This article focuses on internal supply chain management systems visibility via chart reports, and provides assessment apparatus to manage and monitor activities spawned during business processes, hence paves the way for timely and precise business decisions.

C#3.0

C#2.0

WinXP

Win2003

WPF-Less GDI+.NET Report Component: Star Report

25 Jan 2013 by FatCatProgrammer

StarReport: WPF-less GDI+.NET report component.

CreateRegionFromFile

10 Dec 2001 by Yuriy Zaporozhets

Very primitive function that creates region from *.bmp files

dwl::fractalBrowser

17 Jan 2021 by David O'Neil

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

Custom Captions (Including Multi-line Captions)

15 Jul 2000 by Dave Lorde

Simple customised Window captions, including multi-line captions

Selection Overlay DLL

18 Jun 2012 by Mark Kruger

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

SPC XBAR and Range Chart

25 Jan 2015 by syed shanu

XBAR and Range Chart using C#

Explore 3D

15 Aug 2013 by Chris Boss

OpenGL based 3D learning software

OpenGL in Python with TKinter

25 Jan 2016 by Samuel Teixeira

Why simple if we can be complex?

GtProject: A C++ Project Management Control for GT Graphical User Interface Library

1 Mar 2017 by trident99

GtProject is intended to provide the user a Microsoft Project equivalent control to use for scheduling tasks.

ASCII Animation (Just for Fun)

20 May 2002 by Jason Henderson

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

IMSL® C# with Excel and VSTO: An Introduction and Walkthrough

7 Jan 2008 by Visual Numerics, Inc.

This document focuses on the combination of VSTO 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition.

Instantly Increase the Value of your Windows Application

12 Oct 2016 by gricardi

As users are migrating from traditional desktops to mobile devices, transitioning your Windows application to the web is the next step to increasing your exposure. Thinfinity VirtualUI delivers your Windows applications to users on any device, anywhere.

EBDT (Mono Embedded Bitmap Data in TrueType Font) to BM (BitMap)

3 Mar 2020 by LeisureBamboo

Randomly read any embedded_mono_matrix in TTF file, export it to bitmap files (in package)

Guide to Image Composition with Win32 MsImg32.dll

9 Sep 2011 by Paul M Watt

With respect to Image Composition, your imagination is your only limit.

C++

GDI

Dev

Windows Live Messenger Plug-in Development Bible

3 Nov 2008 by IndioX86

An article explaining several Win32 reverse engineering techniques applied to Live Messenger research and plug-in development.

Guide to Win32 Memory DC

21 Jul 2011 by Paul M Watt

Guide to creating and using Memory Device Contexts (DC) in Win32.

ToggleSwitch Winforms Control

11 Sep 2015 by Johnny J.

A ToggleSwitch that presents on/off values in a more interesting way than a standard CheckBox

Draw Behind Desktop Icons in Windows 8+

22 Dec 2014 by Gerald Degeneve

Draw or render a Windows Form directly over the Wallpaper, behind the Desktop Icons in Windows 8+10

XPTable - .NET ListView meets Java's JTable

17 Sep 2005 by Mathew Hall

A fully customisable ListView style control based on Java's JTable.

Shell Extensibility - Explorer Desk Band, Tray Notification Icon et al.

28 Aug 2009 by Alex Blekhman

A simple Calendar utility that demonstrates basic Shell extensibility techniques: desk band, tray notification icon, locales.

Windows 7 Goodies in C++: Taskbar Progress and Status Indicators

14 Sep 2009 by Michael Dunn

An intro to using Taskbar progress bars and overlay icons with your Windows 7 applications

PDF Merger and Protector

5 Oct 2012 by Sunasara Imdadhusen

PDF MERGER and PROTECTOR is the best pdf merger software which is fast and powerful way to join(Merge) PDF files with password protection as well as you can apply stamper with either any type of image or text. Using this utility you don’t required installation of Adobe Acrobat. Looks Exciting ???

Beginners - Starting a 2D Game with GDI+

25 Jun 2012 by codiemorgan

Basics for setting up a 2D Game using GDI+, Renderloop, and Threading. And a few tips.

Target Eye Revealed: Part 2 - Target Eye's Screen Capturing

12 Jun 2014 by Michael Haephrati

How Target Eye's screen capturing mechanism works

WTL for MFC Programmers, Part V - Advanced Dialog UI Classes

31 Dec 2005 by Michael Dunn

Using the new WTL classes that implement advanced dialog UI elements

Flicker Free Drawing In MFC

25 Mar 2002 by Keith Rule

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

An Alpha Channel Composited Windows Form with Designer Support

5 Oct 2009 by Jeff J Anderson

An alpha channel composited form for image based Window frames

boost 2: shared_ptr wraps resource handles

16 Nov 2004 by peterchen

Using boost, we can write "almost perfect" wrappers for GDI and other resource handles, in a few lines of code.

Drawing Rich Text with GDI+

14 Oct 2022 by Andy De Filippo

Render Rich Text with GDI+ by tapping into the power of API hooking

Antialiasing: Wu Algorithm

6 Nov 2007 by .Suchit

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

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Shell Extensions - Part IX

2 Jun 2006 by Michael Dunn

A tutorial on writing an extension to customize the icons displayed for a file type.

C# \ VB.NET Camera Communication Libraries

15 Dec 2011 by shynet

Stream a live camera video stream or single images between applications using the TCP protocol.

Automatic Font Handling Class

14 Aug 2014 by Jamie Nordmeyer

A class to make working with LOGFONTs easier

Graphical BinaryTrees

7 Oct 2018 by Mojtaba Hosseini

A graphical binary tree. Features: add, remove, or search for a node. Recursive algorithm has been used

EnhancedImage Project

1 Sep 2005 by otigli

An article about how to enhance current image characteristics

Windows 7 Goodies in C++: Introduction to the Ribbon

21 Feb 2011 by Michael Dunn

A tutorial that shows how to get started using the Ribbon in your applications

Advanced Image Control

18 Jun 2016 by Patrik Mlekuž

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

Special 'Graphics' Objects to Draw Anywhere on Your Window

15 Aug 2020 by Mohammad Dehghan

Creating special 'Graphics' objects to draw anywhere on your window, including non-client area

Process viewer

9 Mar 2008 by Nibu babu thomas

Lists out the details of running processes in a system, loaded drivers, loaded dlls, version of each dll and process, process times, command line, owner, priority, GDI resource usage, privileges, loaded symbols, window heirarchy, autostart app finding and more.

Perfect Semi-transparent & Shaped Dialogs with Standard, ActiveX, and Translucent Controls for Windows 2000+

9 Feb 2010 by 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.

3D Software Rendering Engine - Part I

18 Mar 2011 by darkoman

This article is about the 3D software rendering engine.

Image Per Pixel Enumeration, Pixel Format Conversion and More

20 Jun 2013 by Smart K8

A set of handy extension methods to help you with quick Image modifications

Animated Dialog Windows

17 Apr 2000 by Anton Stuck

A class that provides some simple, yet spectacular window animation effects. Try the demo!

MFC Classes for Multiple Monitors

27 Aug 2003 by Don Kackman

Class wrappers around the Win32 multi-monitor API

Play Audio Files with DirectSound and Display its Spectrum in Real Time - Part 3

24 Dec 2008 by jackyxinli

An article to show how to play audio file with DirectSound and display its spectrum in real time accurately

ColorTextBox

25 Mar 2007 by Chrisi476

This article describes ColorTextBox, a customizable User Control which was written completely from scratch and is intended to fill the gap between the TextBox and RichTextBox controls found in the .NET 2.0 library.

CBitmapEx - Free C++ Bitmap Manipulation Class

11 Feb 2009 by darkoman

An article on a free C++ bitmap manipulation class

How to Use a Font Without Installing it

12 Apr 2016 by Shao Voon Wong

How to use a font without installing it first on user systems

XHtmlDraw - Draw text with HTML tags and anchor links

6 Nov 2007 by Hans Dietrich

XHtmlDraw allows you to display a single line HTML text as easily as using DrawText(), including web links and APP: links, no MFC

Method for Edge Detection in Color Images, Using 1-Dimensional Liner Image

1 Aug 2013 by tumbledDown2earth

Method for edge detection in color images, using 1-Dimensional liner image or scan line, sampled at 1 pixel intervals, at any arbitary angle

WinForms

GDI

Dev

Guide to WIN32 Paint for Intermediates

4 Apr 2002 by Paul M Watt

Guide to understanding how Windows generates WM_PAINT messages, manages the update region for a window, and how to use all common type DCs.

Sound Activated Recorder with Spectrogram in C#

27 Jan 2008 by Jeff Morton

Audio event processing with visual display

SonicUI - A Convenient GUI Engine You've Never Seen

26 May 2010 by Sonic Guan

A convenient and high-powered GUI engine with plenty of tricks

CFontListBox

29 Jan 2006 by lgaudouen

A ListBox which could display and allow selection of fonts, with special features.

Burn the Edges of Your Windows to Give Them Character

31 Mar 2008 by Michael Dunn

No, that's not a typo

Using Assembler and SSE2/SSE3 instructions for drawing optimization

29 Jul 2009 by SergStrashko

Introduce the algorithm and technique for pre-drawing process speed up.

Learning Binary and Hexadecimal

24 Nov 2014 by Jeremy Falcon

A beginner's guide to talking like a computer.

Using color gradients as backgrounds in your dialogs and views

9 Jun 2002 by Nish Nishant

Beginner article that shows how you can create horizontal, vertical and diagonal backgrounds. Also tells you what to watch out for, to avoid flickering when doing complicated drawing.

Quadrilateral Distortion

30 Aug 2011 by CaldasGSM

Non-affine transformations, four-point distortions, or whatever you want to call it.

GDI+

GDI

Dev

Windows Mobile Remote Controller

28 Mar 2008 by João Paulo Figueira

Control your Windows Mobile device from your desktop.

A basic Particles System

19 Apr 2005 by Itay Sagui

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

Falling Snow on Your Desktop!

20 Dec 2006 by Igor Tolmachev

This article explains how to create an application that makes it snow on the desktop.

VisualStudio-Like TabControl

23 Aug 2016 by Alaa Ben Fatma

Inherits the awesome style of Visual Studio's TabControl for better exploiting

Design WinForms Controls using Photoshop

2 Nov 2019 by Alaa Ben Fatma

Use your skills as a designer to create gorgeous control

.NET

.NET-Compiler-Platform

Drawing Lines, Shapes, or Text on Bitmaps

12 Apr 2002 by Davide Pizzolato

Quick reference to draw lines, shapes, or text on bitmaps

Frequency Analyser V2.0 - Have you ever wondered what will make tones sound in tune with each other?

29 Nov 2007 by Windmiller

This graphical application will play and display frequencies and mix them together so that you can analyze what's really going on with sounds that we call intone. Handling a basic DFT version that will prove to us which frequencies are involved. It was originally made in plain C.

The Windows Native Ribbon Part 2: Setting Ribbon Properties at Runtime

18 Jul 2011 by Michael Dunn

This article shows how to control various Ribbon and command properties at runtime

Screen Color Picker

25 Mar 2002 by Florin Vasilescu

A simple application that retrieves the color codes from any area of your screen, with some cool options.

Zoom An Image With Different Interpolation Types

21 Sep 2011 by Santhosh G_

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

HTML to Image in C#

13 Feb 2010 by mariscn

Capture an HTML document as an image.

.NET

GDI

Dev

phos: A Console GUI Component

17 Aug 2009 by Michael Mangelsdorf

A DLL implemented in assembler featuring a console GUI component

Adding or Retrofitting Aero Glass into Legacy Windows Applications

20 Jun 2007 by Stefan Kuhr

Adding Aero Glass to Windows applications while keeping them backwards-compatible with legacy Windows versions

Custom ToolTips for MFC Projects

12 Apr 2007 by kenearle

Put anything you want in a ToolTip

Sound visualizer in C#

15 Aug 2007 by Jeff Morton

Simple sound sampler with visualization

A fully customizable PropertyGrid

24 May 2007 by Nicolas Bonamy

A grid to display and edit properties of objects (as in Visual Studio)

Task Manager

1 Jan 2010 by Shakeel Iqbal

Manage your daily tasks and To-Do list using some exciting features of Windows 7.

A Guide to WIN32 Clipping Regions

9 Apr 2002 by Paul M Watt

Guide to understand the three different types of clipping regions, and how they relate to the Device Context

Guide to WIN32 Paint for Beginners

20 Mar 2002 by Paul M Watt

Beginner's guide to understanding how to paint to a window in the WIN32 SDK environment

Windows 7 Goodies in C++: Jump Lists

19 May 2009 by Michael Dunn

An intro to using jump lists with your Windows 7 applications

The Windows Native Ribbon Part 3: Buttons and Menus

11 Sep 2011 by Michael Dunn

This article demonstrates new button and menu features of the Ribbon

Get icons from Exe or DLL the PE way

14 Jan 2005 by ejor

Get icons from Exe or DLL the PE way or how to emulate PrivateExtractIcons.

Writing GIS and Mapping Software for .NET

19 Aug 2008 by Jon Person, A. Philip Smith

In part three of the series, the authors of the "GIS.NET" mapping component for .NET explain how to write a geographic mapping engine which can display geographic coordinates. Source code is provided which can pan and zoom a sample geographic object (the state of Nebraska), in C# and VB.NET.

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

20 Oct 2012 by Santhosh G_