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Current Entries

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27 Dec 2012WebMaster
Some simple examples of how to apply affine transformations in computer graphics.
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25 Jan 2013FatCatProgrammer
StarReport: WPF-less GDI+.NET report component.
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21 Jan 2013Srinivasu Pemma
This tip provides an easy way of dealing with different types of data sources for LINQ Group By taken from my blog http://www.srinetinfo.com/2012/12/linq-group-by.html
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13 Dec 2012Vijay Tanwar
Convert Word documents, Excel sheets to HTML files using Microsoft Office Interop API and render the result back to a client browser.
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13 Jan 2013Grasshopper.iics
How to build and publish Ultrabook desktop Apps in Intel AppUP store
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6 Mar 2013KenBeckett
Calculating metrics on and searching a CodeDOM.
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23 Dec 2012Colin Eberhardt
The aim of PropertyCross is to make it easier for developers to choose a suitable framework from the ever-growing range of cross-platform mobile application development frameworks. This blog post provides a little bit of background to the project.
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27 Mar 2013nick.p.everdox
Usage of Intel/AMD extended processor features.
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18 Dec 2012Ahmad Dekmak
In this project we learn how to resign a signed assembly with another one of your choice
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28 Dec 2012Antonino Porcino
a TodoMVC implementation written in C# and compiled to JavaScript
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3 Feb 2013Enrique Albert
Unit of Work and Repository RavenDB implementation example
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21 Dec 2012mparvez
If you wanted to check the status of all your database backup then this script will do the task.
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23 Dec 2012Oleksandr Kulchytskyi
This tip explains how to increase performance in serialization by using MessagePack
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13 Jun 2013Small1
A walk-through of how to convert a series of PDFs containing tables output by Microsoft Access to an XML database.
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22 Apr 2017Cinchoo
Easy configuration management in .NET
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14 Dec 2012orouit
This article demonstrates how to implement interfaces defined for a WinRT component in a C# Windows store DLL or a C# Windows store application.
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1 Mar 2013Yasser Moradi DNP
Parse CanExecute to detect when CanExecuteChanged should be called.
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24 Dec 2014Alexander Batishchev
Implementing WCF behavior extension to run code on service launch
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24 Jan 2013Oleksandr Kulchytskyi
More advanced singleton implementation.
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23 Dec 2012Sukhpal Singh JNU Jaipur 1 alternative  
This is a tutorial about KeyboardHandler library in iPhone
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4 Jan 2013Vyacheslav Voronenko
Compact One Time Password Generator (RFC6238) written in javascript
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27 Dec 2012joseph donley
JavaScript var hoisting
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28 Dec 2012Antonino Porcino
In this post, I have compared the performance of Saltarelle-compiler vs. another C# to JavaScript compiler: JSIL by Kevin Gadd.
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19 Jan 2013Wendelius
This tip shows how to get rows from a table where a field contains a number that is a power of 2 using LOG function.
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10 Dec 2012Robert Hoffmann
History of globalization in ASP.NET and available options.
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21 Dec 2012dromanol
This example illustrates the correct use of Application.DoEvents() in order to allow a window to repaint (or handle the desired messages) while its thread is busy doing heavy processing.
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16 Dec 2012Gianmaria Gregori
How to create and customize a Twitter Bootstrap site with WebMatrix 2 and OrangeBits Compiler
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25 Mar 2013jkirkerx
Basically a slideshow script, but more simple in design and easier to deploy.
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18 Dec 2012Vasil Trifonov
Using WIX with Managed Custom Action
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9 Apr 2013David J Rundle
Handling the Faulted state and Closure of a WCF service when being used in a stateful application.
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17 Dec 2012Charles Mathis
This is an alternative for "Using RoutedCommands with a ViewModel in WPF".
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17 Dec 2012Rajesh Kuramdasu
Tip to display HTML/HTML like content as a text on your web page
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11 Dec 2012PavolSatala
This article shows how the use advertisment system on iOS and Android platform using cross platfrom development tool
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23 Dec 2012John Michael Hauck
Controlling intelligent precision electric motors from Windows applications written in C#
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4 Mar 2013Tyronne Thomas
DNS resolving and parsing IP address in Metro Style applications (WinRT).
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4 Dec 2012Emad Al Hawary
Try this block of HTML 5 code
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27 Feb 2013Tarek Elqusi
Using the MainWindowTitle property to close a running program by killing the associated process.
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29 Dec 2012Abdullah Altokhais
Windows Forms application for capturing or thumbnailing a web page
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14 Mar 2013李建兴
If two objects are equal, they would better have the same HashCode.
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22 Dec 2012scott_liu
By use of a cutomized metadata provider, MVC model data annotation validation messages can be localized in a simple and elegant way.
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3 Dec 2012Niko Rosvall
Some tips for new programmers.
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21 Dec 2012skprasadu
In this article I have demonstrated using a simple Java Keystore to achieve 2 way handshake.
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21 Dec 2012skprasadu
This tip shows how you can create stubs for webservices in Java using Maven
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18 Dec 2012George H. Slaterpryce III
Easy Between replacement.
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21 Dec 2012Nathan Stiles
Calling CL programs on the IBM i on Power from PHP using DB2 stored procedures.
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13 Dec 2012Nitesh Kejriwal
Black screen after upgrading to Windows 8 on Dell Vostro.
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3 Dec 2012Rupesh Tarwade
Building Custom SharePoint 2010 Workflow with InfoPath Task Form
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14 Mar 2013Rumman92
A simple web scraper that loads only the readable contents of a website.
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27 Dec 2012Karl Stoney
This .NET Tutorial will tell you how to Install and Configure MiniProfiler for .NET 4.5 MVC 4 Web Application including Entity Framework logging.
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30 Dec 2012Karl Stoney
In this programming article, I will show how to generate an approved sitemap automatically for use with search engines.

Current Participants

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

Web Developer
China China
Right now I am a college student.
Student
Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Technical Lead
Lebanon Lebanon
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer
United States United States
.NET developer and architect
Software Developer
Italy Italy
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer (Senior)
United States United States
Charles creates software for Windows and the Web. He works as a Senior Software Engineer at a leading Financial Services company.
United States United States
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Architect Scott Logic
United Kingdom United Kingdom
I am CTO at ShinobiControls, a team of iOS developers who are carefully crafting iOS charts, grids and controls for making your applications awesome.

I am a Technical Architect for Visiblox which have developed the world's fastest WPF / Silverlight and WP7 charts.

I am also a Technical Evangelist at Scott Logic, a provider of bespoke financial software and consultancy for the retail and investment banking, stockbroking, asset management and hedge fund communities.

Visit my blog - Colin Eberhardt's Adventures in .NET.

Follow me on Twitter - @ColinEberhardt

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Software Developer (Senior)
United Kingdom United Kingdom
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer (Senior)
Spain Spain
Programming since the times of good old Spectrum.
Windows developer (from C++/COM to C# now).
Kuwait Kuwait
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer (Senior)
Ireland Ireland
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer (Senior) Finance Industry
United States United States
Currently pursuing 'Programming Nirvana' (The ineffable ultimate in which one has attained disinterested wisdom and compassion as it relates to programming)

Respected Technologies
1. Confusor (https://confuser.codeplex.com/)
2. Power Threading (http://www.wintellect.com/Resources/visit-the-power-threading-library)
3. EDI Parsers (http://www.rdpcrystal.com)


Acknowledgements:

Microsoft Certified Technologist for WPF and .Net 3.5 (MCTS)
Microsoft Certified Technologist for WCF and .Net 3.5 (MCTS)
Microsoft Certified Application Developer for .Net (MCAD)
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)

Sun Certified Developer for Java 2 Platform (SCD)
Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform (SCP)
Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD)

CompTIA A+ Certified Professional

Registered Business School Teacher for Computer Programming and Computer Applications (2004)
(University of the State of New York Education Department)

Graduated from University At Stony Brook
Architect
United States United States
Developing software since 1995, starting out with Borland Turbo C++ 3 & Motorolla Assembly.
Eventually learning several different languages such as
Pascal/Delphi,Basic, Visual Basic,FoxPro, ASP, PHP, and Perl.

Currently using the .net framework for most development task.

Hobbies include underwater robotics, and electronics.

George's current language of choice is C#.
Chief Technology Officer Federfarma Pavia
Italy Italy
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
CEO Integrated Ideas
India India
gasshopper.iics is a group of like minded programmers and learners in codeproject. The basic objective is to keep in touch and be notified while a member contributes an article, to check out with technology and share what we know. We are the "students" of codeproject.

This group is managed by Rupam Das, an active author here. Other Notable members include Ranjan who extends his helping hands to invaluable number of authors in their articles and writes some great articles himself.

Rupam Das is mentor of Grasshopper Network,founder and CEO of Integrated Ideas Consultancy Services, a research consultancy firm in India. He has been part of projects in several technologies including Matlab, C#, Android, OpenCV, Drupal, Omnet++, legacy C, vb, gcc, NS-2, Arduino, Raspberry-PI. Off late he has made peace with the fact that he loves C# more than anything else but is still struck in legacy style of coding.
Rupam loves algorithm and prefers Image processing, Artificial Intelligence and Bio-medical Engineering over other technologies.

He is frustrated with his poor writing and "grammer" skills but happy that coding polishes these frustrations.
This is a Organisation

115 members
Web Developer jkirkerx
United States United States
I'm a contractor for hire in Orange County CA
and always looking for a good project to work on

Discover my world
View my work
Software Developer (Senior) LECO Corporation
United States United States
John Hauck has been developing software professionally since 1981, and focused on Windows-based development since 1988. For the past 17 years John has been working at LECO, a scientific laboratory instrument company, where he manages software development. John also served as the manager of software development at Zenith Data Systems, as the Vice President of software development at TechSmith, as the lead medical records developer at Instrument Makar, as the MSU student who developed the time and attendance system for Dart container, and as the high school kid who wrote the manufacturing control system at Wohlert. John loves the Lord, his wife, their three kids, and sailing on Lake Michigan.
Web Developer Element Fusion
United States United States
I am a web developer for Element Fusion living in Oklahoma City, OK. I've been developing in .Net web technologies since the summer of 2009. I enjoy working in Asp.Net MVC along with tinkering with other new web technologies.
Architect Hewlett Packard Enterprise Security Services
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Technical Architect for Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Security Service.

Please take the time to visit my site
Software Developer (Senior)
United States United States
I've been writing software since the late 70's, currently focusing mainly on C#.NET. I also like to travel around the world, and I own a Chocolate Factory (sadly, none of my employees are oompa loompas).
Software Developer (Senior) icddr,b
Bangladesh Bangladesh
More than 8 years experience on Programming and Project implementation, I was primarily involved with projects for private organization,Govt.(Bangladesh Army,DG Health,RJSC), NGO (SEDF,WFP). Presently I am working at ICDDR,B and enhancing Hospital Management System developed by Microsoft Dynamic NAV and Windows Mobile Application 5.0

An active supporter of Open Source technology, my interested areas are ERP, IT Audit, Data warehouse, BI etc.

Playing Guitar for 15 years, my interested music style is Blues Rock,Neo Classical.

Certification

70-540:Microsoft® Windows Mobile® 5.0 - Application Development
MB7-514:Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV 5.0 C/SIDE Introduction
MB7-516:Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV 5.0 Solution Development
MB7-517:Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV 5.0 Installation and Configuration
MB7-515:Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV 5.0 Financials
70-432:Microsoft SQL Server 2008 - Implementation and Maintenance
70-450:PRO: Designing, Optimizing and Maintaining a Database Administrative Solution Using Microsoft SQL Server 2008
70-448:Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Business Intelligence Development and Maintenance
312-50:Certified Ethical Hacker

Web :http://masudparvezshabuz.appspot.com
Blog :http://masudparvezshabuz.wordpress.com
linkedin :http://www.linkedin.com/in/masudparvez
Web Developer
United States United States
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
United States United States
Nick is a hobbyist programmer, software reverse engineer and malware analyst.

everdox.blogspot.com
Finland Finland
I'm an indipendent software developer from Finland. Proficient in C#, C++, C and VB.NET.

Find out more from http://www.nrosvall.name
Founder Rebin Infotech
India India
A passionate developer with over 10 years of experience and building my software company code by code. Experience withMS Technologies like .Net | MVC | Xamarin | Sharepoint | MS Project Server and PhP along with open source CMS Systems like Wordpress/DotNetNuke etc.

Love to debug problems and solve them. I love writing articles on my website in my spare time. Please visit my Website for more details and subscribe to get technology related tips/tricks. #SOreadytohelp
Team Leader Delphi LLC
Ukraine Ukraine
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Architect Connect In Private
Singapore Singapore
Software Architect, COM, .NET and Smartcard based security specialist.

I've been working in the software industry since I graduated in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. I chose software because I preferred digital to analog.

I started to program with 6802 machine code and evolved to the current .NET technologies... that was a long way.

For more than 20 years I have always worked in technical positions as I simply like to get my hands dirty and crack my brain when things don't go right!

After 12 years in the smart card industry I can claim a strong knowledge in security solutions based on those really small computers!
I've been back into business to design the licensing system for the enterprise solution for Consistel using a .NET smart card (yes they can run .NET CLR!)

I'm currently designing a micro-payment solution using the NXP DESFire EV1 with the ACSO6 SAM of ACS. I can then add a full proficient expertise on those systems and NFC payments.
This technology being under strict NDA by NXP I cannot publish any related article about it, however I can provide professional consulting for it.

You can contact me for professional matter by using the forum or via my LinkedIn profile.
Slovakia Slovakia
Author develops in various programming languages included: C++, Javascript, and PHP. Last year he creates mobile cross platform applications in Moscrif SDK.
Software Developer
United States United States
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer (Senior) Index Multimedia
France France
Internet & Technology related professional since 1994. Passionate about WEB 2.0 and Community/Social networking related type Websites, or anything that is tech related to bridging the gap between the User and his everyday Multimedia Experience.
Help desk / Support
India India
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer (Senior) Consultant
India India
I have been designing and developing systems in .NET since 2006. Started out with .NET 1.1, and progressed through to current version. Started working with SharePoint 2010 in 2011, and am currently gaining experience in SharePoint Online and hosted apps.
Software Developer (Senior)
Canada Canada
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
United States United States
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
United States United States
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Technical Lead
India India
Working as Technical Lead for last few years and has very good exposure to ms.net technologies
Software Developer (Senior)
India India
B. Tech in Computer Science. Rich experience in different types of applications mainly Mobile and Web Development.

Worked on J2SE, J2EE, C, C++, C#, Objective C, Ruby, ASP.NET, Visual Basic, HTML, Java Script, CSS, Android, BlackBerry, iOS, Rhomobile and PhoneGap.
Software Developer (Senior)
Egypt Egypt
I am an ERP developer using VFP9
I started as a Clipper 5.2 with DBase III+ in 1995, I worked with Access 2.0
Then I converted to VFP5.0 then VFP9, I worked on an ERP application written by FoxPro2.6

Recently, I started learning C#
I have a tendency to do generic work and build generic functions, I try to do that using C#

I'm preparing myself now to be a Framework C# programmer
First step I'll read the C# specification, when done I'll update this, I've already started this in Feb-27-2013
Software Developer (Senior)
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer (Senior) Telerik
Bulgaria Bulgaria
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer (Senior) Nagarro Softwares
India India
I am vijay tanwar and i am a software engineer with passion of programming. I love to programming in c#, I love to warp up more and more things in few lines of code. my favirote languages are c# and javascript and both are fully object oriended. I always like to become the .net Architect.
Web Developer
Ukraine Ukraine
Web Developer, interested in bleeding age web technologies and projects.

Experienced and interested in:
- High load web projects, bespoke software development
- DevOps: Chef, Ansible, Vagrant
- NoSQL (mongodb)
- Client stack (javascript core, jquery, AngularJS, HTML5 apis)
- *AAS (Amazon beanstalk, Redhat openshift)
- MEAN & Pure JS stack (Javascript, AngularJS, Node.JS, MongoDB)


-> DevOps inquiries
-> Other inquiries
-> Follow me on Github
Israel Israel
This member doesn't quite have enough reputation to be able to display their biography and homepage.
Architect
Europe Europe
Biography provided
Technical Lead
Iran (Islamic Republic of) Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Technical manager who leads technological development activities in Fermium team. More info about Fermium team in http://fermium.co/
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