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Articles by Don Kackman (Articles: 18, Technical Blogs: 8)

Articles: 18, Technical Blogs: 8

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Average article rating: 4.83

Desktop Gadgets

Fishy Fishy Fish
Posted: 19 Mar 2010   Updated: 2 Apr 2010   Views: 25,230   Rating: 4.90/5    Votes: 31   Popularity: 7.30
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 65   Downloaded: 2,602
Just for fun; a bunch of fish swimming around the screen

Miscellaneous

Adding XP Themes to Custom .NET Controls
Posted: 25 Aug 2003   Updated: 31 Aug 2003   Views: 180,732   Rating: 4.76/5    Votes: 37   Popularity: 7.46
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 127   Downloaded: 4,543
Rendering your own theme parts with the Windows XP UxTheme API

Windows Mobile

A Flashlight App for Your SmartPhone or Pocket PC
Posted: 2 Aug 2008   Updated: 2 Aug 2008   Views: 32,484   Rating: 4.57/5    Votes: 8   Popularity: 4.15
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 36   Downloaded: 185
A simple, fully functional flashlight to help you see in the dark.

Windows Phone 7

A Windows Phone 7 App from the Ground Up
Posted: 5 Dec 2010   Updated: 21 Dec 2010   Views: 21,861   Rating: 4.93/5    Votes: 28   Popularity: 7.14
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 77   Downloaded: 1,790
Building a WP7 browser app for last.fm
CP Vanity for Windows Phone 7
Posted: 14 Dec 2010   Updated: 27 Dec 2010   Views: 17,313   Rating: 4.96/5    Votes: 13   Popularity: 5.53
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 16   Downloaded: 145
A WP7 port of CPVanity with a CodeProject RSS reader.
Google OAuth2 on Windows Phone
Posted: 29 Jan 2012   Updated: 30 Jan 2012   Views: 5,690   Rating: 4.96/5    Votes: 6   Popularity: 3.86
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 15   Downloaded: 222
An example of using Google API's and OAuth2 authentication on windows phone 7

GDI

MFC classes for multiple monitors
Posted: 19 Feb 2003   Updated: 27 Aug 2003   Views: 136,723   Rating: 4.90/5    Votes: 29   Popularity: 7.17
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 94   Downloaded: 3,515
Class wrappers around the Win32 multi-monitor API

C / C++ Language

Clock Screen Saver
Posted: 2 Jun 2004   Updated: 27 Jun 2004   Views: 99,422   Rating: 4.73/5    Votes: 42   Popularity: 7.68
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 44   Downloaded: 3,438
A mouse trailing clock screen saver written in MFC.

C#

Using Hooks from C#
Posted: 22 Sep 2003   Updated: 30 Dec 2009   Views: 270,876   Rating: 4.65/5    Votes: 31   Popularity: 6.92
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 171   Downloaded: 9,507
An article on using Windows hooks from .NET, demonstrated with a MouseHook.

C++ / CLI

A Managed C++ Wrapper Around the Windows XP Theme API
Posted: 15 Aug 2003   Updated: 27 Aug 2003   Views: 211,061   Rating: 4.97/5    Votes: 31   Popularity: 7.42
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 68   Downloaded: 4,080
Using the XP Theme API safely on any OS from C#

LINQ

Using LINQ to Calculate Basic Statistics
Posted: 19 Sep 2009   Updated: 26 Oct 2009   Views: 18,968   Rating: 4.45/5    Votes: 19   Popularity: 5.69
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 37   Downloaded: 277
Extension methods for variance, standard deviation, range, median, and mode.
Dynamically evaluated SQL LINQ queries
Posted: 10 Nov 2009   Updated: 12 Nov 2009   Views: 18,354   Rating: 4.97/5    Votes: 16   Popularity: 5.99
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 42   Downloaded: 282
Extension methods to evaluate plain text SQL queries against IEnumerable collections.
SqlLinq: Taking LINQ to SQL in the Other Direction
Posted: 27 Jul 2008   Updated: 12 Nov 2009   Views: 52,161   Rating: 4.95/5    Votes: 43   Popularity: 8.09
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 131   Downloaded: 578
Parsing SQL statements to create LINQ Expressions.

Windows Presentation Foundation

Diagnostic Trace Display Using WPF
Posted: 14 Feb 2010   Updated: 14 Feb 2010   Views: 14,241   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 13   Popularity: 5.57
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 45   Downloaded: 256
A WPF control and FlowDocument to display Trace output in a running application.

Bugs & Workarounds

Application.EnableVisualStyles Bug
Posted: 25 Oct 2003   Updated: 25 Oct 2003   Views: 150,098   Rating: 4.88/5    Votes: 39   Popularity: 7.76
Licence: Not specified      Bookmarked: 36   Downloaded: 0
Calling Application.EnableVisualStyles prevents images from an ImageList from appearing on Windows Common Controls

Design and Architecture

Implementing the Factory Pattern (Part 1 of 2 or 3)
Posted: 8 Sep 2008   Updated: 8 Sep 2008   Views: 11,915   Rating: 4.88/5    Votes: 10   Popularity: 4.88
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 46   Downloaded: 64
The first part of a Factory: locating Assemblies and finding Types that match criteria.

Installation

VS.NET Deployment Project Version Updater
Posted: 3 Jan 2004   Updated: 3 Jan 2004   Views: 146,272   Rating: 4.91/5    Votes: 24   Popularity: 6.77
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 53   Downloaded: 688
A command line ulitity that updates the version and GUID of VS.NET deployment project files.
A Windows Installer Database Diff Tool
Posted: 21 Dec 2004   Updated: 21 Dec 2004   Views: 44,754   Rating: 4.59/5    Votes: 14   Popularity: 5.26
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 25   Downloaded: 203
A command line tool that generates XML and/or HTML Diff reports of two Windows installer databases.

Average blogs rating: 4.63

Silverlight

A simple Silverlight object viewer [Technical Blog]
Posted: 29 Jan 2012   Updated: 29 Jan 2012   Views: 6,052   Rating: 4.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 1   Downloaded: 0
A simple Silverlight object viewer

Windows Phone 7

Extend ViewModelLocator to be a bit more dynamic [Technical Blog]
Posted: 27 Dec 2010   Updated: 27 Dec 2010   Views: 3,696   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 2   Downloaded: 0
Using attributes and reflection to bind the viewmodel to the view
A helper class to get the current location on a Windows Phone just once [Technical Blog]
Posted: 9 Dec 2010   Updated: 15 Jan 2011   Views: 9,924   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 4   Downloaded: 0
Getting the location on Windows Phone is done via the GeoCoordinateWatcher. The coordinate watcher has a some best practices associated with it one of which is to minimize power consumption...
GestureBehavior and GestureTrigger [Technical Blog]
Posted: 16 Jan 2011   Updated: 16 Jan 2011   Views: 4,589   Rating: 4.89/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.47
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 2   Downloaded: 0
GestureBehavior and GestureTrigger
A slightly less simple object browser for Windows phone 7 [Technical Blog]
Posted: 29 Jan 2012   Updated: 29 Jan 2012   Views: 5,375   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 0   Downloaded: 0
A slightly less simple object browser for Windows phone 7

C#

C# Property Class - Part 2 [Technical Blog]
Posted: 7 Feb 2010   Updated: 7 Feb 2010   Views: 6,379   Rating: 4.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.20
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 6   Downloaded: 0
Commenter tonyt (from CodeProject) rightly points out that there are drawbacks to this approach: A C# Property Class.
A C# Property Class [Technical Blog]
Posted: 30 Jan 2010   Updated: 7 Feb 2010   Views: 9,480   Rating: 4.79/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 4.57
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 21   Downloaded: 0
A generic class to encapsulate properties with notification events

LINQ

Dynamically evaluating a JOIN expression with Linq [Technical Blog]
Posted: 21 Feb 2010   Updated: 21 Feb 2010   Views: 6,174   Rating: 4.71/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.25
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 4   Downloaded: 0
For the last little while I've been toying around with System.Linq.Expressions and a mini SQL parser to see how far I can go with evaluating plain text SQL expressions against arbitrary collections of objects.
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Don Kackman

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Starkey Laboratories
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 The first computer program I ever wrote was in BASIC on a TRS-80 Model I and it looked something like:
10 PRINT "Don is cool"
20 GOTO 10
It only went downhill from there.
 
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