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If you want an Ultrabook sent your way, for free, then our AppInnovation contest is a pretty simple way to get your hands on one. However, I thought it worth going over a few points:

1. This competition is for apps that showcase how an Ultrabook is different from your run-of-the-mill laptop. The more you show off the Ultrabook, the better your chances.
2. We strongly encourage members to focus first on a Windows Desktop app (ie non-Metro). the $1000 prize for getting your app into the Intel AppUp store only applies to Windows Desktop apps.
3. To get your app in the AppUp store you'll need a code signing certificate. Intel will kindly subsidise the cost of a certificate for you, but the process can take a number of days. As soon as you're a round 1 winner, get to work on getting a certificate.
4. You don't need to provide full source code for your submissions. Part of the goal here is to help you get your commercial apps into App stores. Getting your app in an online store is a great way to make some money off your hard work.
5. Judging for round 1 will continue to October 24, but some applications that are highly developed, or are very good and show promise have already made it through round 1. If your entry has not yet been awarded then keep developing it and expanding your entry. We constantly review entries and updates.
6. Don't stop working on your app! Round 1 winners will receive an Ultrabook, but that Ultrabook is meant for testing. If you wait until you get an Ultrabook to complete your app you'll run out of time.

Best of luck everyone!

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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Most popular new articles

• WPF/MVVM Quick Start Tutorial - Barry Lapthorn
  
• .NET CLR Injection: Modify IL Code during Run-time - Jerry.Wang
  
• fastJSON - Mehdi Gholam
  
• Design Patterns 3 of 3 - Behavioral Design Patterns - Kanasz Robert
  
• nVLC - Roman Ginzburg
  

Latest Additions

155 articles overall. 67 new, 88 updated.

New articles added

.NET Framework

• Creating Secure Trial Versions for .NET Applications - A Tutorial - Ansel Reynard
  Implement trial licensing model for your .NET applications with minimal costs
  
  

Algorithms & Recipes

• Sieve of Eratosthenes in C# - ProgramFOX
  An article about how to find prime numbers using the Sieve of Eratosthenes in C#.
  
  

Applications & Tools

• ETL using RapidMiner Community Edition - mparvez
  ETL using RapidMiner Community edition.
  
  

Audio and Video

• Writing DirectShow Demultiplexors in C#. Part 2 - AVI File Source example - Maxim Kartavenkov
  Article describes basic tasks for implementing your own File Source DirectShow filters.
  
  

C#

• Zombie Explorer : A N-Tier application from top to bottom - Sacha Barber
  A complete end to end example from DB to WPF client using MVVM/PRISM/NHibernate/Respository/IOC
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Easier .NET application settings persistence - Antonio Nakić Alfirević
  Creating a library for declarative persisting of application state between sessions
  
  

DLLs & Assemblies

• Provable APIs - Michael L Perry
  Five ways to structure an API to ensure that people use it correctly.
  
  

Mobile Development

• Techniques for Mobile-friendly ASP.NET MVC 4.0 web sites - Peter Carrasco
  How to make your ASP.NET MVC 4.0 web application mobile friendly
  
  

Product Showcase

• Image Enabled Windows Store Applications with LEADTOOLS - LEADTOOLS Support
  The advanced WinRT imaging technology in LEADTOOLS will include everything developers need to build imaging enabled Windows Store applications including support for loading and saving over 100 file formats, PDF and PDF/A, touch screen enabled viewer controls, annotations and image processing.
  
  

Ultrabooks

• Clearer – A Gesture-Driven Windows 8 To-Do Application - Colin Eberhardt
  This article describes my experiences of porting a novel gesture-driven Windows Phone app to Windows 8.
  
  
• Meowser - Because the web is your playground. - Robert Aponte
  Fast browser with game-like controls!
  
  
• Ultra Student++ - Satish Jaganathan
  Ultra Student++ is a course planner app for colleage and school students
  
  
• You're gonna go Ballastic! - linkedPIXEL
  A game of ball swinging, elastic snapping chaos.
  
  
• HairStyle Windows 8 Desktop Application - Theresa Yantha
  I hope to revolutionize this by creating a hair styling modeling software for the Ultrabook
  
  
• Fun with Win8 its sensors/XNA/MVVM/Javascript - Sacha Barber
  An article which will use Win8 sensors from the desktop and will show XNA and Javascript interop from WPF
  
  
• SPACE ATTACK - Shreyas Deshmukh
  SPACE INVASION GAME FOR ULTRABOOK
  
  
• My School Junk - Enyekwe Dubem
  My School junk, is my app for the Windows 8* & Ultrabook™ App Innovation Contest.
  
  
• Little Artist - Jesse Zwerling
  Educational drawing app for toddlers.
  
  
• Ultra Expense Tracker - Vijayalakshmi111
  Expense management app to plan and manage personal expenses
  
  
• The Awesome Word Game ! - qtimmons
  The Awesome Word Game a Win8 Desktop app
  
  
• App Innovation Contest - Wanderlust - yosofun
  Natural user interface navigation virtual world
  
  
• Loclville - HelixTen
  This is your place for a hyper-local shout out!
  
  
• All-in-One Photo Manager - Anup Kumar Verma
  Photo Manager connects Facebook, Google+, Picassa, and local in one place with shake, tag, touch, and feel.
  
  
• Super b boy - Cliff Mellangard
  This is my entry to the app iniovation contest called super b boy (crypt runner)
  
  
• Employee Scheduler - apmyhr
  Program for managers who need to plan out and track employee hours.
  
  
• Take and Dominate: The Card Game of World Domination - Nathan Kerr
  Take and Dominate is a card game where players compete to conquer the world
  
  
• Ultimate Tools - Gerardo Melendrez
  Ultimate Tools includes several tools such as a Level, a Compass, your Location and Speed and more.
  
  
• Enhance your photo sharing experience - mudnug
  Photo backup and sharing app - entry into App Innovation Contest
  
  
• Ganesha's Challenge - Trivia Game, Knowledge statistics application - demotis
  Windows 8 Metro trivia game with average based ranking system and GPS enabled knowledge statics.
  
  
• Formula1 - Member 2948661
  Formula 1 application for Windows 8 tablet, the application demonstrates capabilities of the Windows 8 ultrabooks.
  
  

VB.NET

• Converting DTOs <-> BOs using an Adapter - Torsten Tiedt
  Conversion of DTO to BO the easy way (at least intended to be).
  
  

XML

• How to customize XML serialization - wells cheung
  How to serialize an object to an XML document with a specific format.
  
  

Articles updated

.NET Framework

• .NET CLR Injection: Modify IL Code during Run-time - Jerry.Wang
  Modify methods' IL codes on runtime even if they have been JIT-compiled, supports release mode / x64 & x86, and variants of .NET versions, from 2.0 to 4.5.
  
  

Algorithms & Recipes

• Minimalist Floating Point Type - _beauw_
  A portable, lightweight floating point type
  
  
• Beyond Bresenham: New Algorithms for Drawing Line Segments - _beauw_
  Offers novel techniques designed to exploit contemporary hardware
  
  
• Sudoku using MS Solver Foundation - unicorn2
  An example for how to use Microsoft Solver Foundation on a constraint satisfaction problem
  
  
• Type safe blackboard (property bag) - Antonio Nakić Alfirević
  Implementing a property bag (blackboard) with type/name safe properties
  
  
• Optical Character Recognition - Vijay Rajan Nadar
  
  
  

Android

• Using SQLite Database with Android - Mina Samy
  A tutorial on using SQLite on Android
  
  

Applications & Tools

• A Stock Portfolio Application Using KnockoutJS - Bernardo Castilho
  An article that shows how to implement MVVM apps with KnockoutJS and custom controls.
  
  
• Image Cataloguer - Andrew Cherednik
  Automatically catalogue images based on modified date
  
  

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, preview images, client-side image resizing and Bootstrap responsive layout. Supports cross-domain, chunked, resumable file uploads and automatic retries.
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• DayPilot Scheduler Control for ASP.NET - Dan Letecky
  Flexible open-source scheduler control (resource booking, project management, timeline and free/busy visualization)
  
  

Audio and Video

• nVLC - Roman Ginzburg
  A .NET API for the libVLC interface so the vast majority of VLC functionality could be utilized in managed applications.
  
  
• Pure .NET DirectShow Filters in C# - Maxim Kartavenkov
  Article describes how to make DirectShow Filters in .NET, it consist of BaseClasses and couple of samples
  
  
• DirectShow Virtual Video Capture Source Filter in C# - Maxim Kartavenkov
  Articles describes how to create virtual video capture source directshow filter in pure C#
  
  

C / C++ Language

• Introduction to a C++ low level object model - Sergey Vystoropskiy
  C++ low level design
  
  
• new(local) for safer and simpler code with no need for smart-pointer template wrappers - Ladislav Nevery
  reduce bugs and memory leaks by using new(local)
  
  

C#

• 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 Beginner's Tutorial on Implementing IEnumerable Interface and Understanding yield Keyword - Rahul Rajat Singh
  This article discusses how to implement IEnumerable interface and using yield keyword.
  
  
• Flexpressions - Andrew Rissing
  An intuitive-fluent API for generating Linq Expressions.
  
  

Cross Platform

• ObjectScript: A new programming language - unitpoint
  The ObjectScript is a new programing language that mixes benefits of JavaScript, Lua, and PHP. The ObjectScript has syntax from JavaScript, multiple results from Lua, OOP from PHP and much more.
  
  

Database

• Kerosene ORM: a dynamic, self-adaptive and configuration-less ORM with no need for configuration files - Moises Barba
  The fifth incarnation of a dynamic and self-adaptive ORM library with full support for POCO objects, that doesn’t require any mapping or configuration files, and with support for natural SQL-like syntax in plain C#
  
  
• Repository pattern with Entity Framework Code-First in Composable Service End - Morshed Anwar
  Implement Repository, UnitOfWork with Audit support in Composable Service End
  
  
• Implementing Undo/Redo feature for DbContext of Entity Framework - Morshed Anwar
  Undo Redo with DbContext of Entity Framework
  
  
• Alternative tnsping utility - hevesir
  Alternative tnsping for Oracle Instant Client.
  
  

Debug Tips

• 10 More Visual Studio Debugging Tips for Native Development - Marius Bancila
  This article proposes a list of debugging tips for native development with Visual Studio.
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Design Patterns 3 of 3 - Behavioral Design Patterns - Kanasz Robert
  In this last article about design patterns I will discuss about behavioral design patterns and I will show on real examples how to implement them.
  
  

Dialogs and Windows

• A versatile MessageBox replacement - Andriks
  A MessageBox replacement with some much needed extras.
  
  
• Twinkle twinkle little star - Michael Rosqvist
  How to make irregular shaped forms in VB.NET.
  
  

Files and Folders

• Named Binary Tag serialization - Alberto Molero
  This article describes the file format NBT and shows how can be implemented in a real application to store data.
  
  

General Graphics

• Oil Paint Effect: Implementation of Oil Painting Effect on an Image - Santhosh_G
  Applying oil painting effect on an image.
  
  
• VB.NET Image Filters - i00
  A collection of 10 easy to use image filters in VB.NET
  
  
• Detect the angle of a line in an image - Mahdi Nejadsahebi
  How to detect the angle of a line in an image.
  
  

GPU Programming

• GPGPU on Accelerating Wave PDE - Alesiani Marco
  A Wave PDE simulation using GPGPU capabilities
  
  

Hardware & System

• Arduino, C#, and serial interface - Marco Bertschi
  How to send a command to an Arduino board using C# and a serial port.
  
  

HTML / CSS

• UltimateVolley - Florian Rappl
  Creating an super-awesome browser game that follows the path of the legendary blobby volley!
  
  

Internet / Network

• fastJSON - Mehdi Gholam
  Smallest, fastest polymorphic JSON serializer (with Silverlight4 support)
  
  
• 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.
  
  

Ultrabooks

• Wi-Fi Chess - Meshack Musundi
  A WinRT P2P chess application
  
  
• PocketWorld-Ultrabook Travel App - Muhammad Shareef
  This article is about the windows 8 metro style tour and travel app that use ultrabook features with ease of usability.The app is on its way to publish.
  
  
• Ultra Surveillance - Shintu Dhang
  Secure your Ultrabooks from unknown access when left on the desk
  
  
• Roller Coaster - Rover2341 - Mark Dickinson
  Build and ride roller coasters on Windows 8. Use your Ultrabook to play the game using touch.
  
  
• Engineering Calculator VOLTA-12 - DrABELL
  Productivity software implemented as pure HTML5/CSS3/Javascript solution, encapsulated in a single text file does not require any image files. Can run in all major browsers, and also is intended to add ability of standalone operations under Windows OS on Ultrabooks.
  
  
• Sumerics - Florian Rappl
  Creating a touch enabled sensor numerical application for the latest generation of Ultrabooks.
  
  
• Facebook Album Viewer UltraBook App - Roshan D
  Facebook album viewer is a WPF application used to manage facebook albums. The user can view , create or upload pictures. Also can make use of Ultrabook capabilities in this App
  
  
• AdvancedTweeps - A Windows 8 Twitter client you don't want to miss! - IInjac
  AdvancedTweeps - A Windows 8 Twitter client you don't want to miss!
  
  
• cStats - A cPanel Statistics application - Rahul Vijay Manekari
  Access realtime Linux Web server statistics right away from Windows Store App
  
  
• Emergency - Help Me - kishore Gaddam
  The first go-to app in case of an emergency
  
  
• SafeSense Locker - AppInnovation Entry - KillBot Project
  SafeSense Locker Security App - keeps your private files safe
  
  
• Simultan development for Windows 8 and Windows Phone - MSiccDev
  This Article is about how I develop an app for my blog simultaneously on Windows 8 and Windows Phone.
  
  
• Edumatter M12: School Math Calculators and Equation Solvers - DrABELL
  Educational software package for Microsoft Windows® contains “5-in-1” School Math Calculators and Equation Solvers applications, intended for public/private school (K-12) and college students, educators, and self-paced education/home schooling
  
  
• App Innovation Contest – Nearby Hospitals - Member 9503374
  Provides a list of nearby hospitals
  
  
• MarbleMaze - ayushkedia
  MarbleMaze is a game where the goal is to reach the destination by keeping safe from the obstacles.
  
  
• WPF Touch Enabled Brick Ball Game - @AmitGajjar
  This is not simple Brick ball game but we need to concentrate on two ball at a time.
  
  
• ImageGrassy: An Image Processing and Utility Tool - Grasshopper.iics
  The app provides easy image analysis, processing, pattern recognition, and algorithm development.
  
  
• Fresh Idea: Qolor Combo for Ultrabook - evryday
  A colorful game by definition.
  
  
• Spirograph - Ultrabook Windows 8 Application - KashviGupta
  Ultrabook Windows 8 application that draw amazing spirals known as Spirographs, i.e. geometric drawings, that produces mathematical curves of the variety, technically also known as hypotrochoids and epitrochoids.
  
  
• MonsterUp Ultrabook Version - karios
  Having the same knowledge in Intel's Ultrabooks™ gives me the opportunity to ensure that a version of either game for this platform will guarantee great user experience they get on Windows Phone.
  
  
• Cloud Surfer - Cloud Storage Browser - chriskdub
  Ultrabook App Inovation Contest - Cloud storage browser.
  
  
• Karmak Attach-It for Windows 8 - jpigott
  Use Karmak Attach-It to add pictures to a repair order quickly.
  
  
• Picture Puzzle - rd.sandeep
  A jigsaw puzzle game for Windows 8
  
  
• Lotto-Matic-Ultra: Win the lottery using Your Ultrabook Senses - hackinc2000
  Win the lottery using Your Ultrabook Senses
  
  
• Color in Voice - Scott HC
  Silly Aliens have taken over your computer, and you need to make wild noises to scare them!
  
  
• Space Station Finder - danshultz11
  Get Easy-to-Follow Space Station viewing instructions for your exact location.
  
  
• Bling Me Touch app - danshultz11
  Add humorous images, graphics to any photo.
  
  
• Grand Central - HelixTen
  
  
  
• Ultrababy Care - apmyhr
  One stop application for managing all aspects of your newborn and their health.
  
  
• Bomb-Breaker - DozyHole
  A fun, touch, and light sensor enabled, multi-player or single-player gaming experience.
  
  

VB.NET

• An expression evaluator written in VB.NET - Pascal Ganaye
  An expression evaluator written in VB.NET.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• WPF/MVVM Quick Start Tutorial - Barry Lapthorn
  A quick example of MVVM in WPF
  
  
• Visual Studio 2012 Metro Styles for WPF - Winfried Lötzsch
  Black Metro Styles for Button, ListBox, Menu, ScrollBar, TabControl, TextBox, ComboBox, DataGrid and GroupBox
  
  
• Global Shortcuts in WinForms and WPF - geekbond
  This article shows how to register and manage System-Global hotkeys in WinForm and WPF applications and performing some keyboard manipulation from your app.
  
  
• A bit of binding - MVVM'ing bytes/bits based data - ntg123
  Different approaches for implementing MVVM over byte/bit based data.
  
  

XML

• CXml - A Wrapping Class for MSXML 3.0/4.0/5.0/6.0 - Jerry.Wang
  This wrapping class will try to use the latest version of MSXML in the machine, and it is easy because of using auto_ptr.
  
  

New Tips and Tricks added

Ajax

• Shuffle Images - Ashwin M. Hegde
  This script helps you understand basic shuffling of images.
  
  

Android

• Eclipse protocol error when updating, or installing ADT - OriginalGriff
  If you are trying to follow the instructions on how to get your system up and running with Eclipse, you may get an error when installing ADT
  
  

ASP.NET

• How to solve error: 404.2 The page you are requesting cannot be served - Bitla Phanindra
  How to solve error: 404.2 The page you are requesting cannot be served
  
  

Database

• Connecting SQL Server 2012 Express from SharePoint 2013 Configuration Wizard - Rakesh NITian
  Connecting SQL Server 2012 Express from SharePoint 2013 Configuration Wizard
  
  

Dialogs and Windows

• Position a Windows Forms MessageBox in C# - ProgramFOX
  A tip about how to set the position of a Windows Forms MessageBox in C#
  
  

Grid & Data Controls

• Performing Insert, Update and Delete Operations using DetailsView Control in Asp.net - AshishChaudha
  This article describes the working of DetailsView for inserting a new record, Updating and Deleting the existing details of the user.
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Run C# application on Windows startup (Windows Forms) - ProgramFOX
  A tip about how to run a C# application on Windows startup.
  
  

SharePoint Server

• Modifying WebConfig File programmatically - Mr. Tapan Kumar
  This article describes how to modyfy the webconfig file of a SharePoint site
  
  

Windows Mobile

• Windows CE custom controls - Csasztvan Zsolt
  Messagebox, mainmenu and contextmenu controls for Windows CE
  
  

Tips and Tricks updated

Ajax

• Showing File Upload Progress to the user using UpdatePanel control in ASP.NET - AshishChaudha
  This article describes the working of fileupload inside an updatepanel and showing the file upload progress to the user.
  
  

ASP.NET

• Alternate Rows in ASP.NET GridView, HTML5 Tables - DrABELL
  Novel HTML5/CSS3 features simplify alternate rows styling in GridView, DetailsView and other Tables
  
  

Combo & List Boxes

• Single Selection Across Multiple ItemsControls - Greg Dennis
  How to implement a single selection set across as many ItemsControls as your app needs.
  
  

Date and Time

• Display local time of various cities in world using Timer control and TimeZone class - Sonali Agarwal
  Here I am showing the local time in various timezones in the world
  
  

HTML / CSS

• HTML5/CSS3 graphic enhancement: buttons, inputs - DrABELL
  Aesthetic enhancement of HTML5 web elements via pure CSS3; no image files required
  
  

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#
  
  

Shell and IE programming

• Easily zip / unzip files using Windows Shell32 - Bashar Yassin Tahir
  Easily zip / unzip files using Windows Shell32
  
  

String handling

• Unicode to Krutidev, Krutidev to Unicode Convertor in C# - AnuragTripathi
  Convertor for Unicode to Krutidev and vice-versa.
  
  

New Technical Blogs added

Algorithms & Recipes

• Clang Rocks! - Issam Lahlali
  In this article we will discover the power of Clang's design that can help you to develop many kinds of tools.
  
  

ASP.NET

• A simple container used in MVC web applications with DI (Dependency Injection) - RizviHasan
  A simple container used in MVC web applications with DI.
  
  

Client side scripting

• [JavaScript] 'window.onbeforeunload' fires twice. - James Poulose
  An easy fix.
  
  

Cross Platform

• Lubuntu or Ubuntu fails to update on VirtualBox virtual machine - RizviHasan
  When a Lubuntu or Ubuntu is installed in a VirtualBox, by default the networking mode is selected NAT.
  
  

Cryptography & Security

• Use BCrypt to Hash Your Passwords: Example for C# and SQL Server - Rob Kraft
  Some implementation details.
  
  

Design and Architecture

• The Adaptive Interface Pattern - MattDavey
  Many times you read about some design pattern in a book or online, and you realise that it’s a technique you’ve been using for years – you just didn’t have a  name for it. It can be a bit of a double edged sword; on the one hand it gives you a nice warm fuzzy [...]
  
  
• An idea of a three tier application using IoC (Inversion of Control), DI (Dependency Injection), and perfectly decoupled layers - RizviHasan
  A very basic concept in developing a three tier application.
  
  

Hardware & System

• How to turn off your monitor when you lock your machine - Anuraj Parameswaran
  Usually we forgot to turn off monitor, when we lock our computer. It is a good thing, to save energy. You can configure your operating system to turn off monitor after sometime. But sometimes you may change/ disable this setting and forgot to re-enable it. Here is a code snippet, which will turn off
  
  
• Survival Guide for Great Stunts – Part 1 - John Michael Hauck
  Part 1 of this series highlights the model that will be used to introduce the project to the students.
  
  

HTML / CSS

• Adding Pagination within Codeigniter - jotorres
  Adding Pagination within Codeigniter I have had this post for quite some time now, but I have been busy lately with a lot of work, so I haven’t been able to dedicate as much time as I needed to. Finally here is the post. Today we are going to add a small feature to one [...]
  
  

Java

• Proxy Design Pattern in Java - Arpit Mandliya
  CodeProjectProxy design pattern allows you to create a wrapper class over real object.Wrapper class which is proxy,controls access to real object so in turn you can add extra functionalities to real object without changing real object's code.As described by GoF:"Provide a surrogate or placeholder fo
  
  
• Composite Design Pattern in Java - Arpit Mandliya
  CodeProjectComposite design patten allows you to have a tree structure and ask each node in the tree structure to perform a task.You can take real life example of a organization.It have general managers and under general managers, there can be managers and  under managers there can be developers.Now
  
  
• Adapter Design Pattern in Java - Arpit Mandliya
  CodeProjectReal life example: A very simple example is using phone charger. Suppose your mobile phone needs 9 Volts of supply to get charged but main supply is 220 V which is not what you require but it can be a source and you can have something that can get 9 V out of this 220 V and supply to y
  
  

Libraries

• Cudafy Me: Part 4 of 4 - John Michael Hauck
  These posts are meant to inspire you to enter into the world of graphics processor programming.
  
  
• Cudafy Me: Part 3 of 4 - John Michael Hauck
  These posts are meant to inspire you to enter into the world of graphics processor programming.
  
  
• Cudafy Me: Part 2 of 4 - John Michael Hauck
  These posts are meant to inspire you to enter into the world of graphics processor programming.
  
  

PHP

• Simple Sessions Class - jotorres
  A very simple class for manipulating sessions in PHP.
  
  
• My top 9 reasons why I use PHP - jotorres
  My top 9 reasons why I use PHP.
  
  
• Using MySQLi with PHP with an OO approach - jotorres
  Using MySQLi with PHP with an OO approach.
  
  
• Save records to database with PHP and MySQL - jotorres
  For those of you who do not know how to create an insert using PHP and MySQL, here I will teach you.
  
  

Reviews on Third Party Products and Tools

• Test Driven Development (TDD) in Visual Studio 2012 using Stubs - EdmundYeung
  Microsoft have introduced a whole bunch of features in Visual Studio 2012 that making unit testing a whole lot nicer, especially for agile and TDD. Third-Party Testing Frameworks - allows developers to use whatever testing framework they wantContinuous Tests - feature to "Run Tests After Build"Code
  
  

Scrapbook

• How to Combat Web Browsing Zombies - Zac Gery
  Curing web zombies can be a challenge but it is a worthy cause.
  
  

SharePoint Server

• Implementing a Sandbox Proxy in SharePoint 2010 - PratapReddyP
  How to implement a Sandbox proxy in SharePoint 2010.
  
  

Uncategorised Technical Blogs

• Cudafy Me: Part 1 of 4 - John Michael Hauck
  These posts are meant to inspire you to enter into the world of graphics processor programming.
  
  

Win32/64 SDK & OS

• Install Windows 8 from a rusty 256 MB USB stick - marcofranssen
  Install Windows 8 from a rusty 256 MB USB stick.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• Parallax Background in XAML Revisited - John Michael Hauck
  Adapted from the original post Metro Parallax Background in XAML.
  
  

Technical Blogs updated

.NET Framework

• Using the new .NET CLR without recompiling - Werner van Deventer
  In-process side-by-side execution allows applications that were built on an older version of .NET (before 4.0) to use the new features of the updated CLR without even having to recompile your code!
  
  

Grid & Data Controls

• DataGridView – Stacked Header - Deepak-VS
  DataGridView forms an integral part of any application and with specific needs of the applications, harnessing power of DataGridView is essential. I faced a similar scenario in a project where we had a DataGridView having more than hundred columns generated dynamically. The columns are generated bas
  
  
• .NET DataGridView: Change Formatting of the Active Column Header to Track User Location - John Atten
  How to change the formatting of the Active Column Header to track user location.
  
  

Libraries

• A Synchronization Context Based on the TPL Dataflow Library - Paulo Morgado
  Sometimes, for demo or testing purposes, I need a synchronization context that behaves like the user interface ones but doesn’t force me to build applications with a user interface and the TPL Dataflow Library seemed like a good option to implement such synchronization context.
  
  

SharePoint Server

• Object null reference error when opening the Site / Document Library in SharePoint - Melick
  How to fix the error.