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Five Perceptual Computing Cameras to Give Away

Intel are doing a follow up challenge to their Ultimate Coder 2 centered around perceptual computing. The goal is to tempt developers to use the perceptual computing to develop gesture and voice based UIs and we've talked them into giving away 5 cameras. Read my Blog post for a rundown of what you can expect from the camera, then email contest@codeproject.com with your reason why you need one. The first 5 who convince me they need one and convince me there will be an article posted about Perceptual Computing will get the goods.

For those who want a shot at $800,000 in prizes head over to Intel and get your entries in.

Azure Challenge: Spot Challenge Today!

Our spot challenge for this stage of the Azure challenge is on and it's silly easy. Up to $750 and a Surface RT can be won this week. Or just dive straight into the main challenge itself!.

HTML4. We're Done.

Finally, a plea to the web developers out there: Code responsibly and target HTML5. Please, for the love of all things well-formed ditch the IE hacks and let's work towards an IE9 (and below) free world. It's time. I've done a write-up of a free tool that Microsoft themselves have released as a community service. Check your markup, clean out the hacks, make sure it works and don't look back.

cheers,
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Most popular new articles

• Some practices to write better C#/.NET code - Monjurul Habib
  
• Enhanced BrowseForFolder styled TreeView - Chris Richner
  
• WCF by Example - Introduction - Enrique Albert
  
• TwitterBootstrapMvc - Dmitry A. Efimenko
  
• ASP.NET HTML Editor Control - Amir Jalilifard
  

Latest Additions

89 articles overall. 25 new, 64 updated.

New articles added

ASP.NET

• DefaultControllerFactory in ASP.NET MVC - Bibhu Dutta
  This article gives a complete description of the process that is followed by the DefaultControllerFactory in order to create an instance of the controller class that needed inorder to generate the response.
  
  

Azure

• Azure DEV Challenge - Hockey Scorecard (Agility Sports) - Carike Van Staden
  Azure DEV Challenge - simplify the way match reports are captures for club hockey matches
  
  

C#

• Elastic Groups - The Groups Which Can Be Arbitrarily Changed by Users - SergeyAndreyev
  Elastic groups that can be arbitrarily changed by users
  
  

DLLs & Assemblies

• Generic Database Access - Mario Stopfer
  Generic Database Access model which generalizes the interactions with any particular Database system.
  
  

Hardware & System

• Raspberry Pi - Setting up a Media Center using Raspbmc - Marco Bertschi
  This is an alternative for "Raspberry Pi - [Episode 1] The journey begins" and describes how one can set up a Raspberry Pi as Media Center using the Raspbmc OS
  
  

Interviews

• A Coder Interview With Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira - CodeProject, Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira
  Welcome to our continuing series of CodeProject interviews in which we talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves. In this installment we talk to Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira, a titan of an author who has written 35 articles and won 19 competitions on CodeProject.
  
  

Product Showcase

• Using LEADTOOLS OCR to Enhance Google Drive Search - LEADTOOLS Support
  Using LEADTOOLS OCR to Enhance Google Drive Search
  
  

Silverlight

• Silverlight OrgChart web part - Marek Bieńkowski
  This article introduces simple procedure for generating an organization chart with Silverlight technology.
  
  

Tools and IDE

• IPDefend Toolkit plugin for Code::Blocks IDE - vatai38
  Short guide to create licensed applications using the Code::Blocks IDE incorporating the IPDefend Toolkit plugin.
  
  

Work Issues

• Minimalist Comments - gggustafson
  This article presents arguments in favor of adopting Mimimalist Comments.
  
  

Articles updated

.NET Framework

• Five Great .NET Framework 4.5 Features - Shivprasad koirala
  In this article I have picked my five favorite features introduced in the .NET 4.5 core framework.
  
  
• Know Thy .NET Dictionaries - Rob Philpott
  A closer than normal look at Dictionaries in the .NET Framework
  
  
• How To: Component Licensing in .NET - Ron Beyer
  Developing a component licensing system in .NET.
  
  

Algorithms & Recipes

• Chatbot Tutorial - Gonzales Cenelia
  Tutorial on making an artificial intelligence chatbot
  
  
• From SQL-Server to Web Service - Eric Lapouge
  An other way to export data from a SQL-Server to use them to call a web service
  
  

Android

• Using SQLite Database with Android - Mina Samy
  A tutorial on using SQLite on Android
  
  
• Loggy Project - Antonio Blescia
  Store your life, every day!
  
  

Applications & Tools

• WebSite Scraping - shah vatsal
  Website scraping using Watin
  
  

ASP

• Classic ASP and MVC - Emmet M
  MVC-like for classic ASP.
  
  

ASP.NET

• TwitterBootstrapMvc - Dmitry A. Efimenko
  Fluent implementation of ASP.NET-MVC HTML helpers for Twitter Bootstrap.
  
  
• MVC Basic Site: Step 4 – jqGrid Integration in MVC 4.0 using AJAX, JSON, jQuery, LINQ, and Serialization - Raul Iloc
  This article presents in detail jqGrid integration in MVC 4.0 using AJAX, JSON, jQuery, LINQ, and Serialization.
  
  
• ASP.NET Advanced Generic Handler ASHX - AlexCode
  Take your Generic Handlers to the next level...
  
  
• Creating Dynamic User Friendly Web-Based Data Collection Forms - MohamedKamalPharm, MohamedSabryBakry
  An electronic data capture solution that allows the authorized clinical research staff to easily design, create, edit and fill CRFs online without the need for any programming experience. It is a VB.Net web application using EAV table on SQL or MS Access backend.
  
  
• ASP.NET Application Error Handling - Daniel Miller
  Application error handling in ASP.NET
  
  
• Why the Repository Pattern - Jamie Munro
  An in-depth look at why I personally like the Repository pattern.
  
  

Azure

• HealthReunion - A Windows Azure based healthcare product - Ranjan.D
  HealthReunion is a complete solution for medium , large scale healthcare providers and patients. It's a Azure based hosted solution
  
  
• D.O.T.S. - Distributed Obfuscated Transmission of Status - Henry Sheldon
  An obscured communication protocol based on color and textured shapes.
  
  
• CourseLearner: Azure based E-Learning product - rjgadag
  Azure based e-learning product.
  
  
• LiteDispatch - Logistic solution on the cloud - Enrique Albert
  Example of Application with GitHub, SQL-CE, EF and SQL-Azure integration with Azure WebSites
  
  
• Enhancing Church Worship With The Cloud - Stan Bice
  Imagine connecting church worship attenders with real-time content.
  
  

C / C++ Language

• C++11 threads, locks and condition variables - Marius Bancila
  This article is a walk-through the C++11 support for threads and synchronization mechanisms (mutexes and condition variables).
  
  
• Compile Time Map - Spandan_Sharma
  A map storing key-value/s and allowing data retrieval and other operations all at compile time
  
  
• Online Generic Data Ordering Wizard - Jim Xochellis
  A convenient online tool which facilitates the use of generic C++ programing for processing or storing custom data types.
  
  

C#

• Some practices to write better C#/.NET code - Monjurul Habib
  Today I will show some good practices I have learned during my professional years, those are lower level but very important for all levels.
  
  
• Reflection optimization techniques - Jain, Ajay
  The article presents some .NET techniques for using Reflection optimally and efficiently.
  
  
• Code Review Checklist and Guidelines for C# Developers - Mohammed Hameed
  This is a general code review checklist and guidelines for C# developers, which will serve as a reference point for development.
  
  
• Foreach On IEnumerable - Amey K Bhatkar
  Working of foreach loop
  
  

Client side scripting

• ExtJS with WebService - dpalash
  In this article I have shared my way to work with ExtJS and Webservice
  
  
• kLib: Fast, Small, and Easy - Anshu Krishna
  kLib: A small library to make DOM operations very easy.
  
  

Custom Controls

• ASP.NET HTML Editor Control - Amir Jalilifard
  Creating a useful ASP.NET HTML Editor custom control.
  
  

Date and Time

• Holidays and business date calculations and translations - Dan Van Fleet
  Add and subtract business days between dates. Calculate if date is a holiday.
  
  

Design and Architecture

• WCF by Example - Introduction - Enrique Albert
  Patterns and best practices for the desing and development of rich client enterprise applications using WPF, WCF and NHibernate
  
  
• Modeling Supertypes and Subtypes: Part 1 - Scott Burkow
  Background Theory and Process Modeling (BPMN).
  
  
• Agile from A Developers Perspective - Richard_Banks
  Code Project Virtual Tech Summit Session: Richard Banks talks about his experiences in helping teams implementing agile techniques such as Scrum and Kanban and the common mistakes people make and the lessons that can be learned from them.
  
  

Edit Controls

• Zeta HTML Edit Control - Uwe Keim
  A small wrapper class around the Windows Forms 2.0 WebBrowser control
  
  

Game Development

• Solving a (formula based) Sudoku puzzle using LINQ - Anton Damhuis
  Solving a formula based Sudoku puzzle.
  
  

Hardware & System

• Simple Windows Service in C++ - Mohit Arora
  An article that shows how to create a simple Windows service in C++.
  
  
• Major Component Upgrades with a twist, benchmarks and all! - DaveAuld
  Attempting an upgrade can be rewarding, but without an OS re-install may end in tears!
  
  

HTML / CSS

• HTML5 Multiplayer Plane Game - Ian Sullivan
  A short guide to making an HTML5 physics based multiplayer game
  
  

Internet / Network

• Working with Sockets in C# - Houssem Dellai
  This article shows how to use sockets to send messages
  
  
• Asyncsocket Part 3: The Server - bkelly13
  Use of Windows class CAsynSocket in TCP/IP application
  
  

Interviews

• A Coder Interview With Mike Meinz - CodeProject, Mike Meinz
  Welcome to our continuing series of CodeProject interviews in which we talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves. In this installment we talk to Mike Meinz, who shares some highlights from 45 years in the industry.
  
  

Java

• How to integrate Spring-oAuth2 with Spring-SAML - Ohad Redlich
  This document describes how to integrate the Spring-Security-oAuth2 project with Spring-Security-SAML.
  
  

PHP

• WordPress Plugins - Password strength indicator using jQuery and XML - Bryian Tan
  Create WordPress plugin - Password strength indicator using jQuery and XML
  
  

Reviews on Third Party Products and Tools

• Modern.IE and BrowserStack: The tools we should have had 10 years ago. - Chris Maunder
  Testing Multiple browsers on Multiple Platforms on Multiple Devices. In the same Window.
  
  

Scrapbook

• Biological Studies as the Basis of Encryption - Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
  Encryption methods using biological basis. As with many technologies, the first announcements do not make many waves and it takes time for the mainstream media to understand the significance of such announcements and separate them from all the other noise.
  
  

String handling

• Enhanced String Handling III - Avi Farah
  Text document files can be enhanced by using construct and equivalent classes that "know" how to evaluate the constructs.
  
  

Tools and IDE

• Getting HTML Fields Data into your TFS Warehouse - Gordon W Beeming
  A small trick on how to get HTML data into your warehouse.
  
  
• Creating STM32 project in Code::Blocks - vatai38
  Short guide about how to create STM32 flashing ready project in Code::Blocks
  
  

Tree Controls

• Enhanced BrowseForFolder styled TreeView - Chris Richner
  Supports Explorer, SingleChecked and RecursiveChecked mode (checkboxes). Lets you specify the displayed drive types etc...
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• My Personal Commander Variant - Doc Lobster
  A C#/WPF application for displaying folders on a grid and performing combined functions on them.
  
  

New Tips and Tricks added

ASP.NET

• Custom Pagination with ASP.NET MVC - Anushan Tennakoon
  In this article I am going to explain an approach of implementing custom pagination for an ASP.NET MVC application.
  
  

C#

• Make Comma Separated List the Easy Way - David_Wimbley
  How to make a comma separated string using Linq
  
  

Charts, Graphs and Images

• Download canvas directly as an image - Ken Fyrstenberg Nilsen
  Just one click...
  
  

Client side scripting

• Disable Text Select Using JavaScript - Member 7677223
  disable text selection in our website using this script
  
  

Cryptography & Security

• Raspberry Pi - SSH Public Key Authentication - mpolaczyk
  Public Key Auth - Why it's better than simple password and how to configure
  
  

Database

• Dynamic ORDER BY with multiple criteria in T-SQL - Bob Crowley
  How to use a CASE statement in ORDER BY to avoid dynamic SQL
  
  

Tools and IDE

• Create Reports in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 - Fazal Abu
  Learn how to create reports in Microsoft Dynamics CRM in this tutorial
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• Circular Indeterminate Progressbar - Mitesh k Prajapati
  This is a WPf circular indeterminate progressbar and you can use this in your application for loading processes which are in an indeterminate state.
  
  

Tips and Tricks updated

.NET Framework

• Using a Persian calender in .NET 4 - aref.bozorgmehr
  How to use a Persian datetime picker and calendar in your applications.
  
  

Applications & Tools

• Create a div based grid functioning on JSON data using MVC with Entity Framework and MySQL. - Rajat Bittharia
  grid based on JSON data using MVC with Entity Framework and MySQL.
  
  

ASP.NET

• Compressing Script Files using GZIP - KK Kodoth
  How to compress JavaScript and CSS files in a web application to reduce page loading time, using GZIP.
  
  
• Problem while accessing your DotNetNuke site from outside the Localhost running on IIS Express [WebMatrix] - piyush_singh
  Make your DotNetNuke site publicly available
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• Create dynamic controls from code-behind and validate them through JavaScript - nandakishoreroyal
  Dynamically creating controls and validating using JavaScript.
  
  

C#

• Get List of Active Directory Users in C# - Naufel Basheer
  List AD users using DirectoryServices (System.DirectoryServices)
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Resizing Controls When Resizing Form - BBGq
  Making the sizes of the controls change automatically when resizing the form.
  
  

Web Services

• what is KnownType Attribute and how to use it in WCF Technology - mehr4n mousavi
  what is KnownType Attribute and how to use it
  
  

XML

• Serialize/Deserialize any object to an XML file - akramKamal
  Code to serialize/deserialize any object to an XML file.
  
  

New Technical Blogs added

Algorithms & Recipes

• Tackling Andrica's conjecture. Part 3 - rtybase
  Tackling Andrica's conjecture. Part 3
  
  

Game Development

• Using the AudioManager class to play sounds and music in XNA, WPXNA (5) - zoyobar
  Using the AudioManager class to play sounds and music in XNA, WPXNA (5)
  
  

HTML / CSS

• Coordinate system in HTML5 Canvas, drawing with y-axis value increasing upwards - morzel
  Coordinate system in HTML5 Canvas, drawing with y-axis value increasing upwards.
  
  

Session State

• Using TFS Kanban Column State to the Warehouse - Gordon W Beeming
  How to use TFS Kanban column state to the warehouse
  
  

SharePoint Server

• Step By Step Automated Unattended Scripted SharePoint 2010/2013 Installation using AutoSPInstaller - Melick
  AutoSPInstaller is one of great project that facilitate Automated SharePoint installation. Though SharePoint is a great Product every body agrees it is not applying to SharePoint Product Configuration Wizard, Isn't it?  Earlier I have difficulties when I'm working with AutoSPInstaller because of it
  
  

Windows Communication Foundation

• Ninject and WCF - n.podbielski
  Ninject is very simple and in the same time powerful IoC container. I used it in few project and had very little or none problems.Most of the time getting instances from Ninject kernel requires simple line with binding expression, or even this is sometime unnecessary if type is self bind able (i.e.
  
  

Windows Phone 7/8

• Using Movie class to divide picture and create animation in XNA, WPXNA (4) - zoyobar
  The original: http://www.wpgamer.info/2013/05/using-movie-class-to-divide-picture-and.html Introduction/Catalog I has developed some games on Windows Phone. Here, I'll share my experiences and gradually to upload some classes, no good name, I just call it WPXNA. (Some example code may not be
  
  

Technical Blogs updated

C#

• NServiceBus performance counters letting you down? It's probably your fault - MattDavey
  A weird issue where my NServiceBus performance counters did not appear to be working correctly.
  
  

Database

• How to Fix Orphaned SQL Users - Tharaka MTR
  Recently I had to involve in a database migration task. I backed up the database and restored successfully in the new server. However when I access the database through the web site, database login didn’t work. The problem was even though the database user is included in the restored database; the l
  
  
• Generate insert statements from a specific table data using SQL Server - Tharaka MTR
  Generate insert statements from a specific table data using SQL Server.
  
  

Libraries

• Error reporting with PushingBox - Werner van Deventer
  I’ll explain a little about this free service and show you some sample code of how to integrate it into your applications or automation scripts using Powershell.