Best C# Article of August 2014

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Current Entries

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Office 2013 Style Splash Screen

5 Aug 2014Magyar András

How to create Office 2013 style splash screen for Windows Forms

HTML

C#5.0

.NET

Windows

VS2013

Sketcher : Two Of n

14 Aug 2014Sacha Barber

Angular.Js / Azure / ASP MVC / SignalR / Bootstrap demo app

Sketcher : Three Of n

14 Aug 2014Sacha Barber

Angular.Js / Azure / ASP MVC / SignalR / Bootstrap demo app

Soddy Crescent Construction

18 Aug 2014Doug Wyrembek

An algorithm to construct and animate a Soddy Crescent

Automating Semantic Mapping of a Document With Natural Language Processing

13 Aug 2014Marc Clifton

Using AlchemyAPI, we create visualizations of keyword and sentence relationships so the user can extract meaningful concepts quickly and efficiently.

Trees - Part I

16 Aug 2014dietmar schoder

An introduction to trees: generating and drawing.

The List Trifecta, Part 3

12 Aug 2014Qwertie

SparseAList and some AList benchmarks

Error (Visual Studio 2013, MVC5): The request filtering module is configured to deny a request where the query string is too long

8 Aug 2014Tomz_KV

Fix "the query string is too long" error in Visual Studio 2013.

.NET

Dev

WPF MVVM Binding for Multiple Radio Buttons

12 Aug 2014Jdarmanovich

WPF MVVM Binding for Multiple Radio Buttons and Win 8 Metro Theme

Paging In MVC 5 with Entity Framework

13 Aug 2014raju melveetilpurayil

One more example of how to do Paging in MVC

Simple Paint Application in C#

25 Aug 2014Anoop Kr Sharma

In this Tip/Trick, I am going to show How to create Simple Paint Application in C#

HiRes Backgroundworker

20 Aug 2014sgoleary

Cut and Paste BackgroundWorker.

Mastering Unity 2D Game Development – AI and State Machines

2 Sep 2014Simon Jackson

Mastering Unity 2D Game Development – AI and State Machines

Unity3D

game

InternalList<T>: the low-level List<T>

13 Aug 2014Qwertie

In the netherworld between T[] and List

Convert a list of names to HTML Wikipedia links

8 Aug 2014B. Clay Shannon

How to convert a list of names to the HTML needed to create a link to the corresponding Wikipedia articles

Dev

SignalR .NET deserialization of objects with private setters / member variables

27 Aug 2014Mark_Shield

If you use deserialize objects with private setters in a .NET SignalR client you may find those member variables are still set to default.

Multicast Message Broker

4 Aug 2014Matus Kovacik

Single class encapsulating UDP IP multicasting functionality and exposing it via observer pattern.

Create Collection from a DataSet

7 Aug 2014Gold$Coin

This tip will help you to create a collection from a DataSet

ASP MVC5 & Azure Table Storage Scaffolder

23 Aug 2014Stephan Johnson

Scaffold Microsoft Azure Table Storage entities in ASP.NET MVC5

Automated Serializer for WinRT Platform

19 Aug 2014Alberto Nuti

How to serialize an object without having to manually instruct the DataContractSerializer class.

C#5.0

LINQ

Dev

Unleash the power of list and tree widget (C# X11)

13 Aug 2014Steffen Ploetz

How to get out the maximum from the Roma Widget Set's list and tree widgets in C#.

Preserve the Selected Item of a WPF List Box

1 Aug 2014MichaelLPerry

A behavior to attach to a ListBox to keep WPF from clearing the selected item

Windows

XAML

Dev

Windows Phone : Location : Map : Pushpin

12 Aug 2014ShubhamSaxena

Track your location, mark it on a map using pushpin

The Poisson Distribution in C#

14 Aug 2014CatchExAs

Poisson distribution in C#

The Kelly Criterion in C#

14 Aug 2014CatchExAs

The Kelly Criterion in C#

Rendering Color/Depth Stream using Intel Perceptual Computing in WPF

7 Aug 2014naren1991

Rendering PXCMImage to Image control in WPF

Bind Crystal Reports with Dataset or Datatable

5 Aug 2014saurav ray

Article determines how to bind a crystal report with a virtual database

DirectShow Hangs on Pause – Solved

5 Aug 2014vertex4343

DirectShow Hangs on Pause – Solved with WNDPROC message

Connect WPF with Wamp Server MySql

5 Aug 2014Anis Derbel

The easy way to connect to Mysql using Wamp server on WPF

Expose OData Endpoint in Web API/MVC

11 Aug 2014Sourav Kayal

In this tip, we will learn to implement OData endpoint in Web API application.

Create Folders Using Data from Excel File

22 Aug 2014brpulsani

How to create folders using data from Excel file

Office

VS2010

Visual-Studio

Dynamic Menu type Control Panel from DataBase

26 Aug 2014Roysb

Creating a menu dynamically from a database, with a style type control panel

SQL

HTML

ASP.NET

PowerPoint template generator

7 Aug 2014roli.hof

This article describes a windows forms application which automates MS Office PowerPoint 2007 in order to replace predefined text of a template with your input

How to Crop Image into Different Size

5 Aug 2014Anis Derbel

you can now crop Image with specified size equally

Working with Accelerometer Windows Phone c#

5 Aug 2014Anis Derbel

Link between Accelerometer and composant in xaml

Building XNA flexible animation class

20 Aug 2014valentasm

Silverlight and XNA animation class with automatic animation and flexible sprites loading.

.NET

Silverlight

XNA

MVVM Light Toolkit and Windows Phone : Bindable AppBar

22 Aug 2014Mdimagh Firas

This tip/trick shows you how to add bindable AppBar with MVVM Light Toolkit in Windows Phone 8

Geolocation services on Windows Phone 8.

22 Aug 2014Carmelo La Monica

Geolocation is one of the most frequently used functionality within mobile and beyond, with it we can retrieve the location and information about the place where.

Capturing Unhandled Exceptions in a Mixed Native/CLR Environment

26 Aug 2014Ivan Krivyakov

Capturing unhandled exceptions in a mixed native CLR environment

C++

.NET

VS2013

Sketcher 1 of 3

12 Aug 2014Sacha Barber

Sketcher 1 of 3

Closing Microsoft Dynamics GP Report Destination window (alternative)

15 Aug 2014Paul Maxan

This is an alternative for "Closing Microsoft Dynamics GP Report Destination window"

Build Cross-platform Mobile Apps Easily with Crosslight

18 Aug 2014Nicholas_Lie

Developers need the best cross-platform framework that can produce highly flexible, customizable apps with great performance, and high code reusability, that allow them to build cross platforms apps in a loosely-coupled manner. The answer is here: Crosslight.

Run Grunt Task in Visual Studio Release Build with a bat File

21 Aug 2014Aligned

Run Grunt Task in Visual Studio Release Build with a bat File

All-Topics

Dart Ray Tracer Benchmark (Compared to C#)

22 Feb 2018Antonino Porcino

Porting Raytracer demo from C# to Dart

Mobile Development: PingNG-the Next Generation ping

29 Aug 2014hjgode

PingNG - the next generation ping

.NET

Mobile

Windows

Sketcher : One Of n

14 Aug 2014Sacha Barber

Angular.Js / Azure / ASP MVC / SignalR / Bootstrap demo app

Bitwise Enumeration Editor for PropertyGrid and Visual Studio

17 Apr 2017Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

The Editor attribute applied to an enumeration type makes it editable in PropertyGrid. This is enough to make the Visual Studio Designer use the editor, without a need to write a Visual Studio add-on.

.NET

Visual-Studio

VS2008

.NET Application Boot Strapping

20 Aug 2014Sandeep sunku

This article explains the boot strapping process of .NET Application.

Windows 8 Directly Driving Stepper Motor

20 Mar 2015SergeiR[MCTS]

Demonstrates Windows 8 capability to directly control stepper motor

C++

Eight Queens Puzzle: Tree Algorithm

11 Aug 2014dietmar schoder

1 alternative

How to solve the "eight queens puzzle" with a simple tree algorithm.

Current Participants

Those with articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered.

Alberto Nuti

Italy

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Aligned

Web Developer

United States

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Anis Derbel

Software Developer (Junior) Microsoft Student Partners

Tunisia

I study Software Engineering , 23 years old , I'm motivated with all Technologies of Microsoft.
Since I have been in the Community of Microsoft as Microsoft Student Partners, I developped many apps on the platform Windows and Phone. Now , it's time to share what I learn here and I'am ready to help Everyone.
You can contact me at any time (anisderbel@outlook.com)

This is a Organisation

9 members

Anoop Kr Sharma

Student

India

Visit my Blog:www.ittutorialswithexample.com

Antonino Porcino

Software Developer

Italy

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

B. Clay Shannon

Founder Across Time & Space

United States

I am in the process of morphing from a software developer into a portrayer of Mark Twain. My monologue (or one-man play, entitled "The Adventures of Mark Twain: As Told By Himself" and set in 1896) features Twain giving an overview of his life up till then. The performance includes the relating of interesting experiences and humorous anecdotes from Twain's boyhood and youth, his time as a riverboat pilot, his wild and woolly adventures in the Territory of Nevada and California, and experiences as a writer and world traveler, including recollections of meetings with many of the famous and powerful of the 19th century - royalty, business magnates, fellow authors, as well as intimate glimpses into his home life (his parents, siblings, wife, and children).

Peripatetic and picaresque, I have lived in eight states; specifically, besides my native California (where I was born and where I now again reside) in chronological order: New York, Montana, Alaska, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Idaho, and Missouri.

I am also a writer of both fiction (for which I use a nom de plume, "Blackbird Crow Raven", as a nod to my Native American heritage - I am "½ Cowboy, ½ Indian") and nonfiction, including a two-volume social and cultural history of the U.S. which covers important events from 1620-2006: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/blackbirdcraven

brpulsani

Software Developer (Senior)

India

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Carmelo La Monica

Software Developer

Italy

While not a developer by profession, I'm doing the programming one of my greatest passions. I follow the development of applications .NET Framework preferred development languages like C #, VB.NET, LINQ, and most recently on Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. I am passionate about programming dotnet, when can I contribute on the Forums Msdn Italians and Americans willingly, I write simple code examples on the TechNet Gallery and wiky TechNet, I had the opportunity to be his debut as a speaker and in the Italian community Visual Basic Tips & Tricks and Torino Tecnologies Groups. Recently i'm author of articles on the TechNet Wiki Ninjas Blog and author of Microsoft Community Forum for Windows Phone. Recently, i've been nominated Editor on Msdn Italian Forum on Windows Phone category, and Moderator on the Italian Forum Microsoft Community for Windows Phone consumer.

CatchExAs

Technical Lead Alpha Integralis Limited

United Kingdom

CatchExAs aka Nick Wilton runs Alpha Integralis, a software development consultancy to companies in the City of London.

Main interests include exploring Algo-Trading, Quant Development and Physics using C# and Java.

www.nickwilton.info/Blog

dietmar schoder

schoder.uk

United Kingdom

generative artist: schoder.uk

Doug Wyrembek

United States

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Gold$Coin

Software Developer (Senior)

India

http://referencesource.microsoft.com/

hjgode

Germany

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Ivan Krivyakov

Technical Lead Thomson Reuters

United States

Ivan is a hands-on software architect/technical lead working for Thomson Reuters in the New York City area. At present I am mostly building complex multi-threaded WPF application for the financial sector, but I am also interested in cloud computing, web development, mobile development, etc.

Please visit my web site: www.ikriv.com.

Jdarmanovich

Software Developer

South Africa

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Magyar András

Student

Hungary

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Marc Clifton

Architect Interacx

United States

Blog: https://marcclifton.wordpress.com/
Home Page: http://www.marcclifton.com
Research: http://www.higherorderprogramming.com/
GitHub: https://github.com/cliftonm

All my life I have been passionate about architecture / software design, as this is the cornerstone to a maintainable and extensible application. As such, I have enjoyed exploring some crazy ideas and discovering that they are not so crazy after all. I also love writing about my ideas and seeing the community response. As a consultant, I've enjoyed working in a wide range of industries such as aerospace, boatyard management, remote sensing, emergency services / data management, and casino operations. I've done a variety of pro-bono work non-profit organizations related to nature conservancy, drug recovery and women's health.

Mark_Shield

Software Developer (Senior) Argus Media

United Kingdom

Mark Shield is a senior developer at Argus Media. He enjoys coding / tinkering in a variety of languages (C++, C#, Python, F# to name a few) and playing his ever increasing bass guitar collection in his ever decreasing spare time.

Matus Kovacik

Software Developer

Slovakia

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Mdimagh Firas

Student ISAMM

Tunisia

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

MichaelLPerry

Software Developer (Senior) Improving Enterprises

United States

Software is math.

Michael L Perry has built upon the works of mathematicians like Bertrand Meyer, James Rumbaugh, and Donald Knuth to develop a mathematical system for software development. He has captured this system in a set of open source projects, Update Controls and Correspondence. As a Principal Consultant at Improving Enterprises, he applies mathematical concepts to building scalable and robust enterprise systems.

You can find out more at qedcode.com.

naren1991

India

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Nicholas_Lie

United States

Nicholas Lie (Cross-platform Tools Lead at Intersoft Solutions). A tech enthusiast and all things mobile. Focus on user experience and everything else will follow.

Paul Maxan

Software Developer (Senior) Cogsdale

Canada

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Qwertie

Software Developer None

Canada

Since I started programming when I was 11, I wrote the SNES emulator "SNEqr", the FastNav mapping component, the Enhanced C# programming language (in progress), the parser generator LLLPG, and LES, a syntax to help you start building programming languages, DSLs or build systems.

My overall focus is on the Language of your choice (Loyc) initiative, which is about investigating ways to improve interoperability between programming languages and putting more power in the hands of developers. I'm also seeking employment.

raju melveetilpurayil

Software Developer (Senior)

United Kingdom

Microsoft Certified Professional Developer.

roli.hof

Software Developer (Senior)

Austria

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Roysb

Costa Rica

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Sacha Barber

Software Developer (Senior)

United Kingdom

I currently hold the following qualifications (amongst others, I also studied Music Technology and Electronics, for my sins)

- MSc (Passed with distinctions), in Information Technology for E-Commerce
- BSc Hons (1st class) in Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence

Both of these at Sussex University UK.

Award(s)

I am lucky enough to have won a few awards for Zany Crazy code articles over the years

Microsoft C# MVP 2016
Codeproject MVP 2016
Microsoft C# MVP 2015
Codeproject MVP 2015
Microsoft C# MVP 2014
Codeproject MVP 2014
Microsoft C# MVP 2013
Codeproject MVP 2013
Microsoft C# MVP 2012
Codeproject MVP 2012
Microsoft C# MVP 2011
Codeproject MVP 2011
Microsoft C# MVP 2010
Codeproject MVP 2010
Microsoft C# MVP 2009
Codeproject MVP 2009
Microsoft C# MVP 2008
Codeproject MVP 2008
And numerous codeproject awards which you can see over at my blog

Sandeep sunku

Software Developer Bangalore

India

Indian.
He is a software developer. He loves programming. Always willing to work on new technologies.

His only passion is "Updating on technologies"

Want to know more about me?
Visit http://www.sandeepsunku.com

saurav ray

Software Developer

India

Hi Guys,

I am Saurav Ray have done M.C.A from Inder prastha Enginnering College and currently working as a Software Developer on .Net Technologies from the last 2 year.

SergeiR[MCTS]

United States

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Architect

United States

Physics, physical and quantum optics, mathematics, computer science, control systems for manufacturing, diagnostics, testing, and research, theory of music, musical instruments…

sgoleary

Software Developer (Senior) Absolute Genius

Canada

Design and Develop Custom Electronics and Software to control them.
Software Engineering of custom Business Software System.
Hardware Engineering of Custom Electronics Control devices.

ShubhamSaxena

Software Developer Accenture

India

I'm Software Engineer Associate at Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd. and I love Microsoft Technologies.

Simon Jackson

Architect ZenithMoon Studios

United Kingdom

Long time game developer / IT maniac.
By day working as a lowly Technical Architect for a healthcare software firm, by night Masquerading as the Master Chief of ZenithMoon Studios.

At heart I'm a community developer breaking down lots of fun and curious technologies and bringing them to the masses.

I'm also a contributor to several open source projects, most notably the AdRotator advertising rotator project for Windows and Windows Phone.

After a hefty break with Windows Phone and Windows 8 I'm heading back to my XNA roots to show how beginners and current XNA devs can take their skills forward with XNA's bleak future.

ID&Xbox MVP & Best selling author
[Mastering Unity 2D Game Development] (https://www.packtpub.com/game-development/mastering-unity-2d-game-development)
[Unity 3D UI Essentials] (https://www.packtpub.com/game-development/unity-3d-gui-essentials)

Sourav Kayal

Software Developer DELL International

India

I am software developer from INDIA. Beside my day to day development work, i like to learn new technologies to update myself. I am passionate blogger and author in various technical community including dotnetfunda.com , c-sharpcorner.com and codeproject. My area of interest is modern web technology in Microsoft stack. Visit to my personal blog here.

http://ctrlcvprogrammer.blogspot.in/

Steffen Ploetz

CEO Symbioworld GmbH

Germany

I am currently the CEO of Symbioworld GmbH and as such responsible for personnel management, information security, data protection and certifications. Furthermore, as a senior programmer, I am responsible for the automatic layout engine, the simulation (Activity Based Costing), the automatic creation of Word/RTF reports and the data transformation in complex migration projects.

The main focus of my work as a programmer is the development of Microsoft Azure Services using C# and Visual Studio.

Privately, I am interested in C++ and Linux in addition to C#. I like the approach of open source software and like to support OSS with own contributions.

Stephan Johnson

We Fix Code

South Africa

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Tomz_KV

Web Developer

United States

Web & Database Developer. Design and implement web and database applications utilizing Microsoft and other development tools.

valentasm

Software Developer

Lithuania

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

vertex4343

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

The author builds simulation systems which use real-time video analysis and overlays.

First Prize	Ben M Watson - Performance Considerations of Class Design and General Coding in .NET
Prize pool	CodeProject T-Shirt - CodeProject


Second Prize	Akhil Mittal - Learning C# (Day 6): Understanding Enums in C# (A Practical Approach)
Prize pool	Bob Sticker - CodeProject

Contest Entries and Requirements

The contest period covers the the first day of the month 12AM US Eastern Standard Time and ends the final day of the month at 11:59:59 PM US Eastern Standard Time. All entries must be submitted during this period in order to qualify.
Entries must be an article, or blog entry.
With the exception of the Everything Else category, the article must be tagged with at least one of the tags corresponding to that competition's category (for example, to enter the C# Competition you would need to tag your article with a C# tag).
Articles entries must follow the CodeProject submission guidelines.
No cheating, lying, plagiarizing articles, chicanery, or kicking.
Articles may only be considered for a single category. If an article is eligible for multiple categories (for example, it pertains to both the C# and Web Dev categories), CodeProject editors and judges will decide which category the article shall be entered in.
No author can be nominated twice in the same category.
If an author writes has two separate articles, each article may be considered in their respective categories provided none of the aforementioned rules are broken. For example, if an author wrote two separate articles, one related to C# and one related to VB.NET, the author and articles could be nominated in the C# and VB.NET competitions, respectively.
In the event an author wins multiple competitions, and repeat, identical prizes, the number of prizes issued is solely at the discretion of the prize issuer.
In the event an article has multiple authors and/or contributors, the number of prizes issued is solely at the discretion of the prize issuer.
In the event of a tie, the number of prizes issued is solely at the discretion of the prize issuer.
Multiple votes from the same IP will be automatically disqualified.
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