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Most popular new articles

• ToDoList 6.7.B3 Beta Release - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g.
  
• Duplicate songs detector via audio fingerprinting - Ciumac Sergiu
  
• RaptorDB - the Document Store - Mehdi Gholam
  
• hOOt - full text search engine - Mehdi Gholam
  
• Agile software development methodologies and how to apply them. - Monjurul Habib
  

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Latest Additions

122 articles overall. 38 new, 84 updated.

New articles added

Android

• How to Write Your Own Siri Application (Mobile Assistant Application) - Yildirim Kocdag
  This article helps you to understand how you can write your own Siri application.
  
  

ASP.NET

• Top 5000 English/Arabic Words (on the Web) - Nasir Darwish
  The article describes a web forms project to find the top English (or Arabic) words appearing on web pages.
  
  

Database

• Building Your First Analysis Services Cube... - Bhushan W. Juare
  How to build you first analysis service cube
  
  

Interviews

• A Coder Interview With Ariya Hidayat - CodeProject
  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 Ariya Hidayat, developer, tech blogger, and "software provocateur."
  
  

Product Showcase

• Micro Focus Visual COBOL - Micro Focus
  Micro Focus Visual COBOL
  
  
• Take your COBOL Application to .NET - Micro Focus
  Take your COBOL application to .NET
  
  
• Take your COBOL Application to JVM - Micro Focus
  Take your COBOL application to JVM
  
  
• Create COBOL Applications Using ASP.NET - Micro Focus
  Create COBOL applications using ASP.NET
  
  
• How to Comply with Security Standards for Health Care Applications - Novalys
  This article demonstrates how Visual Guard has been able to help meet the strict criteria of health regulations in the United States. It will look at why two major health care actors have integrated Visual Guard into their applications.
  
  

Third Party Products and Tools

• Kendo Grid In Action - Hasibul Haque
  How to work with tabular data using Kendo Grid in web application
  
  
• Kendo UI : All about Web Widgets - ShubhamSaxena
  It explains all about the Kendo UI widgets and how to use them
  
  

Articles updated

.NET Framework

• POLAR - Creating a Virtual Machine in .NET - Paulo Zemek
  A tutorial explaining how to create a Virtual Machine and a Compiler for such virtual machine
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Visual Studio Visualizer: Part 1 - Frederico Regateiro
  This project shows a work around to make a non-serializable object available to a custom visualizer.
  
  

Ajax

• SecureXHR - an XMLHttpRequest wrapper library written in JavaScript - Piotr Gałecki
  SecureXHR aims at providing a simple but sufficient interface for the XMLHttpRequest object and increase its safety
  
  

Algorithms & Recipes

• Word Aligned Hybrid (WAH) Compression for BitArrays - Mehdi Gholam
  Word Aligned Hybrid (WAH) compression for BitArrays
  
  
• Computer Algebra System for .NET Framework - Igor S Medvedev
  The article describes a C# library for symbolic computations.
  
  
• Abstract Nonsense in Software Development. Outlook - Petr Ivankov
  Multidisciplinary paradigm of software development
  
  

Android

• Accepting In-App Payments with Android - donn-felker
  Code Project Virtual Tech Summit Session: In this session you will be introduced to the in-app payment concept using the Android platform.
  
  
• Android Push Notifications - Shashank_Tiwari
  Code Project Virtual Tech Summit Session: The short presentation on Android push notifications provides an overview of the options available to push notifications from a server to an application running on an Android mobile device.
  
  

Applications & Tools

• ToDoList 6.7.B3 Beta 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

• Working with jQuery within the ASP.NET UpdatePanel - csharpbd
  Working with jQuery and UpdatePanel in the same page.
  
  

ASP.NET

• TwitterBootstrapMvc - Dmitry A. Efimenko
  Fluent implementation of ASP.NET-MVC HTML helpers for Twitter Bootstrap.
  
  
• ASP.NET Advanced Generic Handler ASHX - AlexCode
  Take your Generic Handlers to the next level...
  
  
• ASP.NET MVC Handling Null Models - Jon Woo
  A proposed solution to handling null models in an ASP.NET MVC view.
  
  
• ASP.NET MVC Custom Model Binder - Ritesh Ramesh
  MVC custom binding.
  
  
• Cascading DropDownLists and PartialViews - Andy_L_J
  Cascading DropDownLists in MVC with JavaScript Voodoo to display PartialViews.
  
  
• Custom Role Providers - Karthik. A
  An introduction to custom role providers in an ASP.Net MVC 3 application using the Entity Framework for ORM
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• Group GridView Data - Anurag Gandhi
  A custom GridView control which provides you an additional facility to group the data in gridview along with the facility to customise the Group Header and Group Footer
  
  

Audio and Video

• Speech recognition, speech to text, text to speech, and speech synthesis in C# - ProgramFOX
  This article explains speech recognition, speech to text, text to speech and speech synthesis in C#.
  
  
• Low-Level Control of *.wav Data (Part I) - suendisra
  How to play .wav data at the low-level using waveOut* functions.
  
  

Azure

• Azure Animal Adoption Agent and Lost & Found - roscler
  Azure based pet adoption agent that helps pet lovers find the perfect pet while saving the lives of kittens & puppies
  
  
• 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
  
  
• LiteDispatch - Logistic solution on the cloud - Enrique Albert
  Example of Application with GitHub, SQL-CE, EF and SQL-Azure integration with Azure WebSites
  
  
• ErrZure - Self-managed error catcher - K2DaC2
  ErrZure is a tool for collecting and managing errors from mobile clients.
  
  
• What's On Global: Facebook events can be so much more - Patrick McCurley, Rachel Davey
  An Azure based software solution allowing users to discover events around them on a massive scale. Features ASP.net MVC4, Entity Framework and a large importing backend utilizing Azure virtual machines
  
  
• Best practices for using strongly typed messages with Azure Service Bus - Phil Lee NZ
  This article will show you a pattern for sending and receiving messages using Azure Service Bus + worker roles in a strongly typed manner, taking advantage of the built-in functionality that comes with Brokered Messages.
  
  
• Migrating to the Cloud - Peter_Ritchie
  Code Project Virtual Tech Summit Session: Details how to migrate existing applications to the individual parts of the could so their application can make use of the cloud.
  
  
• Getting Started with Windows Azure Development - Steve Marx
  Code Project Virtual Tech Summit Session: Steve Marx, Tactical Strategist on the Windows Azure team, will demonstrate how to publish applications and store data in Windows Azure.
  
  

C / C++ Language

• Simple C/C++ QRCode Library - Fulvio Dominici
  How to generate a QRCode with the libqrencode library, with a clear example
  
  

C#

• Code Review Checklist and Guidelines for C# Developers - Mohammed Hameed
  This is a general code review checklist and guidelines for C# developers, which will serve as a reference point for development.
  
  
• Easier .NET settings management - Antonio Nakić Alfirević
  Creating a library for persisting the application state data between work sessions
  
  
• Fluent Method and Type Builder - Paulo Zemek
  Create methods and types at run-time using an easy and fluent API.
  
  

Client side scripting

• LINQ for JavaScript - Kamyar Nazeri
  Implementation of .NET Enumerable methods in JavaScript, including Aggregations, Iterations, Predicators, and Selectors.
  
  
• jsRazor vs. AngularJS: "Todo" and "JS Projects" demos with jsRazor! - rgubarenko
  Addition to my previous article on the new jsRazor framework. It's now turned into an ultimate solution for creating client-side web apps. This article compares jsRazor with AngularJS by doing "Todo" and "JS Projects" demos from AngularJS.org site.
  
  
• kLib-CSS - Anshu Krishna
  A tiny JavaScript library for dynamic CSS.
  
  
• kLib: Fast, Small, and Easy - Anshu Krishna
  kLib: A small library to make DOM operations very easy.
  
  

Combo & List Boxes

• Extended CComboBox - Flaviu2
  A combobox control which shows a drop down window to assist the user.
  
  

Database

• hOOt - full text search engine - Mehdi Gholam
  Smallest full text search engine (lucene replacement) built from scratch using inverted WAH bitmap index, highly compact storage, operating in database and document modes
  
  
• Generic Database Access - Mario Stopfer
  Generic database access model which generalizes the interactions with any particular database system.
  
  

Debug Tips

• Bug Finder, a real Win32 extensible passive debugger - Antonio Petricca
  Win32, compiler independent, and extensible passive debugger.
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Agile software development methodologies and how to apply them. - Monjurul Habib
  Introduction to Agile software development methodologies and how to apply them. It is about how to work together to achieve a common goal. This article focus on how technology team work together well to plan, build and deliver software.
  
  
• User Interface Patterns - Hamed Mosavi
  A brief overview of common user interface patterns, and some ideas about them.
  
  
• Modeling Supertypes and Subtypes: Part 1 - Scott Burkow
  Background Theory and Process Modeling (BPMN).
  
  
• Modeling Supertypes and Subtypes: Part 2 - Scott Burkow
  Conceptual and logical designs.
  
  

Java

• Windows Authentication tools for BlueCove - David MacDermot
  The article describes adding native functionality to BlueCove applications.
  
  

Libraries

• Scripting .NET Applications with IronPython - Jerome Terry
  Extending .NET applications by adding scripting support via IronPython
  
  

LightSwitch

• An End-To-End LightSwitch HTML Example - defwebserver
  Step-by-step tutorial to create a HTML5 LightSwitch application
  
  

Macros and Add-ins

• Extending Visual Studio Part 2 - Creating Addins - Dave Kerr
  Create an amazingly useful 'Switch' addin to switch between cpp/h, designer/code, XAML/codebehind and more!
  
  

Miscellaneous

• An MFC Chart Control with Enhanced User Interface - geoyar
  An MFC linear chart control with enhanced appearance.
  
  

NoSQL

• 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, MonoDroid support)
  
  

PHP

• Creating Interactive HTML5 Graphs in PHP - Swift coder
  Achieve professional-level web-based charts in PHP without in-depth knowledge of HTML5 or JavaScript.
  
  
• Ultra-Rapid PHP Application Development - Christoph Buenger
  Describes PHP application development with the free Scavix Web Development Framework (Scavix-WDF).
  
  

Shell and IE programming

• .NET Shell Extensions - Shell Context Menus - Dave Kerr
  Rapidly create Shell Context Menu Extensions using .NET
  
  

Silverlight

• Grid960 Layout for Silverlight - Dave Kerr
  The 960 Grid System is a hugely popular layout system for web sites - Grid960 lets you use it in Silverlight!
  
  

String handling

• Regex Logviewer - Amit Bezalel
  Using the power of regex to parse your logs
  
  

Third Party Products and Tools

• MONGO is as SWEET as a MANGO - K K Kodoth
  Developing .Net application with Mongo Db as Back end
  
  

VBScript

• Example of converting tables in a series of PDFs to an XML database - Small1
  A walk-through of how to convert a series of PDFs containing tables output by Microsoft Access to an XML database.
  
  

Windows Communication Foundation

• Integrating WCF and HTML5 to monitor system resources - logtheta
  Overall architecture of a monitoring system.
  
  
• Using WCF REST HTTP to call Stored Procedures on SQL Server - Tom Glick Philadelphia, US
  Using WCF REST Service to call Stored Procedures and run queries on SQL Server.
  
  

Windows Phone 7/8

• Hands-on Visual Studio 2010 with Windows Phone 7 and SQL Azure - Bruno Terkaly
  Code Project Virtual Tech Summit Session: In this session, Bruno Terkaly illustrates how to build a traditional Silverlight application and then migrating the application to Windows Phone 7.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• Duplicate songs detector via audio fingerprinting - Ciumac Sergiu
  Explains sound fingerprinting algorithm, with a practical example of detecting duplicate files on the user's local drive.
  
  
• Inserting 3D Models in Expression Blend - Meshack Musundi
  Inserting a 3D object into a WPF project in Expression Blend, with some help from Blender
  
  
• WPF Basic Print Rendering - Aaron Amberman
  Render a control and print it
  
  

XML

• XMLFoundation - Brian Aberle
  XMLFoundation is the fastest approach to dealing with XML and it also delivers a simple and easy to manage pattern of software developpment into your application.
  
  
• JSON vs. XML: Some hard numbers about verbosity - Pragmateek
  I’ve written a small Java benchmark that I’ll present, along with its results, in this article.
  
  

New Tips and Tricks added

Android

• Android - To Do\Shopping List [Tip/Trick] - Part 2 - Deepali Dhingra
  This tip explains how to create a to do or Shopping List app with listview, sqlite, dialog and customadapter.
  
  

ASP.NET

• Using the ASP.NET SQLDATASOURCE - Member 4296147
  How to use the ASP.NET SQLDATASOURCE
  
  
• Create Your First MVC Project in Umbraco (ver 6) - piyush_singh
  How to create your first MVC project in Umbraco
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• Dynamically created menu bar from the database according to user credential using C#.NET - Dipankar Hazari
  How to populate a dynamically created menu bar from the database according to user credentials using C# .NET and ASP.NET.
  
  

C / C++ Language

• Safe APIs the Simpler Way - shailesh91082
  This tip explains how to use Safe APIs which are a replacement for older APIs like strcpy, strcat, etc.
  
  
• Base26GPS Standard Code Implementation - avi shaby
  This tip describes the code for the Base26GPS standard.
  
  

C#

• Caller Info Attributes in C# 5.0 - Sagar Sumant
  Caller Info attributes in C# 5.0 and their usage
  
  

Database

• How to Pass Calculated Columns in the WHERE & GROUP BY clause in T-SQL..? - Bhushan W. Juare
  Passing calculated columns in the Where and Group by clause in T-SQL
  
  
• Using Coalesce() in sqlserver - blnreddy
  SQL Server built-in functions Coalesce()
  
  
• How to Split Column in T-SQL - Bhushan W. Juare
  This tip shows how to split a column in T-SQL.
  
  
• Retreive and update meta property of a table in MSSQL - barry fat
  develop a web based data dictionary
  
  
• How to Perform Pivot Operation in T-SQL..? - Bhushan W. Juare
  This tip discusses how to perform pivot operations in T-SQL.
  
  
• Subquery In T-SQL - Bhushan W. Juare
  Subquery in T-SQL
  
  
• How to Remove SSAS(Cube) Dimension Members Using Except() Function? - Bhushan W. Juare
  Removing SSAS(cube) dimension members using Except() function
  
  

Debug Tips

• WinRT / WinJS Mixed Mode Debugging - Anas Karkoukli
  A small tip for debugging WinRT component calls from WinJS applications
  
  

Hardware & System

• Combine physical keyboard with on-screen keyboard - kabdolla
  Create your own keyboards, keypads/ virtual buttons on top of other windows; filter unwanted input.
  
  

Miscellaneous

• ColourGrabber2 - rbrunton
  Using Windows hooks to capture mouse action
  
  

Third Party Products and Tools

• Kendo UI: Implementing a Grid Widget - ShubhamSaxena
  Learn how to implement Kendo Grid
  
  

Tools and IDE

• ScreenHopper - sbarnes
  A CodeProject mash-up providing a Hotkey to jump the cursor from one screen to the next on multi-monitor systems
  
  

Windows API

• How to create a task in Windows Task Scheduler - Mike Meinz
  Source code to demonstrate the creation of a new task in Windows Task Scheduler.
  
  

Windows Phone 7/8

• Login and Logout from Facebook in Windows Phone 7 - Shaify
  Logout from Facebook.
  
  

Tips and Tricks updated

Android

• Android - To Do\Shopping List - Deepali Dhingra
  This tip explains how to create a to do or Shopping List app with listview, sqlite, dialog and customadapter
  
  

C#

• Difference between var and dynamic in C# - aspnet_regiis -u
  Difference between var and dynamic in C#.
  
  

Cryptography & Security

• Encrypting Editor Notepad replacement - Frank T. Clark
  A C# .Net 3.5 Windows Forms Application with source code.
  
  

Database

• Get Duration Between Two Dates in Years, Months, Days, and Hours using SQL Server - Aarti Meswania
  Get duration between two dates in years, months, days, and hours using SQL Server
  
  

Dialogs and Windows

• C# Command Prompt class - Mehul Dhorda
  This tip describes a class that allows you to run a command and get its output.
  
  

Edit Controls

• C# UserControl TouchScreen Keypad Eng/Korean - syedshanu
  UserControl for Eng/Korean and numeric touch-screen keypad
  
  

Hardware & System

• Combine Keyboard Inputs and Mouse to Improve Input Data - kabdolla
  Learn how to combine physical keyboard inputs and mouse to improve input data
  
  

Internet / Network

• Modbus TCP class - Stephan Stricker
  A Modbus TCP class.
  
  

Libraries

• Cinchoo - Simplified Configuration Manager - Cinchoo
  Easy configuration management in .NET
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Exporting Filtered Data from DevExpress Dashboard Viewer Object - hawk3434
  A class to export the data from the DevExpress dashboard viewer object
  
  

Usability

• A "Listbox with increased height of a current row" technique - VictorSotnikov
  A usability technique that can be called 'a Listbox/Grid/Table with increased height of a current row'.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• Simply Using WPF Styles in Other Assemblies, or Other Project Types, like WinForms - Evgeny Bestfator
  How to use WPF Styles in other assemblies, or other project types, like WinForms
  
  

Windows Security

• Cisco VPN on Windows 8 incl. making it work with 3G - Flem100DK
  Cisco VPN on Windows 8 incl. making it work with 3G.
  
  

New Technical Blogs added

Database

• The Many Uses of ROW_NUMBER - AndrewCritchley
  The many uses of ROW_NUMBER.
  
  

Other .NET Languages

• Beginning IronPython - Pie At The Raven
  An intro to IronPython.
  
  

Programming Tips

• Three Steps to Get Fat-Razor MVC Views on Diet - Adam Tibi
  ASP.NET MVC Views give you the power of Razor View Engine with the flexibility of writing C# code. However, if you do too much C# you will end up with Fat-Razors that need to go on a diet or you might be risking separation of concern attacks.
  
  

Reviews on Third Party Products and Tools

• The Root of All Evil is Optimization? Or Apathy? - Qwertie
  The root of all evil is optimization... or apathy
  
  

Uncategorised Technical Blogs

• Logging: The Most Important Part of Any Application - NSProgrammer
  Logging is the most important part of any application.
  
  

Web Security

• How to Setup seam3-Security in JBoss 7 - Edward Legaspi
  Setup Seam3-security in JBoss 7
  
  

Technical Blogs updated

Client side scripting

• How to Use jQuery Methods with Knockout - Shakeel Iqbal
  Using jQuery methods with Knockout.
  
  
• Do you know JsRender? - Himanshu DS
  May be one of you can provide more insights, after all, it’s mutual learning that helps a community.
  
  

GDI+

• Why Use of GetPixel and SetPixel is So Inefficient? - morzel
  Couple of seconds to process a one megapixel picture… what the hell?
  
  

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 →
  
  

Scrapbook

• Will US immigration bill kill Indian IT companies? - Shivprasad koirala
  My main intention this article is to understand the technical points surrounding the new proposed US 2013 immigration bill and how it impacts Indian IT companies.