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We've been working through the weekend to nail down the final details of the Windows 8 / Ultrabook competition. We're close - very close - so if you have an application you want to upgrade (or an idea for a new one) to use the new candy that comes with an Ultrabook then put aside some time in the next 2 weeks because our plan is to ship to the best entrants an Ultrabook. Get in quick.

Keep your eyes peeled for our announcement midweek.

You may also want to keep your eyes on the site today. An update is coming that should make a bit of a splash.

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Most popular new articles

• ToDoList 6.5.7 Feature Release - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g.
  
• Writing Your Own RTF Converter - Jani Giannoudis
  
• Simple but Interesting Features of VS2010 and C# 4.0 - Anuja Pawar Indore
  
• ASP .NET Image Slider with fancy thumbnail hover effect - Akram El Assas
  
• i00 Spell Check - No Third Party Components Required! - i00
  

Latest Additions

104 articles overall. 35 new, 69 updated.

New articles added

Algorithms & Recipes

• Blackboard implementation - Antonio Nakić Alfirević
  Type safe blackboard (property bag)
  
  

ASP.NET

• ASP.NET Multiple File Upload With Drag & Drop and Progress Bar Using HTML5 - Akram El Assas
  ASP .NET File upload widget with files and folders Drag & Drop, multiple file selection, progress and preview images. Supports cross-domain, chunked and resumable file uploads.
  
  

Files and Folders

• Fault Tolerance for Large Files on Cranky Hardware - sbarnes
  WPF and Form utilities that do a better job copying and comparing large files on cranky hardware. Plea for software manufacturers to consider fault tolerance.
  
  

Interviews

• A Coder Interview With Martin Pilkington - The Code Project, Martin Pilkington
  Welcome to our continuing series of Code Project interviews in which we talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves. In this installment we talk to Martin Pilkington.
  
  

Java

• Java 48 Bit TIFF Image Processing - Ashraff Ali Wahab
  48 Bit Image Processing using JAI(Java Advanced Imaging Library)
  
  

Mobile Development

• Minesweeper - PavolSatala
  How to create a minesweeper game for three platforms with only one code?
  
  

Product Showcase

• Developing DICOM Viewers for Real World Applications - LEADTOOLS Support
  LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging SDKs alleviate this issue by leveraging more than 20 years of imaging development experience and offer a high-level, programmer friendly and feature packed DICOM Viewer Control.
  
  
• Agile Development Requires Agile Support - Matt Watson Stackify
  Agile development requires agile support.
  
  
• Why Would you Want to Write Applications for Windows 8 Now? - Telerik
  Windows 8 opens up new opportunities for developers – whether an early adopter building consumer apps or an enterprise looking to improve the customer experience. This article explains in detail why you would want to start building for Windows 8 now and how the Telerik Windows 8 can help.
  
  

SharePoint Server

• ULS Log Viewer - Jean Paul V.A
  Exploring the SharePoint 2010 free tool, ULS Log Viewer.
  
  

Solutions Center

• Integrate SVN with SourceAnywhere: Expand the Version Control Features to the Most - Dynamsoft
  Take advantage of SVNBridge to access SourceAnywhere, a SQL Server-based version control tool, from TortoiseSVN. You are not limited to one version control tool.
  
  

Ultrabooks

• Intel Ultrabook Pre-Release First Look - JesseLiberty
  Intel Ultrabook Pre-Release First Look
  
  

Web Services

• Is your web service fast enough? - Stuart Wheelwright
  Using ServiceMon to obtain performance statistics for web services
  
  

Articles updated

.NET Framework

• NetSerializer - A fast, simple serializer for .NET - Tomi Valkeinen
  NetSerializer - A fast, simple serializer for .NET.
  
  

Ajax

• ASP.NET AJAX Controls and Extenders - James Ashley
  This tutorial examines the new Visual Studio 2008 Server Control and Server Control Extender. A compendium of tips, tricks, and gotchas, it is a comprehensive tutorial that will provide readers with the skills necessary to start building advanced AJAX-enabled custom controls with Visual Studio.
  
  
• Using AJAX AutoCompleteExtender for autosuggest - Anuja Pawar Indore
  Using Ajax AutoCompleteExtender for a simple autosuggest feature.
  
  

Algorithms & Recipes

• Writing Your Own RTF Converter - Jani Giannoudis
  An article on how to write a custom RTF parser and converter.
  
  
• C# - Optical Marks Recognition (OMR) Engine 1.0 - umar.techBOY
  An API that reads OMR sheets from camera taken/ scanner scanned images.
  
  
• An Explanation of My High Capacity List Alphabetizing Computer Program Algorithm - doug433
  Have you ever wondered about the software programs that alphabetize large lists of items? We take them for granted to do our everyday tasks on the computer, but what exactly makes them function? Popular database and many other software packages have devised their own algorithms for taking care of th
  
  
• Image Inpainting Technique using Local Binary Pattern based Texture Inpainting - Grasshopper.iics
  Easy Image Inpainting using Local Binary Pattern
  
  

Android

• Android - Stock Market Watch (COINS) in C# using Visual Studio 2010 - Sandip.Nascar
  Describes the power of C# in building professional application - Stock Market Watch with Charts on Android platform using Mono C#
  
  

Applications & Tools

• ToDoList 6.5.7 Feature Release - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g.
  A hierarchical task manager with native XML support for custom reporting.
  
  

ASP.NET

• Using DayPilot 2 (Outlook-Like Calendar/Scheduling Control for ASP.NET) - Dan Letecky
  Showing the features of a flexible ASP.NET event calendar/scheduling control.
  
  
• Learn MVC (Model View Controller) Step by Step in 7 Days – Day 3 - Shivprasad koirala
  This article is Part 3 and continuation to the Learn MVC Step by Step in 7 Days series.
  
  
• MVC4 Mobile Friendly Web Applications - Carl Randall
  Mobile enable your ASP.NET MVC4 Web applications
  
  
• Understanding SQL Injection and Creating SQL Injection Proof ASP.NET Applications - Rahul Rajat Singh
  This article talk about what SQL injection is, how can that effect the security of our websites and what steps should be taken to create an ASP.NET application SQL injection proof.
  
  
• Understanding ASP.NET Application and Page Life Cycle - A Beginner's Tutorial - Rahul Rajat Singh
  This article talks about the ASP.NET application life cycle and Page life cycle.
  
  
• ASP.NET MVC3 - Password Strength Indicator using jQuery and XML - Bryian Tan
  Sample code on how to integrate the Password Strength Indicator using jQuery and XML plug-in with ASP.NET MVC3 Razor.
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• Handle GridView.OnSorting() and create sorting expression dynamically using LINQ - Alexander M. Batishchev
  How to create a sorting expression from GridViewSortEventArgs using LINQ Expression Tree.
  
  

Audio and Video

• Yet another Web Camera control - Alexander Iacobciuc
  In this article you will find yet another implementation of a web camera control.
  
  

C / C++ Language

• The new C++ 11 rvalue reference && and why you should start using it - Ladislav Nevery
  increase performance of your old code with simple operator addition
  
  

C#

• Simple but Interesting Features of VS2010 and C# 4.0 - Anuja Pawar Indore
  Some very simple, yet interesting features of VS2010 and C# 4.0
  
  
• EMGU Multiple Face Recognition using PCA and Parallel Optimisation - C_Johnson
  Using EMGU to perform Principle Component Analysis (PCA) multiple face recognition is achieved. Using .Net Parallel toolbox real time analysis and optimisation is introduced in a user friendly application.
  
  
• Web Search - Visual Studio Add-in , Search (Google, Yahoo, MSDN, Code Project, Stack Overflow and more...) for the selected text/item. - Shemeer NS
  Visual Studio Add-in , WebSearch - Multiple search options included in all text editor, reference items, error list. (Integrated search options for Visual Studio IDE), This AddIn works fine with Visual Studio 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012. Custom Search, Shortcut key Alt+F1
  
  
• A short identifier using base 36 - Paul C Smith
  How to generate shorter, more readable, unique values for general-purpose identifiers
  
  

Charts, Graphs and Images

• ASP .NET Image Slider with fancy thumbnail hover effect - Akram El Assas
  This article aims to show that ASP .NET Webforms and MVC combined with CSS3, HTML5 and JavaScript frameworks such as jQuery and Ajax produces user friendly and attractive websites.
  
  

Cryptography & Security

• Encrypting a dataset using AES, including compression - Mika Wendelius
  Article describes how to encrypt a dataset using AES. Optionally the dataset is compressed before the encryption.
  
  
• Steganography programming with Visual Studio 2012 (Nostega paradigm)‏ - Palavos
  A paradigm of Noiseless Steganography for secretely transmitting messages via Excel graphs.
  
  

Database

• AutoRefresh Entity Framework Data Using SQL Server Service Broker - Harry von Borstel
  How to use SqlDependency to refresh Entity Framework Object Sets automatically on DB changes
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Simple NHibernate Architecture - Cassio Mosqueira
  An article showing a nice architecture I've come up for using NHibernate
  
  
• Factory Pattern in C++ - Cale Dunlap
  Using the Factory pattern in C++ to expose only an object's abstract type--hiding the implementation class detail.
  
  
• A N-Tier Architecture Sample with ASP.NET MVC3, WCF, and Entity Framework - Wh5
  This article tries to introduce a decoupled, unit-testable, deployment-flexible, implementation-efficient and validation-flexible N-Tier architecture in .NET
  
  

Dialogs and Windows

• A versatile MessageBox replacement - Andriks
  A MessageBox replacement with some much needed extras.
  
  

Edit Controls

• i00 Spell Check - No Third Party Components Required! - i00
  Simple to use, open source Spell Checker for .NET
  
  

General Graphics

• Rapid Object Detection in .NET - Huseyin Atasoy
  Rapid object detection without a third pary library requirement in .Net.
  
  

HTML / CSS

• Canvas Control Library and New Forms Based System for building Web Pages and Websites - Akshay Srinivasan2
  Canvas Control Library provides highly customizable controls using the HTML5 Canvas element. Also includes a New Forms Based system which is a new way to build your web pages and websites.
  
  
• HTML5, JavaScript, Knockout, JQuery, Guide for Recovering Silverlight/WPF/C# Addicts. Part 1 - JavaScript and DOM. - Nick Polyak
  JavaScript/DOM basics for WPF/Silverlight/C# developers
  
  

Internet / Network

• Build Your Own Web Server - Huseyin Atasoy
  Let's build a simple web server and make it accessible from the internet.
  
  

Interviews

• Changing Your Life and Well-Being - VectorX
  How to stay healthy and fit, while working a career that requires you to sit for long periods of time.
  
  

Libraries

• Simple Undo/redo library for C#/.NET - Y Sujan
  Simple undo/redo library for C#/.NET.
  
  

Metro

• The Fake Project - Redesigning Code Project Part 1 - Chris Maunder, Pete O'Hanlon
  The Fake Project - The first two days of a Code Project redesign.
  
  

MSIL

• ILRewriting for beginners - Mattias Högström
  Runtime IL-Rewriting can be used to add behavior such as logging to applications, or redirect calls from one API to another. This article and accompanying source code explains how to substitute a method call at runtime.
  
  

Other .NET Languages

• WMI Code Creator For Windows Forms for VB.NET - ledtech3
  This is a project for creating code like the WMI code creator but the output is for VB.NET and Windows Forms instead of for a Console Application.
  
  

Tabs & Property Pages

• NeoTabControl Library - Burak Özdiken
  A custom .NET tab control for WinForms applications with add-in renderer support.
  
  

Threads, Processes & IPC

• Process Suspender and Advanced Terminator - perilbrain
  This article will tell you using unmanaged APIs to suspend and terminate processes.
  
  

Web Security

• Implementing MVC Two Factor Authentication with Google Authenticator - Rick Bassham
  How to add extra security to your MVC web application, using two factor authentication.
  
  

Web Services

• Building a basic HTML5 client/server application - Alexander Iacobciuc
  This article is about a basic implementation of HTML5 client/server chat application.
  
  

Windows Phone 7

• Sidreal Time Calculator - Joel Ivory Johnson
  A sidereal time calculator for Windows Phone
  
  

Windows Powershell

• PowerShell internals and PowerShell threading - Oliver Kohl D.Sc.
  This article presents you some capabilities of PowerShell like the usage of .NET Framework 4.0 and .NET threading.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• Enhanced MVVM Design with Type-Safe View Models (TVM) - Harry von Borstel
  Develop your applications quicker and make them more robust with typesafe binding.
  
  
• Bindable Converter Parameter - ntg123
  A simple technique to achieve Bindable-ConverterParameter in WPF's XAML.
  
  

Windows Runtime

• How to call WinRT APIs from .NET desktop apps - ljw1004
  Explains how to create a .NET app which invokes WinRT APIs on Windows 8
  
  
• Getting Started w/ Windows 8, MVVM Light and EventToCommand - Shayne P Boyer
  Now that Windows 8 and Visual Studio are in RTM I wanted to put together a quick entry for those Windows Phone developers making the transition to Windows 8 development with their MVVM Light skills.
  
  
• UPnP code for Windows 8 - ljw1004
  How to use UPnP on Windows 8
  
  
• Code to convert MP3/WMA to WAV in Windows 8 (VB) - ljw1004
  VB code to convert MP3 to WAV in Windows 8 using MediaFoundation
  
  

New Tips and Tricks added

ASP.NET Controls

• Select multiple row in data grid with check box - Vaibhav Bodake
  user can select row with help of checkbox and retrive information in button click
  
  

C / C++ Language

• Super Simple Live Tile Notification Using an Image (C++) - sam stokes
  This sample demonstrates how to use the Tile Template, specifically the TileSquareImage and an image.
  
  
• Unique_ptr custom deleters and class factories - mzdude
  Making unique_ptr more user friendly
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Pillars of OOPS: Part 1 - Encapsulation - Dharmesh Solanki, Ahmedabad
  I have covered here some basic information to achieve encapsulation.
  
  

Internet / Network

• YouTube Downloader using C# .NET - akramKamal
  Full C# code to download videos from YouTube in any quality.
  
  

Programming Tips

• Server-side Input Validation using Data Annotations - Peter Carrasco
  A quick introduction to data annotations in C#
  
  

Site & Server Management

• how to get A in Yslow and tune up your website - taha bahrami
  about how to get high performance from your website and get a good score from Yslow
  
  

VB.NET

• Dictionary Sorting and Inverse Duplication Removal - CorvetteGuru
  A few fun Dictionary utiltities.
  
  

Web Services

• Xml-WebService Array Parameters - Praveen Kumar Chauhan
  Sending Data Through XML to web Services
  
  

Tips and Tricks updated

Algorithms & Recipes

• Math Parser NET C# - kirnbas
  This is light, fast and simple to understand mathematical parser, which receives as input a mathematical expression (string) and return the output value (double).
  
  

C / C++ Language

• C / Fortran Interoperability With External Fortran Function passing and Struct type arguments - c chee
  Showing how to pass a Fortran function into C and using a compatible C-Struct as argument.
  
  
• Super Simple C++ Win8 Live Tile Text Notification - sam stokes
  How to implement live tile notification in just a few lines of code
  
  

C#

• Using "using" Statements: DisposalAccumulator - Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
  Helps to deal with irregular construction patterns of disposable objects
  
  

Custom Controls

• Extended CheckBoxList with selected item CSS and vertical scrolling - Sanjay K. Gupta
  An extended CheckBoxList with selected item CSS and vertical scrolling.
  
  

Database

• Backup Stored Procedures in SQL Server - CorvetteGuru
  Backup Stored Procedures in SQL Server.
  
  
• Auto Backup for PostgreSQL - mparvez
  Generate auto backup for PostgreSQL.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• Scroll Synchronization - immortalus
  This is an alternative for "Scroll Synchronization"
  
  
• Non-resizable columns in GridViewHeaderRowPresenter - azweepay
  Create a GridViewColumnCollection with resizable and non-resizable columns
  
  

XML

• Serialize/Deserialize any object to an XML file - akramKamal
  Code to serialize/deserialize any object to an XML file.
  
  

New Technical Blogs added

ATL Server

• SQL Server: Script to Generate HTML Report/mail for Databses Current Size, Growth Rate and Available Disk Space - aasim abdullah
  Working with multiple databases on multiple instances is a tough job. You need to monitor all these instances for everything. Best way to keep eye on every instance activity is SQL Server Jobs. How quickly databases on these instances are growing and does target instance has required space on hard d
  
  
• SQL Server: How Local Variables Can Reduce Query Performance - aasim abdullah
  It’s a common practice by database developers to use local variables in stored procedures and scripts to place filter on basis of these local variables. YES, these local variables can slowdown your queries. Let’s prove it. Create a new table and insert dummy rows. USEAdventureWorksGO CREATE TA
  
  

Database

• SQL Server: Query to find upcoming birthdays for the current week - aasim abdullah
  To find out whose birthday is coming in a given number of days is very simple.
  
  
• SQL Server: Applying Filter on sp_MSforeachDB - aasim abdullah
  Working on multiple databases on a single instance, sometime you need to execute a query for each database and for that sp_MSforeachdb is the best choice.Recently talking to my development team I came to know that a very few guys have idea about filter for sp_MSforeachDB.For example, if I need to ge
  
  
• SQL Server: Controlling SQL Server Log Information - aasim abdullah
  For DBAs, SQL Server Log is the main source to troubleshoot problems related to SQL Server. It contains user-defined events and certain system events.  By default 6 files are created for an instance and are recycled once sql server is restarted or you can force for new sql server log file with follo
  
  

Debug Tips

• The compiler is to blame for everything - viva64.com
  If something goes wrong, search for a mistake in your code.
  
  

Game Development

• Software Development: A Day in The Life (Long) - Ivan Krivyakov
  At times I feel that software development is much, much harder than it should be. Ridiculous crappy annoyances await you on every corner, some of them many years old. We all, including the tool vendors, never have time to do the job right, causing people to fall into the same traps over and over aga
  
  

Libraries

• OData with async - Super Lloyd
  Using OData with async.
  
  

Testing and QA

• Unit Test, TDD, and some limitations - Zijian
  Unit Test, TDD, and some limitations.
  
  

Windows Phone 7

• Getting started with Windows Phone and MVVM Light - Part 2 of 2 - Shayne P Boyer
  CodeProjectIn Part 1, we covered the following: Creating the application Connecting the View and the View-Model Adding an additional View or Page Part 2 we'll see how to add a button on the first page to navigate to the second page which will cover navigation and messaging to complete the applicatio
  
  
• Getting started with Windows Phone and MVVM Light - Part 1 of 2 - Shayne P Boyer
  CodeProjectA few days ago, Rich Dunbar wrote a post about how to get started with with Windows Phone Development and the post went freaking viral. Now the reason here is that Rich, in his spare time, sponsors and host events for Nokia in order to promote Windows Phone Development and as a a reward
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• WPF: Beware of zombie animations freezing your properties - Ivan Krivyakov
  Preventing zombie animations from freezing your properties.
  
  

Windows Runtime

• How to access Manifest (Embedded) resources from an Assembly in a WinRT application - rajendran_sp
  How to access a simple XML file embedded in the WinRT assembly.
  
  

Technical Blogs updated

Android

• Touch handling in Android - Serge Desmedt
  Touch handling in Android.
  
  

Custom Controls

• How to create a custom session value provider - After2050
  In this article we see how to create a value provider that feeds data from the session.
  
  

Database

• SQL Server: Why we should avoid the NOLOCK table hint in DELETE/UPDATE queries - aasim abdullah
  Why we should avoid the NOLOCK table Hint in DELETE/UPDATE queries.
  
  

Dialogs and Windows

• Basic Git Command Line Reference for Windows Users - John Atten
  CodeProjectWhile there are GUI interfaces available for GIT (some good, some bad), familiarity with at least the basics of git’s command line interface can only enhance your ability to use the tool to maximum effectiveness. Since I am relatively new to git and version control in general, I set
  
  

Exception Handling

• Exception Handling in ASP.NET MVC - After2050
  Learn about the HandleError filter and discuss about the different exception handling mechanisms that will fit to an MVC application.
  
  

Files and Folders

• How to compress files in Metro style applications - rajendran_sp
  How to use the ZipArchive class in a Metro style app to compress a set of files and save the compressed file to a particular location.
  
  

Tools and IDE

• Getting Started with Git for the Windows Developer (Part II) - Get Acquainted with Bash - John Atten
  This is the second installment of a multi-part series about getting your feet wet with Git for Windows developers.