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The Best of The Best

As always we look to you to pick those authors who have put the most blood, sweat and tears into helping their fellow developer. The top authors from last month have been chosen:

Best Database article of September 2013
Mubin M. Shaikh - Create First OLAP Cube in SQL Server Analysis Services
Prizes:	CodeProject Mug; CodeProject Mousepad; SQL Prompt from Red Gate Software;

Best C++ article of September 2013
Pablo Aliskevicius - 4350% Performance Improvement with the StringBuilder for C++!
Prizes:	Codejock Xtreme ToolkitPro; SmartOutline 2010; CryptoLicensing For MFC - Enterprise Edition; The latest C++ ebooks from informIT;

Best C# article of September 2013
Nicolas Dorier - Upgrading your car with .NET Micro Framework
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 September 2013
Fredrik Bornander - Deadlocks, avoidance and detection
Prizes:	Shell MegaPack.Net; SmartOutline 2010; Crypto Logger For .Net; The latest VB.NET ebooks from informIT;

Best Mobile article of September 2013
ThatsAlok - MonoAndroid: Using Started Service
Prizes:	CodeProject Mousepad; The latest Mobile ebooks from informIT; ComponentOne Studio Enterprise;

Best Web Dev article of September 2013
Syed Rafey Husain - Challenges and solutions - Architecture of a Modern Web Application - Part 1
Prizes:	SmartOutline 2010; The latest Web Dev ebooks from informIT; Spread WPF-Silverlight; JArchitect;

Best overall article of September 2013
Nicolas Dorier - Upgrading your car with .NET Micro Framework
Prizes:	CodeProject Mug; Hyper Build; Spread .NET;

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Most popular new articles

• Barcode Image Generation Library - Brad Barnhill
  
• Learn MVC (Model View Controller) step by step in 7 days – Day 1 - Shivprasad koirala
  
• Gallery Server Pro - An ASP.NET Gallery for Sharing Photos, Video, Audio and Other Media - Roger Martin
  
• Fluent and Imperative Animations - Paulo Zemek
  
• Learn MVC (Model View Controller) Step by Step in 7 Days – Day 3 - Shivprasad koirala
  

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170 articles overall. 61 new, 109 updated.

New articles added

Algorithms & Recipes

• Simple TLV Parser - Hakan_KILIC
  This project is aimed at explaining TLV encoding rules, used in EMV technology, by designing a simple decoding utility.
  
  

Applications & Tools

• Build a Tool for Filter, Export, Download web links - Mojtaba Mahdavi Eng
  web site links and link file manager for automatically manage and filtering links to avoid vast of time.
  
  

Azure

• Scheduled backup of Azure SQL Virtual Machine data - AJSON
  Using SQL job agent to backup databases in virtual machines to an Azure blob container, SQL, Cloud, SQL-Server, Azure
  
  

C#

• Making .NET Applications Scriptable with Aphid, an Embeddable Scripting Language - John_Leitch
  This article details how to make .NET applications scriptable with Aphid, an embeddable scripting language.
  
  

Client side scripting

• Lightweight JavaScript Validation Library - Nitij Kumar
  A lightweight JavaScript library that helps to easily setup a variety of client side validations.
  
  
• HTML5 File API: Capability and Compatibility - Zhuyun Dai
  Deeply investigating HTML5 File API capabilities and compatibility with different web browsers with code demonstrations.
  
  

Code Generation

• Generate C Code That Partially Simulates A C++ Class - Bill_Hallahan
  C code generator uses program make_cpp_class.py input file
  
  

Custom Controls

• Creating your own widget in iDevUI - Jamesking56
  Adding functionality to the iDevUI framework
  
  

Debug Tips

• Analyzing C/C++ matrix in the gdb debugger with Python and Numpy - M.Mo
  Using the gdb debugger's Python API to analyze and visualize C/C++ arrays in a debugging session.
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Specification pattern in C# - Govindaraj Rangaraj
  This article explains how to compose Linq queries in C# using Specification pattern.
  
  

Game Development

• XNA Basics - Patchrick
  Learn the basics of game development in C# and XNA
  
  
• Toolsmithing -- The Rule of Ready - Christopher Stevenson
  The Rule of Ready project continues with some utility functionality
  
  

Interviews

• What makes a successful educational app? A chat with Pierre Le Lann of Tribal Nova - CodeProject
  Pierre Le Lann of Tribal Nova talks about "what makes a successful educational app"
  
  

Microsoft BizTalk Server

• Custom Service Authorization Manager for WCF Service Published by BizTalk’s Wizard - Prasoon Kumar Gupta
  This blog simply talks about a solution to implement role based authorization in a WCF service which is exposed by using BizTalk’s WCF Service publishing wizard.
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Programming for Multitouch - Ben Aldhouse
  This is a commentary on the MSDN article 'Detecting and Tracking Multiple Touch Points'
  
  

NoSQL

• BigData Elite - GanesanSenthilvel
  The fund, called Big Data Elite, is backed by celebrity investors like Ron Conway, one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent angel investors, and Andreessen Horowitz, the $2.5 billion venture capitalist firm, as well as Social+Capital Partnership and Anand Rajaraman, whose social media start-up was bou
  
  

OpenGL

• Rendering AltNETType (= .NET FreeType port) with OpenGL - Demid Korneev
  Example of AltNETType use in OpenGL
  
  

Reviews on Third Party Products and Tools

• Semantic Merge Emerges (from Beta) - Rion Williams
  Semantic merge emerges (from Beta)
  
  
• Reweaving IL code with Mono.Cecil - Dolinka Márk Gergely
  First one of a series of tutorials about C# code reweacing using Mono.Cecil
  
  

Scrapbook

• CodeProject 10 Million Members Celebration - Nish Sivakumar, Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira, _ Kunal Chowdhury _, Shai Raiten
  In the summer of 2013, CodeProject celebrated hitting 10 million members and invited various CodeProject members to host get-togethers around the world. Here are some of the goings-on at those celebrations.
  
  

Silverlight

• Silverlight ViewModel Unit Testing (RIA Services) - Zelzer
  This article describes how to write Unit Tests for Silverlight ViewModels with a mocked DomainContext.
  
  

Ultrabooks

• It's been a Haswell Summer... Haswell/Harris Beach Intel SDS Ultrabook Review - Part 3 - Greg Duncan
  It's been a Haswell Summer... Haswell/Harris Beach Intel SDS Ultrabook Review - Part 3
  
  
• Review Part 3: Two Months with Intel Haswell Harris Beach SDS Ultrabook - Martin Hinshelwood
  Now that I have had two months with the Intel Haswell Harris Beach SDS Ultrabook I thought that it would be a good idea to give you an update.
  
  
• Haswell – Intel SDP Unit (Software Developer Preview) – a death in the family - Pete O'Hanlon
  Haswell – Intel SDP Unit (Software Developer Preview) – a death in the family
  
  

Windows Communication Foundation

• SerializableSecureString - David Killian
  SerializableSecureString wraps System.SecureString so that it can participate as a DataMember while maintaining maximum data security.
  
  

Windows Phone 7/8

• Windows Phone 8 - A Simple Helper Class for Working with SkyDrive Files using SkyDrive API - Dennis Shchuka
  How to upload, download and synchronize application's files using SkyDrive
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• Yes, this also is an ItemsControl - Part 2: A minimalistic Property Editor - Serge Desmedt
  A property editor implemented as an ItemsControl
  
  

Articles updated

Ajax

• AsyncFileUpload Control - New Control in Ajax Control ToolKit - jQuery By Example
  This article demonstrates how to use the newly launched AsyncFileUpload control of Ajax Control Toolkit.
  
  
• DayPilot 4: Event Calendar/Scheduler with CSS Themes (ASP.NET) - Dan Letecky
  DayPilot Lite 4 (Apache Software License 2.0) brings a new feature: full CSS styling and themes support.
  
  

Algorithms & Recipes

• Data Structures with JavaScript - Paulo Augusto Künzel
  A tutorial on basic data structures and JavaScript.
  
  
• Another approach to the first order Goertzel algorithm - Mosi_62
  This approach shows a quite easy to be understood way to the first order Goerzel algorithm.
  
  
• Function Composition, Function Chaining, Currying, and Partial Functions / Application in F# and Ruby - Marc Clifton
  Exploring how to implement functional programming features such as function composition and chaining in Ruby.
  
  
• Encapsulated Decision Tables - David Killian
  A mechanism for specifying program control flow via delegated calls from a decision table
  
  

Applications & Tools

• Tutorial for creating simple Hyakunin-Issyu application using Sinatra and Heroku - Software Developer's Journal
  
  
  

ASP.NET

• Learn MVC (Model View Controller) step by step in 7 days – Day 1 - Shivprasad koirala
  As the article's name says, learn MVC. Ao the agenda is simple, we are going to learn ASP.NET MVC in 7 days.
  
  
• Learn MVC (Model View Controller) Step by Step in 7 Days – Day 3 - Shivprasad koirala
  This article is Part 3 and continuation to the Learn MVC Step by Step in 7 Days series.
  
  
• Learn MVC (Model view controller) Step by Step in 7 days – Day 2 - Shivprasad koirala
  Learn MVC (Model view controller) Step by Step in 7 days – Day 2
  
  
• Custom Membership Providers - Karthik. A
  This article concentrates on implementing forms authentication for an ASP.NET MVC application.
  
  
• Learn MVC (Model view controller) Step by Step in 7 days – Day 4 - Shivprasad koirala
  In day 4 we will look in to JSON ,Jquery ,Aysnch controllers and session management.
  
  
• Extensible Web Application - Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter
  Howto replace existing ASP.NET pages using MEF based plugin solution...
  
  
• WCF 4.5 Services Development with Entity Framework and MVC 4 - Balimusi
  WCF 4.5 Services Development using Entity Framework and MVC 4 front-end
  
  
• ASP.NET Web API, CORS Authentication, SSL, and self signing certificate - Ilan Geller
  How to enable CORS Authentication from ASP.NET Web API in development environments.
  
  

C / C++ Language

• Writing a boot loader in Assembly and C - Part 1 - AshakiranBhatter
  How to boot a floppy image with your own hand written code in C and Assembly
  
  
• Fastest strstr-like function in C!? - Sanmayce
  Tuned function for searching a needle in a haystack
  
  
• Writing a boot loader in Assembly and C - Part 2 - AshakiranBhatter
  Reading the contents of a floppy disk using BIOS interrupts and Services.
  
  
• Another argument parsing function for C and C++ - Bill_Hallahan
  Argument parsing function identifies both optional and positional arguments.
  
  
• Implementing AList - Marco Bertschi
  Arduino's C++ accent is missing the std::list - So I decided to implement AList.
  
  

C#

• Fluent Method and Type Builder - Paulo Zemek
  Create methods and types at run-time using an easy and fluent API.
  
  
• Fast declarative typesafety with DynamicMethods for SQL - tcassisi
  Generating typed field accessors and applying them to object mapping and SQL Stored Procedures
  
  
• Read CSV input from a text file and add integer values in each string read - SimbarasheM
  Read CSV input from a text file, and add integer values in each string read (line by line). Incorporate Unit Tests to test the program's functionality using C#.
  
  
• A Visual Studio Solution Cloner - Bill_Hallahan
  Creates copies of a Visual Studio C++ or C# solution.
  
  

Client side scripting

• Proxy pattern in JavaScript - Ralph Varjabedian
  With one function call, wrap a class with a proxy in Javascript. A precursor to easy error mocking in node.js using mocha
  
  

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.
  
  
• Python Code Generator written in Python - Bill_Hallahan
  Code generator writes argument parsing code.
  
  
• C or C++ Console Program Code Generator - Bill_Hallahan
  The following program is a code generator that generates a C program or a C++ program that has auto-generated parsing code.
  
  
• Mo+- An evolution of the template based code generator - Dave Clemmer
  Comparing the relative effectiveness of CodeSmith, T4, and Mo+ in meeting code generation requirements.
  
  
• A C++ Class Code Generator - Bill_Hallahan
  Generate C++ class header and implementation files automatically
  
  

Combo & List Boxes

• Dialog to select and sort data with CListBox - MaxMax14
  Dialog box to choose data / Items and sort them
  
  

Content Management Server

• Gallery Server Pro - An ASP.NET Gallery for Sharing Photos, Video, Audio and Other Media - Roger Martin
  Gallery Server Pro is a complete, stable ASP.NET gallery for sharing photos, video, audio and other media. This article presents the overall architecture and major features.
  
  

Custom Controls

• ASP.NET MVC HTML Helper for the jqGrid - Rui Inacio
  The MvcJqGrid is an HTML helper that eases greatly the implementation of the jqGrid in MVC 3 with the Razor view engine or MVC WebForms.
  
  

Database

• HowTo: Install the Northwind and Pubs Sample Databases - Brian C Hart
  To save you from hunting through the docs and locating downloads, we gather both databases here and walk you through installing them using SQL Server Management Studio Express.
  
  
• HowTo: Install the Northwind and Pubs Sample Databases in SQL Server 2008 Express - Brian C Hart
  To save you from hunting through the docs and locating downloads, we gather both databases here and walk you through installing them using SQL Server Management Studio Express -- updated for SQL Server 2008 Express Edition!
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Populating a business logical layer from Stored Procedures - andrewbb@gmail.com
  A brief look at a technique mapping tables to a basic business layer.
  
  

Game Development

• Fluent and Imperative Animations - Paulo Zemek
  Create animations easily using a Fluent API that integrates well with frame-based animation segments.
  
  

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.
  
  

Grid & Data Controls

• Fast custom formulae, filtering and sorting in DataGrids - tcassisi
  Tame the WinForms and WPF inbuilt DataGrids to work with 200,000+ rows by using compiled Linq Expressions
  
  

Hardware & System

• Windows-Service for Multithreading with Remote Control GUI - J.Starkl
  A windows-service which can handle different operations in seperate threads and which can be controlled by a small GUI program
  
  

Internet / Network

• IDTP, An Innovative Communication Protocol - huangng
  If you are looking for a tool
  
  

Office Development

• VBA Extend - NewPast
  Format, add line numbers, error handling, expose a .NET library to VBA, and number to words in Office.
  
  
• Read and Write Microsoft Excel with Open XML SDK - Dr. Song Li
  This article presents an example on how to read and write Microsoft Excel with Open XML SDK.
  
  

PHP

• How to handle appointments and send automated reminder calls using PHP and your MySQL database - Simon Robert VoIP
  This article presents a simple example on how to insert automated reminders about appointments, meetings to MySQL table with the help of PHP
  
  

Printing

• Printing the .NET TreeView Control - Mark Pitman
  A class to handle printing a .NET TreeView control.
  
  

Tablets and All-in-Ones

• ManicPong - Pete O'Hanlon
  
  
  
• Edumatter M12: Math Calculators and Equation Solvers - DrABELL
  5-in-1 educational software package, including: Fraction Calculator, Prime Factoring, Linear, Quadratic and System of Equation solvers
  
  
• Weaver - Alexander SchuIze, Felix Herbst, Paul Kirsten
  Multi-User game for AIO where players build their own spider's web
  
  
• The Mothernode - Ched1980
  Four player sci-fi maze game with traps and looting and that
  
  
• Inflatimeter™ : Inflation Calculator - DrABELL
  Windows 8 application adapted for Tablet PC allows inflation calculation on individual products/service and basket aggregates
  
  

Threads, Processes & IPC

• Internals of Windows Thread - Mahesh Bailwal
  Basics about Windows thread which may help you in understanding how operating system implements threads.
  
  
• CAPS: Computing Analyzer and Process Simulator - Dr Neelendra Badal, hifzan ahmad
  The tool Computing Analyzer and Process Simulator (CAPS) allows the user to make a dynamic presentation on various computing as well as make an analysis on the new computing with the existing one.
  
  

VB.NET

• Undo/Redo Framework - E.F. Nijboer
  Undo/Redo framework for editing controls in a Windows application.
  
  

Web Services

• Cloud over IFileSystemInfo Extension (Cofe3) - Part I - Leung Yat Chun
  Framework library for designing RESTful home cloud services using an FSI like interface.
  
  
• Cloud over IFileSystemInfo extension (Cofe3) - Part II - Leung Yat Chun
  Framework library for designing RESTful home cloud services using FSI like interface.
  
  

Wiki.ASP.NET articles

• Making server side decision based on client side JavaScript - ASP.NET Community
  Many of you might have come across the situation where you need to making server side discussion based on client side JavaScript confirm message
  
  
• Factory - ASP.NET Community
  FactoryThe job of the Factory design pattern is to create concrete sub classes. You can see the Factory design pattern used throughout the .NET
  
  
• Memento Pattern - ASP.NET Community
  The memento design pattern is a pattern that helps to save the object internal in an external place enabling us to restore the state later when needed.
  
  
• Image Rotator in Javascript - ASP.NET Community
  Image Rotator in Javascript There are many ways to create Image Rotator in JavaScript .I write two simple examples to create an Image rotator in
  
  
• Composite - ASP.NET Community
  Composite Design PatternThe Gang of Four definition is "Compose objects into tree structures to represent part-whole hierarchies. Composite lets
  
  
• Image Recaptcha using Generic Handler - ASP.NET Community
  
  
  
• Hosting WCF Service with netTcpBinding on IIS7 - ASP.NET Community
   I hosted my wcf service with wsHttpBinding as well as netTcpbinding.While I hosted with netTcpBinding on IIS 7 follwing things I have considered,
  
  
• Visitor Pattern - ASP.NET Community
  The visitor design pattern enables us to create new operations to be performed on an existing structure. The new operations don’t change the
  
  
• Iterator Pattern - ASP.NET Community
  The iterator pattern’s role is to provide a way to access aggregate objects sequentially without the knowledge of the structure of the aggregate.
  
  
• Facade - ASP.NET Community
  FacadeThe Facade Design Pattern provides a simple interface and controls access to a series of complicated interfaces and or sub systems.Some of
  
  
• Developer Guidelines - ASP.NET Community
  Things to be taken care by developers while writing code or designing different layersPresentation Layer:Choose your UI elements
  
  
• Asynchronous Pages - ASP.NET Community
  Improve the scalability of a website and efficient design for time consuming processes.
  
  
• Mediator Pattern - ASP.NET Community
  The mediator pattern encapsulate the interaction between a set of objects. Also it encapsulate the protocol between those objects. The pattern help 
  
  
• Chain Of Responsibility Pattern - ASP.NET Community
  The chain of responsibility pattern is a way of communication between objects. As it’s name indicate a chain of handlers is built  and every handler
  
  

Windows Communication Foundation

• Basic Step by Step WCF WebService - yani papi
  Basic steps in creating and consuming a simple WCF web service.
  
  
• Understanding Operation types in WCF - Praveen Kumar Katiyar
  This article explains the operaton type supported in WCF
  
  
• Creating and consuming a simple WCF Service without using configuration files - Praveen Kumar Katiyar
  This article explains how to create a simple WCF Service, and host it according to supplied parameters, and a client to use this service.
  
  
• Understanding Contracts in WCF - Praveen Kumar Katiyar
  This article explains the Contracts type supported in WCF
  
  

Windows Phone 7/8

• Invasion Game in MonoGame for Windows Phone 8 - Dan Colasanti
  This article describes my experience porting Invasion from XNA/WP7 to MonoGame/WP8 and includes Invasion's complete source code.
  
  

Windows Powershell

• Use Excel in PowerShell without a full version of Excel - Douglas M. Weems
  Easily import Excel Sheets into PowerShell as PS Objects
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• WPF/XAML NotifyIcon and Taskbar (System Tray) Popup Window - Murray Foxcroft
  Integrating WPF and XAML with the Windows forms NotifyIcon control to produce a slick, styled popup window when the mouse is moved over the NotifyIcon
  
  
• Simple Metro Style Panorama Control for WPF - Sacha Barber
  A simple Metro style Panorama control for WPF.
  
  
• Yes, this also is an ItemsControl - Part 1: A Graph Designer with custom DataTemplate - Serge Desmedt
  A graph visualizer implemented as an ItemsControl.
  
  

New Tips and Tricks added

.NET Framework

• A Generic Factory Method-Create Object From Interface Parameter using Reflection - S. M. Ahasan Habib
  I will demonstrate a generic factory method which will create object from interface type parameter from an assembly (either current or provided) with the help of reflection
  
  

ASP.NET

• Enable/Disable controls on a web page using MVC Razor view engine and Extension methods - Massimiliano Peluso "WeDev Limited"
  Enable/Disable control on a web page using MVC Razor view engine and Extension Methods.
  
  
• Implementing Remote Validation in MVC - Sachin Dev Tripathi
  Validating MVC fields at by ajax call on controller without posting form data.
  
  
• Simple Profile Search using AngularJS - Manivannan Chidambaram
  This tip will help beginners to understand basic data-binding of model-view using AngularJS.
  
  

C#

• How to Cascade Delete an Adjacency List Model in SQL in C# - marks-mike
  Demonstrates how to cascade delete on a single table that maintains hierarchy by a ParentId that points to the primary key of the same table
  
  
• Get an object instance given just a name - jolsen
  How to get a reference to a class member when all you have is its name and type.
  
  

Client side scripting

• Image Sliding Effect with JavaScript - Paulo Augusto Künzel
  Quick way to insert an image sliding effect on your web site
  
  

Database

• Dynamic SQL From DB Table with Parameters - jlwash2
  How to execute store SQL with parameters via Procedure
  
  
• Rowversion: Version Stamping A Row - SonuKSingh
  rowversion datatype in SQL Server: Track which row has been modified
  
  
• View for SQL Agent Job Histories - Brad Joss
  Views to make analyzing SQL Agent Job statistics easier.
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Best Practices for ORM - Shweta Lodha
  I want to share some of the best practices which needs to be followed while dealing with any ORMs (Object Relational Models)
  
  

Game Development

• Hanoi Tower - ryowu
  A full functional Hanoi Tower game base on WPF
  
  

Internet / Network

• Cross Domain Data Loading with Webix - sonic_youth
  two techniques to avoid the pitfalls of cross domain data loading: cross-origin resource sharing and JSONP.
  
  

Java

• Debug Java Code in Java COM Windows Application (Remote Java Debugging) - Vivek Goyal
  Debugging Java JNI and C++ code in COM based application
  
  

List Controls

• Get Highlight Selected Items on CListCtrl when there is no Focus - MaxMax14
  Keep the items highlighted when focus is on another control
  
  

PHP

• PHP Multiple File Uploader - Emerald kweks
  PHP multiple file uploader
  
  

Programming Tips

• Print Image to Zebra Printer using EPL Language - Martin Ton
  Print image to Zebra printer
  
  

VB.NET

• How to export data to Excel in VB.NET - Alireza Chegini
  I want to show how we can export data from data table to excel simply.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• WPF DataGrid: Enable standard sorting of nullable types on autogenerated columns - OrlandoCurioso
  DataGrid does not sort a nullable value type on an autogenerated column.
  
  

Tips and Tricks updated

.NET Framework

• Archive Multiple Files In Zip & Extract Zip Archive - Farhan Ghumra
  Learn how to create zip archive and extract it without any 3rd party library
  
  
• Summary of the Behaviour exhibited by Enum.IsDefined method (.Net) - Mike-MadBadger
  What responses to expect from the enum.IsDefined method in .Net given a variety of inputs
  
  
• Automatic Translation of Resource Files - Lucas Bonifacius
  Translate your RESX files by using your own translation storage
  
  

ASP.NET

• How to create an IVR system using ASP.NET - Simon Robert VoIP
  This project is an IVR example, what you can use with Ozeki Phone System XE PBX.
  
  
• Simple Usages of HttpWebRequest and RestSharp with JSON.NET - B. Clay Shannon
  Simple RestSharp and HttpWebRequest with JSON.NET examples
  
  
• Good Universal Paramerter and Stored Procedure Execution - Robert Bettinelli
  Check this for a good universal way of running stored procedures..
  
  
• Example Of JavaScript Serializer And Json String Using WebMethod - Nandakishorerao
  Simple example of using JavaScript Serializer in webmethod and consuming in client side using jquery
  
  

C#

• How to get Connection String from App.Config in C# - Alireza Chegini
  This code helps you to grab ConnectionString from App.config.
  
  
• Better factories in C# - arturomonriv
  This short article just shows the evolution of my implementation of the Factory pattern in C#.
  
  
• How to Split a GIF Frame By Frame and Save Them to Memory - blitzkrieged
  This is a demonstration of splicing an animated GIF (or any image) frame by frame without having to write to the disc.
  
  
• Asynchronous Process With Mutex - John Pravin
  This tip will help programmers to work with asynchronous programming in C# using Delegates, Events, Anonymous methods, and Lambda, and detach an element from the parent to a new one.
  
  
• Using ObservableCollection in MVVM - Houssem_Dellai
  Reduce the number of properties in the View-Model by using ObservableCollection
  
  
• C#: Display Photo Taken Location on a Map in Windows - Brad Joss
  Smart phones all seem to geo tag (add GPS details) to the photos they take. However, after you copy that photo to your PC it is difficult to see, in human terms, where that photo was taken. This project parses the photo for the GPS data and opens that location on a map.
  
  

Combo & List Boxes

• Moving Listbox Items Up and Down - MaxMax14
  For single or multiple selection CListBox
  
  

Cryptography & Security

• Embed Messages in Images, The Easy Way! - Aravind.V.S
  Embed secret messages in image files using Autohotkey.
  
  

Custom Controls

• Simple jQuery Color Picker - Ming_Lu
  Simple and Fast Color Picker Built on JQuery
  
  

Database

• How to Generate T-SQL Code by Using Dynamic SQL? - Sergey Syrovatchenko
  T-SQL code generation by using Dynamic SQL for routine tasks automation.
  
  
• SQL Server 2012 Auto Identity Column Value Jump Issue - S. M. Ahasan Habib
  From SQL Server 2012 version, when SQL Server instance is restarted then its auto Identity column value is jumped based on identity column datatype.
  
  
• T-SQL: Search SQL Code - Brad Joss
  Search your SQL code with simple T-SQL statements.
  
  

Progress Controls

• Creating a Custom wxPython Progress Bar Widget - freeluna
  A simple alternative progress bar or gauge in wxPython
  
  

Reviews on Third Party Products and Tools

• Solution when it comes to filter Foreign Keys with Guid identifiers in the grid of the Telerik MVC Extensions controls suite - Javier Tirado Pampín
  This article talks about how to solve the filter problem in Telerik MVC Extensions control suite
  
  

Tools and IDE

• Structuring Large Visual Studio Solutions - Dimitri Dering
  Large Visual Studio solutions
  
  

Web Services

• Rest Service with Ruby + Sinatra + Datamapper - Carlos Luis
  First web service with Ruby, Sinatra and Datamapper
  
  

Wiki.ASP.NET articles

• ASP.NET Open Source Projects - ASP.NET Community
  Links to ASP.NET Open Source ProjectsBlogsBlogsa.net - A blog engine in Asp.net.dasBlogBlogEngine.NET - Very functional, simple and clean
  
  
• Silverlight Examples - ASP.NET Community
  Here's some particularly amazing Silverlight examples found in the blogosphere. Also, be sure to check out the Silverlight Galleries and the Learn
  
  
• Silverlight Blogs - ASP.NET Community
  Here are some recommended blogs and podcasts dedicated to Silverlight either completely or for the most part.BlogsList of Silverlight Community
  
  
• Add Images in Image Rotator with the Help of FileUpload Control - ASP.NET Community
  How to add images in Image Rotator with the help of FileUpload control
  
  

New Technical Blogs added

ASP.NET Controls

• Difference betweeen ASP.NET WebForms and ASP.NET MVC - Imran Abdul Ghani
  Difference between ASP.NET Webforms and ASP.NET MVC
  
  

C#

• C# Read/Write another Process' Memory - Apex95
  This article aims to show you how to read/write a process' memory using C# and some methods found in kernel32.dll.
  
  

Cross Platform

• Use Cross-Platform/OSS ExcelDataReader to Read Excel Files with No Dependencies on Office or ACE - John Atten
  Use cross-platform/OSS ExcelDataReader to read Excel files with no dependencies on Office or ACE.
  
  

Dialogs and Windows

• Windows 8.1 Has Been Released - Garry Pilkington
  Some highlights of my own.
  
  

Microsoft BizTalk Server

• BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.1 – Custom Itinerary Resolver - Prasoon Kumar Gupta
  BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.1 – Custom Itinerary Resolver
  
  

Other .NET Languages

• Building ANKHOR Operators in Python - BuzzLightyear
  Building ANKHOR operators in Python.
  
  

Parallel Programming

• Parallel Execution in ANKHOR FlowSheet - BuzzLightyear
  Parallel execution in ANKHOR flowsheet
  
  

Ultrabooks

• Haswell – Intel SDP Unit (Software Developer Preview) – a death in the family - Pete O'Hanlon
  I’m delighted with the help and support that I’ve had from Intel.
  
  

Uncategorised Technical Blogs

• C# ASCII Art Tutorial - Apex95
  ASCII Art tutorial
  
  
• Strategist: Safe & DRY JavaScript Augmentation - Caleb McElrath
  Augmentation is one of my favorite features of JavaScript. Being able to, at any point, add static and instance methods to new and existing types is a wonderful feature of this dynamic language. In this post I’ll describe two common ways of augmenting JavaScript types and how those ways can be
  
  
• C# Prevent Reflector from Decompiling - Apex95
  A simple way to protect your application from any so-called "cracker", without involving obfuscation.
  
  
• C# Protect the Password inside a TextBox - Apex95
  How to protect the password inside a textbox
  
  

Windows Runtime

• Strategist: Detecting Windows Store App Configuration Mode (Debug vs. Release) in JavaScript - Caleb McElrath
  Detecting Windows Store app configuration mode.
  
  
• Rudimentary Way to Make a WinRT Component Object Bindable in WinJS - Caleb McElrath
  When projecting a WinRT Component object to WinJS, I kept running into an exception saying that the WinRT object could not be extended. This post will briefly describe how I got around this issue. There are a few things known that helped come to this solution: I didn’t need to worry about diff
  
  

Work Issues

• The Designer Developer Divide - Garry Pilkington
  The divide between designer (Digital Barn) and developer (DevDevDev).
  
  

Technical Blogs updated

C#

• C# Detect if Debugger is Attached - Apex95
  C# detect if debugger is attached
  
  

LINQ

• C#: Query Excel and .CSV Files Using LinqToExcel - John Atten
  C#: Query Excel and .CSV files using LinqToExcel
  
  

Tools and IDE

• Merge Smarter with Semantic Merge - Rion Williams
  How to merge smarter with Semantic Merge.