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It's the last long weekend of the Summer in Canada so we're all desperately soaking up whatever sunshine and warm air we can find before the glaciers and polar bears move in next week. There is an eerie silence around the office. With luck we'll be back at our desks tomorrow, sharing those sorrowful looks that mark the ending and the beginning. with luck.

Two big competitions are still running and while one is currently a spectator sport, the other is offering $25,000 as first prize. Please be careful as you race to your dev machine to get your entries in.

The Ultimate Coder Challenge is up to week 4, and I'll be posting my updates to Week 3 tomorrow. 6 devs, 6 apps in 6 weeks. And 4 of us judges making their lives difficult. What's not to love.

The Android competition is far easier on the nerves and simply requires
you to enter your game app, be it big or small, simple or complex, serious or frivolous. Every app that's entered has a chance at this prize.

You can't win if you don't enter. Go for it.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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Weekly Poll Results

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Most popular new articles

• ToDoList 6.5.7 Feature Release - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g.
  
• KeePass Password Safe - Dominik Reichl
  
• Smart Thread Pool - Ami Bar
  
• fastJSON - Mehdi Gholam
  
• XML: Include a Flexible Parser in Your C++ Applications - Michael Chourdakis
  

Latest Additions

82 articles overall. 20 new, 62 updated.

New articles added

C#

• A Beginner's Tutorial - Type Casting and Type Conversion in C# - Rahul Rajat Singh
  This small article discusses about type casting in C#.
  
  

Interviews

• A Coder Interview With Iris Classon - The Code Project, Iris Classon
  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 Iris Classon.
  
  

Miscellaneous

• An Improved Version of AGauge (A fast and performing gauge) - Code Artist
  An improved version of WinForms gauge control based on AGauge.
  
  

PHP

• How to use the Token Manager plugin for Wordpress - VectorX
  An article with detailed code examples of creating tokens and assigning them to pages for display thoughout Wordpress using the Token Manager plugin.
  
  

Product Showcase

• Extract Images from a PDF Document - Accusoft
  The PDF Format is a very popular medium for document exchange around the world. PDF files are great for saving and exchanging files across all platforms and on the internet. This whitepaper focuses on how you can use PDF Xpress to extract images from these PDF documents.
  
  

Solutions Center

• Creating a Simple Windows 8 Game with JavaScript: Part 1 – Windows 8 App Basics - Chris_Bowen
  We’ll be using HTML5, JavaScript, WinJS, and some helpful libraries from CreateJS along the way.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• Simple Visual Studio like Pane Resizing, Docking and collapsing - Ty Anibaba
  Learn to create a simple custom control that allows users to dock
  
  
• Building WPF Applications with Self-Tracking Entity Generator and Visual Studio 2012 - Data Validation - Weidong Shen
  This article describes how to do data validation with Self-Tracking Entity Generator and Visual Studio 2012.
  
  
• Reflection RichTextBox display styles using the techniques of tracking behavior - korsarz33
  The vision is now the problem of reflecting styles of RichTextBox display controls. Applies the technique commonly known as behavior.
  
  

Articles updated

.NET Framework

• DynamicParser: How to parse Delegates and Dynamic Lambda Expressions and convert them into Expression Trees - Moises Barba
  Describes how to use C# dynamics to convert a delegate into an expression tree
  
  
• NetSerializer - A fast, simple serializer for .NET - Tomi Valkeinen
  NetSerializer - A fast, simple serializer for .NET.
  
  
• How to Mock Test an Entity Framework Model-First Project - linush
  Explains how to mock test an EF Model-First project using ADO.NET Entity Data Model template
  
  

Algorithms & Recipes

• XML: Include a Flexible Parser in Your C++ Applications - Michael Chourdakis
  Free, portable, compiler-independent XML library in C++
  
  
• Dynamic JSON parser - Andrey Tabachnik
  A simple JSON parser.
  
  
• C# - Optical Marks Recognition (OMR) Engine 1.0 - umar.techBOY
  An API that reads OMR sheets from camera taken/ scanner scanned images.
  
  

Android

• 3D Cross-Platform 3rd Person Shooter - To Intel x86 Android - Ash Cairo
  The process of porting our cross-platform 3D third person shooter game to support the Intel x86 Android environment.
  
  

Applications & Tools

• ToDoList 6.5.7 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.
  
  
• KeePass Password Safe - Dominik Reichl
  KeePass is a free, open-source, light-weight and easy-to-use password safe.
  
  

ASP.NET

• Webpart/Portlet development in ASP.NET MVC Framework - Hasan Hyder
  Solution adorned with drag and drop Portlet/Webpart customization feature in ASP.NET MVC Framework. It summoned JQuery for better user experience evading inclusive page refresh during personalization.
  
  
• AJAX Event Calendar (Scheduler) for ASP.NET MVC 3 in 80 Lines of Code - Dan Letecky
  How to build an AJAX Event Calendar (Scheduler) using the open-source DayPilot Lite for ASP.NET MVC library (Apache Software License 2.0).
  
  
• Using the Entity Framework in ASP.NET MVC - Peter Carrasco
  This article describes how to use the Entity Framework in your application for database access.
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• GridView Column header merging in Asp.net - Vinod Viswanath
  This article explains how we can merge column header and change cell background color for GridView control in Asp.net
  
  

Bugs & Workarounds

• The Case of Evil WinMain - Ladislav Nevery
  Story about how two thirds of all Antivirus programs gone crazy for no obvious reason
  
  

C / C++ Language

• Fast SIMD Prototyping - Wong Shao Voon
  Prototype SIMD vectorized code effortlessly.
  
  
• Application of C++11 User-Defined Literals to Handling Scientific Quantities, Number Representation and String Manipulation - Mikhail Semenov
  keywords: user-defined literals , templates, constant expressions, recursive functions
  
  
• Why you should rewrite your code for the new C++ 11 && operator - Ladislav Nevery
  operator
  
  

C#

• DeepObject: A Multi-level C# 4.0 Dynamic Object - Moises Barba
  A class to create multi-level dynamic objects in C# 4.0
  
  
• Indian Number & Date Format - hprahul
  A control for Indian number format, converts number to words, Hindi words, comma style and Indian date processor
  
  
• Web Search - Visual Studio Add-in , Search (Google, Yahoo, MSDN, Code Project, Stack Overflow and more...) for the selected text/item - Shemeer NS
  Visual Studio Add-in , WebSearch - Multiple search options included in all text editor, reference items, error list. (Integrated search options for Visual Studio IDE)
  
  
• Nullable Types in C# - A Beginner's Tutorial - Rahul Rajat Singh
  This article talks about Nullable types in C#. We will see when could we find ourselves in need for Nullable types and what should we know if we are dealing with Nullable types.
  
  
• Efficient Map Operations for Arrays in C# - Christopher Diggins
  An informal survey of implementation techniques of the map higher-order function for arrays in C#.
  
  

C++ / CLI

• Best gotchas of C++/CLI - Nicolas Dorier
  My journey to migrate pInvoke code to C++/CLI
  
  

Charts, Graphs and Images

• ASP .NET Image Slider with fancy thumbnail hover effect - Akram El Assas
  This article aims to show that ASP .NET combined with jQuery/Ajax/Javascript produces user friendly and attractive websites.
  
  
• ASP.NET Plotter Toolkit - HTML5 Charting for all - Akram El Assas
  ASP.NET Plotter Toolkit makes the process of creating ASP.NET charting controls much simpler and much easier. The toolkit comes with extendable HTML5 charting controls for plotting time series and dense data sets.
  
  

Client side scripting

• Know JavaScript.. use node.js server-side - Harish Palaniappan
  A detailed introduction to node.js
  
  

Collections

• B-Tree Sorted Dictionary - Gerardo Recinto
  In-memory B-Tree sorted dictionary.
  
  
• A Simple C# Property System - zaphoed
  The following article demonstrates a C# implementation of a simple property system.
  
  

Database

• Kerosene ORM: a dynamic, self-adaptive and configuration-less ORM with no need for configuration files - Moises Barba
  The fifth incarnation of a dynamic and self-adaptive ORM library with full support for POCO objects, that doesn’t require any mapping or configuration files, and with support for natural SQL-like syntax in plain C#
  
  
• MySqlBackup.NET - MySQL Backup Solution for C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET - adriancs
  Unicode, UTF8 character backup and restore of MySQL database in C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET
  
  
• Kerosene Maps: A dynamic and configuration-less Entity Framework designed for your POCO objects - Moises Barba
  Extending the Kerosene ORM library to include a dynamic and configuration-less Entity Framework built for POCO objects.
  
  
• Extending Kerosene ORM for WCF support - Moises Barba
  An extension to the Kerosene ORM library that permits seamless database operations in WCF scenarios
  
  
• SSIS Overview - Part I - Vivek.Net
  The purpose of this tutorial is to provide an introduction of SSIS items.
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Design Patterns 1 of 3 - Creational Design Patterns - Kanasz Robert
  In this first article about design patterns I will discuss about creational design patterns and I will show on real examples how to implement them.
  
  
• N-Tier Architecture and Tips - Wh5
  This article tries to clarify many basic concepts in N-Tier architecture from all aspects, and also provide some practical tips
  
  

Edit Controls

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

Files and Folders

• Processing Standard Zip Files with C# compression/decompression classes - Uzi Granot
  This project will give you the tools needed to compress and decompress files using the Deflate method of compression, and to read and write standard Zip 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.
  
  
• Find Duplicate Files and Delete Them - @amitgajjar
  Application for seaching similar kinds of files in different folders.
  
  

Game Development

• Game Programming in C - For Beginners - Shine Jacob (Enot)
  Brief introduction to game programming using C/C++
  
  

Hardware & System

• Registry Comparator (GUI) in C# - mittaltarsem
  Registry hive reader and comparator.
  
  

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.
  
  

Internet / Network

• fastJSON - Mehdi Gholam
  Smallest, fastest polymorphic JSON serializer (with Silverlight4 support)
  
  

List Controls

• Controls Library: Extended ListView with Column Mapping - alexandrvslv
  Docking windows container, extended listview, extended property editor
  
  

Localisation

• .NET Resource (.resx file) Translator - Kumar, Ravikant INDIA Bangalore
  A .NET resource (.resx file) translator. English to any other language.
  
  

Mobile Development

• Puzzle game for tablets and SmartPhones - PavolSatala
  This article shows how to create Puzzle game using Moscrif SDK.
  
  

PHP

• Token Manager - VectorX
  The Token Manager allows web developers to program PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript into tokens that can be used throughout WordPress.
  
  

Product Showcase

• Access Control in Multi-Tenant Applications with Visual Guard - Novalys
  As companies look for different ways to manage their IT needs, “Multi-tenant” and “SaaS” applications are becoming more and more common. However, they also pose unique challenges. We will look at security administration and user management in a multi-tenant application with Visual Guard.
  
  

Progress Controls

• Progress Bars, Threads, Windows Forms, and You - Abion47
  Using asynchronous progress bars on your form from start to finish
  
  

Threads, Processes & IPC

• Smart Thread Pool - Ami Bar
  A .NET Thread Pool fully implemented in C# with many features.
  
  
• Process Suspender and Advanced Terminator - perilbrain
  This article will tell you using unmanaged APIs to suspend and terminate processes.
  
  

Windows Communication Foundation

• Nine simple steps to enable X.509 certificates on WCF - Shivprasad koirala
  Nine simple steps to enable X.509 certificates on WCF.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• Visual Studio 2012 Metro Styles for WPF - Winfried Lötzsch
  Black Metro Styles for Button, ListBox, Menu, ScrollBar, TabControl and TextBox
  
  
• Printing large WPF UserControls - BenjaminWalker
  Printing a large WPF UserControl across multiple pages.
  
  
• WPF RichTextBoxToolBar Control - Pavel Evgenjevich Timoshenko
  Developing an easy to use toolbar for formatting the contents of a RichTextBox WPF control.
  
  

New Tips and Tricks added

.NET Framework

• Out of Memory in Visual Studio - Shweta Lodha
  The "ResolveManifestFiles" task failed unexpectedly. System.OutOfMemoryException: Insufficient memory to continue the execution of the program.
  
  

ASP.NET

• MVC3 Buddy Classes issue with validation attributes - Omar Gamil
  
  
  

Author Resources

• Extensions for Visual Studio - Prasad_Kulkarni
  Extensions for Visual Studio
  
  

C#

• Creation of a Simple C# Program: List Keeper (File I/O, Text Scrolling, Task Object) - point64
  The "List Keeper" program touches on several subjects including file input/output (System.IO), the Task object, breaking out of infinite loops, and scrolling text.
  
  

Files and Folders

• Adding CRLF to EDI Files - Curtis Hines
  Convert EDI file terminators to CRLF
  
  

PHP

• Finding Geographical location of an IP Address - Shine Jacob (Enot)
  Brief introduction on how to find the location of an IP Address
  
  

Tips and Tricks updated

C#

• High performance C# byte array to hex string to byte array - drdigit
  High performance C# byte array to hex string to byte array.
  
  

Debug Tips

• Windows Symbols and Dump Analysis (Quick Steps) - Manish K. Agarwal
  Windows Symbols and Crash Dump Analysis
  
  

Progress Controls

• ProgressBars for console apps - Carlos Luis
  Progress bars for console apps
  
  

New Technical Blogs added

Cryptography & Security

• Cryptography : Asymmetric Encryption by using Asymmetric Algorithm Classes. - RaviRanjankr
  This Blog is enable you to understand the basic of Cryptography with Asymmetric Encryption Algorithm Classes.
  
  

Design and Architecture

• When designing software don't forget Fitts and Hick - Zac Gery
  The article decsribes two design principles at the core of design and interaction.
  
  

Mobile Development

• Custom Widgets on iPhone/iPad - Zac Gery
  The time has come for Apple to embrace the idea of custom widgets on iOS.  It should be a a no-brainer but currently there are only three static widgets on iOS; they are Stock, Weather, and Share.  There are no additional widgets available in iOS6 beta except for an expansion of the Share widget to
  
  

Social Network APIs

• Implement Facebook login with OpenID Selector - S Ravi Kumar-2012
  Implement Facebook login with OpenID selector.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• CallMemberName – An easier way to do INotifyPropertyChanged and more - Andrei Rinea
  An easier way to do INotifyPropertyChanged.
  
  

Technical Blogs updated

.NET Framework

• CLR Versions Compatibility - Girish J Jain
  Lets learn the compatibility between multiple CLR versions which exist and how can use the supportedRuntim element in an application's configuration file.
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• Uploading and returning files in ASP.NET MVC - After2050
  Index 1. Brief 2. How to upload a file? 2.1 Basics 2.2. Reading files from request 3. HttpPostedFileBase 3.1. Behind the scenes 3.2. HttpPostedFileBaseModelBinder 3.3. HttpFileCollectionValueProvider 4. Uploading multiple files 5. Using view models to validate POSTed files 5.1. FileSizeAttribute
  
  
• ASP.NET GridView – OnRowDataBound vs OnRowCreated - cpsglauco
  How to manage javascript and events for GridView
  
  

Exception Handling

• Exception Handling in ASP.NET MVC - After2050
  Learn about the HandleError filter and discuss about the different exception handling mechanisms that will fit to an MVC application.