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Part I of a multipart series, it illustrates how to unify GUI design for both Web Forms and Windows Forms, so that a single GUI specification can be rendered in both technologies.

Part II: Web & Window Form Unification: Synchronous And Asynchronous Event Handling For Controls Created At Runtime

Last Updated: 13 Jul 2002 Page Views: 80,434 Rating: 4.06/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 4.99 Bookmark Count: 71

This is the second part of a multipart article on unifying web and window form application development. This part demonstrates synchronous and asynchronous event handling of GUI control events, abstracting the implementation of web/window forms to be technology independant.

MyXAML--XAML-style gui generator (added styles)

Last Updated: 9 Mar 2004 Page Views: 178,388 Rating: 4.51/5 Votes: 73 Popularity: 8.40 Bookmark Count: 144

Generate controls, set property values, and wire up event handlers at runtime from an XML definition.

Miscellaneous Controls

Mouse Events

Last Updated: 2 Jun 2005 Page Views: 63,360 Rating: 4.63/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 5.82 Bookmark Count: 45

A helper class to expand on the mouse events provided by the Control class.

Selection Controls

General

An Outlook Bar Implementation

Last Updated: 12 Apr 2003 Page Views: 261,111 Rating: 4.54/5 Votes: 128 Popularity: 9.56 Bookmark Count: 267

Illustrates in a step-by-step manner the design and implementation of an Outlook style icon bar.

Tree Controls

TreeView Controls

XTree

Last Updated: 7 Jan 2006 Page Views: 49,445 Rating: 4.13/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 5.27 Bookmark Count: 63

A template driven tree.

XTree - Part II

Last Updated: 29 May 2006 Page Views: 30,088 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 3.82 Bookmark Count: 50

A template driven tree control.

XTree Part III - Trees, DataSets, and DataTables

Last Updated: 6 Jul 2006 Page Views: 42,792 Rating: 4.52/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.32 Bookmark Count: 76

A general purpose tree combined with automated DataRow management.

ASP.NET

General

Simple User Account Login

Last Updated: 23 Jun 2002 Page Views: 175,646 Rating: 3.25/5 Votes: 31 Popularity: 4.84 Bookmark Count: 82

Demonstrates maintaining user account information, managing session state, Access database I/O, cookies, and some other basic features.

A Lean And Mean Blog Engine

Last Updated: 27 Feb 2007 Page Views: 36,342 Rating: 3.43/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 4.46 Bookmark Count: 37

My 3 day foray into writing a blog engine

A Lean And Mean Blog Engine, Part II

Last Updated: 27 Feb 2007 Page Views: 25,264 Rating: 4.11/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 5.43 Bookmark Count: 40

Part II of my 3 day foray into writing a blog engine.

Trace and Logs

Debug and Tracing

A Release Mode Breakpoint Using Reflection Emit

Last Updated: 9 Oct 2002 Page Views: 52,171 Rating: 4.04/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 4.36 Bookmark Count: 20

C#'s release mode doesn't allow break points to be set. This function emits an IL break, forcing a breakpoint in the debugger.

A Treatise on Using Debug and Trace classes, including Exception Handling

Last Updated: 12 Oct 2002 Page Views: 133,082 Rating: 4.28/5 Votes: 33 Popularity: 6.50 Bookmark Count: 153

C#'s built in Debug and Trace classes can be confusing and inappropriately used. This article looks at one success story using debug traces and assertions, and presents an improved debug class.

Simple Code Path Testing

Last Updated: 8 Mar 2005 Page Views: 33,294 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.00 Bookmark Count: 18

Add code path testing to your unit tests.

Traceract

Last Updated: 3 Sep 2005 Page Views: 35,405 Rating: 3.69/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 3.52 Bookmark Count: 24

A prototype debug tracer with an added dimension.

User Controls

General

A Data Driven Tab Strip User Control

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2003 Page Views: 148,286 Rating: 3.59/5 Votes: 24 Popularity: 4.95 Bookmark Count: 71

Reduce implementation time with a reusable, externally driven tab strip control.

GDI+

General

Create a fractal Christmas tree

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2002 Page Views: 151,745 Rating: 4.57/5 Votes: 30 Popularity: 6.76 Bookmark Count: 43

This program explores how trees are made using a simple fractal algorithm

General Graphics

Graphics

The Koch Curve - Snowflake!

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2005 Page Views: 43,598 Rating: 4.45/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.48 Bookmark Count: 30

Using the Koch curve, a fractal, to draw a snowflake.

Database

ADO.NET

Object Mapping Part II - Schema Code Generator

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2006 Page Views: 33,771 Rating: 4.22/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 4.55 Bookmark Count: 58

Generate an object mapping class from a schema definition.

Object Mapping Part I - The Row Cursor

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2006 Page Views: 33,419 Rating: 4.53/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 5.69 Bookmark Count: 65

A row cursor implementation suitable for synchronizing and navigating a DataView against with object-mapped instance.

How to Manually Create a Typed DataTable

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2008 Page Views: 20,187 Rating: 4.72/5 Votes: 36 Popularity: 7.35 Bookmark Count: 84

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

When you override GetRowType, you also need to override NewRowFromBuilder().

Introduction to the Entity Framework

Last Updated: 12 Feb 2009 Page Views: 30,638 Rating: 4.68/5 Votes: 34 Popularity: 7.16 Bookmark Count: 117

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Looking at the EF and database association patterns.

Databases

Accessing XML Using Insert/Update/Delete/Query Statements

Last Updated: 12 Apr 2005 Page Views: 75,950 Rating: 4.64/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 6.14 Bookmark Count: 84

A psuedo-database for XML.

General

An XML Database Schema And Data Editor

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2002 Page Views: 124,335 Rating: 4.37/5 Votes: 47 Popularity: 7.31 Bookmark Count: 103

View and edit your XML database schema and data

DataTable Transaction Logger

Last Updated: 28 Feb 2006 Page Views: 50,466 Rating: 4.55/5 Votes: 26 Popularity: 6.44 Bookmark Count: 81

Undo/Redo DataTable transactions by logging row changes (insert/delete) and field changes.

BindingSource, Transaction Sandboxes, and Pre vs. Post Add Modalities

Last Updated: 13 Mar 2006 Page Views: 40,159 Rating: 4.33/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.51 Bookmark Count: 40

An investigation into different data entry modalities and the need for a transaction sandbox.

The BeginLoadData problem and why OOP doesn't work

Last Updated: 22 Jun 2006 Page Views: 18,065 Rating: 3.27/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 3.41 Bookmark Count: 14

A foray into a specific problem while discovering at the same time the reasons for why OOP often fails us.

Utilities

DataTable Synchronization Manager

Last Updated: 4 Mar 2006 Page Views: 31,660 Rating: 4.53/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.33 Bookmark Count: 50

Adds synchronization to the DataTable Transaction Logger.

.NET Framework

Applications

Multi-Image Viewer

Last Updated: 29 Dec 2004 Page Views: 98,800 Rating: 4.30/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 5.68 Bookmark Count: 118

A multi-image viewer with drag and drop source and sink capability.

General

An XML Schema Definition (XSD) Editor

Last Updated: 14 Oct 2003 Page Views: 236,875 Rating: 4.37/5 Votes: 78 Popularity: 8.27 Bookmark Count: 155

An editor capable of producing common XSD documents

Instrumentation

A DiagnosticDictionary

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2008 Page Views: 6,662 Rating: 3.71/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 4.00 Bookmark Count: 13

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Making the "the given key was not present" message more informative.

XAML

An RSS 2.0 Blog Reader Written In MyXaml

Last Updated: 13 Apr 2004 Page Views: 55,990 Rating: 4.23/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.21 Bookmark Count: 37

An RSS 2.0 Blog Reader Written in MyXaml

A Vector Graphics Rendered Animated Clock

Last Updated: 18 Apr 2004 Page Views: 208,221 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 74 Popularity: 8.72 Bookmark Count: 103

Demonstrates Using MyXaml With A Vector Graphics Engine To Create An Analog Clock

Consuming A Weather Web Service With MyXaml

Last Updated: 8 May 2004 Page Views: 68,582 Rating: 4.36/5 Votes: 25 Popularity: 6.09 Bookmark Count: 36

A demonstration of using MyXaml to consume a web service.

MycroXaml

Last Updated: 23 Sep 2004 Page Views: 50,955 Rating: 4.40/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 5.99 Bookmark Count: 41

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

A Declarative Xml Parser In Less Than 300 Lines Of Code

Declaratively Populating A Property Grid

Last Updated: 23 Sep 2004 Page Views: 56,662 Rating: 4.14/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 4.46 Bookmark Count: 41

Runtime class generation to declaratively populate a property grid.

Property Events

Last Updated: 3 May 2005 Page Views: 31,081 Rating: 4.76/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.76 Bookmark Count: 33

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Declarative programming of Property Events.

XAML Resources

Last Updated: 27 Jan 2006 Page Views: 83,987 Rating: 4.34/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.23 Bookmark Count: 60

Describing Resources Available Today For XAML/Declarative Programming

Game Development

XNA

XNA: A Beginner's Introduction

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2007 Page Views: 51,641 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 26 Popularity: 6.93 Bookmark Count: 96

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Getting started with XNA, Blender, and 3D modeling

Windows Presentation Foundation

General

WPF - Schema Diagrammer Part I

Last Updated: 20 Apr 2008 Page Views: 21,845 Rating: 4.19/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 4.93 Bookmark Count: 27

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Programmatically placing UI elements on a Canvas.

C / C++ Language

General

Organic Programming Environment (OPEN)

Last Updated: 26 May 2002 Page Views: 114,396 Rating: 4.18/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 5.99 Bookmark Count: 50

OPEN is a prototype development exploring a different paradigm for data management. Instead of applications being process-centric, in which processes drive data transfer, the Organic Programming environment uses a data-centric approach. In this paradigm, data initiates processes.

A Basic iButton Interface

Last Updated: 7 Mar 2003 Page Views: 92,652 Rating: 4.43/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 6.35 Bookmark Count: 39

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

An Example Of How To Interface To Dallas Semiconductor's iButton And 1-Wire Network

A Simple Bitmap Button Implementation

Last Updated: 2 Jul 2003 Page Views: 109,139 Rating: 4.19/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.05 Bookmark Count: 55

A small class that provides a pure bitmapped button capability for WinForms.

C#

Applications

Disconnected Client Architecture

Last Updated: 14 Feb 2007 Page Views: 69,981 Rating: 4.73/5 Votes: 54 Popularity: 8.19 Bookmark Count: 255

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

A look at an offline client architecture that I've implemented in an application for a client.

A Project Dependency Graph Utility for Visual Studio 2008

Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009 Page Views: 16,719 Rating: 4.78/5 Votes: 25 Popularity: 6.68 Bookmark Count: 51

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Review your project dependencies.

Beginners

C# Keywords, Part I: Modifier Keywords

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2002 Page Views: 141,871 Rating: 4.26/5 Votes: 36 Popularity: 6.63 Bookmark Count: 115

To learn a new language, a good starting point is by becoming familiar with its keywords and their usage.

C# Keywords, Part II: Type Conversion, Operators and Object Types

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2002 Page Views: 117,591 Rating: 4.07/5 Votes: 33 Popularity: 6.18 Bookmark Count: 72

In part II of this multipart tutorial, I describe the keywords that can loosely be catagorized as dealing with object types, operators and type conversions.

Delegates and Events

An instrumented synchronous/asynchronous event manager utilizing EventHandler and Reflection

Last Updated: 16 Oct 2002 Page Views: 63,786 Rating: 4.20/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 4.94 Bookmark Count: 71

Implements an instrumented event manager which can be used to invoke event sinks both synchronously and asynchronously. The event sink can be declared using either the System.EventHandler delegate or by reflection.

Proxy Delegates

Last Updated: 27 Dec 2002 Page Views: 64,459 Rating: 4.08/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.25 Bookmark Count: 33

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Use reflection and proxy delegates to interface between two separate assemblies.

An Event Pool

Last Updated: 21 Feb 2004 Page Views: 76,911 Rating: 4.39/5 Votes: 45 Popularity: 7.26 Bookmark Count: 91

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

An event pool helps manage large amounts of events that otherwise clutter up your code and make maintenance difficult.

Event Chain

Last Updated: 1 Jul 2008 Page Views: 18,713 Rating: 4.65/5 Votes: 32 Popularity: 7.00 Bookmark Count: 52

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Executing a multicast delegate to create an event chain that can be terminated by any handler in the chain

General

Benchmarking Direct, Delegate and Reflection Method Invocations

Last Updated: 5 Jan 2003 Page Views: 79,168 Rating: 4.16/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.00 Bookmark Count: 21

This console mode applet illustrates the significant performance hit of methods invoked using reflection.

The Application Automation Layer - Using XML to generate Menus

Last Updated: 5 May 2003 Page Views: 161,278 Rating: 4.69/5 Votes: 55 Popularity: 8.17 Bookmark Count: 162

Exploring the issues of menu management as specified externally via an XML file, in the context of status bars, toolbars, and events.

The Application Automation Layer - Using XML To Dynamically Generate GUI Elements--Forms And Controls

Last Updated: 22 Jun 2003 Page Views: 233,239 Rating: 4.16/5 Votes: 60 Popularity: 7.41 Bookmark Count: 282

Exploring the issues of runtime form and control generation as specified by XML files.

Another Look At IDisposable

Last Updated: 29 Aug 2003 Page Views: 140,585 Rating: 4.35/5 Votes: 42 Popularity: 7.06 Bookmark Count: 104

A discussion of the Dispose method, how to use it, when to use it, and problems using it.

Advanced Unit Testing, Part I - Overview

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2003 Page Views: 345,869 Rating: 4.56/5 Votes: 116 Popularity: 9.41 Bookmark Count: 425

An Introduction To The Issues Of Unit Testing

Advanced Unit Testing, Part II - Core Implementation

Last Updated: 22 Sep 2003 Page Views: 120,019 Rating: 4.10/5 Votes: 30 Popularity: 6.06 Bookmark Count: 149

This article illustrates how a unit test automation framework is implemented and continues the case study developed in Part I.

Advanced Unit Testing, Part III - Testing Processes

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2003 Page Views: 165,168 Rating: 4.52/5 Votes: 48 Popularity: 7.60 Bookmark Count: 144

Extend Unit Testing So That Entire Processes Can Be Tested

Advanced Unit Testing, Part IV - Fixture Setup/Teardown, Test Repetition And Performance Tests

Last Updated: 8 Oct 2003 Page Views: 103,038 Rating: 4.36/5 Votes: 37 Popularity: 6.83 Bookmark Count: 140

This article extends the unit testing framework, adding fixture setup/teardown capability and performance (time and memory) measurement/testing.

Declarative Programming--Unifying Form And Web Development

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2004 Page Views: 37,487 Rating: 4.17/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 4.64 Bookmark Count: 29

Use declarative programming to create UI's common for both Web and Form applets.

An Undo/Redo Buffer Framework

Last Updated: 2 Jun 2005 Page Views: 45,263 Rating: 4.40/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 5.72 Bookmark Count: 91

The basic framework to implement undo/redo functionality.

Object Comparer

Last Updated: 15 Jun 2005 Page Views: 28,849 Rating: 3.89/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 4.33 Bookmark Count: 17

A fun but probably useless foray into comparing objects of different types.

Understanding Simple Data Binding

Last Updated: 4 Sep 2005 Page Views: 59,071 Rating: 4.73/5 Votes: 32 Popularity: 7.12 Bookmark Count: 67

Tricks, pitfalls, and work arounds to .NET's data binding.

A Raw Serializer

Last Updated: 8 Jan 2006 Page Views: 48,477 Rating: 4.75/5 Votes: 29 Popularity: 6.94 Bookmark Count: 85

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Replace the BinaryFormatter with this class for compact (nullable) value type serialization.

The Enumerable Enumerator

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2006 Page Views: 20,641 Rating: 4.47/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 5.71 Bookmark Count: 32

Iterate over your enums, and other things to do with enums.

Safe Method Caller -- A Defensive Programming Technique

Last Updated: 26 Jun 2007 Page Views: 14,581 Rating: 3.79/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 4.34 Bookmark Count: 40

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

There are numerous times when we write code that communicates with a service or technology that, by nature of the connection or the robustness of the technology, can fail. This service helps protect you from those problems.

Concurrent Programming - A Primer

Last Updated: 3 Jan 2008 Page Views: 28,809 Rating: 4.55/5 Votes: 38 Popularity: 7.20 Bookmark Count: 68

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

An overview of Microsoft's Parallel FX initiative, including the Task Parallel Library and PLINQ.

Generics

Declarative Generics And Type Converters

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2004 Page Views: 42,139 Rating: 4.39/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.39 Bookmark Count: 34

How to declaratively define a closed generic and use type converters to implement assignment from a string.

A Circular List

Last Updated: 4 Mar 2007 Page Views: 23,634 Rating: 4.14/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 4.61 Bookmark Count: 30

A circular list implementation.

How To

Detect if another process is running and bring it to the foreground

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2002 Page Views: 135,508 Rating: 4.22/5 Votes: 29 Popularity: 6.17 Bookmark Count: 88

Sometimes, you only want one instance of your application running. This is a C# implementation that tests to see if an instance of your application is already running, and brings it to the foreground if it is.

How To Swap Top Level Forms

Last Updated: 25 Jun 2004 Page Views: 36,647 Rating: 4.47/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 5.72 Bookmark Count: 26

Use a specialized ApplicationContext to swap top level forms.

A Simple Drag And Drop How To Example

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2004 Page Views: 106,766 Rating: 4.48/5 Votes: 55 Popularity: 7.79 Bookmark Count: 131

The basics, along with some things I learned along the way.

Using NetZ with Dynamically Loaded Assemblies

Last Updated: 21 Jul 2006 Page Views: 15,784 Rating: 4.53/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.83 Bookmark Count: 18

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

How to use dynamically loaded assemblies with your NetZ-built application

A Study In Equality

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2007 Page Views: 7,041 Rating: 3.96/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 4.27 Bookmark Count: 16

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Understanding value and ref types for equality tests and as keys in collections

Memory Management

Pinned Object

Last Updated: 11 Feb 2007 Page Views: 16,962 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.16 Bookmark Count: 15

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

A helper class for working with structures that need to be pinned to prevent the GC from moving them.

Windows Forms

Window State Monitor

Last Updated: 8 Mar 2005 Page Views: 29,412 Rating: 4.11/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.11 Bookmark Count: 25

A window state monitor.

Hosting XNA in a Window

Last Updated: 28 Jul 2007 Page Views: 17,807 Rating: 4.60/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.77 Bookmark Count: 34

My journey to unravel and discover a solution for hosting XNA in a WinForm UserControl

C++ / CLI

General

A Decimal Class Implementation

Last Updated: 16 Feb 2003 Page Views: 110,839 Rating: 4.05/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 4.76 Bookmark Count: 19

Use this class when high precision is required in basic numerical operations.

XML

Beginners

The XmlTextReader - A Beginner's Guide

Last Updated: 2 Sep 2006 Page Views: 59,640 Rating: 4.25/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 5.34 Bookmark Count: 65

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

An introduction to the XmlTextReader.

XML/XSLT

A Simple Serializer / Deserializer

Last Updated: 22 Sep 2004 Page Views: 50,589 Rating: 4.24/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 4.98 Bookmark Count: 58

A simple Serializer / Deserializer.

Generate Classes From Declarative Code

Last Updated: 7 Oct 2004 Page Views: 42,311 Rating: 4.26/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.44 Bookmark Count: 35

Creates C# classes from declarative XML code samples.

XML Control Panel

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2004 Page Views: 36,919 Rating: 4.56/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.36 Bookmark Count: 45

Demonstrating putting together a useful application from the amazing amount of code available here at The Code Project.

An XML Compiler

Last Updated: 13 Sep 2005 Page Views: 35,231 Rating: 4.45/5 Votes: 22 Popularity: 5.98 Bookmark Count: 62

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Convert your XML object graph to code using CodeDom.

Algorithms & Recipes

Data Structures

A KeyedList implementation

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2003 Page Views: 94,127 Rating: 4.42/5 Votes: 26 Popularity: 6.25 Bookmark Count: 34

A KeyedList implements an ordered key-value list.

Generic Keyed List

Last Updated: 27 Jan 2006 Page Views: 58,360 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 5.86 Bookmark Count: 51

A KeyedList using C# 2.0 Generics.

A Deep Dish Dictionary Clone Routine

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2007 Page Views: 10,767 Rating: 4.06/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 1.94 Bookmark Count: 10

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Cloning a Dictionary.

General

A Simple Moving Average Algorithm

Last Updated: 4 Mar 2007 Page Views: 58,307 Rating: 4.16/5 Votes: 33 Popularity: 6.31 Bookmark Count: 47

A simple moving average algorithm.

Tiered Error Management And Recovery -- A Defensive Programming Technique

Last Updated: 25 Jun 2007 Page Views: 10,899 Rating: 3.76/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.18 Bookmark Count: 29

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

A small RecoveryService class that implements multiple level, multiple retry per level error management.

Concurrent Programming - Investigating Task Messaging To Achieve Synchronization Free Inter-Task Communication

Last Updated: 7 Jan 2008 Page Views: 10,982 Rating: 4.63/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.44 Bookmark Count: 39

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Further studies of Parallel FX.

Introduction to NIEM and IEPDs

Last Updated: 1 Jan 2009 Page Views: 7,475 Rating: 4.72/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.67 Bookmark Count: 17

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Developed by the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security, the National Information Exchange Model "Bridges Information Systems".

Sorting

A QuickSort Algorithm With Customizable Swapping

Last Updated: 19 Jan 2004 Page Views: 87,360 Rating: 4.30/5 Votes: 29 Popularity: 6.29 Bookmark Count: 43

Ever need to customize the swapping function when sorting? This class lets you do that.

Sorting Algorithms In C#

Last Updated: 4 Feb 2004 Page Views: 165,875 Rating: 4.52/5 Votes: 38 Popularity: 7.14 Bookmark Count: 149

A collection of sorting algorithms implementing customizable comparitor and swapper functions.

Bugs & Workarounds

.NET issues

A Debug Stopwatch

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2007 Page Views: 10,547 Rating: 4.38/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.38 Bookmark Count: 29

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

A debug build stopwatch useful for diagnostic timing.

The Process Async Reader Bug

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2007 Page Views: 7,738 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.40 Bookmark Count: 11

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

A workaround for a bug I discovered with the async reader in the Process class.

Internet / Network

Network

The Simplest TcpServer

Last Updated: 19 Mar 2006 Page Views: 55,706 Rating: 4.42/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 6.01 Bookmark Count: 101

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

A really basic TCP server, just the core

Using a NetworkStream with raw serialization, GZipStream, and CryptoStream

Last Updated: 26 Mar 2006 Page Views: 35,451 Rating: 4.72/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 5.93 Bookmark Count: 61

Using a NetworkStream with raw serialization, GZipStream, and CryptoStream.

String handling

General

Simple CString Extension

Last Updated: 12 Jun 2002 Page Views: 75,953 Rating: 3.75/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 4.41 Bookmark Count: 20

Simple extension for better substring functionality and numeric formatting

Strings

String Helpers

Last Updated: 15 Jun 2005 Page Views: 46,278 Rating: 4.23/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 5.59 Bookmark Count: 48

A small set of helper methods for string manipulation.

Threads, Processes & IPC

Thread Pooling

.NET's ThreadPool Class - Behind The Scenes

Last Updated: 18 Mar 2003 Page Views: 108,418 Rating: 4.39/5 Votes: 55 Popularity: 7.64 Bookmark Count: 121

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

When to use .NET's ThreadPool class, and when to use something different.

Threading

A Worker Thread Class For Processing Work Units

Last Updated: 13 Sep 2006 Page Views: 29,762 Rating: 4.28/5 Votes: 24 Popularity: 5.91 Bookmark Count: 48

Processing work units in a single thread instead of using a thread pool.

Design and Architecture

Application Design

Aspect Oriented Programming / Aspect Oriented Software Design

Last Updated: 29 Apr 2003 Page Views: 114,829 Rating: 4.26/5 Votes: 51 Popularity: 7.28 Bookmark Count: 137

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Everything you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask about AOP/AOSD

What Is A Framework?

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2003 Page Views: 194,725 Rating: 4.06/5 Votes: 56 Popularity: 7.10 Bookmark Count: 111

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

An attempt to define what the term "framework" means.

Writing XAML Friendly Assemblies

Last Updated: 21 Mar 2004 Page Views: 44,493 Rating: 3.97/5 Votes: 29 Popularity: 5.81 Bookmark Count: 32

How to write assemblies so that they will work with the various XAML parsers that are starting to emerge.

Design Patterns

Declarative Programming Of The MVC Pattern Within The Context Of DataBinding

Last Updated: 31 May 2004 Page Views: 50,011 Rating: 4.69/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.38 Bookmark Count: 82

Exploring the MVC pattern.

Mementos

Last Updated: 2 Jun 2005 Page Views: 25,003 Rating: 3.83/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 4.27 Bookmark Count: 35

A basic IMemento implementation.

Frameworks

The Application Automation Layer: Introduction And Design

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2002 Page Views: 171,613 Rating: 4.35/5 Votes: 35 Popularity: 6.71 Bookmark Count: 123

This introduction lays the foundation for a framework that promotes a consistent design and coding style for large-scale, multi-developer projects and results in applications that are responsive to requirement changes, easily updated and easily debugged.

The Application Automation Layer - Design And Implementation of The Bootstrap Loader And The Component Manager

Last Updated: 1 Jan 2003 Page Views: 101,949 Rating: 4.14/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 5.47 Bookmark Count: 111

This article describes in detail the design considerations for the Bootstrap Loader and the Component Manager.

The Application Automation Layer - The Data Hub Implementation

Last Updated: 13 Mar 2003 Page Views: 84,565 Rating: 4.53/5 Votes: 30 Popularity: 6.69 Bookmark Count: 96

The third installment of this series discusses the design and implementation of the Data Hub.

General

Introduction to NIEM Tools

Last Updated: 24 Mar 2009 Page Views: 3,029 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Bookmark Count: 5

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

A review of some of the tools available to work with the NIEM.

How Programming Should Be Done

Last Updated: 15 Jun 2009 Page Views: 14,151 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 41 Popularity: 7.90 Bookmark Count: 123

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Cx: A prototype on component loose coupling.

CX Part II

Last Updated: 5 Aug 2009 Page Views: 6,312 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 6.87 Bookmark Count: 26

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Build a Metadata Designer for the CX Dynamic Composition Framework.

Event Logging in Cx

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2009 Page Views: 2,324 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.76 Bookmark Count: 6

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Adding an event logger to Cx.

Methodologies

What Is Extreme Programming?

Last Updated: 21 Jul 2003 Page Views: 131,220 Rating: 3.91/5 Votes: 43 Popularity: 6.39 Bookmark Count: 66

A brief treatise on what XP is all about, with references to links, books, authors, and sites.

A Look At What's Wrong With Objects

Last Updated: 6 Aug 2003 Page Views: 144,733 Rating: 4.65/5 Votes: 142 Popularity: 10.01 Bookmark Count: 185

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

A look at what is wrong with OOD/OOP based on CPian responses to the question "What is wrong with objects".

What is SCRUM?

Last Updated: 18 Aug 2003 Page Views: 201,136 Rating: 3.67/5 Votes: 28 Popularity: 5.31 Bookmark Count: 85

A concise summary of SCRUM, one of the "Agile Methods"

What Is DSDM?

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2003 Page Views: 135,806 Rating: 3.27/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 3.40 Bookmark Count: 42

A concise summary of the Dynamic Systems Development Method, one of the "Agile Methods"

Comparing Declarative And Imperative Programming

Last Updated: 17 Jun 2005 Page Views: 23,760 Rating: 3.70/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 4.35 Bookmark Count: 34

A simple example comparing/contrasting the differences in imperative and declarative programming.

Test Driven Prototyping - Learning About .NET Remoting

Last Updated: 7 Apr 2007 Page Views: 30,518 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 25 Popularity: 6.53 Bookmark Count: 63

Use test driven development processes to determine the issues affecting application architecture and design with regards to .NET remoting.

Unit Testing

Advanced Unit Test, Part V - Unit Test Patterns

Last Updated: 3 Mar 2004 Page Views: 378,627 Rating: 4.55/5 Votes: 63 Popularity: 8.18 Bookmark Count: 258

An Introduction To The Concept Of Unit Test Patterns

Writing Your First Unit Test

Last Updated: 12 Apr 2005 Page Views: 74,934 Rating: 4.38/5 Votes: 26 Popularity: 6.20 Bookmark Count: 114

A primer on how to figure out where to start with unit testing.

Author Resources

General

A Guide To Writing Articles For Code Project

Last Updated: 16 Aug 2003 Page Views: 236,093 Rating: 4.55/5 Votes: 167 Popularity: 10.11 Bookmark Count: 213

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Some tips on writing a decent article.

Hardware & System

Active Directory

A Dynamically Generated XML Data Editor

Last Updated: 14 Oct 2003 Page Views: 227,865 Rating: 4.58/5 Votes: 74 Popularity: 8.56 Bookmark Count: 175

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Using an XML Schema Definition (XSD) document, this utility dynamically generates a data entry form to create and edit XML data.

Scrapbook

Diaries

Diary Of A CEO

Last Updated: 6 Sep 2005 Page Views: 33,489 Rating: 4.19/5 Votes: 78 Popularity: 7.92 Bookmark Count: 37

Build an n-tier client/server application - Preface.

Diary Of A CEO - Question Everything

Last Updated: 8 Sep 2005 Page Views: 16,614 Rating: 4.42/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 5.74 Bookmark Count: 30

Decisions in creating a flexible architecture.

Diary Of A CEO - The Really Hard Part

Last Updated: 14 Sep 2005 Page Views: 23,158 Rating: 4.15/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 5.65 Bookmark Count: 28

Prototyping, some false starts, and further architecting.

Diary Of A CEO - Software Yoga

Last Updated: 19 Sep 2005 Page Views: 20,416 Rating: 4.14/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.31 Bookmark Count: 24

Communication, skillsets and task assignment issues.

General

Diary Of A Coder--Marc's Boatyard Bug

Last Updated: 14 Feb 2003 Page Views: 60,947 Rating: 4.17/5 Votes: 50 Popularity: 7.09 Bookmark Count: 13

Marc bares all in a discussion of a bug involving the atof function.

Db - The Future Is Coming

Last Updated: 31 Mar 2006 Page Views: 54,743 Rating: 4.45/5 Votes: 96 Popularity: 8.81 Bookmark Count: 16

Where Will You Be?

Going Solo – First Steps in Building a Successful Company (Part IIA) - A slight divergence

Last Updated: 28 Mar 2008 Page Views: 24,516 Rating: 4.38/5 Votes: 26 Popularity: 6.19 Bookmark Count: 40

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

So you want to go it alone? Things to think about when running your company.

Marc Clifton

Member

Marc is the creator of two open source projets, MyXaml, a declarative (XML) instantiation engine and the Advanced Unit Testing framework, and Interacx, a commercial n-tier RAD application suite. Visit his website, www.marcclifton.com, where you will find many of his articles.

Marc lives in Hudson, NY with his son Ian, who attends the Hawthorne Valley School. To contact Marc, email him at marc.clifton@gmail.com.

Occupation:	Architect
Company:	Interacx
Location:	United States


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