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JumpyForum: Inspired by Code Project Forum / Discussion / Message board

Updated: 24 Apr 2007

A very simple forum with the functionality similar to Code Project discussion board where the user can view multiple messages in a tree view, done in C Sharp, ASP.NET, SQL Server and JavaScript. (now W3C Valid HTML 4.01)

Quartz.

4.80

Creating a DNN Module and Understanding DNN Architectural Approach

Updated: 18 Jan 2007

How to create a DotNetNuke Module that does something and understand how it and the DNN architecture work together

ASP.NET, Windows, .NET, VS, Dev, Intermediate

Matthew Hintzen

4.78

Drag and Drop Products to the Shopping Basket Using JavaScript
Updated: 13 Mar 2007

Create draggable objects and drop them in a shopping cart

azamsharp

4.75

SWAT - A simple Web-based Anomalies Tracker - Part 1
Updated: 13 Jun 2003

An account of my experience in learning to develop in the .NET environment.

Al Alberto

4.66

SWAT - A simple Web-based Anomalies Tracker - Part 4
Updated: 1 Jul 2003

An account of my experience in learning to develop in the .NET environment.

Al Alberto

4.66

SWAT - A simple Web-based Anomalies Tracker - Part 9
Updated: 12 Nov 2003

An account of my experience in learning to develop in the .NET environment

Al Alberto

4.64

SWAT - A simple Web-based Anomalies Tracker - Part 3
Updated: 23 Jun 2003

An account of my experience in learning to develop in the .NET environment.

Al Alberto

4.64

SWAT - A simple Web-based Anomalies Tracker - Part 6
Updated: 26 Jul 2003

An account of my experience in learning to develop in the .NET environment

Al Alberto

4.63

SWAT - A simple Web-based Anomalies Tracker - Part 8
Updated: 24 Sep 2003

An account of my experience in learning to develop in the .NET environment

Al Alberto

4.59

SWAT - A simple Web-based Anomalies Tracker - Part 5
Updated: 2 Jul 2003

An account of my experience in learning to develop in the .NET environment.

Al Alberto

4.57

SWAT - A simple Web-based Anomalies Tracker - Part 2
Updated: 18 Jun 2003

An account of my experience in learning to develop in the .NET environment.

Al Alberto

4.56

Context Menu on TreeView
Updated: 26 May 2007

Microsoft Treeview control Event Capturing on Nodes

Rakesh Krishna Bhatt

4.50

Online Quiz

Updated: 28 Aug 2002

Create a multiple-choice quiz using XML DOM and XPath

Enrico Elizar Samuel

4.49

SWAT - A simple Web-based Anomalies Tracker - Part 7
Updated: 10 Sep 2003

An account of my experience in learning to develop in the .NET environment

Al Alberto

4.48

ASP.NET To Do List Application

Updated: 14 Jun 2002

A simple application that demonstrates key ASP.NET features.

John Lyon-Smith

4.48

Guestbook for ASP.NET
Updated: 20 Jun 2002

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

Laurent Kempé

4.45

An ASP.NET Application to View and Share Photos Online

Updated: 7 Aug 2003

This article explains an ASP.NET application to view and share photos online.

Greg Ennis

4.44

Amazon Explorer - An adventure with ASP.NET & the Amazon Web Service
Updated: 28 Aug 2003

Create an ASP.NET application that uses the Amazon Web Service to search the Amazon catalogs.

Okeno Palmer

4.43

UFOs and .NET, Constructing a Hand-Crafted Distributed Web Application
Updated: 1 Nov 2002

A narrative article demonstrating creation of a .NET distributed web application through hand-coding using best practices.

ian mariano

4.42

Persisting the state of a web page

Updated: 8 Mar 2006

The complete story on how to persist the state of an ASP.NET web page, including ViewState, Form and QueryString data, by emulating a PostBack.

Martin Jericho

4.42

XPath Analyzer
Updated: 28 Aug 2002

Online tool to analyze XPath query

Enrico Elizar Samuel

4.38

Personal .NET Portal

Updated: 17 Oct 2003

A Personal .NET Portal with Forms Authentication and XML Files for storage.

arthur zaczek

4.36

URL sharing across a network with ASP.NET
Updated: 4 Sep 2003

This ASP.NET application allows the sharing of Internet Explorer Favorites URLs over an intranet or the Internet.

Jean-Michel Cupidon

4.35

FlashBack - ASP.NET based image sharing application

Updated: 9 Sep 2003

FlashBack is a web application used to organize and share pictures and video clips with friends and family.

Stefan Kyntchev

4.31

Simple chat application for ASP.NET
Updated: 27 May 2004

Very easy Web application of a chat room for Internet Explorer 5+ in ASP.NET.

Albert Pascual

4.29

Simple Chat Application in ASP.NET

Updated: 20 Sep 2004

Implementing a simple chat application using ASP.NET and remote scripting.

Mosalem

4.20

Building a web based RSS Feed Viewer using System.XML
Updated: 21 Apr 2004

This article illustrates building a class to parse RSS Feeds and return the details in a form that they can be eaisly manipulated and displayed.

PeterTheGreat

4.17

xNetServer - VB.NET Web Server for ASP.NET
Updated: 11 Apr 2005

VB.NET conversion of the Cassini web project with additional security controls.

JDOnline

4.17

OpenCollective -- The Requirements Management Wiki

Updated: 9 Nov 2004

An article on building a project oriented wiki for software development requirements management

Tyler Jensen

4.16

Simple Photo Gallery With ASP.NET 2.0
Updated: 30 May 2006

An article on creating a simple photo gallery that is easy to maintain and aesthetically pleasing

Nilesh G

4.15

A conversion of the popular DotNetNuke web application to C#

Updated: 11 May 2007

In an attempt to open DotNetNuke to a wider audience, I have converted the original VB code into C#

c4tes

4.14

File Management with Searching, Uploading, Copying and Email function
Updated: 17 Feb 2005

File management with searching, uploading and Email function and ASP.NET Cache is employed.

Yuen Chiu So

4.14

An ASP.NET thumbnail solution

Updated: 11 Dec 2002

An article describing a set of ASP.NET tools for generation of thumbnails and thumbnail views.

Philipos Sakellaropoulos

4.12

Creating Audit Functionality Using ASP.NET 2.0

Updated: 8 Jun 2007

How to use ASP.NET to audit user data changes

harryteck

4.08

Embed PDFs into a Web Page with a Custom Control
Updated: 27 Jan 2007

Embed PDFs into a Web Page with a Custom Control

salysle

3.94

WebDrive with ASP.NET (C#)
Updated: 29 Mar 2004

A virtual drive on the web with ASP.NET (C#), XML and debit control.

jocool2550

3.92

Simple Web Browse
Updated: 27 Apr 2004

File and directory browser application in ASP.NET.

aejw

3.90

ASP.NET Guestbook Application
Updated: 27 Jan 2002

A one-to-one ASP to ASP.NET port of a simple guestbook application using ASP and an Access database.

Uwe Keim

3.88

Smart Code Generator .Net - Code Generation experience with Visual Studio and ASP.NET- Architectural Overview.

Updated: 23 Mar 2007

This article describes how I coupled Visual Studio and ASP.NET and created a very powerful code generator. Also describes the internals of SmartCodeGenerator and how it is possible to extend the framework to meet your needs. SmartCodeGenerator uses cutting edge technologies that are available today.

Shahed.Khan

3.84

Master Pages and Factory Pattern
Updated: 18 Jan 2007

Master pages and factory patterns using ASP.NET

Saud AKhter

3.84

Web-based Day Rental Calendar

Updated: 29 Sep 2006

Online month-view calendar of items rented by the day, with user defined rental lists.

FredParcells

3.80

Internal Site Search Engine

Updated: 7 May 2004

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.

Stevan Rodrigues

3.75

ASP Parser
Updated: 29 Apr 2004

This article presents a simple way to parse and analyze ASP document structure.

Marcin Celej

3.69

Porting SWAT to Oracle - Step 1
Updated: 29 Mar 2004

This is a summary of lessons learned and initial progress in migrating SWAT to use Oracle vs SQL server

Michael A. Barnhart

3.50

Speech Tic-Tac-Toe
Updated: 6 May 2004

A speech recognition demonstration program.

Kwong-Leung kong

3.45

Integrated Quiz WebApp with Graphical Score Report
Updated: 21 May 2005

Integrated online quiz app with graphical score report. Users can bookmark questions in order to review in the end.

Ameen Abudbush

3.44

ITCN ASP.NET Forum 2004

Updated: 23 Mar 2004

ASP.NET forum application

Barry Wise

3.42

Shopping Cart using C#.NET, Web Forms and SQL Server
Updated: 21 Apr 2004

Shopping cart using C#.NET, Web Forms and SQL Server.

Shruti Shrivastava

3.40

ASP.NET 2.0 Visio Custom Control
Updated: 27 Jan 2007

Creating a custom web control used to display Microsoft Visio files within an ASP.NET page.

salysle

3.36

ASP.NET PhotoBook
Updated: 17 Oct 2004

A simple photobook viewer.

WoutL

3.22

A rating system to rate your online articles and display the ratings graphically
Updated: 15 Oct 2004

This tutorial walks you through how to build a rating system, using ASP.NET and SQL Server, that allows your users to rate an article, and then see the ratings graphically displayed on the article.

Stephan Bren

3.20

Custom editable Datagrid with paging and sorting
Updated: 4 Dec 2003

How to create a grid control for easy editing

Elph

3.14

Creating a Minimalistic Ajax CRM System with Gaia Ajax Widgets
Updated: 4 Sep 2007

An article about creating an Ajax CRM system using Gaia Ajax Widgets

Thomas_Hansen

3.00

ASP.NET Web Application's Build Using NAnt
Updated: 13 Sep 2007

This article explains how to use NAnt for ASP.NET web applications' automated build.

VinayakChitre

3.00

Bulk Email Sender & Extractor
Updated: 25 Feb 2004

Bulk Email Sender & Extractor

Amir Pournasserian

2.80

WebTimer - a server control, (setTimeout made easy)

Updated: 12 Mar 2007

Auto postback after n millisecs, generates a little bit of client side code.

TCDooM

2.79

CodeBank - A small centralized code repository built using the .NET framework.

Updated: 21 Apr 2003

A .NET web based code repository for storing, searching, browsing and administering categorized projects.

Paul Ford

2.73

Windows Service Updater

Updated: 13 Mar 2007

Simple way to update a running windows service

Anthony Rudovsky

2.67

ClsDatabase - A new ADO database wrapper class for ASP
Updated: 3 Jan 2007

ClsDatabase - A new ADO database wrapper class for ASP

y_yy2008

2.54

Blue Yonder
Updated: 21 Dec 2002

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

Majid bin Ali

2.47

ASP.NET Guestbook using MS Access

Updated: 17 Mar 2004

Shows an easy way of building a guestbook using ADO.NET and Access

Dilbert2004

2.38

Generate UI For Metadata
Updated: 17 Nov 2007

Generate Edit/View User Interfaces for Data and Metadata using HTML Templates

Pramirez

2.33

A completely customizable Google API Web Client
Updated: 16 Jul 2003

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

Vasudevanms

2.00

The Code Project Ticker

Updated: 30 Jun 2002

A desk band ticker that scrolls the latest messages posted in the Lounge and other forums

Rama Krishna Vavilala

4.65

CM_ConfigBuilder 1.2e: VS6/VS2005 Code Generator for Application Settings Graphic Management

Updated: 26 Nov 2007

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

Stefano Basili

4.63

A tool to strip zips of unwanted files before submitting to CodeProject
Updated: 20 May 2004

The CPZipStripper tool with source code

Nishant Sivakumar

4.36

Firefox Code Project Search Bar

Updated: 24 Jun 2005

A direct port of the Code Project Search Bar, but for Firefox instead of IE.

Lowell Heddings

4.35

MAC Address Changer for Windows XP/2003
Updated: 27 May 2005

A freeware program (with source code) that allows you to change the MAC ID of your network adapter

Nishant Sivakumar

4.33

The Code Project Search Bar

Updated: 16 Jul 2005

The Code Project SearchBar gives you quick access to the Code Project site, and lets you do searches at any time, from any web page.

Michael Dunn

4.18

Shell Tray Info - Arrange your system tray icons
Updated: 27 Jun 2005

A tool with full source code that enumerates tray icons and allows you to reposition them as well as send mouse messages.

Nishant Sivakumar

4.17

VisualClassBuilder - Free Code Generation Tool
Updated: 16 Feb 2007

A free C++ code generator tool with source code.

darkoman

3.62

InterSpy - An integrated Windows message trace and filter utility

Updated: 16 Apr 2003

A utility providing enhanced Windows message debugging.

.dan.g.

4.73

ScriptRunner Application
Updated: 26 Mar 2007

An Introduction to ScriptRunner. A scripting tool for user interface Unit Testing.

Ernest Laurentin

4.69

Own Crash Minidump with Call Stack

Updated: 19 Nov 2004

How to create and analyse your own minidump.

Vladimir Sedach

4.58

Trapping Bugs with BlackBox

Updated: 26 May 2003

A brief article explaining how to use BlackBox in your programs to trap errors

Jim Crafton

4.52

Catch all bugs with BugTrap!

Updated: 12 Apr 2007

A tool that can catch unhandled errors and exceptions, and deliver error reports to remote support servers.

Maksim Pyatkovskiy

3.98

Generate Help Macro File Tool
Updated: 27 Jul 2000

A tool to generate help macro files for your VC++ project.

Blake V. Miller

3.14

Documenting Header Files
Updated: 17 Sep 2003

This tool will turn a header file into an XML and/or HTML file for documentation purposes. The output may be merged with previously created or edited XML files.

G. Steudtel

2.78

KeyCHW: A Compression Utility for MSDN (and other large help systems)
Updated: 2 Feb 2000

A DOS utility for compressing CHW files.

Ralph Walden

2.50

Visual Leak Detector - Enhanced Memory Leak Detection for Visual C++

Updated: 14 Nov 2006

A memory leak detector for Visual C++ packaged in an easy to use library!

Dan Moulding

4.84

Memory(-Leak) and Exception Trace (CRT and COM Leaks)

Updated: 1 Dec 2005

With this utility you can simply find memory leaks (CRT and COM) in your program (with almost no time-cost during runtime). Each leak is written to a file with the callstack of the allocation.

Jochen Kalmbach [MVP VC++]

4.82

K3DSurf: Math for fun

Updated: 11 Dec 2006

K3DSurf is a program to visualize and manipulate multidimensional surfaces by using Mathematical equations.

virtualmeet

4.81

CatchCulator
Updated: 18 Oct 2005

A tool used to catch and combine values output by different applications.

Mircea Puiu

4.80

Connection String Editor
Updated: 10 Oct 2003

A tiny HTML application that will make your life easier

Adam Byrne

4.80

Updater

Updated: 6 Sep 2006

This updater makes it possible to update your application easily with data in XML format. This way, you don't have to write your own updater.

Geert van Horrik

4.80

Include File Hierarchy Viewer

Updated: 30 Jul 2003

A tool to view the include file hierarchy of your source code.

Chris Richardson

4.79

SmartLexicon

Updated: 30 Aug 2006

A multilingual dictionary engine with regular expressions support and Web browser integration.

Giannakakis Kostas

4.78

VC++7 to VC++6 project converter

Updated: 23 Oct 2003

This tool automatically converts Visual C++ 7.0 projects back to Visual C++ 6.0 projects.

Stephane Rodriguez.

4.76

An STL Error Message Decryptor for visual C++

Updated: 8 Nov 2002

A set of tools to shorten the length of VC++ STL-related error messages so that the most vital information from a message fits within the status bar in VS.

Leor Zolman

4.75

KeePass Password Safe

Updated: 10 Sep 2007

KeePass is a free, open-source, light-weight and easy-to-use password safe.

Dominik Reichl

4.75

Diff tool

Updated: 18 May 2003

A simple diff tool, usable on arbitrary file formats, with a nice html rendering.

Stephane Rodriguez.

4.75

ToDoList 5.3.11 - A simple but effective way to keep on top of your tasks

Updated: 21 Nov 2007

A hierarchical task manager with native XML support for custom reporting.

.dan.g.

4.75

Super ImageList and ToolBar generator

Updated: 23 Apr 2004

A drag & drop ImageList and ToolBar generator . Simplifies creation of large image lists and supports effects .

TomKat

4.74

MultiCopier Software

Updated: 30 Sep 2002

The fastest, easy way to copy files from different folders at the same time

Ahmed Ismaiel Zakaria

4.73

The ViewPort Explorer
Updated: 11 Jul 2005

A viewport explorer utility.

Joseph M. Newcomer

4.71

NtRegEdit - Native Registry Editor

Updated: 18 Sep 2006

A replacement for the Registry Editor by Microsoft.

Dan Madden

4.71

The CMake Build Manager

Updated: 1 Nov 2003

CMake is a cross-platform open-source build tool that generates Visual Studio 6, 7 and 7.1 IDE project files. It also generates makefiles for NMake, Borland, Mac OSX, Linux, and most UNIX systems.

William A. Hoffman

4.70

Capturing Window Controls and Modifying their properties

Updated: 19 Feb 2005

A Spy tool program like MS Spy++ that lets you capture window controls and modify their properties. Useful for learning window handles and their properties.

Ashkbiz Danehkar

4.70

Shell Extensions for .NET Assemblies

Updated: 17 Nov 2005

Shell extensions to distinguish between .NET assemblies and Win32 applications and libraries.

Heath Stewart

4.70

VssReporter 2.1 - A Visual SourceSafe reporting tool for build administrators

Updated: 25 Mar 2006

A support tool to allow those performing builds to independently determine exactly what source files have been changed and by whom

.dan.g.

4.69

Scan and Merge INI Files
Updated: 26 May 2000

A free tool to merge INI files, check for common INI file mistakes, and quickly determine how two INI files differ.

Phil McGahan

4.67

Resource Comparer

Updated: 24 Aug 2004

Compares two .RC-files and shows important differences. Useful if you create programs in multiple languages.

PEK

4.65

Window Sizer

Updated: 8 Aug 2002

A hot-key based program that lets you resize your current window to any size. Useful for web designers and GUI developers as it helps avoid frequent screen-resolution changes.

Nishant Sivakumar

4.65

MessageSender

Updated: 25 Aug 2004

Utility that allows sedning of window messages to a selected window from both MessageSender and target window thread context

Dmytro Ivanchykhin

4.64

MiniSpy

Updated: 28 Jul 2002

A dynamic window attribute viewer to replace Spy++

.dan.g.

4.63

Scan2PDF

Updated: 23 Apr 2005

A utility for bulk scanning, converting the scanned pages to PDF and burning them on CD/DVD for archiving.

A. Riazi

4.62

Image Viewer Utility

Updated: 11 Mar 2007

A little utility program that allows you to view the contents of memory bitmaps and device contexts while you are stepping through your drawing code.

PJ Arends

4.62

CodePlotter Remoded 1.6 - A standalone version for VC6, .NET, Delphi, C++ Builder and VB coders

Updated: 28 Sep 2003

A 'Visio-like' tool for adding and editing ascii diagrams in your source code

.dan.g.

4.62

Natural Docs Wizard
Updated: 30 Sep 2004

A small wizard application to create and edit Natural Docs batch files.

Todd Davis

4.62

SolidGraph CAD System
Updated: 12 Sep 2006

A SolidGraph CAD system source code.

Geometros

4.60

TOOL

Updated: 23 Oct 2006

TOOL (Tiny Object Oriented Language) is an easily-embedded, object-oriented, C++-like-language interpreter. The purpose of this article is to introduce the TOOL interpreter and language from the perspective of a person who has a desire to include a scripting solution as part of his project.

RedZenBird

4.58

XTimer - Timer and Stopwatch Utility with Source Code

Updated: 20 Aug 2007

XTimer provides countdown timer and stopwatch features in a compact MFC dialog app.

Hans Dietrich

4.57

Writing a Macro Recorder/Player using Win32 Journal Hooks
Updated: 19 Jun 2004

This article informs you how to use Win32 Journal hooks to write a simple Macro Recorder/Player.

S. Senthil Kumar

4.57

A better Zoomin utility
Updated: 17 Jun 2005

A better Zoomin utility.

Joseph M. Newcomer

4.55

Style Inspector

Updated: 13 Dec 2004

Free tool (with source code) to inspect style.

Mircea Puiu

4.55

Extracting the boot image from a CD/DVD (El Torito)

Updated: 24 Jan 2006

This article explains a simple way to extract the boot-image from a CD/DVD (El Torito). It just uses CreateFile and ReadFile... no mystery about APSI-programming.

Jochen Kalmbach [MVP VC++]

4.54

A real time log file viewer
Updated: 18 May 2004

A real time log file viewer.

amleth

4.54

RC Localization Tool (LocalizeRC)

Updated: 15 Jan 2004

A tool for localizing/translating Resource Scripts

Konrad Windszus

4.53

Journaling Input Events
Updated: 4 Mar 2001

A tool for recording and playback of keyboard and mouse input

Plamen Petrov

4.50

Quick Regedit Navigation
Updated: 29 Dec 2005

A tool to quickly navigate to a particular key/value using Regedit.

DavidCrow

4.50

Bin2Iso
Updated: 22 Jul 2003

A Free Tool to Convert Bin Image Format to ISO Image Format

A. Riazi

4.49

A better front end to WinDiff
Updated: 19 Oct 2000

A GUI front end to a handy utility

Chris Maunder

4.49

RCStamp - add build counts and more to your .rc files
Updated: 24 Apr 2002

RCStamp is a flexible command line tool to modify the FILEVERSION entries in a .rc Resource script (source included)

peterchen

4.49

ProjectZip Remoded 1.6 - A '3-in-1' tools package for zipping VC6 and .NET workspace and project files

Updated: 1 Apr 2004

Zip your VC6 and .NET workspace and project files using a Standalone Executable, an Explorer shell extension or an updated VC6 Addin

.dan.g.

4.48

Customize the My Places Bar in Common Dialogs with TweakJS
Updated: 27 Dec 2005

Customize Open/Save dialogs in Win 2K/XP and MS Office.

Jason Sundram

4.47

Taskbar Sorter Utility
Updated: 12 Jun 2002

Utility to change order of icons in taskbar

Paul S. Vickery

4.46

Code Counter Tool
Updated: 20 Dec 2001

Code Counter is a GUI tool, which can be used for counting the number of source lines, commented lines and blank lines in a VC++ project.

Prashanth Uppunda

4.46

Stylish illustrated documents in Visual Studio .NET 2003
Updated: 13 Jan 2005

Tools to use HTML instead of plain text for supporting documents in Visual Studio.

kenearle

4.46

Transform between IEEE, IBM or VAX floating point number formats and bytes expressions
Updated: 22 Nov 2005

This program can transform between IEEE, IBM or VAX floating point number formats and their bytes expressions.

John Jiyang Hou

4.45

LintProject - Improving the usability of PC-Lint with Visual C++ solutions and projects

Updated: 7 Mar 2005

Utility to run PC-Lint on Visual C++ solutions and projects, generating XML and HTML reports of the results.

Anna-Jayne Metcalfe, -+- Beth Mackenzie -+-

4.45

A PIC C Code Wizard
Updated: 6 May 2003

Creates C code templates for PIC microcontrollers. The default templates are for use with the Hi-Tech (tm) PICC compiler.

Carlos Buelna

4.45

A better class wizard
Updated: 14 Oct 2004

How to fix the annoying path problems with the "Add Class" wizard.

sinusx

4.44

Exile 1.8 - The Password Manager

Updated: 7 Mar 2005

Yet another password manager.

Sl0n

4.44

OnTop Utility

Updated: 12 Jun 2002

Utility to make selected windows remain on-top of others

Paul S. Vickery

4.43

EasyFtp 1.3.2 (for Applications)

Updated: 22 Mar 2004

A 'drop-in' FTP solution for applications providing a full GUI, extended commandline options and no resource files. Use standalone or compiled into your own app.

.dan.g.

4.43

A Copy Utility using TWAIN
Updated: 15 Jul 2004

Example for a simple encapsulation of the TWAIN interface

Holger Kloos

4.42

Sourcecode Control Switcher

Updated: 9 Dec 2004

A tool to switch the Sourcecode Control Provider which is used in a development environment.

Soenke Schau

4.40

Window Unhidder
Updated: 14 Feb 2006

A utility to list and hide/unhide all application windows.

JJimenezShaw

4.39

Bugreporter
Updated: 27 Jan 2005

A handy bug-tracking tool for software development companies.

BlackDice

4.38

WebReplay - an automated software testing tool for Web applications
Updated: 16 Jun 2005

This article presents an automated software testing tool for Web applications (Internet/Intranet) based on Internet Explorer.

Emmanuel Kartmann

4.38

XCmyk - CMYK to RGB Calculator with source code
Updated: 6 Jul 2003

XCmyk implements an RGB to CMYK calculator

Hans Dietrich

4.32

Text2PDF
Updated: 4 Aug 2003

A free utility to convert text files to Adobe PDF.

A. Riazi

4.31

RGDiff - Visual Diff Tool
Updated: 3 Mar 2003

Capture results from GNU Diff and display visually.

Rob Groves

4.30

WallpaperQ: A Wallpaper Management Tool

Updated: 7 Sep 2005

A free tool to queue up and automatically change wallpaper images.

Jason Henderson

4.29

HideIt

Updated: 25 Feb 2003

Utility to hide or unhide top-level windows

Paul S. Vickery

4.29

PathBreaker - WTL utility to easily edit PATH-like strings
Updated: 7 Jul 2004

Editing environment strings like PATH, INCLUDE and LIB is painful? Not anymore.

peterchen

4.28

Driver Wizard
Updated: 30 Dec 2002

Driver wizard integrated to the Visual Studio IDE that generates an NT driver project.

Dudi Avramov

4.23

Colour preview and picker applet
Updated: 16 Jul 2002

A simple applet that lets you preview how various font and background colours interact. Has the added ability of being able to pick any colour from the screen.

PJ Arends

4.23

Web Replay 2 - Automated Web Testing

Updated: 5 Sep 2005

This article presents an automated software testing tool for web applications (Internet/Intranet) based on Internet Explorer.

Emmanuel Kartmann

4.20

Auto-Task Tool for Web Game Travian

Updated: 29 Oct 2007

Developing Auto-Task Tool for Web Game Travian

Ling, Xiao-li

4.20

QuickSYS

Updated: 20 Apr 2006

A tool to generate an NT KMD framework in C.

Chunhua Liu

4.19

Screen capture, window resizing utility with source code

Updated: 1 Jul 2005

This utility uses Lim Bio Liong's excellent Spy++ style Window Finder code to build a screen capture utility (featuring text capture as well as bitmaps) and window resizer/mover. It also demonstrates stay on top and expanding/contracting (i.e. more detail / less detail) dialog boxes.

peterboulton

4.17

TILO - An Automated Unit-Testing Tool for C and C++
Updated: 27 Aug 2005

Tilo is a program / tool designed to help developers in creating and running unit tests. Unit tests will have to be coded, not written, and will be executed automatically by the tool.

Octavian Paul ROTARU, Gecko Pointdexter

4.15

Counting Lines in a MS VC++ 6.0 project
Updated: 5 Aug 2001

A program that counts the lines (source, comments, blank) in every file included in a MS VC++ 6.0 project

_declspec

4.12

Toolbar editor for Visual Studio

Updated: 7 Jul 2006

A toolbar editor for Visual Studio. It can modify, add and create buttons, images and all that is needed for a toolbar.

Francesco Aruta

4.12

SetEnv

Updated: 20 Jun 2007

A free tool for setting/updating/deleting System Environment Variables.

Jonathan [Darka]

4.11

cowhere - display COM component location and details, given a ProgID

Updated: 18 Feb 2002

Utility to display location and other details of a COM component, given a CLSID in either ProgID or GUID form.

Glenn Carr

4.10

HTTP header and source extraction tool
Updated: 15 Jul 2003

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

Code4Food

4.08

ImageList Wizard

Updated: 26 Nov 2002

A wizard application for creating ImageLists

Gevik Babakhani

4.07

Clean out the Cookies folder

Updated: 19 Nov 2004

A command-line utility for cleaning out the Cookies folder.

DavidCrow

4.03

Smart Translator

Updated: 1 Dec 2000

Application to aid in the language translation of another application's resources.

Mike Walter

4.00

HotKee macro utility - Assign simple scripts to hotkeys or keywords
Updated: 19 Aug 2003

Uses Windows hooks to monitor the OS for user-specified hotkeys or keywords, uses Windows messages and mapped memory for IPC.

Alexander Ruscle

4.00

Network Sniffer
Updated: 20 Jul 2004

Network Sniffer

Eran Aharonovich

4.00

A reminder tool for .dan.g's ToDoList
Updated: 26 Feb 2004

A simple reminder tool to remind you of your overdue tasks in ToDoList throughout the day

Alberto Bar-Noy

3.97

Logical circuits and logical gates simulator
Updated: 1 Oct 2003

Logical circuits and logical gates simulator. A program similar to PSpice.

MH2538

3.97

Build a CD directory database
Updated: 6 Oct 2003

An article on a tool for making a database containing the directories of CDs etc.

Jack Janssen

3.91

The NetSend Plus (.NET/C#)
Updated: 2 Feb 2005

The "NetSend Plus" is a simple yet a powerful tool, which enables you to send windows popup messages over the network.

Nirosh

3.89

PdfView - Peeking into the Internals of PDFs

Updated: 6 Oct 2005

A utility for viewing the internal structure of PDF documents.

Bedri Egrilmez

3.87

Make-A-File - File Creation Utility
Updated: 5 Feb 2003

Utility to easily create files for testing purposes. Also supports creating really huge files.

Andreas Saurwein Franci Gonalves

3.86

Icon Ejector - The Icon Conversion Tool

Updated: 8 Mar 2005

Extract icon instances from icon files to both icon or bitmap format .

IBone©

3.85

OxFF - Another way to block popups
Updated: 10 Jan 2005

Popup blocker with source code.

Mircea Puiu

3.84

MultiMail 2.0 - Freeware SMTP stress testing tool

Updated: 4 Oct 2003

This free program can be used to stress test SMTP servers. It also aids anti-Spam tool developers as a useful mail-bombardment tool.

Nishant Sivakumar

3.83

AntiHisto

Updated: 6 Apr 2002

A utility to edit IE URL history

C^hris L^osinger

3.83

XMake - A Console build system based on XML
Updated: 6 Jun 2002

An article describing a new build tool for C/C++ projects

Jim Crafton

3.83

Touch for Windows

Updated: 15 Feb 2006

This is the touch tool ported to Windows

Joergen Sigvardsson

3.83

MP3 Playlist Generator
Updated: 3 Jul 2003

This is a free tool for enumerating a specifically-structured MP3 collection and creating .m3u playlist files.

Jon Sagara

3.78

Auto-Increment of the Build Count
Updated: 17 May 2000

Learn how to implement an auto-incrementing build number for your projects.

Joseph M. Newcomer

3.78

Syntax Highlighter
Updated: 6 Feb 2002

An application to generate highlighted code RTF files

Samuel Gonzalo

3.77

KillTT: No More Tooltips!
Updated: 27 Sep 2005

Disabling tooltips system-wide - efficiently!

Peregrine Falcon

3.76

UnPatcher: a COM object for patching files
Updated: 8 Jun 2000

An article on patching files.

Alessandro Vergani

3.75

Tail for Win32 - A Windows version of the Unix 'tail -f'

Updated: 27 Nov 2003

I had searched for what seemed like an eternity for a Windows version of the 'tail -f' command - a way to monitor logfiles as they change in realitime. Having not found one, I decided to write my own. Tail for Win32 is the result of hundreds of evenings' work to achieve just that.

Paul Perkins

3.71

A magic trick

Updated: 13 Nov 2003

A magic trick that will astound you!

DavidCrow

3.69

HTML filter to ban pop ups of all kinds
Updated: 12 Oct 2002

Free tool to close pop up windows

Stephane Rodriguez.

3.68

Effective SourceSafe - shell extension for SourceSafe

Updated: 8 Jan 2002

A shell extension enabling basic SourceSafe functionalities in Windows shell.

David Y. Zhao

3.68

WebTester - a tool to test your web applications

Updated: 25 Jul 2002

A tool to test your web applications

Huang Wei

3.64

Patch: WTL application for creating patches and patching files
Updated: 6 Mar 2002

WTL application for creating patches and patching files

SGarratt

3.63

Introducing TaHoGen – An Open Source Implementation of a CodeSmith-Style Code Generation Engine
Updated: 14 Mar 2005

Looking for multiple file output support from a single template in one pass? Then look no further.

Philip.Laureano

3.59

InstantOff
Updated: 15 Apr 2002

A system tray utility that will Shutdown, Restart, LogOff, Hibernate or Standby your system with just a double click.

Derick Cyril Thomas

3.57

Game Wizard
Updated: 20 Jun 2004

A kind of a Game Wizard utility for Windows.

valdok

3.57

How to Save and Restore Registry Keys

Updated: 17 Nov 2005

This article shows how to save and restore registry keys and provides a command-line tool demonstrating how to do it.

JOHN11

3.52

NT Remote and Local Group and User Account SID Collector Tool

Updated: 11 Dec 2001

Tool to collect SIDs of Group and User Accounts from a Local or Remote NT Machine and output in an INI file and an XML file.

Lim Bio Liong

3.50

Auto Windows Resource (*.rc) version Editor

Updated: 24 Jun 2003

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.

Réda BOUREBABA

3.50

SvnRev: extract revision numbers from your sources

Updated: 25 Jul 2005

How to get the revision number for your project, using Subversion or CVS/RCS.

Ukkie9

3.50

Internet Explorer Skin Manager

Updated: 11 Jun 2002

An article explaining how to create a utility to manage Internet Explorer skin

Manish Hatwalne

3.44

SmartZip

Updated: 6 Nov 2003

Your way to get the fastest maximum compression.

Ahmed Ismaiel Zakaria

3.43

Another Enum Viewer
Updated: 23 Oct 2001

An article on the usage and design of another Enum Viewer

Tim Finer

3.43

Multithreaded Zip Search
Updated: 28 Sep 2003

This is an small app which searches inside ZIP archives

P.Siva Chandran

3.43

Find Orphaned Resource Constants
Updated: 7 Feb 2004

A Perl script to help locate #define's in your Resource.h file that are no longer referenced by your VS project.

strtdusty

3.38

asp2php shell

Updated: 22 Aug 2005

A shell application for the asp2php utility.

l a u r e n

3.34

Dialog Shortcut Consistency Checker
Updated: 17 May 2000

A tool to check the consistency of your dialog shortcuts.

Joseph M. Newcomer

3.33

A VB Front End for the VC++ Profiler, Excel, and PROFILER
Updated: 6 Feb 2001

A useful tool for generating Excel graphs using Visual Studios built-in profiler

Dave Richards

3.33

ECG for Windows XP (Export data to TXT files)

Updated: 2 Sep 2004

This is ECG_1.1 project version. Now the program can save medical records in to TXT files and can run on Windows XP.

Georgi Petrov

3.29

A simple C++ code generator (Sample Usage of my XML Wrapper class)
Updated: 15 May 2003

Generate C++ classes using XML & XSL

Johnson Zhou

3.28

List Components, Executables and Libraries
Updated: 16 May 2000

A handy utility that produces a comma delimited list of components such as .exe's, ocx's etc on your hard drive.

Phil McGahan

3.20

Open source software protection - Part 2

Updated: 24 Sep 2003

This is a better alternative to my previous soulution

Kamal Shankar

3.20

Spying on computer usage via keyboard hooks
Updated: 23 Sep 2001

This program can be used to find out how your computer is being used while you are away.

H. Joseph

3.17

regsvr32 Interface

Updated: 14 Oct 2002

Visual interface to the regsvr32 utility in windows

Darroll Walsh

3.12

VBMcgi, a free multiplatform C++ library for CGI programming that isolates the webmaster and webdesigner
Updated: 4 Mar 2002

VBMcgi, a free multiplatform C++ library for CGI programming that isolates the webmaster and webdesigner.

villas

3.10

OptimizeHTML: A tool to optimize HTML files
Updated: 8 Jun 2000

A simple script to reduce the size of a HTML source.

Paolo Messina

3.00

XSL / XSLT Composer
Updated: 17 Mar 2004

Tool for creating and testing XSL documents

Matthew Hazlett

2.96

GeoCal
Updated: 8 Dec 2003

GeoCal - a free tool

geogeo

2.95

NET Send
Updated: 2 Apr 2002

Send message to a person or group with pictures, on LAN network.

Quoc Phong

2.93

WinTextFilePatch

Updated: 25 Mar 2004

A super search and replace tool

Kochise

2.92

ShowWindowTree Utility
Updated: 20 Jan 2002

Display the hierarchy of windows (hidden or not) on your system along with a few options to modifiy them

Rocky Moore

2.88

Outlook inbox checker
Updated: 18 Apr 2001

Sample code on how to use tray icons and check Exchange mailbox.

Xavier Dusart

2.86

RGB Slider
Updated: 16 May 2003

OwnerDraw Slider, Bitmap DC , Color Frame

Siavash

2.78

A tool for registering OCXs and COM DLLs
Updated: 7 Oct 2001

A dialog app to make registering components easier.

Richard Nash

2.76

Another Adress Book with XML
Updated: 12 May 2004

Adress book which uses XML to store contacts.

Mystic_Unicorn

2.72

Generator for Include File Guards
Updated: 19 Jul 2001

A little utility that generates header file guards against multiple inclusion.

Oliver Anhuth

2.71

Get Latest Version Of Multiple Projects With One Click

Updated: 1 Nov 2003

Get multiple projects with one click, using automation.

JonathanLivingstone

2.71

Protected Storage
Updated: 24 Feb 2004

This program wil reveal Outlook Passwords, Deleted Outlook Account passwords, IE:Password-Protected sites passwords, MSN Explorer Signup passwords, IE AutoComplete Passwords, IE Auto Complete Fields , and in 9x it will show the cached dialup passwords

Hirosh Joseph

2.69

BatteryX

Updated: 15 Aug 2005

BatteryX shows you the current powerstatus of your Notebook.

Nautilus Master

2.65

Service wizard

Updated: 22 Jan 2004

Service wizard integrated with the Visual Studio IDE.

Dudi Avramov

2.63

PowerMini v1.2 - add a new minimizing feature with your browser.

Updated: 17 Jan 2003

Opens your default browser while minimizing all other windows. A very simple Win32 application.

JoeSox

2.62

A Simple WordPad

Updated: 6 Nov 2002

A Simple WordPad

Barretto VN

2.44

Calculator

Updated: 10 Jun 2003

Calculator using MFC, Dialog based application.

Tahir Naeem

2.42

Lock WorkStation the MFC way

Updated: 2 Aug 2004

Allows the user to lock the workstation during lunch or meeting hours

Vikram Kashyap

2.41

Html Cleaner
Updated: 26 Aug 2004

Not really an article, just a simple tool to clean html

WittnezZ (Claus Witt)

2.39

Open Source Software protection system - Part 1

Updated: 19 Apr 2004

Outlines in developing an open source implementation of a new software protection system.

Kamal Shankar

2.37

CodeWizard--A visual tool to automatically generate C++ code files!
Updated: 24 Oct 2003

CodeWizard includes a tool that lets you visually create functionality on-screen and automatically generate C++ code files!

ucc801

2.33

Windows netstat application
Updated: 20 May 2003

Windows netstat application.

Rod VanAmburgh

2.31

A simple utility for shutting down your System
Updated: 29 Mar 2003

Simply set the time on the tool for the machine you wish to shut down (24 hrs), choose whether to log off, reboot or shutdown, or power off (ATX main boards only), and click Hide. It has been tested on Win9x/ME, WinNT/2000/XP.

Balkrishna Talele

2.29

Simple Hex Editor

Updated: 28 Jul 2003

A simple hex editor

PaulFrazee

2.16

Database Image Viewer
Updated: 19 Jul 2004

This application will permit the user to create tables in SQL 2000. It will also permit the user to save and view images from the database

Zoodio

2.00

WinFiltDiff, a utility to filter out unimportant source-differences

Updated: 27 Jan 2005

A utility to filter out unimportant source-differences.

Chris Forden

2.00

Another webtester
Updated: 28 Aug 2003

A stress tester for web apps

jan larsen

1.94

Enum Viewer Dialog

Updated: 5 Oct 2001

This article demonstrates a tool for displaying enum values

PPresedo

1.86

BAC Calc
Updated: 30 Nov 2004

Blood-alcohol level calculator.

Adam McKee

1.79

Logic Circuit Testing Tool

Updated: 7 Apr 2004

The product of this project will give a tool in terms of software, capable of extracting a vigorous testing for a given digital module (which is a logical unit) under a mass production.

Deepak Jain

1.46

Windiff Helper Tool
Updated: 31 May 2004

A tool for effective usage of Windiff.

Cagdas Calik

1.33

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