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10 Million members!

Over the weekend we reached the magical mark of 10 Million members currently signed up!  This has been a big year for us and we have plenty more to complete (and roll out!) this year. Some fun - and very useful - additions to the site and to our services. Thank you everyone for your support, for being a fantastic community that I'm deeply proud of, and for, well, hanging around and making CodeProject what it is.

Of course, no 10-millionth-member celebration is complete without a bag full of giveaways. We're still wrapping the last of the goodies and will present one lucky member with the gift basket next week.

Win One of 125 Windows 8 Tablets or 27" All-in-Ones, and your Share of $100,000 in Prizes

The Intel App Innovation Contest 2013 is here! Submit your Big Idea for a Windows 8 Desktop App in one of six categories for your chance at a Tablet or All-in-One. 125 CodeProject finalists will take home a tablet or all-in-one and go on to Phase 2 where they will complete their app and go against finalists from CodeProject and other developer communities in India, China and Russia.

The best app from each of the six categories (Entertainment, Games, Education, Healthcare, Finance, Retail) will win $10,000, the best app from each platform (Tablet and All-in-One) will take home $10,000, and the overall grand prize winner will be awarded a $20,000 prize (plus fame and bragging rights…). Stay tuned for more details when the contest launches this Wednesday July 24.

...and another holiday.

It's the monthly Monday Off in Summer holiday in Canada (also known as Civic or Provincial Day) so we're all out today soaking up as much of the sunlight as we can while it lasts. We'll get back to you on anything non-urgent Tuesday. Anything urgent? We're on it. We reserve the right to define urgent, though, depending on the weather.

cheers,
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Most popular new articles

• ToDoList 6.7.4 Feature Release - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g.
  
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Latest Additions

146 articles overall. 56 new, 90 updated.

New articles added

Android

• Learn How to Develop Android Application - Shakeel Iqbal
  This Article gives a basic concept for developing Android app.
  
  

Azure

• D&B and Social Media - CJRii
  Use of social media with D&B data to help better understand a company's needs.
  
  

C#

• Enhanced Skype Chatter Robot - Osman Kalache
  An Enhanced Skype Chatter Bot, with a friendly user interface, programable knowledge base, testing interface with Export/Import knowledge base to files
  
  

Code Generation

• Mo+ - Supersizing Entity Framework to generate a working multi-tier application - Dave Clemmer
  Using Mo+ to generate a working application, which includes an Entity Framework model, OData services, view model client, and WPF application.
  
  
• Model-driven development and prototyping by sample (part 2) - Lothar Behrens
  Customizing generated code to support phone number formatting
  
  

General Graphics

• Design interactive 3D Worlds with X3DML - Keyvan M. Kambakhsh
  This article introduces X3DML project and demonstrates how XML and JavaScript can help you build interactive 3D Worlds over the web.
  
  

Interviews

• A Coder Interview With Tugdual Grall - CodeProject, Tugdual Grall
  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 Tugdual Grall, a developer and evangelist working on the Couchbase NoSQL database team.
  
  

Product Showcase

• Dictaphone - Ted Neward
  Turning your Android into a note-taking device
  
  
• Creating and Processing OMR Forms with LEADTOOLS - LEADTOOLS Support
  Creating and Processing OMR Forms with LEADTOOLS
  
  
• 5 Lessons Learned Extending On-Premise Software to The Cloud - Bruce Chapman DNN
  In this post, I’m going to share with you some lessons learned along the way of taking the DNN Platform from an on-premise application to a turnkey, cloud-based solution.
  
  

Programming Tips

• Microsoft C# Coding Standards and Best Practices - MaulikDusara
  Anybody can write code. With a few months of programming experience, you can write 'working applications'. Making it work is easy, but doing it the right way requires more work than just making it work.
  
  

Reviews on Third Party Products and Tools

• Review of SnappHQ - Peteris Krumins
  I recently had the opportunity to try Snapp, an elastic cloud Platform-as-a-Service for .NET applications. It's the first PaaS that includes a configurable staging and production environments for .NET applications.
  
  

SharePoint Server

• SharePoint 2013 -Content and Structure Reports - MANPREET SINGH
  Content and structure reports in SharePoint 2013
  
  

Tablets and All-in-Ones

• PerceptualPhotoViewer - sandeepkumar.sgnr
  It is an innovative idea in the world of technologies which will capture photo, making video, navigate among photos and videos on viewer by understanding user’s voice, touch and gesture.
  
  
• ChronoZooms - Wilson PS
  How do you see time? Or better yet how do you visualize time when explaining to students about the concepts of the Big Bang theory from 13 Billion years ago? Now not only can help your students understand what 13B years ago looks like you can experience Big History in a fascinating new way.
  
  
• xii-Knights board game - Sanjay K. Gupta
  xii-Knights duel-user board game for family/friends.
  
  
• Coupon Drive - apmyhr
  Easily capture and store coupon information on your W8 Intel Tablet.
  
  
• Barcode scanner - vasu6630
  barcode scanner scans barcodes on products then look up prices and reviews. You can also scan Data Matrix and QR Codes containing URLs, contact info, etc.
  
  
• DrumHead - Roman Pylypets
  Become a real drummer without the drum set.
  
  
• Film Festival Heat Map - Milan Shah
  Mapping attendess of Indie Film Festivals locations on a heat map is a great real time predictor of what's hot right now
  
  
• Location Sharing - vigneshvergil
  Sharing location with neighbour's
  
  
• Tablet Tutor App - BacchusBeale
  Education App Idea for Windows 8 Tablet
  
  
• Super-easy 3D multiplayer games maker - Ashraf Samy Hegab
  JavaScript based with realtime updates across devices on save. (http://multiplay.io)
  
  
• Lock-Out Tag-Out Compliance Management System - Randy Thon
  
  
  
• Pairs-Trader - Hermit Dave
  A helper for statistical arbitrage
  
  
• App Innovation Campus Mate - danielu13
  App Innovation Entry in Tablet/AIO: Education Category
  
  
• Nations Online Volunteers Experience [NOW] - Arun Murugesan(cse)
  An application that allows Online Volunteers (OVs) to access their web-based platform and interact with their host organization and other volunteers (online or on-site)
  
  
• The Orchestrated Entertainment Quiz Show - Steve Vink
  Have Fun, Get Social, Raise Money
  
  
• Combining a Physical and Virtual Store - Remco U
  Tablet/Smart phone application to combine a physical and virtual store
  
  
• Doctors Booking - shafeeqthayyil
  Doctors Telephonic Booking System
  
  
• KeepMeAwake - @AmitGajjar
  This is windows 8 application to keep your work hard at exam time.
  
  
• Eduheap - marwah.kshitij
  A way of learning and teaching people around the Country
  
  
• All-In-One Photo Touch - Asaf Shelly
  Popular AppUp Photo Touch adjusted for All-In-One
  
  

Ultrabooks

• The Dew Review – Intel Haswell Ultrabook Review – Part 1, Initial Impressions - Alvin Ashcraft
  The Dew Review – Intel Haswell Ultrabook Review – Part 1, Initial Impressions
  
  
• Windows 8 Developers, This is Your Ultrabook. Introducing Harris Beach. - Steve Chippy Paine
  Harris Beach Developer Ultrabook unboxing and first impressions
  
  

Windows Powershell

• PowerShell 4.0 - What's new? - Oliver Kohl D.Sc.
  This article presents you the latest powershell technology like new or extended cmdlets, Desired State Configuration, Windows Management Framework 4.0 and more
  
  

Articles updated

Algorithms & Recipes

• Writing Your Own RTF Converter - Jani Giannoudis
  An article on how to write a custom RTF parser and converter.
  
  
• Method for Edge Detection in Color Images, Using 1-Dimensional Liner Image - tumbledDown2earth
  Method for edge detection in color images, using 1-Dimensional liner image or scan line, sampled at 1 pixel intervals, at any arbitary angle
  
  

Applications & Tools

• ToDoList 6.7.4 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.
  
  
• XSS vulnarability detection tool for JSP - Prasad Khandekar
  A tool to detect unsafe use of EL which leads to XSS vulnarability.
  
  

ASP.NET

• A Simple Chat Website Using ASP.NET and AngularJS - Nitij Kumar
  This article provides information to create a simple chat website.
  
  
• Learning MVC - Part 1: Introduction to MVC Architecture and Separation of Concerns - Akhil_Mittal
  Introduction to MVC architecture and Separation of Concerns.
  
  
• Learning MVC - Part 2: Creating MVC Application and Perform CRUD Operations Using LINQ to SQL - Akhil_Mittal
  Creating MVC Application & Perform CRUD operations using LINQ to SQL
  
  
• Google Maps in MVC 4 with custom InfoWindow - Allen ONeill
  A quick tutorial on using Google Maps in MS MVC 4.
  
  
• An Introduction to Disqus (Pluggable Commenting System) with ASP.NET MVC 3 - Karthik. A
  This article discusses ways by which you could utilize Disqus in your web applications.
  
  
• Learning MVC - Part 3: Creating MVC Application & Perform CRUD Operations Using EntityFramework - Akhil_Mittal
  How to create MVC application and perform CRUD operations using EntityFramework
  
  

Azure

• DNB Business Lookup and Analytics - Ranjan.D
  Business Lookup and Analytics , is a Windows Store Application which can run on Desktop or Surface RT Tablet
  
  
• DnB Risk Analysis - vvtrish
  Analyzing the risk associated with owning, investing, or collaborating with business by utilizing DnB Marketplace data subset.
  
  
• Trust Indicators for Companies in B2B Transactions - mudnug
  How to use D&B Data to verify whether a vendor is likely to provide reasonable value
  
  
• Fundraiser Focus - A D&B Project - Tim Corey
  Helping non-profit organizations target their fundraising efforts.
  
  
• DnB Company Tree Comparison - relhok13
  An Application to view D&B Company Tree data and compare to Tree Data in CRM
  
  
• Phalanx Linq - Traverse Healthcare's Business Development Labyrinth - UmarSiddiqui
  The Intelligent Way to Develop Business in the World of Healthcare
  
  
• Honey Badger Mobile Lead Generation and CRM - Eugene Chuvyrov & Fabien Lavocat
  iOS app and Windows Phone app entries for Dun and Bradstreet Developer Challenge
  
  
• DnB Mashup - Azure Mobile Services & Windows Store 8.1 App - Tony Thornton
  This article discusses the consumption of data from multiple sources at once from a Windows Store App using Azure Mobile Services.
  
  
• Job Match - apmyhr
  Job Match helps job seekers find employment with the right company
  
  
• Dun & Bradstreet - A Natural Language Interface - roscler
  Expanding the power and utility of the D&B API with artificial intelligence and natural language processing
  
  

C / C++ Language

• Extending a C++ Application with Lua 5.2 - Richard Chambers
  Using a subset of the available Lua 5.2 C interface to extend a C++ application with Lua.
  
  

C#

• A Pretty Good Splash Screen in C# - Tom Clement
  A splash screen with some neat predictive progress bar features
  
  
• HiUpdate tools - Automatic application updates - Josef Andrys
  HiUpdateTools is a easy tools to use publish new version of your application
  
  
• Serializing to a File - Clifford Nelson
  Helper for serializing objects in XML or binary and saving to a file
  
  
• JSON Viewer - Syed M Hussain
  In this article, I explain how I developed a simple JSON data viewer using the System.Web.Extensions.dll and the JavaScriptSerializer class.
  
  
• "Extension Properties" Revised - Oleg Shilo
  The extremely simple implementation of generic "Extension Properties"
  
  

Charts, Graphs and Images

• Upload and Convert Video File to Flash Video (flv) and Progressive Streaming using ASP.NET Handler - Syed BASHAR
  Upload video/audio file and convert video to Flash video (flv) and do progressive streaming using an ASP.NET handler.
  
  

Client side scripting

• The Holy Grail jQuery Plugin of CSS Design - Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira
  A jQuery plugin for the famous problem known as the holy grail of CSS design.
  
  

Code Generation

• Mo+ - A model oriented programming language and IDE for model driven development - Dave Clemmer
  Introducing the Mo+ language and the Mo+ Solution Builder IDE.
  
  
• Mo+- An evolution of the template based code generator - Dave Clemmer
  Comparing the relative effectiveness of CodeSmith, T4, and Mo+ in meeting code generation requirements.
  
  

Cryptography & Security

• Encrypting Editor Notepad replacement - Frank T. Clark
  A C# .Net 3.5 (Win7) Windows Forms Application with source code.
  
  

Database

• Entity Framework in WinForms - Bernardo Castilho
  A component that makes it easy to use Entity Framework in WinForms projects, including design-time binding support.
  
  
• A Comparison on Data Access Methods - Part 1 - Dr. Song Li
  This is the part 1 of a comparison on Data Access methods in the .NET environment.
  
  
• DBTool – Part 2: Harlinn.Oracle - Espen Harlinn
  A reflection based wrapper for the Oracle Data Provider for .NET – allows your application to dynamically load the Oracle.DataAccess.dll assembly installed on your client’s computer.
  
  

Dialogs and Windows

• A Custom Message Box - Syed M Hussain
  This article explains how to develop a custom message box in C#.
  
  

General Graphics

• EAN13 Barcode Control - Tammam Koujan
  Demonstrates creating EAN-13 Barcodes with VB.NET
  
  

Grid & Data Controls

• SourceGrid - Open Source C# Grid Control - Davide Icardi
  SourceGrid is a free open source grid control. Supports virtual grid, custom cells and editors, advanced formatting options and many others features
  
  

Internet / Network

• View All Internet History and Images (from cache) for All Five Browsers - newton.saber
  With only two button clicks this application will display all Internet History and all images from all installed browsers for every user on the machine.
  
  

Java

• Java Thread Tutorial - Arash M. Dehghani
  This tutorial contains everything you need to know about basic threading (concurrency) in the Java language, simple and easy. Includes diagrams and code samples for better understanding.
  
  
• Java Thread Example - Arash M. Dehghani
  5 simple cool Java Thread Example that you should see, ones that don't have any synchronization between themselves.
  
  

LINQ

• Dynamically evaluated SQL LINQ queries - Don Kackman
  Extension methods to evaluate plain text SQL queries against IEnumerable collections.
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Enhanced Vertical Scrollbar - Adam Zgagacz
  Vertical Scrollbar with enhaced properities; bookmarks; value tooltips;
  
  

Tablets and All-in-Ones

• NetExpresso - sunder.tinwar
  A browser which let you express yourself
  
  
• GesturCubes - Meshack Musundi
  WPF 3D cubes puzzle game for the AIO(All-In-One) PC
  
  
• FunCam - vinod_minhas87
  Enjoy creating fun images of yours
  
  
• NY Payroll Tax Calculator - DrABELL
  Fed, NY State, NY City and Yonkers Payroll Tax Calculator 2013
  
  
• iLearn - D Protagonist
  iLearn is a non obtrusive and fun way to learn for kids
  
  
• Remote blackbox - Pablo Gimenez
  Remote Blackbox is an app to control and monitorize your ThinkPad while you are away.
  
  
• LabWorm - Virtual Lab-room for all subjects - Debarshi-C
  Creating Labroom for all your practicals in all subjects
  
  
• Video player with eye/face detection - @AmitGajjar
  Video player with eye detection
  
  
• Movie Mate - Hermit Dave
  Your one stop shop for all movie information for the movie geek in you
  
  
• Space3D - Abhishek Nandy
  an app that provides 3D models of Human SpaceFlights
  
  

VB.NET

• Settings/Options DialogBox 2005 - Chris Kolkman
  Generate an Options dialog box from the settings you create in the My.Settings namespace.
  
  

Win32/64 SDK & OS

• Protecting an Application's Unauthorized Copy - Manish K. Agarwal
  To protect your application's unauthorized copy by using image integrity functions (Platform SDK's ImageHlp APIs) and to manage certificates in a portable executable (PE) image file.
  
  

Windows API

• Custom Controls in Win32 API: The Painting - Martin Mitáš
  Understanding the basics of custom control painting and avoiding the trap of control flicker.
  
  
• Custom Controls in Win32 API: Visual Styles - Martin Mitáš
  Paint your control consistently with standard/common controls, using the visual styles API.
  
  
• Custom Controls in Win32 API: The Basics - Martin Mitáš
  A quick introduction into the development of custom controls in plain Win32 API.
  
  
• Custom Controls in Win32 API: Standard Messages - Martin Mitáš
  Make your control answer to the questions system or application may ask.
  
  

Windows Communication Foundation

• Creating PDF documents with WCF and FO.NET - Marco Merola
  Creating PDF documents with WCF and FO.NET.
  
  
• WCF for the Real World, Not Hello World - Zijian
  WCF development for real RAD in enterprise
  
  

Windows Powershell

• PowerShell internals and PowerShell threading - Oliver Kohl D.Sc.
  This article presents you some capabilities of PowerShell like the usage of .NET Framework 4.0 and .NET threading.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• Prism WPF standalone and interaction modules in VS2012 - lizhong huang
  This article will share with you the jobs I have done in programming standalone and interaction modules in a Prism way.
  
  

New Tips and Tricks added

Android

• Parse JSON data in Android - Amanpreet Mukker
  simple and seamless
  
  

ASP.NET

• JSONP in ASP.NET Web API Quick Get Started - S.Sathik Ali
  This tip contains the basic introduction to the JSONP, Same-Origin and Cross-Origin Resource Sharing concepts and quick get started with JSONP in ASP.NET Web API.
  
  

Azure

• Company News to Your Phone (Idea Entry) - Erasmus Lutse
  A hypothetical application that gets the company news in a specified location
  
  

Client side scripting

• Introduction to Qunit - Carlos Luis
  Qunit by example
  
  

Combo & List Boxes

• ComboBox with Suggest Ability based on Substring-Search - Physlcu$
  A custom ComboBox that supports live filtering of items by Substring-Search or any other Lamda-Expression
  
  

Custom Controls

• Highlight Search Text in Search Result - Bikash Prakash Dash
  How to highlight search text in a search result using ASP.NET.
  
  

DLLs & Assemblies

• Make a DLL file which contains an icon set like SHELL32.dll - Archit Patel
  how to make a DLL file which contains an icon set like "SHELL32.dll".
  
  

HTML / CSS

• Creating Calculator using HTML,CSS and JavaScript - Anoop Kr Sharma
  Creating a simple, stylish calculator using HTML, CSS and JavaScript
  
  

Java

• Protohost Scanner - Zeff Portal
  Prohost Scanner
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Don't name things NAME.... - Allen ONeill
  Why you shouldn't use reserved words
  
  

Office Development

• Adding Custom Menus to Outlook 2013 Contacts - Yesudasan Moses
  Adding custom menus to the Outlook 2013 contacts.
  
  

Usability

• Geo Flags - Paw Jershauge
  Flags of the world named by ISO3166-2 Alpha3
  
  

Windows Communication Foundation

• WCF Transactions in Five Easy Steps, With Example - Sujit Bhujbal
  In this article, I will first explain transactions and their properties and then I will try to explain how we can implement transactions in a WCF service.
  
  

Tips and Tricks updated

Algorithms & Recipes

• Check if a Point is Inside the Polygon Using Ray-Casting Algorithm - Ravimal Bandara
  An implementation of ray-casting algorithm to check if a given point is inside or outside the polygon.
  
  
• Using Single Dimensional Array to Represent Two Dimensional Data - Kashif_Imran
  Shows how to treat a single dimensional array for both single and two dimensional data at the same time
  
  

Android

• Android - Image Operations Using BitmapFactory - Amol Kakhandki
  Walltoday is an app for setting a wallpaper for each day.
  
  

ASP.NET

• Read Excel File into DataSet in ASP.NET Using C# - Mannava Siva Aditya
  How to read Excel file data into a DataSet in ASP.NET using C#.
  
  
• Text/HTML Editor With Asp.Net - Vaibhav Bodake
  Text/HTML Editor With JQuery In ASP.Net
  
  
• How to restrict user to enter only text/digit using jQuery and JavaScript - Mannava Siva Aditya
  Restrict end user by entering incorrect values
  
  
• Using ACE edit - mark merrens
  Using the ACE edit control in an ASP.Net page
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• New ways of sorting gridview without viewstate >> - dholakiya ankit
  Sorting GridView using attribute property of GridView.
  
  
• DataGrid visual column separator - Ced743
  DataGrid column separator.
  
  

C#

• Dynamic types with JSON.NET - Vitaly Tomilov
  Using JSON.NET to deserialize collections of dynamic-type objects.
  
  
• Add Custom Pushpin - Bing Maps SDK - Windows 8 - VijayaMalla
  Adding a custom pushpin to maps using Bing Maps SDK.
  
  

Charts, Graphs and Images

• Implementation of a loading image using jQuery in MVC - Antariksh Verma
  This is an implementation of a loading image using jQuery in MVC.
  
  

Cryptography & Security

• C# hash creator (modified version from MSDN) - steven-_-song
  Easier GetHash function in System.Security.Cryptography.
  
  

Custom Controls

• Auto Complete Control Like in GMail/Hotmail/Facebook - Bikash Prakash Dash
  How to crate a auto suggestion control like Gmail/Hotmail/Facebook to add items in list.
  
  

Database

• MySqlCommand, MySqlParameter and "LIKE" with Percent Symbol - AlbertoLeon CSharpMan
  How to search text with LIKE with MySQLParameter in MySQL .NET / Connector
  
  

Dialogs and Windows

• xConsole Project - TheTrigger
  Coloring the window console
  
  

Installation

• ClickOnce deployment vs. requestedExecutionLevel = requireAdministrator - Johnny J.
  How to work around a ClickOnce limitation.
  
  

Libraries

• Using wxWidgets under Windows - Oliver Kohl D.Sc.
  This is a small "how to" that shows you how to get wxWidgets running under Windows
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Doing a NotifyIcon program the right way - Johnny J.
  How to do a program whose main graphic interface consists of an icon in the system tray
  
  

Programming Tips

• MVVM Friendly DataTemplate switching - Pete O'Hanlon
  Switching data templates entirely in XAML.
  
  

New Technical Blogs added

Book Reviews

• ReWork, a book by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson - Gergo Bogdan
  ReWork, review of a different kind of business book for different kinds of people...
  
  

Game Development

• Use Region and RegionManager to create special region in XNA, WPXNA (18) - zoyobar
  Use Region and RegionManager to create special region in XNA, WPXNA (18).
  
  

Installation

• MSI wrapper for any installer using Wix - Ernest Poletaev
  MSI wrapper for any installer using Wix.
  
  
• Make MSI from InnoSetup installer - Ernest Poletaev
  How to make an MSI from InnoSetup installer.
  
  

SharePoint Server

• Single Reference JavaScript Pattern for SharePoint 2013 App Development and Web Development (SRJ Pattern by Melick) - Melick
  I have tried many different ways to properly organized JavaScript in my Developments. When I'm developing I have faced following issues. Each and every place we need to include script files IF one place change we need to change all the pages for references Assume we need to update JQuery  version
  
  

String handling

• String Interning - Sandeep Shankar
  String interning
  
  

Work Issues

• Newbs: Discovering the Business Side of Development - Zac Gery
  Discovering the business side of development.
  
  

Technical Blogs updated

ASP.NET Controls

• Visual Data Binding – Hot Dang! - Steve Wellens
  Often, there are many ways to do the same thing in .NET. You can do things the hard way or the easy way. By hard, I mean you can type a lot of code by hand. By easy, I mean you can click and drag and drop. Guess which method I am going to demonstrate…go on guess…it's OK, I'm grading on a curve… Befo
  
  

Book Reviews

• HLSL Development Cookbook–A Review - Simon Jackson
  HLSL Development Cookbook Review
  
  

C#

• Why You Should Be Using Interfaces In Your Code - Nick Cosentino
  This post discusses why you should be using interfaces in your code
  
  

Cross Platform

• Cross Platform Authentication With ASP.NET Web API - patelsan
  It’s becoming increasingly common to expose multiple interfaces for application – many applications has apps for iPhone, Android, Windows mobile in addition to the web interface. Some part of your application functionality may be exposed through other ways like Chrome extension and Wind
  
  

Design and Architecture

• How Do You Structure Your Singletons? - Nick Cosentino
  How to structure your Singletons.
  
  

Game Development

• Use Pinup and PinupManager to create pinups in XNA, WPXNA (17) - zoyobar
  Use Pinup and PinupManager to create pinups in XNA, WPXNA (17).
  
  

Threads, Processes & IPC

• Simple Way to Structure Threads for Control - Nick Cosentino
  I'd like to share the pattern I commonly use when creating threads in C# and discuss some of the highlights.