Rotation, EXIF and Other Goodies

by Retired Author

This article demonstrates a simple viewer for JPEG images.

An INI file handling class using C#

by Retired Author

A C# class that exposes the INI file handling functions from Kernal32.dll

An instrumented synchronous/asynchronous event manager utilizing EventHandler and Reflection

by Retired Author

Implements an instrumented event manager which can be used to invoke event sinks both synchronously and asynchronously. The event sink can be declared using either the System.EventHandler delegate or by reflection.

An introduction on how to control Excel 2003 with J# .NET

by Retired Author

An article on how to control MSFT Excel 2003 from J# .NET

An introduction to libsig c++ using the Microsoft Visual Studio compiler

by Retired Author

An introduction to libsig c++ using the Microsoft Visual Studio compiler

An Introduction To Performance Counters

by Retired Author

An introduction to monitoring performance of applications.

An Introduction To Web Service Security - Part II

by Retired Author

Part two of this series introduces signing and encryption principals. It explains the steps to digitally sign and encrypt a message using the WSE and an X.509 certificate.

An introduction to Web Service Security using WSE - Part I

by Retired Author

This article explains the first steps to build secure Web Services. It introduces the WSE specification and the easiest authentication mechanism based on username identification and password validation.

An Outlook Bar Implementation

by Retired Author

Illustrates in a step-by-step manner the design and implementation of an Outlook style icon bar.

An SMPPLIB with COM Support

by Retired Author

It is an SMPP implementation of v3.3 and v3.4 ( partial support). You can use it to connect to SMSC and send/receive SMS.

An SVG framework in C# and an SVG-GDI+ bridge

by Retired Author

Svg.Net is a C# framework for creating SVG images. A GDI-SVG bridge is implemented on top of it.

An XML Based (we)blog with RSS Feed

by Retired Author

A BLOG tool ready to use. Post weblogs to an XML file from a windows application via Web Service. Uses SOAP Headers for authentication. Uses simple XSL Transformation for the RSS feed.

Analog Clock

by Retired Author

An analog clock control that can raise alarm at a given time and that can also set a count down alarm.

Analyze IL and say hello to your performance

by Retired Author

Avoid unnecessary variable declaration and redundant instructions. Analyzing and understanding the compiler and generated IL instructions in a simple example, saving your performance.

Andrew's CodeProject Screen Saver

by Retired Author

(Yet) another screen saver for the Code Project competition, with code in C# and (coming soon) some details about how certain aspects of the code involved work.

Animate the Mainform of your Application

by Retired Author

Shows how to change the visual style of the application form with an animation.

Animated Counter Control

by Retired Author

An animated counter control with different themes

Animated Emoticons like those in MSN Messenger

by Retired Author

How to create a RichEdit control to display animated emoticons like MSN Messenger's.

Announcer in C#.NET using Microsoft Agent

by Retired Author

A tool to announce message, sing a song and tell a joke.

Anonymous Personalization Trick in Web Parts

by Retired Author

My favorite feature of ASP.NET 2.0 is Web Parts. But the anonymous users in ASP.NET cannot save personalization data and can't use Web Parts design options. This article describes how we can solve this problem in a tricky way.

Another class factory

by Retired Author

Class Factory based on C# events & delegate

Another wizard for .NET using tab control

by Retired Author

Another wizard for .NET using tab control

Anti BPX

by Retired Author

Simple check for break-points on eXecution of a system debugger!

Anti Flicker Graphics using Double Buffering and how to make simple graphic moves.

by Retired Author

This example will show you how to use doublebuffering and hopefully allows you to make images move across your screen.

Append Word documents using interop services

by Retired Author

An article on Word append using interop.

Application and component configuration

by Retired Author

Application and component configuration from XML .config files.

Application Configuration Settings .NET & VB 6 With XML

by Retired Author

Application configuration settings .NET & VB 6 with XML

Application Data Utility Class

by Retired Author

ApplicationData is a generic utility library class for managing an application's data

Application Settings the .NET way. INI, Registry, or XML

by Retired Author

In this article, I’ll explain how you can easily store and retrieve your application settings with just a few lines of code

Applied Crypto++: Pseudo Random Number Generators

by Retired Author

How to Choose a Crypto++ Pseudo Random Number Generator

Applied Crypto++: Using the RSA Digital Signature System (Part I)

by Retired Author

Create and Verify RSA Digital Signatures with Appendix Using Crypto++

Applied Reflection or stop SWITCHing

by Retired Author

This article illustrates a practical implementation of one of the common tasks that developers face every day, using reflection.

Applying Observer Pattern in .NET Remoting

by Retired Author

This article describes the steps to develop simple chat applications using .NET remoting and the Observer pattern.

Applying Observer Pattern in C++ Applications

by Retired Author

This article explains how to avoid object dependencies using the Observer Pattern with a simple example.

Applying Security to Server controls

by Retired Author

You may have to give access or hide controls based on the user logged in. This article would help you write custom code to show/hide or enable/disable controls

AquaButton: A Sample Custom Button Control with a Mac OS X Look

by Retired Author

Sample custom button control to help you write your own custom controls

Arithmetic Overflow Checking using checked/unchecked

by Retired Author

How to use overflow checking effectively and avoid some pitfalls.

ASC2XXX - Two classes for parsing delimited text files

by Retired Author

Convert delimited text files to XML file or DataSet object

ASCX Control Parser

by Retired Author

A program that allows you to convert .ascx User Controls into redistributable controls

ASP.NET - Drag and Drop on a Webpage

by Retired Author

Drag and drop contained objects on a webpage.

ASP.NET Color DropDown Control

by Retired Author

An example of persisting and parsing a custom collection in an ASP.NET server control.

ASP.NET Common Web Page Class Library - Part 1

by Retired Author

A set of common, reusable page classes for ASP.NET applications.

ASP.NET Common Web Page Class Library - Part 2

by Retired Author

Detecting changes in data controls in ASP.NET Web Forms.

ASP.NET Common Web Page Class Library - Part 3

by Retired Author

An ASP.NET page class that has the ability to e-mail its rendered content.

ASP.NET Common Web Page Class Library - Part 4

by Retired Author

A utility class containing some useful features for ASP.NET applications.

ASP.NET Controls to prevent automatic registrations from bots

by Retired Author

A set of controls that when placed on a web form help to prevent abuse of registration pages by forcing users to enter the security code displayed in a picture.

ASP.NET DataGrid UpDown Column

by Retired Author

The ASP.NET DataGrid UpDownColumn represents a DataGrid column up-down control that displays a list's selected values.

ASP.NET Dynamic XML Web Menu Control based on JavaScript

by Retired Author

ASP.NET dynamic XML web menu control based on JavaScript.

ASP.NET Expand/Contract DataGrid

by Retired Author

ASP.NET Expand/Contract DataGrid that allows you to show/hide details without posting back.

ASP.NET Extended DataGrid UI Features

by Retired Author

The ASP.NET DataGrid Server Control is a versatile control. The control displays data bound information in a HTML table. There are several key UI features that the DataGrid does not have. For instance, many HTML tables that show data in a list, change the color of the row when the mouse hovers over.

ASP.NET GridView Extension [Client Side Sortable/Dragable....] Part I

by Retired Author

Extension to the ASP.NET GridView control, with built-in client side sorting, column dragging, fixed header etc.

ASP.NET Guest Entry Form

by Retired Author

Guest Entry form with an XML control.

ASP.NET Letter Paging Based on Data Content

by Retired Author

Paged table data display in DataGrid by selecting letter from a letter list which is derived from existing data.

ASP.NET Optimistic Concurrency Control

by Retired Author

How to implement the optimistic concurrency control without the DataSet

ASP.NET Server-Side Charting with OWC11

by Retired Author

ASP.NET Server-Side Charting with OWC11

ASP.NET Table Searching

by Retired Author

Searching database and showing results in DataGrid control.

ASP.NET TreeView Control & the Client's Browser

by Retired Author

Demonstrates how to use the Microsoft ASP.NET TreeView control from client-side script.

ASP.NET User Controls - Notify One Control Of Changes In Other Control

by Retired Author

A tutorial on how to use delegate model to notify one ASP.NET user control of changes in the other user control.

Assembly Explorer 1.0

by Retired Author

Simple utility to browse assembly object hierarchy

Assuring Database Portability with ODBC and .NET

by Retired Author

Managing portability of your source code among different RDBMS, reducing developing time and maintenance.

Asynchronous Function Calls: Working with Win32 threads made easy

by Retired Author

An article on the new approach to utilize Win32 threads in a more intuitive manner.

Asynchronous Socket Communication

by Retired Author

An article on using sockets to communicate in a non-blocking manner. The sample works through building a simple chat client and server.

Asynchronous Socket Communications Using the .NET Framework

by Retired Author

An article on asynchronous socket communications using the .NET framework.

ATL COM Shared Add Ins Using C++ - The Easy Way

by Retired Author

ATL COM Shared Add Ins Using C++ - The Easy Way

ATL Server Tutorial - TipOfTheDay

by Retired Author

Create an ATL Server to generate random tips using a Server Response File

ATL Snapping Framework (Like VC.NET)

by Retired Author

Complete implementation of .NET IDE's snapping windows in ATL/WTL

ATOM To RSS Converter

by Retired Author

This article will help you to find a way to convert the ATOM to RSS Feed Format

Attributes Inspector

by Retired Author

Simple program to inspect custom attributes in assemblies

Audio DSP with C#

by Retired Author

A .NET class library for audio processing.

Aumplib: C# Namespace And Classes For Audio Conversion

by Retired Author

A namespace of various classes that provide audio conversion capabilities, and can convert between many audio formats, including MP3.

Auto Build Environment Add-in for Visual Studio .NET

by Retired Author

Provides support for customized global environment build settings on a per solution basis

Auto generate hyperlinks from a text file

by Retired Author

Autolink automatically generates a text file containing a list of hyperlinks. You provide a list of htm pages and a list of page names as input.

Auto Windows Resource (*.rc) version Editor

by Retired Author

This freeware allows to edit a Windows Resources File (*.rc) and to produce a file named 'version.h' containing several string constants (#define). It can also synchronize a RC file and version.h with the Classbuilder Master Header File.

AutoComplete without IAutoComplete

by Retired Author

An AutoCompletion control that doesn't use IAutoComplete but still retains the same look and feel.

Automate the Manifest Injection Process

by Retired Author

Automate manifest injection using post-build events.

Automated Class Builder for Database Tables

by Retired Author

This will create a set of classes that generate a set of C# class files which map into the database tables. They will have the class name same as the table name and they will have a set of properties that are same as the table attributes.

Automated IE SaveAs MHTML

by Retired Author

This article demonstrates how to automate IE's Save As functionality

Automatic Garbage Collection in C++ using Smart pointers

by Retired Author

This article explains how to prevent your programs from memory leaks, by incorporating Garbage Collector in your class.

Automatic Undo/Redo for .NET classes

by Retired Author

A unique spin on implementing generic Undo/Redo funcionality for .NET classes using method invocation interception...

Automating a specific instance of Visual Studio .NET using C#

by Retired Author

Get a list of running Visual Studio instances, and a reference to the automation server.

Automating Windows Applications

by Retired Author

A Windows application that does not export any program interface, may be converted to automation server with COM object(s) injected into the application process.

Auto-resize list view using a shortcut trick

by Retired Author

This is a little trick to auto-resize the columns width of a listview with only one line of code

AutoSig: A browser helper object that automatically adds a different signature when you post a message to a CP forum

by Retired Author

A browser helper object that automatically adds a different signature when you post a message to a CP forum

Avoid Max Open Cursor Error In .NET

by Retired Author

Handling Oracle Max Open cursor error when fetching multiple rows in .NET.

AxPipe - Multi-Threaded Binary Stream C++ Class Library

by Retired Author

A small and efficient collection of classes and templates to create multi-stage multi-threaded data processing pipe lines

BAC Calc

by Retired Author

Blood-alcohol level calculator.

BackgroundWorker Threads and Supporting Cancel

by Retired Author

Using a BackgroundWorker Thread to improve responsiveness in your UI, support cancel and display progress.

Backup Utility in C#

by Retired Author

A utility to backup directories and stick a datestamp on the folder, and remove folders older than N days, where N is configurable.

Balloon Help as a non-modal replacement for MessageBox()

by Retired Author

Although sometimes useful, message boxes used to display information are often just annoying. This article describes a non-modal replacement.

Bandwidth throttling

by Retired Author

Save bandwidth and get QoS with bandwidth throttling.

Barry's Chat System

by Retired Author

Barry's Chat System

BaseWeb ISAPI Security Module

by Retired Author

This article details a way to perform web security much like ASP 2.0 does it, using an ISAPI Filter.

Basic stuff on Files, Directories and Streams

by Retired Author

Demonstrates the use of the reader/writer classes as well as the file/directory info classes

Basic use of Shell_NotifyIcon in Win32

by Retired Author

Starting your app minimized on the sytem tray.

Batch Net Send

by Retired Author

Send network messages to several recipients

Beginner's Tutorial - Using global hotkeys

by Retired Author

Explains how to register, use and unregister hotkeys

Beginning Direct3D

by Retired Author

Start Direct3D programming and create a window

Bending the .NET PropertyGrid to Your Will

by Retired Author

A set of classes to simplify using custom properties in the .NET PropertyGrid control.

BetterCalendar WebControl

by Retired Author

A replacement for the System.Web.UI.WebControls.Calendar control.

Bidirectional Hashtable

by Retired Author

Demonstrates an easy-to-use bidirectional Hashtable to facilitate reverse lookups.

BiDirectionalHashtable

by Retired Author

Create a BiDirectionalHashtable to access both key and items in O(1) time, and create a connection between items.

Bienz.SysInfo - System Information the .NET way

by Retired Author

A library that assists in gathering system information such as disk volumes, labels and even disk icons.

Binary streaming of large images from Database

by Retired Author

Explains how to perform drawing on a large image retrieved from the database, and then stream the image with the "Open/Save" option.

Blackjack - a real world OOD example

by Retired Author

Learn OOD in .NET by examining a Blackjack game

Blog Reader Add-In for Visual Studio .NET

by Retired Author

A blog reader, integrated into Visual Studio. Shows a list of blogs, blog entries, and which entries you haven’t read yet

Blue Yonder

by Retired Author

This is an implementation of Microsoft Blue Yonder tutorial that comes with Beta 2 SDK.

Bottleneck - a tool for finding code bottlenecks in C#

by Retired Author

A simple tool that can be used to time how long different parts of your code take to execute, and where bottlenecks occur

Bounded Blocking Queue (One Lock)

by Retired Author

A fast and flexible Bounded Blocking Queue. Great for general Producer/Consumer needs such as network queues and pipelines.

Boxing and unboxing

by Retired Author

Boxing and unboxing

Brainchild, A syntax coloring edit control

by Retired Author

Syntax coloring, multi-level undo/redo editor control.

Brainnet - Introducing a declarative neural network library

by Retired Author

This article is expected to (0) Introduce Brainnet, a declarative neural network library we developed (1) Demonstrate some practical uses neural network programming (2) Give you a fair idea regarding neurons, neural networks and their applications (3) Introduce BrainNet library - an open source

Bringing Back FlowLayout to WinForms Controls

by Retired Author

This article describes how to create a Panel that allows FlowLayout positioning for WinForms.

Browsing Via Directories or HTTP, with ASP.NET

by Retired Author

An article on browsing via directories or HTTP, with ASP.NET.

Build solution from command line or with contexmenu item with Microsoft VS.NET

by Retired Author

Shows how to build solution files from command line or via contextmenu item.

Build Stack Array for Formatting or Searching Data

by Retired Author

This article builds stacks to filter or format data.

Building a Middle Tier Component using NHibernate and Spring.NET

by Retired Author

Building a highly pluggable middle-tier component with NHibernate and Spring.Net.

Building a Refactoring Plugin for VS.NET

by Retired Author

This article describes how to develop a refactoring addin for Visual Studio.NET

Building a Refactoring Plug-in for VS.NET - the Sequel

by Retired Author

Describes how to extend the original refactor add-in with additional features.

Building COM Objects in C#

by Retired Author

Building COM Objects in C#.

Building robust middle tier

by Retired Author

One of the many solutions to build a quick and robust middle tier.

Building web services with persistent state

by Retired Author

Describes a way of creating a web service that persists its state between sequent calls.

Business Façade Logic in distributed n-tier applications

by Retired Author

Explains how to implement a Business Façade logic layer between the Presentation logic and the Business logic in an n-tier application

Buttons and Floating containers supporting user defined themes

by Retired Author

Provides an XP look and feel over which you have ultimate control

C# Asteroids without DirectX

by Retired Author

An implementation of the classic asteroids game using 2D Drawing classes

C# CodeDOM parser

by Retired Author

This is a utility which parses C# source code and creates the CODEDOM tree of the code.

C# Compiler

by Retired Author

A simple C# [VB.NET] compiler without using csc.exe

C# Creating Dynamic Menus

by Retired Author

Creating Menus Dymanically in C#.

C# Data Class

by Retired Author

A generalised method for calling parameterized stored procedures

C# DateTime Library

by Retired Author

Common DateTime routines for C#.

C# does Shell, Part 1

by Retired Author

This article introduces shell programming using C#. It includes developing several utility classes for working with the shell and a class that wraps the extensible Browse for Folder dialog.

C# does Shell, Part 3

by Retired Author

This article is about Application Desktop Toolbars, which are applications that can align to the screen much like the taskbar. The article will develop a base class for developing such apps.

C# does Shell, Part 4

by Retired Author

This article is about the AutoComplete features enabled by windows and how to use them with C#. AutoComplete is the ability to expand strings written in an edit box. The article will develop a class for using this functionality in you applications.

C# Events: Create class events and use that class

by Retired Author

Educational article about C# events

C# Header control

by Retired Author

.NET wrapper of the system Header control.

C# List View v1.3

by Retired Author

A fully featured completely managed C# ListView.

C# managed DirectX HexEngine - Part I

by Retired Author

A simple Hex engine using DirectX

C# MaskedEdit Control

by Retired Author

C# MaskedEdit Control similiar to the MS Access masked edit control

C# RangeBar control

by Retired Author

A control that combines two scrollbars for choosing two related values

C# Rect Tracker

by Retired Author

C# Rect Tracker (like CRectTracker on C++).

C# Relational Database

by Retired Author

This article describes how to write a relational database using C#.

C# Scheduler

by Retired Author

This article demonstrates writing a service in C# and the setup options .NET provides.

C# Script Engine tutorial

by Retired Author

Introduces how to use Microsoft.vsa to make your programs have script functions

C# Sockets and Serialization

by Retired Author

A simple game that runs based on client server programming.

C# TreeView with multiple selection

by Retired Author

Enable multiple selection in .NET treeview controls

C# Validating TextBox Control

by Retired Author

A TextBox Control with Input Validation written in C#

C# ViewState Management/Storage - Four Locations!

by Retired Author

In this article, I discuss the PageStatePersister, and detail ViewState storage in one of four locations: Session, Application, AppGlobals, and server Cache.

C# Wallpaper Switcher

by Retired Author

Windows service code to change wallpaper at configured intervals

C# WEPkey generator

by Retired Author

A Wepkey generator for protecting your wireless LAN.

C# Windows Forms ImageMap Control

by Retired Author

An ImageMap control for use in Windows Forms applications

C#/.NET Command Line Arguments Parser

by Retired Author

Class to parse command line arguments and store/retrieve them.

C#: A-Star is born

by Retired Author

Understand graphs and A* path-finding algorithm with C#

Cabinet File (*.CAB) Compression and Extraction

by Retired Author

How to implement creation and extraction of Microsoft CAB files

Cache, Session, and ViewState

by Retired Author

Properly using cache, session, and viewstate objects in your asp.net application

Calculating Christian Holidays

by Retired Author

Calculate dates for christian holidays such as Easter, Ascension day etc.

Calculator with Proportionaly Resizable Controls. Using Hashtable() to store default locations of controls.

by Retired Author

This article shows you how to use Hashtable() to store data, foreach() to cycle through collections of elements, and some other functions that you can usually see in most of the applications.

Calendar

by Retired Author

Tray calendar for WinXP+ (replaces MirandaPlanner).

Call XML Web service from ASP

by Retired Author

How to Give a call to XML Web Service through ASP

Calling API functions using C#

by Retired Author

This article helps you to get an idea about calling API functions in C#.

Calling C# assembly functions having same name differing only by case, in VB.NET

by Retired Author

Calling C# assembly functions having same name differing only by case, in VB.NET.

Calling JavaScript from a Visual Studio Installation Project's Custom Action

by Retired Author

When you create an installation project with Visual Studio, you can use Custom Actions to perform extra processing once the basic installation has completed. This article describes how to have a custom action execute some JavaScript, passing it some parameters.

Calling Managed .NET Function from Unmanaged Windows Custom DLL.

by Retired Author

It will help you to call a managed function from unmanaged DLL function.

Calling methods from Dll compiled in 'C' from C#

by Retired Author

Describes how to interface 'C' code with C# through Dlls compiled in 'C'

CAMEL - CPU Identifier Class

by Retired Author

A class to detect ALL the features of the CPU / CPUs in the local system. Now at version 1.2

Camera Vision - video surveillance on C#

by Retired Author

A C# video surveillance application, which allows monitoring several IP cameras simultaneously.

Can search_n be more efficient?

by Retired Author

This article is discussing the efficiency of the most popular search_n implementations. Furthermore, it is introducing a new search_n specialization for random access iterators, which outruns by far the most commonly used implementations.

Cancellable Thread Pool

by Retired Author

A replacement ThreadPool with Abort and Resume functionality.

Canvas implementation for C#

by Retired Author

Design and implementation of canvas in C#

Capture Sample with DirectX and .NET

by Retired Author

A solution to capture video and frames simultaneously

Capturing the Running IE Instances in C#

by Retired Author

How to find the running instances of Internet Explorer on your machine.

Capturing the Screen Image in C#

by Retired Author

An article on capturing the Screen using Win32 APIs in C#

Cascade XSL

by Retired Author

An engine that transforms XML files on a web server.

Castle's DynamicProxy for .NET

by Retired Author

Explains how to use DynamicProxy to intercept on object instances.

CColourPickerXP - a Theme-aware Colour Picker with 2 Styles.

by Retired Author

An theme-aware colour picker MFC control that combines the functionalities of other colour pickers on CodeProject and adds some new functionality.

CCryptoTokenizer

by Retired Author

CCryptoTokenizer

Centralize Show Form Validation Logic

by Retired Author

This article will show how to centralize your logic when opening a Windows Form.

CFile Replacement with Overlapped I/O and User-Defined Progress Callback

by Retired Author

Provides a class capable of providing a CFile sytle interface with no MFC dependecies and more importantly providing the ability to read/write if full overlapped IO mode with a user defined callback between each segment read/write.

CFlowchartEditor - linking things in CDiagramEditor

by Retired Author

A flowchart editor with linked objects, based on CDiagramEditor.

CFolderDialog - Selecting Folders

by Retired Author

The CFolderDialog class allows you to add a folder-selection dialog box to your applications.

CFormatDriveDialog - A wrapper class for the undocumented SHFormatDrive API function

by Retired Author

A wrapper class for SHFormatDrive (XP/2K only). Corrects some errors in KB article Q173688

CFunctionEdit - A custom control for n-tuple input v1.2

by Retired Author

A custom control for n-tuple input.

CGlassDialog

by Retired Author

This is a simple class that makes transparent dialog boxes rise more smoothly.

CGridCtrl 1.5

by Retired Author

This article presents a tiny grid control derived from the standard list control

Chaining channels in .NET Remoting

by Retired Author

This article describes how to design and implement remoting over chained channels (standard and custom) using the logical url address connectivity.

Change Over All Georgian(Miladi) Dates that Exist in Dataset to Shamsi Date

by Retired Author

This Control can change the Georgian dates in Dataset to Shamsi date (For Report)

Change Video Signal Format with DirectX library

by Retired Author

An enhancement for the DirectX video stream and frame capture sample.

Changing Crystal Report Database logon information at runtime in VS2005

by Retired Author

Resolving Crystal Report "Table not Found" error message after migrationg the VS2003 Code to VS2005

Changing the background color of cells in a DataGrid

by Retired Author

How to change the background color of cells in a DataGrid depending on their value

Changing the default limit of 25 threads of ThreadPool class

by Retired Author

Changing the default limit of 25 threads of ThreadPool class

Changing the Visual Studio .NET Add-in Default Tool Menu Item Icon

by Retired Author

This article discusses how to change the icon that is placed on the tools menu by the Visual Studio .NET Add-in Wizard

ChartControl

by Retired Author

In This User Control 10 Types Of Charts are Created Dynamically Depending upon type of Chart Selected by User That Chart is Displayed .It also Changes BackColor and ForeColor of Chart

Check Help Links Tool

by Retired Author

A tool to check links across merged help (CHM) files.

Checkable Detail List View

by Retired Author

ListView which supports checkable subitems and returns the clicked subitem

Christian and James' Code Project Screensaver

by Retired Author

Our attempt at a screen saver with a Code Project theme, written in C#

CHTMLLogFile class in C#

by Retired Author

The CHTMLLogFile class presented in this article implements an HTML format for a log file with some (useful) features.

Circular Menu Component

by Retired Author

Describes the use and architecture of an animated, circularly arranged pop-up menu control written in C#.

Classic Encryption

by Retired Author

This code implements classic encryption technique in an easy and reusable way.

ClassLib, A C++ class library

by Retired Author

C++ class library.

CleanUp Files using C Sharp

by Retired Author

Describes the File Access, Persistance with C Sharp

CLEDScreen class - LED digital screen with transparency

by Retired Author

A CStatic derived digital LED screen with transparency. Based on "CStaticTime class" of Jason Hattingh.

Clickable Splitter

by Retired Author

A custom control in C# based on the standard splitter showing embedded resources.

Client side script helper

by Retired Author

Class helps to write client side scripting inside .NET code.

Clipboard handling with .NET

by Retired Author

An introduction to using the clipboard

Clipboard handling with .NET - Part II

by Retired Author

Builds on part 1, showing how to use custom/multiple formats

CLRDebugEnable: A Visual Studio .NET add-in that allows non-admin accounts to debug CLR applications running under different logon credentials

by Retired Author

A Visual Studio .NET addin that allows non-admin accounts to debug CLR applications running under different logon credentials.

CM_ConfigBuilder 1.2g: Visual Studio 6/Visual Studio 2005/Visual Studio 2008 Code Generator for Application Settings Graphic Management

by Retired Author

CM_ConfigBuilder generates and compiles the required files to manage your application's settings/preferences and to store/retrieve them in XML format.

CMapEditor

by Retired Author

A simple and efficient interface for using a multi-level matrix of values.

CMapEditorCtrl

by Retired Author

This class provides MFC Control functionality to CMapEditor, and supports isometric view

CMenuXP - The Office XP Style Menu

by Retired Author

Owner drawn menu with the Office XP visual style

CNumberFormat: A class for bit-field extraction out from 32 bit value values

by Retired Author

An MFC class for fast extraction and interpretation of values from a 32 bit provided value.

Code Editor (Part 1)

by Retired Author

Create a Code/Text editor. Line numbering with or without wordwrap enabled.

Code Generation tools complementing generics

by Retired Author

A palette of code generation tools for VS.NET.

Code Template Add-In for Visual Studio .NET

by Retired Author

A Visual Studio .NET addin that provides a mechanism for inserting commonly used code snippets.

CodeProject Quoter

by Retired Author

Simple tool for storing and retrieving the quotes and using them in the signatures.

Collapsible Splitter control in C#

by Retired Author

A Mozilla-style collapsing splitter control in C#

Collision - A C# Game, Part 1: Parallax Scrolling

by Retired Author

In which I attempt to write a simple game in C#

Collision - A C# Game, Part 2: Tracking Game Elements and Adding Interaction

by Retired Author

Continuing my attempt at a simple game in C#

Collision - A C# Game, Part 3: Pixel Perfect Collision Detection

by Retired Author

Finishing my attempt at a simple game in C#

Color Button

by Retired Author

Changing the Color of the Button control

Color Picker for WTL with XP themes

by Retired Author

Color picker control for WTL applications including optional support for XP themes

Color ProgressBar

by Retired Author

An attractive and fancier ProgressBar.

ColorComboBox

by Retired Author

Selecting colors with a combo box.

Coloring items in a ListBox

by Retired Author

This article describes the "bug/feature" in the ASP.NET ListBox.

COM Interop using managed C++

by Retired Author

A demoonstration of COM Interop, showing early and late binding to a COM component

COM port made simple with VB.NET

by Retired Author

Using the com port in windows, using any .NET Language

COM+ Subscription Viewer

by Retired Author

This sample shows how to retrieve a subscriptions registered in the Event System store using C#.

Combinatorial algorithms in C#

by Retired Author

Some basic combinatorial algoritms for use in the NET framework

Combine RegularExpression Validation Control with RequiredField Validation Control

by Retired Author

RequiredField and Regular Expression validation together... you can use this control in place of group required field and regular expression validation controls.

Command line tool with source code to add native resources to any executable

by Retired Author

A command line tool with source code to add any native Win32 resource (HTML, Icons, BMPs, etc.) to an executable.

Command Line Windows Services Manager

by Retired Author

How to manipulate Windows services on local or remote computers.

Command Prompt Explorer Bar

by Retired Author

This tool extends explorer with functionality of a command prompt. Implemented as a band object completely in C#. Demonstrates COM Interop and P/Invoke, windows hooking and API interception. Finally you can run all these .Net SDK tools and ‘Hello World!’ programs without leaving explorer shell.

Comments Workbench for C++ - A Visual Studio .NET Add-in

by Retired Author

Comments workbench for C++ - a Visual Studio .NET add-in.

Comparing Two Bitmaps for Equality

by Retired Author

Code snippet that compares two HBITMAP handles to see if the bitmaps they contain are the same

CompilationCleaner: Efficient File Searching With a CLR Interface

by Retired Author

Developer utility to clean up multiple compilations.

Complex Data Binding a Collection Implementing IBindingList and ITypedList

by Retired Author

Complex Data Binding a collection implementing IBindingList and ITypedList

Composites-Visitors pattern: the OOP way

by Retired Author

An implementation of the composite-visitors pattern avoiding the use of rescursive generic code.

Compressing attachments before sending the mail

by Retired Author

Compressing attachments before sending the mail

Computer Conversions (Hexadecimal, Decimal, Octal and Binary)

by Retired Author

An article to demonstrate how to convert from one base 2, 8, 10 or 16 to another of base 2, 8, 10, 16

Config Helper

by Retired Author

Eases the use of keys defined under appSettings.

Configurable WebService Servers

by Retired Author

Change WebService server locations at runtime.

Conquering Wizard97

by Retired Author

This article describes the problems one can meet during using Wizard 97 with MFC and the way to resolve them

Console App for deleting files in a specified directory based on user inputted timestamp

by Retired Author

Very useful in running as a scheduled task to delete unwanted files accumulating in a directory

Console Application Framework

by Retired Author

A framework for rapidly creating a console application.

Console FTP in C#

by Retired Author

A basic FTP client in C#.

Constructing a Simple LINQ Database Application

by Retired Author

More about the technology, but the demo app is ASP.NET

Consuming .NET My Services from Managed C++

by Retired Author

This white paper guides you through the process of writing a client application that will consume a sample .NET My Services service

Consuming Web Services from a Win Forms Application

by Retired Author

How to access and use a web service from a C# application, using the CodeProject Web Services.

ContainerListView and TreeListView: Writing VS.NET design-surface compatible controls

by Retired Author

Learn how to properly integrate your custom .NET control into the Visual Studio .NET design environment with TypeConverters and UITypeEditors. The article includes two useful controls, a container ListView, and a complete, feature-loaded TreeListView.

Control Center for Windows 2K and more extended

by Retired Author

Control Center for Windows 2K and more

ControlInspector - monitor Windows Forms events as they are fired (like Spy++ for .net)

by Retired Author

ControlInspector hooks on to all events on a given control, user-control or form and shows when they are fired, along with any eventargs. It even handles custom events and custom event args using dynamically generated assemblies.

Controlling Winamp2/3/Sonique Programmatically

by Retired Author

An article on controlling popular media players from external programs.

Conversion of Decimal to any Base (Binary, Octal or Hexa) and vice-versa (C#)

by Retired Author

Generic functions written in C# to convert a binary,octal or a hexa-decimal to a decimal number and vice-versa.

Convert a VS.NET 2003 project to VS.NET 2002

by Retired Author

This article demonstrates how to convert a VS.NET 2003 project to VS.NET 2002

Convert a Delegate to a Function pointer to Implement Callback function

by Retired Author

Convert a delegate to a function pointer to implement callback function, for mixed Managed C++ and unmanaged C++ coding, and for DLL call.

Convert a Text File to a PDF File

by Retired Author

This article shows how to convert a text file to PDF.

Convert any URL to a MHTML archive using native .NET code

by Retired Author

A native .NET class for saving URLs: text-only, HTML page, HTML archive, or HTML complete.

Convert Excel to XML file/XML Schema, and validate Excel against XML Schema

by Retired Author

Provides a utility and code library to convert an Excel file to XML file as well as generate XML Schema. It validates an Excel file against XML Schema.

Convert RSSBandit XML files to OPML format

by Retired Author

Convert your RSS Feeds to OPML.

Convert VB6 forms to C#

by Retired Author

Convert VB6 forms to C#

Converting Database records to Excel file(Very simple code)

by Retired Author

This is project is to know about how to convert the retrieved data from database to Excel file thro' c# code

Converting JScript.NET to C#.

by Retired Author

Want to make it easy to make the jump to C#? Here's the answer.

Cool WTL menu with Gradient Sidebar

by Retired Author

An article about changing the look of WTL icon menu

Copy from FTP server to local Server through VB.Net

by Retired Author

This code helps you to explain how to copy/downloads files from FTP server to local server

Copying graphics with BitBlt (.NET Style)

by Retired Author

When Graphics.Clone() just won't do.

Core Custom Scrollbar Class

by Retired Author

This is a fully drawn GDI+ custom scrollbar control class. All of its drawing methods are overrideable, allowing developers to paint it however they choose.

Counting Lines of Code in C#

by Retired Author

An article on recursively counting lines of code in files from a given directory.

Counting Semaphore (Dijkstra) in C#

by Retired Author

C# implementation of a Dijkstra counting Semaphore.

CountryListBox ASP.NET Web Control, lists countries and automatically detects country of visitors.

by Retired Author

A DropDownList derived control that lists all countries and performs an IP Address database lookup, to determine the country of visitors automatically.

CP+ Visual Studio.NET Add-In

by Retired Author

An app which retrieves the latest Articles and Lounge Posts from CP and displays them to you within your VS.NET IDE

CPBar for latest article briefs (RSS feed)

by Retired Author

This article is about creating a vertical explorer bar which displays CodeProject's latest article briefs from its RSS feed.

CPopProxyMT - A multi-threaded POP3 proxy skeleton

by Retired Author

CPopProxyMT is a skeletal class that wraps a multi-threaded POP3 proxy. You can further modify this class to suite your needs.

CProfile - A Simple Class to Do Code Profiling and Tracing

by Retired Author

This simple class allows to profile code sections and optionally print time elapsed and tracing strings in different formats.

Crafting an interpreter Part 2 - The Calc0 Toy Language

by Retired Author

Second article on building a language interpreter describing error handling and direct evaluation during parsing.

Crafting an interpreter Part 3 - Parse Trees and Syntax Trees

by Retired Author

Third article on building a language interpreter describing the generation of parse trees and syntax trees.

Crafting an interpreter Part 1 - Parsing and Grammars

by Retired Author

First of a series of articles on building a language interpreter, describing basics about parsing and grammars.

CRC Encoding

by Retired Author

An article on using CRCxxx checksum calculations in C#, combined with the serialstreamreader example found on this site.

Create a Convenient Toolbar Assistant Using WTL

by Retired Author

A more easy to generate toolbar images.

Create a Fractal Christmas Tree

by Retired Author

This program explores how trees are made using a simple fractal algorithm.

Create a movie from an HBitmap

by Retired Author

Explains methods for creating a movie (AVI/ WMV/ MOV) programmatically.

Create a Universal Document Template which supports Dynamic Frame Window Layout

by Retired Author

Introduce a programming technology to design a very complex, rich document type.

Create a Windows Media Player List

by Retired Author

Create Playlist regardless of Windows recognised format using strings, arrays and files

Create an Automation Add-In for Excel using .NET

by Retired Author

Describes how to create an automation add-in for Excel using .NET.

Create animation in dotNet with alpha-blending PNG images by calling API

by Retired Author

This article shows you the advantage of PNG images with alpha-blending feature in creating animation and demonstates how to use PNG images in Framework.NET application by calling API

Create In-Place ToolTips on yourself control

by Retired Author

It is very easy to create In-Place ToolTips on yourself control like treeview control.

Create multilingual web pages very easily

by Retired Author

Create multilingual web pages very easily, without using localization and resources.

Create Simple ASP.NET Progress Bar Control

by Retired Author

Create simple ASP.NET Progress Bar Web control, and download example ZIP file.

Create Sub Window for MiniView under CView

by Retired Author

This Article is make of a CView under CView using CWnd control

Creating a C# Service Step-by-Step Lesson II

by Retired Author

A multi-article contribution describing in step-by-step detail on creating your own service with integrated support for setup and custom event logs. This lesson we'll add multiple child services as well as updating the installer to install these services as well.

Creating a C# Service Step-by-Step: Lesson I

by Retired Author

A multi-article contribution describing in step-by-step detail on creating your own service with integrated support for setup and custom event logs.

Creating a custom wizard to generate managed C++.NET applications with a default form

by Retired Author

Creating a custom wizard to generate managed C++.NET applications with a default form

Creating a dynamic browsable interface for your photos and movies

by Retired Author

This allows you to copy some files of interest to a folder (local/network) and let ASP.NET write the UI (run time dynamically) to maintain a browsable interface.

Creating a global Whois class

by Retired Author

Lookup a domain name for any tld (top level domain)

Creating a Mechanical Trading System Part 2: Four Percent Trading System

by Retired Author

An article describing how to implement and test a mechanical trading system such as Ned Davis 4 percent model using a C# simulator.

Creating a Rich Label

by Retired Author

Extending the Windows.Forms.Label control.

Creating a shell extension with C#

by Retired Author

Demonstrates building a Windows Explorer shell extension using C# and COM Interop.

Creating a Yahoo! Mail Client using IWebBrowser2 and DHTML

by Retired Author

Describes a practical use of the HTML interfaces available in C++.

Creating advanced C# custom events

by Retired Author

Hooking up C# objects with delegate events.

Creating An ActiveX Control using VC++.NET

by Retired Author

An understanding of ActiveX controls.

Creating an Extensible User Interface with .NET, Part 1

by Retired Author

An architecture for extending the User Interface of a program via plug-in components.

Creating an Extensible User Interface with .NET, Part 2

by Retired Author

Accessing application level user interface elements from plug-in components.

Creating an Internet Explorer Favorites Control

by Retired Author

How to create an Internet Explorer favorites control.

Creating and Deleting Custom Menus in Visio using C#

by Retired Author

Creating the Visio custom menus and handling the click event from C# programs.This project requires that Visio application should run and it requires a default drawing to be open.

Creating and Resolving shell links

by Retired Author

An MC++ class that uses IJW to invoke the IShellLink interface

Creating Bitmap Regions for Forms and Buttons

by Retired Author

This article describes on how to create bitmap regions for WinForms and buttons.

Creating Collection-Based Controls with Rich Design-Time Support

by Retired Author

An article on writing advanced collection-based Windows Forms Controls and the best way to give them advanced design-time support. Includes full C# source code for a sample toolbar-like control.

Creating COM+ Objects using EnterpriseServices in .NET

by Retired Author

An article on using .NET to create COM+ distributed components acting with a transaction across multiple databases.

Creating Custom Shaped Windows Forms in .NET

by Retired Author

Creating custom shaped Windows Forms in .NET.

Creating DataGrid BoundColumn ButtonColumn HyperLinkColumn at Runtime in Asp.net

by Retired Author

This Article Show How to create a Creating DataGrid BoundColumn ButtonColumn HyperLinkColumn at Runtime in Asp.net

Creating draggable windows - SDI and dialogs

by Retired Author

Shows how you can create windows that can be dragged around, not just through the title bar, but anywhere within the window body

Creating Multilingual Websites - Part 1

by Retired Author

Extend the existing globalization capabilities of .NET to create flexible and powerful multilgual web sites. First, create a custom ResourceManager, and then create custom localized-capable server controls to easily deploy multilingual functionality.

Creating Self-Extracted Executable

by Retired Author

How to create a Self-Extracted executable with minimal overhead

Creating Semi-Transparent Watermarks for Images in VB.NET

by Retired Author

Apply a translucent watermark to a JPEG image using VB.NET.

Creating Shell Links (Shortcuts) in .NET Programs Using WSH

by Retired Author

It's easy to create shortcuts using the Windows Script Host Object Model

Creating some cool buttons and groupboxes

by Retired Author

Using GDI+ functions to add cool stuff.

Creating Your First C# Windows Application

by Retired Author

Learn how to create your first Visual C# Windows application.

Creation of Multiple Dynamic Views. How to initilize and use additional different views in your MDI app by using Doc / view architecture. Example...

by Retired Author

An MDI MFC generated project has only one view by default, here is one way to add more CView derived classes and initiliaze them without adding any special initialization code.

Creation of XML for Microsoft Tree View Control from SQL Server 2000 Database

by Retired Author

Tree is used for hierarchical display of data and permits you to create effective user interfaces while easing development and maintenance time.

Credit card validation on client as well as on server side...(My simple way series article)

by Retired Author

easy client and server side credit card validation

CRegSettings - registry helper class

by Retired Author

Simple class to store application settings in registry

Cross language inheritance in .NET

by Retired Author

An introduction to cross-language inheritence in .NET.

Cross Language Web Service Implementation

by Retired Author

Cross Language XML based Web Service Implementation between Managed C++ and C#.

Crossbrowser SmartNavigation Alternative

by Retired Author

An article on how to create a server control that preserves the scroll position in longer pages.

CRoundButton2 - A fancy graphical button

by Retired Author

A self drawing, round button for different styles and usages.

Cryptography in .NET

by Retired Author

Cryptography in .NET using the Windows PKI

Cryptography with symmetric key using bitmaps

by Retired Author

Cryptography with symmetric key using bitmaps

Crystall Motion

by Retired Author

Control LCD connected to parallel port

CSC.EXE CMDLGen

by Retired Author

Simple utility for generating csc.exe command line options

CScrollCtrl: An autoscrolling text control

by Retired Author

Display autoscrolling text with logo and patterned background. Useful for about dialogs, misc fluff.

CSecureEditEx - A More Secure Edit Control

by Retired Author

CSecureEditEx controls are resistant to password revealers. Passwords aren't visible in the process memory.

CSoundFileDlg - An Open/Save dilaog for sound files with Preview (or prelisten)

by Retired Author

The CSoundFileDlg Class allows you to use a file open dialog for sound files, but allows yow to hear the sound before open it.

CSplashScreenEx: A Non Rectangular Splash Screen Class with Alpha Blending

by Retired Author

CSplashScreenEx allows to display a non rectangular bitmap with information about the init of your app

CToolbarDialog - dialog with floating toolbar

by Retired Author

A CDialog derived class that contains a floating toolbar.

CToolTipDialog class : a simple WTL class to enable tooltips in your dialogs

by Retired Author

Add this small class to your existing dialog inheritance list and get nice tooltips on controls and dialog.

CTreeComboBox: A Multiline Tree Combo Box that supports XML

by Retired Author

This class implements a combo box that reads its data from an XML file, displays a tree as a drop down window, and supports mulitple selections.

Custom 32-bit RGBA Color MFC Control

by Retired Author

A custom MFC control that allows the user to manipulate 32-bit RGBA colour attributes.

Custom Authentication provider by implementing IHttpModule, IPrincipal and IIdentity

by Retired Author

An article on writing Custom Authentication provider in ASP.NET

Custom Button with Color and Shape

by Retired Author

Another simple custom button control with color and shape.

Custom C# .NET Settings Class

by Retired Author

Having problems changing app.config and web.config? Use your own settings class. Easy to add new keys and save to disk.

Custom ComboBoxes with Advanced Drop-down Features

by Retired Author

Contains several ComboBoxes which uses Windows themes and contains ComboBoxes with CheckBoxed lists and TreeViews

Custom Control: Numeric TextBox: TextBox that alow you to enter only numbers

by Retired Author

Sometimes we need to control the user input to some specific values. The following article explain how to do this with a TextBox

Custom Controls Library (MaskEdit, Statusbar with Progress Panel, and more)

by Retired Author

Custom Controls Library (MaskEdit, Statusbar with Progress Panel, and more).

Custom Data Grid with Field Chooser functionality

by Retired Author

A datagrid control with field chooser context menu

Custom DataGrid with Progress Bar control

by Retired Author

Shows how to create a custom control based on the DataGrid control with progress column

Custom Draw TreeView in VB.NET

by Retired Author

An owner draw implementation of a VB.NET treeview to show some bold text in nodes.

Custom Global Application Culture

by Retired Author

This article helps you in defining the application specific culture at the startup time of your application.

Custom Resource Reader

by Retired Author

Implementing custom resource reader with database

Custom Wizard for OpenGL in Visual Studio .NET

by Retired Author

Create OpenGL Window using MFC in Visual Studio .NET

Custom WSE 3.0 Policy Assertions for Signing and Encrypting SOAP Messages with Username Tokens

by Retired Author

An article describing the implementation of custom WSE 3.0 policy assertions for signing and encrypting SOAP messages with Username tokens.

Customisable WinForms Progressbar Control VB.NET

by Retired Author

A progress bar control you can customize

Customized ListView Control

by Retired Author

This is a customized ListView control having facility for sorting, finding an element in the list, selecting necessary rows from the list by using a checkbox, selecting all rows in the list and inverting the selection.

Customized Text - Orientated Controls in C# - Part I (Label Control)

by Retired Author

Label which can display text in any orientation and shape.

Customized Visual Studio .NET package: your fully integrated document window inside the IDE

by Retired Author

Create a fully integrated document window inside the Visual Studio IDE.

Customizing C# Wizard Templates in Visual Studio .NET 2003

by Retired Author

How to customize VS.NET 2003 C# templates to accommodate default comments and Visual SourceSafe keywords.

Customizing the header control in a ListView

by Retired Author

This article describes how to extend the default header control in a ListView in details mode.

CvsIn Add-in for Visual Studio .NET 2002 and 2003 and Visual Studio 2005

by Retired Author

CvsIn add-in for Visual Studio .NET 2002 and 2003 and Visual Studio 2005.

CXSBrowseFolder - A Simple Class to Encapsulate SHBrowseForFolder

by Retired Author

This class makes it easier to use the shell function SHBrowseForFolder

CxStatic: a CStatic control with text wrapping

by Retired Author

A CStatic control with text wrapping, color, and transparency.

CYABFFW: Yet Another BrowseForFolder Wrapper

by Retired Author

Yet another wrapper for the ::BrowseForFolder function

Dahlia Debug-Device Browser Bar

by Retired Author

An Internet Explorer browser bar, which acts as a pseudo-debug output device

Data Access Component - declarative transactions at the method level without EnterpriseServices, different data sources supported, Part 1

by Retired Author

Data Access Component - thin wrapper of ADO.NET eliminating the need for the transactional support provided by COM+, supplying a uniform interface to different data sources thus allowing for easy switching to another data source eventually

Data Application Block for Firebird SQL

by Retired Author

Data Application Block for Firebird SQL intended to speed the development of applications

Data Binding TreeView in C#

by Retired Author

C# implementation of data binding TreeView.

Data encryption with DPAPI

by Retired Author

A wrapper class for the Data Protection API

Data Form Wizard for ASP.NET with only 3 lines of code

by Retired Author

Data form wizard for ASP.NET similar to that for the Windows applications.

Database Build Tool

by Retired Author

An extensible tool to package and deploy database schema objects

Database Logging in .NET

by Retired Author

Component that caches updates to a log and then persists them to a database on a timed interval.

Database Schema Comparison Utility

by Retired Author

An article describing a way to find the differences between two database instances

DataGrid Formatting

by Retired Author

Applying DataGridTableStyle class In WinForm DataGrid control.

DataGrid Printing Class V1.0b

by Retired Author

A DataGrid printing class.

DataGrid101: Using Windows.Forms DataGrid

by Retired Author

Tutorial on the usage of Windows.Forms.DataGrid

DataGridHelper tool

by Retired Author

A utility class to ease adding CSS classes and confirmation dialogs to the ASP.NET DataGrid component.

DataGrid's ViewState optimization

by Retired Author

How to reduce DataGrid's ViewState size, while maintaining all DataGrid's functionalities.

DataPlotter - linear or logarithmic display of 2D data

by Retired Author

The DataPlotter is a .NET control for graphical display of 2D data. For both the X and Y axis a linear or logarithmic (any base) scaling can be selected.

DDEListener Component (open your Document Files with Explorer)

by Retired Author

Handles DDE_EXECUTE messages

Deadlock Detection in Existing Code

by Retired Author

The article briefly discusses deadlocks behavior, and presents an easy way to detect them.

Debug Console Window

by Retired Author

A console window class useful for debugging, reporting events during runtime and saving logs on disk.

Debugging XPath Queries

by Retired Author

An application to visualize XPath Queries

DECIMAL Wrapper Class

by Retired Author

A simple DECIMAL wrapper class suitable for C++ code interfacing VB scripts/OLE automation code etc.

Declarative Transactions using ADO.NET and without Enterprise Services

by Retired Author

Sometimes, it is nice to prototype up a simple database application. This code may help, by providing the automatic transactional model of COM+ in a non-COM+ environment. This example uses "Interception" to provide automatic transactioning support for non-COM+ classes.

Delay MessageBox with auto-close option

by Retired Author

This message box delays its dismissal by disabling the OK button for a delay interval. It also has an optional auto-close feature. There are two versions, one uses a WH_CBT hook and some basic window tricks like sub-classing to achieve its goal. The other one is more MFC-ied.

Delegate: What is this?

by Retired Author

This article contains explanation of delegate concept.

Delegates - a 15 minutes quick start tutorial

by Retired Author

Teaches you about delegates using an example program

Delegates for Dummies

by Retired Author

Primer - The basics about delegates, how to define them and use them

Delegates in managed C++

by Retired Author

This sample demonstrates single- and multi-cast delegates using C++, including declaration, creation and usage, and a discussion on type safety.

Demonstrating Custom Attributes: Build An Assembly Searching Tool.

by Retired Author

Build an assembly searching system via custom attributes and reflection.

Dependency-Grapher for C++-Projects

by Retired Author

An add-in written in VB.NET to generate an inheritance and/or dependency graph of a c++-project. Uses the graphviz library from AT&T.

Deriving your own stream from the iostreams framework

by Retired Author

An exploration of extending the iostreams framework through custom streams.

Design by Contract macros for C++ and link to Doxygen

by Retired Author

Macros to write "Design by Contract" conditions in the header of the functions and inoculate it in your doxygen documentation automatically.

Design Patterns Implementation in a Storage Explorer Application

by Retired Author

A design patterns approach for designing and explaining a Storage Explorer application. The application is used to explore file composition in a computer storage.

Design Your Soccer Engine, and Learn How To Apply Design Patterns (Observer, Decorator, Strategy and Builder Patterns) - Part I and II

by Retired Author

This article is expected to (1) Introduce patterns to you in a simple, human readable way (2) Train you how to really identify and apply patterns (3) Demonstrate step by step methods to solve a design problem using patterns

Designer centric Wizard control

by Retired Author

A Wizard control designed for design time development.

Designing and implementing a versatile data access tier for an ASP.NET application

by Retired Author

In this article, we will drill down deeper in to the design of a n-tier architecture and our focus will be on the data access tier (DAT)

Desktop Bob - Instant CP notifications

by Retired Author

A tool for acessing CodeProject and have instant notifications of Codeproject's posts

Developing Next Generation Smart Clients using .NET 2.0 working with Existing .NET 1.1 SOA-based XML Web Services

by Retired Author

Comprehensive guide to development of .NET 2.0 Smart Clients working with existing Service Oriented Architecture based XML web services, fully utilizing the Enterprise Library

Developing OutlookBar user control in ASP.NET

by Retired Author

OutlookBar User Control in ASP.NET.

Developing Windows Forms Control using MFC and Managed C++

by Retired Author

Demonstrates different ways to move MFC based controls to .NET Windows Forms

DevGlobalCache – A way to Cache and Share data between processes

by Retired Author

A way to Cache and Share data between processes

DfsmvPorty - XML-configurable Port Scanner

by Retired Author

A small utility to notify you by e-mail when ports on servers are not available.

DHTML Editor with Table Support and Source Editor

by Retired Author

A complete class encapsulating a versatile HTML editor

Different Methods of ClickOnce Deployment

by Retired Author

An article that discusses different ways of deploying ClickOnce

Digital Analog Clock

by Retired Author

Digital analog clock

DirectShow MediaPlayer in C#

by Retired Author

This article shows how to play a Media File in a C# Windows Application.

DirectShow.NET

by Retired Author

DirectShow for DVD and file playback, capture and sample grabber

DirectX 8 Template 2

by Retired Author

An extension to the DirectX framework for adding backgrounds

DirectX Video Stream and frame capture

by Retired Author

A library that can capture video stream and frame together

DirectX.Capture Class Library

by Retired Author

A .NET class library for capturing video and audio to AVI files.

Disable Column Resizing in ListView Report Mode

by Retired Author

This article describes how to use the NativeWindow object to take control of the message processing of a ListView's column header. This allows the programmer to intercept messages and prevent or respond to things like column resizing.

Displaying , Exporting and Printing Crystal Reports in ASP.NET

by Retired Author

Displaying , exporting and printing crystal reports in ASP.NET with source code.

Displaying a Notify Icon's Balloon Tool Tip

by Retired Author

Displaying a balloon tool tip for a notification icon.

Displaying and Working with Forms

by Retired Author

Whether you are new to development, or coming from Visual Basic, C++, Java, or Delphi, managing forms in WinForms can be initially confusing. This is an article targeted at beginners in WinForms programming to demonstrate how to easily manage and work with forms in a WinForms application.

DIY Intellisense

by Retired Author

Do it yourself intellisense/autocompletion.

Dll Profiler in C#

by Retired Author

A debugging tool for applications using multiple DLLs.

Dlls are Simple. Part 1

by Retired Author

How to create DLLs and use them.

Dotnet eXtended framework

by Retired Author

Extend the .NET framework power with DotNetX - free libraries that allow you to generate code, cache database objects, etc.

dotNETSender - Windows Messenger like GUI for net send command

by Retired Author

Windows Messenger like GUI for net send command

DotNetStress

by Retired Author

A simple stress tester for .NET

Double Buffering With GDI+

by Retired Author

Simple example about Double Buffering with GDI+

Double Subclassing (Runtime Form Editor)

by Retired Author

An article that describes a way to subclass controls that are already subclassed (double), The example includes a runtime form editor

Doubly-Linked List Implementation

by Retired Author

An inspired implementation of a doubly-linked list in C# for the .NET Framework.

Downloader Component

by Retired Author

A component to download files over the network with support for proxies, SSL and resume.

Drag & Drop in Tree view

by Retired Author

This is basically an article which demonstrates the Drag & Drop operation in a TreeView.

Drag and Drop between list boxes - Beginner's Tutorial

by Retired Author

An introduction to drag and drop in .NET

Drag and Drop Tab Control

by Retired Author

Reorder TabPages in a TabControl through drag and drop.

Drag and Drop Treeview control

by Retired Author

A treeview that has drag and drop built in.

DragExtender - An extenderprovider for dragging functionality

by Retired Author

An extenderprovider for dragging functionality.

Draw objects using Multithreaded

by Retired Author

Program that draw objects using the concept of multithreading

DrawHTML

by Retired Author

A drop-in replacement for the DrawText() SDK function with minimal HTML support

Drawing a Bar Chart

by Retired Author

This is an article about drawing a bar chart for a given set of values.

Drawing a Dynamic Chart in C#

by Retired Author

This article describes how to design a dynamic chart in C#.

Drawing a rubber-band line in GDI+

by Retired Author

Drawing a self-erasing line or a rubber-band line from a base-point to the current mouse point in GDI+ seemed to be impossible - here's how to do it.

Drawing trackers, moving and resizing the objects using double buffering.

by Retired Author

Drawing, Positioning and resizing the Boxes with double buffering

Drawing with DirectDraw & GDI

by Retired Author

Drawing Graphics fast with DirectDraw than with GDI

DriveComboBox

by Retired Author

Ownerdrawn ComboBox that dispays all logical drives with appropriate icon, volume name and drive letter

Drop and Forget Dialog Buttons

by Retired Author

OK, Cancel, Yes and No buttons that set their own Text, Name, DialogResult and Accept/Cancel status

DropDownList and DIV overlapping problem

by Retired Author

The problem of displaying a tool tip against a control in a div

Dump full interfaces information of an object

by Retired Author

How to understand more about certain objects' implementation details

DX Game Utility Class Library

by Retired Author

A managed DirectX class library that can be used as a foundation for basic 2D games. Demo included.

Dynamic Dialog Box

by Retired Author

An article on dynamic dialog boxes and ListView control.

Dynamic embossed text Progress control

by Retired Author

A dynamic embossed text progress control that uses no resource file

Dynamic HTML Page creation & Search through Free Text and Meta Tags of HTML by Using Index Server

by Retired Author

The article mainly focuses on the problem faced in jobs portal to provide the mechanism to employers/recruiters to search job seeker’s uploaded and created resumes on the basis of given template, and vice versa for the job seekers to search the jobs on the basis of the specified criteria.

Dynamic insertion of a client channel sink provider

by Retired Author

Workaround to specify a desired channel for connecting to a remote object

Dynamic Linked List Tree

by Retired Author

Using Vector and double linked list to create trees

Dynamic Menu Creation

by Retired Author

Dynamically create menus whose structure is defined in an Access database.

Dynamic Screen Resolution

by Retired Author

Setting the Screen Resolution in C#

Dynamic TEXT Section Image Verification

by Retired Author

Detect Hardware Faults and Unauthorized In-Memory Patches with Hashing using Crypto++

Dynamically access a database through a Web Application

by Retired Author

Using an ASP.NET Web application to access your database remotely.

Dynamically adding DSN-names

by Retired Author

A simple class to dynamically add DSN-names to your system.

Dynamically adjusting the size of a drop-down list and adding color to the back-ground and fore-ground of the list items

by Retired Author

To adjust the size of the drop-down list dynamically at the client-side and adding back-ground and fore-ground color to the drop-down list.

Dynamically Created Controls in ASP.NET

by Retired Author

How to dynamically create controls in an ASP.NET page.

Dynamically load controls into a DataGrid

by Retired Author

A method for loading a DataGrid with controls at runtime, and later allowing DataSet updates.

Dynamically Loading User Control on a Webform using PlaceHolder control

by Retired Author

Dynamically loading a User Control on a webform using PlaceHolder control.

Easier Database Transactions - Extending the Using Statement to Perform Automatic Database Transactions

by Retired Author

Any user who works with database updates uses transactions. Transactions in ADO.NET are done using a transaction object, and a try..catch, but there is an easier, one might even say a more C# way to handle database transactions.

Easy Installer

by Retired Author

The Easy Installer program

Easy to Use Class for ScreenCapture to Printer

by Retired Author

A class for easily capturing screen and printing to default printer

Easy to use Hit Counter

by Retired Author

An ASP.NET Hit Counter control that's *very easy* to use.

Easy to use Performance Testing Component

by Retired Author

A component to enable performance testing and timing of code in .NET.

EchoStream - An Echo/Tee Stream for .NET

by Retired Author

Presents the EchoStream class and demonstrates its use.

Editing multi frame .Tiff file

by Retired Author

Fax Editor is a light weight VB.NET application. It only handles multi frame .tiff editing.

Effective online update checking mechanism using PAD / XML files

by Retired Author

How to check for new program versions using XML / PAD files.

Effecto Player

by Retired Author

Media audio player with 3D and 2D effects and skinning.

Efficient data processing with ADO in C++: Method GetRows

by Retired Author

Demonstrates effective data processing of ADO recordset objects in C++ via Safe Arrays provided by method GetRows.

Efficient Matrix Programming in C#

by Retired Author

Fast matrix expressions evaluation, based on dynamic code generation and partial evaluation

Ellipse drawing algorithm

by Retired Author

A basic algorithm for drawing ellipses on a window

E-Mail address Generator in VB.NET

by Retired Author

String generator for wild characters.

Email Component for .NET

by Retired Author

cpSphere.Mail is a comprehensive and extendable implementation of MIME, POP and SMTP RFCs. This is architected to provide a framework for all email related development. This component could be used with default options with less or no knowledge of underlying MIME, POP, SMTP protocols.

Embed Win32 resources in C# programs

by Retired Author

How to emebd and use Win32 resources with a C# program

Embedding Controls in a ListView

by Retired Author

How to use arbitrary controls in ListView cells.

Enable DataList Row Highliting and Click Event Postback

by Retired Author

Enable DataList row highliting and Click event postback using non-display button and databinding technique.

Enable Debug.Assert under ASP.NET

by Retired Author

Enable Debug.Assert under ASP.NET just like under windows Forms

Encoding Accented Characters

by Retired Author

There is a problem exporting accented characters in plain text files. You need to encode, but which one?

Encryption and Decryption with ATL

by Retired Author

WTL and console applications based on ATL implementation of Cryptography

Encryption of Connection Strings Inside the Web.config in ASP.NET 2.0

by Retired Author

Encryption & Decryption of Connection Strings inside the Web.config in ASP.NET 2.0

Encryption/Decryption with .NET

by Retired Author

A .NET SymmetricAlgorithm security class wrapper for in memory encryption/decryption with a private key

Encryption/Decryption with .NET

by Retired Author

Encryption/Decryption with .NET

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

by Retired Author

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

End any application with system menu using C#

by Retired Author

This article uses Windows APIs to kill any application with a system menu

Enhanced DataGrid control

by Retired Author

Extends DataGrid Functionalities

Enhanced EventLog writing for .NET Applications

by Retired Author

A set of C# classes that work around issues with the standard EventLog object

Enhanced PictureBox Control with Area Selectability

by Retired Author

Enhanced PictureBox control with area selectability.

Enumerating Active Directory Objects using C#

by Retired Author

This article shows how to test an Active Directory connection and enumerate all objects based upon some filters.

Enums and Structs in C#

by Retired Author

Two oft-overlooked value types that C# offers and where they can be used

Equation Analyzer(Parser)

by Retired Author

This is a very Useful DLL I use it to parse equations online.

Errors in XML Log with C#/.NET

by Retired Author

How to write all your errors when using Console.Error to an XML file.

Event Log RSS Feed Generator

by Retired Author

A simple utility to provide remote, organized access to the system Event Log messages.

Event notification on streams during long reads or writes

by Retired Author

An article on event notification for operations on large streams...

Events and Delegates

by Retired Author

Events and Delegates - A real time approach.

Everything you wanted to know about Forms Inheritance in VB.NET - “Best”

by Retired Author

How to edit the properties of the inherited control in the form in design time.

Evolution computations on C#

by Retired Author

The articles describes a C# library for evolution computations and their application for several problems solving.

Examining the assembly listing generated by the C++ compiler - I

by Retired Author

Examining the assembly listing generated by the C++ compiler

Execution Timer

by Retired Author

A set of classes to measure your code's execution time.

ExeScanner

by Retired Author

This article explains how to enumerate all the objects in a Portable Executable and manipulate them.

EXIFextractor library to extract EXIF information

by Retired Author

EXIFextractor library to extract EXIF information.

Exile 1.8 - The Password Manager

by Retired Author

Yet another password manager.

Exocortex.DSP

by Retired Author

A C# complex number and FFT library.

Expanding the ASP.NET Repeater for Added Layout Control

by Retired Author

This article describes how to reap the benefits of the ASP.NET Repeater control while at the same time be able to design your item templates in Visual Studio's WYSIWYG editors; instead of hand-writing the HTML.

Explorer column handler shell extension in C#

by Retired Author

This article shows how to write a column handler shell extension for Explorer's 'Detail' view using C#

Export DataGrid to Excel

by Retired Author

Code that exports a whole DataGrid into an Excel file.

Exporting Crystal Reports in different formats

by Retired Author

An article on exporting Crystal Reports in different formats.

Exposing .NET Components to COM

by Retired Author

A method of calling .NET functions from a COM enabled non .NET environment through a COM callable wrapper

Exposing Windows Forms Controls as ActiveX controls

by Retired Author

This article describes how to build a Windows Forms control in C# and expose it as an ActiveX control

Extended DateTimePicker

by Retired Author

DateTime Picker allows blank display when no data entered.

Extended Euclidean Alogo

by Retired Author

To detemine multiplicative inverse.

Extended ImageIndexConverter and ImageIndexEditor.

by Retired Author

An Extended ImageIndexConverter and ImageIndexEditor for user control.

Extended Interface for Status Message

by Retired Author

Adding an extended property to Menus in order to provide automatic statusbar messages as the user chooses different menu options

Extended Interface for Toolbars

by Retired Author

This extension allows toolbar buttons to call functions automatically

Extending ASP.NET 2.0 Part I: Creating Custom Build Providers

by Retired Author

Extend the ASP.NET runtime by creating custom build providers for custom project resources.

Extending ASP.NET Web Controls With Custom HTML Attributes

by Retired Author

Use existing functionality in ASP.NET to extend the framework's web controls.

Extending Explorer with Band Objects using .NET and Windows Forms

by Retired Author

Walks you through the implementation of an Explorer bar with the help of BandObject base class. Describes implementation details of the BandObject class.

Extending Microsoft's Terminal Services Client To Provide Seamless Windows

by Retired Author

An article that describes a possible approach to extending Microsoft's Terminal Services/Remote Desktop Client to use seamless windows.

Extending Task Manager with DLL Injection

by Retired Author

How to extend the features of Windows Task Manager using DLL injection.

Extending the axWebbrowser control events.

by Retired Author

How to extend the axWebbrowser's events in VB.NET.

Extending the ListBox to show more complex items

by Retired Author

This article shows how to extend the ListBox to show more complex items - for example, items with image and text areas.

Extending user control and IDE/VS.NET Toolbox

by Retired Author

Extending user control and IDE Toolbox

Extensible .NET remoting framework

by Retired Author

This article is about installable transport connections

Extensible WebService and its IE-Hosted Client

by Retired Author

The article presents the design of a WebService consisting of a general part and add-ins to process user's requests of different types. Such architecture simplifies dedicated add-ins allowing them to share general part facilities.

Extract RSS feeds from Web pages

by Retired Author

Shows how to extract RSS feeds from Web pages.

Extracting files from a remote ZIP archive

by Retired Author

This article presents a technique to access parts of a ZIP archive stored on a Web Server.

Extreme Optimization #1.1: Mapping IP addresses to country codes.

by Retired Author

Highly optimized classes for looking up the country code corresponding to an IP address

Falling Blocks

by Retired Author

A game written using Visual C++ and DirectX.

Fast C++ Delegate: Boost.Function 'drop-in' replacement and multicast

by Retired Author

An article on the implementation of a fast C++ delegate with many advanced features.

Fast IPC Communication Using Shared Memory and InterlockedCompareExchange (updated!)

by Retired Author

Guide to writing a very fast interprocess communication class. This article describes a method of IPC that requires no locking or thread sync.

Fast Solution Build Add-in for Visual Studio .NET

by Retired Author

Performs VC6-style dependency checking for VS .NET multi-project solution builds

FavIconizer

by Retired Author

A small utility which refreshes the icons in your IE favorites menu

File Encryption Utility

by Retired Author

File Encryption Utility based on Blowfish Encryption Algorithm.

File Security (fs) Utility for the Command Line

by Retired Author

.NET command line utility, implementing file security through symmetric encryption.

File Server - Web Service

by Retired Author

Get and put files in your web server using Web Services

File Splitter Utility in C# - WinForms

by Retired Author

Simple File Splitter / Joiner utility that demonstrates FCL and Winforms UI processing

File System Browsing in ASP.NET: New Approach vs. Old Approach

by Retired Author

Most of the programmers who have transitioned from ASP to ASP.NET still use the loop-and-create method for displaying contents of a specific folder. In this demo I am going to show you how to use the File System Objects, a DataGrid and a DataTable to accomplish this task.

FileCollector

by Retired Author

A simple tool for collecting files, written in C#, with shell32 support.

FilesystemTree Control in .NET

by Retired Author

A FilesystemTree view control in VB.NET. Developed with VS.NET, using the system.management namespace

Filterable Grid for ASP.NET

by Retired Author

An article on a filterable Grid for ASP.NET.

Find Stored Procedures called within a procedure

by Retired Author

Sometimes its tedious to find all calls made to different stored procedures within a stored procedure and generate reports in case we have large databases. This tool is aimed to script all SPs and extract SP calls made with additional information such as author name and description.

find_first_of: A performance pitfall among the STL algorithms

by Retired Author

This article is discussing the performance problems found in the most notable find_first_of implementations and suggests useful improvements and workarounds.

Finding 'who is' using SQL Server

by Retired Author

An article showing how to display the sp_who info and sort on a column.

Flash LED Control

by Retired Author

Fancy control simulating a LED light by rewriting the Paint method. A good set of properties allows all kind of flash effects.

FlashCard101

by Retired Author

A simple educational flash card program that uses xml files for its word source

FlatMenusForm - A Class, which Makes the Default 3D Menus Look Flat

by Retired Author

How to change the default 3D look in Windows 9x, NT and WinXP classic appearance menus

Flatten that Combobox!

by Retired Author

A flat style combobox in VB.NET

Flattening a Hierarchy – a producer thread to get all files in a folder and subfolders

by Retired Author

Flattening a Hierarchy using a producer thread to get all files in a folder and subfolders.

FlexMaskEditBox - a masked edit control

by Retired Author

A very flexible MaskTextbox control

Flicker Free Drawing in C#

by Retired Author

An article to describe the ways to avoid flicker when drawing.

Flicker free resizable custom control

by Retired Author

This dynamically reziable control does not flicker. The article describes the problem and the technique used to solve the flickering.

FlickerFree - Creating flicker-free graphics with GDI+

by Retired Author

Sample code on how to create flicker-free graphics with GDI+.

Flicker-free ListView in .NET - Part 2

by Retired Author

This article discusses a couple of ways to reduce flicker in the .NET Listview.

Flicker-free ListView in .NET and XP

by Retired Author

This article discusses the problems with the .NET ListView and offers a solution to fix those problems.

Folder Browser component for .NET

by Retired Author

A component that provides shell folder browsing dialog to .NET applications

Folder Select Dialog

by Retired Author

An article on how to use the .NET TreeView and Directory Info object to construct a folder selection dialog.

Folder, Drive, Directory Browser

by Retired Author

Folder, drive, directory browser application.

FolderSync class for .NET

by Retired Author

A set of classes which can get differences between two folders and which can synchronize them according to basic rules

FolderTreeView Control

by Retired Author

A simple explorer-like FolderTreeView control for C#

FontComboBox - a font listing combo box for .NET

by Retired Author

A fully owner drawn ComboBox derived class for enumerating and choosing fonts

Form and Control Position and Size Utility

by Retired Author

Allows easy saving and loading of form and control's position and size.

Form Placement Component

by Retired Author

A component class that restores a form's placement (location, size and state) to what it was when it was last closed.

FormatString - Smart String Formatting

by Retired Author

Smart string formatting and other string utilities

Formatting the Datarow based on a single cell value and Custom Table Styles.

by Retired Author

An article that demonstrates row formatting and adding custom styles to the designer.

Fortuna - A Cryptographically Secure Pseudo Random Number Generator

by Retired Author

A C++ component to generate cryptographically secure pseudo random numbers using the Fortuna Algorithm

Fowler Refactoring Example

by Retired Author

A C# translation of the 'Starting Point' example in Chapter 1 of "Refactoring - Improving the Design of Existing Code", by Martin Fowler.

FrameControl - Framework for creating web applications

by Retired Author

FrameControl is a framework that contains the code common for most of the web applications.

Freakshow - a sample application in C#

by Retired Author

A collection of examples on how to use C# in one application

Free tool for selection of source code control provider in Visual Studio

by Retired Author

Free revision-/version-control selection tool, SCCPortal.

FreeCell & Hearts, Behind the scenes

by Retired Author

This article shows the insides of the freecell and hearts games, it uses the a library of reading and writing another process memory.

FreeDOM (programming)

by Retired Author

(Free Document Object Model) is a web development technique used for creating event driven web applications. FreeDOM is designed to overcome the limitations of stateless HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) transmissions.

Frog Go Hop

by Retired Author

A Frogger clone written in C#. Using doublebuffering timers and other technics.

From XML to Strong Types in C#

by Retired Author

Demonstrates how to create strong types in C# by using the Xsd.exe utility and XML.

FrontPage-Style Table Picker Using GDI+

by Retired Author

Create a FrontPage-Style table picker in C# using simple GDI+ rendering techniques.

FTP Component in C#, for .NET

by Retired Author

An FTP component and sample FTP client, in C#.

FTP component written with fully managed code

by Retired Author

A .NET FTP component

Full-text searching with IFilter's

by Retired Author

Indexing Server, SQL Server, Windows SharePoint Services, SharePoint Portal Server, Exchange Server and Windows Desktop Search provide full-text search capabilities. Each utilizes the so called IFilter components to index the content and then allows clients to search the index.

Fully Customized Reusable ASP+ Vertical/Horizontal Marquee Consuming XML/MS SQL

by Retired Author

Vertical/horizontal Marquee Web Custom Control consuming SQL Server DB/XML, with great design time attributes.

Fun With Gravity

by Retired Author

A gravity simulation particle system

Function-like Macros vs. Inline Functions

by Retired Author

A write up that tries to highlight some of the pros and cons of both these exceptional features provided in the object oriented arena of C++.

Game Exchange 2 File Loader GE2

by Retired Author

Loads a 3D scene from Maya exported GE2 file/files.

Gamma correction slider

by Retired Author

Slider control class to perform gamma correction.

Gantt Chart / Event Calendar / Calendar Planner

by Retired Author

Scrollable ASP.NET Gantt Chart / Event Calendar / Calendar Planner web control.

Gantt Diagrams in .NET Windows Applications

by Retired Author

In this article, I show a library and its use to display Gantt diagrams in .NET Windows Applications.

Garbage collection and resource deallocation

by Retired Author

An article about IDisposable and the Garbage Collector in .NET.

Garbage Collection in .NET

by Retired Author

A quick introduction to Garbage collection in .NET using Managed C++

GDI+ Double-Buffering Helper Class

by Retired Author

A templated helper class that performs GDI+ initialization/deinitialization, and takes care of double-buffering/caching

GDI+ in managed C++ applications.

by Retired Author

This Sample demonstrates basic drawing techniques using GDI+ in a Managed C++ application.

Gecko! Embedded C++ scripting for your applications

by Retired Author

Embed a C++ compiler in your project, use C++ as a compiled "scripting" language!

Generate a Random String Key in VB.NET

by Retired Author

A slightly more intelligent random string generator.

Generate ListViewItem from any object based on an XML schema

by Retired Author

How to generate a ListViewItem from an object using an XML schema.

Generate properties automatically

by Retired Author

An add-in for Visual Studio to generate properties automatically.

Generated Access to .NET Resource Strings

by Retired Author

This article provides an alternative method of accessing string resources in a C# project by generating access classes for each resource identifier.

Generating Aesthetic Line Styles

by Retired Author

A novel way to create complex line patterns

Generating String Resource Accessors for .NET

by Retired Author

This article presents a utility written in Visual Basic .NET that generates a C# or VB.NET source file from a .resx or .resources file. The resulting class enables compile-time checking of resource string identifier names and the numbers of format items.

Generating vCalendar files (.vcs) to download in ASP.NET

by Retired Author

VB.NET code for webpage to ask to download calendar items. Can be used for any calendars that supports vCalendar such as Outlook.

Generating XP style webparts from a web control

by Retired Author

Generating XP style webparts from a web control

Generic DFA State Machine for .NET

by Retired Author

Seemless NFA to DFA transfers with GraphViz graphing integration

Generic Graphical Voting Poll Web Application

by Retired Author

Generic voting poll web application for conducting polls from your website.

Generic Search Web User Control with event

by Retired Author

This article explains how to create a web user control and trap its events.

GeoLocation for your Skype

by Retired Author

The article describes the retrieval of one's public IP address and geo location and possibly assigning it to one's Skype profile.

Get The User Name In C# For NT Authentication

by Retired Author

Through the .NET Framework you can easily get the current user name to authenticate.

Getting active TCP/UDP connections on a box

by Retired Author

This article shows an implementation of the main TCP/UDP functions of the IP Helper API that is used to get info about active connections including the process attached to a connection

Getting Addresses IP informations

by Retired Author

IP, protocols installed, some useful informations

Getting around the need for a vararg #define just to automatically use __FILE__ and __LINE__ in a TRACE macro

by Retired Author

Ever wrote #define TRACE, #define TRACE1, #define TRACE2, etc., just so you could use the __FILE__ macro and printf style formatting in a macro at the same time?

Getting local groups and member names in C#

by Retired Author

How to get local groups and members with Win32 API in C#

Getting Scroll Events for a Listbox

by Retired Author

The standard framework won't tell when the scrollbar moved or what position it is at. This code gives you that control.

Getting the list of groups in a news server

by Retired Author

Introduction to Socket programming

Getting the most out of Event Viewer

by Retired Author

This article talks about basics of event logging followed by the implementation details of how we can log messages effectively by using a custom log-file, event sources and event categories. Finally, it mentions the usefullness of troubleshooting links in error messages.

Getting the Network Adaptor MAC Address with WMI

by Retired Author

Getting the network adaptor MAC address with WMI

Giving desktop applications a Web look

by Retired Author

This article provides some information on how to write standalone desktop applications with Web look. It also provides a framework to simplify the task.

GLUI-style Spinner

by Retired Author

Creating an OpenGL GLUI-style spinner.

GmailNotifierControl: A Gmail Notifier like control

by Retired Author

A Gmail Notifier dialog control, to use with any app, just like a baloon tooltip.

Go Back Add-in for VS.NET 2003

by Retired Author

Creates a Visual Studio 2003 add-in to return back to a previous location.

Good bye, BEGIN_MSG_MAP!

by Retired Author

A replacement for BEGIN_MSG_MAP macros, using the Boost.MPL library.

Google Web Service Client program

by Retired Author

A very simple client program that uses Google's web service

GraphicsBuffer Class - Buffering of Dynamic Visual States for Controls

by Retired Author

This article discusses the usage of a custom class that caches custom images. The class, GraphicsBuffer, is best used to cache visual states for controls without concern for control flicker and unnecessary processor usage.

GraphSheet Control for Windows

by Retired Author

A GraphSheet control in .NET, using GDI+ and the System.Drawing namespace

GRETA - How to use Regular Expressions in Visual C++ correctly

by Retired Author

Introduction to building GRETA in Visual C++.

Group Panel

by Retired Author

Group control with MS Messenger Style

Guestbook for ASP.NET

by Retired Author

An ASP.NET application written from the ground up, that presents a guestbook.

Handling Multiple Pending Socket Read and Write Operations

by Retired Author

This article explains the potential problems with having multiple pending recvs calls on a single socket.

Handling Multiple Views on a Common Data Set

by Retired Author

This atricle looks at some problems and solutions for using multiple views on a single data set in the C# and .NET framework.

Hardwired's Named Critical Section and Named Spin Lock

by Retired Author

Named critical section and named spin lock - you may find it useful for debugging complex applications.

Hardwired's Pointers - C Approach

by Retired Author

Introduction to pointers - If you have no idea what are they and how to use them, read this!

Hardwired's Thread Safe Double Link List Template

by Retired Author

This article explains how to use CLinkedListDouble template class. This template is a thread safe implementation of double link list.

Hardwired's Thread Safe Single Link List Template

by Retired Author

This article explains how to use CLinkedListSingle template class. This template is a thread safe implementation of single link list.

Header-only GroupBox

by Retired Author

Illustrates a simple subclass of a Windows.Forms.GroupBox control to paint only the header

Helper Class for Resizable MFC Dialogs

by Retired Author

This class takes care of the child window placement when you resize an MFC dialog. Also stores the size in the Registry for the next call.

Hex Converter

by Retired Author

This article is about a program which helps you convert numeric value from decimal to hexadecimal representation and vice versa.

Hiding Inherited Properties from the PropertyGrid

by Retired Author

Two techniques for hiding properties, inherited from base controls, from the PropertyGrid.

Hiding the Crystal Report Viewer's Statusbar

by Retired Author

Code to hide the Crystal Report Viewer's statusbar.

Hiding the Crystal Report Viewer's Statusbar

by Retired Author

Code to hide the Crystal Report Viewer's statusbar.

Highlighting Important Dates in Calendar

by Retired Author

Highlighting important dates in the Calendar control.

Hive Multi-Validating Self Textbox Control (Final Version)

by Retired Author

Combines textbox, multi-validation and response labels in one control. Allows textbox to do self checking and self error response messages. Control can protect against SQL injection attacks and client script attacks with a special character set property.

Holistic Screensavers: Beginning to End

by Retired Author

Best practices for screensaver coding/distribution.

HookAPI source code

by Retired Author

A system wide api source code for windows api hook developpers

Horizontal ListView Component

by Retired Author

Component which you can add to your project that allow you to add items horizontal to a ListView component.

Horizontal Scroll Bar in a Combo Box or a Listbox with Up/Down Arrow Key Press Functionality

by Retired Author

This article describes getting a custom horizontal scroll bar in a combobox or a listbox with functionality as expected on pressing of up or down arrow keys.

Hosting a webpage inside a Windows Form

by Retired Author

Uses the Internet Explorer / MSHTML hosting interfaces to embed and manipulate the WebBrowser control.

Hotmail using C# – A HTTPMail client under .NET

by Retired Author

A C# client library for access Hotmail using the undocumented HTTPMail protocol.

How Do I Put Display and Value in Combobox/Listbox Separately?

by Retired Author

This article demonstrates how to use object as items in combobox and listbox and manipulate them.

How do we speed up our VB.NET Web application

by Retired Author

Some tips to improve efficiency of your web application

How to add OpenGL support to ATL controls

by Retired Author

An article describing the step-by-step process of adding basic OpenGL support to an ATL control

How to add other controls to DataGrid - (Part I )

by Retired Author

How to add other controls to DataGrid?

How To Add ToolTips To Controls On A Windows Form

by Retired Author

Tips on how to add tooltips to controls on windows form in the .NET framework

How To Automatically restart MySQL on Windows

by Retired Author

This article provides a small executable (36K) which configures MySQL (or another Windows Service) to automatically restart whenever it fails/crashes.

How to avoid stubborn Windows applications from showing up

by Retired Author

How to avoid stubborn Windows applications from showing up.

How to build a Clock control

by Retired Author

This is a quick guide on how to create your own customizable clock control

How to build a simple Session State Sink

by Retired Author

Allows you to easily manage your Session without casting, and removes redundant code.

How to capture image and print the MSChart

by Retired Author

How to capture image and print the MSChart.

How to change a user's password on a remote computer

by Retired Author

Password Changer - A reusable tool for changing a user password's remotely.

How to Configure Default Values in .NET Classes.

by Retired Author

This article describes how to setup default values of the value type fields in the .NET class using the Custom Attribute from the Application Assembly or Config file.

How to Consume an ASP.NET webservice from Java via SOAP

by Retired Author

Demonstrates how to call ASP.NET webservices from the client within other languages and platforms

How to Convert a Collection Base to a DataSet

by Retired Author

An article on converting a Collection Base to a DataSet.

How to create a chat client using a set of communication classes

by Retired Author

A pair of classes (no mfc) that can be used for tcp/ip _and_ serial communication.

How to create a DLL library in C and then use it with C#

by Retired Author

An easy-to-use example of how to create a DLL library in C and then use it with C#.

How to create a fading form.

by Retired Author

This article will walk you through the steps required to create a form that fades in upon activation and fades out upon deactivation.

How To Create a NT(Win) Service Using C++ with Managed Extensions

by Retired Author

This article explains how to create a NT Service also known as a Windows Service using C++ with Managed Extensions.

How to create a virtual directory with C#

by Retired Author

A simple example of using the DirectoryServices namespace in .NET

How to create an SMTP Trace Listener

by Retired Author

This article describes how to create an SMTP Trace Listener for use with .NET diagnostics

How to Create Birthday Reminders Using Microsoft Outlook, in C#

by Retired Author

This article shows you how to use microsoft Outlook appointments. I used a version of the code to put reminders in for my family members.

How to create installation patches for VS.NET deployment projects

by Retired Author

Automaticaly create Windows installer patches.

How to create user define window messages

by Retired Author

This is to understand and impliment user define window mesages, and how to pass arguments through message

How to customize the context menus of a WebBrowser control via the IDocHostUIHandler interface.

by Retired Author

This article describes how we can customize the contextual menus of the WebBrowser control, by implementing the IDocHostUIHandler.

How to Deal with Windows Registry?

by Retired Author

Dealing with Registry to Save and Load My Application Settings and to modify Windows Functions

How to develop a screen saver in C#

by Retired Author

An article explaining how to develop a screensaver in C#, with a ready-to-code-screensaver source.

How To Develop Cascading Master Pages in ASP.NET (.NET Framework 1.x) Without Using Custom Controls

by Retired Author

Article shows a very simple but powerful way to use Cascading Master Pages design pattern in .NET without using Custom Controls.

How to Disable Selected Dates dynamically from the Calendar Control

by Retired Author

Disabling Selected Dates in Calendar

How to do Application Initialization while showing a SplashScreen

by Retired Author

This Article shows how to display a splash screen during your application initialization.

How to do Synchronous and Asynchronous web downloads

by Retired Author

Explains the usage of WebRequest, WebResponse and related classes.

How to Extract Text from an HTML Resource

by Retired Author

This article illustrates how to get the text out of an HTML resource.

How to find current ApplicationContext at run time

by Retired Author

How to find current ApplicationContext at run time.

How to get list of tables in a database

by Retired Author

A tip on how you can get list of tables in your database

How To Get the Most Out Of Macros

by Retired Author

Here, I will explain some of the best ways to get the most out of the macros in Visual Studio.

How to group RadioButtons

by Retired Author

This article describes how to group radio-buttons when using them in DataGrid, DataList, Repeater etc.

How to Harness the Power of XHTML and XForms in your .NET Applications

by Retired Author

XForms is an important recommendation from the W3C that enables complex XML-handling applications to be defined in a simple, declarative syntax. This article demonstrates how you can leverage this power in your own applications.

How to have an Auto-Completing ComboBox in .NET

by Retired Author

Shows how to derive a class from ComboBox and add an Auto-Complete feature to it. The example uses Managed C++.

How to Hide a RadioButtonList or CheckBoxList ListItem in ASP.NET

by Retired Author

This article demonstrates how to hide RadioButtonList or CheckBoxList ListItems in ASP.NET without creating your own custom web control

How To Host .NET Remoting Objects in Windows Service Application

by Retired Author

A tutorial on how to create a Windows service application and host remoting object in the service application

How to implement a scrollable child dialog

by Retired Author

How to implement a scrollable child dialog

How to implement Alpha blending

by Retired Author

An article with code on how to create the Alpha effect (fading in and out effect). Starts with the application of alpha on images, and ends with the creation of alpha animation. This is NOT about the Per Pixel Alpha Blend used in Windows.

How to implement Two basics uses for the Asp.net Login control 2.0 (login and RememberMe)

by Retired Author

This article will show you how to implement two basics uses of the ASP.NET Login control (2.0), The login task itself to validate the users who’s trying to access your web site. In addition i will show how to implement the REMEMBERME process using cookies to save the user name inside the user PC

How to Keep Your Sanity and Multiple Projects Version Numbers in Sync

by Retired Author

A simple solution to keeping multiple projects version numbers in sync

How to link to an Access Database in a C# Application

by Retired Author

An article explaining how to link your home database in your C# application.

How to Load/Display images with C#

by Retired Author

How to load/display images in a form in C#, explained with the code of a complete image viewer application

How to make a class Sealed without Sealed Keyword

by Retired Author

We can make a class sealed without sealed keyword

How to make a shared object to read set data from memory rather than from a database, to enhance the server performance

by Retired Author

How to make a shared object and then reading it from memory rather than from a database

How to Make a Simple WebService and Consume It

by Retired Author

How to make a simple WebService and consume it

How to make AppSettings work with multiple values for a key

by Retired Author

Fixing NameValueSectionHandler using reflection and using it seamlessly.

How to make content of RichTextBox unselectable.

by Retired Author

you want to display some text in your application and side-by-side you want to prevent the user from copying the content. . One way to implement this use label, but label do not support the formatting of the text and RTF formats.

How to make the usage of textual resources in .NET easy and robust to become

by Retired Author

The given article is for developers of components for .NET platform, which support internationalization. The article will also be useful for those who are working with .NET, using resource files and functions like String.Format.

How to operate controls in an HTML file, using C++

by Retired Author

A class can operate on HTML in reusing Web browser.

How to overlay an icon over existing shell objects in 3 easy steps

by Retired Author

How to implement an Icon Overlay identifier.

How to override parent class event method with your own?

by Retired Author

Use Process class to spawn many processes and keep an eye when they finish.

How to Pass Managed Objects As a Parameter of a Queued Component.

by Retired Author

An article on how to pass managed objects through MSMQ to queued components.

How to persist DIRs past SETUP wizard

by Retired Author

How to Find Directory Path before and after setup wizard deployment

How to set values into ComboBox Items

by Retired Author

How to use ValueMember with ADO.NET.

How to skin scrollbars for Panels, in C#

by Retired Author

This article shows you how to create a skinnable scrollbar as a user control, and use it in a Panel to replace the ugly Windows scrollbar.

How to solve "The format of the file 'devenv.exe' is invalid" blank white page exception at design time

by Retired Author

Shows how to find the exception that kills the designer

How to test the reachability of a VPN-Connection?

by Retired Author

Program to test the availability of hosts in a network on the basis of ICMP-Pings.

How to upload an image using ASP.NET

by Retired Author

How to upload an image using ASP.NET for beginners

How to use data caching in a .NET Windows Forms application

by Retired Author

This article explains how using caching within your Windows Forms application can speed up data access for frequently used data and avoid performance bottlenecks over the network.

How to use Dynamic External MFC CView Class Objects (which exists in a DLL library) in a VBA Host MFC Application

by Retired Author

Implement interface between two existing DLL Library in a VBA Host MFC application.

How to use GDI+ to save image in WMF, EXIF or EMF format

by Retired Author

An article on GDI+ and how to save image in WMF, EXIF or EMF format.

How to use Microsoft Agent in C#

by Retired Author

An article explaining how to use Microsoft agents in a C# application

How to use Microsoft Indexing Service to make search faster...

by Retired Author

Interface of Microsoft Indexing Service with our application...

How to use Process Class in Managed C++

by Retired Author

This article explains how to use Process Class in Managed C++ applications

How To Use The ErrorProvider Object To Indicate Invalid Control State

by Retired Author

A tutorial on how to incorporate the ErrorProvider object into .NET WinForms using C#

How to use Winsock to set system clock via Internet Time Servers

by Retired Author

Using Winsock UDP to set system clock.

How to Validate a Serial Number or PID in MSI Setups Created in VS.NET

by Retired Author

Describes how to create a custom action DLL and implement serial number or PID validation in dialog based setups created with VS.NET.

How to work with Assemblies in InstallShield Developer 7.0

by Retired Author

This article describes how to work with assemblies in InstallShield Developer 7.0.

How to write a HatchStyle Dropdown

by Retired Author

In this article we will see how to write a HatchStyle dropdown.

HTML Cute Submit Button (Server Control )

by Retired Author

Creating a custom good looking Submit button.

HTML fragments parsing and creation

by Retired Author

Classes to parse HTML parts into an object tree and back

HTML Gets Hooked

by Retired Author

This article shows how to take control of the content browsed in web pages while surfing

HTML Table Of Contents Generator

by Retired Author

A C# program which takes a HTML file as input and outputs a new file with a table of contents embedded.

HTML to Database converter Application

by Retired Author

HTML to Database converter Application in VB.NET

HTTP header and source extraction tool

by Retired Author

Tool to retrieve the header and source file from a URL.

Hyperlink Text View Control

by Retired Author

Control that shows text and automatically finds and highlights hyperlinks (like http://, www. etc.) so that user can click on them.

IBM Messenger in VB.NET

by Retired Author

IBM Messenger in VB.NET.

Icon Proof Imagelist for .NET

by Retired Author

This is an icon specific ImageList that handles icon sizes properly and enables easy themed icon creation, using effects and layers like Photoshop.

IE Advanced Toolbar for Favorite site navigation and log-in

by Retired Author

Advanced IE toolbar, using .NET band objects, for navigation and login with a single click.

IFS - an Internet File System implementation based on Web services and peer-to-peer technology

by Retired Author

Internet File System from scratch - making web services and peer-to-peer technology work together to build a virtual file system

Image Annotation/Markup on the Web using ASP.NET

by Retired Author

How to perform simple web image annotation using ASP.NET.

Image Batch Resizer

by Retired Author

A simple utility to quickly resize images

Image Processing for Dummies with C# and GDI+ Part 1 - Per Pixel Filters

by Retired Author

The first in a series of articles which will build an image processing library in C# and GDI+

Image Processing for Dummies with C# and GDI+ Part 2 - Convolution Filters

by Retired Author

The second in a series of articles which will build an image processing library in C# and GDI+.

Image Processing for Dummies with C# and GDI+ Part 3 - Edge Detection Filters

by Retired Author

The third in a series of articles which will build an image processing library in C# and GDI+

Image Processing for Dummies with C# and GDI+ Part 4 - Bilinear Filters and Resizing

by Retired Author

The fourth installment covers how to write a filter that resizes an image, and uses bilinear filtering

Image Processing for Dummies with C# and GDI+ Part 5 - Displacement filters, including swirl

by Retired Author

In the fifth installment, we build a framework for generating filters that work by changing a pixel's location, rather than colour.

Image Processing Library in C#

by Retired Author

This Article Help you to Build an Image Processing Library in C#

Image Rotation in .NET

by Retired Author

Rotates an image without having to worry about cropping the edges.

Image Verification Helper Class

by Retired Author

To generate random alphanumeric numbers in image format for image verification.

ImageButton Control in ASP.NET

by Retired Author

Assigning disabled image to ImageButton Control

ImageConverter - Converts images to a specific image format, changing sizes on the flow

by Retired Author

ImageConverter allows images to be resized and written to a selected image format.

ImageListBox - exposing localizable custom object collection as a property

by Retired Author

A control that exposes a custom object collection as a property that may be edited by the VS.NET Forms Designer and supports localization

ImageListPopup, a C# Class which Pops up a Window to Select an Image from an Image List

by Retired Author

Have you ever wanted to display an image list which looks like the MSN Messenger emoticon chooser...

Implement Script Callback Framework in ASP.NET 1.x

by Retired Author

It allows calls to server events from client script code without causing the page to post back and refresh.

Implementation of Class Factories in C#

by Retired Author

Details five ways to implement a class factory in C#.

Implementation of Delegates in C++ using Signal and Slot pattern

by Retired Author

The article describes an efficient way to implement delegates in C++ using Signal and Slot pattern.

Implementation of spamd client (spamc) in VB.NET

by Retired Author

.NET implementation of SpamAssassin's network client.

Implementing a Provider Independent Data Access Layer in .NET

by Retired Author

This article tells how you can implement a DAL which is provider independant.

Implementing an OwnerDrawn ComboBox

by Retired Author

This article shows how to create an OwnerDrawn combobox

Implementing Audit Trail using Trigger

by Retired Author

Implementing Audit trail using trigger

Implementing Bubble Events in VB.NET Windows Forms (Chain of Responsibility Pattern)

by Retired Author

Here you will know how to implement a pattern which will allow you to handle events on different levels of the object hierarchy.

Implementing Callback functions using IJW (avoiding DllImport)

by Retired Author

Shows how you can call native API functions that require callbacks using IJW, and without the use of DllImport attribute. The technique allows you to pass a delegate as the callback function just as in the MS recommended manner except, I show you how to do this without the ugly DllImport attribute.

Implementing custom collection classes with MC++

by Retired Author

Tutorial on creating your own collection classes that are enumerable and sortable. Explains in detail the usage of the IEnumerable, IEnumerator, IComparable and IComparer interfaces

Implementing Observer Pattern in VB.NET

by Retired Author

This article shows an easy way of implementing the Observer pattern in VB.NET

Implementing Perl-style list operations using C# 2.0

by Retired Author

Instructions on implementing Perl map and grep with C# 2.0.

Implementing Properties In C++

by Retired Author

Implementing properties on c++ objects

Implementing Semantic Actions in the Boost Spirit Parser Framework

by Retired Author

Using composites to implement a modular arithmetic calculator with the Boost Spirit parser framework.

Implementing the factory pattern using attributes and activation

by Retired Author

This article shows you how to implement the Factory pattern using attributes and activation.

Implementing Undo / Redo - The DocVars Method

by Retired Author

This tutorial explains a general method for implementing Undo / Redo functionality in an MFC application. The technique allows you to save and cycle undo/redo states within and between editing sessions.

Improve your server with Thread Pooling

by Retired Author

This articles explains how to implement thread pooling in applications.

Improvement of the .NET Menu Style Class

by Retired Author

This is an improvement by Francesco Natali over an improvement by Sajith M of the "Visual Studio .NET Menu Style" by Carlos H. Perez

Index XML Documents with VTD+XML

by Retired Author

Introduces a simple, efficient, human-readable XML index called VTD+XML.

Info.NET, the way to collect and organize your data on the side of your screen, similar to Dashboard on MSN 8

by Retired Author

This application provides the underlying framework to create your own panels on this side bar, and then freely distribute it to your own audience. Included in the existing application are the following panels: Stocks, Internet search, Weather, News, Dictionary, Sports, and Messenger.

InfoBarLite Control

by Retired Author

This article shows how to create a Windows.Forms control by using C#.

Information Bridge 1.5 Walkthrough - Part 2

by Retired Author

A look at the advanced features of IBF 1.5.

Inherit from ADO.NET DataSet to Create Your Own Business Objects

by Retired Author

Extend generated Strong Typed Datasets, add your own business-specific functionality to a real DataSet object. Binding to forms and updating to a database is all done by the .NET Framework. This is built on Shawn Wildermuth's a.k.a. ADO Guy's DataSetGenerator.

INI Class using C#

by Retired Author

An INI file handling class that wraps the API functions from KERNEL32.dll

Ini Handler

by Retired Author

Permits simple access to ini files

Inline (Single File) vs. CodeBehind

by Retired Author

There are a few differences in the processing of code-behind and single-file pages.

Insert Plain Text and Images into RichTextBox at Runtime

by Retired Author

This article describes how to programmatically insert text and images into a RichTextBox at runtime.

Inside C#, Second Edition: String Handling and Regular Expressions Part 1

by Retired Author

This article will examine the String class, some of its simple methods, and its range of formatting specifiers.

Inside Windows Handles

by Retired Author

This article is about some inner workings and the behavior of Windows handles.

Insight into Security Model using Principal and Identity Objects in .NET

by Retired Author

This article introduces the concept behind Principal and Indentity objects in .NET and proposes a security model adopting these objects in a .NET application.

Installation IDs Based on Truncated Hashing

by Retired Author

Create Semi-Anonymous Installation Fingerprints Using Truncated Hashing and Crypto++

Instantly Changing Language in the Form

by Retired Author

How to switch language on the form instantly.

Integrate Help Into Your .NET Apps

by Retired Author

An article on how to leverage .NET to integrate Help into your applications.

Integrated Quiz WebApp with Graphical Score Report

by Retired Author

Integrated online quiz app with graphical score report. Users can bookmark questions in order to review in the end.

Integrating DHTML into MFC Views

by Retired Author

Demonstrates integrating DHTML into MFC Views, and using HTML in views to get feedback from the browser via connection points

INTER PROCESS COMMUNICATION USING REGISTERMESSAGE and POSTMESSAGE

by Retired Author

IPC using custom windows messanging by win32 api

Interactive Shaped Forms

by Retired Author

This Demo show how to create shaped form and customized buttons using the Region, GraphicsPath and picture class

Interbase and Visual C# .NET

by Retired Author

A solution managing InterBase DB's with C# .NET

Intercepting WinAPI calls

by Retired Author

An article about intercepting WinAPI calls.

Intermeadiate OLE DB Consumer in C++

by Retired Author

This article expands on my previous article and introduces recordset operations and database entry operations.

Intermediate OLE DB Consumer with C#

by Retired Author

Using the OleDbDataAdapter and OleDbCommands objects to consume OLE DB providers

Internal Site Search Engine

by Retired Author

Site Search Engine searches an entire page and also dynamic pages for matching keyword(s) or a phrase and will count how many times the keyword(s) or phrase are found on the page, and displays the results with the highest matches first.

Internet programming primer (general overview and history of ASP.NET)

by Retired Author

A general overview of Internet technologies including what the Internet actually is, what HTML and XML are, using Web forms, CGI/MIME, IIS ISAPI, ASP and creating HTML based front ends to databases via ODBC32, OLE DB, ADO and ASP.NET

Internet web macros in C#

by Retired Author

Write web macro agents with plugin libraries for data processing

Interpreting Intel 80-bit Long Double Byte Arrays

by Retired Author

A simple BitConverter class that is capable of reading and writing Intel 80-bit long doubles.

Introducing TaHoGen – An Open Source Implementation of a CodeSmith-Style Code Generation Engine

by Retired Author

Looking for multiple file output support from a single template in one pass? Then look no further.

Introduction Into Windows Anti-Debugging

by Retired Author

A brief introduction into Windows anti-debugging techniques.