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Weekly Newsletter (27 Jul 2015)

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June Article Competition

There were some tight races in this month's monthly article competition. Congratulations to all the authors and articles that took the top spots in the June Monthy Article Competition! Well done.

"Everything Else"	Winner:	Stephen C Young	Why You Must Tame Complexity to Become a Better Programmer
	Runner-up:	Hideous Humpback Freak	Recursion – Good, Bad, or Indifferent?
C#	Winner:	Nick Polyak	Plain C# implementation of WPF Concepts - Part 1 AProps and Introduction to Bindings
	Runner-up:	Bulbul Ahmed (KU-00)	Asynchronous programming and Threading in C# (.NET 4.5)
C++	Winner:	Arthur V. Ratz	Implementing AI Evolutionary binary distribution algorithm for solving the numeric approximation problem
	Runner-up:	Michael Chourdakis	XML++ version 3: The C++11 update of my XML Library
Database	Winner:	Jose Segarra	JSON for SQL Server. Part 1
	Runner-up:	essentialSQL	How do the SQL DISTINCT and TOP SELECT Clauses Work Together to Generate Results?
Web Dev	Winner:	Marla Sukesh	Learn MVC Project in 7 Days – Day 4
	Runner-up:	Akhil Mittal	RESTful Day #3: Resolve dependency of dependencies using Inversion of Control and dependency injection in ASP.NET Web APIs with Unity Container and Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)
Mobile	Winner:	Azim Zahir	Android Compass
	Runner-up:	Emiliano Musso	Geolocalize a Device and Store Coordinates on Webserver

cheers,
Chris Maunder

Weekly Poll Results

Do you enjoy Software Development?

Survey period: 20 Jul 2015 to 27 Jul 2015

We tend to think of ourselves as passionate about our art. Is this actually the case?

Option	Votes	%
Yes. A lot.	598	51.42
Yes, mostly.	379	32.59
Yes, sometimes.	138	11.87
Rarely.	22	1.89
No, never.	9	0.77
I don't code.	17	1.46
Total	1163	100%

This week's survey: Windows 10 goes live this week. As a developer, is this good news or bad news?

Latest Additions

New articles added

Applications & Tools

Fluent Migrator for Database Migration

(3 votes) by Sumit Tech Brain (updated 11 hours ago)

Fluent Migrator makes the database migration very easy. It is a database migration framework for .NET and uses fluent interface to manipulate database.

Arduino

Making an Audio Spectrum analyzer with Bass.dll, C# and Arduino - Part 2.

(2 votes) by webmaster442 (updated 5 days ago)

A mini howto on making a cool Audio Spectrum analyzer with C# and Arduino

ASP.NET

Baby Steps towards ASP.NET 5 Web Application and see What’s New

(7 votes) by Sreekanth Mothukuru (updated 4 days ago)

In this article we are going to see how and where to download Visual Studio 2015 to create a brand new simple Asp.Net 5 Web Application and have a quick overview on what's new in C# 6

Learn MVC Project in 7 Days – Bonus day 1

(3 votes) by Marla Sukesh (updated 2 days ago)

This article is a continuation article of the series “Learn MVC project in 7 days

Audio and Video

Windows MCI Player in C++ CLI

(5 votes) by Jerome Vonk (updated 5 days ago)

A music player powered by MCI & Window Forms

C / C++ Language

XLL Auto-Generation - An Example of a Metadata Driven Tool

(4 votes) by DriveByCoder (updated 5 days ago)

XLL Auto-Generation - An Example of a Metadata Driven Tool

Client side scripting

How to create a vorlon.js plug-in to test your own JavaScript remotely

(4 votes) by Etienne Margraff (updated 6 days ago)

Vorlon.js is mainly composed of a dashboard which displays data coming from your site. To make it work, you only have to reference a script in your site code.

True Gaming Experience

(2 votes) by Robby Ingebretsen (updated 4 days ago)

This tutorial is the 3rd in a series on Flight Arcade – built to demonstrate what’s possible on the web platform and in the new Microsoft Edge browser and EdgeHTML rendering engine.

Database

Use EF Power Tool to generate EF POCO classes

(4 votes) by Kuv Patel (updated 3 days ago)

A quick and simple way of generating POCO classes and EF mappings for database tables.

Java

Build Air Quality Index widgets for both Android and Windows using ThinkAlike (Part II)

(2 votes) by Tiancheng Hu (updated 2 days ago)

New samples of using ThinkAlike to accomplish Android/Desktop cross-platform development, including helloworld, Web API access and widget UI.

Miscellaneous

Win32 Thread Pools and C++11 : A quick wrapper

(2 votes) by Michael Chourdakis (updated 21 hours ago)

Use Windows new ThreadPool through a single C++ 11 class.

Windows Remote Debugging : Tips & Tricks to discharge your customer's troubles

(2 votes) by Michael Chourdakis (updated yesterday)

My experience in troubleshooting in software development.

Parallel Programming

Distributed Semantic Computing

(4 votes) by Marc Clifton (updated 2 days ago)

Distributed semantic computing in a multi-threaded, Type-First Development (TFD) system

Articles updated

.NET Framework

Returning Multiple Result Sets from an Entity Framework Stored Procedure with Function Import Mappings

(21 votes) by Shenwei Liu (updated 4 days ago)

A practical workaround to fix the Function Import mappings for an EF stored procedure returning multiple result sets.

Algorithms & Recipes

Implementing Gradient Descent to Solve a Linear Regression Problem in Matlab

(2 votes) by Ashkan Poorghasem (updated 6 days ago)

Hands on tutorial of implementing batch gradient descent to solve a linear regression problem in Matlab

Applications & Tools

MVC AngularJS and WCF Rest Service For Mind Reader Quiz

(28 votes) by syed shanu (updated 4 days ago)

In this article we will see in detail how to create an online Mind Reader quiz game using AngularJS and WCF Rest Service

ASP.NET

Learn MVC Project in 7 days – Day 1

(200 votes) by Shivprasad koirala, Marla Sukesh (updated 2 days ago)

In this article we learn MVC 5 step by step in 7 days – Day 1.

Learn MVC Project in 7 days – Day 2

(87 votes) by Marla Sukesh (updated 2 days ago)

In this article we learn MVC 5 step by step in 7 days – Day 2.

Learn MVC Project in 7 days – Day 3

(52 votes) by Marla Sukesh (updated 2 days ago)

In this article we will take our MVC 5 Project into next level by introducing Data Entry Screen and Database Communication.

YouTube™ API for ASP.NET

(41 votes) by DrABELL (updated 5 days ago)

YouTube™ API for ASP.NET, AJAX-extended (C#).

Learn MVC Project in 7 Days – Day 4

(37 votes) by Marla Sukesh (updated 2 days ago)

This article is continuation of day 4 for Learn MVC Project in 7 Days.

First MVC Application for Beginners

(45 votes) by Singh Deepika (updated 4 days ago)

This article will step by step guide you through the Flow of MVC application clearing your basic concepts of MVC

Learn MVC Project in 7 days - Day 5

(32 votes) by Marla Sukesh (updated 2 days ago)

This article is continuation of day 5 for Learn MVC Project in 7 Days.

MVC, Angular JS CRUD using WEB API 2 with Stored Procedure

(24 votes) by syed shanu (updated 20 hours ago)

In this article we will see how to create a simple web application using MVC 5 ,Angular JS ,WEB API 2 to perform CRUD(Create/Read/Update and Delete) Operations using Entity Framework with Stored procedure.

Learn MVC Project in 7 days - Day 6

(22 votes) by Marla Sukesh (updated 2 days ago)

This article is continuation of day 6 for Learn MVC Project in 7 Days.

Learn MVC Project in 7 Days – Day 7

(6 votes) by Marla Sukesh (updated 2 days ago)

This article is continuation of day 7 for Learn MVC Project in 7 Days.

Boards / Embedded devices

Making an Audio Spectrum analyzer with Bass.dll, C# and Arduino

(29 votes) by webmaster442 (updated 2 days ago)

A mini howto on using bass.dll & bass.net wrapper.

C / C++ Language

Expression Evaluator Example Using a Variadic Visitor Pattern in C++

(10 votes) by phillipvoyle (updated 6 days ago)

Illustrates the idea of a variadic visitor pattern in C++ by way of an example expression calculator

Proxying object allocations with Templates and class level new/delete overrides in C++

(9 votes) by Dmitriy Ryajov (updated 3 days ago)

A technique to use templates and class level new and delete overrides to handle object allocations.

C#

Learning C# (Day 6): Understanding Enums in C# (A Practical Approach)

(110 votes) by Akhil Mittal (updated 4 days ago)

Day 6: Understanding Enums in C#.My article of the series “Diving in OOP” will explain enum datatype in C#.

Learning C# (Day 9): Understanding Events in C# (An Insight)

(35 votes) by Akhil Mittal , Vikas Sharma (updated 4 days ago)

Understanding Events in C# (An Insight)

Learning C# (Day 8): Indexers in C# (A Practical Approach)

(29 votes) by Akhil Mittal (updated 4 days ago)

OOP: Indexers in C# (A Practical Approach)

Learning C# (Day 7): Properties in C# (A Practical Approach)

(27 votes) by Akhil Mittal (updated 4 days ago)

OOP: Properties in C# (A Practical Approach).

Custom Controls

A lightweight HTML5 grid from scratch

(24 votes) by marcel heeremans (updated 6 days ago)

An introduction as to how to create a semi-advanced extendible HTML5 grid from scratch. This really isn't as daunting a task as many think!

Files and Folders

Resolving the Windows OS Missing Piece: Easiest Way To Investigate Running Processes

(10 votes) by newton.saber (updated 6 days ago)

With this utility you can get a good idea of whether or not that oddly named Process you see in TaskManager is malicious or not.

GPU Programming

GCN Assembler for AMD GPUs

(10 votes) by Ryan S White (updated 6 days ago)

an assembler/compiler for AMD’s GCN (Generation Core Next Architecture) Assembly Language

HTML / CSS

Master Pages using HTML and JavaScript

(24 votes) by gggustafson (updated 6 days ago)

Describes a method whereby Web Master Pages can be developed using HTML and JavaScript.

IoT on Azure

Collecting and Analyzing Car Telematics Using Azure and Arduino

(9 votes) by incipire (updated 5 days ago)

This article discusses using Arduino to collect and send data from your car's OBD-II to the cloud using Windows Azure.

List Controls

ListView Column Sorter

(40 votes) by Sven So. (updated 5 days ago)

A column sorter that sorts columns with strings and numbers (also decimals), but also the first column on image and then on string.

Web Services

FakeHttp

(8 votes) by Don Kackman (updated 2 days ago)

Faking http response messages to decouple client unit tests from service implementation

New Tips and Tricks added

.NET Framework

Arrays Generator

(6 votes) by Alaa Ben Fatma (updated 11 hours ago)

Generate your arrays using a GUI tool

ASP.NET

Using jQuery DataTables with Server-Side Processing with ASP.NET MVC

(3 votes) by Junlin Xu (updated 5 days ago)

This article shows how to use jQuery DataTables (version v1.10.7) with server-side processing.

Azure

Upload and Delete Video File to Microsoft Azure Blob Storage with ASP.NET MVC

(4 votes) by Mukesh Pr@sad (updated 5 days ago)

Upload and Delete Video File to Microsoft Azure Blob Storage with ASP.NET MVC

C#

M3 Encryption Algorithm For Encrypting Text

(16 votes) by Michael_Jacobsen (updated 6 days ago)

Encryption algorithm based on key self-mutation. Complete source code and examples of how to use it.

Database

MySQL Essentials for Beginners

(4 votes) by Masoud AI (updated 5 days ago)

Things you need to know before you start working with MySQL

Dynamic Pivot Query in SQL Server

(1 votes) by Chetan Naithani (updated 4 days ago)

Transforming dynamic row-level data into columns

Date and Time

High Resolution Time For Windows 7

(3 votes) by Phil Hamer (updated 4 days ago)

Provides high-resolution estimate of time for Windows 7 and other OS versions that don't support GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime.

Desktop Gadgets

How to Change Date Format in Crystal Report

(2 votes) by Mian Adnan (updated 3 days ago)

Using Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2012, .NET 4.5 and Crystal Report Version regarding .NET 4.5 and VS 2012.

GDI

GDI DrawString Configurator App

(1 votes) by Petr Bříza (updated 9 hours ago)

This app helps you with understanding and using GDI DrawString function: precise measuring, positioning, quality setting and performance tuning.

Internet / Network

Windows SSL Certificate Cleaner

(3 votes) by Dr Gadgit (updated 6 days ago)

Displays Windows SSL certifiacte in a tree-view and allows you to delete some certificates

Miscellaneous

Designing Linear Gradient Backgrounds With CSS

(5 votes) by jack dson (updated 4 days ago)

Let's play around a little with color transition effects and find out the nitty-gritty of designing gradient backgrounds with CSS3.

Loading Clock .NET Control

(2 votes) by NightRider92 (updated 7 hours ago)

Custom control for .NET

Programming Tips

How to extract images from an Office document

(1 votes) by Mika Wendelius (updated 18 hours ago)

This tip shows how to extract images from an Office document saved in Office Open XML format.

Tips and Tricks updated

Custom Controls

Public-Domain HTML 3D Library

(19 votes) by Peter Occil (updated 3 days ago)

A public domain JavaScript library for easing the development of HTML 3D applications

Database

How to fetch data from the previous or next rows in the resultset

(4 votes) by Mika Wendelius (updated 10 hours ago)

This tip demonstrates the use of LAG and LEAD functions in Oracle.

How to Change Password in Oracle

(2 votes) by Mika Wendelius (updated 10 hours ago)

This alternative is created to correct few mistakes in the original tip. Most importantly: Never update system tables.

New Technical Blogs added

Ajax

Handy Tips to Handle Form Submit using AJAX

(7 votes) by Prava-MFS (updated 5 days ago)

Here are some handy tips to handle form submit using Ajax

Arduino

Arduino software reset

(2 votes) by Mircea Diaconescu, Gerd Wagner (updated 3 days ago)

Three easy ways to programmatically reboot/reset an Arduino MCU.

Boards / Embedded devices

Identifying the Arduino Microcontroller Type

(2 votes) by Mircea Diaconescu, Gerd Wagner (updated 4 days ago)

Learn how to identifying the Arduino microcontroller type by simply using C/C++ code.

C#

Refactoring real world application

(3 votes) by xszaboj (updated 3 days ago)

Today I’d like to share with you bit of refactoring. Class name: ExternalAccessService methods to refactor: 1. GenerateTokenForApply 2. GenerateTokenForResults 3. GenerateTokenForClient We don’t need all details of these methods but what is interesting about them is that every one of the

Read web.config settings

(2 votes) by xszaboj (updated 3 days ago)

Hi everyone, I don’t know how about you, but I always forget how to read settings from web.config file. So a wrote a static class that will help me with that and I’d like to share it with you. 1. Read connection strings public static string GetConnectionStringUsingConfigurationManager(st

Date and Time

Algorithm time complexity 1- what is it

(1 votes) by xszaboj (updated 3 days ago)

In these days, we have super fast computers that can compute so fast we can’t even imagine it. So should we care about our algorithm time coplexity? Well I hope that with little bit of math and some examples I will convince you that you should care. How to compute time complexity? At first you

Design and Architecture

Moving to xUnit.net

(3 votes) by Cybermaxs (updated 4 days ago)

Moving to xUnit.net

Other .NET Languages

Custom Authentication and Authorization in ASP.NET MVC

(3 votes) by Imran Abdul Ghani (updated 5 days ago)

ASP.NET MVC provides us the basic Authorization and Authentication functionalities when we use the Project template as Internet. It does all the major functionalities such as Role membership management, Login credential validation handling etc. For more information about basic authorization in MVC a

Uncategorised Technical Blogs

Basic "shoot to target" in Unity 3D

(3 votes) by Eduardo Fonseca (updated 4 days ago)

Basic "shoot to target" in Unity 3D

Zen Coding (Emmet)

(3 votes) by xszaboj (updated 3 days ago)

In my last post I talked about Sublime Text and how great text editor it is. And today I would like to show you one of its plugin called Emmet. Emmet was previously known as Zen Coding and it is a time saving plugin for text editors. Why is this plugin so cool? Well, sit […]

Web Security

Jenkins Pipeline Step: Node Security Project

(2 votes) by Karl Stoney (updated 5 days ago)

How to configure Jenkins to automatically check your Node.JS projects dependencies against the Node Security Project

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