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	A Coder Interview With John Simmons 14 Sep 2011 Updated: 14 Sep 2011 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 52 Popularity: 8.54 Licence: CPOL Views: 68,534 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. 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 track down Code Project member John Simmons.
Database Development
SQL Server	SQLXAgent - Jobs for SQL Express - Part 2 of 6 30 Sep 2017 Updated: 30 Sep 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,441 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 46 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Create and run jobs kinda like SQL Server Enterprise - Architecture and design decisions
	SQLXAgent - Jobs for SQL Express - Part 3 of 6 30 Sep 2017 Updated: 30 Sep 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,771 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 29 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Create and run jobs kinda like SQL Server Enterprise - The CSV and Excel Importer Code
	SQLXAgent - Jobs for SQL Express - Part 4 of 6 30 Sep 2017 Updated: 30 Sep 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,891 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 33 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Create and run jobs kinda like SQL Server Enterprise - Job Scheduling Code
	SQLXAgent - Jobs for SQL Express - Part 5 of 6 30 Sep 2017 Updated: 30 Sep 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,001 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 18 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Create and run jobs kinda like SQL Server Enterprise - How Packages Are Run
	SQLXAgent - Jobs for SQL Express - Part 6 of 6 30 Sep 2017 Updated: 30 Sep 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,022 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 67 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Create and run jobs kinda like SQL Server Enterprise - Interesting Coding
	SQLXAgent - Jobs for SQL Express - Part 1 of 6 30 Sep 2017 Updated: 27 Feb 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 5.21 Licence: CPOL Views: 29,537 Bookmarked: 32 Downloaded: 603 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Create and run jobs kinda like SQL Server Enterprise - Users Guide
	A Connection String Manager for Multi-Environment Ecosystems 4 Mar 2021 Updated: 9 Mar 2021 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 27,443 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 299 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This library is intended for use in a multi-environment system, but it certainly be used under less stringent environmental confines, even down to a single desktop machine taht needs to connect to a single database server.
Desktop Programming
MFC	Using CResizablePage In a CFormView 26 Nov 2000 Updated: 16 Apr 2001 Rating: 3.07/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 3.85 Licence: CPOL Views: 104,175 Bookmarked: 27 Downloaded: 2,118 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Technique for utilizing a CResizablePage in a CFormView-derived class
	CResizableFormView 28 Nov 2000 Updated: 6 Jun 2001 Rating: 3.50/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 5.01 Licence: Not specified Views: 191,492 Bookmarked: 45 Downloaded: 2,548 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Extension of Paolo Messina's CResizableDialog concept
	Enumerate Controls In a Dialog Box or FormView 9 Aug 2005 Updated: 9 Aug 2005 Rating: 3.55/5 Votes: 26 Popularity: 5.02 Licence: Not specified Views: 81,021 Bookmarked: 23 Downloaded: 1,124 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Enumerate all controls in a dialog box or form view.
	Tracking The Mouse In A View 21 Jan 2001 Updated: 7 May 2001 Rating: 3.32/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 4.53 Licence: CPOL Views: 106,215 Bookmarked: 37 Downloaded: 2,067 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Track a mouse click, even in a scrolled view
	XML Application Profile Class 27 Jan 2007 Updated: 27 Jan 2007 Rating: 4.60/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 5.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 73,547 Bookmarked: 45 Downloaded: 762 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Implement XML application profiles that are similar (but not too similar) to using INI files
	CListCtrl - one of the Blonde classes in MFC 8 Dec 2002 Updated: 8 Dec 2002 Rating: 3.50/5 Votes: 45 Popularity: 5.79 Licence: Not specified Views: 223,997 Bookmarked: 33 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Some dialogbox code to give the Blonde a clue
	Modifying the System Menu 26 Jan 2007 Updated: 26 Jan 2007 Rating: 3.19/5 Votes: 64 Popularity: 5.76 Licence: CPOL Views: 116,372 Bookmarked: 38 Downloaded: 1,421 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Add menu items to, and learn how to handle the system menu
	Dynamically Build Your Menu and/or Toolbar 12 May 2005 Updated: 12 May 2005 Rating: 3.18/5 Votes: 40 Popularity: 5.09 Licence: Not specified Views: 141,835 Bookmarked: 39 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Build a menu and/or a toolbar dynamically without using resource files (well, almost).
	Blinking Cells For Chris Maunder's Grid Control 13 May 2005 Updated: 13 May 2005 Rating: 3.22/5 Votes: 25 Popularity: 4.50 Licence: CPOL Views: 75,872 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 1,028 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Create blinking cells for Chris Maunder's grid control.
	Replacing Part of an Existing Bitmap 28 Jul 2006 Updated: 28 Jul 2006 Rating: 3.77/5 Votes: 32 Popularity: 5.67 Licence: CPOL Views: 56,833 Bookmarked: 29 Downloaded: 541 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Copy a bitmap over a portion of another bitmap
	Formatting Behavior in COleDateTime for MFC8 3 Aug 2006 Updated: 3 Aug 2006 Rating: 3.67/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 3.67 Licence: Not specified Views: 32,341 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 153 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A passable workaround for the COleDateTime formatting behavior in MFC8.
	Creating a Unique String Using a UUID 11 Dec 2001 Updated: 12 Dec 2001 Rating: 3.65/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 4.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 216,114 Bookmarked: 20 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A small function to either accept or create a UUID* and return a CString
	String Parsing Class (supports quoted strings) 19 Jan 2001 Updated: 14 Mar 2002 Rating: 3.89/5 Votes: 24 Popularity: 5.37 Licence: Not specified Views: 204,495 Bookmarked: 44 Downloaded: 1,334 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Parse strings with specified delimiter and specified quote character
Windows Forms	Wizard Form Implementation 14 Dec 2008 Updated: 24 Jun 2010 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 54 Popularity: 8.20 Licence: CPOL Views: 177,289 Bookmarked: 174 Downloaded: 3,998 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Create a dynamically resizable wizard form
	CodeProject Article Scraper, Revisited 11 Dec 2010 Updated: 13 Nov 2011 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 52 Popularity: 8.45 Licence: CPOL Views: 128,607 Bookmarked: 71 Downloaded: 1,498 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. New and improved! Keep an eye on your CodeProject articles and reputation without having to log onto CP.
	Reputationator - CP Narcissists Rejoice! Part 3 of 4 14 Aug 2011 Updated: 20 Aug 2011 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 6.61 Licence: CPOL Views: 45,182 Bookmarked: 24 Downloaded: 1,375 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Keep more detailed track of your Codeproject reputation points.
	Reputationator - CP Narcissists Rejoice! Part 1 of 4 14 Aug 2011 Updated: 30 Aug 2011 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 35 Popularity: 7.61 Licence: CPOL Views: 62,132 Bookmarked: 41 Downloaded: 883 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Keep more detailed track of your Codeproject reputation points.
	Reputationator - CP Narcissists Rejoice! Part 2 of 4 14 Aug 2011 Updated: 20 Sep 2012 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 6.30 Licence: CPOL Views: 46,371 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 496 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Keep more detailed track of your Codeproject reputation points.
	Anagrams - A Word Game in C# 7 Apr 2008 Updated: 4 Nov 2012 Rating: 4.71/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 6.50 Licence: CPOL Views: 150,419 Bookmarked: 71 Downloaded: 3,866 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The classic word game using words and letter scores allowed in Scrabble
WPF	Customizable WPF MessageBox 25 Dec 2020 Updated: 21 Jan 2021 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 58 Popularity: 8.60 Licence: CPOL Views: 96,961 Bookmarked: 58 Downloaded: 2,800 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Finally, a customizable MessageBox for WPF applications
	WPF - Modeless Window Manager 1 Mar 2021 Updated: 1 Mar 2021 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,441 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 185 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. For those times when you need more control over when a modeless window is created/displayed
	WPF IntegerUpDown Control - Adapt and Overcome 21 Feb 2021 Updated: 21 Feb 2021 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,541 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 205 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Not about just writing code, but adapting someone else's code to your own needs
	WPF - Dedicated Enumerator ListBox and ComboBox 23 Feb 2021 Updated: 23 Feb 2021 Rating: 4.75/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.32 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,021 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 205 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Implement enumerator selection in your WPF apps
	Auto-generated columns in a WPF ListView 18 Feb 2021 Updated: 18 Feb 2021 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.52 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,171 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 277 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A WPF ListView that automatically generates columns (that are also sortable) based on decorated entity properties
	Reputationator - CP Narcissists Rejoice! Part 4 of 4 20 Aug 2011 Updated: 30 Aug 2011 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.62 Licence: CPOL Views: 41,706 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 998 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Keep more detailed track of your Codeproject reputation points.
	Anagrams2 - A Simple WPF Game Application 14 Oct 2012 Updated: 4 Nov 2012 Rating: 4.97/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.99 Licence: CPOL Views: 75,705 Bookmarked: 40 Downloaded: 1,430 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. My Anagrams game ported to WPF.
	Another Take on a WPF Wizard 13 Apr 2016 Updated: 11 Apr 2020 Rating: 4.77/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 5.99 Licence: CPOL Views: 46,009 Bookmarked: 29 Downloaded: 1,289 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Any technology suitably advanced will generally be viewed as "magic".
	Rudimentary ViewModel Class Generator 16 Dec 2014 Updated: 16 Dec 2014 Rating: 4.77/5 Votes: 30 Popularity: 6.83 Licence: CPOL Views: 65,458 Bookmarked: 21 Downloaded: 1 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Eliminate the tedium of generating model and viewmodel classes for your WPF projects, and save a butt-load of time in the process.
	WPF - Creating Observable Enumerators 22 Feb 2021 Updated: 22 Feb 2021 Rating: 4.20/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.55 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,912 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Present enumerators in your WPF UI
	Entity Factory - Get Your ORM-less Freak On! 9 Dec 2020 Updated: 4 Nov 2021 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.52 Licence: CPL Views: 23,170 Bookmarked: 29 Downloaded: 421 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A tool to generate model and viewmodel classes directly from your selected database
General Programming
String	Converting Text Numbers to Numeric Values 12 Feb 2015 Updated: 27 Feb 2018 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 31 Popularity: 7.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 64,371 Bookmarked: 45 Downloaded: 695 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Spell it out! No! Wait!
Mobile Apps
	Scrolling Property Page in PocketPC 2002 22 Dec 2003 Updated: 22 Dec 2003 Rating: 3.51/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 4.32 Licence: CPOL Views: 87,153 Bookmarked: 24 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Add a scrollbar to a property page when the SIP is displayed.
	Binary Sorting Into a std::list 9 Dec 2002 Updated: 9 Dec 2002 Rating: 3.18/5 Votes: 22 Popularity: 4.27 Licence: CPOL Views: 112,433 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. One technique for performing a binary insertion sort on a std::list
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	Build Your Own NAS Device 14 Apr 2008 Updated: 10 Jan 2011 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 72 Popularity: 8.94 Licence: CPOL Views: 379,319 Bookmarked: 135 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to go about buildingyour own NAS device
Programming Languages
C#	FileSystemWatcher - Pure Chaos (Part 1 of 2) 14 Feb 2010 Updated: 17 Dec 2010 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 107 Popularity: 9.94 Licence: CPOL Views: 320,404 Bookmarked: 296 Downloaded: 15,070 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to get all the events you want - whether you need them or not.
	FileSystemWatcher - Pure Chaos (Part 2 of 2) 14 Feb 2010 Updated: 17 Dec 2010 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 77 Popularity: 9.23 Licence: CPOL Views: 161,572 Bookmarked: 161 Downloaded: 1 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Use the demo application (from Part 1) to observe events posted when creating files in the watched folder
	CSV/Excel File Parser - A Revisit 7 Apr 2018 Updated: 7 Apr 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.23 Licence: CPOL Views: 31,304 Bookmarked: 19 Downloaded: 886 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An example of evolving code to fit new demands
	CodeProject Article Scraping 13 Oct 2008 Updated: 11 Dec 2010 Rating: 4.72/5 Votes: 49 Popularity: 7.70 Licence: CPOL Views: 137,539 Bookmarked: 95 Downloaded: 784 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Scrape the My Articles page here on CodeProject to keep an eye on your articles.
	User Login For WinForm Applications 2 Oct 2008 Updated: 2 Oct 2008 Rating: 4.44/5 Votes: 61 Popularity: 7.76 Licence: CPOL Views: 188,979 Bookmarked: 142 Downloaded: 5,296 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Discusses windows authentication and application-specific authentication for WinForm applications
	Keep Your InkJet Print Head Clean 4 Jan 2009 Updated: 4 Jan 2009 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 28 Popularity: 7.03 Licence: CPOL Views: 95,956 Bookmarked: 53 Downloaded: 2,140 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A utility that you can use to "exercise" your inkjet printer without wasting a lot of ink or paper
	How I Optimized my Silverlight Asynchronous Web Service Consumption 26 May 2010 Updated: 27 May 2010 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.82 Licence: CPOL Views: 44,304 Bookmarked: 19 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. With some earlier design forethought, I was able to inject some significant code optimization into a current project.
	Generic DAL Revisit - Making it Your Own, A Practical Example 9 Apr 2020 Updated: 9 Apr 2020 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 4,793 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. When you're using other people's code, especially code that might get updated from time to time, it's important to remember that you can probably extend it and make it in your own image, without necessarily changing the original code, and by using the power of object-oriented programming.
	Generic DAL for ADO.Net - A Revisit 5 Apr 2020 Updated: 10 Apr 2020 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.66 Licence: CPOL Views: 28,041 Bookmarked: 24 Downloaded: 815 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A rewrite of a previous article with more liquid nitrogen and bacon
	Determining Ideal Text Color Based on Specified Background Color 28 Nov 2006 Updated: 8 May 2007 Rating: 4.44/5 Votes: 96 Popularity: 8.76 Licence: Not specified Views: 181,317 Bookmarked: 99 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A method for programatically determining the appropriate foreground color based on the specified background color
	Render Text On A Bitmap (and other stuff) 28 Sep 2008 Updated: 28 Sep 2008 Rating: 4.45/5 Votes: 28 Popularity: 6.23 Licence: CPOL Views: 77,172 Bookmarked: 43 Downloaded: 1,437 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Put text on a bitmap, make your winform app go full-screen, and say hello to some simple LINQ code.
	Overriding App.Config Settings for Multiple Objects 17 May 2008 Updated: 17 May 2008 Rating: 4.38/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 5.38 Licence: CPOL Views: 57,790 Bookmarked: 29 Downloaded: 235 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. One method for loading common and object-specific data from your app.config file.
	Share User Settings Between Applications 17 Dec 2008 Updated: 17 Dec 2008 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.77 Licence: CPOL Views: 71,260 Bookmarked: 46 Downloaded: 638 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A not-so-dotNet way to allow multiple programs to share a single settings file
	Custom exceptions without constructor tedium (an alternative) 1 Oct 2017 Updated: 1 Oct 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,181 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is an alternative for "Custom exceptions without constructor tedium"
	Generic DAL using ADO 21 Jul 2019 Updated: 22 Jul 2019 Rating: 4.64/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 5.70 Licence: CPOL Views: 36,894 Bookmarked: 25 Downloaded: 912 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Avoid ORMs with this reasonably generic approach to ADO
	Persistent String Parser 30 Jul 2007 Updated: 21 Dec 2008 Rating: 4.33/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 4.96 Licence: Public Domain Views: 80,347 Bookmarked: 38 Downloaded: 389 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Parse a string with quoted elements, insert/add/delete elements, and is CLS compliant
	Scheduling Future Dates 1 Oct 2008 Updated: 1 Oct 2008 Rating: 4.69/5 Votes: 55 Popularity: 7.88 Licence: CPOL Views: 72,677 Bookmarked: 84 Downloaded: 722 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Implement repetitive tasks at consistent intervals
	Multithreading, Delegates, and Custom Events 7 Feb 2010 Updated: 17 Mar 2010 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 74 Popularity: 9.13 Licence: CPOL Views: 209,422 Bookmarked: 310 Downloaded: 3,290 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Tie it all together and not lose your mind in the process
	Being a Programmer 24 Oct 2008 Updated: 12 Oct 2016 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 260 Popularity: 11.53 Licence: CPOL Views: 329,628 Bookmarked: 208 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. My views on how to be a proper programmer
C++	Copying a DIB to the Clipboard 16 Oct 2001 Updated: 15 Apr 2008 Rating: 3.78/5 Votes: 33 Popularity: 5.73 Licence: CPOL Views: 172,862 Bookmarked: 55 Downloaded: 1,611 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Helps with copying a device independant bitmap to the clipboard.
	Using CodeProject - A Day In the Life of an Application - Part 3 of 5 27 Jan 2007 Updated: 27 Jan 2007 Rating: 4.63/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 5.44 Licence: CPOL Views: 43,875 Bookmarked: 17 Downloaded: 436 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The right way to code using CodeProject for occasional support
	Using CodeProject - A Day In the Life of an Application - Part 1 of 5 27 Jan 2007 Updated: 15 Apr 2008 Rating: 4.77/5 Votes: 42 Popularity: 7.43 Licence: CPOL Views: 69,475 Bookmarked: 94 Downloaded: 652 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The right way to code using CodeProject for occasional support
	Using CodeProject - A Day In the Life of an Application - Part 2 of 5 27 Jan 2007 Updated: 15 Apr 2008 Rating: 4.81/5 Votes: 24 Popularity: 6.15 Licence: CPOL Views: 48,234 Bookmarked: 24 Downloaded: 684 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The right way to code using CodeProject for occasional support
	Using CodeProject - A Day In the Life of an Application - Part 4 of 5 27 Jan 2007 Updated: 15 Apr 2008 Rating: 4.58/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 5.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 40,343 Bookmarked: 18 Downloaded: 437 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The right way to code using CodeProject for occasional support
	Using CodeProject - A Day In the Life of an Application - Part 5 of 5 27 Jan 2007 Updated: 12 Jan 2010 Rating: 4.65/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 5.72 Licence: CPOL Views: 64,154 Bookmarked: 27 Downloaded: 503 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The right way to code using CodeProject for occasional support
	Get Your DLL's Path/Name 30 Nov 2006 Updated: 30 Nov 2006 Rating: 4.05/5 Votes: 51 Popularity: 6.92 Licence: CPOL Views: 167,984 Bookmarked: 49 Downloaded: 1,461 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Two methods to retrieve the path/name of a VS2002 or higher DLL from within that DLL.
	Reliable Floating Point Equality Comparison 4 Dec 2006 Updated: 4 Dec 2006 Rating: 3.33/5 Votes: 41 Popularity: 5.37 Licence: CPOL Views: 145,304 Bookmarked: 19 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Compare floating point numbers for equality at programmer-specified precision.
	Keeping It Clean - String Function Wrappers for VS2005 17 Nov 2006 Updated: 17 Nov 2006 Rating: 4.28/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 5.37 Licence: Not specified Views: 97,518 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A technique for making stdio functions compile clean regardless of the Microsoft compiler used
	Debug With Apps Displayed on Secondary Monitor 29 Nov 2006 Updated: 29 Nov 2006 Rating: 4.54/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 5.59 Licence: Not specified Views: 59,842 Bookmarked: 29 Downloaded: 734 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Here's some code that will automatically start your app on a secondary monitor if it's compiled with debug info.
VBScript	Determining The Ideal Text Color Based on Specified Background Color (For VBScript) 7 May 2007 Updated: 7 May 2007 Rating: 3.59/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 3.43 Licence: CPOL Views: 28,813 Bookmarked: 18 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The VBScript version of my C# article about the very same thing
Security
Encryption	Create and Share (with a client app) a Random Encryption Key 4 Oct 2010 Updated: 5 Oct 2010 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 6.06 Licence: CPOL Views: 87,062 Bookmarked: 43 Downloaded: 429 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. One way to create a completely random encryption key, and sharing it with a client application
Web Development
ASP.NET	Multiple Models In a MVC View 5 Nov 2021 Updated: 5 Nov 2021 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,614 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 102 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. One way to allow access to multiple model entities within a ASP.NET MVC view.
HTML	Synchronicity - A Folder Synchronizing Application 5 Feb 2011 Updated: 7 Feb 2011 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 29 Popularity: 7.16 Licence: CPOL Views: 79,266 Bookmarked: 106 Downloaded: 3,551 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Windows service for synchronizing folders
	CSV File Parser 12 Sep 2016 Updated: 7 Apr 2018 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 39 Popularity: 7.52 Licence: CPOL Views: 110,282 Bookmarked: 79 Downloaded: 3,327 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Parse CSV files.
	Fun With Attributes 27 Sep 2016 Updated: 25 Feb 2018 Rating: 4.97/5 Votes: 25 Popularity: 6.95 Licence: CPOL Views: 41,453 Bookmarked: 45 Downloaded: 301 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Abusing attributes, and loving it.
	A Handy GPS Class 6 Oct 2016 Updated: 11 Oct 2016 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 32 Popularity: 7.38 Licence: CPOL Views: 34,920 Bookmarked: 55 Downloaded: 910 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A GPS class with a coordinate parser, distance calculation, and bearing calculation.

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	Control Resizing on a UserControl in WinForms [Tip/Trick] 28 Feb 2010 Updated: 21 May 2010 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.19 Licence: CPOL Views: 80,295 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Control resizing is a bit more mysterious than it might appear at first glance.
	Expect the Unexpected [Tip/Trick] 5 Apr 2011 Updated: 6 Apr 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 5.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 20,950 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Never assume you know what the framework is going to do
	Exception Handling - Not Just a Good Idea [Tip/Trick] 20 Dec 2011 Updated: 20 Dec 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,951 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. You have everything you need to do your job as a developer. You just need to use them.
	Formatting your CodeProject Article [Tip/Trick] 13 Jan 2010 Updated: 22 May 2010 Rating: 4.79/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.17 Licence: CPOL Views: 20,093 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Bad formatting will delay the approval of your articles. Follow these basic rules to avoid that delay.
Certification
	MS Certification via Online Proctored Exams [Tip/Trick] 23 Jan 2015 Updated: 23 Jan 2015 Rating: 4.82/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.37 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,141 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Some things to be aware of.
Database Development
	US Federal Holidays (SQL) [Tip/Trick] 31 Jan 2017 Updated: 31 Jan 2017 Rating: 4.52/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.52 Licence: CPOL Views: 25,320 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A scalar function to determine if a given DateTime is one of the ten US federal holidays, using SQL Server.
	Build a Calendar Without Pre-Existing Tables [Tip/Trick] 31 Jan 2017 Updated: 31 Jan 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,070 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using common table expressions to build data from thin air.
	Pay Attention to What "Script...To" Generates [Tip/Trick] 22 Sep 2017 Updated: 22 Sep 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,030 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. It doesn't always happen the way you expect.
SQL Server	"Column name Create Date contains an invalid XML identifier as required by FOR XML; ' '(0x0020) is the first character at fault." [Tip/Trick] 5 Jan 2011 Updated: 5 Jan 2011 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.47 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,940 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. You can also enclose your column name in brackets, like so: [Create Date]
	The Pain and Anguish of DTS Script Debugging [Tip/Trick] 26 May 2011 Updated: 26 May 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,930 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. When all else fails, fire off some events and bask in the glow of the IDE's Progress tab.
Desktop Programming
Windows Forms	Multiple User-Selectable Main Forms [Tip/Trick] 22 Nov 2011 Updated: 22 Nov 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,531 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Allow any number of forms to be used as a main form with easy transitions between forms
	Multiple Subsequent "Main" Forms in C# Apps [Tip/Trick] 21 Jan 2010 Updated: 22 Nov 2011 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 41 Popularity: 7.82 Licence: CPOL Views: 86,620 Bookmarked: 25 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A useful technique that could be used for winform apps which require a login dialog
	Automatically Display Menu on Hover [Tip/Trick] 14 Sep 2011 Updated: 14 Sep 2011 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 58,971 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to automatically display a Winforms menu when the mouse is hovered over an item
	Count Number of Unique Colors in an Image [Tip/Trick] 18 Feb 2011 Updated: 19 Feb 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.52 Licence: CPOL Views: 53,197 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Determine the number of unique colors in an image
	Use Custom Events from your WCF ServiceHost [Tip/Trick] 26 Jan 2011 Updated: 26 Jan 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 37,973 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. When you need to communicate with the app that contains your ServiceHost object, use custom events
	Does Your App Know Where it's Running [Tip/Trick] 1 Feb 2011 Updated: 2 Feb 2011 Rating: 4.97/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 6.24 Licence: CPOL Views: 36,321 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to determine if your .Net app is running in the Visual Studio IDE
WPF	WPF - Auto-Closing Modeless Windows [Tip/Trick] 27 Feb 2021 Updated: 27 Feb 2021 Rating: 4.54/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.17 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,500 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to close modeless windows if you don't close them before the main window closes
	The Process and Adventure of Discovery [Tip/Trick] 9 Nov 2012 Updated: 9 Nov 2012 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.47 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,771 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Stuck on a really weird problem in WPF? Move your behind and write some code (behind).
	WPF WebBrowser Control and Javascript [Tip/Trick] 15 Jun 2012 Updated: 15 Jun 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 38,990 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. One way to get around the "invalid character" error
	Simulate WPF ListView Column Width Set to "" [Tip/Trick] 29 May 2010 Updated: 29 May 2010* Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.61 Licence: CPOL Views: 49,379 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. One technique for having a column width that grows/shrinks with ListView width
	Control Not Found in Namespace but App Compiles Fine [Tip/Trick] 17 Nov 2014 Updated: 17 Nov 2014 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 1.91 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,392 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to fix this ANNOYING problem
	Generic MVVM Data Exchange between Model and ViewModel [Tip/Trick] 31 Jul 2019 Updated: 31 Jul 2019 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,060 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Make data exchange in MVVM easy on yourself
	Setting non-numeric grid row/column sizes in WPF/Silverlight [Tip/Trick] 11 Apr 2010 Updated: 22 May 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 19,541 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Programatically set grid row/column sizes (yes, even "Auto", "", and "X" - thanks Nish).
	ObservableDictionary! [Tip/Trick] 22 May 2010 Updated: 22 May 2010 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.19 Licence: CPOL Views: 47,257 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In WPF/Silverlight, you might want to bind to a dictionary. Here's a couple of websites I found.
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Testing	Windows Service Gotcha (or Test Your Code, Regardless of How Small Your Changes Are) [Tip/Trick] 22 Jan 2010 Updated: 22 May 2010 Rating: 4.73/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,030 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. No change is too small for a complete regression test.
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	Helpful Sci-Fi Movie Survival Tips [Tip/Trick] 26 Jan 2010 Updated: 22 May 2010 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 6.45 Licence: CPOL Views: 23,480 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Humor - Things to consider when your're out and about when the world starts to come to an end.
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	Personal Agility - Thinking Outside Your Own Box [Tip/Trick] 24 Jan 2010 Updated: 22 May 2010 Rating: 4.60/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.19 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,801 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Essential programmer skill - the ability to approach a problem from more that one direction.
String	Is Your string usable in the SL4 RichTextBox [Tip/Trick] 7 Mar 2011 Updated: 7 Mar 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,651 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Extension method that checks for a properly Xaml-ized string
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Windows	The Windows API: Learn It - Live It [Tip/Trick] 18 Jan 2010 Updated: 22 May 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 6.02 Licence: CPOL Views: 30,233 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Don't drink the kool-aid. You still need to know how to use the Windows API in .Net apps.
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ASM	Dynamically send WCF endpoint in Silverlight [Tip/Trick] 17 May 2011 Updated: 17 May 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,590 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is how I do it (we determine the host and select the appropriate endpoint).// these are the endpoints define in the webconfig filestring LocalHostEndpointName = "LocalHost_Endpoint";string ProductionEndpointName = "Production_Endpoint";string CurrentEndpoint = "";//...
C#	Silverlight Exceptions Via the ErrorWindow [Tip/Trick] 9 Jun 2010 Updated: 9 Jun 2010 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.78 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,990 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The Silverlight navigation app ErrorWindow exposes the last exception thrown, but doesn't show the INNER exceptions. Here's how you can do it.
	Silverlight - Programatically Re-using the Same Style [Tip/Trick] 19 Jun 2010 Updated: 19 Jun 2010 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.79 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,710 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. What to do if you want to resue a style for more than one component of a particular type on a given Silverlight Page
	Get Mouse Click relative Position [Tip/Trick] 11 Aug 2010 Updated: 12 Aug 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 22,351 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. If you need to get the position the mouse was clicked, in relation to a specific UI Element, this might help
	Get Your Silverlight MainPage [Tip/Trick] 9 May 2011 Updated: 9 May 2011 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.73 Licence: CPOL Views: 22,970 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Get access to your Silverlight MainPage object
	Easing Non-standard EntityFramework Migrations [Tip/Trick] 12 Nov 2017 Updated: 5 Jan 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,470 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. When you have a customized DbContext constructor.
	US Federal Holidays (C#) [Tip/Trick] 31 Jan 2017 Updated: 31 Jan 2017 Rating: 4.82/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.36 Licence: CPOL Views: 29,242 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A DateTime extension method to determine if a given DateTime is one of the ten US federal holidays, using C#.
	When Is Easter? [Tip/Trick] 1 Feb 2017 Updated: 1 Feb 2017 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.72 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,710 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Figuring out when Easter occurs in a given year is based on the phase of the moon, the vernal equinox, and where in the world you are.
	Find Specified US Federal Holiday [Tip/Trick] 1 Feb 2017 Updated: 1 Feb 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,152 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Find the date of a specified federal holiday for a given year.
	Optional Parameters that Aren't (optional, that is) [Tip/Trick] 13 Sep 2016 Updated: 13 Sep 2016 Rating: 4.71/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 4.71 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,290 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This came as a mild surprise
	Find your inner exception [Tip/Trick] 11 Sep 2013 Updated: 12 Sep 2013 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.76 Licence: CPOL Views: 45,351 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. One approach to find a specific exception type inside the containing exception
	How to Learn a language/platform [Tip/Trick] 2 Oct 2017 Updated: 2 Oct 2017 Rating: 4.73/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.30 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,532 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An answer and an example for the question, "What's the best way to learn a language or platform?"
	See if a Flags Enum is Valid [Tip/Trick] 10 May 2011 Updated: 10 May 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 28,552 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. See if an integer value is a valid value for the given "flags" enumerator
	See if a Flags enum is valid [Tip/Trick] 7 Jul 2011 Updated: 7 Jul 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,923 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. .Net 4 has the enum.HasFlag() method, which kinda obsoletes this tip. :)
	Get the Nth Instance of a Weekday in the Specified Month [Tip/Trick] 9 Aug 2012 Updated: 12 Nov 2012 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.34 Licence: CPOL Views: 32,864 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 314 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Presenting a DateTime extension class that allows you to determine the actual date of the specified instance of the specified weekday within the specified month/year.
	MVC - Rendering DropDownList of Enumerators [Tip/Trick] 18 Nov 2017 Updated: 18 Nov 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,180 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. One less pesky nuance to worry about
	What Controller Is This View For? [Tip/Trick] 28 Nov 2017 Updated: 28 Nov 2017 Rating: 4.54/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.33 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,991 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. ViewBag, ViewBag, three times full...
	Partial DateTime Object Equality [Tip/Trick] 19 Jan 2011 Updated: 19 Jan 2011 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 32,754 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Determine if specified date/time properrties are equal
	Partial DateTime Object Equality [Tip/Trick] 6 Feb 2015 Updated: 6 Feb 2015 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.44 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,841 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is an alternative for "Partial DateTime Object Equality"
	Who Are You Running From? [Tip/Trick] 10 May 2013 Updated: 10 May 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,771 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Determine the nature of the entry assembly
	Pass Dynamic List of Parameters to Web Service [Tip/Trick] 7 May 2010 Updated: 21 May 2010 Rating: 4.81/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.59 Licence: CPOL Views: 35,441 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Make interfacing with your web service simpler and more maintainable
	Scanning Folders On A Network Share [Tip/Trick] 6 Jun 2010 Updated: 6 Jun 2010 Rating: 4.77/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.71 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,301 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. It's not as simple as just calling DirectoryInfo.GetFiles()
	A Generic Comparison Class for Collection Items [Tip/Trick] 4 Mar 2010 Updated: 26 Aug 2010 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 5.03 Licence: CPOL Views: 22,392 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. You probably have better things to do than writing tedious comparison methods.
	Is Your App Running As Administrator? [Tip/Trick] 19 Jan 2011 Updated: 24 Jan 2011 Rating: 4.81/5 Votes: 32 Popularity: 7.24 Licence: CPOL Views: 65,883 Bookmarked: 41 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to make your app detect whether or not it's running in admin mode.
	How to Toggle String Case in .Net [Tip/Trick] 9 Feb 2011 Updated: 9 Feb 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.23 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,941 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. StringBuilder mystring = new StringBuilder("AbCd");for (int i = 0; i < mystring.Length; i++){ char c = mystring[i]; mystring[i] = Char.IsLower(c) ? Char.ToUpper(c) : Char.ToLower(c);}
	Admit When You're Wrong, Delete the Code, and Move On [Tip/Trick] 4 Apr 2011 Updated: 4 Apr 2011 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 6.14 Licence: CPOL Views: 22,402 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. What to do when the "you're a moron" epiphany smacks you in the head just after you've convinced yourself you're pretty clever.
	Delegates Are Good, and Good For You [Tip/Trick] 24 May 2010 Updated: 29 Aug 2011 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 6.34 Licence: CPOL Views: 37,861 Bookmarked: 22 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using a delegate could pull your butt out of the fire when you don't want to refactor code to add functionality.
	Extension Methods to Reverse a String and StringBuilder Object [Tip/Trick] 1 Jan 2011 Updated: 1 Jan 2011 Rating: 4.82/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.90 Licence: CPOL Views: 33,201 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. We're up to .NET 4 and MS still hasn't given us this simple functionality.
	Twitterizer for API v1.1 [Tip/Trick] 18 Apr 2013 Updated: 18 Apr 2013 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.47 Licence: CPOL Views: 41,543 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Go here for an update that utilizes the Twitter API v1.1
	Watching Messages in the Output Window [Tip/Trick] 11 Aug 2017 Updated: 11 Aug 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,922 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Handy class to reduce clutter in your code
C# 3.5	Comparing Two Complex or primitive objects of same class (Alternative) [Tip/Trick] 3 Nov 2015 Updated: 3 Nov 2015 Rating: 4.43/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.67 Licence: CPOL Views: 38,401 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is an alternative for "Compareing Two Complex objects of same class"
C# 4.0	Ad-Hoc Expression Evaluation [Tip/Trick] 25 Jul 2012 Updated: 25 Jul 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,431 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 24 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Evaluating epressions in an ad-hoc condition.
	Reverse of a string without using the Reverse function in C# and VB [Tip/Trick] 23 Jul 2011 Updated: 23 Jul 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,453 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I wouldn't create a class for this. I'd make it an extension method, and then do this:public static class String Extensions{ public static string Reverse(this string value) { value = // do your reverse code here; return value; }}// Usage:string x...
	Could not find a part of the path while doing a File Copy [Tip/Trick] 2 Mar 2012 Updated: 2 Mar 2012 Rating: 3.89/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.34 Licence: CPOL Views: 27,557 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. If at all possible, never give your code the opportunity to fail. If there's any possibility at all that you can prevent an error condition from being raised, do it. try{ if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(FileName)) { string newPath = System.IO.Path.Combine(FilePath,...
C# 5.0	Get Certificates from the System Store [Tip/Trick] 15 Oct 2014 Updated: 15 Oct 2014 Rating: 4.72/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.26 Licence: CPOL Views: 34,404 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Retrieve certificates from the system certificate store
	Determine Fiscal Date [Tip/Trick] 27 Oct 2014 Updated: 27 Oct 2014 Rating: 4.82/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.37 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,324 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Extension method to determine fiscal date
Razor	Core/Razor Pages - The Bleeding Edge of MVC [Tip/Trick] 25 Jan 2019 Updated: 25 Jan 2019 Rating: 3.90/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.03 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,192 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Sharing files between multiple web apps in a single solution.
SQL	Clear a DataRow Item (as opposed to deleting it) [Tip/Trick] 26 Jul 2011 Updated: 26 Jul 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 35,210 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. One way to effectively zero the columns any DataRow object.
	The Evil That is "Select " [Tip/Trick] 25 Jul 2011 Updated: 10 Aug 2011* Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 36 Popularity: 7.50 Licence: CPOL Views: 96,178 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Just say no to SELECT * in your SQL
	Documenting SQL Stored Procs in C# Code [Tip/Trick] 5 Oct 2015 Updated: 5 Oct 2015 Rating: 4.40/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 4.90 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,540 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Yes, you CAN document your stored procs in C# code.
Visual Basic	DataSet to String to DataSet [Tip/Trick] 10 Nov 2011 Updated: 10 Nov 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,100 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is an alternative to "DataSet to String to DataSet".
	Setting Enumerators From Questionable Data Sources (for C# and VB) [Tip/Trick] 20 Feb 2010 Updated: 9 Jul 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,820 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Avoid exceptions when setting enumerators from unknown/untrusted sources.
XML	.Net - Use The Framework [Tip/Trick] 13 Jan 2010 Updated: 22 May 2010 Rating: 4.82/5 Votes: 22 Popularity: 6.17 Licence: CPOL Views: 40,573 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Don't reinvent the wheel - use the one that's already on the cart.
	Using Extension Methods To Avoid XML Problems [Tip/Trick] 23 Apr 2010 Updated: 10 Jul 2014 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 5.91 Licence: CPOL Views: 51,667 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Extension methods can help you avoid sticky situations.
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	Get The URL For the Page Serving Your Silverlight App [Tip/Trick] 20 Apr 2010 Updated: 21 May 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 26,990 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Dorothy was right - there's no place like home.
	Silverlight 3 - Merged Dictionary Rules [Tip/Trick] 17 May 2010 Updated: 21 May 2010 Rating: 4.75/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.32 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,820 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Follow these guidelines for trouble-free dictionary merging in Silverlight
	Silverlight: Use KnownColor Through the Backdoor [Tip/Trick] 5 Aug 2010 Updated: 12 Aug 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 5.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 27,625 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Get around another irrational and arbitrary omission in Silverlight
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	Automatic Versioning - How I Do It [Tip/Trick] 3 Jun 2022 Updated: 3 Jun 2022 Rating: 4.33/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.07 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,442 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A half-hearted approach to automatically versioning your projects
Web Development
ASP.NET	Resolving Paths in a Multi-Folder WebSite [Tip/Trick] 3 Mar 2010 Updated: 23 Jun 2010 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 36,893 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A low-impact method for getting the appropriate path on a web page.
	Call A Page Method from a Subsequent Page [Tip/Trick] 17 Jun 2011 Updated: 17 Jun 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,991 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Back-tracking to make sure code is processed before the current page executes
	Resolving PostBackUrl and button_Click Events [Tip/Trick] 21 Jun 2011 Updated: 21 Jun 2011 Rating: 4.55/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.74 Licence: CPOL Views: 21,572 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to execute code in the current page AFTER navigating to a new page.
	No More Session Variable Misspellings [Tip/Trick] 22 Jun 2011 Updated: 23 Jun 2011 Rating: 4.82/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.08 Licence: CPOL Views: 36,201 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. One way to guarantee uniqueness and avoid misspelling your session variable names
	No More Session Variable Misspellings [Tip/Trick] 6 May 2019 Updated: 6 May 2019 Rating: 3.94/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.33 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,300 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is an alternative for "No More Session Variable Misspellings"
	Maintain Query String after Forms Authentication cookie expires [Tip/Trick] 5 Jul 2011 Updated: 5 Jul 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,231 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I do it this way:0) Create a base page class, and store the current page's url (you can do this any number of ways, so I'll leave it to your imagination):public class MyBasepage : System.Web.UI.Page{ public string CurrentUrl { get; set; } }1) Store the page's Url to a...
	Find the count of a weekday between two dates without iterating/looping [Tip/Trick] 10 Nov 2011 Updated: 10 Nov 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,120 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How about this?public static class ExtendDateTime{ public int CountWeekDays(this DateTime thisdate, DateTime thatDate) { int days = Math.Abs((thisDate - thatDate).Days) + 1; return = ((days/7) * 5) + (days % 7); }}Usage would be like this:DateTime...
	Bind Enum data to Dropdown List By Sorting [Tip/Trick] 26 Dec 2010 Updated: 26 Dec 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,540 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Can't you just call Enum.GetNames(), and then bind to the collection returned by that method?
HTML	Mitigate/Eliminate Browser Flashing with Simple Trick [Tip/Trick] 22 Feb 2019 Updated: 22 Feb 2019 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.84 Licence: CPOL Views: 3,991 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Mitigate the browser flash between page navigation on your site
Windows service
	How to DEFINITELY Delete a Rogue Windows Service [Tip/Trick] 11 Jul 2011 Updated: 11 Jul 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,021 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. 42!

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I've been paid as a programmer since 1982 with experience in Pascal, and C++ (both self-taught), and began writing Windows programs in 1991 using Visual C++ and MFC. In the 2nd half of 2007, I started writing C# Windows Forms and ASP.Net applications, and have since done WPF, Silverlight, WCF, web services, and Windows services.

My weakest point is that my moments of clarity are too brief to hold a meaningful conversation that requires more than 30 seconds to complete. Thankfully, grunts of agreement are all that is required to conduct most discussions without committing to any particular belief system.

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