C/C++ Programming

Have you ever wanted to create a C/C++ program? Well here is your chance to learn how to. In these instructions you will learn how to download, install, and register Microsoft Visual Studio 2008...

Microsoft Visual C++ is a widely used programming language for building applications found on the Web, and desktop and mobile computers. Visual C++ was designed to produce programs that have...

Using the IntersectsWith Method of a Rectangle, you can detect object collisions in Microsoft Visual C#.

Get the mouse's X and Y coordinates during a click event in Microsoft Visual C#.

Select files and folders with the OpenFileDialog object and the FolderBrowserDialog object in Microsoft Visual C#.

Draw strings, squares, rectangles, circles, ellipses, and polygons in Microsoft Visual C#.

Use the SoundPlayer object to play a wave sound file. The Soundplayer object is in the System.Media namespaces in C#.

Send an email with an attachment from within Visual C# using your Gmail account. This requires the System.Net.Mail namespace for the SmtpClient object and the System.Net namespace for the...

Use Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to access a local or remote computer's information. The WMI is accessed with the System.Management assembly and namespaces in C#.

Get the user name, domain name, computer name, and IP address of your computer using the System and System.Net namespaces in C#.

Send an email using the SmtpClient.Send method in the System.Net.Mail namespace in C#.

Read from the Windows registry using the Registry.GetValue method in the Microsoft.Win32 namespace in C#.

Write to the Windows registry using the Registry.SetValue method in the Microsoft.Win32 namespace in C#.

Loop through each file in a directory using the Directory.GetFiles method in the System.IO namespace in C#.

Read from a text file using the StreamReader object in C#. File IO operations use the System.IO namespace.

Write out to a text file using the StreamWriter object in C#. File IO operations use the System.IO namespace.

Use Microsoft Visual C# to create a Hello World program that uses a For Loop to display String Array elements in a MessageBox.

A simple coded clock is useful in many potential applications. The ctime library provide a C programmer with many useful functions that allow him to keep track of how many second have passed. Use...

One of the most difficult things that new programmers encounter is understanding how to use C++ pointers. This article is a tutorial on the subject.

The For-Next loop is a nice loop to use when you know or have an idea as to the starting number of the loop and the ending number. Here is the syntax for the "For Next" loop in C#.

In VB.net it is called the Select-Case, in C# it is called the "Switch" statement. Regardless of what it is called, the concept is still the same. Here is how it is written in C#.

How often have you needed to use integer values to build a string, but found that you need a certain format. Most specifically, this probably usually happens when you're creating a date...

HTML -Hypertext Markup Language is a computer language that is used to create web pages. Web sites and web pages are written in HTML code. Whether you are setting up a personal web page or a...

Monitoring a real-time signal is a requirement that comes with many Digital Signal Processing applicaitons. There are different definitions for real-time. Here when I say real-time processing is...