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Site News

We've been doing a lot of construction these last few weeks and one of the most eagerly awaited peices of the puzzle, for us, has been a project that will allow us to scale out (instead of up) our database capabilities. Dmitry has worked his magic so hang on to your hats as we test drive the new beast and see what it can do. As always, if you see anything really odd then post a report in our 'Bugs and Suggestions' forum (linked from the homepage under 'Message boards')

The best articles of last month have been chosen by you and the lucky (and hard working) winners this time around are:

Best C# article of March 2008Eric Haddan - Burning and Erasing CD/DVD/Blu-ray Media with C# and IMAPI2
Prizes:Dundas Chart for .NET Pro - Dundas; Shell MegaPack.Net - LogicNP Software; FlyGrid.Net - 9rays; iGrid.NET - 10Tec; Klik! EntryLib.Net (WinForms) - Kliksoft; The latest C# books from Apress - Work Outsource; SmartOutline 2010 - SmartOutline; Database Restyle - Perpetuumsoft; Nevron Chart for .NET (Professional edition) - Nevron Software
Best VB.NET article of March 2008Tim Greenfield - Progress Bar Best Practices
Prizes:Shell MegaPack.Net - LogicNP Software; iGrid.NET - 10Tec; Klik! EntryLib.Net (WinForms) - Kliksoft; Dundas Chart for .NET Pro - Dundas; The latest VB books from Apress - Work Outsource; Spices.VSIP.Obfuscator - 9rays; SmartOutline 2010 - SmartOutline; .Net Dashboard Suite - Perpetuumsoft; Nevron User Interface for .NET (Professional edition) - Nevron Software
Best C++/MFC article of March 2008Maruf Maniruzzaman - Home Made Java Virtual Machine
Prizes:iGrid.NET - 10Tec; SmartOutline 2010 - SmartOutline; Codejock Xtreme ToolkitPro - CodeJock; Nevron 3DChart for ActiveX - Nevron Software
Best ASP.NET article of March 2008mohamad halabi - ASP.NET Internals: Viewstate and Page Life Cycle
Prizes:FlyTreeView for ASP.NET 2.0 - 9rays; Dundas Chart for .NET Pro (Web) - Dundas; The latest ASP.NET books from Apress - Work Outsource; SmartOutline 2010 - SmartOutline; Report Sharp-Shooter - Perpetuumsoft; Nevron Chart for .NET (Professional edition) - Nevron Software

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Weekly Poll Results

What is the main reason a deadline would not be met?

Survey period: 21 Apr 2008 to 28 Apr 2008

We've all experienced that whooshing sound of a deadline flying past. What's your best excuse? (suggested by Paul Jonathan)

OptionVotes% 
Incomplete (or missing) specs?939.6693 votes, 9.66%
Changing specs27628.66276 votes, 28.66%
Insufficient budget or resources202.0820 votes, 2.08%
A lack of understanding as to the scale of the work involved11011.42110 votes, 11.42%
The deadline was decided by marketing rather than R&D12813.29128 votes, 13.29%
The developers involved weren't asked how long it would take717.3771 votes, 7.37%
The project was interupted by other work or demands13814.33138 votes, 14.33%
Plain old bad estimations of how long it would take10210.59102 votes, 10.59%
Total963  100%963 votes

View optional text answers (38 answers)

Most popular new articles 21 Apr 2008 - 28 Apr 2008

Latest Additions

103 articles overall 61 new, 43 updated, 1 moved. 26 were edited, 77 unedited
Article topics listed: All Topics

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New articles added Last week

Combo & List Boxes

  • Customizable ComboBox Drop-Down - lhayes00
    A combobox control with a customizable drop-down.
    C# (C# 2.0), Windows, .NET (.NET 3.0), GDI+, Dev, Intermediate

Dialogs and Windows

  • Restore Form Position and Size in C# - Samuel Allen
    Presents some logic and code to intelligently restore windows' sizes and positions. (Unedited)
    C#, .NET, WinForms, Dev, Beginner

  • Customised Modal Dialog - lata07mahi
    Modal dialog with a user-defined look and feel (Unedited)
    C++ (VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0), C++/CLI, C, Windows (WinXP), MFC, Dev, Intermediate

Grid & Data Controls

Miscellaneous

Printing

Progress Controls

  • ColorBar - A Gradient Colored ProgressBar - Copper
    ColorBar is a gradient colored progress bar control written using VB.NET. (Unedited)
    VB (VB 8.0), Windows, .NET (.NET 2.0), GDI+, WinForms, Dev, Intermediate, Advanced

Selection Controls

Shell and IE programming

  • Making your browser Talk - Fred Ackers
    Use the Speech SDK to make Internet Explorer read documents or portions of documents to the user. (Unedited)
    C++ (VC9.0), Windows (Vista), ATL, Dev, Intermediate

  • A class to load and use file associated icons - Vitaly Zayko
    An article about using SHGetFileInfo in C# (simple class and demo are included) (Unedited)
    C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), Windows (NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista), .NET (.NET 3.5, .NET 3.0, .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0), WinForms, Dev, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Ajax and Atlas

  • Auto Resize TabContainer - PopeDarren
    Automatically resize a TabContainer or TabPanel.
    C#, VB, JScript, CSS, HTML, .NET (.NET 2.0, .NET 3.0), ASP, ASP.NET, Ajax, Dev, Intermediate

Applications & Tools

ASP.NET

ASP.NET Controls

  • About GridView, HyperLinkField, UrlEncode - percyboy
    Tired of converting HyperLinkField into TemplateField in order to solve UrlEncode? It is right for you. (Unedited)
    C# (C# 2.0, C# 3.0), .NET (.NET 2.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 3.0), ASP.NET, Dev, Beginner, Intermediate

HTML / CSS

  • Custom Styled Checkboxes - Matt Gullett
    A JavaScript widget to customize the look and feel of check boxes (Unedited)
    JScript, CSS, HTML, Ajax, ASP, ASP.NET

Internet / Network

  • A Code Project Article Information Library - Derek Bartram
    This library provides a framework for using Code Project article information in applications, and provides a utility for monitoring articles (Unedited)
    C# (C# 2.0, C# 3.0), Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista), .NET (.NET 3.5, .NET 3.0, .NET 2.0), Win32, Win64, ASP.NET, WPF, Arch, Dev, Intermediate

Silverlight

  • Networking in Silverlight and WPF or how to make them speak one each other - Tamir Khason
    How to use raw sockets in Silverlight application and how to make silverlight to speak with windows forms and wpf (Unedited)
    VBScript, JScript, XML, C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), VB, HTML, XSLT, Windows, .NET, Win32, Win64, IIS (IIS 7, IIS 5, IIS 5.1, IIS 6), Visual Studio (VS2008, VS2005), Ajax, XAML, WPF, WinForms, GDI+, ASP, ASP.NET, Arch, Dev, Intermediate

  • A simple treeview in Silverlight - Member 3501027
    Créating a templatable treeview in silverlight (Unedited)
    C#, Advanced

  • Silverlight 2.0 components development - Enterra
    This article has been initiated by some knowledge that we wanted to share based on our Silverlight experiences from one of the projects that we made. (Unedited)
    C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0).NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, XAML, WPF, Dev, Beginner, Intermediate

SharePoint Server

.NET Framework

COM / COM+

LINQ

  • Linq in Multi-tier Applications - Ralph Varjabedian
    Transfer data between Linq entity classes and your own data transfer objects efficiently (Unedited)
    C# (C# 3.0), LINQ, .NET (.NET 3.5), Arch, DBA, Dev, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Mobile Development

  • Tetris for Pocket PC - Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira
    A .NET Compact Framework version of worldwide awarded game Tetris (Unedited)
    C# (C# 2.0), .NET CF, WinForms, Dev, Intermediate

Windows Communication Foundation

  • Runtime Generated WCF Service Exposing .NET or COM Types - Igor Ladnik
    A WCF service wrapper is generated at runtime around a .NET or COM type to expose its interface.
    C++, C#, .NET (.NET 3.5), COM, WCF, Dev, Intermediate

  • Integrating WCF Services - taufufah
    This article describes how WCF services can be loaded on-the-fly (without prior knowledge of the services' contracts), setting its parameters and sequencing their invocation. (Unedited)
    C# (C# 3.0), Windows, Win32, Visual Studio (VS2005), WCF, WinForms, Design, Arch, Dev, Advanced

Windows Presentation Foundation

  • WPF Real-time Monitor Control (Rolling Monitor) - Derek Bartram
    An article introducing the WPF Realtime Monitor Control, for creating a real-time view of continuous data (Unedited)
    C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista), .NET (.NET 3.5, .NET 3.0), Win32, Win64, WPF, Design, Dev, Intermediate

  • A WPF Digital Clock - Derek Bartram
    A WPF Digital Clock for displaying the current time, styled using RibbonStyleHandler (Unedited)
    C# (C# 3.0), Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista), Win32, Win64, WPF, Dev, Beginner

  • Using Vista Preview Handlers in a WPF Application - Tamir Khason
    This article is about how to use Windows Vista Preview handlers within a WPF application
    C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista), .NET (.NET 3.5, .NET 3.0, Mono), Win32, Win64, XAML, WPF, WinForms, Dev, Intermediate

  • WPF Command-Pattern Applied - Jani Giannoudis
    Usage of the Command Pattern in a WPF application.
    C# (C# 3.0), Windows, .NET (.NET 3.0), WPF, Intermediate

  • A solution for fast BitmapEffects - h32
    A shameless (and for sure buggy) clone of Identitymine's ElementSnapshot (Unedited)
    C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), Windows, .NET, XAML, WPF, Design, Dev, Intermediate, Advanced

C / C++ Language

  • Recursion Primer Using C++: Part 1 - Zeeshan Amjad
    An introduction to Recursion using C++, Part 1.
    C++, Arch, Dev, Design, Intermediate

  • C++ Memory Management Innovation: GC Allocator - xushiwei
    Most of the C++ programmers do not benefit from "Garbage Collection" technique (GC). Here is a new memory management technique named "GC Allocator" (Note it is not "GC"). (Unedited)
    C++ (VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0), C++/CLI, C, Windows, ATL, STL, COM, Arch, Dev, Intermediate, Advanced

C#

  • Multiple Ways to do Multiple Inserts - Neeraj Saluja
    Various ways to do Multiple Inserts in SQL Server 2000/2005 or Oracle Database using ADO.NET in single database round trip. (Unedited)
    C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0), .NET (.NET 1.1, .NET 2.0), ADO.NET, Dev, Intermediate

VB.NET

XML

  • XML Serialization and deSerialization - mukeshkumar123
    This is a sample windows application on how .NET does serialization and deserialization of strongly typed custom collection, while handling derived collection items
    C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), Windows, .NET (.NET 2.0), WinForms, Dev, Intermediate

Algorithms & Recipes

  • Image Alignment Algorithms - Part II - Oleg Krivtsov
    Implementing and comparing forwards compositional and Hager-Belhumeur algorithms (Unedited)
    C++ (VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0), C, Windows, Dev, Advanced

  • Looking up items in HashTable/Dictionary objects that have multiple keys - Paul B.
    Dictionary objects take a single key as a look up key. This class simplifies using a Dictionary when you have multiple keys, such as two strings and an int, etc. (Unedited)
    C# (C# 2.0), .NET (.NET 2.0)VS2005, VS2008, Arch, Dev, Intermediate, Advanced

  • Dynamic Formula Processing Library - Derek Bartram
    An article presenting a basic dynamic formula processor (including an infix to prefix convertor) (Unedited)
    C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista), .NET CF, .NET (.NET 3.5, .NET 3.0, .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0), Win32, Win64, Arch, Dev, QA, Design, Intermediate

Cryptography & Security

  • Cryptographic Interoperability: Keys - Jeffrey Walton
    Import and Export Cryptographic Keys in PKCS#8 and X.509 Format using Crypto++, C#, and Java (Unedited)
    C++ (VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0), C# (C# 2.0, C# 3.0), Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista), .NET (.NET 3.5, .NET 3.0, .NET 2.0), Win32, Win64, Dev, Intermediate

  • Cryptographic Interoperability: Digital Signatures - Jeffrey Walton
    Sign and Verify Messages using Crypto++, Java, and C# (Unedited)
    C++ (VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0), C# (C# 2.0, C# 3.0), Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista), Win32, Dev, Intermediate

Programming Tips

String handling

  • Parsing command line arguments - trupik
    CommandLineParser library provides simple way to define command line arguments and parse them in your application (Unedited)
    C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), Windows, .NET, Dev, Beginner

Threads, Processes & IPC

  • Duplex Web Services - Boaz Davidoff
    Using multi-threading techniques to create a duplex(two-way) web service that can push events/messages to the client. (Unedited)
    C# (C# 2.0, C# 3.0), Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003), ASP.NET, IIS (IIS 6, IIS 7), WinForms, Arch, Dev, Advanced

Design and Architecture

  • Traceability in Layered Architecture: A Roadmap - Mohammad Ashraful Alam
    Traceability in layered architecture lets software architects to define, utilize, reuse and re-engineer existing, current and future application architecture in more structured way. This article provides a roadmap to trace multi-layer architectures easily. (Unedited)
    .NET, Arch, Dev, QA, Design, Beginner, Intermediate

  • Building an MVP Framework for .NET. Part 4: Strongly Typed Associations - Oleg Zhukov
    In this article we continue developing a Model-View-Presenter framework for .NET platform. The new features we are implementing here are strongly typed asscoiations between controllers, views and tasks for higher convenience and type safety.
    C#, .NET, Dev

  • How to add your application to Windows Startup - Sandeep Aparajit
    This article will help you add your application to Windows startup using various ways. (Unedited)
    Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003), Arch, Dev, Design, Intermediate

  • Simple, and Clean .NET Design and Implementation Method - Part 1 - Yang Yu
    A fast and simple way in application design patterns - Part 1 (Unedited)
    C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), Windows, Visual Studio (VS2005), WinForms, Design, Arch, Dev, Intermediate, Advanced

  • Evolving Responsible, Self-Describing Components - Matthew Cannon
    How self-describing components can emerge from responsibility-driven development practices, and how use of the Visual Studio 'code regions' tool can add value to this process (Unedited)
    C#, .NET (.NET 1.1, .NET 2.0), Win32, Visual Studio (VS2005, VS2008), Arch, Dev, Design, Intermediate

Book Chapters

Articles updated added Last week

Combo & List Boxes

Files and Folders

  • nFS - File System Within a File - Radu Gruian
    A portable library for emulating a file system within a file
    C, VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Windows, MFC, VS6, Arch, Dev, Advanced

Grid & Data Controls

  • ListView Layout Manager - Jani Giannoudis
    WPF: Customizing ListView/GridView Column-Layout
    C# (C# 3.0), Windows, .NET (.NET 3.0), WPF, Dev, Intermediate

Miscellaneous

  • Codez Bank. A code snippet bank application - steveb
    Application stores and manages useful code snippets and keeps them always handy (Unedited)
    C++ (VC8.0, VC9.0), Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista), MFC, Arch, Dev, Intermediate

Applications & Tools

ASP.NET Controls

  • Multiple File Upload User Control - Samir Nigam
    This article describes how to create a user control with event & properties. (Unedited)
    C# (C# 2.0), JScript, CSS, HTML, .NET (.NET 2.0), ASP.NET, Dev, Intermediate

SharePoint Server

GDI+

  • An Alternative to Barcodes - defwebserver
    A method to create and read a number represented as a binary string of boxes printed on a page (Unedited)
    C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), .NET (.NET 3.5), GDI+, Dev, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Database

.NET Framework

  • An interactive SQL Console - wizofaus
    An interactive SQL console application written to improve upon the "osql" console application that comes with SQL server (Unedited)
    Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate

  • Create Item Templates which have nested items - Sarafian
    A template creation method, implementing IWizard in order to add nested items in the solution (Unedited)
    C# (C# 2.0), .NET, Visual Studio (VS2005), Advanced

  • ADO.NET Connection Pooling at a Glance - Neeraj Saluja
    Connection pooling can increase the performance of any application by using active connections of the pool for consecutive requests, rather than creating a new connection each time.And at the same time, the developer who is the best judge of his/her application, can configure the connection pooling. (Unedited)
    C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0), .NET, ADO.NET, Design, Arch, Dev, Intermediate

Game Development

  • IndieLib - Fast Game Development - Loover
    IndieLib is a c++ 2.5d engine for game development and fast game prototyping in a really easy way. (Unedited)
    C++ (VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0), C++/CLI, C

MFC

Vista API

  • Using Vista Controls on Aero Glass - Omnicoder
    Using Windows Form Vista Controls on Aero Glass, and Cool Form Backround FX (Unedited)
    VB 7.x, VB 8.0, VB 9.0.NET 3.0, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.5, Win32, VS2008, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, VS2005, Arch, DBA, Dev, QA, Design, Beginner, Intermediate

Windows Presentation Foundation

  • A WPF Graph Control Library - Derek Bartram
    An article presenting a WPF library for producing extensible runtime customisable graphs (Unedited)
    C# (C# 3.0), XML, Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista), XAML, WPF, Win32, Win64, Arch, Dev, Design, Intermediate

  • WPF C# Ribbon Control Library - Derek Bartram
    A WPF / C# Library for implementing Office 2007 Style Ribbon Interfaces (Unedited)
    C# (C# 2.0, C# 3.0), Office, Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista), Win32, Win64, XAML, WPF, Design, Dev, Intermediate, Advanced

  • A Demonstration for WPF Ribbon Control Library - Derek Bartram
    A demonstration application for showing the use of the WPF Ribbon Control as presented elsewhere (Unedited)
    C# (C# 2.0, C# 3.0), Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista), WPF, Win32, Win64, Arch, Dev, Design, Intermediate, Advanced

C#

  • DataSets, Xml Schemas and Excel - Oh My! - George Zabanah
    This article demonstrates the amazing transformation power of the DataSet with agnostic Xml Schemas, Xml and Excel Read/Write (all with colourful XML rendering using XmlBrowser) (Unedited)
    C# (C# 2.0), XML, Office, ADO.NET, Intermediate

  • 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. (Unedited)
    C# 2.0, Windows, .NET 2.0VS2005, Dev, Intermediate

  • VTD-XML: XML Processing for the Future (Part II) - Jimmy Zhang
    Reveal XML processing issue #1 and explain why document-centric XML Processing is the future (Unedited)
    C#, XML, .NET (DotGNU), Dev

  • United States Postal Service (USPS) Web Tools Wrapper - johnnycantcode
    United States Postal Service (USPS) Web Tools Wrapper is a .NET library you can use for address validation, retrieving rates and YES even printing label. (Unedited)
    C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, ASP.NET, Dev, Intermediate

  • Index XML Documents with VTD-XML - Jimmy Zhang
    Introduce a simple, efficient, human-readable XML index called VTD+XML (Unedited)
    C, C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), JScript, XML, CSS, HTML, ASM, MSIL, UML, Forth.NET, XSLT, LINQ, Office, XBox, Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista), WinCE, .NET CF, .NET (Mono, DotGNU, .NET 3.5), ASP, ASP.NET, Win32, Win64, SQL (SQL 2000, SQL 2005), IIS, GDI, GDI+, OpenGL, DirectX, Ajax, WCF, XAML, WPF, COM, COM+, ADO, ADO.NET, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, VS2005, VS2008, Design, CEO, Arch, DBA, Dev, QA, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

  • Schemaless C#-XML data binding with VTD-XML - Jimmy Zhang
    Agile, efficient XML data binding without schema (Unedited)
    C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), XML, .NET CF, .NET (.NET 3.5, .NET 3.0, .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0), ASP, Win32, Win64, WCF, Ajax, Design, CEO, Arch, DBA, Dev, QA, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

  • Delete Links from the Recent Projects List on the Start Page of Visual Studio 2003, 2005 and 2008 - Carlos Saraiva Jr.
    This application deletes links from the Recent Projects list on the Start page of Visual Studio 2003/2005/2008
    C# 2.0.NET 2.0, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, WinForms, VS.NET2003, VS2005, Dev, QA, Intermediate

C++ / CLI

VB.NET

  • How To Program For Windows Registry - Mohd Arshad (Sam)
    This article will guide you, how to create/retrieve/delete key entries in Windows Registry. (Unedited)
    VB (VB 7.x, VB 8.0, VB 9.0, VB 6), Windows (WinXP), .NET (.NET 2.0), Visual Studio (VS2005), Dev, Intermediate

  • Export to Excel using VB.Net - Senthil S
    Export data from VB.Net Dataset to Excel without using Datagrid/DataTable (Unedited)
    VB 7.x, VB 8.0, VB 9.0, VB 6, .NET (.NET 3.0, .NET 2.0), Visual Studio (VS2008, VS2005), WinForms, Arch, Dev, QA, Beginner, Intermediate

  • Form Changed Control - Duncan Edwards Jones
    A component that allows you to monitor all the controls on the form and list any that have changed (for dirty checking) (Unedited)
    VB 8.0, VB 9.0, Windows, .NET 2.0, Visual Studio, WinForms, Dev, Intermediate

  • File Association in VB.NET - Nickr5
    Easily associate your programs with file types (.jpg, .html, .mp3) with just 2 lines of Visual Basic code. (Unedited)
    VB 8.0, VB 9.0.NET 3.0, .NET 2.0, WinXP, Vista, WinForms, VS2005, Dev, Intermediate

  • Running the Microsoft AppLocale Utility in an Automated Batch Script - Austin Rappa
    Getting AppLocale to run in a batch script (Unedited)
    VB (VB 7.x, VB 8.0, VB 9.0, VB 6), .NET (.NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0), Visual Studio (VS.NET2003, VS2005, VS2008), Arch, Dev, Design, Intermediate, Advanced

XML

  • XML on a Chip - Jimmy Zhang
    Discuss the technical considerations of porting XML processing to custom chips (Unedited)
    XML, Arch, Dev, Intermediate

Algorithms & Recipes

Macros and Add-ins

  • Increment File and Product Version Number - Multiple IDE - Jordan Walters
    An add-in to automatically increment the FileVersion and ProductVersion fields in your application's resource file. Works in VC6 and VS2005, and probably all versions in between. (Unedited)
    C++ (VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, VC9.0), Windows (WinXP, Vista), Visual Studio (VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, VS2005, VS6, VS2008), ATL, STL, Dev, QA, Intermediate, Advanced

  • Source code generator for any data type - Guillaume Hanique
    How to extend Visual Studio so it can generate code for any data type (Unedited)
    C# (C# 2.0, C# 3.0), VB (VB 8.0, VB 9.0), .NET, Visual Studio (VS2008, VS2005), COM, Dev, Intermediate

Programming Tips

String handling

  • String Format Library - Wong Shao Voon
    Another type-safe alternative to Boost's string format library.
    C, VC6, VC7.1, VC8.0, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate

Debug Tips

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