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What a week!

Our new design is out, and we've enjoyed the comments, the discussions and the suggestions. If you have suggestions for improvement or a hit-list of things that positively, absolutely must be fixed, head on over to my "Redesigning CodeProject' article and dive in.

Also, as promised, the final details of our The Windows 8 & Ultrabook App Innovation Contest. Our apologies for the lauch delay, but we decided to not launch the contest as planned, and instead increased the prize pool to a whopping $140,000 cash, with the first 300 winners of Round 1 to be sent an Ultrabook.

The goal of this competition is to get your app into the Intel AppUp online store in time for Christmas.

• 300 round 1 winners will each be sent an Ultrabook, for free, to be used to test and fine-tune your app.
• The first 50 successful round 2 entrants will receive a $1,000 prize for getting their app in the AppUp store.
• All round 2 entrants are in the running for 1 of seven $10,000 cash prizes
• The final winner gets the $20,000 grand prize
• Every single entrant also goes in the fast lane for the app approval process.

That's a total prize package for the big winner of $31,000, plus additional promotion and visibility for you and your app, plus you are sent an Ultrabook!

We're also happy to announce the winners of the top articles from last month. Congratulations guys!

Best C# article of August 2012

César de Souza - Haar-feature Object Detection in C#

Best C++ article of August 2012

Nicolas Dorier - Best gotchas of C++/CLI

Best overall article of August 2012

Florian Rappl - Editor for Mario5

Best Web Dev article of August 2012

Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira - Social News

Best Mobile article of August 2012

Ash Cairo - 3D Cross-Platform 3rd Person Shooter - To Intel x86 Android

Best VB.NET article of August 2012

Kenneth Haugland - Finding prime numbers

For the full list of prizes please visit the competition winner list.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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Weekly Poll Results

This week's survey: Will you get one of the latest generation Ultrabooks?

Most popular new articles

• ToDoList 6.5.8 Feature Release - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g.
  
• Zip Utils - clean, elegant, simple, C++/Win32 - ljw1004
  
• Handwriting Recognition using Kernel Discriminant Analysis - César de Souza
  
• fastJSON - Mehdi Gholam
  
• Bird Programming Language: Part 1 - Dávid Kocsis
  

Latest Additions

133 articles overall. 45 new, 88 updated.

New articles added

Algorithms & Recipes

• Image Inpainting Technique using Local Binary Pattern based Texture Inpainting - Grasshopper.iics
  Easy Image Inpainting using Local Binary Pattern
  
  
• Bird Programming Language: Part 2 - Dávid Kocsis
  A new general purpose language that aims to be fast, high level and simple to use. (I renamed it from Anonymus)
  
  

Book Reviews

• Reverse Engineering Legacy Applications - Marc Clifton
  A Review of "Object Oriented Engineering Patterns"
  
  

C#

• Troubleshooting Visual Studio Add-ins, Error Numbers and it's possible solutions - Shemeer NS
  Error Number 8013150a, 80131515, 80131522, 80070002, 80004002, 80004005, 80070057, 80131500, 80131018
  
  
• GoogleMapsNet - GoogleMaps Control For .NET - darkoman
  A simple .NET control for GoogleMaps web services.
  
  
• Working with Sockets in C# - Houssem Dellai
  This article shows how to use sockets to send messages
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Client Server Event Subscription Techniques in C# - anshudutta
  This article notes down few essential techniques, their detailed implementation with advantages and disadvantages.
  
  

General Graphics

• Create Pie Chart Using Graphics in C# .NET - hari19113
  This article shows how to create a Pie chart using the Graphics class in C#.
  
  

Interviews

• A Coder Interview With Rachel Reese - The Code Project, Rachel Reese
  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 Rachel Reese.
  
  

Metro

• Redesigning CodeProject - Chris Maunder
  Rethinking the design and layout of CodeProject.com using the design language formerly known as Metro.
  
  

MSIL

• IlPad - icemanind
  A program to compile C# code into MSIL code.
  
  

Other .NET Languages

• How to Think Like a Functional Programmer - Marc Clifton
  Lessons learned about FP from the perspective of an Object Oriented programmer
  
  

Product Showcase

• Intel Business Client Platforms - beutlerr
  Whether you’re developing for unmanaged small business, or enterprise-level IT departments, 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ processor-based PC and mobile platforms are designed to help you meet the needs of your customers.
  
  

Solutions Center

• Creating a Simple Windows 8 Game with JavaScript: Part 3 – Game Logic - Chris_Bowen
  This is the third in a series of posts that will show you to create a (very) simple Windows 8 game.
  
  
• Creating a Simple Windows 8 Game with JavaScript: Part 4 – Input & Sound - Chris_Bowen
  This is the fourth in a series of posts that will show you to create a (very) simple Windows 8 game.
  
  
• Fully Control Your Webcam in Your Web Browser - Dynamsoft
  Capture images and video streams from your webcams in IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera.
  
  

VB.NET

• Georeferencing Open Street Map Tiles to Use with MapWinGIS - Ben Freeman CBNL
  How to add an Open Street Map overlay to a Map using MapWinGIS.
  
  

Articles updated

Algorithms & Recipes

• Handwriting Recognition using Kernel Discriminant Analysis - César de Souza
  Demonstration of handwritten digit recognition using Kernel Discriminant Analysis and the optical recognition of handwritten digits data set from the UCI Machine Learning Repository.
  
  
• Bird Programming Language: Part 1 - Dávid Kocsis
  A new general purpose language that aims to be fast, high level and simple to use. (I renamed it from Anonymus)
  
  
• Lua Interpreter - Liu Junfeng
  A Lua interpreter is implemented in C#. It allows to write Lua extensions in C# and call the extensions in Lua code.
  
  
• Add a point to a polyline - Kenneth Haugland
  Insert a new point to a polyline
  
  
• Tile Scaling for Maximum Area Coverage Based Upon Aspect Ratio of Tiles - ShawnPavel
  This is an algorithm for maximizing coverage of a rectangular area with scaling tile children.
  
  

Android

• Create a dynamic shelfview in Android? - omid.nazifi
  In this Article, you can see a program that shows a shelf view. This shelf view has two features. First create a ListView that it includes another list view. Second, Inner ListView you can move items as horizontal.
  
  
• Sending a SMS Message from an Android Application - gupta.avinash
  In this article I will discuss possible ways to send an SMS message from an Android application.
  
  

Applications & Tools

• ToDoList 6.5.8 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.
  
  
• Search User in SAP and LDAP Databases or Create User in SAP - snp157
  Use Bapi in C#
  
  

ASP.NET

• Web User Forms for ASP.NET - Jani Giannoudis
  User driven runtime dynamic ASP.NET Web Forms
  
  
• ASP.NET Multiple File Upload With Drag & Drop and Progress Bar Using HTML5 - Akram El Assas
  ASP .NET File upload widget with files and folders Drag & Drop, multiple file selection, progress and preview images. Supports cross-domain, chunked, resumable file uploads and automatic retries.
  
  
• ElmahR = ELMAH + SignalR - Wasp.NET
  ELMAH + SignalR = ElmahR, ASP.NET real-time error monitoring aggregating dashboard
  
  
• How to Detect Browser Capabilities in ASP.NET - DrABELL
  This project demonstrates the implementation of server-side Web Browser's type/capability detection API, written in C# and Java scripting
  
  
• Socialize your ASP.NET application with OpenSocial - Ilya Builuk
  This article briefly describes what is OpenSocial and how to use it in ASP.NET applications by Catpic
  
  

Audio and Video

• Pure .NET DirectShow Filters in C# - Maxim Kartavenkov
  Article describes how to make DirectShow Filters in .NET, it consist of BaseClasses and couple of samples
  
  

C / C++ Language

• How to create a Simple Lock Framework for C++ Synchronization - Woong Gyu La
  This article explains how to create your own simple Lock Framework for C++ Synchronization
  
  
• Identification numbers and check digit algorithms - Shine Jacob (Enot)
  Identification numbers and check digit algorithms with their C implementations
  
  
• SmartObject Class (Objective-C like Memory Management) for C++ (a substitute of Smart Pointer maybe?) - Woong Gyu La
  This article explains Objective-C like C++ Memory Management Class, SmartObject.
  
  

C#

• Universal Type Converter - Thorsten Bruning
  Converting nearly every type to another type
  
  
• C# and VB.NET Code Searcher - Using Roslyn - woutercx
  A fast C# and VB.NET code searcher using Roslyn.
  
  
• Reputationator - CP Narcissists Rejoice! Part 2 of 4 - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
  Keep more detailed track of your Codeproject reputation points.
  
  
• Expression Tree Basics - Abul Kayes
  Using C# Expression Trees to build a custom sort routine
  
  
• Converters class - Register all your data-type conversions in a single place - Paulo Zemek
  This article explains how to create a class that can handle any kind of data-type conversion by allowing users to register their own conversions and how to make it work both as a global and also as a local solution, so different threads can do different conversions for the same data-types.
  
  
• Small File Transfer from Server to Client - SumanBiswas
  This small application will help you to gain basic knowledge about how file can be sent from server to client.
  
  

Client side scripting

• ColorPicker - a jQuery UI Widget - Olivier Giulieri
  A web color picker which looks like the one in Microsoft Office 2010.
  
  

Cross Platform

• SarBox - Biswas, Sumit
  SarBox helps user to parse or analyze sar data. It shows data in graphical format which can be exported in CSV
  
  

Cryptography & Security

• Steganography programming with Visual Studio 2012 (Nostega paradigm)‏ - Palavos
  A paradigm of Noiseless Steganography for secretely transmitting messages via Excel graphs.
  
  
• Huo Encryption / Decryption Assembly Program - Palavos
  x8086 assembly program that encrypts/decrypts text input from the keyboard by using basic assembly language ideas
  
  

Database

• DBKeeperNet - Keeps Your DB Schema Up-to-date - voloda2
  An article describing a simple .NET library which simply keeps your database schema up-to-date.
  
  

Files and Folders

• Zip Utils - clean, elegant, simple, C++/Win32 - ljw1004
  Adding zip/unzip easily, no LIBS or DLLs, with an elegant and powerful API.
  
  
• 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
  
  

General Graphics

• Haar-feature Object Detection in C# - César de Souza
  A description of how it was possible to achieve real-time face detection with some clever ideas back in 2001.
  
  
• Rapid Object Detection in .NET - Huseyin Atasoy
  Rapid object detection without a third pary library requirement in .Net.
  
  

Hardware & System

• Clipboard Codec - sbarnes
  Tool to obfuscate strings and small images on the Clipboard. Peek at the Clipboard to see DataFormats of the current content. C# implementation of the ASCII85 codec.
  
  

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.
  
  
• Image Sprites and CSS Classes Creator - AlexCode
  Create image sprites and its CSS classes on the fly
  
  

Internet / Network

• fastJSON - Mehdi Gholam
  Smallest, fastest polymorphic JSON serializer (with Silverlight4 support)
  
  
• IMAP Client library using C# - Rohit Joshi
  IMAPLibrary supports the basic IMAP protocol functions to fetch messages from the mailbox.
  
  
• fastBinaryJSON - Mehdi Gholam
  A binary JSON serializer based on fastJSON
  
  
• A C# SMTP server (receiver) - ObiWan_MCC
  A C# SMTP server (receiver).
  
  

Interviews

• Changing Your Life and Well-Being - VectorX
  How to stay healthy and fit, while working a career that requires you to sit for long periods of time.
  
  

Libraries

• Simple Undo/redo library for C#/.NET - Y Sujan
  Simple undo/redo library for C#/.NET.
  
  

List Controls

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

Metro

• The Fake Project - Redesigning Code Project Part 1 - Chris Maunder, Pete O'Hanlon
  The Fake Project - The first two days of a Code Project redesign.
  
  
• Driving route path direction with Bing maps in C#/XAML Windows 8 app - Farhan Ghumra
  How to draw a driving route direction with Bing maps in C#/XAML Windows 8 app.
  
  

Microsoft BizTalk Server

• BizTalk Server WCF Custom Service Behaviour - KundanKarma
  BizTalk WCF Custom Service Behaviour for sending Response back (filling some values from input) at port level.
  
  

Mobile Development

• Making the most out of JavaScript Intellisense in VS2012 - ChrisPrice
  Making the most out of JavaScript Intellisense in VS2012 when using AMD/require.js
  
  
• Minesweeper - PavolSatala
  How to create a minesweeper game for three platforms with only one code?
  
  

Office Development

• VBA Extend - NewPast.Net
  Format, add line numbers, error handler and expose some dot Net library to VBA
  
  

Other .NET Languages

• WMI Code Creator For Windows Forms for VB.NET - ledtech3
  This is a project for creating code like the WMI code creator but the output is for VB.NET and Windows Forms instead of for a Console Application.
  
  

Programming Tips

• Assembly Programming with Visual Studio 2010/2012 - Palavos
  An example of how to program in assembly by using Visual Studio 2010 or 2012
  
  

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
  
  

String handling

• Efficient string concatenation algo implements String.Join() method - DrABELL
  Alternative solution demonstrates performance improvement using String.Join() (extends original one:"StringBuilderPlus Improves Upon StringBuilder")
  
  

Tabs & Property Pages

• NeoTabControl Library - Burak Özdiken
  A custom .NET tab control for WinForms applications with add-in renderer support.
  
  

Web Security

• Implementing Two Factor Authentication in ASP.NET MVC with Google Authenticator - Rick Bassham
  How to add extra security to your MVC web application, using two factor authentication.
  
  
• Target Eye Revealed part 2 - Target Eye's Screen Capturing - Michael Haephrati
  How Target Eye's screen capturing mechanism works
  
  

Web Services

• Building a basic HTML5 client/server application - Alexander Iacobciuc
  This article is about a basic implementation of HTML5 client/server chat application.
  
  
• Is your web service fast enough? - Stuart Wheelwright
  Using ServiceMon to obtain performance statistics for web services
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• WPF TaskDialog Wrapper and Emulator - Sean A. Hanley
  A TaskDialog wrapper class with fallback emulator (for XP and earlier)
  
  
• Global Shortcuts in WinForms and WPF - geekbond
  This article shows how to register and manage System-Global hotkeys in WinForm and WPF applications and performing some keyboard manipulation from your app.
  
  
• WPF TabControl: Turning Off Tab Virtualization - Ivan Krivyakov
  This is an alternative for "Persist the Visual Tree when switching tabs in the WPF TabControl (Optimized)"
  
  
• How to Embed Arbitrary Content in a WPF Control - Ivan Krivyakov
  Many WPF controls can display arbitrary XAML inside them. How can I do that with my own controls?
  
  
• MVVM PRISM: Modal Windows by using Interaction Request with Generics - Gerard Castelló Viader
  How generics can help us in achieving modal windows in WPF PRISM
  
  
• Enhanced MVVM Design with Type-Safe View Models (TVM) - Harry von Borstel
  Develop your applications quicker and make them more robust with typesafe binding.
  
  
• Bindable Converter and Converter Parameter - Henrik Jonsson
  How to work around that Binding's Converter and ConvertParameter cannot be specified as dynamic Bindings.
  
  
• Bindable Converter Parameter - ntg123
  A simple technique to achieve Bindable-ConverterParameter in WPF's XAML.
  
  

Windows Runtime

• Device enumeration in Windows 8 - ljw1004
  Exploring the Windows.Devices.Enumeration.DeviceInformation and Windows.Devices.Enumeration.Pnp APIs.
  
  

XML

• XSLT 2.0 programming basics - S V Saichandra
  This article describes XSLT programming for beginners.
  
  

New Tips and Tricks added

.NET Framework

• Read sections from web.config not located in root - ajaynarewade
  Article explains how to keep application settings classified by sections in another config file
  
  

Algorithms & Recipes

• Internal Rate of Return (IRR) calcuation - vivekshankar
  Program to calculate the IRR value using C/C++ similar to the one available in Excel
  
  

C / C++ Language

• [winAPI] Masking Console Input (Passwords) - Tox1k
  Using Windows Low-Level Console functions to mask input
  
  

C#

• Difference between var and dynamic in C# - aspnet_regiis
  Difference between var and dynamic in C#
  
  
• Calculating Hash values In Windows Metro Style Applications using C# - Tyronne Thomas
  Calculating Hash values In Windows Metro Style Applications using C# .Net 4.5
  
  

Database

• Backing up an SQL Database in C# - OriginalGriff
  One of the things that it seems far to hard to find is a reliable way of backing up a database, and restoring it again later. Particularly for development, where the SQL server instance and the database are likely to be on your development machine, and very likely to be damaged by code.
  
  
• SQL Server: How to Get All Indexes List With Involved Columns Name - aasim abdullah
  Get all indexes list in detail, with their involved columns.
  
  
• SQL Server: Restore Failure from Enterprise to Standard Edition - aasim abdullah
  Yes you can restore a backup file which is taken from SQL Server Enterprise Edition to Standard Edition BUT if source database is not using Enterprise Edition Specific Features.  Like partition functions in our case. This happened to one of my junior, when he was restoring a database (on SQL Serve
  
  
• Multiple SQL INSERT operations with a single command - OriginalGriff
  Inserting a number of rows in a database isn't difficult, but how do you do it in a single command without concatenating strings?
  
  

Java

• Java Swing Look and Feel Picker - jhouns
  A really simple look and feel picker
  
  

Menus

• Changing Visual Studio 2012 CAPS Menus to Normal - Shemeer NS
  Changing Visual Studio 2012 CAPS Menus to Normal
  
  

Miscellaneous

• How to delete a file or folder to Recyclebin - Anuraj Parameswaran
  Delete a file or folder to Recyclebin using C#
  
  

Mobile Development

• Handling Phone events in Android programs. - krasnoff
  In this article we will learn to write code which response to various phone events such as: phone ring, start conversation, start outgoing call Etc.
  
  

Static & Panel Controls

• Resizing the child controls in the panel according to the change in the size of it - Durgesh Swarnkar
  this article tells to resize the controls under the container control as it changes its size
  
  

Uncategorised Tips and Tricks

• Changing Windows Parental Controls in VB.NET - djdynamix
  A little workaround to enable a VB.NET application to read and alter the WPC settings for any user.
  
  

User Controls

• Fire dynamically loaded UserControl event on the page - Sudip Saha
  Load usercontrol dynamically and fire usercontrol's button event on content page.
  
  

Tips and Tricks updated

Android

• Custom Map tiles (Android) - riyadoll
  
  
  

C / C++ Language

• Creating a Console Menu - Tox1k
  Code for an arrowkey operated menu.
  
  
• Unique_ptr custom deleters and class factories - mzdude
  Making unique_ptr more user friendly.
  
  

C#

• Using "using" Statements: DisposalAccumulator - Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
  Helps to deal with irregular construction patterns of disposable objects
  
  

Client side scripting

• Simple Drop Down Panel jQuery Widget - Evren Yortuçboylu
  jQuery widget structure explained on a simple drop down panel control.
  
  
• Checkbox List With Filtering jQuery Widget - Evren Yortuçboylu
  A checkbox list jQuery UI widget with real time filtering functionality explained
  
  

Grid & Data Controls

• Customized Gridview using SqlDataSource - vivek511
  Add, Update, Delete Records in a Gridview using SqlDataSource
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Chord Shape Generator - ha_asgag
  Using number systems in statistics.
  
  
• Other Applications of Bitwise Operations - ha_asgag
  Harmonizing Music Scales
  
  

Office Development

• Spell checking in Microsoft Access 2003 applications - Md. Marufuzzaman
  An easy way to do spell checking in Microsoft Access 2003 applications.
  
  

PHP

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

Programming Tips

• How to submit Google Docs Form by using C# - Ghasem Heyrani Nobari
  Submitting (HTML) specifically Google Docs Form in C#
  
  
• Step by step guide on building your first email application with the file system watcher - learner'sbug
  Step by step guide on building your first email application with the file system watcher
  
  

WTL

• Log Harvester - Adam Wojnar
  A complete log viewer written in C++/WTL.
  
  

New Technical Blogs added

ASP.NET

• SimpleIoc and the Messenger Service in MVVM Light - Shayne P Boyer
  SimpleIoc and the Messenger Service in MVVM Light.
  
  

Content Management Server

• How to set up a build server for your TFS Hosting account - Windy Liu
  In this article, I will share with you on how to set up a build server for your TFS Hosting account.
  
  

Database

• SQL Server: Disable Logon Trigger Using DAC to Resolve Login Problem - aasim abdullah
  Using logon trigger, users from valid IP addresses can be restricted, but what if you forgot to add in safe list. You will be unable to login though you have sysadmin rights. Use DAC to disable logon trigger.
  
  
• SQL Server: Smarter Way of Query Load Testing at Testing Server - aasim abdullah
  Most import decision by Database Administrator is that a query on development server, where only hundred or thousand of rows exists, can also perform flawless according to given benchmarks when we will deploy same query on production server, where number of rows could be in millions.One solution is
  
  

Design and Architecture

• MemCache++: An example of modern C++ design - Issam Lahlali
  MemCache++ is a light-weight, type-safe, simple to use and full-featured Memcache client. It was developed by Dean Michael Berris who is a C++ fanatic, loves working on network libraries (cpp-netlib.github.com), and currently works at Google Australia. He also is part of the Google delegation to the
  
  
• Stack based vs Register based Virtual Machine Architecture, and the Dalvik VM - markFaction
  A virtual machine (VM) is a high level abstraction on top of the native operating system, that emulates a physical machine. Here, we are talking about process virtual machines and not system virtual machines. A virtual machine enables the same platform to run on multiple operating systems and hardwa
  
  
• Why Domain Driven Design (DDD) is so great - jgauffin
  This article aims to describe why I think that DDD aids you tremendously in creating robust and flexible applications. Today we got several cool frameworks and libraries that we can use. ORMs, WCF, ServiceStack, SignalR, WebApi, IoC etc etc. Just thinking of all can make any serious developer go cra
  
  

Metro

• Windows 8 My Brain - Ivan Krivyakov
  A couple of weeks ago I have found time to download release version of Windows 8 from MSDN that was available since August 15th. I installed in a virtual machine and played with it a couple of times. I must tell you, I am impressed, and not in a good way. I’ve been using Windows [...]
  
  

SharePoint Server

• 10 easy steps to create an elegant jQuery slide show in SharePoint 2007 using Content Query Web Part - Khurram Punjwani
  Create a slideshow in SharePoint 2007.
  
  

Uncategorised Technical Blogs

• Getting Started with Erlang and Nitrogen - Tom Janssens
  Getting started with Erlang and Nitrogen
  
  
• Password Encryption using MD5 Hash Algorithm in C# - Junian Triajianto
  You know, it’s really bad if someone knew your password. As a developer or web master or something else, we have an ethic that we also don’t want to see other’s password. So, what we need to do to store those passwords? One simple solution is using encryption. We change the readable password into un
  
  

Usability

• The First Three Seconds: How Users Are Lost - Zac Gery
  The goal of any website is to clarify, then build interest. Interest drives return visits and recommendations.
  
  

Technical Blogs updated

Database

• SQL Server: Script to Generate HTML Report/mail for Databses Current Size, Growth Rate and Available Disk Space - aasim abdullah
  Working with multiple databases on multiple instances is a tough job. You need to monitor all these instances for everything. Best way to keep eye on every instance activity is SQL Server Jobs. How quickly databases on these instances are growing and does target instance has required space on hard d
  
  

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.
  
  

Files and Folders

• Getting Started with Git for the Windows Developer (Part III) - Working with Files Using Bash - John Atten
  CodeProjectUp to this point . . .This is the third part in a series focused on getting familiar with Git for Windows developers. The series assumes little or no experience using the command line. If you missed the first few posts, here is what we have covered so far:Installing and configuring Git on
  
  

Session State

• How to create a custom session value provider - After2050
  In this article we see how to create a value provider that feeds data from the session.
  
  

Site & Server Management

• Introduction to SSDT (SQL Server Data Tools) - Manjuke Fernando
  Briefly describing the features in SQL Server Data Tools.
  
  

Web Security

• Protect Your Form Postback with Anti-Forgery - ozkar garcia
  Secure a web page postback from malicious exploits.