Articles by ThatsAlok (Articles: 41, Tip/Tricks: 8)

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CodeProject
	Looking back at the first 10 million members (Part Five) 14 Aug 2013 Updated: 15 Aug 2013 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.41 Licence: CPOL Views: 19,610 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In honour of the 10 million member milestone, CodeProject members Weidong Shen, Wong Shao Voon and ThatsAlok reflect back on their time as part of the developer community.
Database Development
SQL Server	SSIS: By coding Part 2 26 Jun 2013 Updated: 26 Jun 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 35,102 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 412 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Step by Step creation of SSIS package using C# with Conditional Split
	SSIS: By coding 9 Jun 2013 Updated: 14 Jul 2013 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.68 Licence: CPOL Views: 49,425 Bookmarked: 23 Downloaded: 724 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Step by Step creation of SSIS package using C#
Desktop Programming
ATL	A Beginner tutorial for writing simple COM/ATL DLL 6 Nov 2004 Updated: 6 Nov 2004 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 46 Popularity: 7.90 Licence: CPOL Views: 360,523 Bookmarked: 123 Downloaded: 3,827 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An article touching simple issues like events, methods and properties.
	A Beginner Tutorial for Writing Simple COM/ATL DLL and Using it with .NET 18 Jul 2009 Updated: 18 Jul 2009 Rating: 4.87/5 Votes: 32 Popularity: 7.26 Licence: CPOL Views: 224,503 Bookmarked: 92 Downloaded: 2,805 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Article touching simple issues like property, method and event and using it in .NET applications
	A Beginner Tutorial for Writing Simple COM/ATL DLL For VS2012 8 Dec 2012 Updated: 19 Dec 2012 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 30 Popularity: 7.24 Licence: CPOL Views: 155,504 Bookmarked: 78 Downloaded: 5,313 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Article touching simple programming instrument like Property, Method, Event and invoking ATL Dialogs from ATL/COM Component
	Global Interface Table: An Easy Way to Marshal an Interface Pointer 1 Mar 2007 Updated: 1 Mar 2007 Rating: 4.65/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.02 Licence: CPOL Views: 79,632 Bookmarked: 29 Downloaded: 571 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An easy way to marshal your interface pointer between threads!
	OeLibrary 1.0 1 Mar 2008 Updated: 22 Aug 2013 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 6.04 Licence: GPL3 Views: 127,925 Bookmarked: 56 Downloaded: 2,492 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Opensource Outlook Express automation library
	MFS System Utility 14 Jul 2004 Updated: 25 Oct 2004 Rating: 2.85/5 Votes: 35 Popularity: 4.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 70,361 Bookmarked: 28 Downloaded: 1,216 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This application provides General Restriction to local computer like hiding/showing of drives and other UI thngs using registry.
	Programmatically Changing IP address, Domain Name Server and Gateways 6 Jul 2004 Updated: 15 Jul 2004 Rating: 3.26/5 Votes: 33 Popularity: 4.95 Licence: CPOL Views: 255,817 Bookmarked: 53 Downloaded: 5,624 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article shows how we can change the IP address with corresponding subnet mask, gateway with corresponding metric, and DNS of local computer through programming.
MFC	The ShutDown Alarm 5 Jul 2004 Updated: 13 Dec 2004 Rating: 3.19/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 4.56 Licence: CPOL Views: 143,364 Bookmarked: 51 Downloaded: 3,519 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This application does shutdown, restart, logoff and power off on a given computer at a given time. It works on all OS.
	Using COM aware DotNet Library in MFC Application 19 Jul 2009 Updated: 25 Jun 2012 Rating: 4.77/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.97 Licence: CPOL Views: 53,913 Bookmarked: 48 Downloaded: 570 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Article about using C# DLL in unmanaged VC++ application
	MFS Service Manger 15 Jul 2004 Updated: 8 Dec 2004 Rating: 3.73/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 4.85 Licence: CPOL Views: 81,112 Bookmarked: 55 Downloaded: 2,470 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A fully functional replica of Windows Service Manager, with some extra features like Enumeration, Deletion and Updation of the Services.
	Hello, I Am Ready to Communicate! 20 Jun 2012 Updated: 20 Jun 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 25,744 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 363 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. CWinThread with TWO-Way communication using window message
WTL	EfTidyNet: .NET Wrapper for Tidy library 4 Mar 2008 Updated: 6 Sep 2013 Rating: 4.87/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.07 Licence: GPL3 Views: 110,204 Bookmarked: 36 Downloaded: 1,604 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Free component for parsing HTML, .NET version of EfTidyCom
Mobile Apps
	DART2 Prima Plus - Tutorial 2 - LIST 8 Jul 2018 Updated: 9 Jul 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,180 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 67 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this second article of series, I would be focusing completely on List working
	DART2 Prima Plus - Tutorial 3 - MAP 14 Jul 2018 Updated: 14 Jul 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,122 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 43 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Map class denotes a key and value container. I will showcase its various methods and properties.
Android	MonoAndroid: Writing ExpandableListView amd BaseExpandableListAdapter in C# 31 Oct 2013 Updated: 21 Nov 2013 Rating: 4.81/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.66 Licence: CPOL Views: 45,637 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 1,000 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Creating ExpandableListView and populating it with BaseExpandableListAdapter derived class
Flutter	Flutter Getting Started: Tutorial 1 Basics 4 Jul 2018 Updated: 4 Jul 2018 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.62 Licence: CPOL Views: 35,524 Bookmarked: 19 Downloaded: 236 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this tutorial, I will provide step by step to build your first Flutter App
	Flutter Getting Started: Tutorial 2 - StateFulWidget 9 Jul 2018 Updated: 9 Jul 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,471 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 165 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Let's explore the world of StateFulWidget with respect to Flutter
	Flutter Getting Started: Tutorial 4 ListView 18 Jul 2018 Updated: 18 Jul 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 36,254 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 684 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Flutter ListView: A scrollable control for everyday need
	Flutter Getting Started: Tutorial 5 Grid 21 Jul 2018 Updated: 21 Jul 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 28,529 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 455 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Let's explore Flutter Grid view and MediaQuery
	DART2 Prima Plus - Tutorial 4 - OOPS 31 Jul 2018 Updated: 31 Jul 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,110 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 27 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Object Oriented Programming in DART
	Flutter Getting Started: Tutorial 3 Navigation 12 Jul 2018 Updated: 12 Jul 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,612 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 159 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Flutter Navigation, Let's move among pages
Xamarin	MonoAndroid: Writing custom generic BaseAdapter in C# 30 Jul 2013 Updated: 21 Nov 2013 Rating: 4.65/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.65 Licence: CPOL Views: 54,688 Bookmarked: 27 Downloaded: 592 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using generic BaseAdapter to generate ListView
	MonoAndroid: Using Fragments in mobile app 21 Aug 2013 Updated: 21 Nov 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.52 Licence: CPOL Views: 48,747 Bookmarked: 19 Downloaded: 964 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using Fragments in your mobile application.
	MonoAndroid: Using dotnet webservice (ASMX) 22 Aug 2013 Updated: 21 Nov 2013 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.90 Licence: CPOL Views: 61,327 Bookmarked: 31 Downloaded: 2,353 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using ASMX webservices in your mobile application.
	MonoAndroid: Calling secondary activity 10 Oct 2013 Updated: 21 Nov 2013 Rating: 4.82/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.67 Licence: CPOL Views: 23,653 Bookmarked: 17 Downloaded: 601 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Let's understand calling secondary activity and returning data from it.
	MonoAndroid: Using TabHost in your mobile applications 13 Aug 2013 Updated: 21 Nov 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.23 Licence: CPOL Views: 58,177 Bookmarked: 16 Downloaded: 1,868 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. TabHost control in MonoAndroid
	MonoAndroid: Using Started Service 4 Sep 2013 Updated: 21 Nov 2013 Rating: 4.87/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.25 Licence: CPOL Views: 45,476 Bookmarked: 21 Downloaded: 573 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Demonstration of started service.
	MonoAndroid: Using GridView in your mobile application 1 Aug 2013 Updated: 21 Nov 2013 Rating: 4.78/5 Votes: 22 Popularity: 6.41 Licence: CPOL Views: 72,610 Bookmarked: 39 Downloaded: 2,006 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Demonstration of Android::GridView
	MonoAndroid: Using AlertDialog 21 Nov 2013 Updated: 21 Nov 2013 Rating: 4.51/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.08 Licence: CPOL Views: 40,754 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 664 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Article demonstrating use of Alert-Dialog in android universe.
Programming Languages
C++	45 Day Series: CodeProject VC++ Forum Q&A - I 6 Jul 2005 Updated: 6 Jul 2005 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 35 Popularity: 7.52 Licence: CPOL Views: 307,112 Bookmarked: 195 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Collection of Q&A from VC++ forum between 10 Dec 2004 to 23 Jan 2005.
	45 Day Series: Codeproject VC++ Forum Q&A - IV 14 Jun 2005 Updated: 31 Jul 2005 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 65 Popularity: 8.78 Licence: CPOL Views: 712,001 Bookmarked: 195 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Collection of Q&A from VC++ forum between 25 April 2005 to 8 June 2005
Dart	DART2 Prima Plus - Tutorial 1 5 Jul 2018 Updated: 9 Jul 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,111 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is getting started beginner tutorial in DART 2, I would be touching Basic setup, Datatypes, Conditional Statements and Loops.
Visual Basic	EfTidy: The Tidy Library Wrapper 5 Dec 2004 Updated: 6 Sep 2013 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 36 Popularity: 7.52 Licence: GPL3 Views: 178,957 Bookmarked: 88 Downloaded: 5,014 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A free component for HTML parsing and cleaning
Visual C++ 10.0	45 Day Series: CodeProject VC++ Forum Q&A - VI 12 Jul 2011 Updated: 15 Jul 2011 Rating: 4.81/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 31,664 Bookmarked: 40 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Collection of Q&A from VC++ forum
	45 Day Series: Codeproject VC++ Forum Q&A - VII 22 Jun 2012 Updated: 26 Jun 2012 Rating: 4.77/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.15 Licence: CPOL Views: 28,833 Bookmarked: 27 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Collection of Q&A from VC++ forum
	PostThreadMessage Demystified 14 Jul 2011 Updated: 21 Jun 2013 Rating: 4.63/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 6.02 Licence: CPOL Views: 79,640 Bookmarked: 44 Downloaded: 3,751 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How and Where to use it!
Visual C++ 9.0	45 Day Series: CodeProject VC++ Forum Q&A - V 25 Jul 2010 Updated: 25 Jul 2010 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.54 Licence: CPOL Views: 49,884 Bookmarked: 61 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Collection of Q&A from VC++ forum
Web Development
ASP.NET	Using Custom Data Source to create RDLC Reports 10 Oct 2012 Updated: 7 Nov 2012 Rating: 4.41/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.59 Licence: CPOL Views: 242,085 Bookmarked: 37 Downloaded: 6,409 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using custom list to create Report and report with Sub Report using RDLC and Report Viewer.

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General Programming
File	Interprocess Communication using System::IO::MemoryMappedFiles in MC++ [Tip/Trick] 19 Jul 2013 Updated: 19 Jul 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,131 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. IPC using memory mapped file in managed VC++
Mobile Apps
	MonoAndroid: Android Notification service [Tip/Trick] 2 Sep 2013 Updated: 21 Nov 2013 Rating: 4.69/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.65 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,521 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Code for providing notification using Android notification service.
Xamarin	MonoAndroid: Using bound Services [Tip/Trick] 6 Sep 2013 Updated: 21 Nov 2013 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.33 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,740 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 108 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Demonstration of Bound Service!
Programming Languages
C	How to zero your memory? [Tip/Trick] 1 Aug 2011 Updated: 1 Aug 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.77 Licence: CPOL Views: 77,434 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Describing various method to zeroing the buffer in memory
C#	SSIS Tip 1: Using "Select Query" to define source [Tip/Trick] 10 Jul 2013 Updated: 10 Jul 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,020 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using coding define SSIS source connection.
C++11	std::function: template based function pointer /object [Tip/Trick] 3 Jun 2013 Updated: 3 Jun 2013 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 26,999 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This tip will demonstrate std::function in various avatars, with function pointers and std::bind.
VC++	MailShot: From Client to Server (With Love) [Tip/Trick] 27 Dec 2011 Updated: 7 Jan 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 29,611 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Simple tip and trick for Mail Slot
Visual C++ 10.0	Lambda Function in C++ [Tip/Trick] 18 Oct 2012 Updated: 21 Jun 2013 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.42 Licence: CPOL Views: 36,002 Bookmarked: 24 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Showcase for lambda function in C++

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ThatsAlok

Software Developer (Senior)

India

He used to have biography here Smile | :)

, but now he will hire someone (for free offcourse Big Grin | :-D

), Who writes his biography on his behalf Smile | :)

He is Great Fan of Mr. Johan Rosengren (his idol),Lim Bio Liong, Nishant S and DavidCrow and Believes that, he will EXCEL in his life by following there steps!!!

He started with Visual C++ then moved to C# then he become language agnostic, you give him task,tell him the language or platform, he we start immediately, if he knows the language otherwise he quickly learn it and start contributing productively

Last but not the least, For good 8 years he was Visual CPP MSMVP!

Articles by ThatsAlok (Articles: 41, Tip/Tricks: 8)

Articles: 41, Tip/Tricks: 8

Average article rating: 4.71

CodeProject

Database Development

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