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Welcome back to a New Year!

Each year we have a tradition of awarding the members who have worked the hardest, helped the most, and given their all for the community. There are two main categories: those who write articles and those who help in the forums and in Quick Answers. You, our members, vote for these articles, for their answers, you download code that's been posted, bookmark articles and "accept" an answer as the right one. Each small activity adds to the contributors points tally and at the end of the year we have a list of the brightest and the best.

It's with great pleasure that I say congratulations to our Most Valuable Professionals of 2013:

Abhinav S	Maxim Kartavenkov
adriancs	Mehdi Gholam
Ali Daneshmandi	Meshack Musundi
Christian Graus	Michael Haephrati
Colin Eberhart	Mika Wendelius
CPallini	OriginalGriff
Dave Kerr	Prasad_Kulkarn
Dave Kreskowiak	Pete O'Hanlon
Eddy Vluggen	Rahul Rajat Singh
Espen Halinn	Richard MacCutchan
Florian Rappl	Sacha Barber
geoyar	Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
Jovan Popovic	Sandeep Mewara
Jean Paul V.A	Shai Raiten
Kanasz Robert	Shemeer NS
Maciej Los	Shivprasad koirala
Manas Bhardwaj	thatraja
Marc Clifton	Vietdungiitb
Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira	VJ Reddy
Marcus Kramer	Zoltán Zörgő

Well done to all our MVPs, and thank you to everyone who has helped someone on the forums, with some code, with their knowledge, or just with a little advice. Every bit counts.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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Weekly Poll Results

This week's survey: Will you be upgrading to Windows 8?

Most popular new articles

• fastJSON - Mehdi Gholam
  
• Bird Programming Language: Part 1 - Dávid Kocsis
  
• Versatile WebCam C# library - Predrag Tomasevic
  
• Lucene.Net ultra fast search for MVC or WebForms site => made easy! - Mikhail Tsennykh
  
• SYSInfo: System info desktop tool - stepe
  

Latest Additions

108 articles overall. 44 new, 64 updated.

New articles added

Database

• Archive all SQL Server backup (Full, Diff, Log) dynamically - mparvez
  How to archive all backup (Full, Diff, Log) in a single archive file using 7zip.
  
  
• Storing Tree like Hierarchy Structures With MongoDB, Part 2 - Vyacheslav Voronenko
  Article demonstrates three approaches for storing tree like structures with NoSQL databases on example of the MongoDB
  
  

GDI+

• Persian Gulf in 3D Anaglyph - Mohammad Reza Khosravi
  This application uses some simple 2D methods to make 3D scenes which can be seen with Red/Cyan Anaglyph glasses.
  
  

Internet / Network

• Visual Email Capacity Management and Monitoring (Part 1) - joe_j
  Shows you how to build up a close to real time email monitoring and visual management system.
  
  

Menus

• A Pie Menu for WPF - Mass Soldal Lund
  Creating a pie menu control for WPF
  
  

Office Development

• Querying Database with Microsoft Excel - Jacques Bach
  An easy way to deliver data with MS Excel
  
  

Third Party Products and Tools

• ASPxGridView Excel style - Extending functionality - Mario Majčica
  Continuing on the example of previous post and exploring further ways to add more functionality on ASPxGridView
  
  

Windows 8 Design

• Part 2: Manage app lifecycle and state (Windows Store apps using JavaScript and HTML) (Windows) - Windows Azure Dev Center
  Manage app lifecycle and state (Windows Store apps using JavaScript and HTML) (Windows)
  
  

Windows Communication Foundation

• A beginner's guide to queuing with WCF and MSMQ showing bi-directional client correspondance - Ger Hayden
  This is a working example of clients in queued correspondence with a service, sending messages to it, recieving unsolicited messages from it while both client and service can queue messages to the other while the other is offline.
  
  

Windows Phone 7

• A Windows Phone 8 Run Tracking App in 100 Lines of Code - Colin Eberhardt
  This article describes the development of a Windows Phone 8 Run Tracking application that uses a number of the new Windows Phone 8 features.
  
  

XML

• XSLT-Delta Calculation Component (DCC) Technical Description and How to Us - Amr Rekaby, Mai Sobhy
  This article provides a reusable component to calculate the delta difference between 2 XMLs structures, it is implemented by XSLT to be faster and platform independent.
  
  

Articles updated

.NET Framework

• PVS.AVPlayer - Peter Vegter
  MCI wrapper class library for .NET developers
  
  
• Pragmatic Unit Tests using "yield return" for providing test cases - Pawel idzikowski
  How to gain better control over the testing process reducing the amount of test methods in a unit test?
  
  

Algorithms & Recipes

• Bird Programming Language: Part 1 - Dávid Kocsis
  A new general purpose language that aims to be fast, high level and simple to use.
  
  
• Bird Programming Language: Part 2 - Dávid Kocsis
  A new general purpose language that aims to be fast, high level and simple to use. (I renamed it from Anonymus)
  
  
• Storing Tree like Hierarchy Structures With MongoDB - Vyacheslav Voronenko
  Article demonstrates three approaches for storing tree like structures with NoSQL databases on example of the MongoDB
  
  

Applications & Tools

• Lucene.Net ultra fast search for MVC or WebForms site => made easy! - Mikhail Tsennykh
  Step-by-step tutorial for any developer who wishes to get Lucene.Net search working with their web site or app really quickly!
  
  

ASP.NET

• ASP.NET Pagination - Srinivasu Pemma
  This is most common but very important part of every developer's life, Taken from my technical blog http://www.srinetinfo.com
  
  

Audio and Video

• How to convert between (most) audio formats in .NET - Mark Heath
  A comprehensive guide to decoding and encoding audio files in .NET using NAudio.
  
  
• Speech recognition in C# - ProgramFOX
  An article about speech recognition in C#.
  
  

C#

• How does it work in C#? - Part 2 - Mohammad A Rahman
  How does throw, rethrow and where, select clause of Enumerable class work in C# programming language.
  
  
• ImageFan - Mihnea Rădulescu
  A lightweight image viewer for .NET 2.0, supporting multi-core processing
  
  
• Arrays Basics in CSharpDotNetTech - dot net tech
  The article explains type of arrays in C# with easy to understandable Graphical examples.
  
  
• Coding an N-Tier Application in C# Without Any Wizard: Part II - Vuyiswa Maseko
  Coding an N-Tier application in C# without using Wizards.
  
  
• Task Parallel Library and async-await Functionality - Patterns of Usage in Easy Samples - Nick Polyak
  TPL/Async tutorial with emphasis on how to use it and why it is needed
  
  
• NMEA 0183 2.0 Sentence parser/builder - carpintero48
  Library for working with NMEA0183 devices
  
  

Client side scripting

• ColorPicker - a jQuery UI Widget - Olivier Giulieri
  A web color picker which looks like the one in Microsoft Office 2010.
  
  
• Web Storage Made Easy with AmplifyJS - Tim Corey
  Local storage, session storage, and all of the other web storage technologies can be great, but they can also be complicated. Learn how to use them, and then how to make life easier with AmplifyJS.
  
  

Cryptography & Security

• PGP Encryption with C# - David Rogers Dev
  Encrypting and Decrypting Files with GnuPG
  
  

Database

• Alternative tnsping utility - hevesir
  Alternative tnsping for Oracle Instant Client.
  
  

Desktop Gadgets

• A simple WPF Text Clock Gadget - Sanjay_007
  A simple WPF Text Clock Gadget
  
  

Files and Folders

• Unification of Text and Binary File APIs - Wong Shao Voon
  A portable and easy-to-use C++ file library to read and write structured data
  
  

Game Development

• Pacman Multiplayer - Mamoun Alghaslan
  A basic LAN game in C#
  
  

General Graphics

• ExifLib - A Fast Exif Data Extractor for .NET 2.0+ - Simon McKenzie
  Reads JPEG Exif data without the heavyweight and unnecessary instantiation of GDI+ objects.
  
  
• Guess My Drawing! - Albara Hakami
  A windows form application to share a whiteboard with many clients with only one drawer, in a gamy way.
  
  

Hardware & System

• SYSInfo: System info desktop tool - stepe
  Displays system information like free disk space and free memory on the desktop.
  
  
• Language and Development Tool for Microchip Technology "PIC" Microcontrollers - _beauw_
  A cross-compiler and runtime environment for the "mid-range" 8-bit PICs. The language is a novel one, designed to fully exploit the exact timing and full preemption enabled by the simple PIC architecture.
  
  

HTML / CSS

• Video Conferencing using WebRTC - Hussain Mubaireek
  Video Conference in HTML5 using WebRTC with websockets and javascript only.
  
  

Internet / Network

• fastJSON - Mehdi Gholam
  Smallest, fastest polymorphic JSON serializer (with Silverlight4 and MonoDroid support)
  
  
• Multi Threaded WebScraping in CSharpDotNetTech - dot net tech
  Beginner to Advance - Multithreaded Web Scraping with Examples of WebBrowser, WebClient, HttpWebRequest/HttpWebResponse, Regex, BackgroundWorker.
  
  
• A simple TFTP client using C# - Matthias.Fischer
  An article about creating a TFTP client with C#.
  
  
• Apolyton FastJSON - Aron Kovacs
  This is an alternative for "fastJSON"
  
  

Java

• Introduction to Graph with Breadth First Search(BFS) and Depth First Search(DFS) Traversal Implemented in JAVA - bijulsoni
  This article provides a brief introduction about graph data structure with BFS and DFS traversal algorithm.
  
  

List Controls

• Controls Library: Extended ListView with Column Mapping - alexandrvslv
  Docking windows container, extended listview, extended property editor
  
  
• Search Selectable Virtual List - Young Ye
  This article is the part 3 of the data display Performance Optimization series. It talks about performing multiple searches against the virtual list.
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Versatile WebCam C# library - Predrag Tomasevic
  Easy to use C# WebCam library that's not plagued with weird DLL references or PInvoke calls
  
  

PHP

• Mysterious google two step authentication - in debug - Vyacheslav Voronenko
  Article guides through steps how OTP code is obtained, invites adding new level of security to web applications
  
  

Product Showcase

• So what is Spokes anyway? - Plantronics
  Spokes is a runtime engine and software stack to facilitate interaction with and management of Plantronics devices including headsets, handsets and speakerphones.
  
  

Shell and IE programming

• .NET Shell Extensions - Shell Context Menus - Dave Kerr
  Rapidly create Shell Context Menu Extensions using .NET
  
  

Silverlight

• Silverlight Application with Dispatcher and asynchronous WCF service - Pranay Rana
  Silverlight Application with Dispatcher and asynchronous WCF Service
  
  

Tabs & Property Pages

• Easily Add a Ribbon into a WinForms Application (C#) - adriancs
  Easily add ribbon to WinForm Application for .NET Framework 2.0, 3.5, 4.0 & 4.5
  
  

Third Party Products and Tools

• ASPxGridView Excel style – Adding notes to grid cells - Mario Majčica
  Adding notes to grid cells and visually mark them.
  
  

Tools and IDE

• Analyzing profiling data from vsperfcmd - Mattias Högström
  Building a viewer and analyzing profiling data reports from vsperfcmd.
  
  

Ultrabooks

• Roller Coaster - Rover2341 - Mark Dickinson
  Build and ride roller coasters on Windows 8. Use your Ultrabook to play the game using touch.
  
  
• A review and refresher on the Intel Ultrabook - Chris Maunder
  Impressions on using a 3rd gen sensor-and touchscreen-equipped Intel Ultrabook prototype.
  
  
• Touch Piano - Anup Kumar Verma, Konica Gupta
  Piano for Ultrabook, desktop application
  
  

Web Security

• Custom membership provider for the ADO.NET Entity Framework - Michael Ulmann
  Custom membership provider implementation for the ADO.NET Entity Framework.
  
  

Web Services

• Reports Publisher - Christopher Hasanali
  A tool used for Publishing the Microsoft Reports to the Microsoft WebService.
  
  

Windows Phone 7

• Property Finder – a Cross-Platform Xamarin MonoTouch Mobile App - Colin Eberhardt
  A look at how Xamarin MonoTouch allows you to create cross-platform applications, using the native C# / Silverlight for Windows Phone and C#, via Xamarin MonoTouch, for iOS.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• WPF Persistency - Reto Ravasio
  This article describes how to persist WPF dependency properties
  
  
• PRISM application from the beginning: part I - juanlubarreda
  How to create an WPF desktop application using PRISM step by step
  
  
• Globalization in WPF using ResourceDictionary - Hiren Khirsaria
  Multilingual Application using ResourceDictionary in WPF
  
  

New Tips and Tricks added

Android

• Show/hide password in a edit text view (password type). - Phat (Phillip) H. VU
  Show/hide password in a edit text view (password type) .
  
  

ASP.NET

• Getting Available Resolution from Server Code in ASP.NET C# and JavaScript - desalbres
  I will demonstrate how to easily get the available screen size using PageMethods and ASP.NET
  
  
• Implement Impersonation in ASP.NET - j0y
  Implementing impersonation in ASP.NET.
  
  

C#

• Absurd - cyprussun
  The duality of success.
  
  

Collections

• Filtering a List of custom instances - Shubhashish_Mandal
  Filtering a List of custom instances.
  
  

Database

• Drop any general SQL Server object - Michiel du Toit
  Simple SP to drop any general type of SQL Server object
  
  
• CLR-addon for DATE and Split-String - Levente Kupás
  CLR-addon for T-SQL DATE transformation and Split-String
  
  
• HTML Table to SQL table conversion - Aarti Meswania
  HTML table to SQL table conversion.
  
  
• TRUNCATE/DELETE/DROP tables referenced by a foreign key constraint - Balaganesan Ravichandran
  It works without affecting schema properties.
  
  
• Dynamic Pagination - RahulAJoshi
  Dynamic paging in grids
  
  

Dialogs and Windows

• AnswerBox - cyprussun
  AnswerBox is just another replacement for the inflexible MessageBox.
  
  
• OpenFileFolder - cyprussun
  Multiselect file / folder dialog.
  
  

SharePoint Server

• ShimNotSupportedException when trying Visual Studio 2012 SharePoint Emulators - Ayman M. El-Hattab
  Creating Unit Tests using the SharePoint Emulators
  
  
• Unlock SharePoint File - brunofer2007
  Unlock a SharePoint file when it is locked for shared use by some user.
  
  

Tree Controls

• TreeGridView Trick - Mike Prochko
  Synchronize a TreeView with a DataGridView to get TreeGridView functionality
  
  

Web Services

• Using HttpLib to consume web services - Redslide
  HttpLib makes it easier to asynchronously consume data from web services in C#. The library contains methods to upload to and download from web services.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• Settings a TreeViewItem as not selectable - Shahare
  Settings a TreeViewItem as not selectable
  
  

Tips and Tricks updated

ASP.NET

• Online Whiteboard using HTML5 and SignalR - Alvin George
  A whiteboard, you can instantly share with others and all can start drawing and watching togather real-time. - developed using SignalR, HTML5, JQuery and JSON. check out live demo @ http://alvingeo-001-site1.smarterasp.net/
  
  
• A Plan for Spam - Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
  How to abate the CodeProject spam crisis.
  
  
• Implementing CRUD operations in MySQL using Entity Framework - Dorababu743
  How we can implement CRUD operations using a MySQL database.
  
  

C#

• Start developing Windows Store apps - Dellai Houssem
  This article provides some tips you may need when developing Windows 8 applications.
  
  

Database

• Get duration between two dates in years,months,days and hours using sql server - Aarti Meswania
  Get duration between two dates in years,months,days and hours using sql server
  
  
• Grouping dynamically on different columns in single query - RahulAJoshi
  Grouping dynamically on different columns in single query
  
  

Internet / Network

• Send Email from Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail (C#) - adriancs
  A Class for Sending Email Easily from Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail or your own email.
  
  

Office Development

• MSAccess to MSWord - Mike Rosen
  Export OLEObject (Word Document) to Word Document
  
  

PHP

• Indrajith Mini PHP Remote Administration - Ajith Kp 560
  Indrajith Mini PHP Shell v.2.0
  
  

String handling

• How to reverse a string sentence (only words) without using the C# built-in functions - adriancs
  This is an alternative for "How to reverse a string sentence (only words) without using the C# built-in functions"
  
  

New Technical Blogs added

.NET Framework

• MSBuild: MSB3275 warning, GAC and .NET version - Sebastian Solnica
  In this post I will describe you an interesting problem that my colleague ran into at work.
  
  
• ADO.NET, the right way - jgauffin
  This post will teach you everything from making your ADO.NET code driver independent to how to implement the repository pattern and unit of work.
  
  

ASP.NET

• FriendlyURL: A new and excitng feature of ASP.NET - Brij
  FriendlyURL as the name suggests gives a clean and SEO friendly URL.
  
  
• Don't (blindly) trust in HttpWebResponse.ContentLength - Florian DREVET
  Don't (blindly) trust in HttpWebResponse.ContentLength.
  
  

Client side scripting

• Quick JavaScript OO (Object Orientation) Primer - Keyhole Software
  I’d like to introduce some basic object oriented JavaScript concepts.
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Decorator Design Pattern in Delphi. Multiple Decorations - yanniel
  In my previous post I introduced the decorator design pattern to you. I used a fairly simple example in order to give you a flavour of the pattern. I wrote Delphi code for that matter and I focused in having ONE, and only ONE, decorator class.
  
  
• Decorator Design Pattern in Delphi. Single decoration - yanniel
  Decorator (also referred as Wrapper) is classified by GoF as a structural pattern. Its purpose is to:“Attach additional responsibilities to an object dynamically. Decorators provide a flexible alternative to subclassing for extending functionality.”  
  
  
• Magic Wand: Object-relational mapping - Himanshu DS
  What are the options available?
  
  

Dialogs and Windows

• Connect to Ubuntu from Windows via RDP - Tharaka MTR
  In my office, we have an Ubuntu box which is installed OWASP tools (I’ll get back with what is OWASP later. For now check https://www.owasp.org). My laptop installed Windows 7 and I wanted to remotely connect to the Ubuntu computer to test the installed software. I guess most of you use “VNC Viewer”
  
  

Java

• JSF Components – A Quick Example Using ICEFaces - Keyhole Software
  This is a continuation of my previous entry on component based java frameworks. In this post, I would like to give a couple of examples of the kinds of components that can be used to quickly bring up a user interface. I would like to first reiterate that what you choose is going to depend [...]
  
  

Localisation

• Better support for localization in ASP.NET - jgauffin
  Support for localization in ASP.NET.
  
  

Other .NET Languages

• Anonymous Methods in Delphi - yanniel
  Under the scope of Delphi, an anonymous method is either a procedure or function that’s unattached to an identifier. In other words, anonymous methods don’t have names, which is why they are called “anonymous”.
  
  
• Hide the utter "Create" constructor of TObject in Delphi - yanniel
  In Delphi, constructors can be inherited; this doesn’t happen in Java, C# and C++ for example. Furthermore, constructors in Delphi can have multiple and different names; usually they are called Create, but this is just a convention, since you can define a constructor with whatever name you choose.
  
  

SharePoint Server

• Converting multiple SharePoint 2010 projects to SharePoint 2013 - Adel Refaat
  Converting SharePoint 2010 projects to SharePoint 2013 involves changing TargetOfficeVersion to be 15.0, and changing TargetFrameworkVersion to be v4.0 or v4.5 in the Visual Studio csproj file.When you have multiple SharePoint 2010 projects in your solution, it will not be an easy task!The following
  
  

Third Party Products and Tools

• Create a forum site with a little or no code - Member 8292021
  Creating a forum site with phpBB
  
  

Web Services

• Web service and Script service - Tharaka MTR
  Most of you are familiar about writing a web service using c#. Visual Studio provides the project template which easily creates a web service for you. I’m sure you may know how to call this web service using c#. But do you know how to call the web service using client side scripts such as [...]
  
  

Technical Blogs updated

ASP.NET

• Automatic encryption of secure form field data - Karl Stoney
  In this article I will show you how to handle automatic encryption and decryption of hidden form fields using Rijndael
  
  

Windows Communication Foundation

• (413) Request Entity Too Large - Tharaka MTR
  Recently I worked with a WCF web service which is hosted in IIS7, and I used one of the service methods to send a byte array which contains a picture. This works well with small size images, but when I’m trying to upload a larger picture, the WCF service returns an error: (413) Request Entity [...]
  
  

Windows Phone 7

• Implementing the GeoCordinateWatcher as a Reactive Service - Paulo Morgado
  With Rx, events are first class citizens that can be passed around and composed as needed in a very simple way.