Title/Description	Author	Updated	Score
Algorithms
Zip and Unzip in the MFC way The library to create, modify and extract zip archives	Tadeusz Dracz	5 Apr 2001	4.68
Using PPMD for compression This article presents a class for using PPM to compress a file.	Andreas Muegge	12 Jun 2001	4.6
CFraction - a double / fraction / string conversion class A class that converts between doubles, strings and fractional representations	Dean Wyant	18 Apr 2000	4.56
Generic Serializer - serializing arbitrary data structures Template functions for serializing arbitrary linked nodes.	Martin Holzherr	12 Aug 2000	4.45
A Checksum Algorithm A checksum is a value which is computed which allows you to check the validity of something. Typically, checksums are used in data transmission contexts to detect if the data has been transmitted successfully.	Joseph M. Newcomer	28 Mar 2001	4.24
CryptIt Keep sensitive data safe via encryption	Daniel Madden	8 May 2000	2.76
Beginners
A Beginner's Guide to Pointers An article showing the use of pointers in C and C++	Andrew Peace	29 Jun 2000 Beginner	4.52
Using namespaces properly This article does not teach you the syntax of namespaces. Rather, it shows you how to use them properly.	Dejan Jelović	31 Jan 2001 Beginner	3.9
Different Styles of Programming A basic introduction to some different styles of programming	Alex Marbus	25 May 2000 Beginner	3.9
Why I Chose C++ An introduction to C++ from a personal perspective	William T. Block	21 Mar 2000 Beginner	3.88
Collections
Extend collections Extended Collection classes to provide copy, compare and find operations with 2 dimensional arrays and maps	Audrius Vasiliauskas	12 Dec 1999	4.8
Smart List classes Wrapper classes for MFC list classes the extend their functionality	Simon Hughes	6 Apr 2000	4.8
General Purpose Collection Sorter An article showing a method to sort any kind of collection (e.g. a CList, a CArray, an standard C array) into a given order.	Andrew Peace	5 Aug 2001	4.67
CArray: A simple but highly efficient improvement A simple derived template class that can boost the efficiency of your programs.	Russell Robinson	25 Jan 2000	4.63
CArray pitfall This article describes how the CArray class can access deleted memory in certain situations	Warren Stevens	28 Sep 2000	4.43
Dynamic Open Hash Table (DOHT) using CPtrList class Making assorted hash table of strings and/or other data types.	Arash Afifi Sabet	3 Jun 2000	4.42
A Beginner's Guide to the Linked List An article showing the basics of the linked list, and how the CList class operates	Andrew Peace	1 Aug 2000	4.1
Ultimate FastMaps! A fully featured map class that uses balanced trees to store and retrieve data quickly by key	Dundas Software	20 Jan 2000	4.08
Implementing Linked Lists with Double Pointers Describes a linked list implementation that uses double pointers.	Chris Becke	4 Mar 2000	3.84
ISArray A simple templated array class.	Smaller Animals Software Inc.	10 May 2000	3.83
Generic Lookaside List Class A simple way to keep items such as COM instances 'warm' and available for reuse	Jim Johnson	13 Oct 2000	3.75
CList Iterator A simple iteration class for MFC's CList linked list	Craig Henderson	13 Oct 2000	3.38
QuickSort enabled CArray template class A CArray derived class that provides quick and convenient sorting	Martin Ziacek	17 Mar 2000	3.38
Using qsort on arrays of sequential data An introduction to a useful function	Phil McGahan and Chris Maunder	27 Jan 2000 Beginner	3.37
Quick and Dirty Collection Class Notes An article describing MFC Collection Classes	Joe Harleman	29 Nov 2000 Beginner	3.15
Compilers
Getting started with Borland C++ 5.5 In mid-February 2000 the people responsible for Borland's C++ products made the core of their product line available as a free download.	Leon Matthews	5 Aug 2001 Beginner	4.26
Exception Handling
SEH and C++ Exceptions - catch all in one This article describes how to handle SE and C++ exception together.	Martin Ziacek	17 Mar 2000	4.18
General
OOP and UML An introduction to modelling OOP design concepts with UML	Alex Marbus	21 Jun 2000 Beginner	4.86
Avoiding Multiple Instances of an Application Learn the right way to limit your application to run only one instance.	Joseph M. Newcomer	17 May 2000	4.84
TCX Unit Conversion Library	Thales P. Carvalho	2 Dec 1999	4.8
CHookWnd v1.02 A freeware MFC class to support MFC subclassing	PJ Naughter	4 Mar 2000	4.6
Unicode, MBCS and Generic text mappings A guide to using generic text functions to make the transition between character sets simple and painless	Chris Maunder	29 Mar 2000 Beginner	4.57
Attaching and Detaching Objects Attaching and detaching MFC objects to and from Windows objects.	Joseph M. Newcomer	17 May 2000	4.53
Templates and MFC Templates are a great way of reusing code, unfortunately MFC makes it hard to write MFC friendly template classes...	Len Holgate	28 Feb 2000	4.5
The Microsoft VC++ Virtual Property feature Using the __declspec(property) method to enhance legacy code	Jeremiah Talkar	7 Jan 2000 Beginner	4.5
Callbacks, Threads, and MFC Learn how to use callbacks and threads with MFC.	Joseph M. Newcomer	17 May 2000	4.48
CInt96 v1.04 - 96 Bit Integers A Freeware MFC class which provides 96 bit integers.	PJ Naughter	4 Mar 2000	4.43
Two Simple Lines for Self-Repairing Apps Creating Self-Repairing Applications using Windows Installer	Jesse Ezell	17 Feb 2000 Beginner	4.41
CIniFile A class that makes it easy to implement an INI settings file in your applications.	Adam Clauss	5 May 2000	4.39
BUG in Visual C++ access for destructors with virtual base classes When inheriting from a virtual base class the access specifier for the destructor is ignored	Roger Onslow	6 Apr 2000	4.31
CMD5: A C++ Message Digest 5 Class This C++ class servers as a wrapper for the Message Digest 5 code described in internet RFC 1321.	Jim Howard	10 Jan 2001	4.28
CIniEx - Class with Extended INI file support Class CIniEx carries out an extended set of INI file functions in memory	Oscar Kogosov	17 Apr 2001	4.25
CSplitPath A class that will split a complete path into its components.	Kevin Lussier	17 Feb 2000	4.23
Floating point utilites A set of floating point utilities	Simon Hughes	20 Sep 2000	4.12
CSingleInstance - Single Instance Apps An MFC class to implement single instance apps.	PJ Naughter	4 Mar 2000	4.07
eNITL - The Network Improv Template Language A cross platform scripting engine for server applications providing HTML, XML, SGML or other text based formats	Liam Breck	12 Jan 2000 Advanced	4
Saving a variable temporarily A safe, and convenient way to store variables temporarily	Alvaro Mendez	17 Nov 1999 Beginner	4
Precise duration measurement A simple class that provides high precision timing.	Laurent Guinnard	28 Dec 1999	3.88
Addison-Velski and Landis (AVL) Binary Trees Describes an implementation of AVL Trees.	Andreas Jäger	23 Feb 2000	3.82
A circular character buffer A circular, thread-safe read/write character buffer	David Hubbard	10 Dec 1999	3.8
Compression and decompression using the Crypto++ library Using the Crypto++ library to compress and decompress data	Shaun Wilde	17 Apr 2001	3.75
Creating a process, and then killing it	ljp	23 Nov 1999 Beginner	3.75
Multilingual Application - Change Application Language	Daniel Zuppinger	18 Nov 1999	3.25
Callback based, Quicksort enabled CArray template class This article presents a callback based, QuickSort enabled CArray template class	Attila Hajdrik	19 Oct 2000	3.2
C++ MetaClass A class that can be modified at run-time	Niraj Kedar	1 Dec 1999	3.18
C & C++ Language Tricks More tricks of use to a programmer who shuns run-time libraries.	Chris Becke	4 Mar 2000	2.84
ANSI/ISO C++ Draft Standard Working Papers The December 1996 draft of the C++ standard	ANSI/ISO	29 Feb 2000	2.5
Avoiding GetDlgItem Learn how to refrain from using GetDlgItem.	Joseph M. Newcomer	17 May 2000	2.06
Avoiding UpdateData Learn how to avoid using UpdateData in your modal dialogs.	Joseph M. Newcomer	28 Mar 2001	1.77
Localization
Introduction to Software Translation for MFC An introduction to software localization and translation with issues specific to MFC development.	Robert Pittenger	12 May 2000 Beginner	4.64
Mouse Topics
Getting messages from the IntelliMouse How to set up message handlers for a wheel mouse	Randy More	16 Dec 1999	4.09
A 'mouse repeat' function A function that simulates the keyboard repeat behavior for mouse clicks	Pete Sackett	9 Apr 2000	3.2
Parsers
Fast regular expressions Compiles a regular expression into a fast automaton	Martin Holzherr	30 Oct 2000	4.75
SAScript A simple stack-based language that you can easily add to your projects	Smaller Animals Software Inc.	28 Jun 2000	4.6
A scanner and scanner generator Supports both common approaches to scanners in one object.	Martin Holzherr	10 Apr 2001	4.5
A powerful function parser A simple yet powerful function parser that parses and evaluates standard mathematical functions	Andreas Jäger	23 Feb 2000	4.24
A simple STL based XML parser This is a small non-validating XML parser based purely on STL	David Hubbard	17 May 2000	3.83
String Tokenizer class A customizable string tokenizer	Zoly Farkas	9 Apr 2000	3.3
Smart Pointers
A Smart Pointer Capable of Object Level Thread Synchronization and Reference Counting Garbage Collection A smart pointer wrapper class	Stefan Chekanov	13 Jan 2000	4.77
A garbage collection framework for C++ An article on using garbage collection in C++ through the use of smart pointers.	William E. Kempf	18 Jan 2001 Advanced	4.67
A garbage collection framework for C++ - Part II Revisiting gc_ptr<> in order to add support for polymorphic types.	William E. Kempf	29 Jan 2001	4
A Simple Smart Pointer A template-based smart pointer implementation	Sandu Turcan	12 Jan 2000	3.83
Spell Checkers
A Spell Checking Engine A free spell checking engine for use in your C++ applications. Includes the current US English dictionary	Matt Gullett	6 Feb 2001	4.65
A free Spell Checker with a dictionary editor program An article on adding a spell checker to your application	Peter Pearson	7 Jan 2001	4.64
Using the Microsoft Common Spell API An introduction to using the Microsoft CSAPI.	Tibor Blazko	15 Jun 2001	4.56
STL
Some useful additions for the C++ standard library Defines some TCHAR compatible STL elements and gives you an std::ostream to send output to the debugger windows.	Daniel Lohmann	12 Apr 2000	4.83
A Custom Block Allocator for Speeding Up VC++ STL A block allocator for use with STL containers that greatly improves speed in programs doing massive data insertions and extractions.	Joaquín M López Muñoz	11 May 2000	4.54
The Token Iterator Token Iterator provides an easy to use, familiar, and customizable way in which to go through the tokens contained in a string	John R. Bandela	4 May 2000	4.5
An Introductory STL tutorial An STL starter that introduces the various collection types, strings, streams, iterators and methods of STL	David Hubbard	24 May 2000 Beginner	4.39
Using the std::sort() Method An introduction to sorting using STL	Paul Wolfensberger	28 Apr 2000 Beginner	3.75
Using STL A brief introduction on using the Standard Template Library	Zoran M. Todorovic	30 Dec 1999 Beginner	3.35
Unedited Reader Contributions
Tensor templates A template class that enable you to make tensors with any dimensionality. Process convolution of any tensors and so on.	Mike Melnikov	27 Jun 2001 Advanced	5
Store more than 32 1-bit-flags in a single "scalar" A small class to store more than 32 1-bit flags in a simple class instead of using a DWORD with maximum of 32 bits	Patrick Hoffmann	15 Jul 2001	4.82
The Code Project Visual C++ Forum FAQ A list of frequently-asked questions taken from the C++ forum.	Michael Dunn	3 Aug 2001 Beginner	4.79
Managing argc and argv[] with STL in a simple way! This class makes it very easy and unified to process the argument list of your main(). It provides many features to support options with parameters, optional parameters and automatic output of error messages and a short manual. It uses STL and is uni	Patrick Hoffmann	15 Jul 2001	4.75
Easy to use data dispatcher A easy to use classes to dispatch any kind of data	Matthias Mann	15 Jul 2001	4.57
A Template For General Data Arrays A simple template to build data arrays and to sort data	Xiangyang Liu	6 Feb 2001	4.5
Presentation of the XOR256 Encryption/Decryption method for the block ciphering case An article presenting a new block ciphering method called XOR256	George Anescu	9 Jun 2001	4.5
Tokenizer and analyzer package supporting precedence priorized rules A library allowing to conveniently build a custom tokenizer and analyzer supporting precedence priority rules	Alexander Berthold	15 Jun 2001 Advanced	4.5
Fast tokenizer Fast tokenizer for C++ - like 'lexx'	Alexander Berthold	19 Apr 2001	4.44
Extended Tree List Control A Tree List/Tool Tip control embedded within a CView	Gary Andrew Lewis	13 Jun 2001 Advanced	4.33
STL containers map, set, and list with array access Source code for STL compliant container classes that add indexing capability to existing container types	Ray Virzi	8 Mar 2001	4.25
XOR256 Stream Encryption with Arcfour PRNG Presenting a variant of the XOR256 Stream Encryption/Decryption method using the Arcfour algorithm for Pseudo-Random Numbers Generation	George Anescu	19 Jul 2001	4.17
A Registry Class A class that make easy to work with the registry	Carlos Antollini	7 Aug 2001	4.12
A class for operations with Large Integer Numbers Presenting some algorithms for operations with large integer numbers in a C++ class using the STL vector container	George Anescu	16 Jun 2001	4
CCmdLine - command line parser A simple command line parsing class.	Smaller Animals Software, Inc.	20 Jun 2001	4
Method for detecting and solving deadlocks in multithreading applications Presenting a method for detecting and solving deadlocks in multithreading applications using critical sections as synchronization objects	George Anescu & Perry Rathore	27 May 2001 Advanced	3.57
An unique_value template Maintain unique ID for every object with no memory overhead.	LOXmith	6 Jun 2001	3.33
Saving a windows size position and state in MFC Saving the size and positions of windows so that they can be restored next time the app loads up	James Pullicino	31 May 2001 Beginner	3.33
Tutorial 1 This tutorial has been made to give an introduction to new c++ programmers. Unfortunately their are many great minds out there but they don't have access to free and quality c++ tutorials. So this is the first lesson.	Amin Patel	15 Nov 2000 Beginner	3.02
XOR256 Block Encryption with Arcfour PRNG Presenting a variant of the XOR256 Block Encryption/Decryption method using the Arcfour algorithm for Pseudo-Random Numbers Generation	George Anescu	30 Jul 2001	3
Circular Buffer A multi-threaded circular buffer program	Jacques Cooper	16 Jun 2001	2.5
Outlook inbox checker Sample code on how to use tray icons and check Exchange mailbox	Xavier Dusart	18 Apr 2001	2.45
Hex Encoder and Decoder using Crypto++ Encode binary data to and from hexadecimal format using the Crypto++ library	Shaun Wilde	21 Nov 2000 Beginner	2.4
Some Stream Cipher Encryption/Decryption Algorithms An article presenting a class of stream cipher Encryption/Decryption Algorithms	George Anescu	10 Jun 2001	2.33
Easy way to manipulate BSTR using CString class This article is about safe and easy way to use BSTR using the CString class.	Rejeesh.T.S	3 Aug 2001 Beginner	2.3
VC++ Quran The Holy Quran Browser	Mohammad Abood Yahya	6 Aug 2001 Advanced	2.1
Tutorial 2 This tutorial has been made to give an introduction to new c++ programmers. Unfortunately their are many great minds out there but they don't have access to free and quality c++ tutorials. So this is the second lesson	Amin Patel	15 Nov 2000 Beginner	1
Utilities
Handle Application Crashes Better A method of getting more details about application crashes.	Shane Hyde	3 Jun 2000	4.76

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