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10 million!

We've had our 10 millionth signup to CodeProject! Beers are on us!.

This is our 14th year and we're only just getting started with the fun stuff we'll be releasing in the next few weeks. Thank you to everyone for your articles, your comments, your answers and your help you give to the community. This is what it's all about.

Win a 64GB Surface RT tablet

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Three 64 GB Microsoft Surface RTs (or cash equivalent) are on offer this week!

The Best of the Best

The best articles of last month have been announced:

Best C++ article of March 2013
Marius Bancila - Lessons learned migrating to Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5
Prizes:	Codejock Xtreme ToolkitPro; SmartOutline 2010; CryptoLicensing For MFC - Enterprise Edition; The latest C++ ebooks from informIT;

Best C# article of March 2013
Kanasz Robert - Introduction to CQRS
Prizes:	Shell MegaPack.Net; SmartOutline 2010; Crypto Obfuscator For .Net - Enterprise Edition; The latest C# ebooks from informIT; ActiveReports 7;

Best VB.NET article of March 2013
kburman6 - Making a Search Engine
Prizes:	Shell MegaPack.Net; SmartOutline 2010; Crypto Logger For .Net; The latest VB.NET ebooks from informIT;

Best Mobile article of March 2013
Espen Harlinn - D3.js crash course - Part2
Prizes:	CodeProject Mousepad; The latest Mobile ebooks from informIT; ComponentOne Studio Enterprise;

Best Web Dev article of March 2013
Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira - HTML5 Bar Chart
Prizes:	SmartOutline 2010; The latest Web Dev ebooks from informIT; Spread WPF-Silverlight; JArchitect;

Best overall article of March 2013
Kanasz Robert - Introduction to CQRS
Prizes:	CodeProject Mug; Hyper Build; Spread .NET;

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Weekly Poll Results

This week's survey: Will you move to jQuery 2.0 (and drop IE 6,7 and 8 support)?

Most popular new articles

• fastJSON - Mehdi Gholam
  
• C++ String Toolkit (StrTk) Tokenizer - Arash Partow
  
• Zombie Explorer: An n-tier application from top to bottom - Sacha Barber
  
• GMap.NET - Great Maps for Windows Forms and Presentation - radioman.lt
  
• POLAR - Creating a Virtual Machine in .NET - Paulo Zemek
  

Latest Additions

112 articles overall. 38 new, 74 updated.

New articles added

ASP.NET

• Creating Unit Testable Applications in ASP.NET MVC - A Beginner's Tutorial - Rahul Rajat Singh
  In this article we will talk about creating unit testable applications using ASP.NET MVC.
  
  
• A Beginner's Tutorial on Custom Forms Authentication in ASP.NET MVC Application - Rahul Rajat Singh
  In this we will discuss about implementing custom forms authentication in an ASP.NET MVC application.
  
  

Client side scripting

• JavaScript Best Practices - Tim Corey
  Reduce quirky bugs and headaches by applying these best practices.
  
  

Cryptography & Security

• PNG Image Steganography with libpng - Grant Curell
  Performing steganography on PNG images
  
  

Database

• Date and Time Data Types and Functions - SQL Server (2000, 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012) - Shemeer NS
  SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 Date and Time Data Types and Functions with Sample SQL Statements. Data Type Tables, Function Tables
  
  
• Oracle PL/SQL Cursor - Girish Yerzal
  This article will definitely give you a brief idea about cursor with examples.
  
  
• Dynamically add access database columns at runtime using vb.net - Rob Culhane
  Dynamically add access database columns at runtime using vb.net
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Dependency Inversion Principle, IoC Container, and Dependency Injection (Part - 4) - Chinmaya_Champatiray
  This part of this article explains about implementation of LifeTimeOption for our custom container.
  
  

Game Development

• Conway's Game of Life - A rule framework and implementation - tumbledDown2earth
  A rule engine based approach to add and remove rules to play Conway's Game of Life
  
  

Interviews

• A Coder Interview With Mike Meinz - CodeProject, Mike Meinz
  Welcome to our continuing series of CodeProject interviews in which we talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves. In this installment we talk to Mike Meinz, who shares some highlights from 45 years in the industry.
  
  

Java

• Business Validation Techniques on SOA - Nestor Marsollier
  A point of view about business validations on enterprise applications
  
  

Testing and QA

• Overview of Testing in Cloud - Kulamani Sahoo
  The paper outlines the benefits of moving the application testing from traditional in house to cloud ,high level description on different type of testing performed in cloud for the applications, approach Test team/companies need to performed if they are adopting cloud solution .This solution is gene
  
  

Tools and IDE

• DicomTagSeeker - A DiCOM repository tag searcher - tumbledDown2earth
  A tool for Seeking, Sorting and Reporting in a morderately large DICOM repository
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• WPF Graphic-based TabControl and Mode Toggling - ntg123
  Using binding over Graphic-elements to template Tabcontrol to a folder's Cardboard-splitters look
  
  

Articles updated

.NET Framework

• POLAR - Creating a Virtual Machine in .NET - Paulo Zemek
  A tutorial explaining how to create a Virtual Machine and a Compiler for such virtual machine
  
  
• TracerX Logger and Viewer for .NET - MarkLTX
  Easy to use logger with a powerful viewer that supports filtering by thread, logger, etc.
  
  
• Pick Your Enumerator & Me.Understand Yield and IEnumerable (C#) - Mike-MadBadger
  Using multiple enumerators and implementing IEnumerable with Yield or IEnumerator.
  
  
• Complete Managed Media Aggregation Part III : Quantum Computing in C# Today? - jfriedman
  Whats a new Bitable? Enumerable's, Enumerator's, and now Iterator's? Oh my!
  
  

Algorithms & Recipes

• C++ String Toolkit (StrTk) Tokenizer - Arash Partow
  A brief introduction to a C++ String Tokenizer implementation
  
  
• Visualizing the Mandelbrot set - Andy Bantly
  Visualizing the Mandelbrot set using multiple threads of execution.
  
  
• Member :: Memory-Wide-Number - lampiclobe
  An infinite number implementation with advanced division and modulus operators.
  
  
• CKRFloat - Arbitrary Precision Calculations - Karl Runmo
  Arbitrary precision calculations
  
  

Android

• Display Twitter statuses in Android - Zamrony P. Juhara
  Twitter statuses go mobile
  
  

ASP.NET

• "How to series" about MVC, jQuery, JSON, paging, mapRoute - necmettin demir
  "How to series" about MVC, jQuery, JSON, paging, mapRoute.
  
  
• MVC Basic Site: Step 3 – Dynamic Layouts and Site Admin with: AJAX, jqGrid, Controller Extensions, HTML Helpers, and more - Raul Iloc
  This article provides the implementation of dynamic layouts and web site administration in ASP.NET MVC4.0 by using: AJAX, jqGrid, Custom Action Results, Controller Extension, HTML Helpers, and more.
  
  
• Generate Knockout Viewmodels using T4 templates - Xavier Spileers
  Use a T4 template to generate Knockout-viewmodels based on .NET classes.
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• Extending ASP.Net Controls: a Scrollable GridView - Herre Kuijpers
  Extending the standard ASP.NET GridView control to add a vertical scrollbar in the grid
  
  

C#

• TaskScheduler - Lothar Perr
  A simple structured and easy to use Task-Scheduler
  
  
• Reflection optimization techniques - Jain, Ajay
  The article presents some .net techniques for using reflection optimally and efficiently.
  
  
• Example of when Interfaces are incredibly useful - Assassinbeast
  This is an alternative for "Interfaces in C# (for beginners)".
  
  
• DB to Browser - Easy Silverlight Overview - J van Rooyen
  A simple article: From DB to Browser using Silverlight
  
  

Client side scripting

• Learning jQuery using jQuery Lab - Rupesh Kumar Tiwari
  Explainign the theory of jQuery using live examples
  
  

CodeProject FAQs

• Code Project Article FAQ - Sean Ewington
  This is an FAQ for writing Code Project articles. It can be modified by any Silver member.
  
  
• Code Project Quick Answers FAQ - Sean Ewington
  This is an FAQ for the Quick Answers section. It can be modified by any Silver member.
  
  

Cryptography & Security

• Simple Password Manager with Google API validation - Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
  This is an alternative for "Simple Password Manager Using System.Security"
  
  

Database

• ADO+.NET - Paulo Zemek
  This library is intended to "replace" ADO.NET by solving type mismatches and by creating typed readers that are faster and easier to use than DataTables.
  
  

Design and Architecture

• OOP in the Real World - Creating an Equation Editor - Kashif_Imran
  Object Oriented Design and Programming Process using a Real World Example
  
  
• Factory Method Pattern - dpalash
  Easy way to understand Factory Method Pattern
  
  
• Make lasagna not spaghetti code: A real world approach to the legacy problem - Lukasz Szyrmer
  A Pragmatic approach to automated testing with legacy code
  
  
• Building an application using design patterns and principles in C# - Jon Woo
  I am writing this article to demonstrate how to build an application from scratch using SOLID principles and common design patterns
  
  
• Dependency Inversion Principle, IoC Container, and Dependency Injection (Part - 1) - Chinmaya_Champatiray
  This is the first part of article on Dependency Injection. It will give you an idea about what Dependency Inversion Principle is. There are other two parts of the article which explains about how to implement DIP.
  
  
• Dependency Inversion Principle, IoC Container, and Dependency Injection (Part - 3) - Chinmaya_Champatiray
  This is the third part of article on Dependency Injection. It explains how to develop a simple IoC container.
  
  
• Dependency Inversion Principle, IoC Container & Dependency Injection (Part - 2) - Chinmaya_Champatiray
  This is the second part of article on Dependency Injection. It will give you an idea about what Inversion of Control is. There are other part of the article which explains about how to implement DIP.
  
  

E-commerce

• A Shopping Cart Application Built with AngularJS - Bernardo Castilho
  Create a shopping cart class and use it in your MVVM HTML5 applications.
  
  

Game Development

• Simple client-server network using C++ and Windows Winsock - bshokati
  How to create a client-server network for multiplayer game programming using C++ and Windows Winsock
  
  
• A 3D RPG Based on Ogre and ODE - lxdfigo
  A 3D Game Based on Ogre, ODE, 3D Max, CEGUI and so on.
  
  

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.
  
  

Internet / Network

• fastJSON - Mehdi Gholam
  Smallest, fastest polymorphic JSON serializer (with Silverlight4 and MonoDroid support)
  
  
• fastBinaryJSON - Mehdi Gholam
  A binary JSON serializer based on fastJSON (support for MonoDroid)
  
  
• APJSON - Aron Kovacs
  This is an alternative for "fastJSON"
  
  
• Socket_Control DLL Resource and Tutorial - Sicppy
  A DLL resource to help beginner to intermediate developers open and use sockets in a P2P application.
  
  

Interviews

• A Coder Interview With Susan Buck - CodeProject, Susan Buck
  Welcome to our continuing series of Code Project interviews in which we talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves. In this installment we talk to Susan Buck, who splits her time between teaching, developing and helping other women learn to code.
  
  

iPhone

• Building an iPhone App using jQuery Mobile - Stuart Wheelwright
  Step-by-step explanation of building a Task Timer app using web technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and jQuery Mobile.
  
  

Miscellaneous

• GMap.NET - Great Maps for Windows Forms and Presentation - radioman.lt
  GMap.NET is a powerful, free, cross platform, Open Source .NET control. It enables the use of routing, geocoding, and maps from Google, Yahoo!, OpenStreet in Windows Forms and Presentation, and supports caching!
  
  

OpenGL

• 3D solar system with OpenGL and C# - Vasily Tserekh
  A demo of a solar system programmed in OpenGL and C#.
  
  

PHP

• A simple webchat - Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer
  Implementing a simple webchat using PHP and MySQL
  
  

Programming Tips

• Refresh your cached data asynchronously - Guirec Le Bars
  A pattern for an always available cache using asynchronous refresh.
  
  

Static & Panel Controls

• MoonPdfPanel - A WPF-based PDF viewer control - Daniel Kailer
  This article describes how the MoonPdfPanel works and how you can integrate it in your application
  
  

String handling

• C# Random String Generator - brol.sergii
  A C# class that can generate random strings and supports customisation.
  
  

Testing and QA

• Six important uses of Partial/Mock testing - Shivprasad koirala, Marla Sukesh
  This article explain about 6 important use of Partial/Mocktesting
  
  

Threads, Processes & IPC

• A Perfect ThreadPool in Windows (C++) - fishjam
  the best thread pool implemention on windows that you can find
  
  

Tools and IDE

• SVN Commenter - Linoxxis
  Subversion Comment Editor
  
  

Ultrabooks

• Brick Ball Game : WPF C# Game - @AmitGajjar
  This is not a simple brick ball game but we need to concentrate on two balls at a time.
  
  

Windows 8 Design

• Driving route path direction with Bing Maps in C#/XAML in a Windows 8 app - Farhan Ghumra
  How to draw a driving route direction with Bing Maps in C#/XAML in a Windows 8 app.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• Zombie Explorer: An n-tier application from top to bottom - Sacha Barber
  A complete end to end example from DB to WPF client using MVVM/PRISM/NHibernate/Respository/IOC.
  
  
• Silently updatable single instance WPF ClickOnce application - Ivan Leonenko
  Silently updatable single instance WPF ClickOnce applicaiton.
  
  
• My Personal Commander Variant - Doc Lobster
  A C#/WPF application for displaying folders on a grid and performing combined functions on them.
  
  

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.
  
  

New Tips and Tricks added

.NET Framework

• Visual Studio Visualizer: Part 1 - Frederico Regateiro
  This project shows a work around to make a non-serializable object available to a custom visualizer.
  
  

Ajax

• Use Backbone.js to make a structured web application - Devanand7
  How to use Backbone.js to make a structured web application.
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• Custom Paging Control - Aliaa Ezzat
  Custom paging control for repeaters
  
  

C#

• Division By Zero Doesn't Always Raise An Exception - Amogh Natu
  This tip shows the different results of dividing different type numbers with Zero
  
  
• Win Form Project Deployment VS2012 - Bob Clegg
  Deploying with WIX
  
  
• .NET Reporting Tool Tutorial - 2 - emadns
  Second tutorial for loading data through code - Sqlite
  
  

Database

• Secure way of executing Update statement in SQL Server - sisirp88
  Without transaction if any DML statement are executed in the database then that can be rolled back in sql server.
  
  
• Encrypt and Decrypt password through SQL query - atul123321
  How to Encrypt And Decrypt a field without writing any frontent code .
  
  

E-commerce

• Image Re-sizing Utility - Vaibhav Tiparadi
  Re-sizing images to equalize the width & height
  
  

HTML / CSS

• Tree View Control using HTML5 - Style-7
  How to create Tree View Control by HTML5 only.
  
  

Uncategorised Tips and Tricks

• Twitterizer for API v1.1 - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
  Go here for an update that utilizes the Twitter API v1.1
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• [WPF] Screen Cutter - Louis_Liu
  WPF application to capture screen.
  
  

Windows Runtime

• COM Executable Crash compiled with VS2012 on Windows 2012 - Chandra Shekhar Joshi
  If you are migrating your COM application to Visual Studio 2012 then this could be helpful for you.
  
  

Tips and Tricks updated

Android

• Executing asynchronous tasks using Threads and updating the UI - Eduardo Antonio Cecilio Fernandes
  Add asynchronous tasks, using threads, in Android Activities while updating its progress to the UI. Use this technique for SDKs lower than 1.5.
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• Uploading large files using ASP.NET and IIS6.0 - Amogh Natu
  This tip discusses the method to allow the uploading of large size files in ASP.NET
  
  

C#

• .NET Reporting Tool Tutorial - 1 - emadns
  A basic tutorial for ReportMax tool
  
  
• Generic exception IntelliSense description in Visual Studio - M_Tamas
  How to define a generic exception definition in Visual Studio.
  
  

Cryptography & Security

• Encrypting Editor Notepad replacement - Frank T. Clark
  Source code for an encrypting editor Notepad replacement.
  
  

Database

• SQL Server: TOP…WITH TIES - A Beauty of TSQL - aasim abdullah
  The TOP clause is commonly used to get the top required rows from a result set. The beauty of this clause is that it can be used with the WITH TIES clause to retrieve all similar rows to a base result set.
  
  

Desktop Gadgets

• Resize and Compress Image in C# - Praveen Kumar Chauhan (PRK)
  Resize and compress with quality, all your images at one click.
  
  

Hardware & System

• Tips to Recover Virus Affected Folder & Files from the Pen Drive - rk_prabakar
  Unable to view virus affected folder & files in pen drive[usb]
  
  
• Converting Joystick into Mouse Radially - Lee Louviere
  Convert joystick movement into mouse position from a fixed center.
  
  

Libraries

• Cinchoo - Simplified Configuration Manager - Cinchoo
  Easy configuration management in .NET
  
  
• Cinchoo - ConfigurationManager Tips 1 - Cinchoo
  This article shows how to attach configuration files to your applications
  
  

Programming Tips

• Who knows Enumerable.Range(...)? - Andreas Gieriet
  Make loops behave deterministic-by-construction
  
  

Social Network APIs

• Integrate Tumblr into C#.NET Website - Nupur S. Tiwari
  A complete solution that seamlessly integrates Tumblr into your C# .NET website
  
  

Validation

• Fixing jQuery non-US date validation for Chrome - Eduardo Antonio Cecilio Fernandes
  How to fix date validation for non-US date when using Chrome.
  
  

Web Services

• Consuming AJAX-Enabled WCF Services from both Client and Server - Bill Fote
  This is a simple example of an Ajax-Enabled WCF Service (hosted in IIS) that can be consumed by both client-side and server-side code.
  
  

New Technical Blogs added

Azure

• Understanding Azure Media Service Core Components - Melick
  Understanding Azure Media Service Core Components.
  
  

Client side scripting

• How to Get SharePoint Client Context in SharePoint Apps (Provider Hosted / SharePoint Access ) in CSOM (Client Side Object Model) - Melick
  How to get SharePoint client context in SharePoint Apps in CSOM
  
  

Database

• DMV-6 : How well is my stored procedure doing? - Rohitmssqlfun
  This DMV allows you to discover a lot of very interesting and important performance information about your cached stored procedures.
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Abstractness vs. Instability: Neo4j case study - Issam Lahlali
  Let’s discover all these metrics and how they could be very useful to improve the design of applications.
  
  
• Dark matter of a computer program - Alexandr Savinov
  Dark matter of a computer program.
  
  
• Resource Acquisition is Initialization (RAII) - David Corne
  This post will be about the Resource Acquisition is Initialization (RAII) pattern which is a creational pattern.
  
  

Files and Folders

• Analyzing Syslog files can be easy... - BuzzLightyear
  Analyzing Syslog files can be easy...
  
  

Hardware & System

• Building Your Own System.Reflection API from Scratch, Part II: Round Tripping, Starting with Byte Zero - Philip Laureano
  How to build your own System.Reflection API from scratch
  
  

Uncategorised Technical Blogs

• How to find the top most expensive cached queries: sys.dm_exec_query_stats - Rohitmssqlfun
  sys.dm_exec_query_stats DMV (Dynamic Management View), described in BOL as follows : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189741.aspx Returns aggregate performance statistics for cached query plans. The view contains one row per query statement within the cached plan, and the lifetime of the ro
  
  

Windows Phone 7/8

• Using SQLite with Windows Phone 8 apps - zoyobar
  Using SQLite with Windows Phone 8 apps.
  
  
• Setting up a Command (MVVM) in Windows Phone 8 Video Tutorial - mbcrump
  I hear this question a lot.. Should I use code-behind or MVVM in my application? What are the pros/cons of each and can you show me a simple example of how a Command works?
  
  

Technical Blogs updated

Game Development

• Box2D and JavaScript: Part 3 - Aniruddha Loya
  Integration of Box2D-web with KineticJS library.
  
  

Java

• Undo Algorithm for Java Swing - Edison Heng
  I am going to show how to perform undo algorithm on your Java Swing application.
  
  

Third Party Products and Tools

• Webmatrix 3: Integrated Git and Deployment to Azure - John Atten
  Integrated Git and deployment to Azure.
  
  
• Deploying an Azure Website from Source Control - John Atten
  TL;DR – Setting up automatic deployment to Windows Azure Websites from your source control repository is just about painless. While the free Windows Azure Websites offering is not without it’s shortcomings, and the “pay-as-you-go” model remains a little spendy for most do-it-yourselfers, the Azur
  
  

Windows Powershell

• Scripting on Windows - Ivan Krivyakov
  Scripting on Windows