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Win your own Smartwatch

Have you started writing your article about smartwatch development yet? Entries for the CodeProject Smartwatch Contest have already started to roll in and you want to make sure you're not left out of this competition.

Three smartwatches will be awarded to the top articles and authors that share their knowledge on programming for Smartwatches. Write about any device you wish (as long as it's a programmable smartwatch) and submit your entry before the contest deadline on October 16th for your chance to win! Congrats also to the authors of the top articles from the month of August. Well done.

"Everything Else" Winner: Rob Kraft Robert’s Rules of Coders: #3 Use Good, Meaningful Names
Runner-up: Eric Z (Jing) Graph is everywhere
C# Winner: Anton Angelov Top 15 Underutilized Features of .NET
Runner-up: Nick Polyak Generic (Non-WPF) Tree to LINQ and Event Propagation on Trees
C++ Winner: Arthur V. Ratz Implementing the Huffman adaptive algorithm to compress 256 colors depth graphics images
Runner-up: Mikhail Semenov C++ Implementations of Quicksort Methods for Sorting Arrays with Lots of Duplicates
Database Winner: Mika Wendelius Properly executing database operations
Runner-up: Rooney Bisht Introduction to SQL Unit Testing using TSQLT
Web Dev Winner: Yvan Rodrigues FETCH! Retrieve data from a remote web server with one line of code (with MVC reCAPTCHA example)
Runner-up: AJSON Audit trail and data versioning with C# and MVC
Mobile Winner: matthewproctor Building a Windows Phone App
Runner-up: Emiliano Musso Get Automatic Pictures from Device and Upload to Web Server

cheers,
Chris Maunder

Weekly Poll Results

Is Coding Addictive?

Survey period: 21 Sep 2015 to 28 Sep 2015

Addiction: a state characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli, despite adverse consequences. (cue the "adverse consequences" jokes regarding your favourite tech company)

OptionVotes% 
Yes, coding is addictive.73946.86739 votes, 46.86%
Sometimes, maybe, possibly.64340.77643 votes, 40.77%
No, it's not.17611.16176 votes, 11.16%
I don't code.191.2019 votes, 1.20%

This week's survey: Do you write async code in .NET?

Latest Additions

New articles added

Android

  (1 votes) by khanzzirfan (updated 2 days ago)
This article helps you to understand how to listen to nested controls inside the recycler view and update the view dynamically.

Applications & Tools

  (3 votes) by Yahya Mohammed Ammouri (updated 5 days ago)
Change the color, fonts, background, padding or any styling for Microsoft dynamic CRM form

ASP.NET

  (0 votes) by Fiyaz Hasan (updated 4 hours ago)
Building a technical event management application with ASP.net 5 MVC and Entity Framework 7

C / C++ Language

  (3 votes) by Shvetsov Evgeniy (updated 4 days ago)
Safe and versatile iterator for user types
  (2 votes) by Sreram K (updated 12 hours ago)
This explains the working of a program that solves Sudoku puzzles.

C#

  (9 votes) by Thomas Nielsen - MIRSK (updated 6 days ago)
This article will take a dive into one of the reasons why code sometimes sands over.
  (7 votes) by Milan Matějka (updated 3 days ago)
Representing Lambda Expressions as delegates and expression trees.
  (2 votes) by Sivaraman Dhamodharan (updated 2 days ago)
Understanding and using Debugger Attributes

Client side scripting

  (10 votes) by Shenwei Liu (updated 4 days ago)
Demonstration of a full-fledged application project focused on adding, updating, and deleting data on modal dialogs or inline tables using the AngularJS and Web API, plus advanced custom input validations and other features.
  (9 votes) by David Catuhe (updated 4 days ago)
I’ll demonstrate building a game from scratch using Web technologies and just two external libraries, and I’ll do it in less than one hour.
  (5 votes) by Aaron Gustafson (updated 6 days ago)
Responsive Web Design: Where Do We Go From Here?

Database

  (6 votes) by Mr.PoorEnglish (updated 5 days ago)
The basic principle in simple words. Then step forward to a concrete sample.
  (2 votes) by Dr. Song Li (updated 3 days ago)
This is an example to check the SQL server disk and data file usage statistics.

Design and Architecture

  (4 votes) by Simon Gulliver (updated 4 days ago)
Really? Then why is so much effort wasted writing boilerplate which can be more accurately and efficiently automated?

Exception Handling

  (3 votes) by Philipp Sch (updated 5 days ago)

General Graphics

  (8 votes) by Stefano Castelli (updated 3 days ago)
The article will illustrate how to create a Code39 barcode in VB.NET and C#

iPhone

  (4 votes) by Will J Miller (updated 4 days ago)
This article details the necessary UITableViewDelegate methods required to fully support a form presented in a UITableView.

Raspberry Pi

  (0 votes) by Mosi_62 (updated yesterday)
Writing a I/O device driver for Raspberry Pi

SharePoint Server

  (2 votes) by Atish Dipongkor (updated 6 days ago)
Synchronize Active Directory (AD) users to a SharePoint List. We will create a timer job for that. This timer job will periodically sync AD users to a SharePoint list.

Tablets and All-in-Ones

  (9 votes) by Nayan Zawar (updated yesterday)
application provides a new way of online Shopping by surfing in a virtual mall in which user can would be able to shop online with a new touch experience owing to 3D-clone of user itself

Tools and IDE

  (1 votes) by KevinPo (updated 6 days ago)
How to navigate and program against the Release Management API, even though it does not have official documentation.

Wearables

  (9 votes) by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan (updated 6 days ago)
This article covers the topics required to understand for building and deploying Android Wear applications.
  (6 votes) by syed shanu (updated 3 days ago)
In this Article we will see how to create a simple App for AGENT Smartwatch.
  (3 votes) by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan (updated 3 days ago)
This article covers how to create new faces for your Android Wear and explains the how-to procedure with a few personal experience notes.
  (1 votes) by syed shanu (updated 3 hours ago)
Introduction to Samsung Gear App Development.

Windows Runtime

  (1 votes) by Axel Rietschin (updated 6 days ago)
Import photos & videos from smart phones and digital cameras using the Windows Photo Import API for Windows Universal Apps and Classic Win32 applications on Windows 10 and beyond.

Work Issues

  (0 votes) by Duncan Edwards Jones (updated 4 days ago)
An analysis of what is needed to automate or eliminate the discipline of "project manager"

XML

  (4 votes) by Lao Chen (updated 6 days ago)
A lightweight method to process binary XML. As a general data representation technique, it simplifies the design of database and protocol with convenience.

Articles updated

.NET Framework

  (5 votes) by ProgramFOX (updated 15 hours ago)
CodeProject New Questions Tracker is an application that displays a notification when a new question is posted on CodeProject.

Android

  (17 votes) by DavidCrow (updated 3 days ago)
Viewing time as a series of (progress) bars

ASP.NET

  (31 votes) by kenyeungdk (updated 6 days ago)
Build your own marketplace with BeYourMarket
  (9 votes) by syed shanu (updated 6 days ago)
This article shows how to create a Are You Genius game using MVC, AngularJS and Web API 2.

C / C++ Language

  (39 votes) by Shao Voon Wong (updated 3 days ago)
Read/write CSV in few lines of code!
  (31 votes) by Jerry Evans (updated 5 days ago)
Adding cross-platform round-trip JSON serialization to C++ classes

Client side scripting

  (10 votes) by Olivier Giulieri (updated 6 days ago)
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.

Design and Architecture

  (151 votes) by dmihailescu (updated 4 days ago)
A Visual Studio add-in that inserts some commonly known OO paterns into your working project and searches your highlights online.

Files and Folders

  (353 votes) by Uzi Granot (updated 5 days ago)
PDF File Writer is a C# .NET class library allowing applications to create PDF files. Version 1.16.3 enhancements: Unicode text support and reduced memory requirements.

Grid & Data Controls

  (21 votes) by syed shanu (updated 6 days ago)
In this article we will learn about DataGridView Gantt Style Chart Using C# WinForm.

Hardware & System

  (11 votes) by lepipele (updated 2 days 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

  (20 votes) by Peter Leow (updated 13 hours ago)
Learn to create a responsive web page.

Libraries

  (46 votes) by Alberto Venditti (updated 3 days ago)
Using a .NET Windows service as an engine for specialized custom plug-ins execution

Tablets and All-in-Ones

  (4 votes) by DrABELL (updated 6 days ago)
App implements bi-directional semantic phone number-to-text converter, extended with novel Lottery+Quiz engine

Validation

  (8 votes) by Gerd Wagner (updated 4 days ago)
What are the most important types of integrity constraints to be checked in any data management app?

XML

  (81 votes) by Brian Aberle (updated 4 days ago)
XMLFoundation is the fastest approach to dealing with XML and it also delivers a simple and easy to manage pattern of software development into your application.

New Tips and Tricks added

Android

  (0 votes) by newton.saber (updated yesterday)
Examining Android Running Processes & Wondering Why My Device Is So Slow

ASP.NET

  (2 votes) by Web Technobrat (updated 13 hours ago)
A quick walkthrough for implementing client and server side validations in a variety of ways in ASP.NET MVC projects.

Azure

  (0 votes) by JoaoSousa23 (updated 5 hours ago)
This is a short manual on how to create and configure cloud service on azure with a specific version of .NET Framework

Book Reviews

  (2 votes) by Simon Jackson (updated 3 days ago)
Review of two AR/VR book resources to enable devs to jump on the reality train

C#

  (9 votes) by Sergey Kizyan (updated 5 days ago)
I'm starting set of C# lectures for our engineers. First lecture is about C# built-in types also known as primitive types.
  (3 votes) by nazim_altinay (updated 4 days ago)
I was living difficulties to update ListView Items, I solved mostly creates individual forms for every Listview to update Items in the past. It was difficult and takes my time.
  (2 votes) by dibley1973 (updated 4 days ago)
Call stored procedures in a type safe way using my StoredProcedureFramework for .Net
  (1 votes) by hlonihloksDJ (updated 5 days ago)
Building DynamicTVP

Database

  (7 votes) by Sarathi Balakrishnan (updated 6 days ago)
Reset SQL server SA (System Admin) Password. When you lost all possible way to connect to SQL server and your server has only windows authentication disabled. You should have windows administrator permission to do this.
  (3 votes) by AshishShukla6 (updated yesterday)
This article describes step by step implementation of executing stored procedure having user-defined table type as a parameter in entity framework using EntityFrameworkExtras package

Debug Tips

  (7 votes) by Bartlomiej Filipek (updated 4 days ago)
By default Visual Studio (up to VS 2013) uses additional debug heap that slows down applications, even in Release mode. Read what you can do about this.

Design and Architecture

  (11 votes) by Bartlomiej Filipek (updated 3 days ago)
How to apply the strategy pattern to a problem during designing a class hierarchy. What are the pros and cons of this approach?

Exception Handling

  (0 votes) by Carlos Bocanegra (updated 3 days ago)
This article describes a useful way to create and send an email with a summary of the exceptions from a file validtion process in a SSIS package using a XML and a XSLT template.

HTML / CSS

  (0 votes) by jnegron215 (updated 2 days ago)
This article will describe how to add a new Panel type to a customized version of the bootstrap framework.

Installation

  (0 votes) by Vyacheslav Voronenko (updated 5 days ago)
Steps to enable nested virtualization VT-x, AMD-V in VMWare ESXi 5.1

Shell and IE programming

  (3 votes) by Rou1997 (updated 5 days ago)
Access HTML Pages Opening in IE . . .

User Controls

  (1 votes) by B. Clay Shannon (updated 6 days ago)
Easy-as-eating-gooseberry-pie handful of steps to incorporate a dialog into your Meteor app

Web Services

  (0 votes) by NewbieProgrammr (updated 5 days ago)
This article will help you send SMS through API call by integrating TheTexting RESTful API

Windows Communication Foundation

  (0 votes) by Phil Boyd (updated 3 days ago)
Adding support for PasswordDigest to WCF Service References

Windows Presentation Foundation

  (2 votes) by Ponkarthikeyan Thangavel (updated 3 days ago)
This article describes about applying reusable read-only styles for WPF controls at Application/User Control level
  (1 votes) by varadii (updated 3 days ago)
The way x:Bind is (not) working in universal Windows applications
  (1 votes) by Piyush Manharlal (updated yesterday)
using integer instead of Enum for ComboBox and Radio Button in Xaml

Work Issues

  (0 votes) by Southmountain (updated yesterday)
some take-away to improve the quality of desktop software.

Tips and Tricks updated

C#

  (12 votes) by Mike Barthold (updated 5 days ago)
Generic EventHandler/EventArgs with a generic implicit cast operator

Client side scripting

  (5 votes) by Peter Leow (updated 20 hours ago)
Learn to bind events on jQuery selectors that are created on the fly.

New Technical Blogs added

.NET Framework

  (2 votes) by Arian Celina (updated 3 days ago)
This article is a part of a multi-post article on Entity Framework Code First for web applications: Entity Framework Code First Entities and entity relationships Entity Framework Data Context Entity Framework Migrations and Data seeding It is not very often that I see web development tutorials focus
  (1 votes) by Leonid Ganeline (updated 3 days ago)
Originally posted on: http://blog.loethen.net/archive/2015/05/06/serializers-in-.net.-v.2.aspx[v.2.9.0 2015-08-19] I've decided to keep live the first version of this post. It is interesting how tests evolve and how results change. V.1.0.10 see here. The v.2 was inspired by OniBait, thanks a lot!
  (1 votes) by Arian Celina (updated 2 days ago)
This article is a part of a multi-post article on Entity Framework Code First for web applications: Entity Framework Code First Entities and entity relationships What do you need to know about Entity Framework Data Context Entity Framework Migrations and Data seeding This article is the second part
  (0 votes) by Leonid Ganeline (updated 3 days ago)
Originally posted on: http://blog.loethen.net/archive/2015/02/26/serializers-in-.net.aspxThis post is obsolete and kept only for sentimental reasons :)Please go to the v.2 of this article.The project code is on GitHub. Any distributed system requires serializing to transfer data through the wires.

C#

  (11 votes) by DotNetForAll (updated 5 days ago)
The article helps us to understand Virtual, override, abstract and new keywords in C#
  (2 votes) by Anton Angelov (updated 7 hours ago)
Benchmark, which works faster for getting the default value for a nullable type, Null Coalescing Operator or GetValueOrDefault or Conditional Operator.

Exception Handling

  (2 votes) by EngineerSpock (updated 4 days ago)
Have you ever seen that recommendation to avoid exception handling like this: Well, indeed, I agree that this kind of code looks pretty bad. But is it helpful to know only that? No, it is not. The problem of proper error\exceptions handling is very far from being popular. There are some articles in

Google Cloud Platform

  (0 votes) by Tarun_Arora (updated 6 days ago)
Originally posted on: http://staffofgeeks.net/archive/2013/06/30/cloud-based-load-testing-using-tf-service-amp-vs-2013.aspx One of the new features announced as part of the Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate Preview is ‘Cloud Based Load Testing’. In this blog post I’ll walk you through, What is Cloud
  (0 votes) by Tarun_Arora (updated 4 days ago)
Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/archive/2013/06/30/cloud-based-load-testing-using-tf-service-amp-vs-2013.aspx One of the new features announced as part of the Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate Preview is ‘Cloud Based Load Testing’. In this blog post I’ll walk you through, What is Clou

IoT on Azure

  (3 votes) by Paul S. Chapman (updated 3 days ago)
Originally posted on: http://blog.shaunxu.me/archive/2009/05/26/windows-azure-tds-wcf-silverlight-and-a-few-problems-on-and-again.aspxIntroductionAfter a short sojourn with the Visual Studio 2010 Beta, I’m back with the next part. Pop quiz – can you run Visual Studio Team Foundation and Visual Studi
  (1 votes) by Paul S. Chapman (updated 3 days ago)
Originally posted on: http://bobhardister.com/archive/2009/05/26/windows-azure-tds-wcf-silverlight-and-a-few-problems-on-and-again.aspxIntroductionAfter a short sojourn with the Visual Studio 2010 Beta, I’m back with the next part. Pop quiz – can you run Visual Studio Team Foundation and Visual Stud
  (1 votes) by Paul S. Chapman (updated 3 days ago)
Originally posted on: http://blog.shaunxu.me/archive/2009/05/13/windows-azure-tds-wcf-silverlight-and-a-few-problems-on-again.aspxProject Sourcecode: NewsMashupIn Part I of this series of articles I discussed the database that lies behind the application. Moving from the backend to the client side,
  (0 votes) by Paul S. Chapman (updated 3 days ago)
Originally posted on: http://bobhardister.com/archive/2009/05/14/windows-azure-tds-wcf-silverlight-and-a-few-problems-on-yet-again.aspxSo far Parts I & II have not given us anything new – the code will work happily in an ASP.Net or a traditional client application. Now we get to a more interesting b
  (0 votes) by Paul S. Chapman (updated 3 days ago)
Originally posted on: http://bobhardister.com/archive/2009/05/13/windows-azure-tds-wcf-silverlight-and-a-few-problems-on-again.aspxProject Sourcecode: NewsMashupIn Part I of this series of articles I discussed the database that lies behind the application. Moving from the backend to the client side,
  (0 votes) by Paul S. Chapman (updated 3 days ago)
Originally posted on: http://blog.shaunxu.me/archive/2009/05/14/windows-azure-tds-wcf-silverlight-and-a-few-problems-on-yet-again.aspxSo far Parts I & II have not given us anything new – the code will work happily in an ASP.Net or a traditional client application. Now we get to a more interesting bi

Microsoft BizTalk Server

  (0 votes) by Leonid Ganeline (updated 5 days ago)
Originally posted on: http://oofgeek.com/archive/2014/02/02/biztalk-deployment-hell-amp-biztalk-deployment-framework.aspxIs there something special in the BizTalk Server application deployment? Why is it so special? BizTalk Deployment Hell For the .NET applications the live is simple. There is an
  (0 votes) by Leonid Ganeline (updated 5 days ago)
Originally posted on: http://oofgeek.com/archive/2014/01/11/biztalk-complex-decoding-in-data-transformations.aspxSometimes we need to make complex decoding in the data transformations. It could happen especially in the big EDI documents as HIPAA.Let’s start with examples.In one example we need to de

Node.js

  (3 votes) by Sander Rossel (updated 6 days ago)
The last in a series on MEAN web development.

Testing and QA

  (7 votes) by Anton Angelov (updated 3 days ago)
Create automation framework based on Page Object Pattern. Detailed overview how to create singleton pages via IoC container.
  (0 votes) by Member 11794279 (updated 3 days ago)
In this short article I would like to say a few words about the phenomenon of code biodegradation and present you some tips on how to deal with it, so that your everyday work doesn’t become a real ordeal over time.

Uncategorised Technical Blogs

  (0 votes) by Grant Curell (updated 5 days ago)
Introduction When I first sought to understand the symbol table and the global offset table (GOT) I found bits and pieces of information, but I had trouble getting the whole picture. As I understood what the symbol table/GOT are, I realized it is easier to describe the symbol table/GOT in the contex
  (0 votes) by Leonid Ganeline (updated 3 days ago)
Originally posted on: http://blog.loethen.net/archive/2014/07/15/nservicebus-vs.-masstransit.aspxI have got an interesting request to compare and choose the right integration technology for one of my customer. By the end of the day the technologies were limited by NServiceBus and MassTransit system
  (0 votes) by Vangos Pterneas (updated yesterday)
During the past few months, I have been quite inactive. It was for a good reason, though. My team and I have been working on an ambitious project that helps Kinect developers build apps faster. I would like to introduce Vitruvius. What is Vitruvius? During the past few years, Kinect developers from
  (0 votes) by Passion4Code (updated 5 hours ago)
Introduction There exists an assumption that there is a direct relationship between the requested URLs and the files stored on the server. But does this make sense in an MVC application, where requests are processed by action methods and controllers and there is no relation to files on the server (d

Windows Communication Foundation

  (0 votes) by Rajneesh Kumar Verma (updated 2 days ago)
Using OData and WCF Service and visualize result using LinqPad

Windows Presentation Foundation

  (7 votes) by Rajneesh Kumar Verma (updated 3 days ago)
This article will let you to start developing Universal Windows App in windows 10 using Visual Studio 2015

Windows Security

  (0 votes) by Rajneesh Kumar Verma (updated 2 days ago)
Deploy a Windows Application with SQL Server Database using Visual Studio 2010

XML

  (2 votes) by Leonid Ganeline (updated 5 days ago)
Originally posted on: http://oofgeek.com/archive/2014/01/20/complex-xml-schemas-how-to-simplify.aspx[Sample code is here: HIPAA Schema Simplification for the BizTalk Server application]The XML Schemas are used for two main tasks: for processing XML documents (for the XML document validation and for

Blogs updated

Client side scripting

  (11 votes) by Rajneesh Kumar Verma (updated 2 days ago)
This article will guide you to Create, Read, Update and Delete Data using Angular JS in ASP.NET MVC 4

Design and Architecture

  (13 votes) by Anton Angelov (updated 3 days ago)
Explains in detail how to implement Singleton Design Pattern. Practical examples how to use it in automation tests, following all SOLID principles.



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