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Most popular new articles

• ToDoList 6.6.6 Feature Release - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g.
  
• fastJSON - Mehdi Gholam
  
• Object Oriented Design Principles - Marla Sukesh
  
• Visualizing the Mandelbrot set - Andy Bantly
  
• RECEME - Remote Command Execution through eMail Exchange - tumbledDown2earth
  

Latest Additions

120 articles overall. 44 new, 76 updated.

New articles added

.NET Framework

• Create, Read, Write, Copy, Move and Delete a Text File using C# and VB.NET - BindassFrind
  How to create, read, write, copy, move and delete a text file using C# and VB.NET
  
  
• Simple One Page RestSharp Based Console Application for the Box.com Cloud Service - boris_oleinic
  This article describes how to use the RestSharp SDK to build an application for the Box.com Cloud service.
  
  

Algorithms & Recipes

• Permutations, Combinations, and Multiples sets generator - ibrahim_ragab
  With the following classes you will deal with sets fast.
  
  

Applications & Tools

• User Authentication in Ruby on Rails - Marc Clifton
  A comprehensive look at getting authentication working for Rails applications
  
  
• Simple One Page RestSharp Based Console Application for the Box.com Cloud Service - boris_oleinic
  The article describes how to use the RestSharp SDK to build an application for the Box.com Cloud service
  
  

ASP.NET

• A Beginner's Tutorial on Various Ways of Passing Data in ASP.NET MVC Application - Rahul Rajat Singh
  In this article we will discuss about few important data transfer techniques in ASP.NET MVC application
  
  

Azure

• Windows Azure Storage Extensions - Dmitry Tretyakov
  .NET library aimed for managing and querying entities from Windows Azure Storage.
  
  

C#

• C#.NET TCP Server - Craig Baird
  A ready to use .NET TCP server class that doesn't have the limitation found in most TCP server tutorials
  
  

General Graphics

• What can be simpler than graphical primitives? Part 3 - SergeyAndreyev
  
  
  

Internet / Network

• Using Network List Manager (C++) - Jithesh Chandrasekharan
  This article explains how to use Network List Manager service to identify and retrieve properties of each network that PC Connects to.
  
  

Interviews

• A Coder Interview With Danny Severns - CodeProject, dseverns5
  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 talk to Danny Severns, IT Director for Dunn Tire and knee-deep in COBOL business systems.
  
  

Product Showcase

• Case Study: 4tiitoo Constructs a Modern User Interface with Voice, Gesture, and Eye Tracking Input - Intel Corporation
  Case Study: 4tiitoo Constructs a Modern User Interface with Voice, Gesture, and Eye Tracking Input
  
  

Reviews on Third Party Products and Tools

• DbForge SQL Complete helps SQL developers become first class IDE citizens - g00p3k
  Coding in SQL Server Management Studio doesn't have to be relegated to a second class citizen with the proper tools...
  
  

Windows Communication Foundation

• Basic Step by Step WCF WebService - yani papi
  Basic steps in creating and consuming a simple WCF web service.
  
  

Articles updated

.NET Framework

• PVS.AVPlayer - Peter Vegter
  MCI wrapper class library for .NET developers
  
  
• Pick Your Enumerator & Me.Understand Yield and IEnumerable (C#) - Mike-MadBadger
  Using multiple enumerators and implementing IEnumerable with Yield or IEnumerator.
  
  

Ajax

• Google-like Search in ASP.NET - necmettin demir
  Google-like search using AJAX autocomplete extender.
  
  

Algorithms & Recipes

• Visualizing the Mandelbrot set - Andy Bantly
  Visualizing the Mandelbrot set using multiple threads of execution.
  
  
• Building a General Purpose Interpreter, Math Engine and Parser in C# - Kashif_Imran
  An easy to understand and use language interpreter, run time parser and calculation engine from scratch in C#.
  
  
• Method for Edge Detection in Color Images, Using 1-Dimensional Liner Image - tumbledDown2earth
  Method for edge detection in color images, using 1-Dimensional liner image or scan line, sampled at 1 pixel intervals, at any arbitary angle
  
  
• Multiple convolution neural networks approach for online handwriting recognition - Vietdungiitb
  The research focuses on the presentation of word recognition technique for an online handwriting recognition system which uses multiple component neural networks (MCNN) as the exchangeable parts of the classifier.
  
  
• Line Fitting in Images Using Orthogonal Linear Regression - Jon Nethercott
  Describes an algorithm for calculating the equation of a line in an image using orthogonal linear regression.
  
  

Applications & Tools

• ToDoList 6.6.6 Feature Release - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g.
  A hierarchical task manager with native XML support for custom reporting.
  
  

ASP.NET

• "How to series" about MVC, jQuery, JSON, paging, mapRoute - necmettin demir
  "How to series" about MVC, jQuery, JSON, paging, mapRoute.
  
  
• TwitterBootstrapMvc - Dmitry A. Efimenko
  Fluent implementation of ASP.NET-MVC HTML helpers for Twitter Bootstrap.
  
  
• MVC Basic Site: Step 3 – Dynamic Layouts and Site Admin with: AJAX, jqGrid, Controller Extensions, HTML Helpers, and more - Raul Iloc
  This article provides the implementation of dynamic layouts and web site administration in ASP.NET MVC4.0 by using: AJAX, jqGrid, Custom Action Results, Controller Extension, HTML Helpers, and more.
  
  
• YouTube™ API for ASP.NET - DrABELL
  YouTube™ API for ASP.NET, AJAX-extended (C#).
  
  
• An Absolute Beginner's Tutorial on ASP.NET MVC for Web Forms Developers - Rahul Rajat Singh
  In this article we will try to look at ASP.NET MVC architecture from a beginner's perspective.
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• Dynamically adding and deleting rows from ASP.NET GridView - AshishChaudha
  This article talks about a small project that presents the idea of having a gridview which facilitate the addition and removal of rows dynamically at run time.
  
  
• Handling GridView events using RowCommand and using jQuery - vinodkumarnie
  Handling controls inside GridView using RowCommand and jQuery.
  
  

Audio and Video

• Capturing video from web-camera on Windows 7 and 8 using Media Foundation - Evgeny Pereguda
  Simple lib for capturing video from web-camera using Media Foundation.
  
  
• Play your AVI files with this DirectX video player - rspercy65
  Plays AVI files using Microsoft's DirectX.AudioVideoPlayback.
  
  

C#

• Task Parallel Library and async-await Functionality - Patterns of Usage in Easy Samples - Nick Polyak
  TPL/Async tutorial with emphasis on how to use it and why it is needed
  
  
• Microsecond and Millisecond C# Timer - ken.loveday
  MicroTimer: A microsecond and millisecond timer in C# that is used in a similar way to the .NET System.Timers.Timer.
  
  
• Advanced Topics in PInvoke String Marshaling - David Jeske
  An exploration of some subtle different ways that strings can be marshaled with PInvoke.
  
  
• Generating dynamic PDF documents using the open source Scryber library. - Richard Hewitson
  An introduction to the capabilities of Scryber for creating dynamic PDF documents with data sources and style.
  
  
• Windows Forms: Binding through ITypedList interface - xllance
  An approach to bind datagrids through ITypedList interface.
  
  

Charts, Graphs and Images

• YouTube™ Embedded Video Player: Extended API (C#) - DrABELL
  YouTube™ video player API provides variety of customization features (ASP.NET, C#)
  
  

Database

• ADO+.NET - Paulo Zemek
  This library is intended to "replace" ADO.NET by solving type mismatches and by creating typed readers that are faster and easier to use than DataTables.
  
  

Date and Time

• Obtaining Microsecond Precision in .NET - jfriedman
  Obtaining microsecond precision using .NET without Platform Invoke.
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Object Oriented Design Principles - Marla Sukesh
  This article is intended for who have at least basic idea about Object oriented programming.
  
  
• Factory Method Pattern - dpalash
  Easy way to understand Factory Method Pattern
  
  
• Agile, Scrum, and Customer Oriented Development - Christopher Diggins
  A reflection on the fundamental principles of Agile, the Scrum methdology, and customer oriented software development.
  
  

E-commerce

• A Shopping Cart Application Built with AngularJS - Bernardo Castilho
  Create a shopping cart class and use it in your MVVM HTML5 applications.
  
  

Files and Folders

• PDF File Writer C# Class Library - Uzi Granot
  PDF File Writer is a C# class library allowing .NET applications to create PDF files.
  
  
• PDF File Analyzer With C# Parsing Classes - Uzi Granot
  PDF File Analyzer is designed to read, parse, and display the internal structure of PDF files.
  
  

General Graphics

• Simple Ray Tracing in C# Part VII (Shadows) - andalmeida
  Adding shadows to Simple Ray Tracing in C#
  
  
• Mapping Images on Spherical Surfaces Using C# - andalmeida
  Mapping images on spherical surfaces using C#
  
  
• Simple Ray Tracing in C# - andalmeida
  Simple Ray Tracing in C#
  
  
• Plotting User-Defined R2 in R Functions Using C# - andalmeida
  Plotting user defined R2 in R functions using C#
  
  
• Simple Ray Tracing with Texture Mapping in C# - andalmeida
  Simple Ray Tracing with texture mapping in C#
  
  
• Simple Ray Tracing in C# Part II (Triangles Intersection) - andalmeida
  Ray tracing and mapping in spheres
  
  
• ExifLib - A Fast Exif Data Extractor for .NET 2.0+ - Simon McKenzie
  Reads JPEG Exif data without the heavyweight and unnecessary instantiation of GDI+ objects.
  
  
• Simple Ray Tracing in C# Part IV (Anti-Aliasing) - andalmeida
  Simple Ray Tracing in C# Part IV (Anti-Aliasing)
  
  
• Simple Ray Tracing in C# Part V (Texture Mapping) - andalmeida
  Simple Ray Tracing in C# Part V (Texture Mapping)
  
  
• Simple Ray Tracing in C# Part VI (Vertex Normal Interpolation) - andalmeida
  An approach to interpolate vertex normals on triangles
  
  
• Simple Ray Tracing in C# Part III (Reflection) - andalmeida
  Ray tracing in C# part III - implementing reflection
  
  
• Basic Illumination Model in C# - andalmeida
  Basic illumination model in C#.
  
  
• Implementing a Basic Camera Model (Pinhole) - andalmeida
  Implementing a basic camera model to extend the raytracing algorithms
  
  
• Implementing a Basic Camera Model (Pinhole) II - andalmeida
  Extending the camera class and creating basic animations.
  
  

Installation

• DevMSI: An Example C++ MSI/Wix Deferred Custom Action DLL - Joe Marley
  An example DLL that can be used for Deferred Custom Actions in WiX/MSI or from a standalone app.
  
  
• EchoInst: An Example Wix Install of the WDK Echo Driver - Joe Marley
  This gives an example on how to install drivers using Wix, including the use of deferred custom actions.
  
  

Internet / Network

• fastJSON - Mehdi Gholam
  Smallest, fastest polymorphic JSON serializer (with Silverlight4 and MonoDroid support)
  
  
• RECEME - Remote Command Execution through eMail Exchange - tumbledDown2earth
  A service concept is implemented here for seamless and connectionless computation from anywhere to anywhere.
  
  
• Socket_Control DLL Resource and Tutorial - Sicppy
  A DLL resource to help beginner to intermediate developers open and use sockets in a P2P application.
  
  

Libraries

• Logician: A Table-based Rules Engine Suite in C++/.NET/JavaScript using XML - Eric D Schmidt
  Overview of a cross-platform spreadsheet-based rules enigne with algorithms implemented in C++ and JavaScript, and wrappers to C#/.NET/WinRT/Silverlight, Flash, and Mobile platforms(via PhoneGap).
  
  
• Plugged.NET - An event based plug-in library for enterprise application integration and extensibility - tumbledDown2earth
  An event based plug-in library for enterprise application integration, extensibility and cross business application management.
  
  

Microsoft BizTalk Server

• Implementing a batch system in BizTalk in order to keep two applications/systems in sync. - Naveen Karamchetti
  This article talks about implementing a batch system in BizTalk in order to keep two applications/systems in sync.
  
  

OpenGL

• Target Following Control with OpenGL - ionutcelgroaznic
  A simple target control to show us the direction of the enemy, useful especially for computer games
  
  

Parallel Programming

• CUDA Programming Model on AMD GPUs and Intel CPUs - Nick Kopp
  This article builds upon the earlier High Performance Queries: GPU vs. PLINQ vs. LINQ and ports this to also support OpenCL devices and adds benchmarking so you can easily compare performance.
  
  

PHP

• Getting numbers of users online and other functionalities - Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer
  Using PHP and MySQL to get if a user is online, the number of users currently online, the highest online ever, the number online today, and the Last Seen time of a user
  
  

Progress Controls

• Circular Indeterminate Progress Indicator Control - gggustafson
  This article introduces the reader to the steps taken to create a user control that displays a circular indeterminate progress control.
  
  

Shell and IE programming

• .NET Shell Extensions - Shell Property Sheets - Dave Kerr
  Use .NET to rapidly build Shell Property Sheets.
  
  

Silverlight

• Integrate dynamic HTML pages in your Silverlight app - NightWizzard
  ...for example a WYSIWYG HTML editor to edit or display emails...
  
  

User Controls

• ASP.NET DatePicker User Control (Hijri / Gregorian) Shows month and year as dropdowns - Yahya Mohammed Ammouri
  ASP.NET Date Selector User Control based on calendar control
  
  

Web Services

• Webhooks, webhook URLs and a sample implementation example of webhooks - Amogh Natu
  This article mainly explains what webhooks are, how they can be created and used and also a sample example showing the use of webhooks.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• Animation using Storyboards in WPF - Azim Zahir
  Animation using Storyboards in WPF.
  
  
• Advanced Text Formatting in WPF - Azim Zahir
  This article describes advanced text formatting in WPF.
  
  
• Advanced Animations in WPF - Azim Zahir
  This article describes advanced animations in WPF.
  
  
• Spell Check Enabled RichText Editor in WPF - Azim Zahir
  Creating a spell check enabled RichText editor.
  
  
• Using the MediaPlayer in WPF - Azim Zahir
  How to use the MediaPlayer class in a WPF application.
  
  

New Tips and Tricks added

ASP.NET

• Set Current Culture Programatically in an ASP.NET Application - sisirp88
  This will give a sound idea to use the CultureInfo in a C# application to handle date format.
  
  
• How to get URL and QueryString value in an ASP.NET page - sisirp88
  How to use the CLASIC ASP code for different values from the server variables.
  
  
• Sharing ASP.NET Web Applications Session State - Hossein Shahpouri
  Learn how to share ASP.NET sessions on different websites
  
  

C#

• Disk Alert with Email-notification - rcbeyra
  Disk Space Alert for Server Backup with email-notification
  
  

Client side scripting

• Show/Hide Control on Radio Button Click Using JavaScript - Dnyaneshwar Kondbale
  Show/hide Label control by radio button selection using JavaScript.
  
  

Dialogs and Windows

• UDL Helper for .NET - CognitiveFeedback
  Retrieve Connection String from user using Common Data Link dialog.
  
  
• UDL Helper for .NET - CognitiveFeedback
  Retrieve Connection String from user with Data Link Dialog
  
  

Installation

• Window Service Deployment using VS 2010 - TechnoGeek001
  This tip explains how to deploy the window service using Visual Studio 2010.
  
  

SQL Reporting Services

• Using SSRS - Matrix Control to Generate Columns Dynamically - S.Kaur
  This will help you generate columns dynamically in SSRS reports using Matrix control.
  
  

Web Security

• How to implement a custom IPrincipal in ASP.NET MVC 4 internet project - audungca
  A simple tip on how to implement a custom IPrincipal in ASP.NET MVC 4 template project with WebMatrix.WebSecurity and OAuthWebSecurity.
  
  

Web Services

• Generate interface for WebService client stub by using CodeDom - 吴骏明
  Generate interface for WebService client stub for unit testing.
  
  

Tips and Tricks updated

.NET Framework

• Complete Managed Media Aggregation Part 2: Making things easier - jfriedman
  We are going to look at some real life problems and then try to determine the best way to solve them with the principles set forth in the previous article.
  
  

C / C++ Language

• C++ header to plot vector and arrays to SVG. Function and potential line plots - gintack
  C++ header file to plot data in the form of x, y, z arrays and list as potential lines and graphs.
  
  

CodeProject FAQs

• Formatting code in Tips and Tricks - Anshul R
  Syntax Coloring For Tip/Trick
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Dynamic Visitor Pattern - GSerjo
  Visitor design pattern - dynamic implementation.
  
  
• Dependency Injection - Amey K Bhatkar
  Concept Of Dependency Injection
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Create Password Text Box Like Windows 8 Style in Website - quiit
  A password text box with an eye at right edge, can click / touch to show password
  
  
• Multiple Values Slider - InbarBarkai
  Create and use a multiple value slider
  
  

Office Development

• Rename Attachments in Outlook - Som Shekhar
  Rename attachments before sending any email
  
  

New Technical Blogs added

.NET Framework

• Spin wait timer for .NET Micro Framework - Joel Ivory Johnson
  Spin wait timer for .NET Micro Framework.
  
  

ASP.NET

• How to create high quality (resolution) pie chart using ASP.NET and C# - Manny Khasria
  Using ASP.NET’s Drawing namespace we can easily create high quality charts and graphs without using any 3rd party components. To demonstrate and for the purpose of this article we will be working with Bitmap and Graphics class. You can think of Bitmap as the drawing board and Graphics as the t
  
  
• Localize your MVC app based on a subdomain - pollirrata
  Having an application in multiple languages is now a requirement in many projects. In ASP.net, you can tell your application that the language that should be using corresponds to the one the browser is specifying. While this is a really nice feature in the ideal scenarios (since the user gets the ap
  
  

Charts, Graphs and Images

• How to retain high resolution of a dynamically created image using ASP.NET and C# - Manny Khasria
  Maintaining high resolution of dynamically created image using ASP.NET and C#.
  
  

Code Generation

• How to add self hosted wordpress blog to Code Project - Manny Khasria
  Code Project is one of the leading online resource for developers. It’s an online space where developers from all around the world exchange ideas on the latest and greatest on the web and other existing and upcoming technologies. And one of the great guys running Code Project is one of our fellow Ca
  
  

Custom Controls

• AdRotator V2 progress report - Simon Jackson
  We are working as hard and as fast as we can with V2, support or V1 is limited at the moment but we still help out where we can.
  
  
• ASP self populating drop down list using JavaScript - Manny Khasria
  ASP self populating drop down list using JavaScript.
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Digging Into "Fail Fast, Fail Often" - Zac Gery
  The concept of embracing failure put under the microscope.
  
  

Game Development

• The differences between SoundEffect and SoundEffectInstance in XNA - zoyobar
  The differences between SoundEffect and SoundEffectInstance in XNA.
  
  

Other .NET Languages

• Uploading large files using ASP.NET and IIS6.0 - Amogh Natu
  Hi, We all must have obviously uploaded files somewhere or the other. Even in the websites that we create using ASP.NET, we might have to put the asp:fileupload control to facilitate file upload feature. While developing websites or web applications, … Continue reading →
  
  

PHP

• Send content to the layout using a Helper on CakePHP - pollirrata
  This post is based on Robert Conner's code forCakePHP 1.x., and I made some changes to get it to work onCakePHP 2.x.
  
  

Site & Server Management

• What is ASP.NET Full trust hosting? And a few good Full trust hosting plans - Manny Khasria
  In my previous post titled Install dasBlog, you need Full trust hosting I have talked about installing ASP.NET blog (dasBlog) and why it requires FULL TRUST hosting. Today we will talk more about – What is full trust hosting and what is modified full trust hosting? A lot of web developers buil
  
  

Third Party Products and Tools

• Creating CodeCollaborator reviews using command line - pollirrata
  Some months ago, I started using CodeCollaborator to create code reviews and ensure our developments have the desired quality.We are at the end of our development sprint, so I tried to create some code reviews using the CodeCollaborator GUI with no success. Aparently, one of the latest Java VM updat
  
  

Uncategorised Technical Blogs

• Moving items between ListBoxes using JavaScript - Amogh Natu
  Hi Everyone, We all would have encountered the situation below where we are asked to select few items from a list of items. The selected items are transfered to another listbox by clicking a simple button. I have put a … Continue reading →
  
  

User Controls

• Accessing impersonated user’s details from code behind in C# - Amogh Natu
  Many of us might know that in web development, config files play a very important role. Reading config file entries in a code-behind file is a very common thing in web development. Config entries are stored in web.config … Continue reading →
  
  

Windows API

• Building your own System.Reflection API from scratch, Part I: Choosing Nemerle - Philip Laureano
  Building your own System.Reflection API from scratch: Choosing Nemerle.
  
  

Windows Communication Foundation

• Solution to: "The operation failed: The relationship could not be changed because one or more of the foreign-key properties is non-nullable" - pollirrata
  The operation failed: The relationship could not be changed because one or more of the foreign-key properties is non-nullable. When a change is made to a relationship, the related foreign-key property is set to a null value. If the foreign-key does not support null values, a new relationship must be
  
  

Windows Phone 7/8

• Usefel Tips For Windows Phone XNA Game Development - zoyobar
  Usefel tips for Windows Phone XNA game development.
  
  

XML

• How to track outgoing links using javascript and XML - Manny Khasria
  The idea is simple, everytime an outgoing link is clicked, we will load an XML file at the backend and pass the URL of the outgoing link or an associated unique ID (e.g. web trends ID in case we are using a web analytics software such as Web Trends) This will leave a stamp of [...]How to track outgo
  
  

Technical Blogs updated

CodeProject FAQs

• Codeproject.tv: Learn SharePoint Step by Step Videos - Shivprasad koirala
  In this video blog we will learn Sharepoint Step by Step.