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Most popular new articles

• ToDoList 6.7.6 Feature Release - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g.
  
• Ending the Great Debate on Enum Flags - virusstorm
  
• Canvas Control Library and New Forms Based System for building Web Pages and Websites - Akshay Srinivasan2
  
• Target Eye Revealed part 1 - Target Eye's Unique AutoUpdate Mechanism - Michael Haephrati
  
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Latest Additions

131 articles overall. 45 new, 86 updated.

New articles added

.NET Framework

• "Standalone" .NET Framework exe - CMurphy77
  A small redistributable package without installing the framework itself.
  
  
• Clean up long nesting loops - Juri Krivoruchko
  Helper library to replace long nesting for loops with compact, clear and manageable code
  
  
• Unexpected Garbage Collection Results Courtesy of Your Compiler - Dennis C. Dietrich [MSFT]
  Clarifying how the .NET GC identifies objects to collect once and for all... hopefully...
  
  

Algorithms & Recipes

• Genetic Algorithm for Bin Packing Problem - Mladen Janković
  Implementation of Hybrid Grouping Genetic Algorithm for one dimensional bin packing problem
  
  

Android

• Zyan Drench, A Game for Android with Wifi Support - AƖexey Yakovlev
  This article describes building an Android game with networking support using C#, Xamarin.Android platform and Zyan Communication Framework.
  
  

ASP.NET

• ASP.NET SignalR Basis Step by Step (Part 1) - Zhuyun Dai
  Recognize and learn to use SignalR basis
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• Tip Calculator App - How we did it - Mary Sammal
  Tip Calculator App - How we did it
  
  

Azure

• Azure Blob: TimeToLive and DeadBlobContainer - Roman Kiss
  This article describes design and implementation of the Blob lifetime in the Azure Container.
  
  

C#

• Background Thread? Let me count the ways.... - Rob Philpott
  Nine fun ways of doing something on a background thread
  
  

Edit Controls

• Edit Control with Arbitratry Text Color (Even When Disabled) - Julijan Sribar
  A simple WTL edit control that can display content in arbitrary color even when it is disabled
  
  

Interviews

• CodeProject interviews Dmitry Lyalin, Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft - Jeff Hadfield
  CodeProject's brief conversation with Dmitry Lyalin, Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft, at Microsoft's Build 2013 conference.
  
  

Product Showcase

• The Road to DevOps ROI - Pradeep_Prabhu
  DevOp ROI relies on combining best practices with the right tools. Tooling enables practices, and vice versa. The CloudMunch platform makes it happen.
  
  

Tablets and All-in-Ones

• FoosBall Pro for AIO - nicks707
  Awesome traditional tabletop football game now for AIO
  
  
• CuteSoma: Soma.fm client for touch enabled devices - Andrea Grandi
  Soma.fm client for Windows 8
  
  
• EXteamLearning - Member 10189140
  This system will enable professors to use 3D model for teaching and help students to collaborate students and professors.
  
  
• Be conscious: Multiplayer Game - Member 10190725
  Four player reactor game.
  
  
• DictionaryGuru - dankima
  Just tap and be the first one to know.
  
  
• Advance Task Manager - Member 10191841
  Fully touch enabled advance task manager.
  
  
• Pay Ontime - Govindk-22
  Pay Ontime organizes all the payments in one place and keep tracks of paid history. This app can be useful to avoid late payments and fees
  
  
• Chat On - Sumeet Kumar G
  ChatOn is a social network where you can chat with strangers, meet new people, make calls & video calls, send messege, photo, voice message or video.
  
  
• Molecular Clinical Trials: MCT - Meet_Singh
  A process for a particular Client company, if they are going to launch a medicine, has to do clinical trials. That entire pocees is Included in This App
  
  
• StudyKnowledge - JP Patel SE
  Application used to build your own testing questions and give lessons to students
  
  
• Online Health Treatment and Consultancy - Surendranatha Reddy
  This application will show a way for online health treatment and consultancy
  
  
• E-book Reader for Windows 8 - Bogdan Cristea
  e-book reader for Window 8 Metro UI using as back-end okular core library
  
  
• Internet Largest Collection of Academic Questions - Member 10200321
  App for understanding topic through questions in a better way
  
  
• Aestar Cook Book - Member 8253574
  This app helps the home-makers with cooking recipes and cooking tips
  
  
• River Paddling race - Balaji N BI
  River Paddling is the racing game and also it's the more adventure game playing.
  
  
• Emergency's Be safe Everywhere - Member 10202352
  Now a we are busy with over work and dont know when we will get into a unavoidable situation so the app locates you and provides all sort of emergency services : Be Safe Every Where Life Is Precious
  
  
• Shopping companion for Blind and Deaf People - Milan Raval
  This application is to make shopping convenient for Blind and Deaf people
  
  
• Colorify - Tarun Y Mangukiya
  This application is identifies the color of the object and gives its name and more things and details having the same color.
  
  

Ultrabooks

• Haswell – Intel SDP Unit (Software Developer Preview) – 1st impressions - Pete O'Hanlon
  Haswell – Intel SDP Unit (Software Developer Preview) – 1st impressions
  
  

Web Services

• Publishing a SOAP 1.2 WS not using action parameter - fabien.philippe
  This article is about publishing a SOAP 1.2 web service that is not using any action parameter.
  
  

Articles updated

.NET Framework

• Visual Studio 2013 New Features of the IDE - Ashoka RKT
  Visual Studio 2013 Preview has been launched recently. This post talks about the Visual Studio 2013’s IDE new features.
  
  
• MEF and AppDomain - Remove Assemblies On The Fly - John M. Baughman
  Demonstrates using MEF in an AppDomain and allows the exchanging of MEF parts while the application is running.
  
  

Algorithms & Recipes

• A Fast Priority Queue Implementation of the Dijkstra Shortest Path Algorithm - Tolga Birdal
  Anyone needs a fast, efficient algorithm to compute the shortest path in C#? This article provides one.
  
  
• EpPathFinding.cs- A Fast Path Finding Algorithm (Jump Point Search) in C# (grid-based) - Woong Gyu La
  A jump point search algorithm for grid based games in C#
  
  

Android

• MonoAndroid: Writing custom generic BaseAdapter in C# - ThatsAlok
  Using generic BaseAdapter to generate ListView
  
  

Applications & Tools

• ToDoList 6.7.6 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

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

ASP.NET

• Learning MVC - Part 2: Creating MVC Application and Perform CRUD Operations Using LINQ to SQL - Akhil_Mittal
  Creating MVC Application & Perform CRUD operations using LINQ to SQL
  
  
• Learning MVC - Part 1: Introduction to MVC Architecture and Separation of Concerns - Akhil_Mittal
  Introduction to MVC architecture and Separation of Concerns.
  
  
• Asp.Net 4.5 features - Part 1 - Marla Sukesh
  In this article you should have basic knowledge of web development and some features introduced in prior versions of .Net framework, especially Asp.Netfeatures.
  
  
• Google Maps in MVC 4 with Custom InfoWindow - AJSON
  A quick tutorial on using Google Maps in MS MVC 4.
  
  
• Learning MVC - Part 3: Creating MVC Application & Perform CRUD Operations Using EntityFramework - Akhil_Mittal
  How to create MVC application and perform CRUD operations using EntityFramework
  
  
• Learning MVC Part 4 - Creating MVC Application with EntityFramework Code First Approach - Akhil_Mittal
  MVC Application using EntityFramework Code-First approach
  
  
• Another set of ASP.NET MVC (4) tips - Florian Rappl
  Second part in my annualy list of tips, this time including JavaScript, controls, tooling and customization, which has been build up from recent ASP.NET MVC 4 programming journeys.
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• Building a Custom Site Map Provider - Gil Fink
  The article explains how to build a simple custom site map provider.
  
  

Azure

• DnB Risk Analysis - vvtrish
  Analyzing the risk associated with owning, investing, or collaborating with business by utilizing DnB Marketplace data subset.
  
  
• Phalanx Linq - Traverse Healthcare's Business Development Labyrinth - UmarSiddiqui
  The Intelligent Way to Develop Business in the World of Healthcare
  
  

C / C++ Language

• C++ Runtime Polymorphism without Virtual Functions - Richard Tauber
  Implementing dynamic polymorphism without virtual functions and sharing objects across process boundaries.
  
  
• What's new in Visual Studio 2013 for native development - Marius Bancila
  This article provides a list of new or enhanced features for native development with Visual C++ in Visual Studio 2013.
  
  

C#

• Ending the Great Debate on Enum Flags - virusstorm
  This article explains how enumeration and flags work in C#.NET and how to properly use them.
  
  
• Access Modifiers for Beginners - Faisal(mfrony)
  Understand access modifiers before using them.
  
  
• Foreach On IEnumerable - Amey K Bhatkar
  Working of foreach loop.
  
  

Client side scripting

• Simple jQuery Plugin in Detail - Ehtesam Ahmed
  Understanding Simple jquery Plugin
  
  
• Getting Started with the RequireJS Library - Gil Fink
  This article describes RequireJS and some of its basic scenarios.
  
  
• User credential onboarding with KnockoutJS - AJSON
  A cool way to batch upload new user credentials to a web-app using KnockoutJS
  
  

Code Generation

• Mo+ - A model oriented programming language and IDE for model driven development - Dave Clemmer
  Introducing the Mo+ language and the Mo+ Solution Builder IDE.
  
  
• Mo+ - Supersizing Entity Framework to generate a working multi-tier application - Dave Clemmer
  Using Mo+ to generate a working application, which includes an Entity Framework model, OData services, view model client, and WPF application.
  
  

Database

• Making OUTER and CROSS APPLY work for you - Michiel du Toit
  Explaining and demonstrating the use of the APPLY keyword for SQL Server
  
  
• DBTool – Part 2: Harlinn.Oracle - Espen Harlinn
  A reflection based wrapper for the Oracle Data Provider for .NET – allows your application to dynamically load the Oracle.DataAccess.dll assembly installed on your client’s computer.
  
  
• A Comparison on Data Access Methods - Part 2 - Dr. Song Li
  This is the part 2 of a comparison on Data Access Methods in the .Net Environment.
  
  
• Implementation of Database Assertions - h_wiedey
  An approach using updatable views with check option and deferred constraint checking.
  
  
• Using MySQL Session State Provider for ASP.NET - adriancs
  Settings and Configurations of MySQL Connector/Net ASP.NET Session State Provider
  
  

Dialogs and Windows

• FlexibleMessageBox – A flexible replacement for the .NET MessageBox - JReichert
  FlexibleMessageBox – A flexible replacement for the .NET MessageBox.
  
  

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

• Target Eye Revealed part 3 - The Shopping List Mechanism - Michael Haephrati
  How the Shopping List mechanism was used as part of the Target Eye project
  
  

Game Development

• Fluent and Imperative Animations - Paulo Zemek
  Create animations using a Fluent API that integrates well with frame-based animation segments.
  
  

General Graphics

• Generating labels with barcode in C# using Crystal Reports - Mohammed Owais
  Generating barcode labels in C# with the help of Crystal Reports for printing.
  
  

Grid & Data Controls

• Using JqGrid in ASP.NET - K K Kodoth
  How to integrate JqGrid in ASP.NET.
  
  

HTML / CSS

• Canvas Control Library and New Forms Based System for building Web Pages and Websites - Akshay Srinivasan2
  Canvas Control Library provides highly customizable controls using the HTML5 Canvas element. Also includes a new Forms based system which is a new way to build your web pages and websites.
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Enhanced Scrollbar - Adam Zgagacz
  WinForms Scrollbar with enhanced properties, graphical bookmarks and value tooltips.
  
  
• Smart Watcher - Tammam Koujan
  Easy to use directory watching tool.
  
  

Office Development

• VBA Extend - NewPast
  Format, add line numbers, error handling, expose a .NET library to VBA, and number to words in Office.
  
  

Shell and IE programming

• Target Eye Revealed part 1 - Target Eye's Unique AutoUpdate Mechanism - Michael Haephrati
  How Target Eye's Auto updating mechanism allows a silent update of an application from identifying newer versions, downloading them and running them instead of the old one
  
  

Silverlight

• Connecting MySQL From SilverLight With Web Services - adriancs
  Silverlight access to MySQL using Web Services.
  
  

Tablets and All-in-Ones

• The First Step towards Literacy - Aditya Rajendra Patil
  KidsZone - The First Step towards Literacy
  
  
• ChronoZooms v2.1-Rise of the Big Bang Theory - Wilson PS
  How do you see time? Or better yet how do you visualize time when explaining to students about the concepts of the Big Bang theory from 13 Billion years ago? Now not only can help your students understand what 13B years ago looks like you can experience Big History in a fascinating new way.
  
  
• US Payroll Tax Calculator - DrABELL
  US Fed, NY State, NY City and Yonkers Employment (Payroll) Tax management system
  
  
• Carrom+ AIO - Talha Naqvi
  The best and most unconventional virtual carrom application optimized for AIO!
  
  
• Shatter Ball - sudhanshu sp gupta
  
  
  
• iPaint - Ashwin Singh IND
  Not your average painting app
  
  
• xii-Knights board game - Sanjay K. Gupta
  xii-Knights duel-user board game for family/friends.
  
  
• iLearn - Ashwin Singh IND
  iLearn is a non obtrusive and fun way to learn for kids
  
  
• Detective Denzel - Member 10190136
  Denzel is a detective kid who helps other kids figure out and solve problems in maths, science, languages and social studies through fun games.
  
  
• GetSecured ! - Muhammad Shareef
  Keeping you and your data secured..
  
  
• Social Digital PaceMaker - ayesha23
  A social mobile Jukebox DJ app
  
  
• Super-easy 3D multiplayer games maker - Ashraf Samy Hegab
  JavaScript based with realtime updates across devices on save. (http://multiplay.io)
  
  
• CoolPhone™- 8: number-to-text converter and sweepstakes engine - DrABELL
  App performs bi-idirectional phone number-to-digit conversion and could serve as a novel "CoolPhone" Lottery engine
  
  
• AI based on doubled Genetic Algorithm - Eugene Zavidovsky
  Aha, tell me, why it will not work...
  
  
• WinTrade : Real-time trading Application - Member 10201054
  Timing is everything in the stock market.This app is the ultimate Solution
  
  

Testing and QA

• Application Analysis with Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) - Mattias Högström
  ETW is a super fast way to collect runtime data from your app. We will look how we can insert intelligent data points, collect data, and analyze data logs. This permits supervision, anomaly detection, and system optimization.
  
  
• EtwDataViewer - Analyze, visualize, and make sense of your ETW logs - Mattias Högström
  Event tracing for Windows is a super efficient log technology, alas logs are still flat raw logs. EtwDataViewer is a prototype for adding browsability, analysis, and a visual tree representation.
  
  

Third Party Products and Tools

• A sales dashboard ASP.NET application - d.johnson.dave
  Implementing a sales dashboard datavisualization presentation
  
  

Threads, Processes & IPC

• Multi threading with Windows Forms - AJSON
  A Windows threaded client and MVC server demonstrating interaction via XML exchange
  
  

Web Security

• Target Eye Revealed part 2 - Target Eye's Screen Capturing - Michael Haephrati
  How Target Eye's screen capturing mechanism works
  
  

Windows Communication Foundation

• Peer to Peer File Sharing Through WCF - Amir Jalilifard
  In this article,you're gonna learn about P2P Network and Windows Communication Foundation to share your files between peers through a P2P network.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• WPF: OpenWeather - Meshack Musundi
  WPF application that displays weather data using the OpenWeatherMap API
  
  

New Tips and Tricks added

ASP.NET

• Configure Email Providers (SMTP/GMail) using Dependency Injection (DI) - Kishan Zunjare
  Configure email providers like SMTP/GMail using Dependency Injection.
  
  
• Adding custom paths with variable depths to pages for SEO purposes in C# MVC4 - Redslide
  Modify MVC Routing to allow routes such as /Electronics/Software/Operating-Systems/PC/Windows-8-Installer
  
  
• Consume IIS 8 Cross-domain WCF in Prism Silverlight Application - lizhong huang
  Consume cross-domain WCF service in Prism Silverlight application
  
  

C#

• Playing Flash Files (SWF) in C# Form - Amir Mohammad Nasrollahi
  In this tip for beginners, we will review how to play a shockwave file (.SWF) in our form in the easiest and fastest way by using Shockwave flash object component.
  
  

Database

• Fix SQL Server DTC Errors on Duplicated Hyper-V VMs - Zhuyun Dai
  Fix multiple SQL Server DTC errors when we use distributed transactions between VMs duplicated from the same template on Hyper-V.
  
  
• Quick Safe SQL Snippet - groggyjava
  SQL 2012 Code Snippet for quick blank transaction
  
  
• SQL: Column Values as Comma Separated String - Srinivas Kalabarigi
  Column values as comma separated string in SQL
  
  

Internet / Network

• FTP Upload/Download of Text Files in MetroApps - wendas
  This shows how to use the new async logic to read/write, and upload/download text files in Metro apps.
  
  

Menus

• Adding Dynamic Sub menu to the Menu, Add Event Handler for Each Individual Sub menu - Ashish Ranjan Mishra
  How to add sub menus dynamically, adding event for them and also retrieving the menu name on click event of individual sub menu
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Building a Simple Contact Application with XAF - Seth Juarez
  How to build a simple contact application with XAF
  
  

Programming Tips

• An alternative way of handling string_key-value pairs ("options") in python2 - pasztorpisti
  An alternative to python dictionaries when it's about storing and using property/parameter string_key-value pairs.
  
  

Windows Phone 7/8

• Using External Fonts on Windows Phone Apps - tinydevices
  Explains how to use external fonts in Windows Phone apps.
  
  

Tips and Tricks updated

Algorithms & Recipes

• Using Single Dimensional Array to Represent Two Dimensional Data - Kashif_Imran
  Shows how to treat a single dimensional array for both single and two dimensional data at the same time
  
  

Android

• Android edit text with cross icon (x) - huyletran
  Make edit text with specified length, delete icon.
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• New Way of Sorting gridview without viewstate [With source code] - dholakiya ankit
  Sorting GridView using attribute property of GridView
  
  

C#

• Convert DataTable to XML, XSD, and HTML - pramodhegde88
  Converts DataTable to XML, XSD, or HTML using XSLT and C#
  
  

Combo & List Boxes

• ComboBox with Suggest Ability based on Substring-Search - Physlcu$
  A custom ComboBox that supports live filtering of items by Substring-Search or any other Lamda-Expression
  
  

Custom Controls

• Highlight Search Text in Search Result - Bikash Prakash Dash
  How to highlight search text in a search result using ASP.NET.
  
  

Database

• How to recover MySQL Website Configuration Tool Icon in VS 2010 - adriancs
  Discovering MySQL Website Configuration Tool on Visual Studio 2010
  
  

Files and Folders

• Modifying the Date Attributes of a File - d.moncada
  Change the accessed, modified, and created date attributes of a file
  
  

Grid & Data Controls

• DataGrid visual column separator - Ced743
  DataGrid column separator.
  
  

HTML / CSS

• HTML5 Download Attribute - Anoop Kr Sharma
  How to use download attribute (HTML5 feature)
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Don't Name Things NAME.... - AJSON
  Why you shouldn't use reserved words
  
  

SharePoint Server

• View SharePoint List Items in a TreeView - Jobin Daniel
  This article shows how to iterate through a SharePoint list's hierarchy and display the items in an ASP.NET webform's TreeView control.
  
  

Site & Server Management

• Connection Limit Enforcer for IIS Websites - bgsjust
  Enforce limits to IIS Websites inbound connections
  
  

Third Party Products and Tools

• Advanced Charting with Shield UI Charts - Vladimir Georgiev
  This tip explains how to use Shield UI's charting framework to build related charts.
  
  

Web Services

• Integrating Perl REST service with jQuery and a database - Sudeep Hazra
  This article is a novice level demonstration of using jQuery consuming a REST Web Service written in Perl.
  
  

New Technical Blogs added

Uncategorised Technical Blogs

• Injecting a Dependency into an IHttpModule with Unity - Colin Angus Mackay
  How to inject a dependency into an IHttpModule with Unity
  
  

Technical Blogs updated

ASP.NET

• Routing Basics in ASP.NET MVC - John Atten
  This post covers the most basic and fundamental concepts of routing as applied to the ASP.NET MVC framework.
  
  

Book Reviews

• RaspberryPi Cookbook by Simon Monk - O'Reilly - Gergo Bogdan
  A review of RaspberryPi Cookbook by Simon Monk
  
  

Client side scripting

• Latest jQuery interview questions and answers - jQuery By Example
  Below is the list of latest and updated jQuery interview questions and their answers for freshers as well as experienced users. These interview question covers latest version of jQuery which is jQuery 2.0. These interview questions will help you to prepare for the interviews, for quick revision and
  
  

Testing and QA

• Testing private methods/functions using VSTS unit test with c# - Shivprasad koirala
  In case you are new to VSTS unit testing, you can read my article from codeproject.com:- 12 FAQ’s on VSTS unit testing.Before you make an opinion about me and this article let me admit I am a strong opponent of unit testing private methods. For me a “UNIT” in unit testing means the “Class” as a whol
  
  

Web Services

• Code Builder for jQuery AJAX (Calling Web Services) - Steve Wellens
  Code builder for jQuery AJAX.