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Weekly Newsletter (18 Sep 2017)


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The Best Articles of August

The votes for the winners of the best articles of last month have been tallied and the winners are:

C#	Winner:	Uzi Granot	Rubik’s Cube for Beginners. Open Source WPF C# Application with 3D Graphics and Animation.
	Runner-up:	Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov	Musical Study with Isomorphic Computer Keyboard
C++	Winner:	Alasdair Craig	The Concave Hull of a Set of Points
	Runner-up:	Marius Bancila	Interoping .NET and C++ through registration-free COM
Database	Winner:	raddevus	Dev's User Guide To SqlLocalDb (Sql Express)
	Runner-up:	Rou1997	Using Microsoft Access Database In C# . . . ADO.NET In Winforms/WPF For Beginners
Web Dev	Winner:	Graeme_Grant	Working with JSON in C# & VB
	Runner-up:	Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan	Mission Impossible: Migrating .NET Core 1.x to 2.0
"Everything Else"	Winner:	Mahsa Hassankashi	Neural Network
	Runner-up:	Peter Occil	Color Topics for Programmers

Congratulations!

cheers,
Chris Maunder

Weekly Poll Results

A friend fails a school exam and you find the exam system trivially hackable. Would you change their marks?

Survey period: 11 Sep 2017 to 18 Sep 2017

Assume it takes 30 seconds to get into the system and you'd never get caught doing so. 1 = No way, Never. 5 = Absolutely I would.

Option	Responses	Avg
A primary school exam	1,150	1.67
A high school exam	1,150	1.67
A college / university exam	1,150	1.60
A post-grad exam	1,150	1.55

This week's survey: Do you play World of Warcraft?

Latest Additions

New articles added

Algorithms & Recipes

Parsing Mathematical Expressions in VB.NET: Mission Possible

(11 votes) by Arthur V. Ratz (updated 3 days ago)

This article introduces the implementation of an algorithm written in Visual Basic .NET that allows us to quickly and easily parse and evaluate the resulting value of various mathematical expressions

Android

Sending Push Notifications to Android with C#

(0 votes) by Ashish K Kapoor (updated 2 days ago)

How to send push notifications to Android with C#

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

[tut 2] Lina ChatBot - Question Answering using parsing CKY & web scrapping

(3 votes) by The Zakies (updated 5 days ago)

question answer chatbot using natural language parsing and web scrapping

Build Simple AI .NET Library - Part 3 - Perceptron

(2 votes) by Gamil Yassin (updated yesterday)

This is a series of articles demonstrating .NET AI library from scratch

Build Simple AI .NET Library - Part 4 - Beyond Perceptron

(0 votes) by Gamil Yassin (updated 6 hours ago)

This is a series of articles demonstrating .NET AI library from scratch

ASP.NET

CRUD Operation through Web API-2 using JQuery Ajax Call

(2 votes) by Souvik_Kundu (updated 4 days ago)

My Web Application will call a Web API-2 application to perform CRUD operation. The CRUD operations code lies in my Web API. My Current MVC Application will perform JQuery Ajax call to fetch/insert data using the Web API.

ASP.NET Core cross platform development with Database

(2 votes) by Bruce Yang CL (updated 5 days ago)

Develop an ASP.NET Core NES Game website on Linux with cross platform Database, and deploy to Ubuntu & Windows which have no .NET Core runtime installed.

Auto generate columns for bootstrap table grid in MVC

(1 votes) by Bart-Jan Brouwer (updated 5 days ago)

Use bootstrap tables with minimal coding on .Net Core 2.0!

C / C++ Language

Porting A Library/CLI App From C To Go

(3 votes) by Pete Garcin (updated 4 days ago)

"Porting a library from C gave me the perfect opportunity to put that to the test and to understand the differences between these languages and what Go is bringing to the table."

C++ / CLI

An efficient way for automatic updating

(12 votes) by Michael Haephrati (updated 6 days ago)

A simple way to provide silent automatic updates with no server side code

Client side scripting

Integrating ASP.Net Core 2.0 and Angular 4 projects using CLI and Visual Studio Code - Beginners Tutorial

(3 votes) by @sof-mckoy (updated 20 hours ago)

Step-by-step tutorial on integrating projects created using angular-cli and dotnet-cli

Angular 4 Navigation - A Simple Introduction

(1 votes) by Hanbo (updated 4 days ago)

This is a very basic introduction to Angular 4 and the use of its navigation functionality.

Cross Platform

Walkthrough for Xamarin in VS2017 - Part Three

(4 votes) by Rodimus74 (updated 4 days ago)

Part three continues extending and modernising functionality.

Database

Creation And Modification Date Of Database Objects

(2 votes) by Satyaprakash_Code (updated 4 days ago)

Find Out Creation And Modification Date Of Database Objects Like Tables And Stored Procedures

DirectX

DirectX and Pure Assembly Language: Doing What Can't be Done - Part IV(a)

(2 votes) by CMalcheski (updated 2 days ago)

Initializing DirectX

HTML / CSS

Custom Web Fonts - Cross Browser Supported

(1 votes) by The Super Coder (updated 3 days ago)

A Cross Browser Supported solution for Custom Fonts on the Web

NoSQL

Big Data MapReduce Hadoop Scala on Ubuntu Linux by Maven intellj idea

(8 votes) by Mahsa Hassankashi (updated 5 days ago)

This article is the most complete essay about big data from scratch to practical.

Windows Presentation Foundation

WPF Multi-Data Type Control

(7 votes) by Clifford Nelson (updated 3 days ago)

A custom control that adapts to the datatype of the source.

Articles updated

.NET Framework

JUST - JSON Under Simple Transformation

(34 votes) by JUST_Neeraj (updated 5 days ago)

JSON to JSON transformation - XSLT equivalent for JSON

Algorithms & Recipes

Random Number Generator Recommendations for Applications

(28 votes) by Peter Occil (updated 2 days ago)

Most apps that use random numbers care about either unpredictability or speed/high quality.

Random Number Generation Methods

(28 votes) by Peter Occil (updated 4 days ago)

Discusses many ways in which applications can extract random numbers from an underlying RNG and includes pseudocode for most of them.

ASP.NET

Mixing WebForms and MVC Razor Views

(10 votes) by Bart-Jan Brouwer (updated 6 days ago)

Old and new style all in one project

Getting Started with ASP.NET Core and Angular4 using WEB API

(6 votes) by syed shanu (updated 5 days ago)

In this article, let’s see on how to getting started with ASP.NET Core and using Web API.

C#

Sciter/HTML/C# based desktop apps walkthrough

(78 votes) by Ramon F. Mendes (updated 6 days ago)

Create HTML/CSS/script based cross-platform desktop apps in C# with Sciter engine!

Aspect Oriented Programming in C# with RealProxy

(9 votes) by Valerii Tereshchenko (updated 3 days ago)

Example of implementing logging using RealProxy class.

Client side scripting

Learn Angular in 10 days – Day 1 – Part 1

(53 votes) by Marla Sukesh (updated 6 days ago)

A 10 Days series on Latest version of Angular - Day 1 will be very basic and mostly on JavaScript, TypeScript.

Learn Angular in 10 days – Day 2

(14 votes) by Marla Sukesh (updated 5 days ago)

A 10 Days series on Latest version of Angular - Today we will learn how to get started with Angular. We will discuss each andevery step in detail.

Microtonal Music Study with Chromatic Lattice Keyboard

(5 votes) by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov (updated 6 days ago)

A pure Web browser application as a tool for advanced music harmony study in different tone systems

ng-repeat performance degradation at case of very big iterated array

(4 votes) by SlavaUtesinov (updated 4 days ago)

How to solve problem, when ng-repeat directive iterates very big array and it cause significant performance degradation.

General Graphics

Color Topics for Programmers

(16 votes) by Peter Occil (updated 2 days ago)

Discusses color spaces, color generation, and other general color topics commonly faced by programmers.

Hardware & System

DIY electronic RFID Door Lock with Battery Backup

(128 votes) by Elmue (updated 4 days ago)

An electronic door lock that replaces a mechanic key by an RFID card or RFID token.

Internet / Network

fastJSON

(354 votes) by Mehdi Gholam (updated 2 days ago)

Smallest, fastest polymorphic JSON serializer (with Silverlight4 and MonoDroid support)

Libraries

Cinchoo ETL - CSV Reader

(44 votes) by Cinchoo (updated yesterday)

Simple CSV file reader for .NET

Windows Presentation Foundation

WPF: OpenWeather

(54 votes) by Meshack Musundi (updated 2 days ago)

WPF-MVVM weather forecast application that displays weather data using the OpenWeatherMap API

Advanced WPF TreeViews

(11 votes) by Dirk Bahle (updated yesterday)

A list of advanced tips & tricks on WPF TreeViews

Selection Manager for WPF/MVVM

(6 votes) by Valerii Tereshchenko (updated 2 days ago)

The article presents idea and implementation of class to manage selection of only one element in different linear and hierarchical structures

New Tips and Tricks added

Algorithms & Recipes

Simple, unbreakable encryption for everyone

(5 votes) by Eddy Vluggen (updated 2 days ago)

Implementation of one-time-pad encryption

Android

Facebook & LinkedIn Login with Firebase and Xamarin

(1 votes) by amartya mandal (updated 5 days ago)

Facebook & LinkedIn login with Firebase and Xamarin

ASP.NET

Entity Framework Dynamic Include Hierarchy

(1 votes) by Alen Toma (updated 6 days ago)

Entity Framework Dynamic include hierarchy

An MVC HTML helper to asynchronously load partial views

(1 votes) by massimiliano aronica (updated 13 hours ago)

Speed up the loading of the main view by automatically loading partial views in async

C#

WPF Resource Dictionary Basics

(3 votes) by Leif Simon Goodwin (updated 3 days ago)

I present a short introduction to resource dictionaries with examples.

Database

A PostgreSQL Notification Example

(4 votes) by RickZeeland (updated 3 days ago)

PostgreSQL notifications Windows Forms application

Files and Folders

Get a View on Folders & Files & Their Sizes

(1 votes) by ChrisDri (updated 1 weeks ago)

Quickly get a CSV file with the content of a folder (or your compete HD)...

Programming Tips

Complex Deserialization of Objects from JSON

(2 votes) by Ivan Yakimov (updated 2 days ago)

Sometimes, we need to deserialize JSON into an object model. Here, I'll explain deserialization of objects belonging to a class hierarchy with a support of different formats using Newtonsoft Json.Net library.

SharePoint Server

Unique Entries Based on Multiple Columns in Sharepoint List

(1 votes) by maruf hidayat (updated 5 days ago)

Populate list data from Sharepoint service and then check user input when save button submitted

Tips and Tricks updated

C#

How To Easily Use k-means Algorithm to Group News Articles using Article Overview Text

(6 votes) by Denis Pashkov (updated 10 hours ago)

This tip will show you how you can easily use k-means algorithm to organize news articles into similar groups using k-means algorithm

New Technical Blogs added

.NET Framework

Identity Server 4 with ASP.NET Core 2.0

(1 votes) by Tahir Naushad (updated 5 days ago)

How to use Identity Server 4 with ASP.NET Core 2.0 Continue reading

Custom Model Binding in ASP.NET Core 2.0

(1 votes) by Tahir Naushad (updated 2 days ago)

How to implement custom model binders in ASP.NET Core. Continue reading

Applications & Tools

Madcap Idea 9 : Kafka Streams Interactive Queries

(1 votes) by Sacha Barber (updated 6 days ago)

In this post what we will be doing is looking at: How to install Kafka/Zookeeper and get them running on Windows, walking through a KafkaProducer, walking through a Kafka Streams processing node, and the duality of streams, and walking through Kafka Streams interactive queries

Other .NET Languages

Using CSP Header in ASP.NET Core 2.0

(1 votes) by Tahir Naushad (updated 5 days ago)

How to use Content-Security-Policy header in ASP.NET Core to prevent XSS attacks. Continue reading

Uncategorised Technical Blogs

5 Projects to Help You Learn React

(1 votes) by Dave Ceddia (updated 3 days ago)

5 projects to help you learn React

Xamarin.Forms Tip : Implement Show Hide Password using effects

(0 votes) by S Ravi-Kumar-2012 (updated 2 hours ago)

While developing login pages we usually get a requirement that there should be icon in password entry to show/hide password while entering the password. While [...]

Universal Windows Platform and Windows Runtime

Opening Apps from the Directory You're in as Administrator

(1 votes) by Gordon Beeming (RSA) (updated 5 days ago)

Opening apps from the directory you're in as administrator

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