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Happy Canada Day for yesterday, and Happy 4th of July for those who will be celebrating it this Wednesday. Being from Australia I can only look in wonder at countries where the majority know more than the first two lines of their national anthem. I am humbled anew each year.

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Most popular new articles

• ToDoList 6.5 RC1 (Beta 6) - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g.
  
• KeePass Password Safe - Dominik Reichl
  
• A Framework in C# for Fingerprint Verification - Octavio Loyola González, Miguel Angel Medina Pérez, Andres Eduardo Gutierrez Rodriguez, Milton García Borroto
  
• Converting PDF to Text in C# - Dan Letecky
  
• Avoiding InvokeRequired - Pablo Grisafi
  

Latest Additions

74 articles overall. 27 new, 47 updated.

New articles added

Applications & Tools

• Dynamics AX Data Maintenance & Migration Tips - Venkat Chaitanya Kanumukula
  Maintenance of Definition's in multiple Dynamics AX Environments
  
  

ASP.NET

• SOAP UI - Part 2 - Assertions - Jobless Creature
  This is a continuation of my article on SOAP UI Introduction
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• Custom paging with ASP.NET GridView - tanweer akhtar
  Easy way to implement ASP.NET GridView paging .
  
  

Client side scripting

• ASP.NET Select Dropdownlist item using Tab key - Bryian Tan
  Select drop-down list item with jQuery plug-in
  
  

Database

• Sending a DataTable to a Stored Procedure - A_K_
  Table Valued Parameters
  
  

HTML / CSS

• Canvas Control Library - Akshay Srinivasan2
  Canvas Control Library provides highly customizable controls using the HTML5 canvas element.
  
  

Internet / Network

• Understanding the insides of the IMAP mail protocol: Part 3 - Higty
  This article describes the receiving mail process in IMAP for beginners of the mail protocol.
  
  

Interviews

• A Coder Interview With Steve Smith - The Code Project, Steve Smith
  Welcome to our continuing series of Code Project interviews in which we talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves. Here we talk to Steve Smith, serial software-development entrepreneur and currently an Executive VP of the Services Team for Telerik.
  
  

Product Showcase

• Zebra Printing Interface Available in MobileForms Toolkit - Peter Hanustiak
  Resco's solution will significantly decrease the time the developer needs to code such application that will print something on Zebra printer via Windows Mobile or CE device
  
  

SharePoint Server

• SharePoint 2010: Creating a Custom Content Type using Visual Studio - Jean Paul V.A
  Ways of creating a custom content type in SharePoint using Visual Studio.
  
  
• SharePoint 2010 - Create List Definition and Instance - Jean Paul V.A
  How to create a List Definition and List Instance using the SharePoint user interface and Visual Studio 2010.
  
  
• SharePoint 2010 Navigations Logo Theme Customizations - Jean Paul V.A
  How to create navigation links, logo changing, and other customizations.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• Small Paging Control for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) - freedeveloper
  A small control to control paging in Windows Presentation Foundation.
  
  
• Using the MediaPlayer in WPF - Azim Zahir
  How to use the MediaPlayer class in a WPF application.
  
  
• Closing Windows and Applications with WPF and MVVM - Dirkster99
  This article samples a MVVM conform implementation of startup and shutdown sequences for an application and its dialogs.
  
  

Articles updated

Algorithms & Recipes

• Apriori Algorithm - Omar Gamil
  Implementation of the Apriori algorithm in C#.
  
  
• Visualizing the Mandelbrot set - Andy Bantly
  Visualizing the Mandelbrot set using multiple threads of execution.
  
  
• Generic Finite State Machine (FSM) - Cpp For All
  Practical, type safe and easy way to create and use state machine in C++
  
  
• A C# Turing Machine - Toni Novak
  A C# Turing Machine simulator developed for educational and didactic purposes
  
  
• Create a Voronoi diagram 1 of 2 - Kenneth Haugland
  A detailed description for creating Voronoi diagrams, review of basic functions
  
  
• Memory and time efficient Levenshtein algorithm - Horatiu-Andrei Stoianovici
  This is an alternative for "Fast, memory efficient Levenshtein algorithm"
  
  

Applications & Tools

• ToDoList 6.5 RC1 (Beta 6) - 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.
  
  
• KeePass Password Safe - Dominik Reichl
  KeePass is a free, open-source, light-weight and easy-to-use password safe.
  
  

ASP.NET

• JavascriptHelper:Managing JS files for ASP.NET MVC (With Bundling) - James Curran
  JavascriptHelper is a MVC component which allows you to specify that a JavaScript file is needed, wherever you need it and the helper will collection them all up, plus all their dependencies and insert all the (along with their associated CSS files) tags in one spots in the layout.
  
  

ATL

• Using COM aware DotNet Library in MFC Application - ThatsAlok
  Article about using C# DLL in unmanaged VC++ application
  
  

C / C++ Language

• An Idiot's Guide to C++ Templates - Part 2 - Ajay Vijayvargiya
  Let's dwell deeper into C++ templates!
  
  
• 45 Day Series: Codeproject VC++ Forum Q&A - VII - ThatsAlok
  Collection of Q&A from VC++ forum
  
  

C#

• Avoiding InvokeRequired - Pablo Grisafi
  How to avoid asking if InvokeRequired has the minimum code and no copy/paste
  
  
• A Zune Style Application Template for WPF and Silverlight - Dave Kerr
  A Zune Style Application Template that makes a great starting point for WPF or Silverlight Projects
  
  
• Format Number To Display - Pranay Rana
  Format Number To Display
  
  
• ReflectionHelper - Paulo Zemek
  This class makes getting MemberInfos easy, without the use of magic strings (so it is refactoring friendly) and also allows you to create delegates to do fast accesses to those items, much faster than the normal Invoke, GetValue or SetValue methods.
  
  

Cryptography & Security

• Encryption and compression, native and managed - ErnestoNet
  DLL for native encryption and compression (using Crypto++). Includes RSA Key Generator in C#, and encryption and compression in ASP.NET (C#).
  
  

Database

• RaptorDB - the Document Store - Mehdi Gholam
  NoSql, JSON based, Document store database with compiled .net map functions and automatic hybrid bitmap indexing and LINQ query filters (now with standalone Server mode, Backup and Active Restore, Transactions)
  
  
• Making Your Own MySQL Backup and Restore Tools in C#/VB.NET/ASP.NET - MySqlBackup.DLL (Supports Unicode, UTF8) - adriancs
  Unicode, UTF8 character backup and restore of MySQL database in C#
  
  

Date and Time

• C# Date Time Parser - Sergey Stoyan
  Parsing date and (or) time from a string
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Architecture Guide: ASP.NET, MVC3, Entity Framework, Code-First with existing Database and few more.. - Nirosh
  In this whitepaper, I will walk you through developing a simple MVC 3 application architecture using Entity Framework’s code first technology. Later hopefully you can evolve this to be an architecture that you can use for small to mid-size web application development..
  
  

Desktop Gadgets

• Creation of Menu and submenu in WPF desktop application - Deb Kumar Ghosal
  Here in this article, I would like to cover for beginners of how to approach for the coding and design of a normal desktop application using WPF.
  
  

DLLs & Assemblies

• cn5apinet - ConceptNet5 API Library - JoeSox
  Connect to ConceptNet 5's REST API
  
  

Edit Controls

• i00 Spell Check - No Third Party Components Required! - i00
  Simple to use, open source Spell Checker for .NET
  
  

Game Development

• Simple client-server network using C++ and Windows Winsock - bshokati
  How to create a client-server network for multiplayer game programming using C++ and Windows Winsock
  
  

Hardware & System

• Real time.Windows Runs in the Ring2 - khavkin@sandy.ru
  This article presents the Hadcon's real time module for Windows 7/XP
  
  

Internet / Network

• A Universal TCP Socket Class for Non-blocking Server/Clients - Elmue
  A universal class for bidirectional TCP communication
  
  
• Understanding the insides of the SMTP Mail protocol: Part 1 - Higty
  This article describe the mail sending process using the SMTP mail protocol.
  
  
• Understanding the insides of the POP3 mail protocol: Part 2 - Higty
  This article describes the mail sending process for beginners of the mail protocol.
  
  

Libraries

• A Framework in C# for Fingerprint Verification - Octavio Loyola González, Miguel Angel Medina Pérez, Andres Eduardo Gutierrez Rodriguez, Milton García Borroto
  In this article, we introduce a framework in C# for fingerprint verification, we briefly explain how to perform fingerprint verification experiments and how to integrate your algorithms to the framework.
  
  

Programming Tips

• PowerBuilder ‘Gotcha’ – Grid Datawindows with Picture Controls - Matt Balent
  So I’m working on a ‘dashboard’ style datawindow in an application which shows a grid of data along with some graphics so the user can easily see changes/important stuff. There are a number of reasons to use a grid datawindow for this, especially since they can easily be changed by
  
  

Reviews on Third Party Products and Tools

• Logging exceptions of Windows Phone applications to a central server with the help of FogBugz - smarterdb
  This article describes how to log exceptions of Windows Phone applications to a central server with the help of FogBugz.
  
  

SharePoint Server

• SharePoint 2010 – LINQ and SPMetal - Jean Paul V.A
  Exploring LINQ and the SPMetal tool.
  
  

String handling

• Converting PDF to Text in C# - Dan Letecky
  Parsing PDF files in .NET using PDFBox and IKVM.NET (managed code).
  
  

Win32/64 SDK & OS

• The Birth of Windows Desktop - Vineel Kumar Reddy Kovvuri
  Steps involved in getting to your windows desktop from your power on the machine
  
  
• Win32 SDK C Autocomplete Combobox Made Easy - David MacDermot
  This article describes formatting a non-MFC based combobox.
  
  

Windows Phone 7

• Weekly Thai Recipe! for Windows Phone - Patrick Kalkman
  A complete WP7 application with a central management website (ASP.NET MVC4) for recipe management and push notifications
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• WPF Twitter Client with Model-View-ViewModel Design Pattern Step by Step - Kirill_Lykov
  Details of the MVVM pattern.
  
  
• A WPF Font Picker (with Color) - Alessio Saltarin
  Unsatisfied by the WPF Font Pickers available, I decided to write one on my own (well, almost...)
  
  
• A MIME Message Viewing Library in WPF - Shuqian Ying
  The source code and a simple demo program for a plug-in in Microsoft Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) that provides visual display of email messages.
  
  
• Fully Scalable WPF Image Control - isaks
  A WPF Image control that understands multi frame images (like .ico files) and renders the appropriate frame inside them based on its current size.
  
  

New Tips and Tricks added

.NET Framework

• Ensure your Code First DB is always initialized. - Brady Kelly
  A quick and easy way to ensure that your Code First DB Initializer is always run when your app starts, not just on the first data access operation.
  
  
• Prevent cutting or copying blank lines in Visual Studio - RKT.Ashoka
  
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• Creating Tabs Using Multiview and View Controls - Asif_89
  Giving multiple page effects using the Multiview container control of ASP.NET.
  
  

Bugs & Workarounds

• Windows Post Install and 64 bit Registry tweaks - Snoepie
  WPI and 64bit registry integration
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Interactive Analysis and Related Tools - stormpy
  Interactive analysis is a cycle analysis procedure of assumption, validation, and adjustment to achieve the fuzzy computation goal.
  
  

Office Development

• Non-Recursive JSON Parser for VBA - Vinolarium
  Sample code for parsing JSON with deep-nested schemas in VBA.
  
  

Programming Tips

• Simplifying MVVM Properties - Collin Jasnoch
  Simplify your MVVM Properties
  
  

Tips and Tricks updated

Ajax

• Using AJAX asynchronously with progress bar and status - Technoses
  This process can be used for management of bulky and long processes.
  
  
• A Beginners Guide - Implementing Auto Suggest Functionality using Ajax Control Toolkit - AshishChaudha
  This tip describes how the auto complete textbox can be created using the AJAX Control extender. We will also implement a small application to show how this can be done.
  
  

ASP.NET

• How to click/select Row in ASP.NET GridView or HTML Table - Technoses
  The above code will slow down the browser and the browser can hang when Rows in Grid will be 10000 or above.Please view the below suggestion:CS Codeprotected void grvGroups_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e){ if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow) { ...
  
  

GDI+

• NinjaSnipper - Fast screenshot capturing for Windows - Zaraken
  performance oriented snipping tool for Windows
  
  

Internet / Network

• Resume Support for File Downloads - Technoses
  Partial downloading of files.
  
  

New Technical Blogs added

ASP

• Dependency Injection in asp.net mvc4 and webapi using Ninject - Bhupindra Singh
  After using spring.net in asp.net for long, I was looking for a simple, fast and no xml Dependency Injector. For an asp.net mvc4 application I finally settled on Ninject because of its no xml approach, simplicity and ease of use. So, how to choose a Dependency Injector?, well every Dependency Inject
  
  

Book Reviews

• Book Review: The Art of Agile Development - nathans.dropbox@googlemail.com
  The book is not about general agile development but it is in fact all about Extreme Programming (XP) and its aim is to provide the reader with information based on the authors experience not only about what XP is, its practices and principles but some real world advice about agile projects.
  
  

Client side scripting

• How jQuery and “unobtrusive JavaScript” can be poisonous - lelandrichardson
  Stop demanding that the UI be completely separated from logic. Without the use of significantly robust frameworks I simply do not think that this is achievable.
  
  

Mobile Development

• Introduction to HTML5 Development Using VS 2010, HTML5, jQuery Mobile and ASP.NET MVC 4 - kishore Gaddam
  Mobile apps and HTML5 are two of the hottest technologies right now, and there’s plenty of overlap. Web apps run in mobile browsers and can also be re-packaged as native apps on the various mobile platforms. Browser adoption for HTML5 features is accelerating rapidly. Many of the modern browse
  
  

Other .NET Languages

• Programming languages for the age of Cloud - Jan Fajfr
  This post discusses the current state of art programming languages and the future of programming languages in general. The need for distributed software forces us to write complicated software. Which are the language constructs to help us with the challenge?
  
  

Technical Blogs updated

COM / COM+

• PowerBuilder – Using .Net Visual Controls in PB Classic Applications - Matt Balent
  This article describes the techniques and code used during my presentations at the Carolina Code Camp 2012 and at the May 2012 meeting of the North Carolina PowerBuilder User Group. The techniques described here utilize Visual Basic .Net (coded in Visual Studio 2010) with the Interop Forms Toolkit a