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May Monthly Competition Winners

Congrats to the best articles and authors of May 2014!

C#	Winner	Akhil Mittal	Diving in OOP (Day 1) : Polymorphism and Inheritance(Early Binding/Compile Time Polymorphism)
	Runner-up	dmihailescu	Visual Studio Design Patterns add-in
C++:	Winner	CatchExAs	Parallelised Monte Carlo Algorithms #1
	Runner-up	Bartlomiej Filipek	Learning Modern OpenGL
Database:	Winner	CatchExAs	Analysing Big Data in Real Time #1
	Runner-up	Marla Sukesh	Learn Microsoft Business intelligence step by step – Day 2
Web Dev:	Winner	Marla Sukesh	JSON and Microsoft technologies
	Runner-up	Shivprasad koirala	JQUERY, JSON and Angular Interview questions
Mobile:	Winner	gstolarov	Build Flappy Bird with jQuery and 100 lines of Javascript
	Runner-up (Tie)	KarstenK	Full Power on the Phone
	Runner-up (Tie)	Madhur Kapoor	Using Isolated Storage in Windows Phone App
VB.NET:	Winner	Nathaniel Moschkin	Moving Memory in .NET using VB and the CIL.
	Runner-up	TL Wallace	QuickVB - Fork
"Everything Else"	Winner	Giovanni Scerra	10 Golden Rules Of Good OOP
	Runner-up (Tie)	Yang Kok Wah	Falling Blocks Board and Shape Control
	Runner-up (Tie)	DaveAuld	I've Got My Eye On You.........A Journey Into Home CCTV and a Wireless Bridge

...And a correction.

I mentioned yesterday that July 4 was this Thursday. I could argue that July 4 in my home in Australia will start Thursday US time, but I'd just be clutching at straws. My apologies for getting my days mixed up. For the record, July 4th, 2014 is a Friday. No matter what your timezone.

Most popular new articles

• MinHook - The Minimalistic x86/x64 API Hooking Library - Tsuda Kageyu
  
• Solutions for WPF Performance Issue - comiscience
  
• WPF Control Patterns. (WPF and XAML Patterns of Code Reuse in Easy Samples. Part 1) - Nick Polyak
  
• Fun with Sound - Yang Kok Wah
  
• ASP.NET Identity 2.0: Customizing Users and Roles - John Atten
  

Research

Enterprise Integration Patterns Flash Cards

Use these flashcards along with the popular open source integration framework Apache Camel as an easy reference during the design and development of integration projects. This deck of flashcards covers 49 integration patterns discussed in Gregory Hohpe’s book, Enterprise Integration Patterns. Download Now

Latest Additions

28 articles overall. 13 new, 15 updated.

New articles added

C / C++ Language

• C++ Templates : Apart from Generic Containers and Algorithms - Manikandan10
  This article explains some of the template programming techniques
  
  

Charts, Graphs and Images

• Fantasy Football Review with Kibana - dale.newman
  A visual look at the last three seasons of fantasy football using Elasticsearch and Kibana
  
  

Client side scripting

• Accurate time in JavaScript - Pooya Paridel
  Getting the accurate time in javascript from google server
  
  

Reviews on Third Party Products and Tools

• Using SPIRE.PDF – To Play around PDFs - Francis S Michael
  This article talk about the SPIRE.PDF Library
  
  

Web Services

• Windows communication foundation (WCF) call hopping mechanism for a nested WCF environment - Anant Beriwal
  How Call hopping can be achieved in Nested WCF
  
  

Articles updated

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
  
  
• Learn MVC (Model view controller) Step by Step in 7days – Day 6 - Shivprasad koirala, Marla Sukesh
  This article is Day 6 of learn MVC step by step in 7 days.
  
  

C#

• Fun with Sound - Yang Kok Wah
  Playing your favorite music and sound files all at once
  
  

COM / COM+

• Adding COM Automation Support To Win32 Applications - Mohammed El-Afifi
  Given an existing win32 application, how to provide COM automation capability to it?
  
  

Grid & Data Controls

• How to fake "freeze" last row in datagridview. Create a footer row for a datagridview. - Heriberto Lugo
  Footer row to sum columns in a datagridview.
  
  

Product Showcase

• Using PDF Forms to Improve User Interaction with DotPdf - Kevin_Hulse
  Use Atalasoft's DotPdf SDK to improve workflow processes with external customers.
  
  

Win32/64 SDK & OS

• MinHook - The Minimalistic x86/x64 API Hooking Library - Tsuda Kageyu
  Provides the basic part of Microsoft Detours functionality for both x64/x86 environments.
  
  

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

C#

• Reflection Concept and Late Binding in C# - Abhishek Geek
  Reflection Concept and Late Binding in C#
  
  

Programming Tips

• Run multiple instances of a Windows service - Keith Balaam
  Run multiple instances of a Windows service on the same machine.
  
  

Threads, Processes & IPC

• Peer Process and its Significance in Improving Robustness of Software Application - Anant Beriwal
  How to counter crash issue in applications
  
  

Tips and Tricks updated

ASP.NET

• How to set up application using ASP.NET Identity with MySQL Provider - Kinyanjui Kamau
  To set up an ASP.NET application the implements ASP Identity with Entity Framework to use MySql as a database.
  
  
• Unit testing MVC controllers which are using global resources (App_GlobalResources) - Prakash Kalakoti
  Unit testing the MVC controller actions which are using Global or Local resources. As this is not straight forward to Mock the static properties of the resource files.
  
  

Cross Platform

• Using Xamarin.Auth.OAuth2Authenticator with async/await - saramgsilva
  Using Xamarin.Auth.OAuth2Authenticator with async/await
  
  

Programming Tips

• Bridging the gap between Linqpad and Visual Studio (with JSON and Extension methods) - _Noctis_
  This will allow you to integrate your linqpad code easily to Visual Studio
  
  

New Technical Blogs added

C / C++ Language

• Resolving strong references between Swift and Objective-C classes - Using unowned and weak references from Swift to Objective-C classes - PeteBarber
  My Swift and SpriteKit exploration continues. At the moment I'm writing the collision handling code.Rather than derive game objects from SKSpriteNode with each derived class containing the code for handling collisions with the other types of game objects I'm following something akin to a Component-E
  
  

Uncategorised Technical Blogs

• Advantages of Pure Functions and Idempotent Functions in .Net - Rob Kraft
  Summary This article will define a “Pure Function” and an “Idempotent Function”. It will also explain the advantages of each type of function using examples in C# .Net. Definitions A method is a “Pure Function” when it always returns the same results when given th
  
  
• MultiTasking is a Myth - Jeffrey T. Fritz
  In this post, Jeff discusses his multitasking tips and some pitfalls that he has found from multitasking too much.
  
  

Windows 8 Design

• Software Design Patterns - Paul M Watt
  Software Design Patterns have helped us create a language to communicate and concepts and leverage the skills of previous work. Design patterns are very powerful, language agnostic descriptions problems and solutions that have been encounter and solved many times over. However, design patterns are o
  
  

Windows Phone 7/8

• Creating Windows Phone and Window 8.1 applications using Microsoft App Studio - saramgsilva
    This article aims to present the Microsoft App Studio for creating applications for Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1. A few months ago Microsoft released Windows Phone App Studio Beta, a service that allows any person without programming skills … Continue reading →
  
  

Technical Blogs updated

Code Generation

• Sharing Code: Adding NavigationService - saramgsilva
  An example about NavigationService in share code scenarios, that will be registered in one IOC container and injected by the view model’s constructor.
  
  

Microsoft BizTalk Server

• Authentication using Facebook, Google and Microsoft account in WP8.0 App (MVVM) - saramgsilva
  This sample show to connect one Windows Phone 8.0 app to Facebook, Google and Microsoft account. Main Features: Login/Logout and has an about page with feedback, share in social networks, review and share by email. Download C# (19.4 MB) Introduction … Continue reading →