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Guide to WIN32 Regions

by Paul M Watt

Guide to understanding how to create and use regions with the WIN32 SDK

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

by The Ænema

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

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

by Jecho Jekov

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

CppEvent - How to Implement Events using Standard C++

by Shmuel Zang

This article shows how we can implement a thread-safe events (similar to .NET events) mechanism using the standard C++ library.

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Customize List View Column Headers

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Show or hide, reorder, save and restore list view column headers

Universal implementation of BFS, DFS, Dijkstra and A-Star algorithms

by optiklab1

I demonstrate with an actual implementation that well-known algorithms BFS, DFS, Dijkstra, and A-Star are essentially variations of the same algorithm.

Converting between NSString and C Strings in an iOS Project

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How to convert between NSString and C strings in iOS project

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Container classes much faster than STL.

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Objective C

Guide to WIN32 Regions

10 Mar 2002 by Paul M Watt

Guide to understanding how to create and use regions with the WIN32 SDK

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

6 Jan 2020 by The Ænema

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

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

13 Sep 2005 by Jecho Jekov

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

CppEvent - How to Implement Events using Standard C++

13 Aug 2018 by Shmuel Zang

This article shows how we can implement a thread-safe events (similar to .NET events) mechanism using the standard C++ library.

Creating Alternate GUI using Vector Art

6 Feb 2000 by Keith Rule

Create visually complex, yet programmatically simple, non-rectangular GUIs

How to Make Your Own Sandbox: Simple Sandbox Explained

2 Oct 2016 by Eugene Balabanov

A tiny sandbox primer

Recursive Internetworking

10 Sep 2018 by Kewin Rausch

Moving forward in the future networks evolution

Text to SVG Path Utility in U++

22 Jun 2021 by Miroslav Fidler

Creating a simple utility for converting text to SVG path in U++

Init Threads in MFC and Win32

17 Oct 2021 by Petrov Vladimir

Starting Threads in MFC and Win32 and some handling samples

multi-threading

Debugger for Arduino

18 Jan 2018 by Jan Dolinay

Source level debugger for Arduino with GDB and Eclipse

Asynchronous TCP Part 1

14 Sep 2018 by bkelly13

Goal: Describe how asynchronous or non-blocking TCP code works

Rodney - A Long Time Coming Autonomous Robot (Part 2)

16 Jan 2019 by Phil Hopley

Second part in a series on a ROS (Robot Operating System) House Bot

CreateRegionFromFile

10 Dec 2001 by Yuriy Zaporozhets

Very primitive function that creates region from *.bmp files

Adding Object Detection with TensorFlow to a Robotics Project

28 Apr 2019 by Phil Hopley

In this article, we will add AI to an existing ROS (Robot Operating System) House Bot.

machine-learning

Rodney - A Long Time Coming Autonomous Robot (Part 3)

17 Jan 2019 by Phil Hopley

Third part in a series on a ROS (Robot Operating System) House Bot

A Monitored, Memory Mapped std::allocator for Mass Data Storage in STL Container

26 May 2020 by stefan stammberger

A novel allocator implementation for managing huge sets of data in STL's std:: containers for Windows operating systems

operating-systems

Sending WhatsApp Messages from a Win32 C++ Program - Part 1

3 Nov 2018 by Michael Haephrati

A simple way for sending WhatsApp messages to an individual or to a group in C++

Custom Captions (Including Multi-line Captions)

15 Jul 2000 by Dave Lorde

Simple customised Window captions, including multi-line captions

A Programming Model to Use a Thread Pool

30 Sep 2000 by Sherwood Hu

A class to manage the thread pool

MFC Resources Fallback

11 Jul 2007 by Giuseppe Marazzi

A small tip for implementing a fallback resources process with MFC that's useful for localization

Extending Visual Studio to Provide a Colorful Language Editor

20 May 2018 by Eric Lynch

In this article, we explore the implementation of a Visual Studio editor that allows editing of a fictitious "Colorful" language. The editor minimally implements both syntax classification / coloring and IntelliSense completion.

Multi-pass Filter Cutoff Correction

26 Nov 2018 by Jonas Selling

Clarifying the use of multi-pass filter cutoff correction

Run a C Language Interpreter on Your ESP32

31 May 2019 by Rick Lunglhofer

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

Universal implementation of BFS, DFS, Dijkstra and A-Star algorithms

15 Sep 2023 by optiklab1

I demonstrate with an actual implementation that well-known algorithms BFS, DFS, Dijkstra, and A-Star are essentially variations of the same algorithm.

STL Set Algorithm Operators

16 Jun 2018 by Shao Voon Wong

Overloaded Operators to write concise code on STL Set Algorithms

Basic Cryptographic Protocols: Key Exchange

25 Aug 2018 by Kewin Rausch

Introduction to protocols to manage Key Exchange in secure channels communication

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

1 Sep 2018 by Arthur V. Ratz

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

Connect ESP32 Board via Browser

7 Apr 2021 by Member 4206974

Board based automation and environment control

Low-level text rendering

14 Sep 2010 by Ohmu

Low-level text rendering in iPhone.

GPS Walker : Get GPS Data With Your Arduino

6 Aug 2018 by raddevus

Build this circuit and learn how easy it is to grab GPS data and store it on an SD Card. Walk around your neighborhood and then upload data to a map.

Arduino Multitasking Using Loops

13 Dec 2018 by Tareq_Gamal

Simple way to create a Multitasking code for your Arduino project without using any external library.

Fun with YouTube Data API v3 (Public Data) and Kigs Framework

25 Feb 2021 by Stephane Capo

Kigs framework C++ Windows project to retrieve and display what other channels are subscribed by subscribers of a given YouTube channel.

XorShift Jump 101, Part 1: Matrix Multiplication

14 Apr 2020 by Member 4201813

Jump forward/backward procedures for XorShift RNG explained step by step

XML Class Used to Store or Load Information

11 Feb 2003 by gosh

Serialize information stored as XML

Any Day of the Week Using the Doomsday Rule

27 Jun 2002 by Paul J. Weiss

C++ implementation of the Doomsday Rule to determine the weekday

Create a Simple Apple Watch App Using CoreGraphics

14 Oct 2015 by yuetwong

This article shows the steps to create an Apple Watch app that draws a pie chart using CoreGraphics.

reuse: An Object Recycling C++ Class Library

23 Feb 2022 by Michael Sydney Balloni

Recycle objects that are expensive to create and improve the performance of your application

Discover ISAPI. Working with GET-POST Data

15 Jul 2002 by Adrian Bacaianu

That article present a way to retrieve the GET-POST data from a form into an ISAPI extension.

Hello, I Am Ready to Communicate!

20 Jun 2012 by ThatsAlok

CWinThread with TWO-Way communication using window message

multi-threading

Asynchronous TCP Part 2

29 Mar 2013 by bkelly13

Goal: Describe how asynchronous or non-blocking TCP code works

x64 API Hooker + Disassembler

8 Nov 2018 by Member 13737597

This article shows you how to implement trampolines on x64, introduces the idea of sync and async hooks, and dynamically added runtime filters and loggers.

Call Distribution Parameters using Combined Data Points Splicing

31 Mar 2021 by Fedor Naumenko

Find type of distribution and parameters from set of distributed physical values

Enabling full-keyboard-access behaviour programmatically

2 Apr 2013 by Bernhard Häussermann

Shows how to programmatically enable full-keyboard-access tabbing behaviour in your Mac OS X application.

Intel® HTML5 Tools for developing mobile applications

1 Dec 2013 by Android on Intel

Intel® HTML5 Tools for developing mobile applications

product-showcase

Multi-OS Engine Actions Menu

1 Mar 2016 by Android on Intel

This article takes a simple app and demonstrates the use of the above mentioned sub items.

Flutter Getting Started: Tutorial 2 - StateFulWidget

9 Jul 2018 by ThatsAlok

Let's explore the world of StateFulWidget with respect to Flutter

gcref

15 Nov 2018 by Yves Florido-Monnier

A safe and functional hold of managed types from native c++

Doing UTF-8 in Windows, Part 2 - Tolower or Not to Lower

18 Feb 2020 by Mircea Neacsu

Case folding for UTF-8 code

Data-Driven Model Predictive Controller (MPC) in Simulink Matlab

18 Oct 2020 by Roozbeh Abolpour

The data-driven MPC is implemented in this project that can be easily exploited

mscript - Version 2.0 Adds Error Handling, New Functions, and DLL Integration

2 Apr 2022 by Michael Sydney Balloni

If you were on the fence about adding mscript to your arsenal of system tools, have another look.

ASCII Animation (Just for Fun)

20 May 2002 by Jason Henderson

Draw and animate ASCII characters to a window using this COM object.

Storing and Retrieving Binary Data in ISAPI Extensions

5 Sep 2002 by Dirk Vandenheuvel

An easy way to store and retrieve binary data in an ISAP DLL and display them on a web page

iPhone Gaming Framework: Amendment

2 Jun 2009 by Craig Giles

There are a few things missing from the tutorials. This is the amendment, going to patch up the final few things to get you back on track!

CoreData Persistence Framework

16 Mar 2012 by Jozef Bozek

Ligth object wrapper for iOS CoreData.

Atalasoft MobileImage SDK Review

29 Jan 2016 by Chris_Riley

In this post I will explain how quality imaging is the most critical element for an application I’m working on to support both OCR and NLP.And how I’m using the MobileImage SDK to do it.

A Slice of Cucumber

9 Oct 2019 by Zebedee Mason

Visual C++ tests are created from Gherkin DSL feature files using a Python 2.7 script

decode multiPage rotate tif.zip

12 Aug 2019 by LeisureBamboo

The decode and encode of multiPage rotate tif.zip

securelocker: an httplite "pretty secure" file storage locker

8 Jan 2022 by Michael Sydney Balloni

An exciting proof-of-concept that sews httplite with security components

An ISAPI Project to Send a Page with an Image to the Browser

6 Dec 1999 by Jorge Lodos

This article describes an ISAPI project to send a page containing an image to the browser.

An ISAPI Project to Show Frames

6 Dec 1999 by Jorge Lodos

This article describes an ISAPI project to send a page containing two frames to the browser.

Integrate App Payments Quickly and Seamlessly with PayPal’s Mobile Libraries

12 Jul 2010 by Chris_Hall

This article shows you how easy it is to process and track mobile payments with PayPal.

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Excerpt from Learning Objective-C 2.0: A Hands-On Guide to Objective-C for Mac and iOS Developers

22 Sep 2010 by Addison-Wesley

This chapter covers only the basic parts of the C language

Windows Phone 7 for iPhone Developers - Chapter Excerpt: Object-Oriented Programming

9 Sep 2011 by Addison-Wesley

This chapter will cover some of the core concepts of object-oriented programming (OOP) and how they apply to both iPhone and Windows Phone 7 programming

Windows-Phone-7

FliteEngine - Objective-C speech synthesizer

21 Jan 2012 by Jozef Bozek

FliteEngine - An Objective-C speech synthesizer.

Multi-Platform OCR with LEADTOOLS 18

1 Feb 2013 by LEADTOOLS Support

Multi-Platform OCR with LEADTOOLS 18.

We Make a std::shared_mutex 10 Times Faster

16 Dec 2021 by AlexeyAB

Atomic operations and C++11 memory barriers and assembler instructions generated on x86_64 CPUs

multi-threading

All About MFC Serialization

9 Jan 2019 by steveb

Describes all aspects of MFC serialization mechanism

Sending WhatsApp Messages from a Win32 C++ Program - Part 2

13 Dec 2018 by Michael Haephrati

A simple way for sending WhatsApp documents and images to an individual or to a group in C++

A Simple Windows Forms Properties Spy

19 Aug 2003 by Rama Krishna Vavilala

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

Using Semaphores: Multithreaded Producer/Consumer

14 Jun 2001 by Joseph M. Newcomer

An introduction to using Semaphores

Hybrid Cross-Platform Applications: Approach to Using Cocos2d-x on Top of Native iOS and Android Components

5 Oct 2016 by YevheniyK

The article describes a general approach to using Cocos2d-x on top of native components and relevant coding specifics for Cocos2d-x, iOS and Android.

Discover WEB. HTTP GET-POST Utility

25 Jun 2002 by Adrian Bacaianu

This article presents a utility that lets you retrieve raw information from web servers using HTTP's GET and POST commands.

Lesson to Learn: Introduction to Genetic Algorithms

15 Dec 2018 by Dmitriy Gakh

An introduction to Genetic Algorithms with brief reference to biology and example of finding one solution for complex mathematical equation

machine-learning

A Basic Icon Editor Running on ReactOS (and Consequently on Windows XP and Newer Versions)

31 Jan 2021 by Steffen Ploetz

Creation of a basic icon editor with as little code as possible, that is running on ReactOS and Windows, to check out the stability of application development capabilities on ReactOS

Simple Splitter with CWnd-derived Panes

18 Apr 2004 by Robert A. T. Káldy

A splitter window class, which combines the basic CSplitterWnd functionality and professional look with the ability to use CWnd-derived panes

CSizingControlBar - A Resizable Control Bar

15 Aug 2000 by Cristi Posea

DevStudio-like docking window

CXSBrowseFolder - A Simple Class to Encapsulate SHBrowseForFolder

19 May 2002 by Dana Holt

This class makes it easier to use the shell function SHBrowseForFolder

Fast and Practically ‘perfect’ Partition Problem Solution

1 Nov 2018 by Fedor Naumenko

A combined solution of the generalized partition problem, which allows to quickly get the good quality result

CSplitterWndEx: Indicating Splitter Window Focus, and Automatic Splitting

13 Jan 2000 by Stephane Routelous

A tutorial that shows how to automatically split a view, and also how to indicate which view has the focus

Flicker Free Drawing In MFC

25 Mar 2002 by Keith Rule

A simple animation example which is used to show CMemDC in several modes

Switch between views Mobile Safari-style

23 Jul 2010 by Tom The Cat

A reusable library (specifically, an UIViewController subclass) to implement Mobile Safari page/tab switching interface in your own app. Now supports orientation changes!

CString and std::string Integration

19 Dec 2019 by Edwig Huisman

CString only projects can convert to STL std::string

Beating the Daylight Savings Time Bug and Getting Correct File Modification Times

28 May 2001 by Jonathan Gilligan

Windows reports erroneous file modification times, which change according to daylight savings. This article describes why this is so and how to determine correct file modification times and avoid the DST bug.

Compiling Your C Code to .NET - Part 1

17 Dec 2019 by Alexandre Bencz

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

Stern-Brocot Trees and their Applications

1 May 2021 by Mircea Neacsu

A data structure for finding best rational approximations

Signal Segmentation Algorithm of Radhakrishnan, et al. Ported to C and C#

20 Oct 2019 by Lance A. Endres

The algorithm presented by Radhakrishnan, et al., originally used to segment well logs for the oil industry, has been ported to C and C#.

Walking the callstack

14 Nov 2005 by Jochen Kalmbach [MVP VC++]

This article describes the (documented) way to walk a callstack for any thread (own, other and remote). It has an abstraction layer, so the calling app does not need to know the internals.

DotNetPeLib: A Library to Read and Generate .NET Assemblies in C++11

2 Jan 2020 by Alexandre Bencz

DotNetPELib is a library which abstracts managed information such as namespaces, classes, fields, methods, and instructions. The information can then be used to generate assembly language source files, or PE executables or DLLs.

Asynchronous IO within ISAPI Modules

3 May 2000 by Mike Junkin

How to use asynchronous IO to send data from an ISAPI module

Antialiasing: Wu Algorithm

6 Nov 2007 by .Suchit

Generating smooth lines with antialiasing; sample code for animation is included

Understanding CDockablePane

19 Aug 2015 by Huzifa Terkawi

A good reference for CDockablePane

CProgressFX and CHourglassFX

26 Sep 2001 by Paolo Messina

Two animation provider classes to add animation effects to any CWaitingTreeCtrl-derived class

An Easy to Use Observer Pattern Implementation (No Inheritance Required)

26 Jan 2004 by Corneliu Tusnea

Observer Pattern implemented in a nice template model, easy to use as it does not require the classical inheritance and can easily decouple Subject and Observer

Statusbar – It’s Just So Easy to Use in MFC

19 Feb 2002 by lucy

How to add your own text to the status bar control using MFC

An Idea How to Use Google Maps

29 Oct 2015 by minor_28

Web Control - Google Maps

Create Thumbnail Extractor Objects for Your MFC Document Types

21 Nov 2002 by Philipos Sakellaropoulos

An article on writing thumbnail shell extensions for your MFC document types

A Bridge From Fortran to C#

21 Feb 2017 by Member 1895422

This article discusses bridging from Fortran to the .NET language C#.

FAT-32 Sorter - Utility that Sorts the Files' Table in the FAT32 File System

12 Feb 2023 by Udi Cohen

How I wrote a utility to sort files in FAT-32 storage devices and fixing products that are affected by improper sorting order, such as various music players.

Taskbar Notification Dialog

11 Jul 2002 by John O'Byrne

A MSN IM-style popup notification dialog

How to Prevent Resizing of Views in a Splitter Window

24 Feb 2004 by Rob Manderson

Disabling mouse input to a splitter window