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Most popular new articles

• A Guide To Writing Articles For Code Project - Marc Clifton
  
• Bird Programming Language: Part 1 - Dávid Kocsis
  
• A Windows Forms based text editor with HTML output - kevin delafield
  
• ASP .NET Plotter - HTML5 Charting for all - Akram El Assas
  
• CGridListCtrlEx - Grid Control Based on CListCtrl - Rolf Kristensen
  

Latest Additions

132 articles overall. 46 new, 86 updated.

New articles added

Algorithms & Recipes

• Domain Coloring Method on GPU - Khaldoon Ghanem
  This article describes how to visualize complex-valued functions of a single complex variable using the domain coloring method on GPU.
  
  
• Sorting Variable Length Strings in O(N) Time - RogerGDoss
  The algorithm described herein is designed to implement sorting of variable length strings in O(n) time.
  
  
• Bird Programming Language: Part 3 - Dávid Kocsis
  A new general purpose language that aims to be fast, high level and simple to use.
  
  

ASP.NET

• How to Query LDAP and display your domain's Global Address List using VB.NET - Robert E Campbell
  A quick run through of how to quickly query LDAP and how to use the resutls of that query.
  
  

Audio and Video

• Visualizing Sound - HoshiKata
  Listen or playback sound and visualize the frequency spread.
  
  

C#

• Transfer Data or Script between two SQL Server Database - csharpbd
  Data Transfer tools who can transfer data and database script between two SQL Server database.
  
  

Charts, Graphs and Images

• ASP .NET Plotter - HTML5 Charting for all - Akram El Assas
  Nowadays, There are a plenty of Javascript charting libraries used in organizations such as NASA, Eutelsat, MongoDB, Google. Justly, this article aims to show you how you can easily integrate Javascript charting libraries in ASP .NET and build your own charting controls depending on your needs.
  
  
• 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.
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Data representation with functions in C# - Akram El Assas
  This article explains Data representation with functions in C# through Algebra, Numbers, Euclidean Plane, and Fractals.
  
  
• Data representation with functions in JavaScript - Akram El Assas
  This article explains data representation with functions in JavaScript through Algebra, Numbers, Euclidean Plane, and Fractals.
  
  

Interviews

• A Coder Interview With Daniel Jalkut - The Code Project, Daniel Jalkut
  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 Daniel Jalkut, Mac developer and podcaster.
  
  

Product Showcase

• High-Level Call Management ICallCommand: Benefits of Newer Spokes SDK! - Plantronics
  High-Level Call Management ICallCommand: Benefits of Newer Spokes SDK
  
  
• So what is Spokes anyway? - Plantronics
  Spokes is a runtime engine and software stack to facilitate interaction with and management of Plantronics devices including headsets, handsets and speakerphones.
  
  
• RESTful Programming With Your Voyager Pro UC - Plantronics
  RESTful Programming With Your Voyager Pro UC.
  
  
• Scan Barcode from a Webcam in a WinForm/WPF Application - Windy Liu
  Embed Dynamic .NET TWAIN to your .NET application. Capture images from your webcams and read the barcode information.
  
  
• Webcam in C#: Easiest Way to Capture Images from Your Webcams - Windy Liu
  Get the solution to integrate Image Grab from webcams in a .NET application. Achieve the functionality in just a few lines of code.
  
  
• Spokes SDK: REST Service - Plantronics
  One of the features in the Spokes SDK is a REST Service that exposes Plantronics device features and call control feature via a RESTful interface.
  
  
• Spokes SDK: Headset Proximity - Plantronics
  Headset Proximity feature in the Spokes SDK allows application developers to query the proximity of their Bluetooth headset with respect to their Bluetooth USB dongle that is connected to the PC.
  
  

Testing and QA

• Unit testing made easy Part 1 : Repository Testing - Foyzul Karim
  Step by step to your first unit testing
  
  

Ultrabooks

• Shopping List - GeorgeChris
  Shopping List is a great utility app for maintaining your shopping list.
  
  
• BMI Calculator - Sarah_G
  BMI Calculator is an awesome app to track the BMI of a user and to understand the patterns to make corrections for a healthy life.
  
  
• Intel Ultrabook–Looking Closer - Member 2625930
  Intel Ultrabook–Looking Closer.
  
  
• Travel Book - hisureshkumarg
  Travel Book is a highly useful app which helps you to beautifully organize your Travel pictures.
  
  
• Memories - hisureshkumarg
  Memories is a highly useful app which helps you to beautifully organize your Memorable pictures.
  
  

Windows Communication Foundation

• A Beginners Guide to Duplex WCF - Ger Hayden
  The purpose of this article is to create a service which accepts messages from any client and redistributes those messages to all subscribed clients, and a client that can subscribe to the service, send messages to it and receive unrelated messages from it regardless of how many it sends.
  
  

XML

• XSLT 2.0 in .NET - Akram El Assas
  The .NET Framework provides XslCompiledTransform which is an XSLT processor 1.0. However this doesn't mean that we can’t work with XSLT 2.0 in .NET. This article is for folks who want to use XSLT 2.0 in .NET.
  
  
• XSLT Survival Kit - Akram El Assas
  XSLT Survival Kit provides useful and handy templates for XSLT 1.0 language.
  
  
• Remove space in .NET serialization of empty XML element - Herbert Oppmann
  Shows how to get the .NET XmlWriter class to write empty element tags as instead of
  
  

Articles updated

Algorithms & Recipes

• Bird Programming Language: Part 1 - Dávid Kocsis
  A new general purpose language that aims to be fast, high level and simple to use.
  
  
• Visualizing the Mandelbrot set - Andy Bantly
  Visualizing the Mandelbrot set using multiple threads of execution.
  
  
• How to Calculate the Chi-Squared P-Value - Jacob F. W.
  Learn the Secrets of the Universe
  
  
• Eratosthenes/Sundaram/Atkins Sieve Implementation in C# - Ashraff Ali Wahab
  C# Implementation of Eratosthenes/Sundarm/Atkins Sieve to generate prime numbers and comparison of performance numbers between the three implementations.
  
  
• 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)
  
  

Applications & Tools

• JPGDateChanger - Tool to Restore Last Modified Date for JPG Files - Damir Valiulin
  JPGDateChanger is a tool that changes last modified date to the one stored in EXIF data
  
  

ASP.NET

• DotLucene: Full-Text Search for Your Intranet or Website using 37 Lines of Code - Dan Letecky
  An introduction to Lucene.Net, the open source full-text search engine.
  
  
• ElmahR = ELMAH + SignalR - Wasp.NET
  ELMAH + SignalR = ElmahR, ASP.NET real-time error monitoring aggregating dashboard
  
  
• Manage ASP.NET Session Variables using the Facade Design Pattern - David Hay
  Reduce bugs in ASP.NET applications by improving access to Session variables
  
  
• ASP.NET Pagination - Srinivasu Pemma
  This is most common but very important part of every developer's life, Taken from my technical blog http://www.srinetinfo.com
  
  
• ASP.NET MVC: Creating localized DropDownLists for enums - Rui Jarimba
  A collection of HTML helpers that generate DropDownLists for enums, with or without localization support.
  
  
• jQuery Modal Dialog with Dynamic Content - Abey Thomas
  Implement a jQuery dialog window (modal or normal) that can contain truly dynamic content.
  
  
• MongoDB GenericDAO with LINQ support - Lazaro Lima
  A C# implementation for GenericDAO pattern for MongoDB with LINQ support.
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• Effective paging with List View control in ASP.NET - Abdul Quader Mamun
  To develop scalable applications, effective paging is essential. Devoid of smart and effective paging and sorting to handle thousands of thousand data takes extra time and system resources.
  
  

Audio and Video

• A managed FreeFrame host - Jarno Burger
  A managed wrapper around FreeFrame, to give your video frames some cool effects
  
  

Author Resources

• A Guide To Writing Articles For Code Project - Marc Clifton
  Some tips on writing a decent article.
  
  

C / C++ Language

• Dangling Pointers: Pathology, Prevention and Cure - Pablo Aliskevicius
  Dangling pointers were a problem in the past, but nowadays we'll find none, right? Guess again...
  
  
• Windows Development in C++, working with menus - Espen Harlinn
  Windows API, menus, c++ lambda expressions, std::enable_shared_from_this
  
  
• Apache 2.x Modules In C++ (Part 1) - Andy Kirkham
  Part 1 - Setting up and getting started
  
  

C#

• An Overview on Many Terms and Principles - Paulo Zemek
  Understand things like OOP, AOP, Loose-coupling, Class Inheritance, Interface Implementation, Open-Closed Principle and others.
  
  
• Attributes vs. Single Responsibility Principle - Paulo Zemek
  This article explains how attributes can violate the single responsibility principle and presents some ideas to avoid the problem.
  
  
• How to Create a High Performance Syntax Highlighting RichTextBox Control - Yvar Birx
  Highlight Text, Fast, Easy, and afcourse, nice.
  
  

Charts, Graphs and Images

• The use of MS Chart Control and VB.NET for Statistical Purposes: Plotting Kaplan-Meier Estimate. - MohamedKamalPharm, MohamedSabryBakry
  We used VB.NET and MS Chart in a Web Application to extract the data from a user-uploaded or online database, create life tables using the Kaplan-Meier Formula and plot the survival curve. The whole operation is performed through a user friendly web-based wizard.
  
  

Custom Controls

• ASP.NET HTML Editor Control - Amir Jalilifard
  Creating a Useful ASP.NET Html Editor custom control
  
  

Database

• Easy SQL-CE Access Utility in C# - Bart-Jan Verhoeff
  Access data in any SQL server compact edition datatable using only one line of code in C#
  
  
• Handling BULK Data insert from CSV to SQL Server - Ashrafur Rahaman
  From this article, developers will get some useful guidelines on bulk data insertion in SQL Server.
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Understanding and Implementing State Pattern in C# - Rahul Rajat Singh
  This article describes what is state pattern, when could we find state pattern useful and how to have a rudimentary implementation of state pattern in C#.
  
  

Desktop Gadgets

• System Information - MehdiNaseri
  How to collect system information from local or remote computer.
  
  

DirectX

• Programming Direct2D – Part 1 - Sarath C
  Introduction to Direct2D API
  
  
• Using XInput to access an Xbox 360 Controller in Managed Code - Joel Ivory Johnson
  Using the XInput library to interface with the Xbox 360 controller.
  
  

Edit Controls

• A Windows Forms based text editor with HTML output - kevin delafield
  A Windows Forms based text editor with HTML output, implemented with a browser control in edit mode.
  
  

Game Development

• Using XNA to Access an Xbox 360 Joystick - Joel Ivory Johnson
  This article demonstrates how to use the Microsoft XNA Framework to read the state of an Xbox 360 controller
  
  

General Graphics

• Detect the angle of a line in an image - Mahdi Nejadsahebi
  How to detect the angle of a line in an image.
  
  

Hardware & System

• Simple URB (USB Request Block) Monitor - Deka Prikarna A.
  Simple URB (USB Request Block) Monitor
  
  

Installation

• SharePoint 2013: Setting-Up A Clean And Recoverable Development Virtual Machine - Ritchie Ponce Grijaldo
  My own way of setting-up a SharePoint 2013 development virtual machine wherein I wanted to have it clean and recoverable anytime just in case I made a mess trying out something.
  
  

Internet / Network

• SMTP Client with SSL/TLS - David Johns, John_Tang
  C++ SMTP client, support SSL and TLS encrypted connection to SMTP server
  
  
• WebScraping in CSharpDotNetTech - dot net tech
  Multithreaded Web Scraping with Examples of WebBrowser, WebClient, HttpWebRequest/HttpWebResponse, Regex, BackgroundWorker.
  
  
• ZeroMQ via C#: Introduction - Manar Ezzadeen
  An Introduction to ZeroMQ, a very lightweight message queuing open source software.Then exploring and testing in a very easy way its main communication patterns using C#.
  
  

LINQ

• LinQ Extended Joins - Juan Francisco Morales Larios
  The lost joins in System.Linq
  
  

List Controls

• CGridListCtrlEx - Grid Control Based on CListCtrl - Rolf Kristensen
  A custom draw CListCtrl with subitem editing and formatting
  
  

Office Development

• Microsoft Office Version Detector - aalvarez13
  This is an alternative for "Microsoft Office Version Detector".
  
  

SharePoint Server

• Library and List Size - Jean Paul V.A
  How to solve a real life scenario involving retrieving the size of libraries and lists.
  
  

Silverlight

• Capture Image from Webcam using Silverlight - Aman.A
  Capture a frame from live webcam feed and save it as an image file to disk
  
  

Tools and IDE

• The Future of Software Development: CodeDOMs (Part 1) - KenBeckett
  Modeling the semantics of programming languages.
  
  
• Creating a CodeDOM: Modeling the Semantics of Code (Part 2) - KenBeckett
  Creating a CodeDOM for C#
  
  
• Displaying a CodeDOM using WPF (Part 3) - KenBeckett
  Displaying a CodeDOM graphically using WPF
  
  

Ultrabooks

• Sim Trader - Windows Store Apps - rgawdzik
  Showing off how a clean interface can make use of an Ultrabook's amazing display.
  
  
• Flavours (AppInnovation) - Nrupal Prattipati
  Starting with Recipe creation and sharing, to a full fledged Kitchen Assistant.
  
  
• WPF Touch Enabled Brick Ball Game - @AmitGajjar
  This is not a simple brick ball game but we need to concentrate on two balls at a time.
  
  
• All-in-One Photo Manager - Anup Kumar Verma, pawan kumar verma
  Photo Manager connects Facebook, Google+, Picassa, and local in one place with shake, tag, touch, and feel.
  
  
• TutorPedia - Making Wikipedia personal. - Pete O'Hanlon
  With the advent of Ultrabooks, it's easy to create compelling desktop applications that take users to a new level of interactivity. TutorPedia gives you the ability to make Wikipedia the resource that you want it to be.
  
  
• Reading Ultrabook Sensor Data with the Windows 8 Sensor API - Yvan Rodrigues
  A head start for App Innovation contestants.
  
  
• Next Stop - App Innovation - Nrupal Prattipati
  Next Stop alerts you when to get off a train or bus, you will not miss a stop again.
  
  
• Rev Warrior - An automobile performance helper - Jason Gleim
  An application to help gear-heads tune their rides
  
  
• Document Management System - LukeKennedy
  SharePoint and Windows 8 application.
  
  
• UltraBook/Desktop Offline Web Browser-Save on Wi-Fi and Internet access costs - balajivit
  Save on Wi-Fi and Internet access costs;A simple application to save your favorite articles,blogs and websites to read later.
  
  
• Contacts - Keep in Touch. - hisureshkumarg
  Contacts is a great utility app for all users to maintain the record of all contacts and their details like mobile, landline number, address, email, website, birthday and anniversary.
  
  
• Goodday - An app to kick start your day. - Sarah_G
  Goodday is an innovative app designed with a vision to help you to jump start your day and manage any aspect of your day by providing awesome tools to manage your twitter, tasks, finance all within a single app.
  
  
• Dashboard Ultra - michael belshaw
  This app, which harnesses the exciting sensor interface of the Ultrabook, will enable car driver to log and display in real-time there driving/racing activities
  
  
• Finance Tips - sarmaghi
  Finance Tips is an awesome app for accessing Finance news, articles and other details.
  
  
• Wish Jar - hisureshkumarg
  Wishjar is a highly useful app that helps you enter and view all your wishes.
  
  

User Controls

• CheckBoxList(For) - A missing MVC extension - Mikhail Tsennykh
  Extends MVC HtmlHelper class so you can create POSTable checkbox list.
  
  

VB.NET

• String Enumerations in VB.NET - My Bones
  This is an alternative for "String Enumerations in VB.NET"
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• Silently updatable single instance WPF ClickOnce application - Ivan Leonenko
  Silently updatable single instance WPF ClickOnce applicaiton
  
  
• RuntimeExtensionManagement - Paulo Zemek
  Extend your objects at run-time and create really loosely-coupled applications.
  
  
• AvalonDock [2.0] Tutorial Part 1 - Adding a Tool Window - Dirkster99
  How to create a new tool window in AvalonDock [2.0]
  
  

XML

• XML Serialization and Deserialization: Part-1 - mayankgupta688
  XML serialization and deserialization using C#.
  
  

New Tips and Tricks added

ASP.NET

• Sending mail using ASP.NET with optional parameters - Soumen_Banerjee
  Sending mail using ASP.NET with optional parameters.
  
  

Audio and Video

• Creating Custom FFmpeg IO-Context - Philipp Sch
  How to use an IStream-Interface with FFmpeg
  
  

C#

• Expression Tree - Pranay Rana
  Expression Tree
  
  
• Design TypeDataSet from Storedprocedure using temptable - Pranay Rana
  Design TypeDataSet from Storedprocedure using temptable
  
  
• Get Last n Records using Linq to SQL - Pranay Rana
  Get Last n Records using Linq to SQL
  
  
• C# generics with primary datatype - Pranay Rana
  C# generics with primary datatype
  
  

Database

• Concept mapping between SQL Server and Oracle - SergioAmorim
  SQL Server and Oracle terms may match, but they can have a very different meaning. This article will help you match one system to the other.
  
  

Grid & Data Controls

• Copying DataGridView Contents To Clipboard - miteleda
  Copy DataGridView contents to clipboard regardless of current selection.
  
  

Menus

• The Process and Adventure of Discovery - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
  Stuck on a really weird problem in WPF? Move your behind and write some code (behind).
  
  

Tips and Tricks updated

ASP.NET

• ASP.NET 4.0 potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected - Monjurul Habib
  If anyone enters unencoded HTML content into a text box on a ASP.NET application
  
  

Client side scripting

• Perfomance of the for loop - Sebastiaan Meijerink
  Lot's of for loops are coded wrong causing a potential performance issue
  
  

Debug Tips

• A Simple Stream Implementation for Debugging - mlzg4
  This stream implementation is fast, thread-safe, easy to use, and very useful for debugging large distributed or concurrent projects.
  
  

Exception Handling

• If/else instead of try/catch - ProgramFOX
  In this article I tell you how you to use if/else instead of try/catch.
  
  

Grid & Data Controls

• Exploring the Behaviour of Property Grid - Bhasker Kandpal
  Exploring the behaviour and capabilities of a property grid control.
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Run C# application on Windows startup (Windows Forms) - ProgramFOX
  A tip about how to run a C# application on Windows startup.
  
  
• C# Command Prompt class - Mehul Dhorda
  This article describes a class that allows you to run a command and get its output.
  
  

PHP

• Wordpress, Permalinks & LAMP with 404's - TrueCodePoet
  Fixing mod_rewrite access to .htaccess files for Wordpress "Pretty Permalinks" and 404 errors.
  
  

Threads, Processes & IPC

• C# Async Named Pipes - Nemo1966
  How to use named pipes with Async
  
  

Windows Phone 7

• Bing Maps in Windows Phone - Dellai Houssem
  Using Bing Maps in Windows Phone 7
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• TIP: Change background of WPF Combobox - Jaime Olivares
  How to change the popup zone of a WPF Combobox programmatically without restyling
  
  
• WPF Custom Window W/Full Windows Functionality - Programmer35
  WPF Custom Window W/Full Windows Functionality.
  
  

New Technical Blogs added

Design and Architecture

• Learn design patterns from real projects: JBoss case study (Part 2). - Issam Lahlali
  Structural design patterns are design patterns that ease the design by identifying a simple way to realize relationships between entities.
  
  

Files and Folders

• Converting DirectX .X files for use in games - Simon Jackson
  While putting together the UnityXNA article I cast aside all warnings and threw caution to the wind and spent a bit of time trying to get my 3D starter XNA sample in to the framework, it should come as no surprise from the tenant of that article that I failed, granted I only spent aboutRead More…
  
  

Java

• Java: Checked Exceptions, Revisited Part II - John Atten
  Checked exceptions in Java.
  
  
• Java: Checked Exceptions, Revisited (or, a closer examination of a flawed mechanism) - John Atten
  This post is a re-examination of some topics I discuss in an older post.
  
  

Mobile Development

• Mobile Development: Analyze QRcode content on Windows Mobile - hjgode
  A demo app to show how these nifty QR barcodes are encoded to hold URLs, business cards, appointments or other data.
  
  
• Mobile Development: Watch the power of your device, think green - hjgode
  This is a very simple application to show the values of GetSystemPowerStatusEx2 in live view.
  
  

SharePoint Server

• Managed Metadata in SP2010 - Simplified - PratapReddyP
  CodeProject                 Metadata is data about data.  Well Now you have to tell me wether answer is correct or not?If you understand above definition, the answer is "Correct".The concept of metadata exists from ages, and we have been using it in .net assemblies and many other stuff.Lets take an
  
  
• Content Organizer / Metadata Routing in SP2010 - PratapReddyP
  Content Organizer / Metadata Routing in SP2010.
  
  

Usability

• I'm Not a Front-End Person - Zac Gery
  Learning, experiencing, and becoming an expert at web development is not difficult.
  
  

Technical Blogs updated

.NET Framework

• Complex Queries With Repository Pattern and the Entity Framework - Ben Kotvis
  Complex queries with Repository Pattern and the Entity Framework.
  
  

Applications & Tools

• Practical applications of the Adaptive Interface Pattern: The Fluent Builder Context - MattDavey
  So it’s been a little while since my last blog post due to the fact that I have recently moved to London to start a new job. If you’re involved in the .NET community in London then look out for me at various conferences and user groups in the new year! Following on from my [...]
  
  

Database

• Create a Cursor using Dynamic SQL Query - Manjuke Fernando
  Create a Cursor using dynamic SQL query.
  
  

HTML / CSS

• Detection of loading an iframe created in Ext JS - morzel
  Suppose that you need to execute a block of code when iframe's content is loaded. In case when iframe is created statically in HTML markup, the solution is really simple. But what if the iframe is created with Ext JS code?
  
  

Mobile Development

• Mobile Development: Move your Form - hjgode
  Some code to make your smartdevice forms being moveable.
  
  

String handling

• Why strings are immutable and what are the implications of it? - morzel
  Ever wondered why it is better to create new string then alter one?
  
  

Third Party Products and Tools

• XNA to UnityXNA and Beyond - Simon Jackson
  Continuing on the exploration of XNA future I posted about an interesting new framework that was brewing by Barnaby Smith over at MVINetwork, a curious project aiming to bring the ease of use of XNA into the Unity3D engine. The project itself is fascinating but at its heart basically just a wrapper