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Challenge 1 of our Azure Developer Challenge is over and we have 3 new owners of a Microsoft Surface:

• K2DaC2: ErrZure - Self-managed error catcher
• Enrique Albert: LiteDispatch - Logistic solution on the cloud
• Ranjan.D: HealthReunion , A Windows Azure based healthcare product

Well done - and I wish we could have had half a dozen runners up.

Challenge 1 (Grab an Azure account and post your idea) was extended a little due to a late start, and Challenge 2 (build a website) ends this week. There are 5 challenges, with 3 Microsoft Surface tablets being won every 2 weeks. If you missed a challenge you can still enter so grab your Azure trial account, read up on the challenges and get creative. $16,000 in prizes overall! More details here.

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Most popular new articles

• ToDoList 6.6.7 Feature Release - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g.
  
• Audio-Gallery-Suite (A complete audio gallery solution made with HTML5/CSS3/jQuery-JS/PHP/C#) - Robin Rizvi
  
• JavaScript Best Practices - Tim Corey
  
• Visualizing the Mandelbrot set - Andy Bantly
  
• Canvas Control Library and New Forms Based System for building Web Pages and Websites - Akshay Srinivasan2
  

Latest Additions

164 articles overall. 89 new, 75 updated.

New articles added

.NET Framework

• Visual Studio 2012 New Features of the IDE - RKT.Ashoka
  This post talks about the Visual Studio 2012’s IDE new features
  
  
• Visual Studio Visualizer: Part 2 - Entity Framework - Frederico Regateiro
  This project creates a Visual Studio visualizer for entity framework queries, view edit and run the generated SQL.
  
  

Algorithms & Recipes

• A Delaunay triangulation function in C - EricHufschmid
  A C function to create a triangle index list
  
  

Azure

• Amber Alerts in the Cloud - Shayne P Boyer
  Putting the alerts in your hands through the use of Azure
  
  
• Azure is Not Smart, It is a Genius - Ahmed Gaber (Biga)
  This article is for "Discover the Cloud" challenge.
  
  
• Mobile Spy - Pavan Wadawadagi
  This demonstrates building of a web app using Azure that tracks a lost mobile.
  
  
• White Stone Business Network: Bringing Businesses Closer to Their Customers - JoewyCodes
  White Stone Helps Businesses Give Their Customers Greater Value for their Money.
  
  
• My Library - DRJanssen
  An Azure lending library for me and my friends.
  
  
• Freeing People from Drugs Addiction - freshbreeze
  Cloud Solution to help Patients to get rid of Drug Addiction and take medicines on time. Failing to take drug will trigger notifications to Doctors. Drug reminders will be available in Live Calendar and Proofs for taken medicines will be stored in SkyDrive.
  
  
• Where I've been - Christopher Burts
  A personal tracker of stuff you've done and things you want to do
  
  
• Patient Treatment Notification - corbormite
  Real-time notification of updates to patient treatments in hospital bed
  
  
• Film App for the Mobile Cloud generation - Milan Shah
  Rethinking an existing app for the cloud
  
  
• Extending Modern Apps to the Web: Slot Machine - jluhman
  How to take an existing Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 Modern app and extend it to the web.
  
  
• Interview Question Practice - Nidhin Pattaniyil
  Using Azure to create a site to practice interview questions
  
  
• Jotdown - Mohan Mallampalli
  A HTML5 note taking app capable of capturing Video notes.
  
  
• Bus Catcher - pawel_sawicz
  Bus Catcher will be an application in cloud storage for finding public transport location such as bus, tram, rail, etc.
  
  
• Check Off Challenge - Sam Calma
  A crowd sourced check off challenge that will leverage Windows Azure mobile services.
  
  
• Metro Web CMS - Super Nubes
  
  
  
• Rate my Box Art - C. Dunn
  View and rate box art for your favorite Xbox games!
  
  
• Wiki-Tutorials on Windows Azure - wniroshan
  A place where people can create interactive tutorials and learn
  
  
• Azure Knowledge Base - MartinDGut
  An Azure Database to hold a Knowledge Base
  
  
• Lunch in the Middle - Member 10020223
  Now that more and more of us work out of our homes, it is more difficult to stay connected to our colleagues. One way to stay connected is to dine together. This application allows you to quickly locate a lunch spot between one or more locations.
  
  
• The Dating Website - Wong Shao Voon
  
  
  
• Learning Center Electronic Signin - radv
  Time to automate the sign-in and sign-out process at the pre-school. Get it online, real-time and in the cloud
  
  
• Cloud-based Interactive Kiosk and Digital Signage - Karlkim
  Windows Azure Developer Challenge: Cloud-based interactive Kiosk and Digital Signage
  
  
• Enhancing Church Worship With The Cloud - Stan Bice
  Imagine connecting church worship attenders with real-time content.
  
  
• Converting a Windows 7 desktop application to Windows 8 and Azure - DThrasher
  Converting a Windows 7 desktop application to Windows 8 and Azure.
  
  
• SOCIOBOARD – A Social Media Management and Analytics Platform - Ghosh, Sumit
  SOCIOBOARD – A Social Media Management and Analytics Platform
  
  
• Donate your Blood - @AmitGajjar
  This website will help those people who actually need blood at the right time.
  
  
• LookFit - A HTML5 Web App hosted in the cloud - JonB3232
  Windows Azure Development Challenge
  
  
• Azure Storage Explorer - wilfriedwoivre
  Websites to explore a Windows Azure Table Storage
  
  
• Portal for sharing Process Monitor analysis scripts - Faisal Mansoor
  Collaborative system troubleshooting
  
  
• Mobile Multi-Platform Magic Life Counter - Justin Wicker
  A simple web app that allows you to keep track of simple things like life totals, commander damage and card totals without having to download a mobile app or spend money.
  
  
• Cloud TimeTracker - blaisem
  My entry for the Windows Azure Developer Challenge.
  
  
• CardTruth - Have fun gifting your friends! - Corey Hochman
  A social gifting and communicating platform that would allows you to send a video or written message to someone on Facebook.
  
  
• Rankable - Rankable Vikas
  Reporting system for SEO campaigns
  
  
• Location based profile tracking and messaging - katant
  A system where users can login using Windows Azure Active Directory Access Control and create a profile.
  
  
• Windows Azure, Expedition to the Cloud Apps and Web Hosting - Vn-ABC
  Steps to host Web sites on the Windows Azure Cloud
  
  
• Creating Professional Invoices with Windows Azure - Darrin.ca
  Developing and deploying an invoicing application on Windows Azure
  
  
• eDude - Ashish_Avinash
  
  
  
• PerCCloud - Abhishek Nandy
  Taking Perceptual Computing to Cloud
  
  
• Bus Line - alienboal
  You're a small city Google overlooked, and you want to catch a bus,this app will help.
  
  
• Comics Subscription Tracker - mf81
  This will be a lightweight site that helps the user track their weekly comics subscriptions.
  
  
• Locate the Urn Position on the Shelf - BigWCat
  Be able located the urn from the shelf, which has 2000 slots.
  
  
• Web Reach - Pointe Smart
  Using Azure to help reach our customers.
  
  
• Academic Newsletter Generator - Hari Maurya
  Academic Newsletter Generator is document preparation online application that makes it very easy to generate fully customized documents like Newsletter, Event News etc.
  
  
• Daily Update: Saving the web a day at a time - NimDriz
  A site that helps users keep up to date with whatever content they enjoy on the web.
  
  
• LiteDispatch - Azure WebSite - Enrique Albert
  Deployment of a ASP MVC application to AzureWebSites using GitHub integration and Simple Membership using SQL-CE and EF
  
  
• Document Storage and Retrieval using Cloud Technology - robert.williamson_sogeti
  Integrate SQL Azure and BLOB Storage into an MVC 4.0 app for document storage and retrieval.
  
  

C#

• CTM - Clone To Modify Pattern - Paulo Zemek
  This article presents a pattern to create immutable objects, which have thread-safe guarantee among others, and which also support modifications throught clonning, yet avoiding excessive intermediate clones.
  
  

CodeProject FAQs

• Code Project Catalog FAQ - Sean Ewington
  This is an FAQ for the Code Project Catalog. It can be modified by any Silver member.
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Understand Single Responsibility and Interface Segregation - Faisal(mfrony)
  This Article will help you to better understand the SRP (single responsibility principle) and ISP(Interface Segregation principle)
  
  

Files and Folders

• Resources Files (.resx vs .resources) - charan anasam
  Introduction to the Resources .resx and Resources files
  
  

HTML / CSS

• Top 10 HTML 5 Interview Questions - Imran Abdul Ghani
  A list of the top 10 HTML 5 interview questions
  
  

Installation

• Creating a Virtual Windows Phone 8 Development Environment - Dylan Roy
  Setting up a Windows Phone 8 Virtual Development Environment
  
  

Interviews

• A Coder Interview With Oren Eini - CodeProject, Ayende @ Rahien
  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 Oren Eini, perhaps best known for his work on RavenDB.
  
  

Product Showcase

• Why is your ASP.NET application running slow? - Red Gate Software
  When trying to speed up a slow-running application, it helps to know where the problem is. There are many causes of performance issues, but one of the most common and difficult to diagnose issues is around the application's data access.
  
  
• Multi-Platform Barcode with LEADTOOLS 18 - LEADTOOLS Support
  Multi-Platform Barcode with LEADTOOLS 18
  
  

SharePoint Server

• InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Integration using Custom WCF Service: Part 1 of 3 - Rupesh Tarwade
  Creating SharePoint List and Custom WCF application to read the SharePoint List information using Client Object model
  
  

Silverlight

• Metro Style ListBox in Silverlight - Hiren Khirsaria
  create Metro theme listbox using style and templates
  
  

Windows 8 Design

• 28 days in - Windows Store Analytics for my Balloons Game - David Isbitski
  28 days in - Windows Store Analytics for my Balloons Game
  
  
• Contoso Food & Dining Sample App - Jennifer Marsman
  Contoso Food & Dining Sample App
  
  
• Launch Your App at a Microsoft Store! - Jim_O'Neil
  Launch Your App at a Microsoft Store!
  
  
• Lesson Learned in Windows 8 Scaling - Jeff Blankenburg
  Lesson Learned in Windows 8 Scaling
  
  
• Practical Azure #14: Windows Azure Virtual Machines (Part 1) - Jim_O'Neil
  In this episode, the first of two parts, I’ll introduce you to Windows Azure Virtual Machines, the Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering in Windows Azure, by showing you how to provision a VM and install a simple web server and application on it.
  
  
• Push Notifications for Specific Users - Jeremy Foster
  Push Notifications for Specific Users
  
  
• Windows 8: Making VirtualBox and Hyper-V Play Nice - G. Andrew Duthie
  Windows 8: Making VirtualBox and Hyper-V Play Nice
  
  

Windows Communication Foundation

• REST with WCF and Entity Framework with JSON Serialization - @AmitGajjar
  This is an alternative for "REST with WCF and Entity Framework with JSON Serialization"
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• Creating a Reusable UI in WPF: Part 1 - Saiyed Alam
  Reusable ways..
  
  
• WPF DataGrid Custommization using Style and Template - Hiren Khirsaria
  customize DataGridRowHeader, DataGridColumnHeader, DataGridCell, DataGridRow styles & templates and change the ScrollBar style in DataGrid
  
  

Articles updated

.NET Framework

• DBMapper - A new ORM tool - Koray Dakan, PMP
  DBMapper - A new ORM tool for vendor-neutral solutions
  
  
• .NET Framework Cultures with Culture Specific Formats and Mapping with SQL Server Language - Shemeer NS
  .NET Framework Cultures with Culture Specific Formats and Mapping with SQL Server Language. CultureInfo, DateFormat, Number Format, Currency Format, Percent Format, Infinity Format etc.
  
  

Ajax

• Google-like Auto Suggest in ASP.NET for A Small Table - necmettin demir
  Google-like search using AJAX autocomplete extender.
  
  

Algorithms & Recipes

• Visualizing the Mandelbrot set - Andy Bantly
  Visualizing the Mandelbrot set using multiple threads of execution.
  
  
• Streaming XML parser in C++. - Przemek Mazurkiewicz
  Simple non-validating streaming XML parser in C++.
  
  

Android

• Android Services and More - Safak Tarazan
  Usage of services, alarm manager and broadcast receivers.
  
  

Applications & Tools

• ToDoList 6.6.7 Feature Release - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g.
  A hierarchical task manager with native XML support for custom reporting.
  
  

ASP.NET

• TwitterBootstrapMvc - Dmitry A. Efimenko
  Fluent implementation of ASP.NET-MVC HTML helpers for Twitter Bootstrap.
  
  
• sBlog.Net - A Minimalistic Blog Engine - Using ASP.Net MVC 3 - Karthik. A
  sBlog.Net is a minimalistic blog engine created using the ASP.Net MVC 3 framework
  
  
• YouTube™ API for ASP.NET - DrABELL
  YouTube™ API for ASP.NET, AJAX-extended (C#).
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• 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

• Dear Diary - a diary writing app - gauravc12
  An app for writing day to day diary with multimedia features.
  
  
• HealthReunion , A Windows Azure based healthcare product - Ranjan.D
  HealthReunion is a complete solution for medium , large scale healthcare providers and patients. It's a Azure based hosted solution
  
  
• C# Snippet Sharing with Roslyn and SignalR - BrianRosamilia
  Share code online with Visual Studio-like interactive features.
  
  
• Hello, Azure-Volta Calculator! Oh, joy of dividing by 0... - DrABELL
  Migration from VS2010->VS2012->Azure cloud computing: practical and didactic aspects
  
  
• ErrZure - Self-managed error catcher - K2DaC2
  ErrZure is a tool for collecting and managing errors from mobile clients
  
  
• Quiz Engine powered by Azure cloud - DrABELL
  NY Trivia Quiz w/backend Database migration to Azure cloud
  
  
• Azure Contest: Cost Profiling\Tracking - Farcus32
  Adding cost counters to accurately monitor your application as it uses Azure services
  
  
• Answer Qs, Write Your Life Story With Your Thumbs - daylightdj
  The MoiBio (mwah-by-oh) App breaks the barriers to creativity and guides you write your life story.
  
  
• Real-Time Website Analytics - Rajiv Charan Tej K
  Real-Time Web Stats using Node.js and R
  
  
• Danger Dodger - Brian Legg
  Danger Dodger will keep track of the amount of danger you're in at any given point in time and help you to avoid it.
  
  
• Customer Order Mapping - rodney128
  A windows Azure development to showcase online geocoding and mapping.
  
  
• Confessions - Rawat Sandeep
  Platform for people to share their emotions
  
  
• Self Destruct Chat - jangooni
  Create a chat program that will have self destructing messages
  
  
• Remote Control Robotic Cat Door - CatDoor
  Robotic Cat Door Web Based Control Panel
  
  
• Blind people accessing portal Web news - Ditoau
  Permits blind people get custom content of news.
  
  
• Crash Course in C# and MVC - Member 10022537
  Teaching myself C# and MVC
  
  
• Enriching the online experience of the game 'Go' with Windows Azure - TYoungjr
  An outline for a plan to build a real time, multiplayer, cross platform edition of the game Go.
  
  
• REBRANDONE - Rebrandone
  Rebrand-one -
  
  
• iBookTracker - 'Anil' Radhakrishna
  An app to manage personal book collection
  
  
• Website testing using Genetic Algorithms - Justin Frei
  A highly flexible alternative to A/B website testing
  
  

C / C++ Language

• Simple logger for C++ - Siddharth R Barman
  A simple and extensible logger for C++.
  
  

C#

• Implementing a finite-state machine using async/await - Sergey Shumov
  A new way to implement finite-state machine using async/await
  
  

C++ / CLI

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

Charts, Graphs and Images

• YouTube™ Embedded Video Player: Extended API (C#) - DrABELL
  YouTube™ video player API provides variety of customization features (ASP.NET, C#)
  
  

Client side scripting

• JavaScript Best Practices - Tim Corey
  Reduce quirky bugs and headaches by applying these best practices.
  
  

Database

• Date and Time Data Types and Functions - SQL Server (2000, 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012) - Shemeer NS
  SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 Date and Time Data Types and Functions with Sample SQL Statements. Data Type Tables, Function Tables
  
  
• DBTool for Oracle - Part 1 - Espen Harlinn
  Enhance productivity and reliability, write your own tools.
  
  
• ADO+.NET - Paulo Zemek
  This library is intended to "replace" ADO.NET by solving type mismatches and by creating typed readers that are faster and easier to use than DataTables.
  
  
• String Data Types and Functions - SQL Server (2000, 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012) - Shemeer NS
  SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 Character String Data Types and Functions with Sample SQL Statements. Quick reference, Data Type Tables, Function Tables
  
  

Design and Architecture

• N-Tier Architecture and Tips - Wh5
  This article tries to clarify many basic concepts in N-Tier architecture from all aspects, and also provide some practical tips
  
  
• Dynamic Visitor Pattern - GSerjo
  Visitor design pattern - dynamic implementation.
  
  

Desktop Gadgets

• Clock - karthik cad/cam
  Simple clock using line transform.
  
  

Files and Folders

• Unification of Text and Binary File APIs - Wong Shao Voon
  A portable and easy-to-use C++ file library to read and write structured data
  
  

Game Development

• Sudoku using MS Solver Foundation - unicorn2
  An example for how to use Microsoft Solver Foundation on a constraint satisfaction problem.
  
  

HTML / CSS

• Audio-Gallery-Suite (A complete audio gallery solution made with HTML5/CSS3/jQuery-JS/PHP/C#) - Robin Rizvi
  Audio-Gallery-Suite is a complete audio gallery solution made with HTML5/CSS3/Jquery-JS/PHP-Ajax/C# that includes a web audio gallery and a software for managing the web audio gallery.
  
  
• Canvas Control Library and New Forms Based System for building Web Pages and Websites - Akshay Srinivasan2
  Canvas Control Library provides highly customizable controls using the HTML5 Canvas element. Also includes a new Forms based system which is a new way to build your web pages and websites.
  
  

Internet / Network

• Multi Threaded WebScraping in CSharpDotNetTech - dot net tech
  Beginner to Advance - Multithreaded Web Scraping with Examples of WebBrowser, WebClient, HttpWebRequest/HttpWebResponse, Regex, BackgroundWorker.
  
  
• Making a Search Engine - kburman6
  This article discusses the making of a search engine.
  
  
• Building a Socket-WebServer using C# - Alberto Biafelli
  How to make a simple web server which supports GZIP compression, applications, and sessions.
  
  

Microsoft BizTalk Server

• Spinning up BizTalk VM's in Azure in 10 Steps - _ABHILASH_MS_
  Spinning up BizTalk Servers in Azure VM
  
  

OpenGL

• Target Following Control with OpenGL - ionutcelgroaznic
  A simple target control to show us the direction of the enemy, useful especially for computer games
  
  

PHP

• Getting number of users online and other functionalities - Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer
  Using PHP and MySQL to get if a user is online, the number of users currently online, the highest online ever, the number of users online today, and the Last Seen time of a user.
  
  
• Working with XML in PHP - Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer
  Working with XML in PHP.
  
  

SQL Reporting Services

• Printing SSRS 2008R2 Programmatically - Preetam U Ramdhave
  An application which prints reports developed in SSRS 2008R2 using a Windows or web application.
  
  

Threads, Processes & IPC

• Managed Thread Synchronization - Paulo Zemek
  Using only Managed Resources to create Thread Synchronization
  
  

Tools and IDE

• Capture object state with visualizers - Praveen P R
  Visualizer to capture object state.
  
  

Trace and Logs

• tailFile: Blazing fast tail utility (watch files in real time) - newton.saber
  Watch files in real time with this cmd-line utility.
  
  

Ultrabooks

• Engineering Calculator VOLTA-2013 - DrABELL
  Productivity software package VOLTA-2013 developed as HTML5 web application and converted into desktop installable one using Intel’s AppUp encapsulator. Application extension Jobrica-2013 utilizes geolocation/GPS service and Bing map technology to find Job Agencies in search area.
  
  

Validation

• JavaScript oAuth - Ricardo Lynch
  Using JavaScript for oAuth with three major identity providers: Facebook, Google, and Twitter.
  
  

VB.NET

• A utility to measure screen area in pixels - Michael Rosqvist
  If you want to measure something on the screen, here is a utility.
  
  

Windows Communication Foundation

• Concurrency Control of WCF Service with Entity Framework - Mike_Liu
  Implement a WCF service with Entity Framework that supports concurrent updates.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• Take MVC to the Next Level in .NET - Xomega Team
  How to quickly build reusable and flexible WPF, Silverlight, or ASP.NET applications with the powerful Xomega Framework using the best MVVM principles.
  
  
• AvalonDock [2.0] Tutorial Part 1 - Adding a Tool Window - Dirkster99
  How to create a new tool window in AvalonDock [2.0]
  
  

New Tips and Tricks added

Bugs & Workarounds

• IE9 ActiveX filtering, XML Islands and Making the Workarounds to Get Things Work - dimaxweb
  How application becomes broken when ActiveX filtering is enabled in IE9 and a cool alternative way of parsing XML.
  
  

C#

• Writing Business Objects Using Enterprise Library - WAQASGHAZANFAR
  How to write business object in C#
  
  

Client side scripting

• Bind Object With Functions in JavaScript - Faisal(mfrony)
  This tip will show the power of closure in OO JavaScript
  
  
• IE native JavaScript methods performance - Rupesh Kumar Tiwari
  Javascript native methods are more faster than jQuery utility methods in IE9/10
  
  

Files and Folders

• Using Additional Include Directories - bkelly13
  Include code from other directories
  
  

General Graphics

• Augmented reality using irrlicht and newton - Ihab ramadan
  Demo illustrates how to make augmented reality program using irrlicht and newton
  
  

Grid & Data Controls

• Datagridview Checkboxes and Context Menu - Weberto.com
  Simple Checkbox State changed in time for right click
  
  

HTML / CSS

• Communication with Cross Domain IFrame - A Cross Browser Solution - Tadit Dash
  This tip will help you to communicate with a cross domain Iframe which is added in the form.
  
  

Programming Tips

• How to Win a Hackathon - Zeeshan Syed
  5 tips on how to win a hackathon
  
  

VB.NET

• YouTube to mp3 - lazicdusan9
  Converting videos from YouTube to mp3
  
  

Web Security

• Reduce Database Load by Using a Redundancy Check Character for Password Validation - Piotr Gałecki
  A simple trick that can relieve the database during a brute-force attack.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• GIF Animation in WPF - Jawahar Suresh Babu
  A library which provides an option to play animated sprite sheets
  
  

Windows Runtime

• Encypt and decrypt StorageFile in Windows Store apps - Farhan Ghumra
  Encypt and decrypt StorageFile in Windows Store apps.
  
  

Tips and Tricks updated

ASP.NET

• File download from GridView rows in ASP.NET 4.0 - Tadit Dash
  There will be one Link button in the GridView row. On clicking the Link button, the Image displayed in that row gets downloaded.
  
  

Audio and Video

• TCP Audio Streamer and Player (VoIP) - Banjoo
  Stream and play TCP Audio data from Microphone (VoIP)
  
  

Database

• Use SQL Server's Ranking Functions Wisely - Tecfield
  Beware of What We Ask Them to Do
  
  

DLLs & Assemblies

• Installing a DLL into the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) - GraemeKMiller
  How to add a DLL to the GAC
  
  

Web Services

• Use C# to get JSON Data from the Web and Map it to .NET Class => Made Easy! - Mikhail Tsennykh
  Easy steps on how to get JSON formatted data from a web service, deserialize it, and map it to custom local class for further usage
  
  
• Using HttpLib to consume web services - Redslide
  HttpLib makes it easier to asynchronously consume data from web services in C#. The library contains methods to upload to and download from web services.
  
  

Windows 8 Design

• New Windows Azure Mobile Services iOS Samples Available - Clint_Edmonson
  New Windows Azure Mobile Services iOS Samples Available
  
  

New Technical Blogs added

ASP.NET Controls

• JavaScript : Validating Letters and Numbers - Imran Abdul Ghani
  During web development, almost always, we need to provide input validation on even simple web forms. And in case of web, JavaScript is the best option available for validating input on client-side. Server-side validation has its own important and it should be there but restricting user at very first
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Complexity and Flexibility #2 - Serdar Kurbanov
  How do you manage the growing comlexity of your application?
  
  

Uncategorised Technical Blogs

• SSRS Production Deployment, Part 1 - Ivan Krivyakov
  SSRS production deployment
  
  
• SSRS Production Deployment: Part 2 - Ivan Krivyakov
  Part 2 of SSRS production deployment
  
  

Web Security

• Create a Web Part Page Programmatically - Melick
  How to create a web part page programmatically
  
  

Windows Phone 7/8

• How to Use Existing Database in Windows Phone - Anuraj Parameswaran
  Using existing database in Windows Phone
  
  

Technical Blogs updated

C / C++ Language

• Comparisons in C++ - David Corne
  This is about the comparison operators in C++ and making them easy to implement.
  
  

Office Development

• Using an Access, MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite database from VBA - Pragmateek
  [toc] Introduction Note to pedantic guys: yes Access is not a database engine, only the graphical front-end to Jet/ACE, but we’ll stand with this simplification. The sample application (Excel + VBA) and the SQL source code are available in this … Continue reading →
  
  

Third Party Products and Tools

• MonoGame: Using libraries with Windows Phone projects - Simon Jackson
  A challenge faced by the MonoGame team when they created Windows Phone 8 support was that XNA is actually included with the platform, this created a unique challenge because it was a direct contradiction to the XNA support being provided by MonoGame itself, this caused no end of problems until ̷
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• Binding without WPF - Nick Polyak
  Here we are going to talk about the binding concept and how it can be re-implemented outside of WPF without being tied to the visual libraries or the UI threads.