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New Author Competition

Win a development book of your choice!

Post your first article on Code Project, and choose any InformIT book you want as a prize!

Code Project has a number of talented developers and gifted authors. These giants set an intimidating precedent for new authors. This is a contest for new authors and judged by new authors (five articles or less). The author of the top five rated articles will win an InformIT book of their choice.

The contest begins on July 5th 2010, and runs until August 5th 2010.

Here's How

  1. Enter an article on any coding-related topic within the allotted time frame

At the end of the contest we will choose from the top rated article and five winners will each receive their choice of a development book from InformIT!

What You Could Win

Your choice of an InformIT book!

Choose any book from http://www.informit.com/

One book will be awarded to the top five rated articles.

The Rules

  1. Must be a first time author for the Code Project
  2. Must be a Code Project member.
  3. Should ideally receive votes from Code Project members with five articles or less.

Current Entries

Articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered. The top 50 entries are shown.

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5 Jul 2010Md. Marufuzzaman
For programmers it is more important that you identify whether you are allowed to do something.
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9 Jul 2010Nanung
Developing a drag and drop technique in a simple puzzle game application.
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11 Jul 2010Stephen Huen
Provides an administrative UI to manage custom properties for a SharePoint site
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18 Jul 2010Gil Fink
In the new release of WCF Data Services, we get server side paging and this will be addressed in this post.
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24 Jul 2010Abhijit Jana
How to modify "dirty indicator" using Visual Studio 2010 Productivity power tool
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29 Jul 2010kb-boxer
sizeof operator and Marshal.SizeOf method - what they offer and how they differ
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13 Jul 2010_Groker
Code for summing by group in a RDLC report
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9 Jul 2010Sabarinathan A
This blog intends to identify a technique to convert textarea HTML control to Editable Hyperlink Listbox efficiently.
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17 Jul 2010Arik Poznanski
Describes how to write a Plug-in for Windows Live Writer
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18 Jul 2010Gil Fink
How to add a JavaScript block into a WebBrowser control
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21 Jul 2010Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
In this post, I will show you one nice extension behavior named “Interactive Tooltip”, which will make your development life easier.
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29 Jul 2010User 6619207
About SQL Server Management Objects
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12 Jul 2010rudigrobler
Chat with Pavan Podila, the creator of FluidKit and the author of THE book about WPF control development!
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18 Jul 2010Gil Fink
Too many abstractions? Follow up
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19 Jul 2010Gil Fink
In this post, I’ll explain how to load the WCF Data Services scripts automatically or manually.
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18 Jul 2010Gil Fink
I want to show is how easy and simple it is to consume a WCF Data Service (OData feed) with the jQuery library.
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18 Jul 2010Gil Fink
One question that I received yesterday after I published the Revisiting the Repository  and Unit of Work Patterns with Entity Framework post was how to include the eager loading ability of Entity Framework. This post is offering a solution.R
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4 Aug 2010Abhijit Jana
How to pass external values with GridView HyperLinkField which are not part of your Gridview DataSource member
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5 Jul 2010Sabarinathan A
A post about how to migrate OpenInsight(Multivalue) Database to Oracle(RDBMS) -1
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14 Jul 2010MobileAppMastery
How to add tabs programmatically to UITabBar
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30 Jul 2010kb-boxer
Understanding (ref)erences
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30 Jul 2010kb-boxer
About the surprising Finalize call
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30 Jul 2010kb-boxer
Learning Type Access Modifiers Basics !!!
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4 Aug 2010Thomas Weller
Unit testing StyleCop rules
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1 Apr 2013hoonzis
How to extend the detail page of a company by adding a list of products of the company and a drop down list box, which will allow a user to add a new product to the list of the products of the company.
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16 Jul 2010Sabarinathan A
Using simple PL/SQL function to aggregate individual collection values in to single field separated by value Delimiter
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21 Jul 2010voloda2
DbKeeperNet 1.4.1.1 has been released
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30 Jul 2010kb-boxer
Remember the Casting Restrictions we discussed a while back, let us settle that now.
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30 Jul 2010kb-boxer
About casting restrictions
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31 Jul 2010Thomas Weller
CodeProjectOne of my major points of interest as a software developer is in the various tools that are available to make a developer’s life easier (or at least more interesting…).
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4 Aug 2010thebacon
ExpandoObject class
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13 Jul 2010defwebserver
Using Fluent Validation on the website to validate business rules in a Silverlight application
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26 Mar 2021Aleh Baradzenka
A control that allows you to create multiple tabbed regions that can be dragged to another location with the mouse.
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15 Jul 2010Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
In this article, I will guide you through creating a UI Wrapper Library for the installation experience of your Silverlight Out-of-Browser application.
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6 Jul 2010Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
In this article I will guide you creating a File Explorer in Silverlight 4. This step-by-step guide will help yoou understanding the API call and how to access local files, folders and drives using the Silverlight 4 COM APIs.
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29 Jul 2010Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
In this post, I will demonstrate how to animate the items in a specific direction in your PathListBox control. This will not only guide you for animation in PathListBox but also will help you understanding the StoryBoard creation (if you are very new to Silverlight).
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4 Aug 2010Srivatsa Haridas
Simple steps to a Multithreaded application
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22 Oct 2015David Johns, John_Tang
C++ SMTP client, support SSL and TLS encrypted connection to SMTP server
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5 Jul 2010Shahriar Iqbal Chowdhury/Galib
Implementing Yahoo! contact reader app using Yahoo contact API and ASP.NET
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2 Aug 2010Al-Farooque Shubho
Learning Object Oriented Design principles through interesting conversations.
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19 Aug 2010Jesper A Nielsen
This article is a technical overview of the Session Initiation Protocol, and is designed for Java, C#, and VB programmers who want a quick low-level guide to the workings and details of the protocol.
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23 Jul 2010Abhishek Sur
In this article, I have introduced how you could use code snippets in your program to enhance code productivity.
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30 Jul 2010Shai Raiten
In this post, I’ll show how to get all Test Suites hierarchy Test Cases and more.
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9 Aug 2010Al-Farooque Shubho
Learning Object Oriented Design Patterns through an interesting conversation.
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8 Jul 2010pnolte64
This article helps make OpenCL™ easier to understand and implement.
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7 Jul 2010hisowa
Custom Behaviors to enable MouseWheel support to Silverlight Slider and bit more
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15 Aug 2010Shivprasad koirala
ASP.NET authentication and authorization
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4 Aug 2010Pranay Rana
LINQ TO SQL Enhanced Gridview
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15 Jul 2010Vagif Abilov
The article demonstrates how to explore the Amazon S3 API using F# and achieve great results just in 45 minutes.
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30 Jul 2010Jonas Wranå
A simple way to create a hierarchical context menu.

Current Participants

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

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

Kunal Chowdhury is a former Microsoft "Windows Platform Development" MVP (Most Valuable Professional, 2010 - 2018), a Codeproject Mentor, Speaker in various Microsoft events, Author, passionate Blogger and a Senior Technical Lead by profession.

He is currently working in an MNC located in India. He has a very good skill over XAML, C#, Silverlight, Windows Phone, WPF and Windows app development. He posts his findings, articles, tutorials in his technical blog (www.kunal-chowdhury.com) and CodeProject.


Books authored:


Connect with Kunal on:




Architect https://www.questpond.com
India India
Technical Lead
India India
.NET Consultant | Former Microsoft MVP - ASP.NET | CodeProject MVP, Mentor, Insiders| Technology Evangelist | Author | Speaker | Geek | Blogger | Husband

Blog : http://abhijitjana.net
Web Site : http://dailydotnettips.com
Twitter : @AbhijitJana
My Kinect Book : Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide
President
India India
Did you like his post?

Oh, lets go a bit further to know him better.
Visit his Website : www.abhisheksur.com to know more about Abhishek.

Abhishek also authored a book on .NET 4.5 Features and recommends you to read it, you will learn a lot from it.
http://bit.ly/EXPERTCookBook

Basically he is from India, who loves to explore the .NET world. He loves to code and in his leisure you always find him talking about technical stuffs.

Working as a VP product of APPSeCONNECT, an integration platform of future, he does all sort of innovation around the product.

Have any problem? Write to him in his Forum.

You can also mail him directly to abhi2434@yahoo.com

Want a Coder like him for your project?
Drop him a mail to contact@abhisheksur.com

Visit His Blog

Dotnet Tricks and Tips



Dont forget to vote or share your comments about his Writing
Software Developer
Canada Canada
Founder SmartAspects
Bangladesh Bangladesh
I write codes to make life easier, and that pretty much describes me.
Software Developer (Senior) Verint
Israel Israel
Arik Poznanski is a senior software developer at Verint. He completed two B.Sc. degrees in Mathematics & Computer Science, summa cum laude, from the Technion in Israel.

Arik has extensive knowledge and experience in many Microsoft technologies, including .NET with C#, WPF, Silverlight, WinForms, Interop, COM/ATL programming, C++ Win32 programming and reverse engineering (assembly, IL).
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.
Software Developer (Senior) http://ADefWebserver.com
United States United States
Michael Washington is a Microsoft MVP. He is a ASP.NET and
C# programmer.
He is the founder of
AiHelpWebsite.com,
LightSwitchHelpWebsite.com, and
HoloLensHelpWebsite.com.

He has a son, Zachary and resides in Los Angeles with his wife Valerie.

He is the Author of:
Technical Lead sparXys
Israel Israel
Gil Fink is a web development expert and ASP.Net/IIS Microsoft MVP. He is the founder and owner of sparXys. He is currently consulting for various enterprises and companies, where he helps to develop Web and RIA-based solutions. He conducts lectures and workshops for individuals and enterprises who want to specialize in infrastructure and web development. He is also co-author of several Microsoft Official Courses (MOCs) and training kits, co-author of "Pro Single Page Application Development" book (Apress) and the founder of Front-End.IL Meetup. You can read his publications at his website: http://www.gilfink.net
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 (Junior) OCTO Technology
Czech Republic Czech Republic
Writing software at ITG RFQ-hub.
LinkedIn
Blog
GitHub
Articles at OCTO blog
Software Developer (Senior)
Finland Finland
I've been programming since the early-90s. Since then I’ve gained a Master in Computer Science and published fundamental research on 4G technologies.
For a living I tend to use Microsoft technologies and I currently work in the telecommunications industry in Finland.
Software Developer HRM Software AB
Sweden Sweden
Jonas Wranå, software developer from Sweden, currently working at HRM Software AB, a company that develop a major salary and resource planning system. Some other interests includes mathematics, fractal geometry, pedagogy, music composition and photography.
Architect
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
Bangladesh Bangladesh
A well experienced leader with successful track record of software development, product innovations, brand management and corporate communication etc. Some successful product innovations have also achieved and awards “Most Valuable Professional” (MVP) at 2010 and 2011 by codeproject.com and also selected as a mentor of codeproject.com. Published over 100 technical articles in various software development resource sites (i.e., codeprojetc.com, Microsoft MSDN, and IEEE & IBM (In progress)) and various IT Forums, Blogs etc.

Over fourteen years of professional experiences in ICT field having extensive experience in formulating corporate vision and long term strategy. Leading development related functions including design, development, services, data management and analytics, customer experience management, content services, digital analytics and optimization.I have also more than two years’ of strong experience in mobile-VAS (platform development).

An individual with results-driven approach and relentless in pursuit of excellence from a business and organizational standpoint.Honest, believes in transparency, commitment and teamwork.

Expertise: Software/Solution Architect, Technical Research, MIS, Data Analytics, Data Mining, BI, SaaS platform base application development, Large scale Win32 Form/Web based business software solutions, Security, Enterprise applications development, integration, etc.

Technologies/Tools: Microsoft.Net, Microsoft SQL Server , Oracle, MySQL, ETL, Visual C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, , Python, Java, API, MVC, Cloud Computing, SaaS, Open FaaS, AWS,AWS Lambda, MS Azure, WebAPI , WPF, WCF, PHP, Microsoft Power BI, SPSS, PS2, R, Add-In, Visual Basic etc.

.Net UI component: Telerik, DevExpress, Ext.Net etc.
Scripting language: JavaScript, AngularJS, node.JS etc.
Source control / Subversion: Git, Smart SVN, Assembla etc.
Development methodologies: Agile,RAD etc.
Project Management / Issues Tracking Tools: JIRA, Trello, Slack, Clockingit etc.
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.
Indonesia Indonesia
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
AMD
United States United States
Member of AMD's Developer Outreach team.
Software Developer (Senior)
India India

Microsoft C# MVP (12-13)



Hey, I am Pranay Rana, working as a Team Leadin MNC. Web development in Asp.Net with C# and MS sql server are the experience tools that I have had for the past 5.5 years now.

For me def. of programming is : Programming is something that you do once and that get used by multiple for many years

You can visit my blog


StackOverFlow - http://stackoverflow.com/users/314488/pranay
My CV :- http://careers.stackoverflow.com/pranayamr

Awards:


South Africa South Africa
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Architect
India India
I have been programming for last 20 years on various platforms including .NET, Visual Basic 6, Oracle and SQL server.

I decided to write articles when I have free time hoping to share my thoughts with you.

To know more about me visit http://sabarinathanarthanari.com
Chief Technology Officer
Bangladesh Bangladesh
I am a Software Engineer and Microsoft .NET technology enthusiast. Professionally I worked on several business domains and on diverse platforms. I love to learn and share new .net technology and my experience I gather in my engineering career. You can find me from here

Personal Site
Personal Blog
FB MS enthusiasts group
About Me
Architect Sela
Israel Israel
Shai Raiten is VS ALM MVP, currently working for Sela Group as a ALM senior consultant and trainer specializes in Microsoft technologies especially Team System and .NET technology. He is currently consulting in various enterprises in Israel, planning and analysis Load and performance problems using Team System, building Team System customizations and adjusts ALM processes for enterprises. Shai is known as one of the top Team System experts in Israel. He conducts lectures and workshops for developers\QA and enterprises who want to specialize in Team System.

My Blog: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/shair/
Software Developer Honeywell International
India India
Software Developer, Cinephile, Dromomaniac, Animal lover, Self proclaimed Photographer not necessarily in the same order.
Software Developer (Senior)
Canada Canada
A Microsoft Certified Professional Developer and Technology Specialist.

Experience and expertise in SharePoint 2016 / 2013 / 2010 / 2007.

Role ranges from a developer in a multi-person team to a solution consultant with expert-level skills, leading a project to completion status.

Proven experience working effectively in a team environment and a self-managed environment.
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) Freelancer
Germany Germany
I'm a freelance software developer/architect located in Southern Germany with 20 years of experience in C++, VB, and C# software projects. Since about ten years I do all my coding exclusively in C# for business application development - and nowadays Python for Data Science, ML, and AI.
I am especially dedicated to Test-driven development, OO architecture, software quality assurance issues and tools.
Software Developer
Switzerland Switzerland
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Architect Miles AS
Norway Norway
Vagif Abilov is a Russian/Norwegian software developer and architect working for Miles. He has more than twenty years of programming experience that includes various programming languages, currently using mostly C# and F#.

Vagif writes articles and speaks at user group sessions and conferences. He is a contributor and maintainer of several open source projects, including Simple.Data OData adapter, Simple.OData.Client and MongOData.
Team Leader NCR
Czech Republic Czech Republic
I'm software developer since 1996. I started with assembler on Intel 8051 CPUs, during years I was interested in C, C++, Sybase PowerBuilder, PHP, Sybase Anywhere Database, MSSQL server and multiplatform development.

Currently I'm developing in C++ and C# (this is my favorit and I spent some time with MCPD achievement). I'm also interested in design patterns.

Contest Entries and Requirements

  1. The contest begins on July 5th, 2010 and will end August 5th, 2010 at 11:59:59 PM US Eastern Standard Time. All entries must be submitted during this period in order to qualify.
  2. Articles must follow the guidelines
  3. The articles must be authored by a first time developer.
  4. Article must contain some votes from Code Project members with five articles or less.
  5. No cheating, lying, stealing code, swashbuckling, or biting.
  6. The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
  7. Only those who live in jurisdictions in which this contest is legal may enter.
  8. Any breach of the rules and the prize will be awarded to a runner up.
  9. By entering the contest you agree to the rules, conditions of entry, and agree that your name, member profile information, article, code and any other submitted material can be used for promotional purposes by The Code Project.
  10. Entries shall be deemed to be submitted by the authorized account holder of the e-mail address submitted at the time of entry unless clearly indicated otherwise. "Authorized account holder" is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an e-mail address by an internet access provider, on-line service provider, or other organization (e.g. business, educational institution, etc.) that is responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address.

www.codeproject.com members can vote on your article. The articles that are highest-rated by members will be rated by our judges to determine the final winner.

Eligibility

This competition is open to software development professionals & enthusiasts who are of the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence; however, residents of Quebec and of the following countries are ineligible to participate due to legal constraints: Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. Employees (or a member of their immediate family) of The Code Project or any of their affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising or promotional agencies are also ineligible to participate. Void where prohibited by law.

Determination of Winner

All entries will be posted on The Code Project website for review by members of The Code Project. In addition, all entries will be reviewed by judges appointed by The Code Project. A winner will be determined by the judges, after taking into consideration the comments and ranking of entries by members of The Code Project, on the basis of which entry best meets the judging criteria set forth below.

Judging Criteria

  • Rank and popularity on The Code Project
  • How tightly an entry adheres to the conditions of entry, including article focus and scope
  • Broad applicability to a wide variety of developers
  • Overall article quality, coherence, and structure

How to Enter

Entry is by the normal article submission process or as described above. Please read the submission guidelines before submitting your entry.

Lost, late, misdirected, or illegible entries will be disqualified. Any entry containing content that The Code Project deems objectionable for any reason will be disqualified. All decisions of The Code Project with respect to any aspect of the competition, including, without limitation, the eligibility of entries, are final and binding on all entrants in all matters as they relate to this competition. The Code Project reserves its right to modify the Rules.

All entries become the property of The Code Project who assumes no responsibility for lost, late, delayed, destroyed or misdirected mail, voice messages, e-mail or any computer errors or malfunctions. No correspondence will be entered into with entrants.

The Code Project does not assume any responsibility for incorrect or inaccurate capture of entry information, technical malfunctions, human or technical error, lost, delayed or garbled data or transmissions, omission, interruption, deletion, defect or failures of any telephone or computer line or network, computer equipment, software or any combination thereof. Entry materials/data that have been tampered with or altered are void. If for any reason, in the opinion of The Code Project in its sole discretion, the competition is not capable of running as originally planned, or if the administration, security, fairness, integrity or the proper conduct of the competition is corrupted or adversely affected, including by reason of infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other causes beyond its control, The Code Project reserves its right to cancel, terminate, modify, amend, extend or suspend the competition including cancelling any method of entry, and select a winner from previously received eligible entries. The Code Project reserves its right in its sole discretion to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the competition or to be acting in violation of the Rules or otherwise in a disruptive manner. The Code Project reserves its right to seek remedies and damages to the fullest extent of the law for any attempts to deliberately damage the competition web site or to undermine the legitimate operation of this competition. The Code Project shall not be held responsible for any errors or negligence that may arise or occur in connection with the competition including any damage to an entrant's computer equipment, system, software or any combination thereof, as a result of their participation in this competition or from downloading any material from the competition website where applicable.

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