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It is less than a month until Christmas. This means, for many of us, less then a month before office life as we know it comes to a tinsel wrapped halt and we all take a deep, deep breath and then start all over again the following week. If you haven't even started that "gotta get it done by year end" project by now start sweating.

One thing many of us will be doing over the break is coding (see the homepage for this week's survey) so if you're coding and have done something you can share, be it code or just a tip, we'd love to have it as an article on CodeProject. Head on over to to the submission page, or go to the authors' forum if you have any questions.

The best articles of last month have been voted, as always, by you. Congratulations to:

Best C# article of October 2012
Sacha Barber - Zombie Explorer : A N-Tier application from top to bottom
Prizes:	Shell MegaPack.Net 2010; SmartOutline 2010; Crypto Obfuscator For .Net - Enterprise Edition; The latest C# ebooks from informIT; ActiveReports 7;

Best C++ article of October 2012
Marius Bancila - 10 More Visual Studio Debugging Tips for Native Development
Prizes:	Codejock Xtreme ToolkitPro; SmartOutline 2010; CryptoLicensing For MFC - Enterprise Edition; The latest C++ ebooks from informIT;

Best Web Dev article of October 2012
Anuja Pawar Indore - Simple but Interesting Features of VS2012
Prizes:	SmartOutline 2010; The latest Web Dev ebooks from informIT; Spread WPF-Silverlight;

Best Mobile article of October 2012
Alex Saenko - R.O.O.T.S
Prizes:	Code Project Mug; Code Project Mousepad; The latest Mobile ebooks from informIT; ComponentOne Studio Enterprise;

Best VB.NET article of October 2012
Meshack Musundi - Wi-Fi Chess
Prizes:	Shell MegaPack.Net 2010; SmartOutline 2010; Crypto Logger For .Net; The latest VB.NET ebooks from informIT;

Best overall article of October 2012
Sacha Barber - Zombie Explorer : A N-Tier application from top to bottom
Prizes:	Code Project Mug; Hyper Build; Spread .NET;

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Weekly Poll Results

This week's survey: Do you code in your spare time?

Most popular new articles

• How does it work in C#? - Part 3 (C# LINQ in detail) - Mohammad A Rahman
  
• Software Copy Protection for .Net Applications - a Tutorial - Ansel Reynard
  
• Comparing Values for Equality in .NET: Identity and Equivalence - richnewman
  
• Changing Your Life and Well-Being - VectorX
  
• How does it work in C#? - Part 1 - Mohammad A Rahman
  

Latest Additions

130 articles overall. 41 new, 89 updated.

New articles added

ASP.NET

• Using RDLC Report in .NET 4.0 - KapilDevTripathi
  Using RDLC report in .NET 4.0 version in ASP.NET and C#.
  
  

Audio and Video

• Easy AVI - Andy Bantly
  A class to aid in creation of AVI files
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Dependency Inversion Principle and the Dependency Injection Pattern - Munir Hassan
  Dependency Inversion Principle and the Dependency Injection Pattern
  
  

DirectX

• Video Effects in Direct3D. Part 1 - Maxim Kartavenkov
  Article shows how easy to make various video effects using PixelShaders in Direct3D.
  
  

Internet / Network

• Apolyton FastJSON - Sosum
  This is an alternative for "fastJSON"
  
  

Product Showcase

• Incoming Calls Announcements - Plantronics
  There are several events and cool information you can get from the devices and how they are being used.
  
  
• How To Get Your Voyager Pro UC to Tweet - Plantronics
  How To Get Your Voyager Pro UC to Tweet.
  
  
• How to Enable Detailed Spokes Logging - Plantronics
  How to Enable Detailed Spokes Logging.
  
  
• Filtering LINQ Queries Using Business Rules Engine - Code Effects
  This article discusses the use of one such new feature, namely, rule-based filtering of LINQ queries using Web Rule, the XML-based super-fast rules engine, implementable as an ASP.NET or MVC component.
  
  
• Using Unprefixed CSS3 Gradients in Modern Browsers - Jennifer Yu
  In this article, I’ll take you through some differences between the old and new syntax and behavior and provides some insight into the change. Hopefully it will save you some time as you support many browsers.
  
  
• Node.js - Spokes JavaScript On Your Desktop - Plantronics
  Node.js - Spokes JavaScript On Your Desktop.
  
  

Ultrabooks

• UltraKnowHow - Abhishek Nandy
  Know Your Ultrabook
  
  
• The Dew Review – Intel Next Generation Ultrabook™ with Windows 8: A Final Look - Alvin Ashcraft
  This is my third and final review of the Intel Ultrabook.
  
  
• Gift Cards Desktop Application for App Innovation Contest - gotechark
  Popular Windows Phone 7 app is now on Intel AppUp
  
  
• Physics toy - The Zoq2
  My second entry to the competition
  
  

Articles updated

.NET Framework

• Software Copy Protection for .Net Applications - a Tutorial - Ansel Reynard
  Add copy protection to your .NET applications with very few investments
  
  
• Comparing Values for Equality in .NET: Identity and Equivalence - richnewman
  An article clarifying the various ways of comparing two values for equality in .NET
  
  
• Team Foundation Server 2012 RC – Install & Configure - kishore Gaddam
  In this post, we will walk through the process of Installing & Configuring Team Foundation Server (TFS)2012 on a Windows 8 machine that has Visual Studio 2012. If you are using TFS 2010 for the Scrum Process , see the blog post @ http://kishore1021.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/scrum-process-for-software
  
  

Algorithms & Recipes

• Visualizing the Mandelbrot set - Andy Bantly
  Visualizing the Mandelbrot set using multiple threads of execution.
  
  
• More Neural Network mathematics and code (C#) - Lucas Allen
  Running, Initializing and Training a Neural Network.
  
  
• The Hexatridecimal Numbering System - Najeeb Shaikh
  This article shows code for creating your own HexaTriDecimal type (Yes, I know that’s quite a mouthful, but read on to know more.)
  
  
• TDD the Anagrams Kata - Richard A. Dalton
  A worked example of Test Driving the anagrams kata
  
  

Applications & Tools

• Send appointment through email in ASP.NET - Ashrafur Rahaman
  Send appointment or event through mail, so it can be synchronized with Outlook calendar
  
  
• My own Mailinator in 5 minutes - TheQult
  A simple Mailinator clone developed in five minutes with the NetFluid framework
  
  

ASP.NET

• AJAX Event Calendar (Scheduler) for ASP.NET MVC 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).
  
  
• Deep Dive into ASP.NET MVC 4 - Part [1] - Introduction - Shemeer NS
  Get started with ASP.NET MVC 4, Compare ASP.NET MVC with Webforms, Sample Application, MVC Master Page - Layout, MVC User Control- Partial View, @RenderBody, Membership management, ActionResults
  
  
• Server-side Google Analytics Transactions - middelpat
  Handling Google Analytics Transactions on server-side using C# intead of JavaScript on client-side.
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• Custom ASP.NET Editable DropDownList - EricFaust
  A custom made DropDownList control for ASP.NET
  
  

C / C++ Language

• Windows Development in C++, working with menus - Espen Harlinn
  Windows API, menus, c++ lambda expressions, std::enable_shared_from_this
  
  
• Windows Development in C++, COM API clients - Espen Harlinn
  Using the Facade Pattern to simplify development with COM based APIs'
  
  
• Smart pointers for single owners and their aliases - john morrison leon
  The missing link for complete memory and pointer safety in C++
  
  
• A C++ String class - Espen Harlinn
  A reference counted, copy-on-write string class
  
  

C#

• How does it work in C#? - Part 3 (C# LINQ in detail) - Mohammad A Rahman
  Language Integrated Query (LINQ) is a Microsoft .NET Framework component that works as a communicator between the objects and the data. This article partially taken from the "Expert C# 5.0" - book and it will explore the different extension methods used in the LINQ using C# and IL code to discuss..
  
  
• How does it work in C#? - Part 1 - Mohammad A Rahman
  How does var, auto implemented properties and += or -= of events work in C# programming language.
  
  
• An indepth look at structures in C# - roylawliet
  Takes an indepth look at structures in C# and how their underlying mechanics work and what impacts they may have.
  
  
• Exporting functions in C#/VB.NET to native code - roylawliet
  Discusses how to export methods in C#/VB.NET to be used in native code (such as C/C++)
  
  
• SqlDependency with Entity Framework 5.0 - Rick Bassham
  This article will show you how to subscribe to data changes using Entity Framework 5.0.
  
  
• Plugging and Preventing Managed Memory Leaks - Amit Bezalel
  Tackling mananged memory leaks using windbg, profiliers and weakreferencs
  
  
• Bulk Data Management - Srinivasu Pemma
  This is the best way to handle or manage bulk data insert to sql server taken from my technical blog http://www.srinetinfo.com/2012/11/bulk-data-management.html
  
  
• Data Accessing Independent From Database And Entity With ADO.Net - Halil Ibrahim Kalyoncu
  This tutorial aims to show a basic approach for designing a data access layer independent from databases and entities.
  
  

Custom Controls

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

Design and Architecture

• From No Factory to Factory Method - Marla Sukesh
  This article will tell about the very known design pattern "Factory Pattern" used in the programming.
  
  

Desktop Gadgets

• Mouse Control via Webcam - Anas Hashmi
  Control your mouse using hand gestures.
  
  

Edit Controls

• How to Create a High Performance Syntax Highlighting RichTextBox Control - Yvar Birx
  Highlight text, fast, easy, and of course, nice.
  
  

Files and Folders

• ExpTreeLib Version 3 - Explorer-like Navigation and Operation for your Forms - Jim Parsells
  A Class Library for building Forms with a folder navigation TreeView and form specific ListViews that can be tailored for your application and behave like Windows Explorer. Full documentation.
  
  

General Graphics

• Rapid Object Detection in .NET - Huseyin Atasoy
  Rapid object detection without a third pary library requirement in .Net.
  
  

HTML / CSS

• Fluid, multi-column, vertically ordered list using CSS - Richard Atkins
  Create a fluid, multi-column, vertically ordered list using nested, floating divs.
  
  

Libraries

• How-to: Benefit from Kinect.Toolbox and Coding4Fun on Kinect Programming - saadmos
  The use of Kinect.Toolbox and Coding4Fun APIs could save time on Kinect programming this is what we will see in this article and also how to modify those APIs and use it
  
  
• Object Relational Mapping (ORM) using NHibernate - Part 1 of 8 Coding One to One Entity Associations - Anand Lakshminarasimhan
  A full series of 8 part articles to show One-To-One, Many-To-One, Many-To-Many associations mapping using NHibernate, Using Collections With NHibernate, Inheritance Relationships Using NHibernate, Lazy Initializations/Fetches Using NHibernate.
  
  
• LiteCode - Remotely call methods over the network - Drag0nHunter
  Remotely invoke methods over the internet super easy
  
  
• Object Relational Mapping (ORM) using NHibernate - Part 4 of 8 Coding Optional One-to-Many Entity Associations - Anand Lakshminarasimhan
  A full series of 8 part articles to show One-To-One, Many-To-One, Many-To-Many associations mapping using NHibernate, Using Collections With NHibernate, Inheritance Relationships Using NHibernate, Lazy Initializations/Fetches Using NHibernate.
  
  

LINQ

• Signum Framework Tutorials Part 3 - Southwind Load - Olmo del Corral
  In this part we'll write the loading application to move data from Northwind to Southwind.
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Getting Operating System Version Info - Even for Windows 8! - Johnny J.
  Get the operating system version and edition, updated with Windows 8 & Windows Server 2012
  
  

Mobile Development

• HTML5, jQuery Mobile and ASP.NET MVC 4 – Using the ViewModel between the model and controller - kishore Gaddam
  Using the ViewModel between the model and controller.
  
  

Office Development

• Outlook add-in integrating Skype - Cristian Amarie
  Outlook add-in integration for Skype IM: Skype events, Outlook Skype ribbon & more
  
  

OpenGL

• Random 3D Mazes in OpenGL - _beauw_
  Simulates first-person immersion in a randomized, 3D maze having a single solution. The implementation provided is a Win32 application built using MinGW, but the techniques offered are adaptable to a wide variety of OpenGL-compatible devices and development tools.
  
  

Scrapbook

• 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.
  
  

Selection Controls

• How to extend a WPF Textbox to Custom Picker - Sandeep Mewara
  This article is to show how to extend a standard WPF Textbox to behave as a Picker via Template Style.
  
  

Tabs & Property Pages

• Easily Add a Ribbon into a WinForms Application (C#) - adriancs
  Easily add ribbon to WinForm Application for .NET Framework 2.0, 3.5 & 4.0
  
  

Testing and QA

• Reuse Selenium WebDriver .NET version - Mircea Sirghi
  This article describes how to use .NET to improve Selenium scripts develpment.
  
  

Threads, Processes & IPC

• Android Inspired C# AsyncTask - pip010
  Inspired by Android asynchronous callback mechanism for short lived background tasks.
  
  
• Simple Cooperative Task Scheduling in C# - TheAntiCol
  A sample WPF application that shows simple background tasks running on the UI thread.
  
  

Tools and IDE

• Object-Oriented Parsing: Breaking With Tradition (Part 4) - KenBeckett
  A non-traditional method of parsing languages in an extensible way.
  
  
• CodeDOM Classes for Solution and Project Files (Part 5) - KenBeckett
  CodeDOM objects for VS Solution and Project files.
  
  
• QuickAccent - A Tool for Accents and Symbols - Dave Kerr
  Use QuickAccent to quickly copy accents and symbols to your clipboard. Also read the article to find out about the essentials when writing System Tray based applications
  
  

Ultrabooks

• Engineering Calculator VOLTA-2013 - DrABELL
  Productivity software implemented as pure HTML5/CSS3/Javascript solution, encapsulated in a single text file does not require any image files. Can run in all major browsers, and also is intended to add ability of standalone operations under Windows OS on Ultrabooks.
  
  
• Celerity: Sensory Overload - Adam David Hill
  Sensor-controlled XNA Tunnel Game with VR Head-Tracking
  
  
• Edumatter M12: School Math Calculators and Equation Solvers - DrABELL
  Educational software package for Microsoft Windows® contains “5-in-1” School Math Calculators and Equation Solvers applications, intended for public/private school (K-12) and college students, educators, and self-paced education/home schooling
  
  
• Location Matrix - Ojas Sinha
  This article is related to the use of Bing Map in Winrt with so many new features which are covered in one application "Location Matrix" .
  
  
• Synchronice - Sync made nice and easy - singhaxn
  A user-friendly, periodic, file synchronization app
  
  
• Brick Ball Game - @AmitGajjar
  This is not a simple brick ball game but we need to concentrate on two balls at a time.
  
  
• Formula1 - Martijn Luijendijk
  Formula 1 application for Windows 8 tablet, the application demonstrates capabilities of the Windows 8 ultrabooks.
  
  
• LocalStreetMaps - Thomas Willwacher
  A map application that is able to run custom queries on a PostGIS server.
  
  
• Quizzee! - Tarun Y Mangukiya
  A Quiz game for Windows 8 And Ultrabook
  
  
• Switch To SMS/Text Event Reminders When Your Ultrabook is in Suspend Mode #1 - simsam77
  Send a text/sms message to your phone when your Ultrabook is in Sleep/Standby mode via a service like Twilio or Nexmo by using Smart Connect or an accelerometer/gyroscope
  
  
• LocalView - Area-specific desktops - Tim Corey
  A utility to change your desktop background and lock screen automatically based upon where you are currently.
  
  
• Xapp Collaboration Application - Muralidharan Anantharaman
  An application which will enable the user to annotate what they see on their Ultrabook screens using various tools such as freehand drawing
  
  

VB.NET

• Drag and Drop Persisting TreeView Control (VB.NET) - Tom John
  Extending the TreeView control to support drag and drop and persistance.
  
  
• VB.NET Global Try Catch in the Application Framework - B.O.B.
  Implement a Global Try Catch block while still using the .NET Application Framework.
  
  

Windows Communication Foundation

• Creating a Generic (Static and Unchanging) WCF Interface - Aron Weiler
  Learn how to create a static and unchanging WCF interface that still supports most WCF capabilities.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• WPF: Webcam Control - Meshack Musundi
  A WPF UserControl for displaying and recording video from a webcam
  
  
• WPF x FileExplorer x MVVM - Leung Yat Chun
  This article describe how to construct FileExplorer controls included DirectoryTree and FileList, using Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern.
  
  
• Silently updatable single instance WPF ClickOnce application - Ivan Leonenko
  Silently updatable single instance WPF ClickOnce applicaiton
  
  
• Add/Remove Tabs Dynamically in WPF - Taha B Farid
  This article shows how to achieve add/remove tab feature for TabControl in WPF.
  
  
• Concurrent Sortable Collections and AOP - Darek Danielewski
  How to use Aspect Oriented Programming Toolkits in a dynamic WPF application
  
  

XML

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

New Tips and Tricks added

ASP.NET

• iOS6 Cached POST - Santiago Santos Cortizo
  How to resolve cached post problem with iPhone/iPad with iOS6 update.
  
  
• How to remove Time from DateTime on client side (aspx page) - dpalash
  It's a simple but helpful tip and it's easy to implement
  
  
• Custom serialization for ExpandoObjects in ASP.NET WebAPI - arnab_pal
  Using dynamic or ExpandoObject is a breeze to dynamic data WebAPIs, but when serializing to xml it can cause a braindamage sometimes :)
  
  

Button Controls

• Save Close Cancel buttons UserControl - Frans Jan
  A UserControl with buttons to save, close and cancel
  
  

C#

• Tracking Thread Origins - Michiel du Toit
  Grabbing a stack trace for better post-mortem thread exception tracing
  
  
• ezRemote, Remote Desktop Connection Manager - Nishith Varma
  Easy Remote Desktop Using C#.net
  
  

Client side scripting

• Get current page URL using JavaScript - Samrat Banerjee
  Get current page URL on client side.
  
  

Database

• Linking to an Existing SQLDB in ASP MVC4.0 and EF5.x - Member 3848827
  Linking to an existing SQLDB in ASP MVC4.0 and EF5.x.
  
  

Dialogs and Windows

• Show your System.Drawing.Color Palette - anssary20100
  
  
  

Java

• Argument Parser - Nagy Vilmos
  A simple method to parse an argument list as a name value pair
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Getting Thumbnail from Video using MediaPlayer class in WPF - Kashif_Imran
  This article shows the use of MediaPlayer class to obtain thumbnails for video files.
  
  
• Using Windows Media Player Control in WPF - Kashif_Imran
  This article shows how to use Windows Media Player control in a WPF application to avoid the performance degradation of MediaElement
  
  

Programming Tips

• Suppress field in Crystal Reports - Eranda Ketawalage
  Suppress field in Crystal Reports
  
  

Web Services

• Quick Start REST Service application in .NET - varun bansal
  To start coding RESTful services in .NET
  
  

Tips and Tricks updated

Azure

• Windows Azure SQL Database Management - Shay Yannay
  Find how Windows Azure SQL Database and cloud service common set-up can be automated
  
  

C / C++ Language

• Pre-processor Iteration - Debdatta Basu
  Emulating iterative structures with the C++ pre-processor.
  
  
• Serialization implementation in C++ - Gilad_Rozban
  C++ Serialization implementation
  
  

C#

• .NET's Enum.HasFlag and performance costs - roylawliet
  Discusses Enum.HasFlag() and its performance cost as well as alternatives
  
  
• A look at marshalling delegates in .NET - roylawliet
  Discusses marshalling delegates in .NET and critques what .NET libraries have to offer.
  
  
• Duck Copy in C# - Pascal Ganaye
  A super simple and fast methods to copy objects
  
  

Client side scripting

• Adding a Style to the Last li tag with Jquery - dpalash
  Here in this tip we will be able to find the last li tag and put a style with it.
  
  

Date and Time

• JavaScript Date Validation - Ed Nutting
  JavaScript Date Validation
  
  

Debug Tips

• How to Debug or Test your Windows Service Without Installing it... - Tejas Vaishnav
  Debug or test your Windows Service without installing it...
  
  

Files and Folders

• Popup log viewer - Lance Roberts
  A tray utility for monitoring log files and popping up error messages
  
  

Hardware & System

• CPU Usage with graphical indication using C# .NET - Tyronne Thomas
  CPU usage with C#.
  
  

Internet / Network

• Using C# to Monitor Bandwidth for Wireless Devices Using NetworkInterface and .NET LINQ - Tyronne Thomas
  Using C# to monitor the bandwidth for wireless devices.
  
  

Office Development

• Reading text or CSV file and saving it as Excel file (.xls or xlsx) using Microsoft Excel - Mannava Siva Aditya
  Reading text or CSV file and saving it as an Excel file.
  
  

Threads, Processes & IPC

• Performing the same task with and without threads - Anwaar Ahmed
  Performing the same task with and without using threads.
  
  

Windows API

• Calculating hash values in Windows Metro Style applications using C# - Tyronne Thomas
  Calculating hash values in Windows Metro style applications using C# and .NET 4.5.
  
  

New Technical Blogs added

Book Reviews

• Business Intelligence Book Review (part 1) - JasonDove
  For a bit of variety, I am going to start posting the occasional blog based on the most common questions I receive from readers.  This first blog in the (potential) series is in response to the repeated question I get … Continue reading →
  
  

C / C++ Language

• Tuples, Tuples Everywhere! - alex turner
  Life can be more fun in tuples!
  
  

Database

• Working with legacy databases in NHibernate Part 1 - Compound foreign keys - Pete Sutcliffe
  If there's anything worse than working with legacy code, it's working with Legacy databases. At least with legacy code if you're lucky you can ring-fence it off and ignore it when not working on it, but poorly designed databases can infect a whole system and create a situation where your new code st
  
  

Date and Time

• Displaying date/time using the user timezone in ASP.NET MVC - jgauffin
  This post will show you how you can display date/time using the user timezone (without it being configured anywhere in your application). Storaging dates in your data source The first thing you have to do is to make sure that all dates are stored using Universal Cordinated Time (UTC). The easiest wa
  
  
• Bitwise–some thing you learned during college time. - Cruz Boon
  Let’s say, we have a survey requirement. See how we can store multiple selection in a field by using bitwise.
  
  

Internet / Network

• New version of Griffin.Networking – A networking library for .NET - jgauffin
  New version of Griffin.Networking.
  
  

Java

• Swap Based Memory Management In Java - alex turner
  Blue Sky Thinking In JavaJava does not allow strong interactions with the memory manager other than via extensions (like JVMTI). However, for some JVMs (the Oracle/Sun JVM for example) all is not lost.The challenge I faced was to move over to swapping out very large data structures to disk when the
  
  

Libraries

• cpplinq: set operators - Marius Bancila
  In the previous posts I introduced cpplinq, a C++ template library that provides .NET-like query operators for sequences of objects in C++11. In this third installment I will discuss the set operators the library provides. There are four set operators: distinct, union_with (called so because union i
  
  
• cpplinq: range generators and conversion operators - Marius Bancila
  In my previous post I introduced cpplinq, a C++ template library that provides .NET-like query operators for sequences of objects in C++11. In this second installment I will discuss about two things: range generators and range conversion operators. These two sets of operators are ubiquitous in queri
  
  
• cpplinq: An introduction - Marius Bancila
  cpplinq is a C++ template library that provides .NET-like query operators for sequences of objects in C++11. cpplinq is an open-source library that works both with VC++ compilers (2010 and 2012) and gcc (4.7.0 is the version used for unit tests). The library supports most of the .NET query operators
  
  

Reviews on Third Party Products and Tools

• Notes on Configuring a New EPiServer 6 R2 Website for Continuous Integration - Martin Jarvis
  I’m assuming that you’ve read the installation instructions: http://world.episerver.com/Documentation/Items/Installation-Instructions/EPiServer-CMS/Version-6/EPiServer-CMS-6-R2/Installation-Instructions---EPiServer-CMS-6-R2/ Creating a new blank EPiServer Site Project and Solution Prepare Repositor
  
  

Windows Security

• How to Use SSH to Access a Linux Machine from Windows - John Atten
  NOTE: I do a LOT of handholding in this article. I wanted to be sure someone who is less-than-familiar with the Linux Command Line Interface and/or SSH would have no trouble understanding what is going on. Here are some navigation links to more readily find what you need: Install OpenSSH on your
  
  

Technical Blogs updated

.NET Framework

• NLog LayoutRenderer for assembly version - Sebastian Solnica
  This post will be short and is inspired by Robert’s comment under my previous post (Thanks for it!). Robert pointed (and I completely agree) that it might be useful to have application assemblies versions listed in the log output. So … Continue reading →
  
  

C#

• Read Xml with Descendants Method (XName) - Pranay Rana
  This post is about understanding Descendants and avoid misconception with this method.Recently I read one question on StackOverFlow  about reading xml using Linq To Xml to get node values. In that developer made use of Descendants Method to get the child node values.Let see the actual problem here
  
  

Site & Server Management

• Uploading Documents Programatically to a Content Organizer Enabled Site - PratapReddyP
  CodeProject We have covered Content Organizer / Metadata Routing in SP2010 in earlier post.We have created all the required infrastructure for meta data routing or Content organizing. So only task remining is uploading the documents.Well ! we cannot ask the users to navigate to Drop Off library and