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The big news continues to be our two monster competitions:

1. The Windows 8 & Ultrabook App Innovation Contest
   
   In a nutshell, we want you to write an Ultrabook enhanced Windows 8 app and get it into the Intel AppUp store. The first round involves publishing an article (or just an idea - but the more info, and code samples if you can, the more likely you get through Round 1)). 300 Round 1 winners are sent an Ultrabook, and then race to get their (now thoroughly tested) application in the AppUp store. $1000 to the first 50 apps in the store, $10,000 for the top article in 1 of 7 categories, and a $20,000 Grand Prize.
   
2. The Android at Play Contest
   
   Very simple: Create a new, NDK-based Android game app for Intel architecture (IA) based devices, then write an article about it and you could win a $25,000 cash prize.

There are big prizes but please get your entries in soon! Whether you're a software house looking for some fame and fortune or you're just learning and want to share your new creation, every eligible entry is a potential winner.

cheers,
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Most popular new articles

• ToDoList 6.5.8 Feature Release - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g.
  
• Fast Colored TextBox for Syntax Highlighting - Pavel Torgashov
  
• .NET CLR Injection: Modify IL Code on Run-time - Jerry.Wang
  
• DayPilot - Building an Outlook-Like Calendar Component for ASP.NET - Dan Letecky
  
• Multi RDP Client .NET - Jayson Ragasa
  

Latest Additions

101 articles overall. 30 new, 71 updated.

New articles added

.NET Framework

• .Net Framework Infrastructure - Saeid Pournejati
  This article will explain the foundation and structure of .Net framework architecture
  
  

ASP.NET

• Dynamically Adding and Deleting rows from ASP.NET Gridview - AshishChaudha
  This article talks about a small project that presents the idea of having a gridview which facilitate the addition and removal of rows dynamically at run time.
  
  

Azure

• Use strategy pattern to support cloud storage - Henry He
  In this article, I will explain how to use strategy pattern to add accessing cloud storage support in an on-premise application.
  
  

C / C++ Language

• One interesting bug with cast's. - Sergey Vystoropskiy
  I have faced with one rather interesting bug which was related to a wrong usage of casts. It is a great pleasure for me to share the results of the research.
  
  

Edit Controls

• Empty Template Text Box - stebo0728
  This guide shows how to extend a standard TextBox to have an "empty value" template
  
  

Interviews

• A Coder Interview With Khaled S. Ali - The Code Project
  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 Khaled S. Ali, a software engineer with the Mars Rover team at JPL.
  
  

Other .NET Languages

• Introduction to MSBuild - Part 1 - girlprogrammer
  A step by step walk through of MSBuild file and how to run a target
  
  

Product Showcase

• Webcam & Scanners: Capture Images from Your Browser - Dynamsoft
  Get the solution to integrate Image Grab in one web application. Achieve the most comprehensive compatibility and acquiring images from devices including webcams, scanners and capture cards.
  
  

Ultrabooks

• Newton’s Cradle Simulation - Doug Mair
  Newtons Cradle Simulator for Windows 8
  
  
• The Dew Review – Intel Next Generation Ultrabook™ with Windows 8: Playing with Sensors - Alvin Ashcraft
  Now that I have had a couple of weeks to install some Windows Store apps, various development tools, and generally put the Ultrabook through its paces, I want to provide an update.
  
  
• First look at the Intel IvyBridge Ultrabook - Jon Gallant
  First look at the Intel IvyBridge Ultrabook.
  
  

Windows Communication Foundation

• WCF 4.0 Configuration Updates - Md. Rashim uddin
  This article describe the wcf 4.0 feature for configuration updates.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• Medical image visualization using WPF - Bernhard Kügle
  The article demonstrates the visualization of medical images (DICOM) using WPF.
  
  

Articles updated

.NET Framework

• .NET CLR Injection: Modify IL Code on Run-time - Jerry.Wang
  Modify methods' IL codes on runtime even if they have been JIT-compiled, supports Release mode, and variants of .NET versions, from 2.0 to 4.0.
  
  

Algorithms & Recipes

• Yet Another Math Parser (YAMP) - Florian Rappl
  Constructing a fast math parser using Reflection to do numerics like Matlab.
  
  
• Simple image comparison in .NET - Jakob "XnaFan" Krarup
  A set of .net extensionmethods to get the difference between images and more...
  
  
• Fun with continued fractions - Kenneth Haugland
  Illustrates the calculation and the usefulness of continued fractions
  
  
• Image Inpainting Technique using Local Binary Pattern based Texture Inpainting - Grasshopper.iics
  Easy Image Inpainting using Local Binary Pattern
  
  

Android

• Android - Stock Market Watch (COINS) in C# using Visual Studio 2010 - Sandip.Nascar
  Describes the power of C# in building professional application - Stock Market Watch with Charts on Android platform using Mono C#
  
  

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.
  
  
• Blend PDF with HTML5 - Modesty Zhang
  Rendering PDF binary stream for interactive forms by extending PDF.JS in HTML5
  
  

ASP.NET

• 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, preview images, client-side image resizing and responsive layout. Supports cross-domain, chunked, resumable file uploads and automatic retries.
  
  
• Learn MVC (Model View Controller) Step by Step in 7 Days – Day 3 - Shivprasad koirala
  This article is Part 3 and continuation to the Learn MVC Step by Step in 7 Days series.
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Multiple parameterized (localizable) form buttons in ASP.NET MVC - Rudi Breedenraedt
  Easy handling of buttons in ASP.NET MVC
  
  
• Generating menu from database according to user privilege - _Amy
  Dynamic menu generation according to user privileges from database.
  
  
• Usage of multiple Web Services in a single web application - Sonali Agarwal
  Creating a simple Text Editor web application using multiple web services.
  
  
• Grabbing Server Headers Using Web Forms - darwish
  The article presents a basic web forms project that demonstrates a useful example of an HTTP client.
  
  

Audio and Video

• Play your AVI files with this DirectX video player - rspercy65
  Plays AVI files using Microsoft's DirectX.AudioVideoPlayback.
  
  

C / C++ Language

• The new C++ 11 rvalue reference && and why you should start using it - Ladislav Nevery
  increase performance of your old code with simple operator addition
  
  
• Rendering text with Direct2D & DirectWrite - Espen Harlinn
  Direct2D, DirectWrite, Windows API, C++, std::shared_ptr and more
  
  
• Local NEW or Automatic heap cleanup when leaving scope - Ladislav Nevery
  Experiment attempting to simplify code, Improve exception and error safety and reduce memory leaks by using Scoped NEW
  
  

C#

• Multi RDP Client .NET - Jayson Ragasa
  Multi RDP .NET (.NET 3.5) written in C#.
  
  
• 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), This AddIn works fine with Visual Studio 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012. Custom Search, Shortcut key Alt+F1
  
  
• Dynamically Map SQL Resultset to Business Object - Sam Lombardo
  Dynamically map a DataTable to type-safe business objects using reflection and generics.
  
  
• A simple plug-in engine using Reflection - Vitaly Zhukov
  This article describes how to create and use configurable plug-ins in your application.
  
  
• Actionless Frameworks - Paulo Zemek
  Understand how to create fully configurable frameworks that let your application evolve without creating bottlenecks.
  
  

C++ / CLI

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

Cross Platform

• ObjectScript: A new programming language - unitpoint
  The ObjectScript is a new programing language that mixes benefits of JavaScript, Lua, and PHP. The ObjectScript has syntax from JavaScript, multiple results from Lua, OOP from PHP and much more.
  
  

Custom Controls

• DayPilot - Building an Outlook-Like Calendar Component for ASP.NET - Dan Letecky
  A good-looking ASP.NET control that shows events visually arranged in a day calendar. Includes design-time support and data binding.
  
  

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, Server side queries)
  
  
• 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#
  
  
• 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
  
  
• ADO.NET Data Access Component for SQL Server in C# and VB.NET - AdamNThompson
  A data access component for SQL Server in VB.NET.
  
  
• The Data Tune System - Michael Haephrati
  The DataTune system was one of the earliest data cleansing systems.
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Robust MVC - Igor Okulist
  Robust MVC framework for desktop and web development
  
  
• Singleton Pattern: Single instance, but multiple implementations - Sudheesh.P.S
  A template based, thread safe singleton implementation in C++
  
  

Desktop Gadgets

• AmberIndicator - a systray app under Linux - Eddy Vluggen
  Implemention of an ApplicationIndicator (NotifyIcon under Ubuntu)
  
  

Dialogs and Windows

• Cool, Semi-transparent and Shaped Dialogs with Standard Controls for Windows 2000 and Above - Jerry.Wang
  This article tries to find a way to show Windows standard controls on layered windows. Provides both Native MFC and WinForms source code.
  
  

DLLs & Assemblies

• The Data Exchange Mechanism - Mario Stopfer
  Implementation of the generalized dataflow model between objects.
  
  

Edit Controls

• Fast Colored TextBox for Syntax Highlighting - Pavel Torgashov
  Custom text editor with syntax highlighting
  
  
• i00 Spell Check - No Third Party Components Required! - i00
  Simple to use, open source Spell Checker for .NET
  
  

Files and Folders

• File Searcher in C# - Manfred Bittersam
  A freeware file searcher in C#
  
  

Game Development

• C# / C++ CLI Micro Chess (Huo Chess) - Palavos
  An article about Huo Chess, a chess program in C++ and C# that attempts to be smaller in size than the Commodore-era Microchess
  
  

Grid & Data Controls

• ListView Layout Manager - Jani Giannoudis
  WPF: Customizing ListView/GridView Column-Layout
  
  

HTML / CSS

• HTML5, JavaScript, Knockout, JQuery, Guide for Recovering Silverlight/WPF/C# Addicts. Part 2 - Solar System Animation built with SVG, Knockout and MVVM Pattern. - Nick Polyak
  Creating Solar System animation in HTML5/JavaScript
  
  

Internet / Network

• Asynchronous TCP Part 2 - bkelly13
  Goal: Describe how asynchronous or non-blocking TCP code works
  
  

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

• Razor 2.0 template engine, supporting layouts - Jaap Lamfers
  Razor 2.0 template engine that works outside MVC and that supports layouts (masterpages) and _ViewStart, like Asp.Net MVC.
  
  

MSIL

• ILRewriting for beginners - Mattias Högström
  Runtime IL-Rewriting can be used to add behavior such as logging to applications, or redirect calls from one API to another. This article and accompanying source code explains how to substitute a method call at runtime.
  
  

Office Development

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

Other .NET Languages

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

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.
  
  

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
  
  

Social Network APIs

• C# wrapper for Diablo III API - Charles Ju
  This is a C# wrapper for Diablo III API. The project include the wrapper API file and a GDI+ ownerdraw panel and a Winform demo. You can add any Diablo III tag to the left combobox.
  
  
• Basic Facebook crawler using Regex - Sudik Maharana
  This application will scrap names of friends and friends of friends from Facebook which is not possible by any API key provided by Facebook.
  
  

Tabs & Property Pages

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

Ultrabooks

• Patient Care - Ranjan.D
  PatientCare is a Win 8 Store application developed for managing the patient information
  
  

Web Services

• Building a basic HTML5 client/server application - Alexander Iacobciuc
  This article is about a basic implementation of HTML5 client/server chat application.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• Visual Studio 2012 Metro Styles for WPF - Winfried Lötzsch
  Black Metro Styles for Button, ListBox, Menu, ScrollBar, TabControl and TextBox
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• To bubble or tunnel basic WPF events - bryce
  A description of basic UI event handling.
  
  

Windows Runtime

• Code to stream or convert MP3/WMA to PCM/WAV in Windows 8 (VB) - ljw1004
  VB code to convert MP3 to WAV in Windows 8 using MediaFoundation
  
  

New Tips and Tricks added

C#

• Visual Studio 2010 "Unknown Error" after uninstalling .NET Framework 4.5 (any version) - Shemeer NS
  Visual Studio 2010 "Unknown Error" after uninstalling .NET Framework 4.5 (any version)
  
  
• How to Insert OLE Object (Adobe Acrobat Document) in Word with C# - SummiG
  Easy Method to Insert OLE Object (Adobe Acrobat Document) in Word with C#.
  
  

Charts, Graphs and Images

• Simple Chart with ToolTip using ASP.NET Chart Control - K C R
  This article is to help beginners know how to create a customized tooltip on a bar chart
  
  

Database

• Finding the Lowest Common Ancestor in a tree - Jörgen Andersson
  How to find the Lowest Common Ancestor in a tree.
  
  

Debug Tips

• Show Threads in Source - Windbg way - Kamran Bilgrami
  
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Builder design pattern in Java - arpitmandliya23
  Explains the Builder design pattern in detail with example.
  
  

Files and Folders

• Yet Another Useful Class for Listing Files - himanshupareek
  A class for listing files (including ADS) with callback
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Customized ToolTip [for WinForms] - Hicham El Horri
  Customized ToolTip [for WinForms]
  
  

Programming Tips

• Write comments that matter - Naerling
  If you have nothing smart to comment, don't comment anything at all...
  
  

Uncategorised Tips and Tricks

• IE9 start page to show a different "popular sites" number of rows - Joan Murt
  To speed up the startup of IE9 and to get links to the most popular sites in big displays
  
  

Win32/64 SDK & OS

• Add music to a simple Windows 8 Store App - sam stokes
  This is a really simple implementation of JavaScript and HTML5 to be used in a Windows 8 Store app.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• WPF PathTrimmingTextBlock - Matthew Searles
  How to display a file path in a TextBlock in a GridViewColumn with ellipsis?
  
  

Tips and Tricks updated

C#

• Difference Between IEnumerable and IQueryable - Nischal Bhatt
  This Article is for beginners who are eager to know the basic difference between IEnumerable and IQueryable
  
  

Client side scripting

• Client-side Grid Control in JavaScript - Shawn Lawsure
  A feature-rich, reusable client-side grid control written entirely in JavaScript.
  
  

Database

• Why do I get a "Parameter is not valid." exception when I read an image from my database? - OriginalGriff
  Why? Normally, it's because you stored it wrong...
  
  

Game Development

• Finding the solution to the game of Solitaire - Morten Skaarup
  Using recursive programming to solve the puzzle
  
  

Internet / Network

• YouTube Downloader Using C# .NET - akramKamal
  Full C# code to download videos from YouTube in any quality.
  
  
• Fetching/Import Gmail Contact List - hemantrautela
  This code help for listing GMail contact list.
  
  

Win32/64 SDK & OS

• Demonstration of Wlan API'S from MSDN - david pretham
  Windows Native api application
  
  

New Technical Blogs added

C#

• How to delete a file or folder to Recyclebin - Anuraj Parameswaran
  If we delete file or folder using C# code, it will be deleted from system permanently. Yesterday I was searching for a solution, which helps me to delete file to recycle bin. There is no direct API* available in .Net … Continue reading →
  
  

Date and Time

• C#: A Better Date-Masked Text Box - John Atten
  John on Google CodeProjectLet’s face it. Managing date information within the .net framework (or any framework, really . . . Java is not much better) is a pain the the ass. Really. What makes it even worse is managing user data entry of date information. If that isn’t bad enough, there i
  
  

Validation

• WebForms UnobtrusiveValidationMode requires a ScriptResourceMapping for jQuery - Anuraj Parameswaran
  A solution to the problem.
  
  

Windows Mobile

• Windows Mobile: disable touch input - hjgode
  Hello sometimes you might want to 'lock' the screen, or to put it another way: disable touch input.
  
  

Work Issues

• Programmer Happiness: It's the Little Things - Zac Gery
  Salary and promotion opportunities aside, sometimes it's the small things that add up.
  
  

Technical Blogs updated

HTML / CSS

• Webcam and Annotation With HTML5 - Windy Liu
  It’s not an easy task for developers to create and embed Webcam SDK into their web applications.
  
  

Validation

• Model Validation in ASP.NET MVC - After2050
  In this article we will see how to apply basic validations to a model and also we will see how to create custom validations by implementing the ValidationAttribute class or IValidatableObject interface.
  
  

Windows Mobile

• Windows Mobile: CF how to catch F1 and F2 in WEH - hjgode
  How to catch F1 and F2 in WEH.