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It's been a huge and exhausting week. Our AppInnovation contest has moved on to Round 2, and in other news Apple released some updated hardware and Microsoft have released an Operating system or two. Windows 8, love it or confused by it, is out, Microsoft Surface is available, and today sees the release of Windows Phone 8. One UI to rule them all. Except on Windows 8 on Intel where you get Desktop as well. Google was planning on launching Android 4.2 and new hardware, but a small matter of a hurricane has put those plans on hold.

It's crazy times, I tell you. For my part I'm running back to Australia for a couple of weeks until the dust (or snow, as may be the case) settles.

The best articles of last month have been voted for by you. The masses have spoken and the best of the best are:

Best C# article of September 2012
Jerry.Wang - .NET CLR Injection: Modify IL Code during Run-time
Prizes:	Shell MegaPack.Net 2010; SmartOutline 2010; Crypto Obfuscator For .Net - Enterprise Edition; The latest C# ebooks from informIT; ActiveReports 7;

Best C++ article of September 2012
Espen Harlinn - Rendering text with Direct2D & DirectWrite
Prizes:	Codejock Xtreme ToolkitPro; SmartOutline 2010; CryptoLicensing For MFC - Enterprise Edition; The latest C++ ebooks from informIT;

Best overall article of September 2012
Kanasz Robert - Design Patterns 3 of 3 - Behavioral Design Patterns
Prizes:	Code Project Mug; Hyper Build; Spread .NET;

Best Web Dev article of September 2012
Nick Polyak - HTML5, JavaScript, Knockout, JQuery, Guide for Recovering Silverlight/WPF/C# Addicts. Part 1 - JavaScript and DOM.
Prizes:	SmartOutline 2010; The latest Web Dev ebooks from informIT; Spread WPF-Silverlight;

Best Mobile article of September 2012
Sandip.Nascar - Android - Stock Market Watch (COINS) in C# using Visual Studio 2010
Prizes:	Code Project Mug; Code Project Mousepad; The latest Mobile ebooks from informIT; ComponentOne Studio Enterprise;

Best VB.NET article of September 2012
Mika Wendelius - Encrypting a dataset using AES, including compression
Prizes:	Shell MegaPack.Net 2010; SmartOutline 2010; Crypto Logger For .Net; The latest VB.NET ebooks from informIT;

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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Weekly Poll Results

This week's survey: Do we developers engage in Social Media? If so, which ones?

Most popular new articles

• Converting math equations to C# - Dmitri Nesteruk
  
• fastJSON - Mehdi Gholam
  
• ASP .NET Plotter - HTML5 Charting for all - Akram El Assas
  
• WCF by Example - Introduction - Enrique Albert
  
• C.B.R. - Guillaume Waser
  

Latest Additions

200 articles overall. 59 new, 141 updated.

New articles added

C#

• An Overview on Many Terms and Principles - Paulo Zemek
  Understand things like OOP, AOP, Loose-coupling, Class Inheritance, Interface Implementation, Open-Closed Principle and others.
  
  
• Developing extension packages for Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010/2012 using C# with real-life samples (4/6) - Paul Eremeev
  This article covers the extension of Visual Studio IDE through integration of a custom user toolwindow into the environment.
  
  
• Developing extension packages for Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010/2012 using C# with real-life samples (5/6) - Paul Eremeev
  This article covers the extension of Visual Studio by integrating into its 'Settings' dialog pages. Option page registration and integration into the IDE for different kinds of extension packages will be examined, as well as the means to display various user-created components inside a page.
  
  
• Concurrent Object Pool, the Right Way - Kel_
  An implementation of a generic, concurrent object pool with smart memory management.
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Understanding and Implementing Facade Pattern in C# - Rahul Rajat Singh
  This article talks about the facade pattern. When is this pattern useful. This article also presents a rudimentary approach to implement the facade pattern.
  
  

HTML / CSS

• HTML5 Knockout TriState Tree Control - Prasad Bhalekar(PP)
  Used HTML5 Knockout MVVM binding to make TriState Tree Control
  
  

Microsoft BizTalk Server

• Acknowledgements in BizTalk - Nihar Malali
  About sending Acknowledgements from BizTalk which can be achieved with and without using Orchestration
  
  

Office Development

• Microsoft Office Version Detector - aalvarez13
  This is an alternative for "Microsoft Office Version Detector".
  
  

OpenGL

• Getting started with Volume Rendering - dvnOye
  Step by step explanation of volume rendering.
  
  

Ultrabooks

• shareFace - Getting photos via NFC filtered by our own face - Toni Recio (Microsoft MVP Client Applicati
  Getting photos via NFC filtered by our own face.
  
  
• Location-aware Reminder App - Manu Pandit
  App idea for ultrabooks -- Remind me important items wherever I go.
  
  
• Duco Paint - Graphics Creation - Rahul Dominic
  Duco Paint is a specially designed Win8 app that uses win8 sensors to create graphics.
  
  
• Mobitexter - mobitexter
  Mobitexter
  
  
• Airports around the World Map - Sanket T Shah
  Use Sensors to learn more on Airports around the world
  
  
• Status Reminder - rajeshnatarajn
  It is a reminder and status monitor
  
  
• PhysicsLab - swm1701
  Simulation and visualization of physics on a next generation Ultrabook.
  
  
• UltraPDF - Gladys Merma Molina
  The most awesome PDF Viewer for Ultrabooks!
  
  
• Email Aggregation Manager - Shuqian Ying
  A symmetric multi-account email receiving, sending, searching, sorting, categorizing and correlating system is described.
  
  
• Windows 8 Application to Track Employee Time with BlueTooth - Justin Asmussen
  Develop a BlueTooth Employee Time Clock Application
  
  
• Pathway Runaway - play3577
  An Ultrabook game that uses simple cubes in a revolutionary way.
  
  
• Doodle Riddle - A JavaScript Windows 8 Game - Matthias.Fischer
  A riddle game for windows 8 using JavaScript and HTML5.
  
  
• Smart Child Entertain - Heinzy
  A Game for children from 4 to 6 years using the power of Windows 8 and an Ultrabook.
  
  
• P2P Voting - JyotiM_1980
  Instant Live Voting by Audience
  
  
• Lucky Raffle - JeevaM
  Let the system pick the lucky winner
  
  
• Sensor Data Log - Nilima I
  Collect and view recorded sensor data
  
  
• Next Stop - App Innovation - Nrupal Prattipati
  Next Stop alerts you when to get off a train or bus, you will not miss a stop again.
  
  
• Bottle Twister [Game] - carasusan
  Bottle twister game.
  
  
• Upsurge, Evolutionary Tower Defense - Bloodyaugust16
  Our entry to the App Innovation Competition
  
  
• Climbing Journal - Chris Morgan
  This article exposes development techniques for the new Ultrabook sensors to create a rock climbing journal.
  
  
• Aut-o-motion - denis.dudak
  Monitor and record vehicle OBD and Ultrabook sensor data for various purposes.
  
  
• Secure your ultrabook from theft - brlalithkumar
  Prevent your ultrabooks from theft
  
  
• Trip Planner - BrowniePoints
  Overview of the trip planner app for App Innovation Contest
  
  
• Eggcellent Adventures - Dan Funnell-Nicholls
  Eggcellent Adventures – New innovative Platform Game for Windows 8 (Desktop)
  
  
• Personal Assistant - Alexandre J Ferreira
  Unified tracking & calendar app
  
  
• RoadRash - krishna2t
  
  
  
• Cineworld - Hermit Dave
  Cineworld app for Windows 8
  
  
• Musicor: Music From Sensors - unizen
  Musicor collects data from all the sensors.
  
  
• BlueBirds - A Magical Twitter Client - GeorgeChris
  App Innovation Content Entry for Blue Birds - A Magical Twitter Client
  
  
• MPL3D Solar System (Sensor) - MPL3D
  an interactive 3D space simulation
  
  
• Orchestrated Entertainment Bingo - Steve Vink
  Putting the fun back into fundraising
  
  
• QuickSketch - namrata2488
  A wireframing tool for the App Innovation Challenge
  
  
• Places Near Me - Mike Beaton
  This article is related to the use of maps and the geolocation abilities of Ultrabooks
  
  
• Speed Racer! - M.V.Priyank
  Experience the awesomeness in racing games which you never had before!
  
  
• Journey Alarm - tanubatra
  It will alert you when you will go wrong path during journey.
  
  
• Dancing Robot - Yangyong Qin
  Dancing robot.
  
  
• Habits - A Life Changing App - Sarah_G
  Habits is a life changing app which provides an awesome framework for people to create new habits and resolutions and to usher a lot of positive changes to the user.
  
  
• TasksBox - An Intelligent TaskManager - sarmaghi
  TasksBox is an Intelligent Task Manager which elegantly manages all your tasks and can also sync your tasks across multiples machines by utilizing the power of cloud services.
  
  
• DigiClockPlus - Zangl Ltd
  Digital Clock including PhotoFrame, Weather and Music Alarm
  
  
• Hands-on Molding - Member 9533467
  Combing high-performance, computing, and a large, multi-touchscreen, Hands-on Molding gives users a chance to design their own work of art with their hands directly and intuitively, rather than being forced to adapt to using a mouse for was originally an artistic hands-on experience.
  
  
• Musichart : Music for Ultrabook - kshitijsrivastava
  A Nice and engaging UI with nice Windows 8 Metro Touch and other sensor capabilities make this app a must-have for your Ultrabook
  
  
• Canvas Anywhere - Michael Fait
  Carry an entire art studio with you anywhere you go.
  
  
• Color Wheel Learner - sunnypeas
  A color wheel app for the Ultrabook.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• MVVM Diagram Designer - Sacha Barber
  A WPF diagram designer written with MVVM in mind
  
  

Articles updated

Algorithms & Recipes

• Converting math equations to C# - Dmitri Nesteruk
  A magical tool to convert Word equations to C# - instantly!
  
  

Applications & Tools

• Toolbar Editor for Visual Studio - Francesco Aruta
  A toolbar editor for Visual Studio. It can modify, add and create buttons, images and all that is needed for a toolbar.
  
  

Audio and Video

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

Author Resources

• Offline Article Editor For CodeProject - Huseyin Atasoy
  An offline wysiwyg editor to backup, edit or create new articles for CodeProject.
  
  

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
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• Windows Development in C++, working with menus - Espen Harlinn
  Windows API, menus, c++ lambda expressions, std::enable_shared_from_this
  
  
• X86/ARM Emulator - codestarman
  X86/ARM emulator written using C++ and assembler for the .NET environment.
  
  

C#

• Aspect Oriented Programming: learn step by step and roll your own implementation! - Guirec Le Bars
  A journey into AOP land with concerns, pointcuts, joinpoints, advices, aspects, interceptors, proxies, targets, mix-ins, composites...
  
  
• Dynamically Map SQL Resultset to Business Object - Sam Lombardo
  Dynamically map a DataTable to type-safe business objects using reflection and generics.
  
  
• Return Anonymous type - Pranay Rana
  Return Anonymous type
  
  
• Developing extension packages for Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010/2012 using C# with real-life samples (3/6) - Paul Eremeev
  This article deals with creation, utilization and handling of Visual Studio commands in its extension modules through automation object model APIs and IDE services. The relations between IDE commands and environment UI elements, such as user menus and toolbars, will also be examined.
  
  
• Main Method in C# - SChristmas
  This article is all about main method in C#
  
  
• Memory Mapped File Interoperability with .NET Objects - Crooked path
  This article provides the basic framework for reading/writing .NET objects, targeting the Windows Memory Mapped File API.
  
  

Charts, Graphs and Images

• ASP .NET Plotter - HTML5 Charting for all - Akram El Assas
  Nowadays, There are a plenty of Javascript charting libraries used in organizations such as NASA, Eutelsat, MongoDB, Google. Justly, this article aims to show you how you can easily integrate Javascript charting libraries in ASP .NET and build your own charting controls depending on your needs.
  
  
• ASP.NET Plotter Toolkit - HTML5 Charting for all - Akram El Assas
  ASP.NET Plotter Toolkit makes the process of creating ASP.NET charting controls much simpler and much easier. The toolkit comes with extendable HTML5 charting controls for plotting time series and dense data sets.
  
  

Collections

• Quadrant Map - ohmusama
  Tree representation for a 2D space allowing for infinite expansion
  
  

Custom Controls

• ASP.NET HTML Editor Control - Amir Jalilifard
  Creating a Useful ASP.NET Html Editor custom control
  
  

Database

• Easy SQL-CE Access Utility in C# - Bart-Jan Verhoeff
  Access data in any SQL server compact edition datatable using only one line of code in C#
  
  

Design and Architecture

• WCF by Example - Introduction - Enrique Albert
  Patterns and best practices for the desing and development of rich client enterprise applications using WPF, WCF and NHibernate
  
  
• Understanding and Implementing Decorator Pattern in C# - Rahul Rajat Singh
  This article talks about the basics of decorator pattern and see when this pattern can be found useful.
  
  
• WCF by Example - Chapter III - Response - Enrique Albert
  WCF service response message patterns
  
  
• WCF by Example - Chapter IV - Transaction Manager - Enrique Albert
  Generic transaction and exception manager for server side services
  
  
• WCF by Example - Chapter XIV - Validation & Exception Management - Enrique Albert
  WPF Validation using the IDataErrorInfo interface combined with Validation attributes
  
  
• WCF by Example - Chapter V - Contexts - Enrique Albert
  Global and Request context pattern for server side resources
  
  
• WCF by Example - Chapter VI - WPF Client - Baseline - Enrique Albert
  Baseline WCF Client application using the MVVM pattern
  
  
• Understanding and Implementing Template Method Design Pattern in C# - Rahul Rajat Singh
  
  
  

Desktop Gadgets

• Global Text Chat Room Application using C#.NET Remoting Technology - SumanBiswas
  Chat Room using C#.NET Remoting
  
  
• Original Virtual PiliKeyboard with Prompt Feature. Samsung R-Series laptop keyboard. - Viktor Signaievskyi
  This project provides a virtual keyboard with prompt feature
  
  

Files and Folders

• Processing Standard Zip Files with C# compression/decompression classes - Uzi Granot
  This project will give you the tools needed to compress and decompress files using the Deflate method of compression, and to read and write standard Zip files.
  
  

Grid & Data Controls

• jqGrid MVC Html Helper - Ken C. Len
  MVC 3 jqGrid Html Helper
  
  

Internet / Network

• fastJSON - Mehdi Gholam
  Smallest, fastest polymorphic JSON serializer (with Silverlight4 support)
  
  
• WebScraping in CSharpDotNetTech - dot net tech
  The article explains Web Scraping for beginners with examples of WebBrowser, WebClient, HttpWebRequest/HttpWebResponse, Regex, BackgroundWorker.
  
  

Libraries

• Razor 2.0 template engine, supporting layouts - Jaap Lamfers
  Razor 2.0 template engine that works outside MVC and that supports layouts (masterpages) and _ViewStart, like ASP.NET MVC.
  
  
• Object Relational Mapping (ORM) using NHibernate - Part 1 of 8 Coding One to One Entity Associations - Anand Lakshminarasimhan
  A full series of 8 part articles to show One-To-One, Many-To-One, Many-To-Many associations mapping using NHibernate, Using Collections With NHibernate, Inheritance Relationships Using NHibernate, Lazy Initializations/Fetches Using NHibernate.
  
  
• Object Relational Mapping (ORM) using NHibernate - Part 4 of 8 Coding Optional One-to-Many Entity Associations - Anand Lakshminarasimhan
  A full series of 8 part articles to show One-To-One, Many-To-One, Many-To-Many associations mapping using NHibernate, Using Collections With NHibernate, Inheritance Relationships Using NHibernate, Lazy Initializations/Fetches Using NHibernate.
  
  

MFC

• MFC Snapping Windows - Vachaun22
  Easily create windows that snap to each other.
  
  

Product Showcase

• Creating a Simple Windows 8 Game with JavaScript: Part 1 – Windows 8 App Basics - Chris_Bowen
  We’ll be using HTML5, JavaScript, WinJS, and some helpful libraries from CreateJS along the way.
  
  
• Activating Windows 8 Contracts In Your App - Derek Gebhard
  In this post I’ll walk you through activation, one of the main concepts to think about as you add contracts to your apps.
  
  
• iOS to IE10 Metro: Building Cross-Browser Plugin-Free Experiences - Rey Bango
  iOS to IE10 Metro: Building Cross-Browser Plugin-Free Experiences
  
  
• 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.
  
  

Selection Controls

• RefEdit Emulation for .NET - pablleaf
  A simple implementation of a ref edit control for .NET
  
  

SharePoint Server

• Developing SharePoint WebParts - Gavin Sinai
  Four important aspects of SharePoint 2007 Web Part development
  
  

Silverlight

• Build a Pandora clone with Silverlight 4 - Judah Himango
  Exercising Silverlight 4 to build a fun, real-world app
  
  

Testing and QA

• Performance Benchmarks using NUnit Addin - NinjaCross
  This tutorials introduces a new NUnit Addin able to record execution time of unit tests and generate XML, CSV, HTML performances reports with charts and history tracking.
  
  

Third Party Products and Tools

• ASPxGridView master-detail data presentation with context menus - Mario Majčica
  A real-life detailed example of usage of DevExpress ASPxGridView control.
  
  
• Mobile Development using IBM Worklight and WCF - Pankaj P Sharma
  This article is intended to introduce IBM Worklight and its integration with WCF.
  
  

Ultrabooks

• Roller Coaster - Rover2341 - Mark Dickinson
  Build and ride roller coasters on Windows 8. Use your Ultrabook to play the game using touch.
  
  
• Wi-Fi Chess - Meshack Musundi
  A WinRT P2P chess application
  
  
• App Innovation Contest – Nearby Hospitals - Member 9503374
  Provides a list of nearby hospitals
  
  
• Transport Tracker - Joe Brock
  A unified transport tracking application for Windows 8 which utilises sensors and a server-side transport network aggregation component.
  
  
• EasyWords - Language Learning - Alper Barkmaz
  Learn any language while doing other things at your ultrabook.
  
  
• A Powerful Photo Editing App and Effects. - pratik mohapatra
  This article will tell the users about my application. My application does a lot of things like one of them is photo editing and many cool effects on photos it can also save images in various formats.
  
  
• Masterplan RT - Andy Aiken
  Building a tabletop roleplaying app for the Windows Store
  
  
• The Companion App- Search Engine, GeoLocation Browser and Language Translator at one Place - The GreenHorn
  The Companion App: Its basically a utility app proposed for ultrabook which consists of the likes of a search tool, a geo location browsing tool and a language translator tool.
  
  
• Sim Trader - Windows Store Apps - rgawdzik
  Showing off how a clean interface can make use of an Ultrabook's amazing display.
  
  
• Celerity: Sensory Overload - Adam David Hill
  Sensor-controlled XNA Tunnel Game with VR Head-Tracking
  
  
• Trakk.Me - Your movement tracker! - Manish Dalal
  Overview & Features list for Trakk.Me
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Draw nd Share - Bharath MG
  Draw anything in Ultrabook with its touch capability and show it to the world.
  
  
• Location Matrix - Ojas Sinha
  This article is related to the use of Bing Map in Winrt with so many new features which are covered in one application "Location Matrix" .
  
  
• Flavours (AppInnovation) - Nrupal Prattipati
  Starting with Recipe creation and sharing, to a full fledged Kitchen Assistant.
  
  
• Snakes and Ladders - Hariharan.e51
  Remake of the classic
  
  
• Trips - ChemicalOli
  A travel journal app
  
  
• Event Finder - Google Places Event App - Simon Key
  Event Finder - A WinRT app making use of the Google Places API and other data sources to display a lists of local events.
  
  
• Evolution: Mutate and Survive Game - ohmusama
  Game Concept: Evolutionary game, where players help their creations thrive
  
  
• Sharpy - Metro App for managing and sharing tasks - Enrique Albert
  A Metro application that manages the request and completions of shared tasks between authorised users
  
  
• The next generation of social networking - sinats
  A cross platform social networking app
  
  
• Trigger: Shape, Space, and Measure teaching app - Paul Edwin
  Windows 8 application for teaching and learning Shape, Space & Measure using Ultrabook features
  
  
• Gyro Pong - Pushkar Singh
  A 2D desktop game similar to Dx-Ball leveraging the accelerometer/motion sensing capabilities of an Ultrabook.
  
  
• VoManagement - Jack V. Vo
  An app to manage task, and depend on where you locate the app will pick out the right task for your location.
  
  
• Indian Banks IFSC and MICR Locator - Sanket T Shah
  App to locate IFSC and MICR Codes for Indian Banks
  
  
• iCare for Ultrabook - nicks707
  This is a desktop app (iCare) which which essentially provides you the functionality of doctor in a box.
  
  
• Cell Biology Game - Samuel Roberts
  A novel, player-controlled cellular colony simulator.
  
  
• Smart Wallpaper - patri.narvaez
  Change your wallpaper using ALS
  
  
• Windows 8 Augmented Reality - chhabra.pankaj@gmail.com
  We are writing Windows 8 application which will give new dimension to user experience through the use of augmented reality
  
  
• Fighter Space Ship Game - sandeepkumar.sgnr
  As the name suggests, you will be driving a space ship in galaxy and protecting yourself from meteors. Now to show ultrabook capability with the game I will be using touch and accelerometer.
  
  
• Scuba Diving: Adventure UnderWater, a game for Ultrabook exclusive - Kashyap Singha Phukan
  A puzzle scrolling game with under water environment for ultrabook.
  
  
• Audiotica - The ultimate music platform. - Zumicts
  Evolutionaring the music industry.
  
  
• Ultra Student++ - Satish Jaganathan
  Ultra Student++ is a course planner app for colleage and school students
  
  
• CircuitPeople PCB Viewer - compiler
  Touch-optimized 2D and 3D gerber file viewer for Windows 8
  
  
• Formula1 - Martijn Luijendijk
  Formula 1 application for Windows 8 tablet, the application demonstrates capabilities of the Windows 8 ultrabooks.
  
  
• Death Race- App innovation contest - kannan_N
  Death Race is a game for ultrabook which provides support to touch and gyroscope.
  
  
• App Innovation Contest - Mobile Chef - Nishallini
  Easy learning app for cooking..
  
  
• FirstAidTips - Ramesh Choudhary
  An Application to provide first aid tips to all users with animated pics.
  
  
• Quick Share to Nearby Users by Tapping and Proximity - codeprojectintel
  Share files to other devices using Windows Proximity
  
  
• Tap Ball - Muniganti.Ramakrishna
  This app is a simple game with a limited number of levels
  
  
• Music Rocker - Naveen Dhanawat
  Music Rocker is ultimate application for music lovers, you can have awesome fun with music.
  
  
• Ultraping Paddle Game - Folker_
  Paddle-Ball multiplayer multitouch game for Ultrabooks.
  
  
• Ultrabook Guard - suraj dev
  Secure your Ultrabook
  
  
• Observe your Energy consumption - patwag
  Track and analyze your energy consumption in your household
  
  
• Baby Recall - G24u
  Know all baby items & food recalled before it is too late
  
  
• Am I There - anbu2392
  Am I There is a location based alarm, remainder and notification app espically for ultrabook
  
  
• Ayurvedic Health Tips - nandhini4
  Its for App Innovation contest
  
  
• GeoNotes - Notes+Location - maulishah91
  Smart notes that organise themselves based on the users location.
  
  
• Bird Haunting 360° - Windows Store App - Christine Krupinski
  Windows Store App for Intel Ultrabook
  
  
• Hunter Kit - karthik.B.E
  Hunter kit helps you to find current location ,direction,wind speed and wind directions
  
  
• Dress UrSelf - Mahadevan92
  You Know Your matches!!!
  
  
• AQUASaver - A Go Green Game - Pankaj Gaur (India)
  AQUASaver is a game with concepts where you are an eco-friendly person and your task is to fill a bucket from a tap at some heights avoiding wastage of water.
  
  
• 2D Rubik Game - Sanjay K. Gupta
  A 2D Rubik Window Desktop game
  
  
• Little Phonics - Rk2Sons
  Little Phonics - for your little cute kids!
  
  
• Ultra Tracker for Intel® Ultrabook™ - Rohit Paniker
  Realtime tracking and text notification of Stolen Intel® Ultrabook™ laptops via embedded onboard GPS and Notification API.
  
  
• PA (Make Your Ultrabook As Your Personal Assistant) - Palaniapan Chellappan
  PA (Make Your Ultrabook As Your Personal Assistant)
  
  
• UltraScan - YD81
  A software scanner for the Ultrabook!
  
  
• Bixi Application Proposal for Windows 8 Ultrabooks - Yani Ioannou
  Bixi app proposal for Windows 8 Ultrabooks.
  
  
• JotDown - Tylor Lavoie
  JotDown is to be a whiteboard and to-do list app optimized for Ultrabooks.
  
  
• Book tracker App - Maneesh Sharma
  Book tracker App keeps track of shared books with QR code/NFC tags
  
  
• 8tracks for Windows 8 - D Vikram Reddy
  A Windows 8 client for the popular internet radio service
  
  
• Switch To SMS/Text Notifications/Reminders When Your Ultrabook is in Sleep/Standby Mode - simsam77
  Send a text/sms message to your phone when your Ultrabook is in Sleep/Standby mode via a service like Twilio or Nexmo by using Smart Connect or an accelerometer/gyroscope
  
  
• Frogger 8 for Ultrabook - BigWCat
  Frogger game for Ultrabook.
  
  
• Kloverpoint - Expand Your Social Reach - Kloverpoint Technologies
  Kloverpoint is the tool that will help you stay connected and expand your social reach.
  
  
• Alchemy - Jonathan Franks
  Alchemy element combination game for Ultrabook app innovation contest
  
  
• Stranded - The Zoq2
  Stranded is a survival game, where the player is put on an island, and is forced to survive.
  
  
• Quicksilver Math - kpal12
  Quicksilver Math is a game where you solve math facts to get points
  
  
• On The Spot - Grigmin
  With the ability to customize your search, no matter where you are and what you want, there is a spot for you.
  
  
• Me Management - Member 9529615
  Thought & Task Manager
  
  
• Power Drive - vikyath
  A game which gives the player a simulation of sitting in front of the steering wheel and driving a car.
  
  
• Car driving via Sensor - "AppInnovation Entry" - SharmiBala
  Learning car driving via Augmented reality with help of sensor inputs
  
  
• Task Timer - Trigger61
  A time management/productivity tool to be used to record length of time spent on tasks/projects.
  
  
• App Innovation Contest: Friend Locator - adityamorarka
  Friend Locator keeps you updated about the location of your friends.
  
  
• Extensible Monitoring Solution - barry brunswick
  An entry in the Intel App Innovation Contest
  
  
• GPS Tracked Video Guide - lifestyler
  An App which tracks the GPS position while recording a video
  
  
• Flick Pong - Steven Holding
  This article details my game entry for the AppInnovation Contest
  
  
• GPS Treasure hunt - PeterFJorgensen
  "GPS Treasure Hunt" is a game played out in the nature using a Ultrabook PC with GPS and other sensors
  
  
• Typr - DownsideUp Apps
  A simple, cloud-connected writing app
  
  

User Controls

• CheckBoxList(For) - a missing MVC extension - Mikhail Tsennykh
  Extends MVC HtmlHelper class so you can create POSTable checkbox list
  
  

Web Security

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

Windows Communication Foundation

• A simple POC using ASP.NET Web API, Entity Framework, Autofac, Cross Domain Support - Anand Ranjan Pandey
  The purpose of this article is to create a proof of concept to demonstrate the feasibility of ASP.NET Web API Beta Version.
  
  
• WCF by Example - Chapter I - Baseline - Enrique Albert
  First draft version of the model, repository, and services.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• C.B.R. - Guillaume Waser
  Comic and electronic publication reader with library management, extended file conversion, and devices support.
  
  
• Convert XAML Vector Graphic to PNG - Dirkster99
  An introduction to the usage of vector graphics as a source of bitmap graphics.
  
  
• TilePanel - An alternative to the WrapPanel - LaurenceBunnage
  The TilePanel attempts to wrap the contents of the list by placing the wrapped items at the topmost position they would fit rather than automatically wrapping to the left.
  
  
• AvalonDock [2.0] Tutorial Part 1 - Adding a Tool Window - Dirkster99
  How to create a new tool window in AvalonDock [2.0]
  
  

XML

• XML Serialization and Deserialization - mayankgupta688
  XML serialization and deserialization using C#.
  
  

New Tips and Tricks added

Audio and Video

• A Simple C# Player Mp3 with NAudio - lucafarias
  A Simple C# Player Mp3 with NAudio
  
  

C#

• Find Odds Out in a Generic List - Rajesh Kariyavula
  Find the Odds Out in A Generic List
  
  
• DateTime is immutable - Pranay Rana
  DateTime is immutable
  
  

Database

• SQL Server : How to Keep Database Restore History - aasim abdullah
  Backup and then restore of a database is a normal job for developers and DBAs. This script will be helpfull to findout, from which path, and which backup file a database was restored.
  
  

Tips and Tricks updated

Hardware & System

• Preventing viruses from entering a USB drive in Windows - Praveen Kullu
  Preventing viruses in a USB drive in Windows
  
  

List Controls

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

VBScript

• VBScript - Count Instances of a Process - begi21
  Determine how many Instances are currently running from a specified Process
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• Mouse Event Commands for MVVM - Matthew Searles
  Use an Attached Property to execute an ICommand
  
  

New Technical Blogs added

.NET Framework

• Memory Limits in a .NET Process - Inaki Ayucar
  This article tries to be an introduction on .Net memory management and about the memory limits both the Runtime and the platform establish for each process. We will also give some tips about dealing with the problems you will face when reaching those limits. Available memory for a process As you a
  
  

Windows Phone 7

• Windows Phone vs iOS Development (with C#): Round One - Leonardo Paneque
  DISCLAIMER: This is not about iPhone vs WP7 devices; its about development tools. If you think you can enter into a device fight here, or you like to listen to Justin Bieber, you should leave the page now.I like programming, and that's it. Well...no. I LOVE programming. No matter the platform, OS, f
  
  

Technical Blogs updated

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 [...]
  
  

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
  
  

Windows Communication Foundation

• Windows 8 submission trials and tribulations - Simon Jackson
  Boy what a crazy couple of months, to kick things off I got my first Windows 8 game up and running and through the App Excellence labs on to the Store in prompt fashion, not a glitch (if you don’t count the first lab I attended not understanding what the labs were really there for,Read More…