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• ToDoList 6.6 Feature Release - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g.
  
• Fast Colored TextBox for Syntax Highlighting - Pavel Torgashov
  
• A Framework in C# for Fingerprint Verification - Octavio Loyola González, Miguel Angel Medina Pérez, Andres Eduardo Gutierrez Rodriguez, Milton García Borroto
  
• Some practices to write better C#/.NET code - Monjurul Habib
  
• Difference between On clause and Where clause when used with left join in SQL Server - Hafiz Muhammad Suleman
  

Latest Additions

141 articles overall. 51 new, 90 updated.

New articles added

.NET Framework

• Visual Drawing.Net - Erdal HALICI
  Create fascinating shapes, which integrate with .net applications and Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010/20012 and all related Express Editions
  
  
• Code First Approach using Entity Framework 4.1, Inversion of Control, Unity Framework, Repository & Unit of Work Pattern and MVC3 Razor View - Akhil_Mittal
  My effort in this article was to put some light on building a generic multilayered architecture using Entity Framework 4.1 and MVC3 razor view engine.
  
  

Algorithms & Recipes

• ParsedCommandLine - PIEBALDconsult
  An enumeration-based command line parser.
  
  

Applications & Tools

• Rails 3.2: A Nested-Form Demo, Part 3: We're Starting Our Attack Run! - Fairway Tech
  Rails 3.2: A Nested-Form Demo, Part 3: We're Starting Our Attack Run!
  
  

ASP.NET

• Custom HyperLinks Using a Generic Protocol Handler - Anshul Mehra
  A generic solution for the asynchronous pluggable protocols implementation.
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• Add Responsive Behaviour to a GridView in ASP.NET - Declan Bright
  A technique which ensures that an ASP.NET GridView displays nicely on small screen devices.
  
  

C / C++ Language

• CSSSandbox - Dave Calkins
  A tool for simultaneous editing and viewing of CSS and HTML.
  
  

C#

• Starting with Prism - Part 3 of n - Shweta Lodha
  
  
  

Client side scripting

• JavaScript Database Engine (JS-DBE) - darkoman
  This is a simple JavaScript database engine implementation
  
  

HTML / CSS

• HTML5 Quick Start Web Application - Sandeep Mewara
  HTML5 self learning center - Explore and understand the new features!
  
  
• Pulse in HTML5 on Internet Explorer 10 – a modern app for the modern web! - HTML5 Partners
  Pulse in HTML5 on Internet Explorer 10 – a modern app for the modern web!
  
  
• PageControl objects and navigation for your Windows Store app - HTML5 Partners
  PageControl objects and navigation for your Windows Store app
  
  

Libraries

• A Beginner's Tutorial on Understanding Table Per Type(TPT) Inheritance in Entity Framework - Rahul Rajat Singh
  This article discuss about implementing Table per Type inheritance hierarchy using Entity Framework.
  
  
• DWinLib - Visual Studio Express Setup and a Minimal Wrapper - David O'Neil
  Setting up Visual Studio 2008 (and possibly newer versions) to build a simple Windows Wrapper!
  
  
• DWinLib - A Minimal Project - David O'Neil
  Begin a DWinLib program with the following steps and attached code!
  
  
• DWinLib - Creating Modal Dialogs - David O'Neil
  Need to make a simple, or not-so-simple dialog? The following approach may be just the ticket, even without DWinLib!
  
  

Product Showcase

• Integrating Plantronics Call Control with WebRTC - Plantronics
  Integrating Plantronics Call Control with WebRTC
  
  

Scrapbook

• Women in Technology Resources - Terrence Dorsey
  Whether you're starting out and want to get a first taste of programming, looking to connect with other women in science and technology, or want to be inspired by the amazing work being done by women, check out these resources.
  
  

Threads, Processes & IPC

• How to control parallel thread execution without passing CancellationTokenSource or similar objects into your background code - Volodymyr Bobko
  This article describes a tiny class that allows to pass a cancellation flag to your background code, without modifying your existing interfaces and function prototypes.
  
  

Windows Powershell

• Installing multiple SQL scripts using a single PowerShell script - Arjan Douwes
  Installing multiple SQL scripts using a single PowerShell script.
  
  

Articles updated

.NET Framework

• A Look under the hood of the .NET Framework - Naerling
  Journey to the center of the .NET Framework with a chance of IL along the way!
  
  
• Analyzing a .NET executable or DLL without .NET installed - Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי
  A pure Win32 API applicaiton that can analyze a .NET binary without .NET installed.
  
  
• Gilma - GUI for the ILMerge Application Revised for .NET 4.0 - tuscano
  An article on a GUI to Microsoft ILMerge Program
  
  
• Introducing PdfRport - Vahid_N
  PdfReport is a code-first reporting engine which is built on top of the iTextSharp and EPPlus libraries.
  
  

Ajax

• Roll your own: A JavaScript router - Sebastiaan Meijerink
  Build your own JavaScript router.
  
  

Algorithms & Recipes

• Creating a crossword generator - Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי
  Creating an application that can generate crosswords from a list of words
  
  

Applications & Tools

• ToDoList 6.6 Feature 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.
  
  
• Image Cataloguer - Andrew Cherednik
  Automatically catalogue images based on modified date
  
  

ASP.NET

• MVC Basic Site: Step 1 – Multilingual Site Skeleton - Raul Iloc
  This article is intended to be the first one from this series and is focused mainly in the creation of a multilingual MVC web site skeleton.
  
  
• MVC Basic Site: Step 2 - Exceptions Management - Raul Iloc
  This second article from the "MVC Basic Site" series presents in details the exceptions management rules and their implementation for an ASP.NET MVC web site, and provides some utile base classes and source code for Logging and Exceptions Management that can be reused.
  
  
• 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
  
  
• DayPilot Gantt Chart for ASP.NET - Dan Letecky
  How to display AJAX Gantt Chart in ASP.NET application.
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• Advanced ASPX GridView Pagination and Data Entities - Raul Iloc
  ASP.NET based software system skeleton that uses the ASPX GridView control and advanced pagination for displaying a list of data entities loaded from the database, and the ASP.NET AJAX ModalPopupExtender control for creating new entities or for editing entities from the grid.
  
  
• From Table to TreeView…Displaying Hierarchies - Steve Wellens
  Who remembers Object Databases? At one time they were going to dominate the programming world. But, as with a lot of over-hyped technology (Lisp, AI, ADA, Virtual Reality) they were destined to a small niche segment of the market. Relational Databases remain king. Why? Because Relational Databases
  
  

C / C++ Language

• How to send an SMS message from an application - Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי
  How to send an SMS from a Desktop Applicaiton (written in C++).
  
  
• Windows Development in C++, working with menus - Espen Harlinn
  Windows API, menus, c++ lambda expressions, std::enable_shared_from_this
  
  
• Strings Obfuscation System - Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי
  A string obfuscation system that integrates in a Visual Studio C++ solution
  
  
• A Simple, Action Based, Undo/Redo Framework - zdf
  How to use a simple, action based, undo/redo framework
  
  
• C++11 Smart Pointers - syed_babu
  Various Smart Pointers in C++11
  
  
• C++11: Non-intrusive enum class with Reflection support using Metaprogramming - Christoph Husse
  The clean way for getting C++ enumerations with Reflection support.
  
  

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.
  
  
• .NET Weak Events for the Busy Programmer - FatCatProgrammer
  General WeakEvent class
  
  
• Track File Activites - Biswas, Sumit
  It helps to track/monitor file activites using FileSystemWatcher and maintains log, which can be viewed using various filter options.
  
  
• CIMTool for Windows Management Instrumentation - Part 1 - Espen Harlinn
  Use WMI to retrieve information about your system and genrate classes for easy WMI development.
  
  
• Screen Capture on Multiple Monitors - mittaltarsem
  Utility to capture full or part of screen with support for multiple screens.
  
  

Client side scripting

• ColorPicker - a jQuery UI Widget - Olivier Giulieri
  A web color picker which looks like the one in Microsoft Office 2010.
  
  
• Data Analyzer: HTML table to Chart - Niral Soni
  A few lines of code to create dynamic charts based on the HTML table contents with filter option.
  
  
• Visual concealment for games using Javascript - Fredrik Bornander
  Obscuring out-of-sight areas in games using HTML5 and Javascript
  
  
• Use JavaScript and WebRTC API to access your Camera and Microphone from browser - saadmos
  How to access Camera and Microphone using JavaScript, HTML5 and a new browser
  
  
• eziConfirm: jQuery Confirm Control - Pooya Paridel
  jQuery based confirm plugin that will enhance build in confirm-function in javascript
  
  

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.
  
  

Database

• Difference between On clause and Where clause when used with left join in SQL Server - Hafiz Muhammad Suleman
  This article will clear the differences between the On cluase and Where clause when used with left join.
  
  
• The Data Tune System - Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי
  The DataTune system was one of the earliest data cleansing systems.
  
  
• 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

• WCF by Example - Introduction - Enrique Albert
  Patterns and best practices for the desing and development of rich client enterprise applications using WPF, WCF and NHibernate
  
  
• 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.
  
  

Desktop Gadgets

• A Google Docs based backup applicaiton - Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי
  A C++ client for uploading documents to your Google Docs account.
  
  

DirectX

• D3dScenePresenter - How to present and manipulate a 3D scene using MDX - Shmuel Zang
  This article shows how we can present a 3D scene and, perform common operations (zoom, rotate, move, zoom to specific region, adjust the camera to view the whole of the scene, and pick a 3D shape on a specific region on the rendered surface) on it, using Managed DirectX.
  
  

DLLs & Assemblies

• Subclassing using DLL Injection - syed_babu
  Subclassing a window using the DLL Injection technique.
  
  

Edit Controls

• Fast Colored TextBox for Syntax Highlighting - Pavel Torgashov
  Custom text editor with syntax highlighting
  
  

Files and Folders

• Target Eye Revealed part 3 - The Shopping List Mechanism - Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי
  How the Shopping List mechanism was used as part of the Target Eye project
  
  
• Zip/Unzip using the java.util.zip .NET namespace and more - dmihailescu
  Zip/Unzip using java.util.zip from managed code.
  
  

Game Development

• Sudoku using MS Solver Foundation - unicorn2
  An example for how to use Microsoft Solver Foundation on a constraint satisfaction problem.
  
  

General Graphics

• Detect image skew angle and deskew image - Mukit, Ataul, David_Pollard
  Deskew an image by converting it to grayscale + edges and rotating by the detected skew angle.
  
  
• ExifLib - A Fast Exif Data Extractor for .NET 2.0+ - Simon McKenzie
  Reads JPEG Exif data without the heavyweight and unnecessary instantiation of GDI+ objects.
  
  

Hardware & System

• Searching for a reliable hardware ID - Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי
  How a computer can be identified in order to generate a unique ID.
  
  

HTML / CSS

• Create a blog reader Windows Store app using JavaScript and HTML - HTML5 Partners
  This tutorial teaches you how to use the Split App Visual Studio template to create a blog reading app.
  
  

Internet / Network

• Node.Js And Stuff - Sacha Barber
  Small demo app using Node.Js/Socket.IO/MongoDB/D3.Js and jQuery.
  
  
• Reuse Selenium WebDriver COM (.NET) version - Mircea Sirghi
  This article describes how to use COM objects for Selenium scripts development.
  
  

iPhone

• Developing an App that sends SMS messages - Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי
  How great could it be to be able to send SMS messages from your IPhone using the Internet connection
  
  

Libraries

• A Framework in C# for Fingerprint Verification - Octavio Loyola González, Miguel Angel Medina Pérez, Andres Eduardo Gutierrez Rodriguez, Milton García Borroto
  In this article, we introduce a framework in C# for fingerprint verification, we briefly explain how to perform fingerprint verification experiments and how to integrate your algorithms to the framework.
  
  
• DWinLib: An Overview - David O'Neil
  An overview to DWinLib - a minimal Windows wrapper!
  
  
• An introduction to OpenCV (Part II): Implementing mouse events, manipulating images, and creating video clips - Markus Koppensteiner
  Shows how to use OpenCV to write videos, how to implement mouse events, and presents some commands on image manipulation as well.
  
  

List Controls

• WPF Based Bar Diagram Control - Dominik V.
  This article is about a simple bar diagram control, which is easy to integrate into an existing WPF application.
  
  

MFC

• The Ultimate Toolbox - Updates and User Contributions - The Ultimate Toolbox
  Updates and User Contributions for the Ultimate Toolbox Libraries
  
  

Scrapbook

• Developing multi-lingual support as part of the development of Rashumon word processor - Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי
  When I have devleoped Rashumon, there was no built in support for multi-lingual / bi-directional text and I had to develop such from scratch
  
  
• 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.
  
  

Shell and IE programming

• .NET Shell Extensions - Shell Context Menus - Dave Kerr
  Rapidly create Shell Context Menu Extensions using .NET
  
  
• Target Eye Revealed part 1 - Target Eye's Unique AutoUpdate Mechanism - Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי
  How Target Eye's Auto updating mechanism allows a silent update of an application from identifying newer versions, downloading them and running them instead of the old one
  
  
• .NET Shell Extensions - Shell Icon Overlay Handlers - Dave Kerr
  Create Shell Icon Overlay Handlers using .NET!
  
  

String handling

• How to parse chunk by chunk a large CSV file and bulk insert to a database - S. M. Ahasan Habib
  In this article I will demonstrate how to read a large csv file chunk by chunk (line basis) and populate DataTable object and bulk insert to database.
  
  

Testing and QA

• Reuse selenium webdriver solution - Mircea Sirghi
  This article describes how to reuse web driver when selenium test crashes or how to debug selenium scripts on the fly.
  
  

Threads, Processes & IPC

• Semaphore Example - syed_babu
  A Semaphore example.
  
  

Trace and Logs

• Happiness is good logging - DahlSailRunner
  Really effective logging using Enterprise Library and just a little custom code.
  
  

Tree Controls

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

Web Security

• Target Eye Revealed part 2 - Target Eye's Screen Capturing - Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי
  How Target Eye's screen capturing mechanism works
  
  

Win32/64 SDK & OS

• Elevating during runtime - Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי
  How can an applicaiton elevate itself to gain "Admin" rights during runtime
  
  

Windows Communication Foundation

• Implementing a Basic Hello World WCF Service (v4.5) - Mike_Liu
  Manually implement a basic WCF Service (.NET 4.5) from scratch, step by step, with clear instructions and precise screen snapshots.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• WPF: Webcam Control - Meshack Musundi
  A WPF UserControl for displaying and recording video from a webcam
  
  
• WPF Localization Using RESX Files - Grant Frisken
  Localize text, images, and any other WPF property using standard RESX files
  
  

Windows Runtime

• 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.
  
  

Windows Security

• Windows x64 system service hooks and advanced debugging - nick.p.everdox
  Working alongside Windows KPP (patchguard) and hooking system services.
  
  

New Tips and Tricks added

Ajax

• Asychronous Web Service Call - Pathak Ashwin
  Asynchronous Web Service Call
  
  

Amazon Web Services

• Amazon AWS: EC2 FTP server using S3 as the backend - John Duquette
  How-to setup an FTP server on an EC2 instance using S3 for storage
  
  

Applications & Tools

• Visual SourceSafe automation to get shared references - KRISHNA PRASAD.N
  This paper would provide a small code snippet which will report all files from VSS (Visual SourceSafe 6.0) with shared reference instances. It will be useful for migrating files from VSS to TFS.
  
  

Author Resources

• HTML5 for Asp.net & C# Developers - Sarvesh Kushwaha
  HTML5 Quick Tips for Asp.net Developers
  
  

Game Development

• How to get clipboard text in XNA - F.moghaddampoor
  Here we get clipboard text to use in an XNA app.
  
  
• Migrating applications developed in Kinect for Windows Beta 2 to v1.0 using C# - Sajesh.Nambiar
  Migrating applications developed in Kinect for Windows Beta 2 to v1.0 using C#
  
  

General Graphics

• Change Barcode Size - Leonardo Metelis
  Resizing a barcode to print
  
  

Libraries

• Matlab Delta Cursors - Seth B Wood
  Delta Cursors For Use In Matlab Figures
  
  

Parallel Programming

• ReaderWriterLockSlim Extensions - essence
  Make your synchronizion easier by using Read/Write extensions.
  
  

Threads, Processes & IPC

• C++11: Lock Leveling - Wong Shao Voon
  Implement lock leveling on Windows critical sections
  
  

Windows Runtime

• QRCode library for Windows 8 based on the solution from twit88 - M_Tamas
  Generate and decode QR code.
  
  
• BitmapImageExtension with NetworkCredentials - Fredrik Zetterlund
  BitmapImageExtension with NetworkCredentials.
  
  

Tips and Tricks updated

.NET Framework

• Synchronizing ConcurrentDictionary - essence
  ConcurrentDictionary's methods can call your value factory more than once.When is this a problem? How can it be overcome?
  
  

ASP.NET

• Calling a console application from the web on button click event - arnavs
  How to call a console application from the web on button click.
  
  

C#

• Start developing Windows Store apps - Houssem_Dellai
  This article provides some tips you may need when developing Windows 8 applications.
  
  

Database

• How to enum SQL Server instances in network - Maciej Los
  This tip is desired for those who want to list all available SQl Server instances that are in a network.
  
  

Dialogs and Windows

• Save and restore your form size and location - OriginalGriff
  It's one of those things that annoys me - and probably you - you set up five or so windows so they are in the right place on your desktop, and it lovely. Then you open them again tomorrow...and one of them always opens too big, and in the middle of the screen...
  
  

Grid & Data Controls

• Exporting DataGridview To Excel - onurag19
  How to export DataGridView data to Excel.
  
  

Internet / Network

• YouTube Downloader Using C# .NET - akramKamal
  Full C# code to download videos from YouTube in any quality.
  
  

Macros and Add-ins

• Macro to attach debugger to correct w3wp process. - Nitin_Garg
  Macro to attach visual studio debugger to w3wp apppool hosting your webservice.
  
  

Programming Tips

• Continuing from where you last stopped - Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי
  Many types of applications must have the ability to recover from an abnormal termination and continue from where they stopped
  
  
• 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.
  
  

Windows Powershell

• Parse Log4Net log files with PowerShell - Rumnha
  PowerShell in general can be used for searching text in files. The same fearture helps to get required debugging info from log files on the production server,
  
  

New Technical Blogs added

.NET Framework

• ASP.Net WebForms can do FriendlyUrls too! - Jeffrey T. Fritz
  I n this article, I'll introduced the concept of FriendlyUrls in ASP.Net webforms. We'll see how to retrieve data from a formatted url string so that it can be consumed. We'll also take a brief look at ValueProviders in ASP.Net 4.5 to present some data.
  
  

Algorithms & Recipes

• Parse JSON to C# in WinRT, Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone - Irina Pykhova
  How to parse JSON to C# in WinRT, Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone.
  
  

Book Reviews

• Android 4: New features for Application Development–PacktPub Book Review - Simon Jackson
  This book is a practical and hands-on guide for developing Android applications using new features of Android Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0), with a step-by-step approach and clearly explained sample codes.
  
  

C / C++ Language

• Digit Separators in C++ - John Bandela
  Lawrence Crowl's paper describes a proposal the C++ standard to add digit separators to C++. In this blog post, we will look at what we can do for this problem in C++ as it is currently
  
  

Client side scripting

• Do you know JsRender? - Himanshu DS
  I am new to JsRender but still felt like discussing with my readers as may be one of our readers can provide more insights, after all, it’s a mutual learning that helps a community. What is JsRender? First thing that i learned is that it’s not an invention but an improvisation of a concept called...
  
  

Database

• SQL Server – Primary Key and NonClustered Index in Simple Words - pinaldave
  Primary Key and non-clustered index in simple words.
  
  
• Counting Consecutive Dates Using SQL - Tharaka MTR
  Recently I have answered one of the SQL based question in the CodeProject. Thanks for the participant that question wake up me to write this blog post. Question: He has a table (tblLeave) with the data like below. And he wants to output the data as below Condition: If same type of leave taken contin
  
  

Files and Folders

• Compress Dynamic Files Using 7-Zip in SSIS - Sifiso W Ndlovu
  AbstractThis blog post is in response to a request/comment from Thato in this previous article. Hence, I have taken much of the logic used in the aforementioned article and changed it from static to dynamic file compression. Thus, I am still using SQL Server Integration Services‘s Execute Proc
  
  
• Execute Process Task – Compress File Using 7-Zip - Sifiso W Ndlovu
  Using SQL Server Integration Services' Execute Process Task to compress a CSV file into a zip format using 7-Zip.
  
  

HTML / CSS

• Beautiful Gilded Text with CSS - Benaiah Mischenko
  Ever want to create beautiful gilding beside your text with CSS? (Here’s a demo, if you’re in a modern browser) It’s actually quite easy. Here’s how… First, some simple HTML. I’ll just give you this one: Concept 1 Minstrel Then, you need [...]
  
  

iPhone

• Instantiate Storyboard ViewControllers Manually - Chris Demiris
  Instantiate Storyboard view controllers manually.
  
  

Libraries

• Reusability defined by Microsoft Enterprise Library - Himanshu DS
  This is an overview of Enterprise Library and how the use of it is making developer’s life easy.
  
  

Site & Server Management

• HTTP 500 – Internal server error - Sandeep Mewara
  Possible resolutions.
  
  

String handling

• Convert a Double to String: M3 - Kelum W. Ganegoda
  Code to convert/format numeric value to alpha value in M3.
  
  

Third Party Products and Tools

• Case Study – Implementing an HTML5/Javascript Enterprise Java Application - Keyhole Software
  The Keyhole team has had recent engagements that involve applying HTML5 technology to create rich client web applications. In order to explore and validate application architecture design patterns and best practices in this area, and as they say “eat our own dogfood,” we have gone through the proces
  
  

User Controls

• Using REST API in SSIS to Extract Top 100 User Tweets - Sifiso W Ndlovu
  AbstractThe growing popularity of the use of social networks by businesses indicate a possible change in ETL requirements. Part of this change is that developers had to revise existing ETL model such that it caters for sourcing of data off the internet in addition to the traditional flat files or OL
  
  

Windows API

• Consuming Odata Service in Windows Store Apps (Include MVVM Pattern) - saramgsilva
  Introduction This demo has the main goal to show the steps that is need to consuming an OData service in Windows Store Apps, and use the MVVM Pattern and has Ioc container for manage the dependencies. Get the sample here. … Continue reading →
  
  

Windows Runtime

• Creating portable code in Windows Store Apps (PCL + MVVM + OData Services) - saramgsilva
  This sample aims to show how to create portable code from an existing Windows Store app.
  
  

Work Issues

• Why I despise the interview coding test - CdnSecurityEngineer
  I truly believe programing tests during an interview are pointless.
  
  

Technical Blogs updated

Design and Architecture

• Functional Programming in a Nutshell - Luis D. Aguilar
  Functional programming is a programming paradigm that treats application operations as a sequential execution of functions.
  
  

General Graphics

• Programming Barcodes: Scanning the Nuances - Zac Gery
  Scanning the nuances in barcodes.
  
  

PHP

• WordPress – Numbered Page Navigation Without Any Plugins - Noor Ahmad Feroozi
  How to add a numbered page navigation in any new or existing WordPress theme without any plugins.
  
  
• Write Text Over Image or Picture with PHP - Noor Ahmad Feroozi
  PHP has made it very easy to add custom text over image or picture by using some basic functions from PHP GD.
  
  
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Trace and Logs

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Windows Presentation Foundation

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  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