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Most popular new articles

• ToDoList 6.6.b5 Beta Release - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g.
  
• ASP.NET Application and Page Life Cycle - Shivprasad koirala
  
• AJAX based CRUD tables using ASP.NET MVC 3 and jTable jQuery plug-in - Halil ibrahim Kalkan
  
• Changing Your Life and Well-Being - VectorX
  
• Some practices to write better C#/.NET code - Monjurul Habib
  

Latest Additions

101 articles overall. 29 new, 72 updated.

New articles added

ASP.NET

• An approach to refactor ASP.NET MVC Routes - DeepakAggarwal.Net
  This article highlights an approach to organize ASP.NET MVC routes in an organized manner
  
  

C#

• Custom MSBuild Task to Undo Checked-out Binaries in TFS - Jim Roth
  Using the TFS API to undo checkouts for build processes
  
  

Code Generation

• Transfer and XFR Tools - gggustafson
  This article presents two Windows utilities that copy the contents of directories and subdirectories from one directory to another. Transfer uses a graphical interface; XFR is a console application.
  
  

Design and Architecture

• A curry of Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP), Inversion of Control (IoC), Dependency Injection (DI) and IoC Container - Hasibul Haque
  Description of DIP,IoC, DI, IoC container and how to use them in real life work.
  
  
• Dependency Injection and Unit Of Work using Castle Windsor and NHibernate - Halil ibrahim Kalkan
  An implementation of dependency injection, repository and unit of work patterns using Castle Windsor and NHibernate.
  
  

GPU Programming

• Parallel Radix Sort on the GPU using C++ AMP - Debdatta Basu
  Examine the various approaches to implementing radix sort on the GPU.
  
  

HTML / CSS

• 80,000 Lines of Objective-C: Bringing Contre Jour Multi-Touch physics to the HTML5 browser - HTML5 Partners
  Bringing Contre Jour to the web pushed the boundaries of what even we thought was possible - proving that HTML5 is ready for the prime time as a viable platform for casual gaming on the web. The following technical tear down provides rich insight into the challenges faced and solutions achieved in b
  
  
• Behind the scenes with the Jasmine Villegas Interactive HTML5 music video - HTML5 Partners
  Behind the scenes with the Jasmine Villegas Interactive HTML5 music video
  
  

Libraries

• A Beginner's Tutorial for Understanding and Implementing Relationships using Entity Framework - Rahul Rajat Singh
  In this article we will try to see how we can model tables having one to many and many to many relationships using Entity Framework.
  
  

Product Showcase

• Cloud Security: Developing a Secure Cloud Approach - Dimension Data Cloud
  Critical questions you should ask your cloud provider
  
  

Scrapbook

• CodeProject Advisory Board for Women in Technology - Terrence Dorsey
  CodeProject wants to help women get involved and build careers in programming. What can we do? We asked some prominent female programmers, and this is what we learned.
  
  

Testing and QA

• Using partial mocks for non public methods testing - Enrique Albert
  Pattern to follow using mock frameworks so non public methods can be tested. The code example is based on the RhinoMock framework but it is easily applicable to any other mock framework.
  
  

Articles updated

Ajax

• AJAX based CRUD tables using ASP.NET MVC 3 and jTable jQuery plug-in - Halil ibrahim Kalkan
  Creating AJAX based CRUD tables using ASP.NET MVC 3 and the jTable jQuery plug-in.
  
  
• AJAX Accordion coupled with jQuery Peeling effect and CSS fading - joe_j
  Shows how to take advantage of AJAX's Accordion, JQUERY & CSS to create a good looking home page.
  
  

Algorithms & Recipes

• Sequence Classifiers in C# - Part I: Hidden Markov Models - César de Souza
  Let's understand hidden Markov models before taking a step into hidden conditional random fields.
  
  
• Sudoku using MS Solver Foundation - unicorn2
  An example for how to use Microsoft Solver Foundation on a constraint satisfaction problem
  
  
• Connected Component Labeling Algorithm - Omar Gameel Salem
  Implementation of Connected Component Labeling.
  
  

Android

• A Domain Specific Language for Android touch events: Part 1: Description and usage of the DSL - Serge Desmedt
  A DSL for creating touch gestures in Android.
  
  

Applications & Tools

• ToDoList 6.6.b5 Beta Release - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g.
  A hierarchical task manager with native XML support for custom reporting.
  
  

ASP.NET

• ASP.NET Application and Page Life Cycle - Shivprasad koirala
  ASP.NET application and page life cycle
  
  
• WebForms vs. MVC - Marla Sukesh
  Is ASP.NET MVC replacement for Web Forms? No, Both have there pros and cons. Lets take a look at same.
  
  
• Deep Dive into ASP.NET MVC 4 - Part [2] - Project Items - Shemeer NS
  ASP.NET MVC project folder structure
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• DayPilot Scheduler Control for ASP.NET - Dan Letecky
  Flexible open-source scheduler control (resource booking, project management, timeline and free/busy visualization)
  
  
• Binding Image Slider with ASP.NET having Image Upload Panel - dpalash
  This article is meant for binding image from backend with your favorite image slider.
  
  

Audio and Video

• Fun with Google Text To Speech eBook reader using minimalistic approach - Ladislav Nevery
  Let Google read your eBooks aloud or convert to MP3! This free TTS engine used by Android phone just sounds fantastic so here is a simple eBook reader app with C++ source code
  
  

C / C++ Language

• C++ 11 Threads: Make your (multitasking) life easier. - Michael Chourdakis
  C++ 11 Threads
  
  
• Extending boost::filesystem for Windows and Linux: Part 2 - Igor Stanic
  Manage Linux Trash and Windows Recycle Bin with C++.
  
  

C#

• Some practices to write better C#/.NET code - Monjurul Habib
  Today I will show some good practices I have learned during my professional years, those are lower level but very important for all levels.
  
  
• Task Parallel Library and async-await Functionality - Patterns of Usage in Easy Samples - Nick Polyak
  TPL/Async tutorial with emphasis on how to use it and why it is needed
  
  
• How does it work in C#? - Part 2 - Mohammad A Rahman
  How does throw, rethrow and where, select clause of Enumerable class work in C# programming language.
  
  
• A Really Vain "How are my articles doing" Web Spider - Sacha Barber
  A simple web spider to see fetch CodeProject articles.
  
  
• C# Native Interop: Methods and Performance - Debdatta Basu
  Introduction to c#/c++ interoperability, and a performance evaluation.
  
  
• .NET Weak Events for the Busy Programmer - FatCatProgrammer
  General WeakEvent class
  
  
• WinForms MVP - An MVP Framework for WinForms - David Rogers Dev
  A basic introduction to the WinForms MVP framework and how to use it.
  
  
• Run Windows Store Apps From Desktop - Shai Raiten
  How to work with Windows Store apps from Desktop application - Run, Get App State, Stop and More.
  
  

Caching

• NHibernate second level caching implementation - S. M. Ahasan Habib
  In this article, I tried to explain step by step, how Nhibernate second level caching can be implemented
  
  

Cross Platform

• Introduction to the QOR - Matthew Faithfull
  The background, motivation, and architecture of the Querysoft Open Runtime.
  
  
• QOR Compiler Aspect - Matthew Faithfull
  Open, currently tested on Windows, VC6, VSExpress2005, VSExpress2008, VS2012Desktop, CodeBlocks 12.11 with MinGW GCC 4.7.1, Rad Studio 2010 XE3; Open Suse Linux Netbeans 7.1 with GCC 4.6.2 and 7.2.1 with Clang 3.0.
  
  

Custom Controls

• ASP.NET PropertyGrid User Web Control - Don Ashworth
  ASP.NET enhanced PropertyGrid control connecting to any class.
  
  

Database

• How to execute multiple long running SQL Statements Asynchronously in small chunks - Khorshed Alam, Dhaka
  How to execute multiple long running SQL Statement Asynchronously in smaller chunks
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Understanding the Decorator Pattern - Abul Kayes
  Implementation of the Decorator pattern in C# .NET.
  
  
• Easier .NET settings management - Antonio Nakić Alfirević
  Creating a library for persisting the application state between sessions
  
  
• WCF by Example - Chapter XV - RavenDB Implementation - Enrique Albert
  Unit of Work and Repository RavenDB implementation example
  
  

Desktop Gadgets

• Automated Email System for Employee Entry Time Management - dpalash
  Automated Mailing System for Employee Entry time management with database backup
  
  

Files and Folders

• Extending boost::filesystem for Windows and Linux: Part 1 - Igor Stanic
  Extending boost::filesystem for Windows and Linux.
  
  

General Graphics

• Creating your own animation format - Paulo Zemek
  Learn how to create your own animation format, capable of doing basic compression.
  
  

Hardware & System

• Uninstalling inf files related to a driver file - Sharath C V
  This article explains how to get a list of inf files related to a driver and uninstall the inf files.
  
  
• Joystick Driver Project - Work Damnit!
  Need to control something with a Joystick in Windows? Here is an easy to use driver that will help you do it.
  
  

HTML / CSS

• Canvas Control Library and New Forms Based System for building Web Pages and Websites - Akshay Srinivasan2
  Canvas Control Library provides highly customizable controls using the HTML5 Canvas element. Also includes a New Forms Based system which is a new way to build your web pages and websites.
  
  
• Get Loaded with the File API - HTML5 Partners
  The File API is a new JavaScript API that lets you read and write binary data objects that represent files in Web applications. In a nutshell, you can read user-selected files into Web apps and download new data objects as files from Web apps. Let’s take a deeper look.
  
  

iPhone

• Collapsable Table View for iOS - Bernhard Häussermann
  A set of source files that extends the UITableView so that it has sections that can be collapsed and expanded.
  
  

Libraries

• DWinLib - A minimal Windows API wrapper - David O'Neil
  A minimal Windows API wrapper with simplified child control handling, a flicker-free docking window framework and some extra goodies.
  
  
• Celero - A C++ Benchmark Authoring Library - DigitalInBlue
  This article discusses how to implement and use a template-based C++ benchmarking library.
  
  

LightSwitch

• An End-To-End LightSwitch HTML Example - defwebserver
  Step-by-step tutorial to create a HTML5 LightSwitch application
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Embedding a Console in a C# Application - Dave Kerr
  Embed a functional console window in a C# application.
  
  

Scrapbook

• Changing Your Life and Well-Being - VectorX
  How to stay healthy and fit, while working a career that requires you to sit for long periods of time.
  
  

Testing and QA

• Pragmatic Unit Tests using "yield return" for providing test cases - Pawel idzikowski
  How to gain better control over the testing process reducing the amount of test methods in a unit test.
  
  
• TFS, Automated Testing and Continuous Integration - Hamada Shather
  Automated Testing and Continuous Integration in TFS
  
  

Tree Controls

• Versatile Tree Control - syed_babu
  Tree control with custom checkbox with several other features.
  
  

Ultrabooks

• Those Magnificent Men, a game for Windows - Ched1980
  2D Aircraft RPG
  
  

User Controls

• Flexible List Control - Faraz Azhar from Karachi
  Building a list control that allows anything to be added to it.
  
  

Windows Communication Foundation

• Responsive WCF service With ICallbackEventHandler Interface - Pranay Rana
  Responsive WCF service with ICallbackEventHandler Interface.
  
  
• WCF Service to Send Emails With Attachments - Max Vagner
  Setting, configuring, and calling a WCF service to send emails with multiple file attachments.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• MVVM # Episode 1 - _Maxxx_
  Using an extended MVVM pattern for real world LOB applications: Part 1
  
  
• MVVM # Episode 2 - _Maxxx_
  Using an extended MVVM pattern for real world LOB applications: Part 2
  
  
• MVVM # Episode 3 - _Maxxx_
  Using an extended MVVM pattern for real world LOB applications: Part 3
  
  
• My Personal Commander Variant - Doc Lobster
  A C#/WPF application for displaying folders on a grid and performing combined functions on them.
  
  

Windows Runtime

• How to call WinRT APIs from .NET desktop apps - ljw1004
  Explains how to create a .NET app which invokes WinRT APIs on Windows 8.
  
  
• Extending GridView with Drag and Drop for Grouping and Variable Sized Items - Irina Pykhova, Greg Lutz
  This article describes the implementation of an extended GridView control that enables drag and drop with grouping and variable sized items.
  
  

New Tips and Tricks added

.NET Framework

• IDbContextFactory which gets Connection String at runtime and triggers Automatic Migrations - retsnoM
  Sample code showing how to implement IDbContextFactory for retrieving ConnectionString at runtime and trigger automatic migrations. For use with DI and IoC or if you have different databases with the same model.
  
  

Android

• Passig values to an intent - DaltonGR
  Tip on how to pass a value to an intent
  
  

Client side scripting

• JavaScript Special Character Handling - CShubham
  This article willl describe how to handle special chars in JavaScript.
  
  

SharePoint Server

• SharePoint Designer Hide Time in Calendar View - Jean Paul V.A
  How to use SharePoint Designer to edit an existing Calendar page.
  
  

Windows API

• Archive Multiple Files In Zip & Extract Zip Archive - Farhan Ghumra
  Learn how to create zip archive and extract it without any 3rd party library.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• Simply using WPF Styles in other assemblies, or other project types, like WinForms - Evgeny Bestfator
  Many developers come in trouble with designer support of WPF styles, wich defined in other assembly, and should be referenced using DinamicResource and ComponentResourceKey. I will show how to simply solve this problem by writing very simple MarkupExtension.
  
  

Tips and Tricks updated

Algorithms & Recipes

• Limited Length Logging - dirigo
  Preventing a log file from growing forever
  
  

ASP.NET

• ASP.NET 4.0 potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected - Monjurul Habib
  If anyone enters non-encoded HTML content into a text box in an ASP.NET application.
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• Attach JavaScript with Auto-Generated Buttons of the GridView Control - Pranay Rana
  Attach JavaScript with auto-generated buttons of the GridView control.
  
  

Audio and Video

• A managed FreeFrame host - Jarno Burger
  A managed wrapper around FreeFrame, to give your video frames some cool effects
  
  

Dialogs and Windows

• C# Command Prompt class - Mehul Dhorda
  This article describes a class that allows you to run a command and get its output.
  
  

Game Development

• C# Hangman - Samuel Philip Blackford
  A neat little hangman game I thought I might share.
  
  

General Graphics

• WSQ to BMP converter - J.F. Sebastian
  A WSQ to BMP converter.
  
  

Libraries

• Cinchoo - Using SQLServer database as configuration source - Cinchoo
  This article shows how to use a SQL Server database as configuration source using the Cinchoo Configuration Manager.
  
  

Programming Tips

• Running NUnit tests in parallel - Andreas Andersen
  NUnit doesn't support running the tests in a fixture in parallel. A trick for getting around this limitation is given.
  
  
• Create a sample SQL database in less than 2 minutes - Pascal Ganaye
  This SQL stored procedure creates a database from scratch with some meaningful content.
  
  

SharePoint Server

• Solving 'Activate Features' error - Omar Gameel Salem
  Solving the 'Activate Features' error.
  
  

String handling

• Fast CSV Row Count using Binary Reader - Fun@learn
  Efficient CSV row/line count snippet using BinaryReader API on Windows.
  
  

New Technical Blogs added

Ajax

• Smooth Scroll To The Top of The Page – jQuery - Noor Ahmad Feroozi
  When content of a web page exceeds and visitors scroll down the web page, then having a button to smooth scroll to the top of the page is a good idea. jQuery scroll function made it very easy to create a such a … Continue reading →The post Smooth Scroll To The Top of The Page – jQu
  
  

Applications & Tools

• POSTMan is required - Himanshu DS
  A Chrome app which let’s you help test and document APIs.
  
  

C / C++ Language

• Building a language translation bot using Skype and C# - Anuraj Parameswaran
  In Google talk, there was some bot service available which will help to translate from one language to another. You can implement similar service using Skype with the help of Skype4COM.dll. In this implementation for language translation, the Bing soap API is used. Skype4COM is a Windows based COM D
  
  

C#

• C#.NET – Removing Duplicate Records From DataTable - Noor Ahmad Feroozi
  If a database table contain duplicate records the it is easy to select unique records by using DISTINCT function. but when a .Net DataTable contain duplicate records then, there no built-in function to remove or select unique records from a DataTable. Continue reading →The post C#.NET –
  
  

Combo & List Boxes

• TFS - Get List Of Software Installed On Build Agent - Tarun_Arora
  Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/TarunArora/archive/2013/02/03/tfs---get-list-of-software-installed-on-build-agent.aspx Introduction It is common for your code projects to reference Microsoft or Non Microsoft SDKs, this requires that the build agents has the SDK’s installed. It is a
  
  

Database

• Query Optimization and the SQL Server Cache - Rui Inacio
  This article explains the main concepts involved and then the possible options to Clean the SQL Server Cache.
  
  

Game Development

• MonoGame gets Shocked! - Simon Jackson
  Following on from my previous article we don the rubber gloves and grab Zeus’s lightning bolt to launch it on other platforms. Not cryptic enough for you then read on We left off just porting Michael Hoffman’s excellent article showing us how to generate lightning effects almost effortlessly using X
  
  
• Does lightning really strike twice? - Simon Jackson
  It all started one sunny morning when Michael Hoffman who wrote a shocking article on some fantastic lighting effects all done with XNA, I read this and was immediately impressed just how simple his solution was. Not long after this a guy down under called Jose Fajardo was so impressed …
  
  

Grid & Data Controls

• WPF Enumeration Data Provider - Stephen Hardie
  In my recent adventures creating activity designers (Workflow Foundation 4+) I needed a way to bind a ComboBox with an enumeration and didn't want to manually wire up events in the code behind. Fortunately I found some examples on how to use an ObjectDataProvider. This worked great but I realized th
  
  

Third Party Products and Tools

• Introducing Business Intelligence Reporting to a Software System, a Jasper Reports How-to - Keyhole Software
  Most software development teams spend all of their time and efforts gathering requirements, planning, testing, implementing and supporting large systems to be able to do the one thing they are all in business to do: make money! Rightfully so, the core efforts of their business and development teams
  
  

Uncategorised Technical Blogs

• WordPress – Numbered Page Navigation Without Any Plugins - Noor Ahmad Feroozi
  Numbered page navigation is not available in WordPress features. WordPress, instead uses (Previuse Page/Post – Next Page/Post) navigation style. however; there number of plugins for this solution and some are listed below. Zamango Page Navigation Zamango Page Navigation creates pagebar …
  
  

Technical Blogs updated

Amazon Web Services

• Using Google Guice in Web Applications - ludovicianul
  Introduction As promised in the previous article I’ll continue presenting Google Guice also for web applications. In order to do ... Continue reading
  
  

ASP.NET

• Easy 8 Step HTML To SQL Data Transfer in a ASP.NET Web Form using jQuery, JSON, XML, Web Methods, node() Methods and Extension Methods. - Patrick Cunningham
  This article uses 8 steps to create example of how to read and write from HTML to a SQL database in a .NET web application using jQuery, JSON, and XML.
  
  

C#

• Data-binding among complex Expressions in C# - Adrian Alexander
  What could be more preferable than simply stating X = Y in one place then having the rest of the work transparently handled on your behalf? Expression trees were one of the many language features introduced with C# 3.0 way back in 2007.  Integration with the compiler allows us to nonchalantly ask i