Most popular new articles 31 Aug 2009

Perfect Semi-transparent & Shaped Dialogs with Standard, ActiveX, and Translucent Controls for Windows 2000+ - D.K.Wang
.NET Best Practice No: 3:- Using performance counters to gather performance data - Shivprasad koirala
Project Metadata Generation using T4 - Daniel Vaughan
A BigNumber Class Done in C# - zimstep
How to Use a Font Without Installing it - Shao Voon Wong

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Dialogs and Windows

ToolTip With Image C# - Kumar, Ravikant India Bangalore
It is a customized ToolTip that can display text with Image. We can configure size and border color too. It is built on .NET 2.0 Platform
C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), Windows, WinForms, Dev
Perfect Semi-transparent & Shaped Dialogs with Standard, ActiveX, and Translucent Controls for Windows 2000+ - D.K.Wang
This article tries to find a way to show standard controls, ActiveX controls, translucent controls on layered windows. Native MFC source code provided. (Unedited)
C++ (VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0), C++/CLI, C, Windows, Win32, Win64, Visual Studio, MFC, GDI, GDI+, Dev
Extend OpenFileDialog and SaveFileDialog using WPF - dmihailescu
Customize OpenFileDialog and SaveFileDialog using a WPF Window.
C# 3.0WinXP, Vista, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, Win 7, Win32, Win64, XAML, WPF, VS2008, Dev

Files and Folders

Simple File Search Class - jabit
A simple search class to search a directory and all sub-directories in the background for files with a defined search pattern.
C#

Grid & Data Controls

A DataGridView Column Show/Hide Popup - Menu Style - Fiwel
A DataGridView column show/hide popup - Menu style.
C#.NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0VS2005, VS2008, VS2010, Dev

List Controls

Virtual Mode TreeListView - yetibrain
A treelistview running in virtual mode
C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), .NET (.NET 2.0), Visual Studio (VS2008), WinForms, Architect, Dev

Tabs & Property Pages

Customized TabControl Joined by Panels - sjingyu
with Size,Icon,Color Customized & not repainting Microsoft' s TabControl (Unedited)
C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), .NET, Dev

ASP.NET

.NET Best Practice No: 3:- Using performance counters to gather performance data - Shivprasad koirala
.NET Best Practice No: 3:- Using performance counters to gather performance data (Unedited)
C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0), .NET (.NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0), ASP.NET, SQL Server (SQL 2000, SQL 2005, SQL CE, SQL 2008), Visual Studio (VS.NET2003, VS2005, VS2008, VS2010), Architect
Optimized Paging and Sorting in ASP.NET GridView - akhhttar
An artcile on End to End solution to optimized paging and sorting in ASP.NET GridView. (Unedited)
C#, .NET (.NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5), ASP.NET, SQL Server (SQL 2000, SQL 2005, SQL 2008), ADO.NET, WebForms, Architect, DBA, Dev, QA, Design

ASP.NET Controls

ASP.NET PDF Viewer User Control Without Acrobat Reader Installed on Client or Server - Ron Schuler
ASP.NET PDF document viewer control that does not require any Acrobat product to be installed
VB (VB 7.x, VB 8.0, VB 9.0, VB 6, VB 10), .NET (.NET 2.0), ASP.NET, Dev

Silverlight

Silverlight and Application Globalization – The Converter Approach - Abhinav S
Silverlight and Application Globalization – The Converter approach
C#, Silverlight
Using Silverlight 3 Navigation with Prism and On-Demand Loading - n_ferrissey
An article demonstrating one way of integrating Silverlight 3 Navigation with Prism 2, including on-demand loading of modules (Unedited)
C# (C# 3.0), .NET, XAML, Silverlight, Dev

Web Services

WCF ClearUsernameBinding: Send username without Ssl or x.509 certificates - Yaron Naveh
How to use WCF to send cleartext username without Ssl or X.509 certificate. (Unedited)
C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, TabletPC, Embedded, Win2008, Win 7, Win2008 R2), .NET (.NET 3.0, .NET 3.5), WCF, Dev

GDI

How to Use a Font Without Installing it - Shao Voon Wong
How to use a font without installing it first on user systems.
C++, GDI, GDI+, Dev

General Graphics

Office Web Components - Line Graph (Date as X-Axis) - chkmos
This is an article about using line graph in Office Web Components, where date is used in the X-Axis.
VB, .NET, COM, WinForms, Dev
Learn How To Do Alphablending with CUDA - ChaoJui
Image processing with a burst of performance from CUDA
C++ (VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0), C, Windows (WinXP, Vista, Win 7), Win32, Win64, Dev

OpenGL

Space and Matrix Transformations - Building a 3D Engine - ARon_
This Article Describes How to Navigate 3D Space
C#.NET 2.0, Dev, Design

Database

Abstract Data Access Layer Design - Anwar Ibáñez O'Kamell
The present document tries to describe the architecture of a specific layer of access to data for relational databases . This document tries to present/display a form to automate tasks of access to data. (Unedited)
C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), SQL Topics, Architect, Design

.NET Framework

Add Uninstall Shortcut to Your Application - msrezapro
Easy way to create your application uninstaller and add to your setup
C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), .NET CF
DBKeeperNet - Keeps Your DB Schema Up-to-date - voloda2
An article describing a simple .NET library which simply keeps your database schema up-to-date
C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), .NET (.NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5), ADO.NET, Dev, Design
How to realize DoDataExchange in .NET (C#) - deisenbe
This article describes the usage of the reflection system to realize a data exchange mapping in windows forms. (Unedited)
C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), Windows (WinXP, Win2003, Vista, Win2008, Win 7, Win2008 R2), Visual Studio (VS2005, VS2008), WinForms, Architect, Dev

Game Development

Scripting Coppercube with ActionScript 3 - MatthewCasperson
Learn how to control a Coppercube SWF application using ActionScript
C#, XML, ASP, ASP.NET, WebForms, Ajax

LINQ

re-linq|ishing the Pain: Using re-linq to Implement a Powerful LINQ Provider on the Example of NHibernate - Markus Giegl
This article shows how to use the open source re-linq library to easily implement a powerful LINQ provider on the example of LINQ to NHibernate HQL. (Unedited)
C#, .NET (.NET 3.5), LINQ, CEO, Architect, Dev, Design

Windows Workflow Foundation

Using WF4 WorkflowInvoker - Roman Kiss
This article describes a design, implementation and usage of the custom service operation invoker for invoking a xaml workflow. It is based on the upcoming Microsoft .NET 4 Technology.
C#, .NET (.NET 4.0), WCF, XAML, Dev
Flexible Web UI Workflow application through ASP.NET MVC & Windows Workflow Foundation - V.GNANASEKARAN
An article on developing a flexible web UI workflow application, using ASP.NET MVC & Windows Workflow Foundation
C#.NET 3.5, ASP.NET, Dev

C / C++ Language

Sealing Classes in C++ - FrancisXavier
A method to create sealed classes in C++
C++, Dev
Enum to String and Vice Versa in C++ - FrancisXavier
A simple method to convert a C++ enumeration to its equivalent string representation and vice versa
C++, Dev

C#

Parse DataSet via Reflection - Kirill Kovalev
This article shows how to bind relational data model with object design model
C#, Win Mobile (PocketPC 2002, WinMobile2003, WinMobile5, WinMobile6), Mobile (PalmOS, iPhone, Android, Blackberry), J2MESQL CE
Loading WPF themes at runtime - Badea Florin
This acticle presents how to build wpf themes and apply them to an application at runtime (Unedited)
C#, .NET, WPF, Dev
VMSTAT Analyzer - Biswas, Sumit
Helps UNIX / LINUX administrator to analyze VMSTAT file for system resource utilization. (Unedited)
C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, Win2008, Win 7, Win2008 R2), Visual Studio (VS2008), Architect, DBA, Dev, QA, SysAdmin
Math Expressions Evaluator - DetoX83
Library that evals complex mathematical expressions into values
C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), .NET (.NET 3.5), Architect, Dev, Design
CommandParser - A getopt() Inspired Command Line Parser for C# using LINQ - Christopher Hahn
Command line parsing is an irritatingly repetitive problem to solve when creating command line tools. What's worse, it has been solved many times over throughout the course of computing history. This library is an attempt to solve many of the problems common to handling command line arguments when
C# (C# 3.0), Windows, .NET (.NET 3.0), ASP.NET, Dev

Algorithms & Recipes

NLineDiffConsole: a console diff implementation for text files - Nick Butler
An entry for the Lean and Mean competition (Unedited)
C# (C# 3.0).NET 3.5VS2008, Dev
NDiffDiff: a diff implementation for lines and chars in text files - Nick Butler
An entry for the Lean and Mean competition (Unedited)
C# (C# 3.0), .NET (.NET 3.5), Visual Studio (VS2008), Dev
A BigNumber Class Done in C# - zimstep
A simple C# library for doing math calculations in any desired precision
C#, .NET, Dev

Exception Handling

Get the call stack when an exception is being caught - Baiyan Huang
Provides a utility class to return the call stack when an exception is being caught, using Windows SEH.
VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, Windows, Win32, Win64, Dev, QA
JException - Have Meaningful Exceptions in C++ - Yalon Lotan
C++ exceptions with embedded stack trace and cause.
C++, Windows, Visual Studio, COM, Architect, Dev, Design

Internet / Network

Unraveling the Netflix API - Part II - Accessing the Netflix Title Catalog - NetDave
Demonstrates how to access the Netflix Catalog resources
C#, XML.NET 2.0VS2005, Dev
Unraveling the Netflix API - Part III - Accessing Subscriber Account Information - NetDave
Demonstrates how to access the Netflix subscriber's account information
C#, Windows, .NET (.NET 2.0), Visual Studio (VS2005), Dev
Unraveling the Netflix API - Part IV - Managing User Account Information - NetDave
Demonstrates how to manage a Netflix subscriber's movie queue
C#, XML, Windows, .NET (.NET 2.0), Visual Studio (VS2005), Dev
Unraveling the Netflix API - Part I - Netflix API Basics - NetDave
How to use the Netflix APIs
C#, .NET, Visual Studio (VS2005), Dev

Localisation

ResourceBundle - An Alternative Way to Do Localization in .Net - Angela Han
How to do localization in .Net with a ResourceBundle class and change language dynamically at run time (Unedited)
C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), .NET, WinForms, Dev

Threads, Processes & IPC

Pipe template classes - klizardin
The template classes library to support pipe develop with minimum expenses for programmer. (Unedited)
C++, Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista), Win32, STL
Generic Background Worker - DaveyM69
No more unboxing/casting! Use generic type parameters with this background worker.
C# (C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0), Windows (WinXP, Win2003, Vista, Win2008, Win 7, Win2008 R2), Win32, Win64, Visual Studio (VS2008, VS2010)

Code Generation

Project Metadata Generation using T4 - Daniel Vaughan
Generate project metadata with T4 and unburden yourself from string literals in XAML binding expressions and INotifyPropertyChanged event arguments. (Unedited)
C# (C# 2.0, C# 3.0), VB (VB 9.0), .NET (.NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5), Visual Studio (VS2008), XAML, WPF, WinForms, LINQ, Silverlight, Architect, Dev

Design and Architecture

Speaker-Listener - bigsigma
The Speaker Listener design pattern.
C++, Windows, Dev, Design
Decorator Design Pattern - SmartAllen
This article shows a case study about how we use the Decorator pattern to a daycare center reward system.
C#, .NET, Architect, Dev, Design
Design Method For A Non RealTime Hardware Driver - Part 1 - morisson_c
How to design a flexible & agile driver for your hardware
C#
Facelift to Forms; Part 1: TextBox - By 该E-mail地址已受到防止垃圾邮件机器人的保护，您必须启用浏览器的Java Script才能看到。 - Jay Thakar
Various ways to make beautiful Textbox (Unedited)
C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0), Javascript, CSS, Java, .NET (.NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0), ASP.NET, Ajax, Architect, Dev, Design, Marketing

Hardware & System

How to Capture LPT Port(s) to Intercept DOS Print Requests - Shams Dar
This article explains how you can capture any LPT port to intercept DOS print requests; sample code shows how to redirect data to a specified directory.
VC7.1, VC8.0, VC9.0Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, Win32, MFC, Dev

Product Showcase

WM Apps: Graphically as Attractive as iPhone Apps, Plus Full of Functionality - Resco Developer Tools
Can Windows Mobile apps be graphically as attractive as the ones for iPhone, while bringing rich functionality? Let’s see what opportunities we have and how much can be achieved.
C#, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Design

Solution Center

discount ASP.NET - John Meeks
Award-Winning, Innovative, Feature-Rich ASP.NET Hosting starting from $10/month
ASP.NET, Dev

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Files and Folders

LPTextFileDiff: another textfile compare utility. - Luc Pattyn
My entry to the lean-and-mean programming competition. (Unedited)
C# (C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0), .NET (.NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0)

Miscellaneous

Controling a Barcode Reader with POS for .NET - jammmie999
Controling a Barcode Reader with POS for .NET (Unedited)
C#, Windows
Toggle Keys Controller - DaveyM69
A class that enables you to control and monitor the toggle keys such as CapsLock, NumLock, and ScrollLock.
C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0.NET 2.0, WinXP, Vista, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, Win32, Dev

Printing

Another DataGridView Printer - aureolin
DataGridView printing encapsulated in a stand-alone object. Very easy to use! Updated to allow printing columns wider than one page.
C# (C# 2.0), Windows, .NET (.NET 2.0), Visual Studio (VS2005), Dev

Ajax and Atlas

JQuery AJAX with ASP.NET MVC - Farooq Kaiser
The JQuery has several methods that can be used to perform Ajax requests
C#, Javascript, HTML, XHTML.NET 3.5, ASP, ASP.NET, WebForms, Ajax, MVC, Dev

Applications & Tools

Automatic Birthday Scrap to Orkut Friends Using WATiN - jawed9986415006
By using this application, Orkut users can send birthday wishes scrap to their friends without fail and even without logging into Orkut site
C# (C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0), Windows (WinXP, Win2003), .NET (.NET 2.0), Visual Studio (VS2005), Architect, Dev, QA, Design
ToDoList 5.9 Beta Release - A simple but effective way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g.
A hierarchical task manager with native XML support for custom reporting.
VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, MFC, CEO, Architect, DBA, Dev, QA

ASP.NET

.NET Best Practice No: 1:- Detecting High Memory consuming functions in .NET code - Shivprasad koirala
.NET Best Practice No: 1:- Detecting High Memory consuming functions in .NET code (Unedited)
C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0), .NET (.NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0), ASP.NET, Visual Studio (VS.NET2003, VS2005, VS2008, VS2010), ADO.NET, Architect
.NET Best Practice No: 2:- Improve garbage collector performance using finalize/dispose pattern - Shivprasad koirala
.NET Best Practice No: 2:- Improve garbage collector performance using finalize/dispose pattern (Unedited)
C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0), .NET (.NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0), ASP.NET, SQL Server (SQL 2000, SQL 2005, SQL CE, SQL 2008), Visual Studio (VS.NET2003, VS2005, VS2008, VS2010), ADO.NET, Architect
How To Improve the Performance of ASP.NET MVC Web Application - Farooq Kaiser
In this article, I will examine how you can improve the performance of an ASP.NET MVC application by taking advantage of the various components
C#, Javascript, SQL, HTML, XHTML.NET 3.5, ASP, ASP.NET, SQL Server (SQL 2005, SQL 2008), IIS (IIS 6, IIS 7), Visual Studio (VS2005, VS2008), WebForms, Ajax, MVC, Architect, Dev

Charts, Graphs and Images

Using ImageMagick to Create Previews and Thumbnails from Uploaded Images - Gary Stafford
This ASP.NET Web Application demonstrates the use of ImageMagick to create thumbnails and larger preview images, both from an uploaded image file.
C# (C# 3.0), .NET (.NET 3.5), ASP.NET, Visual Studio (VS2008), Dev

Audio and Video

Darwin Streaming Server 6.0.3 - setup, customization, plugin or module development, performance and load tests on 32 & 64 bit Redhat Linux - Koushik Biswas
How to setup Darwin Streaming Server 6.0.3 on 32 or 64 bit Linux platforms, add custom functionality by developing plugins ("modules" as Apple calls them), and results of some performance and load tests I ran (Unedited)
C++, Linux, CEO, Architect, Dev

DirectX

MFC plays with D3DDevice easily! - aljodav
MFC app using D3DDevice and TTS through Microsoft Speech Object Library.
VC7.1, VC8.0WinXP, MFC, DirectX, VS.NET2003, VS2005, Dev

Windows Presentation Foundation

WPF : If Heineken did MVVM Frameworks Part 2 of n - Sacha Barber
It would probably be like Cinch a MVVM framework for WPF (Unedited)
C# (C# 3.0, C# 4.0), .NET (.NET 3.5, .NET 4.0), WPF, Architect, Dev, Design
WPF : If Heineken did MVVM Frameworks Part 3 of n - Sacha Barber
It would probably be like Cinch a MVVM framework for WPF (Unedited)
C# (C# 3.0, C# 4.0), .NET (.NET 3.5, .NET 4.0), WPF, Dev, Design
WPF: If Heineken did MVVM Frameworks Part 4 of n - Sacha Barber
It would probably be like Cinch a MVVM framework for WPF (Unedited)
C# (C# 3.0, C# 4.0), .NET (.NET 3.5, .NET 4.0), WPF, Architect, Dev, Design
WPF: If Heineken did MVVM Frameworks Part 5 of n - Sacha Barber
It would probably be like Cinch a MVVM framework for WPF (Unedited)
C# (C# 3.0, C# 4.0), .NET (.NET 3.5, .NET 4.0), WPF, Architect, Dev, Design
WPF: If Heineken did MVVM Frameworks Part 6 of n - Sacha Barber
It would probably be like Cinch a MVVM framework for WPF (Unedited)
C# (C# 3.0, C# 4.0), .NET (.NET 3.0, .NET 3.5), WPF, Architect, Dev, Design
WPF: If Heineken did MVVM Frameworks Part 1 of n - Sacha Barber
It would probably be like Cinch a MVVM framework for WPF
C# (C# 3.0, C# 4.0), .NET (.NET 3.5, .NET 4.0), WPF, Architect, Dev, Design