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Weekly Newsletter (16 Mar 2015)

We're giving away $2,000 this Week

There's still time to enter our latest contest. Create a free Azure trial account, submit screenshot proof of your Azure registration, and then post an article about connecting devices on Azure for your chance at the $2,500 grand prize. Full details here.

US contestants: a draw for $200 each day this week

We'll be holding a draw for $200 each day this week as well as a $1,000 draw on Friday March 20th. Full details on the contest page  but simply registering for an Azure trial account will earn you 5 entries into the draws. Referring a friend, co-worker or family member to do the same will earn you another 10 entries. Too easy. Good luck!

Weekly Poll Results

What format of documents do you read the easiest?

Survey period: 9 Mar 2015 to 16 Mar 2015

Some are visual and prefer to scan images, some can't read formatted text, while others just want to go to the metal.

OptionVotes% 
Plain text, no formatting at all.837.1783 votes, 7.17%
Plain text with ASCII formatting (eg *bold*)988.4698 votes, 8.46%
Neatly formatted HTML, no images1089.33108 votes, 9.33%
Neatly formatted HTML, with restrained images48341.71483 votes, 41.71%
Image based or infographic style documents (A picture is worth 1K words...)18515.98185 votes, 15.98%
Code14812.78148 votes, 12.78%
Other534.5853 votes, 4.58%

This week's survey: What language/technology inspired you to be a developer?

New Articles, Tech Blogs and Tips

.NET Framework

  (13 votes) by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan (updated 2 days ago)
This article is for beginners about writing and reading Unicode data from different data sources; including text files, user input, databases. It also demonstrates how to display that data in .NET applications, including ASP.NET web applications.
  (4 votes) by thientamtita (updated 5 days ago)
Do you want export large data (over tens of thousands rows) from DataGridView to Microsoft Excel

Ajax

  (4 votes) by Azim Zahir (updated yesterday)
This tip explains implementing AJAX in ASP.NET MVC.

Algorithms & Recipes

  (4 votes) by Daniel Pfeffer (updated yesterday)
A cheap way to achieve high floating-point precision
  (3 votes) by Artem Los (updated 2 days ago)
The aim of this post is to give a short overview of the subject, summarizing basic concepts.

Amazon Web Services

  (3 votes) by Sander Rossel (updated 7 hours ago)
The last in a series on web development.

Android

  (5 votes) by giaosucan (updated 6 days ago)
Simple way to create service on Android Application
  (0 votes) by OriginalGriff (updated 2 days ago)
If (like me) you have a Nexus7 that was converted into a door-stop by Lollipop 5.0 or 5.0.2, this is a guide in how to skip the wait for Google to realise you might want 5.1!

Applications & Tools

  (5 votes) by Ivan Yakimov (updated 3 days ago)
In this article I'll explain how to make something similar to load balancer on your single developer machine.
  (0 votes) by DotNetForYou (updated 2 days ago)
How to develop resolution independent applications in WPF

ASP.NET

  (17 votes) by bob.bumsuk.lee (updated 5 days ago)
Web app that manages customer complaints and demonstrate how to use Web API, SignalR and AngularJs technologies
  (9 votes) by Max R McCarty (updated 3 days ago)
Insecure Direct Object Reference: Is your ASP.NET App Data Secure?
  (9 votes) by mparvez (updated 4 days ago)
Google Map with JSON
  (2 votes) by Antony Victor Gino (updated 5 days ago)
Enable Disable binding in a Grid Using KnockoutJS
  (1 votes) by Gaurav Kumar Arora (updated 2 days ago)
Introduction In these days RAD (Rapid Application Development) is growing at its large. There are numerous framework available to develop Web Applications or Web Projects. We can use either ASP.Net or ASP.Net MVC from Microsoft or any other framework. Although, NancyFx is having its own support for
  (1 votes) by Aman Thakur (updated yesterday)
The tip explains how to make recurring payments using the Stored Credit Cards in the Paypal Vault.

ASP.NET Controls

  (9 votes) by Komail Haider (updated 6 days ago)
.Net control/wrapper for the Google NEW ReCaptcha API 2.0

C / C++ Language

  (5 votes) by tonywilk (updated 3 days ago)
Not 'Just Another Parser', this reads elements from JSON simply and without memory overhead in C
  (4 votes) by Eugene Sadovoi (updated 2 days ago)
Integrating third party tools and libraries into Visual Studio (MSBuild) configuration environment.

C#

  (17 votes) by Sacha Barber (updated 2 days ago)
Showcase of how to use a sort of Attached Behaviours for ViewModels, and how to build BIG XAML apps
  (7 votes) by msiyer (updated 5 days ago)
ROADBLOCKS TO PROPER UNDERSTANDING Delegates as a technical concept in C# create a lot of confusion in the beginners’ mind. It is a fairly simple concept but most of the examples floating around on the web are so trivial that they do not expose the real benefits of delegates. Look at the below sampl
  (7 votes) by Sergey Morenko (updated 13 hours ago)
TinyMapper is a quick object-object mapper for .NET
  (6 votes) by DavesApps (updated 2 days ago)
C# Multithreading and Events
  (9 votes) by umar.techBOY (updated 6 days ago)
This is an API for creating, detecting and analyzing Optical Marks Sheets (Also known as bubble sheets). Its upgrade of version of C# OMR Engine 1.0 i wrote back in 2012. It can be found at "http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/451169/Csharp-Optical-Marks-Recognition-OMR-Engine"
  (5 votes) by EveryNameIsTakenEvenThisOne (updated 6 days ago)
Do 'that', ... but not right now...
  (3 votes) by MrShoes (updated 6 days ago)
Learn how to write an MVVM application using the open source Splinter framework.
  (2 votes) by Michael Breeden (updated 5 days ago)
Using the ConcurrentDictionary to track threaded job progress and status
  (2 votes) by Lee P Richardson (updated 3 days ago)
I got into an interesting argument conversation with a co worker last week about whether async/ await was multi-threaded.  He thought I was bonkers for suggesting it was not multi-threaded.  So I did some research.First off, obviously if you're if you're doing async/await it's probably because you w
  (2 votes) by ttane (updated 3 days ago)
This is an alternative for "Simple Model/Entity Mapper in C#"
  (1 votes) by DotNetForYou (updated yesterday)
Though Yield return key phase in C# is quite old. It was introduced in C# 2.0. But at that time I was quite new to C# and indeed was not writing any blogs. C# yield key phase always fascinates me and I always wanted to write some article about this mighty key phase Yield return key phase is
  (1 votes) by RickZeeland (updated yesterday)
An easy way to edit and exchange XML config settings

Client side scripting

  (22 votes) by Robin Rizvi (updated 4 days ago)
Javascript MVW Framework
  (3 votes) by Gerd Wagner (updated 4 days ago)
Learn how to build a frontend web application with minimal effort in seven steps, using the BackboneJS framework and the cloud storage service Parse.com.
  (1 votes) by Paul R Martin (updated 2 days ago)
Using functional programming techniques in JavaScript to add rows to a table
  (1 votes) by Rimbik_ (updated 2 days ago)
Test AnjularJS page with e2e testing tool - Protractor
  (0 votes) by Mrlogin (updated 2 days ago)
Using this script, you will automatically add a filtering dropdownlist similar to Excel file filtering at the top, which will filter table based on your selection

Clipboard

  (0 votes) by Jochen Arndt (updated 2 hours ago)
Add drag & drop support with drag images and drop descriptions to your MFC applications.

Combo & List Boxes

  (1 votes) by manchanx (updated 10 hours ago)
Tidy, generic solution to bind Enums (with or without a DescriptionAttribute) to a ComboBox or other Controls

Content Management Server

  (2 votes) by essentialSQL (updated 5 days ago)
This is the fourth in a series of articles about subqueries.  In this post, we discuss subqueries in the FROM clause.
  (1 votes) by F-ES Sitecore (updated 6 days ago)
IntroductionWhen building a Sitecore solution one of the largest mindset decisions is who the client of your solution is going to be.  Is your site going to be managed by developers?  Or is it going to be managed by the business?  One of the advantages of a CMS is that it gives the business the abil
  (0 votes) by Graham D Smith (updated 3 hours ago)
Continuous delivery with VSO: Configuring release management

Database

  (3 votes) by John C Rayan (updated 3 days ago)
An insight into date and time types in SQL SERVER -
  (3 votes) by Jignesh G Trivedi (updated 5 days ago)
This tip will help you to understand CLR procedure.
  (1 votes) by livebytes (updated yesterday)
This tip is a brief introduction to Apply operator in SQL server
  (0 votes) by Rajesh Manjarekar (updated yesterday)
When CDC is turned ON against a table and the underlying table schema changes, such as adding/removing a column, changing datatype etc

Design and Architecture

  (1 votes) by Duncan Edwards Jones (updated 4 days ago)
How an event sourcing / projection based system allows you to fully unit test the business code the application will use without mocks

Dialogs and Windows

  (10 votes) by badari_neo (updated 3 days ago)
Programmatically Convert PDF-To-XPS Document

DLLs & Assemblies

  (3 votes) by TarikHuber (updated 3 days ago)
SQL Table Toolkit is a Class Library offering a quite large amount of tools for fast and easy work with SQL Tables

Game Development

  (6 votes) by Vahe Karamian (updated 3 days ago)
The seventh article in a series to discuss Unity 3D and how to get started with your own 3D projects.

General Graphics

  (2 votes) by Gregory Morse (updated 6 days ago)
Generating Unique Contrasting Colors
  (2 votes) by Gregory Morse (updated 6 days ago)
Rendering Qur'anic (complex Arabic) scripts with Unicode in a PDF

Internet / Network

  (4 votes) by IAndreev93 (updated yesterday)
WlanOpenHandle -> WlanEnumInterfaces -> WlanGetAvailableNetworkList.

IoT on Azure

  (3 votes) by DrABELL (updated 4 days ago)
Application allows tracking of NY MTA buses and route stops in real-time/low-latency mode
  (3 votes) by incipire (updated 3 days ago)
This article discusses using Arduino to collect and send data from your car's OBD-II to the cloud using Windows Azure.
  (1 votes) by Ranjan.D (updated 1 hour ago)
Let us see how to send, receive and delete SMS using Arduino and GSM Sheild

Java

  (0 votes) by Marius Mihailescu, Stefania Loredana Nita (updated 1 weeks ago)
The main purpose of this article is to describe the advantages of using RMI in the process of developing distributed applications using Java. RMI is one of the classic methods compared to other modern methods (e.g. .NET Remoting, WCF Services etc.), used for accessing objects remotely.

Libraries

  (2 votes) by sunhui (updated 6 days ago)
Integrate .NET Component to your Native MFC Application at runtime

MFC

  (0 votes) by aljodav (updated 3 days ago)
Demonstrates how easy it is for MFC programmers to interact with a site that exposes a JSON API, by means of the CPowerShell MFC class

Mobile Development

  (4 votes) by Anele 'Mash' Mbanga (updated 5 days ago)
Demonstrates SplitView, Relational ComboBoxes, DatePicker, ListView, Tables & Toggle Columns, Export to Excel, Compiling to Hybrid with PhoneGap Build.

PHP

  (1 votes) by Abu Ghufran (updated 2 days ago)
Delightful HTML5 Charts in PHP with almost no coding of JavaScript and HTML5

Reviews on Third Party Products and Tools

  (0 votes) by Alvin Ashcraft (updated 3 days ago)
Hot on the heels of my last review for DevExpress Universal 2014.2, I will next dive into my recent experiences with DevExpress TestCafe.

SharePoint Server

  (1 votes) by Pradip R (updated 4 days ago)
How to verify if the page is in Edit Mode using JavaScript in SharePoint 2013
  (0 votes) by Pradip R (updated 2 days ago)
Add Navigate up with SharePoint 2013 Design Manager in custom master page.

Tabs & Property Pages

  (0 votes) by Shahriar Iqbal Chowdhury/Galib (updated 2 days ago)
Introduction Due to non schema nature of mongodb collection, one collection may contains distinct number of fields.Its not recommended though, its possible to contain different number of fields due to business requirements. So for example say we have a collection “Client”, under which th

Testing and QA

  (2 votes) by Chinh Vo Wili (updated 6 days ago)
This tip describes how to use Selenium WebDriver extension for jQuery of RaYell and customize waiting element loading
  (2 votes) by Gaurav Kumar Arora (updated yesterday)
In this article, we will discuss all about TDD Katas and how we can get hands-on with Test Driven Development (TDD).
  (1 votes) by Ms. Mayuri Gandhi (updated yesterday)
This tip is about how you can automate your test cases to execute after every build or independently and share test result.

Threads, Processes & IPC

  (4 votes) by Marc Clifton (updated 10 hours ago)
What you may not realize about memory allocation and threads, and a little known thing called "Server Mode"

Tools and IDE

  (2 votes) by Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter (updated 6 days ago)
Manage and maintain your in-house Visual Studio extensions...
  (2 votes) by Jim F. Johnson (updated 5 days ago)
This tip describes how to use a 3rd party tool to review SAP tables structure and exporting the metadata to Google Drive in CSV format.
  (1 votes) by Eugene Sadovoi (updated 6 days ago)
Generating command line options from ProjectSchemaDefinitions Rule XML

Uncategorised Technical Blogs

  (3 votes) by Passion4Code (updated 1 weeks ago)
Introduction There are scenarios when we have an implementation which will be reused at many places, which is not confined to a single place or method. This is fulfilled by the Filters in MVC. This is a very good concept introduced in MVC. The implementation which is mentioned above is called cross-
  (0 votes) by Graham D Smith (updated 3 days ago)
In this first post on my series on implementing continuous delivery with Visual Studio Online we look at configuring the basics, including setting up an account and linking in to Visual Studio. As usual I assume a degree of familiarity with the tooling and if you need to get up to speed with VSO I h
  (0 votes) by SneakyPeet (updated 4 hours ago)
Modeling with aggregates

Validation

  (1 votes) by Mekki Ahmedi (updated yesterday)
Still asking your users not to press the Browser’s Refresh Button?

Web Security

  (15 votes) by Jake Drew (updated 5 days ago)
This case study tells the detailed story of tracking down real world hackers selling counterfeit goods.
  (0 votes) by Mekki Ahmedi (updated 2 days ago)
I am just applying the principle of Defence in Depth

Web Services

  (4 votes) by jgauffin (updated 4 days ago)
I've created a small sample project which demonstrates how you can invoke a query using javascript (and execute them in your server). The sample uses authentication, authorization, an inversion of control container and jQuery.
  (2 votes) by jgauffin (updated 5 days ago)
I've just pushed a new CqsHttpListener and CqsHttpClient to Griffin.Framework. With it you can host a small HTTP server within your application to be able to receive Command/query objects from your client applications.

Windows Communication Foundation

  (7 votes) by Rahul Pawar LogicMonk (updated 4 days ago)
A quick look at a simple WCF Web Service!

Windows Presentation Foundation

  (3 votes) by Winfried Wille (updated 2 days ago)
M3U-Copy copies the entries of a playlist in the M3U format to a target directory or rewrites the playlist
  (2 votes) by Subramanyam Shankar (updated 16 hours ago)
In this tip, I will demonstrate a small example of how to implement MVVM in WPF.

Windows Runtime

  (4 votes) by Peter Moore - Chicago (updated 6 days ago)
With a little C++, you can escape ApplicationData.LocalFolder and read and write databases in any folder your app has access to.

Windows Security

  (3 votes) by abhinav_soni (updated 4 days ago)
Bypass disabled USB port

Windows Workflow Foundation

  (4 votes) by Melnikov Dmitry (updated yesterday)
Microsoft workflow - antimarketing

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Ajax

  (5 votes) by Sander Rossel (updated 7 hours ago)
The seventh in a series on web development.

Algorithms & Recipes

  (29 votes) by umar.techBOY (updated 6 days ago)
An API that reads OMR sheets from camera taken/ scanner scanned images.
  (23 votes) by Igor Ladnik (updated 3 days ago)
This post demonstrates examples of calculation of optimal control policies for two-link manipulator using linear-quadratic control combined with quasilinearization.

Boards / Embedded devices

  (14 votes) by Jan Dolinay (updated 6 days ago)
This article describes faster but still easy-to-use version of digital I/O for Arduino

C#

  (10 votes) by Maximiliano Rios (updated 6 days ago)
In the past articles we could see how a website with Identity Framework 2 is set up and customized to our own needs. We could also implement Facebook Login, Google Auth and Twitter Login. But in the real world we need much more than that. In the current article we will learn how to capture data
  (8 votes) by Max Vagner (updated 3 days ago)
Converting mainframe EBCDIC to ASCII format
  (10 votes) by Michael_Jacobsen (updated 5 days ago)
Easy to use encryption algorithm with randomization option. Complete source code, examples and detailed explanation of the algorithms inner workings
  (5 votes) by Mihnea Rădulescu (updated 2 days ago)
Light-weight image viewer for .NET 4.5.1, supporting multi-core processing
  (4 votes) by KP Lee (updated 3 days ago)
Cross-matching an array of characters to a set of words using NlogN logic

Client side scripting

  (56 votes) by Amir Jalilifard (updated 4 days ago)
Lets take an exciting travel to the land of MVC, MVP and MVVM patterns with our sexy friend : JavaScript
  (3 votes) by Sander Rossel (updated 7 hours ago)
The sixth in a series on web development.

Database

  (14 votes) by Sander Rossel (updated 7 hours ago)
Using C# to get data in- and out of your (relational) database.
  (5 votes) by Vladimir Nikitenko (updated 3 days ago)
TnvvCSVFileReader and TnvvCSVStringReader are light weighted and fast classes that resemble unidirectional data set

Dialogs and Windows

  (35 votes) by Steffen Ploetz (updated 6 days ago)
How to get out the maximum from the Roma widget in C# efficiently without dependencies to GUI frameworks like GTK or KDE. Basics and description of concepts.
  (9 votes) by Steffen Ploetz (updated 6 days ago)
How to develop Linux/Unix (X11) GUI applications in C# efficiently without dependencies to GUI frameworks like GTK or KDE. Description of composite widgets.
  (9 votes) by Steffen Ploetz (updated 6 days ago)
How to develop Linux/Unix (X11) GUI applications in C# efficiently without dependencies to GUI frameworks like GTK or KDE. Description of simple widgets.
  (4 votes) by Steffen Ploetz (updated 6 days ago)
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

  (8 votes) by Jan Martin H. (updated 4 hours ago)
This article shows how to create a reusable numbers only TextBox that will *never* hold anything but numbers. You can even toggle if it should hold negative numbers!

Game Development

  (46 votes) by Vahe Karamian (updated 3 days ago)
The first article in a series to discuss Unity 3D and how to get started with your own 3D projects.
  (17 votes) by Vahe Karamian (updated 3 days ago)
The third article in a series to discuss Unity 3D and how to get started with your own 3D projects.
  (16 votes) by Vahe Karamian (updated 3 days ago)
The second article in a series to discuss Unity 3D and how to get started with your own 3D projects.
  (12 votes) by Vahe Karamian (updated 3 days ago)
The fourth article in a series to discuss Unity 3D and how to get started with your own 3D projects.
  (7 votes) by Vahe Karamian (updated 3 days ago)
The fifth article in a series to discuss Unity 3D and how to get started with your own 3D projects.
  (7 votes) by Vahe Karamian (updated 3 days ago)
The sixth article in a series to discuss Unity 3D and how to get started with your own 3D projects.

Grid & Data Controls

  (2 votes) by Sander Rossel (updated 7 hours ago)
Need some flexible in-memory data cache? DataSets might be what you're looking for...

Hardware & System

  (79 votes) by Steve Messer, Emma Burrows (updated 6 days ago)
Windows XP supports multiple keyboards, but by default, the .Net Framework will treat them all as one. This article explains how to use the Windows API Raw Input methods to support multiple keyboards from a C# application.
  (10 votes) by lepipele (updated 19 hours ago)
Enjoy watching your videos on the big screen by building your own Home Theater PC and using XBMC / Kodi. Article also touches on other Media Players like Roku 3, Apple TV, Android TV Boxes...

HTML / CSS

  (23 votes) by Anurag Gandhi (updated 5 days ago)
An html 2d game to describe some basic game development tips in html/css and javascript.
  (16 votes) by Sander Rossel (updated 8 hours ago)
The first in a series on web development.
  (8 votes) by Sander Rossel (updated 8 hours ago)
The second in a series on web development.
  (7 votes) by Sander Rossel (updated 8 hours ago)
The third in a series on web development.
  (6 votes) by Sander Rossel (updated 8 hours ago)
The fifth in a series on web development.

Internet / Network

  (85 votes) by Christophe Bertrand (updated 4 days ago)
A universal and easy serializer for .NET.

IoT on Azure

  (9 votes) by Ranjan.D (updated 3 days ago)
All about "Gilt" product analytic's by making use of Azure and Internet of things.
  (5 votes) by Ranjan.D (updated 4 days ago)
Let us see how we can make use of "Pusher" (a leader in real time technologies) in IOT devices for notification.

Java

  (9 votes) by Nagy Vilmos (updated 5 days ago)
A set of classes providing a polymorphic data structure.

Libraries

  (12 votes) by Alberto Venditti (updated 2 days ago)
Using a .NET Windows service as an engine for specialized custom plug-ins execution

Miscellaneous

  (38 votes) by SSDiver2112 (updated 7 hours ago)
TrackBar with custom coloring, value display, label, and increment buttons.

NoSQL

  (161 votes) by Mehdi Gholam (updated 2 days ago)
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, HQ-Branch Replication, working in Linux)
  (16 votes) by Sander Rossel (updated 7 hours ago)
Getting your feet wet in NoSQL with MongoDB!

PHP

  (2 votes) by Sander Rossel (updated 8 hours ago)
The (long awaited) fourth in a series on web development.

Win32/64 SDK & OS

  (110 votes) by Tsuda Kageyu (updated 5 days ago)
Provides the basic part of Microsoft Detours functionality for both x64/x86 environments.
  (6 votes) by David MacDermot (updated 2 days ago)
An HPGL renderer and demo application for use in data acquisition

Windows Communication Foundation

  (52 votes) by Sujit Bhujbal (updated 4 days ago)
A practical example of a WCF service for inserting , Deleting and Displaying Data using a WCF Service in ASP.NET