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Top Articles

The top articles of last month have been awarded:

Best Database article of May 2013
Shemeer NS - SQL Server Functions that helps to convert date and time values to and from string literals and other date and time formats.
Prizes:	CodeProject Mug; CodeProject Mousepad;

Best C++ article of May 2013
Marius Bancila - C++11 threads, locks and condition variables
Prizes:	Codejock Xtreme ToolkitPro; SmartOutline 2010; CryptoLicensing For MFC - Enterprise Edition; The latest C++ ebooks from informIT;

Best C# article of May 2013
Shivprasad koirala - Five Great .NET Framework 4.5 Features
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 May 2013
MohamedKamalPharm, MohamedSabryBakry, Omneya Hassanain - Real time detection of medication interaction using VB.NET
Prizes:	Shell MegaPack.Net; SmartOutline 2010; Crypto Logger For .Net; The latest VB.NET ebooks from informIT;

Best Mobile article of May 2013
Houssem_Dellai - Android vs Windows Phone
Prizes:	CodeProject Mug; CodeProject Mousepad; The latest Mobile ebooks from informIT; ComponentOne Studio Enterprise;

Best Web Dev article of May 2013
Raul Iloc - MVC Basic Site: Step 4 – jqGrid Integration in MVC 4.0 using AJAX, JSON, jQuery, LINQ, and Serialization
Prizes:	SmartOutline 2010; The latest Web Dev ebooks from informIT; Spread WPF-Silverlight; JArchitect;

Best overall article of May 2013
Shivprasad koirala - Five Great .NET Framework 4.5 Features
Prizes:	CodeProject Mug; Hyper Build; Spread .NET;

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Most popular new articles

• ToDoList 6.7.B4 Beta Release - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g.
  
• Barcode Image Generation Library - Brad Barnhill
  
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• fastJSON - Mehdi Gholam
  
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Latest Additions

105 articles overall. 29 new, 76 updated.

New articles added

C / C++ Language

• Injecting .Net Assemblies Into Unmanaged Processes - Pero Matić
  A detailed analysis of how to inject the .net runtime and arbitrary .net assemblies into unmanaged and managed processes; and how to execute managed code within those processes.
  
  

C#

• Small Lucene.NET Demo App - Sacha Barber
  A small demo app that shows how to store/search using Lucene.NET
  
  

Client side scripting

• Custom Dates JavaScript Serializer - Member 10116356
  Custom dates JavaScript serializer
  
  

Code Generation

• Mo+ - A model oriented programming language and IDE for model driven development - Dave Clemmer
  Introducing the Mo+ language and the Mo+ Solution Builder IDE.
  
  

Dialogs and Windows

• FlexibleMessageBox – A flexible replacement for the .NET MessageBox - JReichert
  FlexibleMessageBox – A flexible replacement for the .NET MessageBox.
  
  

Grid & Data Controls

• JqGrid Inline Editing - K K Kodoth
  How to perform Inline editing in JqGrid
  
  

Interviews

• A Coder Interview With Maureen McElaney - CodeProject
  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 Maureen McElaney, who’s just getting started as a dev, but already contributing to the community.
  
  

Reviews on Third Party Products and Tools

• Securing Your .NET Applications – A Summary Review Of Visual Guard - Dirk Strauss
  Securing Your .NET Applications – A Summary Review Of Visual Guard
  
  

Threads, Processes & IPC

• Understanding Thread’s Synchronization Objects with a Real Life Example - Priyank Purwar
  This article will help you understand Thread`s Synchronization objects with a real life example.
  
  

Web Security

• A Beginner's Tutorial for Understanding and Implementing Password Hashing and Salting - Rahul Rajat Singh
  In this article we will discuss about securing the user passwords by using hashing and salting on the user passwords.
  
  

XML

• XQuery basics - Mayank Dubey
  XQuery basics.
  
  

Articles updated

.NET Framework

• PVS.AVPlayer - Peter Vegter
  MCI wrapper class library for .NET developers
  
  

Algorithms & Recipes

• C++ String Toolkit (StrTk) Tokenizer - Arash Partow
  A brief introduction to a C++ String Tokenizer implementation
  
  
• Word Aligned Hybrid (WAH) Compression for BitArrays - Mehdi Gholam
  Word Aligned Hybrid (WAH) compression for BitArrays
  
  
• Computer Algebra System for .NET Framework - Igor S Medvedev
  The article describes a C# library for symbolic computations.
  
  
• Genetic Algorithm for Knapsack Problem - Mladen Janković
  Solving knapsack problem using genetic algorithm
  
  
• Streaming XML parser in C++ - Przemek Mazurkiewicz
  Simple non-validating streaming XML parser in C++.
  
  

Android

• EPUB Viewer for Android with Text to Speech - dteviot
  This is an Android application that shows the basics of building an EPUB file viewer for Android.
  
  

Applications & Tools

• ToDoList 6.7.B4 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

• TwitterBootstrapMvc - Dmitry A. Efimenko
  Fluent implementation of ASP.NET-MVC HTML helpers for Twitter Bootstrap.
  
  
• AJAX Event Calendar (Scheduler) for ASP.NET MVC in 80 Lines of Code - Dan Letecky
  How to build an AJAX Event Calendar (Scheduler) using the open-source DayPilot Lite for ASP.NET MVC library (Apache Software License 2.0).
  
  
• Custom Membership Providers - Karthik. A
  This article concentrates on implementing forms authentication for an ASP.NET MVC application.
  
  
• ASP.NET MVC Custom Model Binder - Ritesh Ramesh
  MVC custom binding.
  
  
• Using ASP.Net WebAPI with Web Forms - mako_123
  Asp.Net WebAPI is a framework for building RESTful HTTP services which can be used across a wide range of clients including web, phone and desktop applications. With WebAPI we can use XML and JSON to send and retrieve data from the service. The use of Json or XML makes it quite flexible to be used [
  
  
• jQGrid PDF Export - Thanigainathan.S
  Export your content from jQGrid to PDF format with less pain using iTextSharp.
  
  

Azure

• YouConf - Your Live Online Conferencing Tool - Phil Lee NZ
  A site for managing and delivering virtual conferences - complete with embedded live streaming and chat. Showcasing the best Azure has to offer!
  
  
• HealthReunion - A Windows Azure based healthcare product - Ranjan.D
  HealthReunion is a complete solution for medium , large scale healthcare providers and patients. It's a Azure based hosted solution
  
  
• Best practices for using strongly typed messages with Azure Service Bus - Phil Lee NZ
  This article will show you a pattern for sending and receiving messages using Azure Service Bus + worker roles in a strongly typed manner, taking advantage of the built-in functionality that comes with Brokered Messages.
  
  
• LiteDispatch - Logistic solution on the cloud - Enrique Albert
  Azure WebSite and W8 Store App using SQL-CE, Azure SQL, Mobile Services, SignalR, EF, WebAPI and integration to Bing Maps
  
  
• What's On Global: Facebook events can be so much more - Patrick McCurley, Rachel Davey
  An Azure based software solution allowing users to discover events around them on a massive scale. Features ASP.net MVC4, Entity Framework and a large importing backend utilizing Azure virtual machines
  
  
• Campus Classifieds using Windows Azure - Tim Corey
  Learn how to get started in Windows Azure by following the progress of an actual web application as it is constructed.
  
  

C / C++ Language

• Priori - A Fast dynamic_cast<> Alternative - DigitalInBlue
  This article discusses the implementation and use of a fast alternative to dynamic_cast, Priori.
  
  
• Creating a binary search tree (BST) using C++ standard template library (STL) vector - Deepak Kumar Gupta
  BST Data Structure using vector and deque
  
  

C#

• Easier .NET settings management - Antonio Nakić Alfirević
  Creating a library for persisting the application state data between work sessions
  
  
• The Power of Delegates in C# - K K Kodoth
  Document describes about the Delegate in C# and the usage of delegate in different scenarios
  
  
• Social Club: Sample application using WinForms, C#.NET, ADO.NET and MS Access - john-ph
  WinForms application developed using C#, ADO.NET and MS Access
  
  
• Skype Status Changer - savbace
  Change Skype status when user locks Windows.
  
  
• The "Rule-O-Nator" - An example of dynamically loading classes at runtime - -james
  Being Dynamic in a Staticly Typed World
  
  

Client side scripting

• Learning jQuery using jQuery Lab - Rupesh Kumar Tiwari
  Explainign the theory of jQuery using live examples
  
  
• JavaScript Questions - Rupesh Kumar Tiwari
  Discussing a few JavaScript fundamental topics to make our understanding more in JavaScript.
  
  
• Extending HTML with AngularJS Directives - Bernardo Castilho
  Use AngularJS directives to teach HTML new tricks.
  
  

Database

• hOOt - full text search engine - Mehdi Gholam
  Smallest full text search engine (lucene replacement) built from scratch using inverted WAH bitmap index, highly compact storage, operating in database and document modes
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Agile software development methodologies and how to apply them. - Monjurul Habib
  Introduction to Agile software development methodologies and how to apply them. It is about how to work together to achieve a common goal. This article focus on how technology team work together well to plan, build and deliver software.
  
  
• User Interface Patterns - Hamed Mosavi
  A brief overview of common user interface patterns, and some ideas about them.
  
  
• Programming Vs. Software Development - V.
  An overview of the difference between "programming" and "software development"
  
  

General Graphics

• Barcode Image Generation Library - Brad Barnhill
  This library was designed to give an easy class for developers to use when they need to generate barcode images from a string of data.
  
  
• Image Per Pixel Enumeration, Pixel Format Conversion and More - Smart K8
  A set of handy extension methods to help you with quick Image modifications
  
  

Grid & Data Controls

• DataGridVewTextBoxCell with Span Behaviour - Sergey Semyonov
  DataGridViewTextBoxCell derived cell that can be merged with cells of the same type
  
  
• Using JqGrid in ASP.Net - K K Kodoth
  ow to integrate JqGrid in ASP.net
  
  

Hardware & System

• Using Windows 8 Interaction Context for Processing Touch Input in a .NET WinForms App - Andrey Dryazgov
  Introduces a managed wrapper for the Interaction Context API and provides a consistent way for processing touch input in a managed desktop app for WinForms.
  
  

Internet / Network

• fastJSON - Mehdi Gholam
  Smallest, fastest polymorphic JSON serializer (with Silverlight4 and MonoDroid support)
  
  
• Building a Multithreaded-Socket WebServer using C# - Alberto Biafelli
  How to make a simple web server which supports GZIP compression, applications, and sessions.
  
  
• Basic UDP Receiver - Amund Gjersøe
  A simple receiver for UDP packages sent by a transmitter.
  
  
• Wireless Sensor Network Localization Simulator v2.1 - Abdelhady Naguib
  This is a WSN localization simulator. It is easy, scalable, and extendable which allows researchers to extend it to many/different localization schemes.
  
  

Java

• Java Class Viewer - AmosShi
  Watch the Java class file visually & interactively for the meaning of every byte
  
  

Libraries

• AngleSharp - Florian Rappl
  Bringing the DOM to C# with a HTML5/CSS3 parser written in C#.
  
  
• Scripting .NET Applications with IronPython - Jerome Terry
  Extending .NET applications by adding scripting support via IronPython
  
  

Localisation

• Architecture FAQ for Localization and Globalization: Part 2 - Shivprasad koirala
  Architecture FAQ for localization and globalization: Part 2.
  
  

Macros and Add-ins

• Extending Visual Studio Part 2 - Creating Addins - Dave Kerr
  Create an amazingly useful 'Switch' addin to switch between cpp/h, designer/code, XAML/codebehind and more!
  
  

Miscellaneous

• An MFC Chart Control with Enhanced User Interface - geoyar
  An MFC linear chart control with enhanced appearance.
  
  

NoSQL

• RaptorDB - the Document Store - Mehdi Gholam
  NoSql, JSON based, Document store database with compiled .net map functions and automatic hybrid bitmap indexing and LINQ query filters (now with standalone Server mode, Backup and Active Restore, Transactions, Server side queries, MonoDroid support)
  
  

SharePoint Server

• Using SharePoint 2013 Workflow Services JS API - Andrei Markeev
  Code examples of using SharePoint 2013 Workflow Services API.
  
  

Shell and IE programming

• .NET Shell Extensions - Shell Context Menus - Dave Kerr
  Rapidly create Shell Context Menu Extensions using .NET.
  
  

Site & Server Management

• Best Practice No. 4: Improve bandwidth performance of ASP.NET sites using IIS compression - Shivprasad koirala
  Best Practice No. 4: Improve bandwidth performance of ASP.NET sites using IIS compression.
  
  
• Production Server Migration Challenges - S. M. Ahasan Habib
  I explain in this article what type of challenges may face when any one start migrating their production server.
  
  

Threads, Processes & IPC

• PostThreadMessage Demystified - ThatsAlok
  How and Where to use it!
  
  

Windows Communication Foundation

• Windows Communication Foundation FAQ quick starter: Part 1 - Shivprasad koirala
  Windows Communication Foundation FAQ quick starter: Part 1.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• Duplicate songs detector via audio fingerprinting - Ciumac Sergiu
  Explains sound fingerprinting algorithm, with a practical example of detecting duplicate files on the user's local drive.
  
  
• Integrated Help system in a WPF Application - Morshed Anwar
  Quick guideline to understand a workflow of screen without reading long and boring(!!) documentation guide.
  
  
• Inserting 3D Models in Expression Blend - Meshack Musundi
  Inserting a 3D object into a WPF project in Expression Blend, with some help from Blender
  
  
• WPF Basic Print Rendering - Aaron Amberman
  Render a control and print it
  
  
• 3D object Rotation in WPF using Leap Motion - Meshack Musundi
  Rotating a 3D object in a WPF application using hand gestures and Leap Motion
  
  

New Tips and Tricks added

C#

• Unit Testing Interfaces in .NET - Shining Dragon
  A nice pattern to unit test interfaces in .NET
  
  

Client side scripting

• oGrid is a Pure JavaScript Grid - babydragoner
  Introduce how to use oGrid
  
  

Mobile Development

• Scrollable div which allows single finger scrolling on iPad - gcrawley02
  The following will provide a quick guide on how to add a scrollable frame which will allow one finger scrolling on ipad (and will also work on desktop browsers)
  
  
• Access REST Resources Secured By UAG from Mobile Device - Daron Cox
  If you're trying to integrate with UAG from a mobile device, this tip is for you!
  
  

SharePoint Server

• Let’s Start with SharePoint 2013 - MANPREET SINGH
  Starting with SharePoint 2013
  
  

Silverlight

• Restrict a textbox to allow decimal upto two places - Dipti Dutta
  KeyDown event handler to restrict numbers to two decimal places.
  
  

Tips and Tricks updated

.NET Framework

• Using a Persian calender in .NET 4 - aref.bozorgmehr
  How to use a Persian datetime picker and calendar in your applications.
  
  

Algorithms & Recipes

• Weighted Generic Lottery in C# - Hossein Montazeri
  A class to conduct a lottery, based on different chances of winning for every participant
  
  

C / C++ Language

• Lambda Function in C++ - ThatsAlok
  Showcase for lambda function in C++
  
  

C#

• Difference between var and dynamic in C# - aspnet -i
  Difference between var and dynamic in C#.
  
  

Internet / Network

• Distributed NTLM Hash TMTO Database - Andrew Admire
  Generates an NTLM character set, 1 to any max you set.
  
  

Miscellaneous

• ColourGrabber2 - rbrunton
  Using Windows hooks to capture mouse action.
  
  

Programming Tips

• How to make a callback to C# from C/C++ code - Tecfield
  This post shows how to make a callback to C# from C/C++
  
  

String handling

• A C# LIKE implementation that mimics SQL LIKE - Michiel du Toit
  Code for a C# string.Like extension method.
  
  

Threads, Processes & IPC

• Find a Performance Counter Instance by a Process ID - Sebastian Solnica
  Find a performance counter instance by a process ID
  
  

Windows Security

• Cisco VPN on Windows 8 incl. making it work with 3G - Flem100DK
  Cisco VPN on Windows 8 incl. making it work with 3G.
  
  

XML

• Problems with XML Serialization and .NET 4.5 - jim lahey
  Installing .NET 4.5 breaks serialization to XML
  
  

New Technical Blogs added

.NET Framework

• CLR Journey from PInvoke to WinRT - Girish J Jain
  In this blog post, I am going to talk about Microsoft .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) journey from its early days to latest Windows Runtime (WinRT) platform, which is released with Windows 8.
  
  

C#

• A Simplified Guide to Understanding Recursion - Steven855
  For many beginning computer science students, the idea of recursion is difficult to grasp. I wager that some more experienced computer science students or even some seasoned developers out of college and already out in the field don't really grasp the idea of recursion. As an f.y.i., I use "function
  
  

Content Management Server

• CI with Jenkins, MSBuild, Nuget and Git part 4 - marcofranssen
  In part 1, 2 and 3 I showed you how to create a simple MSBuild script and how to execute it from the command line. We had a look at how to clean your output directories, download the Nuget packages, compile your code, run MSpec tests and creating a code coverage report. In this last part [...]The po
  
  

Game Development

• Using Scene class to create different sreens in XNA, WPXNA (8) - zoyobar
  Using Scene class to create different sreens in XNA, WPXNA (8).
  
  

HTML / CSS

• Five Essential Front-End Tools That Should be Used with Modern MVC Projects - Adam Tibi
  VS 2012 web templates come preloaded with standard front-end libraries. This post is meant to complete the list with other essential and productive libraries that should be used in modern public-facing MVC and webform projects.
  
  

Silverlight

• Localize ToggleSwitch in the Silverlight Toolkit - Ernest Poletaev
  Localize ToggleSwitch in the Silverlight Toolkit.
  
  

SQL Reporting Services

• Finding Similar Rows In SQL - AndrewCritchley
  Finding similar rows in SQL
  
  

Uncategorised Technical Blogs

• The Subtlety of Building a Presentation - Zac Gery
  About the subtlety of building a presentation
  
  
• What is IPv6? - NetworkWrangler
  A blog about IPv6
  
  
• The Observer Pattern - Robert Tonnessen
  The Observer pattern
  
  

Windows Phone 7/8

• Localize Windows Phone 7 Styles - Ernest Poletaev
  Localize Windows Phone 7 Styles.
  
  

Windows Security

• Ready IIS at Windows 7–with only two steps - Cruz Boon
  Installing IIS 7 on Windows Vista and Windows 7.
  
  

Technical Blogs updated

.NET Framework

• Extend your VBA code with C#, VB.NET, or C++/CLI - Pragmateek
  Interfacing VBA and .NET is a relatively straightforward process.
  
  
• A complete Impersonation Demo in C#.NET - Wayne Ye
  Under some scenarios we need impersonate another Windows account and do some work under that user’s session, for example: An enterprise ASP.NET web application provides server administrators’ ability to access the server under some specific privilege set; Server admin input their NT account informat
  
  

Charts, Graphs and Images

• Convert a PDF into a series of images using C# and GhostScript - Richard James Moss
  An application I was recently working on received PDF files from a webservice which it then needed to store in a database. I wanted the ability to display previews of these documents within the application. While there are a number of solutions for creating PDF files from C#, options for viewing a P
  
  

Programming Tips

• You should unit test your controller, NOT! - Adam Tibi
  One of the MVC mantras is that it allows unit testing your controllers. But, that doesn't mean you should. In my opinion, you should focus your unit testing valuable effort in more effective areas as the controller, if done right, doesn't require unit testing.