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Most popular new articles

29 Sep 2014 - 5 Oct 2014

Latest Additions

148 articles overall. 118 new, 30 updated.

New articles added

.NET Framework

  (23 votes) by Ben M Watson
Understand exactly what happens during object allocation in .NET, why it's extremely efficient in the common case, and how to trigger slower code paths
  (10 votes) by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan
This article tells the beginners the basic concepts about connecting to the SQL Server database using C#.
  (5 votes) by Mario Majčica
Creating ExpectedAggregateExceptionAttribute thatmakes TPL exceptions testing easier.
  (5 votes) by fengyuancom
Alternative for Fx.Switch "Fluentx: A Special .NET Library"
  (5 votes) by Dukhabandhu Sahoo
Handle optimistic concurrency using Entity Framework Code First.
  (2 votes) by Cybermaxs
The importance of useless Micro-optimization

Algorithms & Recipes

  (6 votes) by Torben Trindkaer Nielsen
This article presents the recursive connected component labelling algorithm with a workaround for the stack limitation. All in less than 70 lines of C/C++ code.
  (3 votes) by Evgeny Pereguda
This article presents brief review on fractal transformation - element of the Chaos Theory and presents its real implementation - new technology of compression of audio data.

Android

  (6 votes) by Pavel Durov
Basic NDK implementation using Hello World application.
  (2 votes) by Ranjan.D
This article is all about learning how to code the Android Services. The articles starts from basics, explaining various aspects with suitable examples helping you to understand and code with services.
  (2 votes) by Ranjan.D
This article is all about Android Animation. You will be learning from basics in creating 2D and 3D animation using Canvas and OpenGL.
  (2 votes) by Prilvesh K
(Wildcard entry)Android Text to speech synthesis with Listview arrays with toast
  (2 votes) by Ranjan.D
This article is considered as a bonus article, explaining various Android APIs with explanation and code samples that you may find it useful in your day to day life.
  (2 votes) by Ranjan.D
This article is dedicated in explaining various aspects started from how to publish your app, release updates, versioning etc. Also some other topics includes the best practices for Analytic's, Marketing and Monetization.
  (1 vote) by Varavut
Create a app that support Phone and Tablet
  (1 vote) by Grasshopper.iics
Learn Text to Speech, Speech Recognition, Audio Recording and Audio Playback with the most simple Android Audio Tutorial
by Grasshopper.iics
A Simple Step By Step Guide to Social Network Integration In Android
by Peter Leow
Exploring and implementing Android services and sending notifications.
by Pavel Durov
This article will explain how to explore android internal data from Eclipse DDMS perspective using adb and Linux commands.
by Peter Leow
Learning to draw and animate simple 2D and 3D graphics in Android.
by Peter Leow
Learning to implement a location-aware Google map in Android App.

Arduino

  (2 votes) by Mario Vernari
The FTDI FT232-family of chips are used everywhere. They offers a very compact way to interface an UART to an USB. As soon the USB devices started booming, the “huge” serial connectors began to disappear from our PC.
by morzel
My first Arduino based project was Sonar with C#, JS and HTML5. Now I continue the "Out of Boredom" series with a setup that allows firing a paintball marker (gun) with a command sent from a computer :) This time software stack is simpler - just a small Arduino sketch and uncomplicated WinForms (.NE

ASP.NET

  (7 votes) by Thomas Yee
Beginning to intermediate tutorial on using jqGrid in an MVC 4 application
  (7 votes) by Maninder Singh Puhi
A basic tutorial to build and consume RESTful services using ASP.Net Web API 2 and Entity Framework Code First approach.
  (6 votes) by Amol Jadhao
Looking for a way to draw charts like line,column,bar,pie,area with C#? This is the perfect tutorial for you and its easy to implement.This article will help you to understand how to bind a Pie Chart by calling a web service from jQuery AJAX in ASP.NET
  (5 votes) by Robert Vandenberg Huang
A step-by-step walkthrough of implementing the HTTP 206 Partial Content.
  (8 votes) by Shrikant Dhar Dwivedi
How to detect Online/Offline mode through code
  (4 votes) by Siddharth A. Pavagadhi
Custom image validation method in MVC which is useful for validating images in web.
  (3 votes) by Omar Al Zabir (updated 6 days ago)
Oracle Performance Dashboard (OPD) is a small ASP.NET website that shows you performance & problems of one or more Oracle instances in near real-time. It uses the Dynamic Performance Views (DPV) and runs some popular DBA scripts in order to get meaningful, easy to understand information out of the s
  (3 votes) by Dileep Ashok
JQGrid and MVC Demo with Custom Filters or Search Functionality
  (2 votes) by Antonio Ripa
A real world implementation of a Many to Many relation using MVC5 and Entity Framework
  (2 votes) by Shivi Gupta Lucknow
using javascript and jquery I will demonstrate how to call codebehind method from the client side. there are three ways of doing so.
  (2 votes) by John Atten (updated 2 days ago)
When working with ASP.NET Web Api from a .NET client, one of the more confounding things can be handling the case where errors are returned from the Api. Specifically, unwrapping the various types of errors which may be returned from a specific API action method, and translating the error content in
  (2 votes) by anand P Singh
This is a simple example to show how to connect to SAP using SAP .Net Connector 3.0
  (1 vote) by Suraj Sahoo Mindfiresolutions
Razor view engine in MVC to ease the access of data and model classes...
  (1 vote) by Trung Nguyen Son
How to analyse and tune your dotnetnuke site to get best performance.
  (1 vote) by Rohit Kukreti
Learn how to route variable URL patterns to fixed Controller/Action
by Ashish__Shukla
Using generic repository and unit of work patterns in MVC application we can create more flexible applications.

ASP.NET Controls

by Jeffrey T. Fritz
Are you building ASP.NET web applications?  Do you Gulp?  in this article, I introduce how to use Gulp with Visual Studio.  The sample walks through automating static file packaging for custom ASP.NET controls.

Audio and Video

  (6 votes) by Edgar Maass
The goal of this article is to extract a point cloud using the Microsoft Kinect v2 sensor, visualize it using the VTK toolkit, save it for printing or further work (e.g. using Meshlab)
  (2 votes) by Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer
A wrapper for the libvorbis library that ease the conversion of PCM (*.wav) to Ogg Vorbis audio file (*.ogg) and vice versa to just two lines of code.

Azure

  (2 votes) by Max R McCarty
In our Be Sure with Azure .NET – Azure Table Storage (Part 1) we cover details about Azure Table Storage such as working with NoSQL databases, how they compare to relational databases, how to design and create your Azure Table as well as all the available operations for persisting data.  In Part 2 o

C / C++ Language

  (7 votes) by biicode
This posts tries to introduce template metaprogramming to the average C++ programmer, showing how it works, what can do, and finally leading with its problems trying to make it easier than in the old days of C++98, thanks to C++11 and C++14 language improvements.
  (2 votes) by Nisamudheen
Numerical concepts of NaN, IND, INF and DEN using C++.
by JorgeLuisOrejel
Balanced Multiway Trees

C#

  (6 votes) by WaqaarRasool
Heartbeat Implementation in WCF Service in C#
  (3 votes) by yuramag
PropertyMapper allows mapping object properties to string keys and accessing property values based on those string keys
by Arunima Panda
This tips is about to fix image reset issue in RadImageEditor Telerik Control
by Abhijit Ghosh (Subho)
Creating a Issue in Jira using Rest API and Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML)

Client side scripting

  (9 votes) by SolvingAll
Overview idea on AngularJS.
  (7 votes) by _debasis (updated 2 days ago)
Answer will be Yes for those “Who don’t understand the core primitive of JavaScript function”. No for those “Who understands the core primitive”.
  (5 votes) by padmalochan12
What is Backbone js and why to use it
by Olivier Giulieri
Structured-Filter is a generic Web UI for building structured search or filter queries. It is a full jQuery UI widget, supporting various configurations and themes.
by Scott Kuhl
Use WinJS 3.0 to create a cross-browser web app that can also be extended as a native Windows app.

Code Generation

  (5 votes) by Dave Clemmer
Applying a day's worth of model oriented work to greatly improve the quality and quantity of unit tests for the nopCommerce open source e-commerce solution.
  (3 votes) by Morshed Anwar
In my childhood, my uncle has shown me how to see the cloud in a close look and I understand that one can draw some elements of the Earth in the sky-canvas if he/she wants to. After that the cloud becomes more close me and It teaches me one thing that, a deeper-look to something […]

Combo & List Boxes

  (6 votes) by Nitesh Luharuka
Friends, In this post, we will see how can we get the name of currently active window using C#. Since a .Net application cannot access objects outside the application, to get the active window we will use few functions of Windows API provided by Microsoft. We will specifically use GetForegroundWindo

Content Management Server

by Taiseer Joudeh
Recently I’ve received lot of comments and emails asking how we can decouple the OWIN Authorization Server we’ve built in the previous posts from the resources we are protecting.

Cross Platform

  (6 votes) by James Dale
My Windows Sever 2003 reaches its end of life in 2015. I do not look forward to moving to Server 2012. Surely there has to be a better, portable, and cross platform solution that features zero install and fits on a USB stick.
  (1 vote) by Dominic Burford
Versioning your .NET application with Nant and Subversion

Cryptography & Security

  (3 votes) by NewPast (updated 20 hrs ago)
Software protection & Decompiling software as a new cracking method

Database

  (6 votes) by Jitendra Ku. Sahoo
Below is one template to handle error in SQL server.
  (3 votes) by Smrutiranjan Parida
In this article we will go through the basic concepts of SSIS and will create a package and execute it.
  (3 votes) by NaibedyaKar
How to check the query locking the table and to unlock it
  (2 votes) by NaibedyaKar
SQL server database project creation using Visual Studio 2013
  (1 vote) by Bhim B Thapa
Handling NULL in T-SQL
by Schrödter
How to write data to SQLSERVER varbinary(MAX) columns in C++ using ADO

Debug Tips

by kspviswa
Concept + brief implementation details about Lock-free, thread based log buffer implementation, for debugging high performance multi-threaded applications

Design and Architecture

  (6 votes) by lars.michael.dk
This article introduces two free, open source, tools that will make your unit tests more declarative and compact and a lot easier to read and understand.
  (4 votes) by Dhruv Singh
Detailed usage of the newer python format() method for strings

Dialogs and Windows

  (7 votes) by Rapuru Amarendra
This tip presents an example of popups in responsive using bootstrap
by Steffen Ploetz
How to get out the maximum from the Roma widget set in C# efficiently without dependencies to GUI frameworks like GTK or KDE. Description of intrinsic widgets.

Edit Controls

  (4 votes) by Mattiassich
How to make from a simple TextBox an animated eye candy.

Hardware & System

  (3 votes) by AD Colab Group
In the 2nd article in this thread, we start building out the 3D environment for the robots using the Visualization ToolKit (VTK).

HTML / CSS

  (9 votes) by Shemeemsha RA
Bootstrap Tips

Internet / Network

  (2 votes) by harish kumar bindela
How to get Windows live Email ID and Google Email ID using OAuth

iPhone

  (1 vote) by KarstenK (updated 4 days ago)
How to start up with OpenGL on iOS.

Java

  (4 votes) by Gaurav H
A quick introduction to Hamcrest framework for writing expressive unit-test cases for Java applications.
by Mark H Bishop
This article presents a Java example application that performs discrete wavelet transforms.

List Controls

  (4 votes) by Vivek Ragunathan
A simple tree list view .NET WinForms control
  (1 vote) by Rapuru Amarendra
This tip presents an example of working with tabs in bootstrap

Microsoft BizTalk Server

by tanmoysarkar
SQL queries to know the instance messages state
by tanmoysarkar
How to generate ESB exceptions in BizTalk 2013
by tanmoysarkar
1. Scenario : Recently in my project I came to a situation where we need to promote some properties for archiving outgoing messages. So we created a correlation type and correlation set. We have also implemented suspend – retry pattern to … Continue reading →

Mobile Development

  (3 votes) by Daniel Vaughan
Leverage existing .resx files to localize Windows Phone, Android, and iOS apps in Xamarin.Forms.

Product Showcase

by Grant_Fritchey
Grant Fritchey argues that getting your databases under source control is not only vital for the stability of development and deployment, but it will make your life easier when something does go wrong.
by Jeffrey T. Fritz
Looking for full text search on Android and finding with dtSearch.
by Dirk_Strauss
Acunetix WVS audits your website security by running a host of tests. It then provides a concise report of issues it found. Not only does it do this, but it also suggests changes you need to make to fix the issues found.

Programming Tips

  (1 vote) by binit.ku.singh
The most advised way to use imports in django
by MANIARASAN SIVASERAN
Steps for Python Installation

Reviews on Third Party Products and Tools

  (2 votes) by Keyhole Software
The state of web application cryptography has changed, and each development language provides its own way of working with it. I will touch on the current state of random number generation and the differences found with it within the Java and JavaScript development languages. When designing and build

Shell and IE programming

  (5 votes) by Ronnie Mukherjee
One of my favourite principles is the Pareto Principle, also known as the 80-20 rule. The principle states that frequently, around 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. I love this principle because it is so simple, and it can be observed and applied to so many different areas in our profe
  (2 votes) by Florin Panescu
This library is for creating shortcut .lnk & .url

Static & Panel Controls

by tanmoysarkar
Often people ask me how to call a .NET class within an orchestration if it is not serializable. The probable answer for this question is to call the class within an atomic scope because within atomic scope there is no … Continue reading →

Testing and QA

  (2 votes) by Nimmi Joseph
Test / Increase the performance of the search feature in applications

Third Party Products and Tools

  (6 votes) by Oliver_Hart
I’ll show how to build live IP camera streaming into your website by using C# to be able to monitor the area that is under video surveillance.

Threads, Processes & IPC

by SarmadAsghar
This is the second lock-free implementation (first is by H°akan Sundell) that only needs the single-word compare-and-swap atomic primitive.

Toolbars & Docking windows

by pi19404
In this article we will look at logistic classifier and how regularization affects the performance of the classifier.

Tools and IDE

  (12 votes) by Marco Bertschi
PowerShell is a very powerful tool, yet it's difference to the classic DOS command prompt gives you a hard time if you are used to the CMD. This article shall guide you into the World of PowerShell and give you an easy start.

Tree Controls

  (1 vote) by Morshed Anwar
Years ago, I read about Golden rule of Entity Framework from a blog post of Julia Lerman.As the Golden Rule says – EF will not do anything that developer has not explicitly told you to do. Some days ago I got an issue where I need to load a full object graph will all its […]

Uncategorised Technical Blogs

  (2 votes) by Omar Al Zabir
While working on open source projects, you have to frequently build your code, clean up all temporary files, remove your own passwords, connections strings from web.config, then create a binary deployment package in a zip format and then commit and git push to GitHub. Let’s automate all these
  (1 vote) by Morshed Anwar
Please Note: A Entity Framework- Code First Version has been written by me- http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/363501/Repository-pattern-with-Entity-Framework-Code-Firs   https://morshedanwar.wordpress.com/2012/10/03/design-data-access-with-entity-framework-code-first-in-composable-service-end/   A
  (1 vote) by BC3Tech
Got a blog? Want to make yourself a bit more noticeable around the interwebs? What better way to do it than your own short URL (a la bit.ly, j.mp, goo.gl, etc.)?
  (1 vote) by Lee P Richardson
Classification of professional software developers
by Saleh Hamadeh
For those of you who do not know what a hackathon is, a hackathon is an event in which teams compete to create a product that will solve a real-world problem. Most of the people who attend hackathons are programmers or hackers, but hackathons are open to anyone who feels creative.Last week, I attend
by Bahrudin Hrnjica
This is blog post series about new features coming in the next version of C# 6.0. The first post is about null conditional operator. The NullReferenceException is night mare for any developer specially for developer with not much experience. Almost every created object must be check against null val

User Controls

  (1 vote) by Melick
How to add/update SharePoint User Field (Person group column) using ECMA scripts

Validation

  (3 votes) by arkaysahu
Easy way to show JavaScript Alert Message having Arabic Text

VB.NET

  (5 votes) by Jay Clark (SolvoTerra)
Compress any size file with .Net 4.5 Compression namespace

VBScript

  (1 vote) by Gautham Prabhu K
Copying entire row within Excel sheet using VBA in Microsoft Office 2010 and higher

Web Services

by Bibhu Dutta
CodeProjectIn my previous post, we got familiar with the way visual studio provides us for setting up diagnostics for an azure role. In this post we will take a look at the diagnostics.wadcfg configuration file, understanding the various sections it … Continue reading →The post Enabling

Wiki.ASP.NET articles

  (2 votes) by JoaoSousa23
This tip walks you through the steps for creating a ASP.NET MVC 5 Web Application using Bootstrap as template for layout.

Windows API

  (6 votes) by Vahid_N
Microsoft has not updated Iran's daylight saving time information since 2009. Let's find out how it works and then fix it for the next 100 years!
  (2 votes) by Emiliarge
Using WinAPI functions - GetAsyncKeyState and mouse_event

Windows Powershell

by LenJ67
Using PowerShell and EWS to write/update public folder contacts.

Windows Presentation Foundation

  (3 votes) by George Swan
This article discusses how to use the Ninject and Prism frameworks to produce a loosely-coupled modular WPF Application.

Articles updated

Algorithms & Recipes

  (42 votes) by 1337Architect (updated 5 days ago)
Handy classes to use the .NET Encryption/Decryption
  (6 votes) by pi19404 (updated 6 days ago)
In this article we will look at a supervised machine learning algorithm called Logistic Regression Classifier for multi-class classification .

Android

  (7 votes) by Ranjan.D (updated 6 days ago)
This article is all about how to deal with CodeProject OAuth Token. Also we will be developing a sample application to get the OAuth Token and understand the basics of using CodeProject API to make HTTPS Request to access various resource.

Applications & Tools

  (2,120 votes) by .dan.g., autoQA (updated yesterday)
A hierarchical task manager with native XML support for custom reporting.
  (485 votes) by Dominik Reichl (updated 4 days ago)
KeePass is a free, open-source, light-weight and easy-to-use password safe.

ASP.NET

  (32 votes) by Sandeep Singh Shekhawat (updated 3 days ago)
This article explains how to implement client-side validation in an ASP.NET MVC application.
  (15 votes) by Shivprasad koirala (updated 3 days ago)
This article talks about MVC Tempdata and how MVC tempdata, Peek and Keep works using example and step by step video tutorial on mvc
  (3 votes) by John Atten (updated 4 days ago)
In recent posts, I've covered a lot of ground using ASP.NET Identity 2.0 in the context of an MVC application. Since it's RTM in March of this year, Identity 2.0 has offered a substantial expansion of the Authentication/Authorization . toolset available to MVC applications. Similarly, Identity 2.0

ASP.NET Controls

  (2 votes) by DrABELL (updated yesterday)
Article describes CSS3 formatting technique that allows to create web Table header, which always stays atop the table regardless of scrollingle

C#

  (13 votes) by Marco Bertschi (updated yesterday)
A really basic 3D Cylinder chart, drawn on a WPF canvas

Client side scripting

  (15 votes) by AJSON (updated 5 days ago)
A whirlwind tour of how to implement search, filter and sort using KnockoutJS
  (2 votes) by newton.saber (updated 3 days ago)
Learn Angular and Firebase API (AngularFire) for live storage of data via Internet using nosql db.

Cross Platform

  (29 votes) by Michael Chourdakis (updated 15 hrs ago)
Curious on how you create a hypervisor app? Read mode!

Design and Architecture

  (51 votes) by Kashif_Imran (updated 2 days ago)
Object Oriented Design and Programming Process using a Real World Example
  (11 votes) by Dave Clemmer (updated 3 days ago)
Exploring ways to make direct use of model structures and data to powerfully augment software development with a model oriented approach.
  (9 votes) by Anandhi Swamy (updated 2 days ago)
Basics of Signal R
  (8 votes) by Dave Clemmer (updated 3 days ago)
Using Mo+ to augment a test driven approach to develop an application.

General Graphics

  (9 votes) by 0xC0000054 (updated 6 days ago)
A C# library to host Photoshop-compatible filters in .NET 2.0 and later
  (3 votes) by Baruch Cochavy_ (updated 6 days ago)
Shows how to implement minimize-to-icon for MDI Child forms

Grid & Data Controls

  (3 votes) by B. Clay Shannon (updated 4 days ago)
Get REST data and display it in a DataGridView

Hardware & System

  (91 votes) by Michael Chourdakis (updated 15 hrs ago)
Immerse yourself in system programming!

Java

  (2 votes) by Dr. Song Li (updated 3 days ago)
This document presents two Maven example projects for mocking final and static methods using PowerMockito for Java unit testing.

Libraries

  (40 votes) by Nirosh (updated 3 days ago)
Nido Framework with .Net 4.0 and Entity Framework help you standardize your Business Logic Layer (BLL).

Miscellaneous

  (28 votes) by Adam Zgagacz (updated 3 days ago)
WinForms Scrollbar with enhanced properties, graphical bookmarks and value tooltips.
  (8 votes) by B. Clay Shannon (updated 6 days ago)
Save time checking up on new content on your favorite websites by downloading, and setting up an RSS newsreader

Product Showcase

by Accusoft, Joseph Argento (updated 4 days ago)
This whitepaper describes a proven method for conveniently compressing PDF documents to reduce their storage footprint and accelerate their transmission and display speed.

Tablets and All-in-Ones

  (4 votes) by DrABELL (updated 5 days ago)
App implements bi-directional semantic phone number-to-text converter, extended with novel Lottery+Quiz engine

Tools and IDE

  (24 votes) by syed shanu (updated 4 days ago)
Windows Form Design at Run Time.Panel has been used as a Form where user can Add ,Move controls.user can Add,text,items,colors and etc using Property Window.Bind Data to DatagridView,ListView,ComboBox from DataTable,XML File and From SQL Server Data Base

Validation

  (1 vote) by Gerd Wagner (updated 3 days ago)
What are the most important types of integrity constraints to be checked in any data management app?

Windows Runtime

  (17 votes) by Bernardo Castilho (updated 5 days ago)
The article presents an ICollectionView class that supports filtering and sorting.



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