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Weekly Poll Results

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Most popular new articles

• Easily Add a Ribbon into a WinForms Application (C#) - toATwork, adriancs
  
• Security: It’s Getting Worse - Espen Harlinn
  
• Visualizing the Mandelbrot set - Andy Bantly
  
• Converting numbers to the word equivalent. - OriginalGriff
  
• Canvas Control Library and New Forms Based System for building Web Pages and Websites - Akshay Srinivasan2
  

Latest Additions

133 articles overall. 46 new, 87 updated.

New articles added

Algorithms & Recipes

• Quick Fourier Transformation - Mosi_62
  Some ideas to make the Discrete Fourier Transformation a bit quicker and implemented a lean version of the DFT algorithm.
  
  

Azure

• Brandoo – Realizing your Brand - brandzter
  Brandoo – Realizing your Brand
  
  
• World Citizen News: a Mashup built with Location-based APIs - 'Anil' Radhakrishna
  it gets you crowd-sourced news and useful information
  
  
• Wordpress Azure Mµ - HelixTen
  Wordpress Azure Mµ, Wordpress Multisite on Azure
  
  

C / C++ Language

• Boost Multiprecision Library - Wong Shao Voon
  Introduction to Boost Multiprecision Library
  
  

Database

• SQL Server Functions that helps to convert date and time values to and from string literals and other date and time formats. - Shemeer NS
  CAST(), CONVERT(), PARSE(), TRY_PARSE(), TRY_CONVERT(), FORMAT(), SQL Server Functions, SQL Server Functions that helps to convert date and time values to and from string literals and other date and time formats.
  
  
• A set of MFC wrapper classes for ADO - Version 2.20J - Joffrey Brouillet
  This is an alternative for "A set of ADO classes - version 2.20"
  
  

Desktop Gadgets

• Anatomy of a UserControl (SliderControl) - gggustafson
  This article presents a step-by-step guide for the implementation of a UserControl named SliderControl.
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Movable Controls - SergeyAndreyev
  An article that discusses in detail about movable controls
  
  

Product Showcase

• Securing a Web Application with a Bluetooth Headset Adapter - Jeffrey T. Fritz
  In this article, I am going to show you a proof-of-concept code segment that demonstrates of how you can use the serial number of a Bluetooth headset adapter to assist in providing an authentication mechanism to a web application.
  
  

VB.NET

• Real time detection of medication interaction using VB.NET - MohamedKamalPharm, MohamedSabryBakry, Omneya Hassanain
  Documented mortalities and morbidities related to drug interactions were addressed years ago in clinical informatics. This application uses VB.NET to detect and warn users about interactions. It has the advantage of "Localization", customization, and the ability to integrate with open-source CPOE.
  
  

Articles updated

.NET Framework

• Visual Studio Visualizer: Part 2 - Entity Framework - Frederico Regateiro
  This project creates a Visual Studio visualizer for entity framework queries, view edit and run the generated SQL.
  
  
• .NET Framework Cultures with Culture Specific Formats and Mapping with SQL Server Language - Shemeer NS
  .NET Framework Cultures with Culture Specific Formats and Mapping with SQL Server Language. CultureInfo, DateFormat, Number Format, Currency Format, Percent Format, Infinity Format etc.
  
  
• Code Coverage for Regression Tests (Manual/Auto) - snehal harawande
  This article presented how to use code coverage during regression tests (auto/manual).
  
  

Algorithms & Recipes

• Visualizing the Mandelbrot set - Andy Bantly
  Visualizing the Mandelbrot set using multiple threads of execution.
  
  
• Streaming XML parser in C++. - Przemek Mazurkiewicz
  Simple non-validating streaming XML parser in C++.
  
  
• A Delaunay triangulation function in C - EricHufschmid
  A C function to create a triangle index list
  
  

ASP.NET

• TwitterBootstrapMvc - Dmitry A. Efimenko
  Fluent implementation of ASP.NET-MVC HTML helpers for Twitter Bootstrap.
  
  
• Four ways of passing data between layers - Shivprasad koirala
  In this article we will see four different ways of passing data between layers.
  
  
• Bootstrap HTML Helpers - gordon_matt
  With the Bootstrap Helpers project I have made things even easier for .NET developers.
  
  
• Deep talk on Cultures and languages with Asp.net and Sql - Marla Sukesh
  In this article we will look in detail how to create a multi-lingual and multi-cultural applications using Asp.net.
  
  
• Unit of Work Design Pattern - Shivprasad koirala
  In this article we will talk about the Unit of Work Design Pattern.
  
  
• EntityUI Automatic UI Generator using CodeFirst Approach - Razi Syed
  Automatic UI Generator with two-way binding for ASP.NET Forms from an object using Code First Principals
  
  
• Accessing impersonated user’s details from code behind in C# - Amogh Natu
  This post explains how to access an impersonated user's details from the code-behind using C#.
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• 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

• TCP Audio Streamer and Player (VoIP) - Banjoo
  Stream and play TCP Audio data from Microphone (VoIP)
  
  

Azure

• Azure Animal Adoption Agent and Lost & Found - roscler
  Azure based pet adoption agent that helps pet lovers find the perfect pet while saving the lives of kittens & puppies
  
  
• YouConf - Your Live Online Conferencing Tool - Phil Lee NZ
  A site for managing and delivering virtual conferences - complete with embedded live streaming and chat.
  
  
• Azure WebState - Florian Rappl
  Crawling tons of (individual) web information and creating statistics using Windows Azure.
  
  
• Azure-Volta 2013 Engineering Calculator is up and running! - DrABELL
  Migration from VS2010->VS2012->Azure cloud computing: practical and didactic aspects
  
  
• Learning Center Electronic Signin - radv
  Time to automate the sign-in and sign-out process at the pre-school. Get it online, real-time and in the cloud
  
  

C#

• Util Library and Extension Methods - Farhan Ejaz
  A simple Util library.
  
  
• MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) Pattern For Windows Form Applications, using C# - Shahin Khorshidnia
  It's a pattern like MVVM but for WinForms.
  
  
• Example of when Interfaces are incredibly useful - Assassinbeast
  This is an alternative for "Interfaces in C# (for beginners)".
  
  
• Implementing a finite-state machine using async/await - Sergey Shumov
  A new way to implement finite-state machine using async/await
  
  
• Using 128 bit integer and higher than 128 bit integer - Jaehoon's Style
  This library helps you use 128 bit or higher bit integers. It will increase your application's calculation capability.
  
  
• CTM - Clone To Modify Pattern - Paulo Zemek
  This article presents a pattern to create immutable objects, which have thread-safe guarantee among others, and which also support modifications throught clonning, yet avoiding excessive intermediate clones.
  
  
• Google Analytics intergation with Windows 8 - pramodhegde88
  This article shows how to track your windows 8 app in GA
  
  
• Interoperability feature in .NET Framework and how to communicate with a COM component from .NET - Jeneesh K. Velayudhan
  The article describes the interoperability feature in .NET Framework and how to communicate with a COM component from a .NET managed application.
  
  

Charts, Graphs and Images

• Using FusionCharts with C# - Azim Zahir
  This article describes using FusionCharts with C#.
  
  

Client side scripting

• Cutting-edge web development with jsRazor: tiny JavaScript that replaces ASP.NET (PHP, MVC, JSP, etc.) rendering! - rgubarenko
  jsRazor is unbeatably powerful and stupidly simple client-side rendering approach that consists of ONLY TWO functions. Tiny javascript library entirely eliminates the need for server-page rendering, in the same time giving your apps unmatched simplicity and flexibility.
  
  

Combo & List Boxes

• Embedding a DataGridView in a ComboBox - Niemand25
  A simple way to place any DataGridView inside a ComboBox.
  
  
• Extended CComboBox - Flaviu2
  A combobox control which shows a drop down window to assist user
  
  
• Tree ComboBox Control - Flaviu2
  Tree ComboBox Control
  
  

Cryptography & Security

• Security: It’s Getting Worse - Espen Harlinn
  Cyber warfare: It’s a brave new world
  
  
• XCrypt - Encryption and decryption class wrapper - Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
  This is an alternative for "XCrypt - Encryption and decryption class wrapper".
  
  

Database

• DBTool for Oracle - Part 1 - Espen Harlinn
  Enhance productivity and reliability, write your own tools.
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Understand Open Closed Principle and Dependency Inversion - Faisal(mfrony)
  This article will help you better understand OCP and DI.
  
  
• Constructing the Factory Method Pattern - Keith Barrow
  A Basic Implementation of the GoF Factory Method Pattern
  
  
• Understand Liskov Substitution - Faisal(mfrony)
  This Article will help you to better understand the LSP
  
  

Files and Folders

• Generating dynamic PDF documents using the Open Source Scryber library - Richard Hewitson
  An introduction to the capabilities of Scryber for creating dynamic PDF documents with data sources and style.
  
  

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.
  
  
• Beginners Guide: Creating Web Applications with JavaScript - Jon Woo
  This
  
  

Installation

• Creating a Virtual Windows Phone 8 Development Environment - Dylan Roy
  Setting up a Windows Phone 8 Virtual Development Environment
  
  

Internet / Network

• SMTP Client with SSL/TLS - David Johns, John_Tang
  C++ SMTP client, support SSL and TLS encrypted connection to SMTP server
  
  

Interviews

• A Coder Interview With Dave Auld - CodeProject, DaveAuld
  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 Dave Auld, a CodeProject star that continues to shine brighter.
  
  

LINQ

• Dynamically evaluated SQL LINQ queries - Don Kackman
  Extension methods to evaluate plain text SQL queries against IEnumerable collections.
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Y(et)A(nother)TabControl: A Custom Tab Control With Owner Drawn Tabs - Curtis Schlak.
  A foray into the world of creating composite custom controls with design-time support.
  
  
• Using Bing Maps for Windows 8 Metro Apps - C# / JavaScript - Shai Raiten
  Building Windows 8 Metro applications using Bing Maps control.
  
  
• Calendar Planner - Yury Yuhno
  A control similar to the Outlook Calendar control.
  
  

Mobile Development

• Android and iOS Mobile Device Development with Azure Mobile Services using HTML5 and JavaScript - Bart Read
  Tutorial showing how to build an iOS or Android app using Azure Mobile Services with HTML5 and JavaScript in Visual Studio.
  
  

PHP

• Ultra-Rapid PHP Application Development - Christoph Buenger
  Describes PHP application development with the free Scavix Web Development Framework (Scavix-WDF).
  
  

Programming Tips

• Comparing JavaScript OOP to .NET - Jon Woo
  This article is intended to help conceptualize the area of JavaScript Object Oriented Programming by comparing it to the way .NET CLR works.
  
  

SharePoint Server

• InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Integration using Custom WCF Service: Part 1 of 3 - Rupesh Tarwade
  Creating SharePoint List and Custom WCF application to read the SharePoint List information using Client Object model
  
  

SQL Reporting Services

• SQL Reporting Services 2008 R2 problem with streamIDs always being nothing, still you can print programmatically - Preetam U Ramdhave
  An application which prints reports developed in SSRS 2008R2 using a Windows or web application.
  
  

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
  
  

Tabs & Property Pages

• Easily Add a Ribbon into a WinForms Application (C#) - toATwork, adriancs
  Easily add ribbon to WinForm Application for .NET Framework 2.0, 3.5, 4.0 & 4.5
  
  

Testing and QA

• Testing an ASP.NET MVC app with Ruby - titteke
  Testing an ASP.NET MVC app with Ruby.
  
  

User Controls

• CheckBoxList(For) - A missing MVC extension - Mikhail Tsennykh
  Extends MVC HtmlHelper class so you can create POSTable checkbox list.
  
  
• ASP.NET DatePicker User Control (Hijri / Gregorian) shows month and year as dropdowns - Yahya Mohammed Ammouri
  ASP.NET Date Selector User Control based on calendar control.
  
  

Web Security

• Creating Twitter STS with ASP.NET MVC and WIF - Dmitry Tretyakov
  Step by Step tutorial describes how to create custom Security Token Service.
  
  

Windows Communication Foundation

• How to Build Flexible and Reusable WCF Services - Xomega Team
  Design Patterns and best practices for building flexible and reusable WCF services.
  
  
• Message Queue Counting Comparisions - Bruce Bennett
  Comparing the different methods of counting messages on a MSMQ
  
  
• A Beginner's Guide to Duplex WCF - Ger Hayden
  The purpose of this article is to create a service which accepts messages from any client and redistributes those messages to all subscribed clients, and a client that can subscribe to the service, send messages to it and receive unrelated messages from it regardless of how many it sends.
  
  
• Converting SOAP-based WCF Service to RESTful Design - Balimusi
  In this article, we will take an existing SOAP-based service and convert it over to a more RESTful design.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• 420 Frames Per Second - Paulo Zemek
  This article presents a class to manage enumerator based animations in WPF that can deal with different framerated animations independent of the hardware framerate
  
  
• My Personal Commander Variant - Doc Lobster
  A C#/WPF application for displaying folders on a grid and performing combined functions on them.
  
  

New Tips and Tricks added

Algorithms & Recipes

• Random Unique Code Generator - Sukant Shekhar
  Creation of random and unique code
  
  

ASP.NET

• An MVC multi-format view reporting application using JSON and LINQ - Ankurkumarbora
  This tip contains a solution for rendering reports which can be viewed (or saved) with different extensions.
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• Check/UnCheck All checkboxs in CheckBoxList - Dev.Tamer
  Check/UnCheck All checkboxs in CheckBoxList (one control)
  
  

Azure

• Disable MVC 4 SimpleMembership for early development on Azure websites - radv
  Early dev using MVC 4 on Azure websites can get stuck on SimpleMembership.
  
  

Database

• Merge in SQL Server 2008 - PratapReddyP
  Merge in SQL Server 2008.
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Data Push technologies for stock trading systems - Xenodeceiver
  
  
  
• Mocking Event Handlers - forester joe
  A solution for monitoring Events called during test
  
  

DLLs & Assemblies

• Accessing class object present in exe from explicitly loaded DLL using Inheritance and virtual function - amitdeshmukh1010
  Accessing class object present in exe from explicitly loaded DLL using Inheritance and virtual function.
  
  

Files and Folders

• Simplest code to export a datatable into .csv format - sisirp88
  Code to export datatable to CSV format.
  
  

Grid & Data Controls

• Use ListView control for editing cell in DataGridView - Ufulum
  Sample of how to make a listview popup for editing a cell in a DataGridView.
  
  
• Take the Data of “GRIDVIEW” to Excel. The data is in ItemsSource as AnonymousType, Table or DataView - wengqian
  Taking data of Gridview to Excel
  
  

HTML / CSS

• Get WebSite Root Relative Path by JavaScript - AkramOnly
  Get root relative WebSite path to concatenate it with any HTML src path
  
  

LINQ

• LINQ Tutorial for Beginners - d.ban
  A LINQ tutorial for beginners.
  
  

PHP

• Get Client Resolution Data with PHP - Reza Farhadian
  Set width & height of screen and store it in cookies, and get it with PHP
  
  

Programming Tips

• Fallback from CDN to Local - Bibhu Dutta
  A content delivery network (CDN) is aimed at serving the content to end-users with high availability and high performance. But what if the CDN fails, due to an un-reliable internet connection? This tip provides a fall back mechanism for such a scenario.
  
  

SharePoint Server

• User Permissions in SharePoint-hosted App - neham_2000
  This tip demonstrates user permissions in SharePoint-hosted apps in SharePoint 2013 with attention to a multiple user scenario.
  
  
• Apps in SharePoint 2013 - PratapReddyP
  Apps in SharePoint 2013.
  
  

SQL Reporting Services

• Reports from Reporting Server - ShajuAntony
  List out reports from Reprting Server.
  
  

Threads, Processes & IPC

• Multi-threading and cross-thread function invoke - sisirp88
  Multi-threading and cross-thread function invoke.
  
  

User Controls

• Effectively Generate Dynamic User Control Forms - Youqi Ma
  Using a controller to manage dynamic control form events and creation.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• Simple EventAggregator in WPF PRISM 4 - Efe Erdogru
  An implementation of Event Aggregator in WPF MVVM PRISM 4
  
  

Tips and Tricks updated

ASP.NET Controls

• Hyperlinked Images in ASP.NET GridView - DrABELL
  3 different techniques of adding hyperlinked image to ASP.NET GridView in data-centric RIA
  
  

C#

• How to Show Usual Winform as View in XAF - Ehsan yazdani rad
  XAF is a good framework that facilitates software making, but as it provides many benefits, there is the limitation that you have to deal with, one of them is placing fully customized form in a view
  
  
• How to split an array into multiple arrays - Libish Varghese Jacob
  How to split an array into different array of size n
  
  

Client side scripting

• View JSON in Internet Explorer - Coding 101
  A simple Registry change will enable IE to display JSON responses.
  
  
• Custom Dojo Persian (Jalali) Calendar - Nikfazan
  Using a custom Dojo Persian (Jalali) Calendar with a CDN
  
  

Database

• Using comma separated value parameter strings in SQL IN clauses - OriginalGriff
  Passing a comma separated list of values to an SQL query is all very well, but you can't just use them in an "IN" clause. This helps.
  
  
• Find all Stored Procedures having a given text in it - Basavaraj P Biradar
  How to find all the Stored Procedures having a given text in it.
  
  
• WITH (NOLOCK) example - Amey K Bhatkar
  
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Another Generic State Machine - forester joe
  A basic yet generic state machine implementation
  
  

Files and Folders

• A shortcut for your website - Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer
  Generating an internet shortcut for your website from the server side
  
  

General Graphics

• Remove Edge From An Image - Mahdi Nejadsahebi
  This tip describes how we can remove close pixels from color around the edges.
  
  

Grid & Data Controls

• DataGridView CheckBoxes and Context Menu - Weberto.com
  Simple Checkbox State changed in time for right click
  
  

HTML / CSS

• Safe "Submit" Button - Style-7
  How to send data from HTML form to server safely
  
  
• HTML5 Form Validation and Alternative Inputs - Giuseppe Luciano
  How to make two or more input alternatives, as: insert phone or cell number.
  
  

Programming Tips

• Converting numbers to the word equivalent. - OriginalGriff
  If your tutor asks you to convert numbers to words (i.e. 565 to a string "Five hundred and sixty-five") then you are not alone! Here is the simplest, most foolproof way to do it.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• Multiselect ListBox and ListView Items like Windows Explorer - Kelvin33
  A quick and dirty way to enable multi-item selection in listbox and listview WPF controls.
  
  

New Technical Blogs added

.NET Framework

• Ninject and Entity Framework - n.podbielski
  Ninject and Entity Framework.
  
  

ASP.NET

• Error Condition: HttpException: maxRequestLength exceeded. ASP.NET - Amogh Natu
  This post explains the cause and solution for the HttpException: maxRequestLength exceeded.
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• GridView Pager Template - Antony Gayter
  GridView pager template.
  
  

Design and Architecture

• The Visitor Pattern Explained - Sebastian Krysmanski
  The Visitor Pattern explained.
  
  
• Converted 4-Tier Architecture - S Leistikow
  Converted 4-Tier architecture.
  
  
• Four Tier IOC Application (Converted Tier Architecture) - S Leistikow
  Four tier IOC application.
  
  
• Web Design: The Forgotten Advantage - Zac Gery
  Writing software is a team effort and everyone helps to make it possible.
  
  

Programming Tips

• Enabling Underflow and Overflow Checking within Visual Studio - Rion Williams
  Overflow and underflow aren’t errors that most developers encounter within their daily lives (unless you work with numbers often) and its likely even less often that you will actually encounter an actual Overflow exception. This is because by default within Visual Studio Arithmetic overflows a
  
  

Reviews on Third Party Products and Tools

• Random Notes on MDX Filtering - Ivan Krivyakov
  Random notes on MDX filtering
  
  

SQL Reporting Services

• SQL Exists Syntax - snorkie
  This post is designed to help you understand how to use the EXISTS keyword in your SQL query environment.
  
  

Tools and IDE

• CI with Jenkins, MSBuild, Nuget and Git: Part 3 - marcofranssen
  I will explain to you how to create an MSpec MSBuild target and a Code coverage MSBuild target.
  
  

Uncategorised Technical Blogs

• CI with Jenkins, MSBuild, Nuget and Git: Part 2 - marcofranssen
  Cleaning the folders before building again and getting the Nuget packages using Nuget package restore
  
  
• SSRS Production Deployment: Part 3 - Ivan Krivyakov
  Deploying reports
  
  

Windows Runtime

• Windows Store apps and the Authentication Broker - Paul_Wade
  Windows Store apps and the Authentication Broker.
  
  

Technical Blogs updated

Database

• Merge Statement in SQL Server 2008 - Basavaraj P Biradar
  The new Merge statement in SQL Server 2008.
  
  
• Difference Between SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIERS ON and OFF settings - Basavaraj P Biradar
  Difference between SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIERS ON and OFF settings.
  
  

Exception Handling

• Exception Handling - S Leistikow
  Leaving an end user with the ability to do more damage is never the way to go.
  
  

Game Development

• Writing Games With Unity 3D in JavaScript and C# – Part 2 - Keyhole Software
  Writing games with Unity 3D in JavaScript and C#.
  
  

Windows Phone 7/8

• Back button in XNA - zoyobar
  I will explore and learn XNA for Windows Phone with you.