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Holiday week in North America

Canada Day and July 4 are happening this week, and with them being on a Tuesday and Thursday respectively, we're expecting a lot of 24hr colds and flu happening this Monday and Friday. When in Rome, as they say, so we're going to be having a quiet week in our Toronto office enjoying actual, real, wearm weather this week and cleaning out our inboxes. Happy first week of July everyone.

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Most popular new articles

• A Pretty Good Splash Screen in C# - Tom Clement
  
• Fast Numerical Integration - John D. Cook
  
• List of 3rd Party .NET UI & Reporting Components - adriancs
  
• Learning MVC - Part 3: Creating MVC Application & Perform CRUD Operations Using EntityFramework - Akhil Mittal
  
• Solutions for WPF Performance Issue - comiscience
  

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Latest Additions

36 articles overall. 24 new, 12 updated.

New articles added

Android

• Building a Xamarin.Android Application with Visual Studio and Nant - Dominic Burford
  Building a Xamarin.Android / Visual Studio application using Nant
  
  
• Motion Detection in Android - Howto - twit88
  Using OpenCV4Android in Android App
  
  

ASP.NET

• ASP.NET Identity 2.0: Customizing Users and Roles - John Atten
  The ASP.NET Identity team released the Identity 2.0 framework RTM back in march. The new release contained significant additions to the functionality found in the original 1.0 release, and introduced some breaking changes as well. In a previous post, we took a high-level look at how Identity 2.0 w
  
  
• Using MongoDb With Web API 2 - Mack Ait-Aoudia
  Using MongoDb With Web API 2
  
  

C#

• Xamarin First Project - And a FREE T-Shirt (part 2) - VijayaMalla
  This is a getting started article about Xamarin. And Hell a FREE T-Shirt
  
  
• Random Thoughts.. - Steppenwolfe
  An experimental AES-CTR random generator in C#
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Understanding Multilayered Architecture in .NET - Akhil Mittal
  This article focussses on understanding a basic multilayered architecture in C#.
  
  

Dialogs and Windows

• A Windows 8 WPF Ribbon - Alexander Wieser
  The articles showcases a Windows 8 themed WPF Ribbon inspired by Office 2013 and Visual Studio 2013.
  
  

Grid & Data Controls

• Retrieve/Update SQL Records based on Barcodes - Philipp Katscher
  Fetching Records from a DB using Barcode and updating the same or others with this nifty configurable tool
  
  

PHP

• MercuryORM - Simple Entity Framework - Syed M Hussain
  A lightweight Entity based Framework
  
  

SharePoint Server

• Moving from Old Sharepoint Server? Something to Import inside SharePoint 2013? - Elia Conchione
  Moving from old SharePoint server? Something to import inside SharePoint 2013?
  
  

Articles updated

Algorithms & Recipes

• Fast Numerical Integration - John D. Cook
  Numerical integration of smooth functions over a finite interval using an optimal algorithm.
  
  

ASP.NET

• Learning MVC - Part 3: Creating MVC Application & Perform CRUD Operations Using EntityFramework - Akhil Mittal
  How to create MVC application and perform CRUD operations using EntityFramework
  
  

Audio and Video

• Video Wall with MCIPlayerControl - Yang Kok Wah
  Using a simple custom made video player control to display a video wall
  
  

C#

• A Pretty Good Splash Screen in C# - Tom Clement
  A splash screen with some neat predictive progress bar features
  
  

Client side scripting

• Filtered paged sorted customizable clientside table - Super Lloyd
  A fully featured yet short (only 436 lines) replacement for datables
  
  

Miscellaneous

• List of 3rd Party .NET UI & Reporting Components - adriancs
  A quick reference of 3rd party .NET UI & Reporting Components. (C#, VB.NET, Winform, WPF, ASP.NET, Silverlight, Windows Phone, Mono)
  
  

SQL Reporting Services

• How to embed Barcodes in your SSRS report - Philipp Katscher
  How to use barcodelib generated Barcodes in SSRS (consider Barcode fonts don't work in runtime)
  
  

Web Services

• WCF RESTful service and WebGrid in ASP.NET MVC 5 - Part 1 - Snesh Prajapati
  In this article we will learn how to create WCF RESTful services and consume those services in ASP.NET MVC 5 application using WebGrid Control.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• Solutions for WPF Performance Issue - comiscience
  WPF performance
  
  
• WPF Control Patterns. (WPF and XAML Patterns of Code Reuse in Easy Samples. Part 1) - Nick Polyak
  Article describes WPF and XAML patterns for code and functionality reuse.
  
  

New Tips and Tricks added

.NET Framework

• Using `Environment.SpecialFolder` to Maximize Portability - _Noctis_
  How to avoid some hardcoded paths with the uses of Environment.UserName
  
  

ASP.NET

• Session in ASP.NET MVC - diponsust
  Session in ASP.NET MVC
  
  

Azure

• StartsWith comparison for searching in Azure Tables - Sergiy Korzh
  How to make search by StartsWith criteria in Azure Tables
  
  

C#

• Centralized place for documents and templates - VS Build Task - Andrej Kamikovski
  How to copy files to central place set in configuration or setup directly with visual studio build task
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Specification and Notification Patterns - Mack Ait-Aoudia
  Specification and notification patterns
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Start/Stop Windows Services from XML Lists - Mark Oliver
  Stop unneeded Windows services to free memory
  
  

NoSQL

• MongoDB and .NET: Securing your MongoDB data with user authentication - Peter Carrasco
  
  
  

Tips and Tricks updated

LINQ

• Slow LINQ Methods - George Jonsson
  LINQ methods can be slow inside loops as this little demo shows.
  
  

New Technical Blogs added

.NET Framework

• Building your first MVC application with Entity Framework - Imran Abdul Ghani
  Before we start implementing an ASP.NET MVC application using Entity Framework, lets first understand few related concepts. Microsoft Entity Framework is basically an ORM (Object Relational Mapping) framework. So, what is an ORM? In most of the cases when working with database driven application, we
  
  

Mobile Development

• Xamarin.Forms: One UI to Rule Them All? - Cybermaxs
  Xamarin.Forms: One UI to Rule Them All?
  
  

Programming Tips

• HTML5: Tips !!! - Sandeep Mewara
  Long time, since I have blogged. Specifically, this particular post – had all the details and wanted to post more than a year back. I guess, better late than never! Here are few of the HTML5 tips that might help while using it’s various features: HTML5 WebSocket Protocol is present only
  
  

SharePoint Server

• Visual Studio SharePoint Debugging Assistant - ak1978
  Visual Studio SharePoint Debugging Assistant
  
  
• SharePoint Debugging Assistant (free Visual Studio 2012/2013 add-in) - Kyriakos Akriotis
  Project Description SharePoint Debugging Assistant is free of charge Visual Studio add-in that will save you time by automating the SharePoint (or any other server-side code running under IIS hood) debugging. About Debugging SharePoint SOM code by attaching to the corresponding IIS process can becom
  
  

Site & Server Management

• How to create default groups in SharePoint 2013 Host-Name Site Collection? - Manas Bhardwaj
  How to create default groups in SharePoint 2013 Host-Name Site Collection?
  
  

Technical Blogs updated

Reviews on Third Party Products and Tools

• OWASP Top 10 Risks: #1: Injection - Max R McCarty
  We all have probably witnessed (and had a good laugh) when commands have been mixed with data as in the case where the baker literally writes the instructions for the message as the cake message.  There isn’t much difference in this example and what is one of the core elements in what OWASP ha