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Weekly Newsletter (14 Dec 2015)
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Thank you for being part of our community.

It's been an eventful year for many and so with the start of the holiday season I wanted to take the opportunity to say thank you for being part of CodeProject.

Our members come from across the globe. All countries, all cultures, all walks of life, connected through technology by our love of technology and our willingness to share and help each other without judgement or reserve. We have a lot to learn from each other.

I'm immensely proud of what we've built, so thank you. Be safe, be connected and keep learning.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

Weekly Poll Results

What's your favourite type of music to listen to while coding?

Survey period: 7 Dec 2015 to 14 Dec 2015

Yes there are a near infinite number of genres and sub-genres but choose the one that best fits your tastes or select other and tell us in the comments. What sounds get your creative juices flowing?

OptionVotes% 
Rock29714.27297 votes, 14.27%
Pop813.8981 votes, 3.89%
Metal21110.14211 votes, 10.14%
Jazz713.4171 votes, 3.41%
Classical22810.96228 votes, 10.96%
Country401.9240 votes, 1.92%
House / Techno21810.48218 votes, 10.48%
Hip Hop / Rap462.2146 votes, 2.21%
R&B190.9119 votes, 0.91%
Punk271.3027 votes, 1.30%
Indie381.8338 votes, 1.83%
Oldies723.4672 votes, 3.46%
Other1949.32194 votes, 9.32%
I don't listen to music while coding54025.95540 votes, 25.95%

This week's survey: It's the holiday season. How much paid vacation do you actually get per year?

Latest Additions

New articles added

Algorithms & Recipes

  (17 votes) by sbarnes (updated 3 days ago)
To barrow an idiom, even bad Mandelbrot is good

Android

  (4 votes) by Ansel Castro (updated 6 days ago)
Introduction to ENTERLIB a MVVM framework for Android

Applications & Tools

  (3 votes) by Modesty Zhang (updated 3 days ago)
A simple and practical unidirectional data flow implementation with Reactive Extensions RxJS for React components.

ASP.NET

  (13 votes) by Omar Nasri (updated 4 days ago)
This article explains how to load dynamic HTML content through an ASP.NET MVC example using JQuery and AJAX
  (13 votes) by Omar Nasri (updated 6 days ago)
This article explains how to use the JQuery Autocomplete Plugin.
  (9 votes) by Anurag Gandhi (updated 5 days ago)
A group Sudoku game to demonstrate the usage of SignalR in AngularJs application.
  (3 votes) by Brownie24 (updated 6 days ago)
A simple how-to for beginners to .NET MVC for the implementation of bootstrap modals and client/server-side validation.

C#

  (4 votes) by stebo0728 (updated 5 days ago)
  (3 votes) by Dave Haig (updated 5 hours ago)
Web Socket Server implemented in C# for the modern version 13 of the Web Socket protocol
  (0 votes) by syed shanu (updated 3 hours ago)
In this article you will learn how to perform DataGridView CRUD with saving image to SQL Server using C#.

Client side scripting

  (13 votes) by Rami Sayar (updated 5 days ago)
Let’s take a look at the top JavaScript web front-end framework, libraries & tools and when to use them.
  (3 votes) by Abhay Saxena (updated 6 days ago)
Just start learning Custom Directives in AngularJS.

Code Generation

  (0 votes) by MaSinger (updated 19 hours ago)
A maven plugin that allows your code to write itself - In this case: inject logging calls

Combo & List Boxes

  (7 votes) by Tim Bomgardner (updated 6 days ago)
A CheckedListBox with dynamic foreground, background, and font

List Controls

  (1 votes) by Brownie24 (updated 1 hour ago)
A simple, step-by-step guide to implementing a multi-select list in .NET MVC, intended for beginners to .NET.

Node.js

  (1 votes) by Jovan Popovic (updated 2 days ago)
In this article you will see how to compress data in SQL Server using GZip algorithm and send it via node.js to browser.

Product Showcase

  (0 votes) by Mark_Warren (updated 3 days ago)
Below are some key tips to consider when looking at the Internet of Things.
  (0 votes) by DBI Technologies Inc (updated 3 days ago)
When it comes to Enterprise Resource Planning and Scheduling packaged CRM and ERP solutions lack the visual and natural user interface for adeptly managing this critical aspect of Field Service and related business operations - this article introduces a strategy using Microsoft Dynamics GP...
  (0 votes) by Mark_Warren (updated 2 days ago)
Here are some ‘best practice’ steps we’ve pulled together, based on working with customers who’ve successfully implemented DevOps, plus advice from leading experts in the field.

Win32/64 SDK & OS

  (1 votes) by Michael Chourdakis (updated yesterday)
A mutex with shared/exclusive access

Windows Presentation Foundation

  (1 votes) by Snesh Prajapati (updated 2 hours ago)
To work with Regions effectively in a Prism based WPF application, we must understand the relationship between WPF Controls, RegionAdapters and Regions. In this articles, we will learn about process of Region creation and critical role played by RegionAdapters with a demo application.

Articles updated

.NET Framework

  (59 votes) by Daniel Miller (updated 3 days ago)
This article describes the C# implementation for a high-performance role-based access control list.

Algorithms & Recipes

  (14 votes) by John D. Cook (updated 3 days ago)
An introduction to interpolation and inverse interpolation
  (7 votes) by Milliarde (updated 5 days ago)
Get started understanding compressed sensing (CS) with some simple code-based examples!
  (6 votes) by muhammadumairomee (updated 2 days ago)
It describes how can we display the position of any object on the map in real time

Android

  (11 votes) by Rou1997 (updated 4 days ago)
Sending SMS Without Intent (Silently) & With Intent . . . Simply & Long (Multi-Part) Text Messages . . . Checking Sent SMS Status . . . Sending MMS With Intent . . .

Audio and Video

  (126 votes) by ProgramFOX (updated 5 days ago)
This article explains speech recognition, speech to text, text to speech and speech synthesis in C#.

C / C++ Language

  (43 votes) by QxOrm (updated 6 days ago)
QxOrm C++ library: Persistence (based on QtSql Qt library) - Serialization (based on boost::serialization library) - Reflection (introspection)
  (13 votes) by napuzba (updated 21 hours ago)
Lay the groundwork for investigating crashes in windows platform - Learn how to generate c stack trace and dump files when errors occurred. With those files at hand , you can easily find the reason why the application crashes.
  (11 votes) by Arthur V. Ratz (updated yesterday)
The following article demonstrates the implementation of the multithreaded parallel sorting algorithm using OpenMP performance optimization library

Client side scripting

  (5 votes) by AJSON (updated 6 days ago)
20 questions you might be asked about KnockoutJS in an interview
  (2 votes) by Tomas Rut (updated 5 days ago)
Explanation of features for localizations and formating by bobril-g11n library

Combo & List Boxes

  (23 votes) by Flaviu2 (updated 2 days ago)
A combobox control which shows a drop down window to assist the user.

Database

  (39 votes) by Jovan Popovic (updated 5 days ago)
Overview of built-in support for JSON text processing in new SQL Server
  (23 votes) by AJSON (updated 6 days ago)
Useful things to know for developers put in charge of an MS database server
  (16 votes) by Den367 (updated 6 days ago)
Short glance at drawing on geographical tiles by using of Microsoft.SqlServer.Types assembly.
  (2 votes) by Miljan Radovic (updated 23 hours ago)
Script to generate DimDate for specified date range

Internet / Network

  (41 votes) by AJSON (updated 3 days ago)
How to scrape data from a website with C#
  (13 votes) by Rogai Lorenzo (updated 3 days ago)
Flexible server that use User Created DLL to handle incoming/outgoing client packets.

NoSQL

  (37 votes) by Ashraf Azmi (updated 6 days ago)
Introduces an In-Memory Graph database, and shows how to use it to query and mine Northwind database.

Programming Tips

  (32 votes) by mrcellux (updated 8 hours ago)
Null is optional

Tools and IDE

  (5 votes) by KevinPo (updated 5 days ago)
How to navigate and program against the Release Management API, even though it does not have official documentation.

New Tips and Tricks added

.NET Framework

  (8 votes) by Kanivalan Raju (updated 5 days ago)
Decompile code from DLL using free tool - JetBrains dotPeek and compare it with different versioned DLL
  (3 votes) by Igor_A (updated 6 days ago)
Review of an approach of increase clustered server performance. Library sample and test utility.

Ajax

  (1 votes) by Swagat Parida (updated yesterday)
Custom JavaScript library which helps to send and process AJAX requests with JSON data

Android

  (0 votes) by Swagat Parida (updated 2 days ago)
WebView JS Bridge - Android

Applications & Tools

  (11 votes) by Rajdeep Debnath (updated yesterday)
Useful tools for ASP.NET developers
  (6 votes) by dsuryd (updated 3 days ago)
SignalR is great for building real-time web functionality. MVVM is great for developing your front-end. What if they can be used together? This tip will show how to do just that, using as example a simple project to do live chart on a web browser.

ASP.NET

  (8 votes) by imamitkumar (updated 2 days ago)
Auto update time without page refresh
  (2 votes) by Omar Nasri (updated yesterday)
In this tip, we will show you two examples (developed using ASP.NET MVC) in how to read CSV File with and without using LinqToCsv.
  (1 votes) by Brownie24 (updated 1 hour ago)
A quick and dirty way to ensure your .NET MVC forms apply Bootstrap's ".has-error" and ".has-success" classes, instead of relying on .NET's ".input-validation-error" class.

Button Controls

  (2 votes) by Tharindu Wickramaarachchi (updated 12 hours ago)
How to access C# form element (such as text box) by using another C# form

C#

  (9 votes) by U_IO (updated 4 days ago)
Consider possibility of alternative syntax usage to refer and access to last anonymous objective variables in C# instead of using construction in code.
  (8 votes) by rvjagadheesh (updated 4 days ago)
Retrieve both IPv4 and IPv6 from Windows 7 / 8 / 10 / server 2012
  (4 votes) by Darek Danielewski (updated yesterday)
Sometimes, you just must return multiple values from a method. Instead of specifying out or passing arguments by reference, consider an OperationResult class.
  (6 votes) by Akash Gutha (updated 2 days ago)
Exploring ways to create abstract images in C#
  (3 votes) by Miljan Radovic (updated 6 days ago)
C# Script in SSIS which can be used to replace standard (slow) SSIS SCD2 Lookup
  (2 votes) by rvjagadheesh (updated 2 days ago)
A simple article which describes how to control IIS application pool operations via C#
  (0 votes) by Rajita R (updated yesterday)
If(you know the basics){things are not scary}

Client side scripting

  (4 votes) by Gerd Wagner (updated 3 days ago)
Don't confuse a DOM collection with a JS array: Array functions, such as the forEach looping method, cannot be applied to a DOM collection!
  (1 votes) by Muhammad Magdi (updated 7 hours ago)
Step by step guide to remove the hash sign "#" from AngularJS URLs

Database

  (5 votes) by Efe Erdogru (updated 6 days ago)
An alternate method for multi db provider support for entity framework
  (1 votes) by Nazar.Bukhari (updated 11 hours ago)
This tutorial will demonstrate the creation of second mysql instance and transfer a database from the first instance to the second.

Design and Architecture

  (2 votes) by JinWenQiang (updated yesterday)
This tip is a brief introduction of Network Calculus. I used Matlab codes to show you the results and to explain how it works.

Java

  (5 votes) by JinWenQiang (updated 3 days ago)
Get started with your own SDN (Software Defined Network) simulation network
  (4 votes) by JinWenQiang (updated 5 days ago)
An instance of Floodlight Controller

LINQ

  (0 votes) by aboubkr90 (updated yesterday)
A way around "The LINQ expression node type 'Invoke' is not supported in LINQ to Entities"

Microsoft BizTalk Server

  (1 votes) by Krishna P Seetharaman (updated 6 days ago)
This tip explains about a way using PowerShell to monitor all the disabled send ports/receive locations and suspended messages and send an email about these info

Microsoft Exchange

  (1 votes) by B@dC0d3r (updated 6 days ago)
Exchange 2010 user Maintenance

Office Development

  (3 votes) by maxitone (updated 3 days ago)
Use this if you're working in a fullscreen RDP session - for example - to see new e-mail or appointment alerts
  (1 votes) by bradyguy (updated 2 days ago)
Don't send your mail out using the wrong account
  (0 votes) by Philippe Herremans (updated 7 hours ago)
This tip describes a VB.NET program to implement Custom task panes in Excel 2010 and 2013 using Excel-DNA to integrate .NET into Excel.

PHP

  (5 votes) by Ray Radin (updated 4 days ago)
In PHP, there is the standard, documented code for returning HTTP response code. This is the undocumented, shorter alternative.

Programming Tips

  (1 votes) by Divyant Kulshrestha (updated 6 days ago)
This tip is useful when we have to move data from Oracle database to SQL Server database or vice-versa using SSIS.

Progress Controls

  (4 votes) by Luis Manuel Prospero Mano Batista (updated 3 days ago)
XAML Gauge Control for Universal Applications, Windows 8.1 (Desktop/Windows Phone), WPF, Silverlight

Raspberry Pi

  (8 votes) by Martin Gmuca (updated 3 days ago)
A brief introduction to Windows 10 IoT development
  (0 votes) by Martin Gmuca (updated 14 hours ago)
Quick guide and preview of process of installing Windows 10 IoT Core to Raspberry Pi 2

Web Services

  (4 votes) by Dung_Le (updated 3 days ago)
Keep track of your system or application with Notifier Mobile Service

Tips and Tricks updated

ASP.NET

  (6 votes) by john_1726 (updated 4 days ago)
This tip is a guide for using the Codeplex project Effort for testing Entity Framework applications without requiring the unit tests to actually hit the SQL Server database.
  (7 votes) by Asib Al Amin Talukder (updated 4 days ago)
This tip describes the angularJs routing and how to configure and work with classic ASP.NET MVC application.
  (9 votes) by SRS(The Coder) (updated 6 days ago)
MVC - introduction to ASP.NET MVC and its architecture

C#

  (7 votes) by Akash Gutha (updated 2 days ago)
Exploring ways to create abstract images in C#

Database

  (9 votes) by Tamer J. Mehyar (updated 6 days ago)
A simple way to keep track of DB objects versions (DDL updates) in SQL Server

HTML / CSS

  (11 votes) by AlexandraGren (updated 6 days ago)
Creating HTML Responsive Table with help CSS media queries

Node.js

  (6 votes) by Umer Qureshi (updated 14 hours ago)
Create your own web scraper using node.js

New Technical Blogs added

Cross Platform

  (11 votes) by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan (updated 5 days ago)
If you are a C# fan and want to build applications that reuse the code base for multiple frameworks and platforms, read this post, it would help you "get started".

Custom Controls

  (0 votes) by Kevin Mack (updated 1 hour ago)
Custom VSTS Task: Code Analysis & Email

Design and Architecture

  (4 votes) by Frauke (updated 6 days ago)
My plan is as follows: I'm going to create a project with only the vaguest of notions as to where it may be going, and see just how useful TDD is going to be in helping me create maintainable code.

Expression

  (5 votes) by Andy Feng (updated 4 days ago)
This article introduces the basics of applying regular expression in JavaScript.

Miscellaneous

  (15 votes) by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan (updated 5 days ago)
I was compiling a few things I would recommend to every beginner in computer programming. Here it is.

Site & Server Management

  (9 votes) by Andy Feng (updated 4 days ago)
This article introduces how to apply Google reCAPTCHA into form submission of your site.



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