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Most popular new articles

• ToDoList 6.5.10 Feature Release - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g.
  
• A Much Easier to Use ListView - Phillip Piper
  
• Fast Colored TextBox for Syntax Highlighting - Pavel Torgashov
  
• Barcode Image Generation Library - Brad Barnhill
  
• C++ String Toolkit (StrTk) Tokenizer - Arash Partow
  

Latest Additions

121 articles overall. 40 new, 81 updated.

New articles added

Android

• R.O.O.T.S - Alex Saenko
  R.O.O.T.S is a real-time strategy game similar to games like Galcon, Eufloria, Tentacle Wars.
  
  

Book Chapters

• Adding iAds to an App - Manning
  A chapter excerpt from iOS in Practice
  
  

C / C++ Language

• Keyword mutable and data caching in C++ - David Corne
  A class to represent valid/invalid data and using the mutable keyword
  
  

C#

• Developing extension packages for Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010/2012 using C# with real-life samples (6/6) - Paul Eremeev
  This article covers the structure of Visual C++ project model (VCProject). Also included are the cases of using the project model for enumeration of project elements and obtaining their compilation properties through the corresponding configurations.
  
  

Internet / Network

• Multithreaded DNS Tester - Soroosh Bateni
  This is basicaly Charles Putney's dns tester but also is multithreaded and can be used with a static list
  
  

Interviews

• A Coder Interview With Mark Rendle - The Code Project, rendle
  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 Mark Rendle.
  
  

Microsoft BizTalk Server

• BizTalk ESB Exception Handling – Consuming WCF Services – Part III - Grant Harmer
  Managing exceptions when consuming WCF services via the BizTalk ESB Toolkit - Part III
  
  

Printing

• Storing and recalling printer settings in C#.net - Richard Dean
  This article shows how you can save printer settings of any printer to a file or an arraylist to be recalled later.
  
  

Product Showcase

• Creating a Full Featured HTML5 Application in Less than 10 Minutes - 2sky
  Building data-centric applications often requires developers to write tons of code spanning multiple tiers; a far from simple, tedious and a time consuming work. In this article, we will create a full featured HTML5 application in less than 10 minutes using the latest version of Vidyano.
  
  
• Plantronics Spokes SDK Overview - Ramesh Theivendran
  The Plantronics Unified Runtime Engine (Spokes) SDK exposes a set of interfaces for application developers to interact with Plantronics current and future devices.
  
  
• WinRT OCR for Windows Store Apps with LEADTOOLS - LEADTOOLS Support
  WinRT OCR for Windows Store Apps with LEADTOOLS
  
  
• Windows 8, jQuery Geo, and toStaticHTML - Ryan Westphal
  Getting jQuery Geo to work as a native app on top of WinJS.
  
  
• The Complete Guide to Building HTML5 games with Canvas & SVG - David Rousset
  How to build games using HTML5.
  
  
• Crystal Migration Services - Your #1 Choice to Convert Crystal Reports to SSRS - Crystal Migration Services Corp
  Crystal Migration Services provides leading-edge conversion services that get the job done in seconds, and with a level of accuracy that other companies just don't have.
  
  

Silverlight

• Rapid Development of Engineeging Web Site - Petr Ivankov
  From desktop to Web
  
  

Tools and IDE

• The Future of Software Development: CodeDOMs (Part 1) - KenBeckett
  Modeling the semantics of programming languages.
  
  

Windows API

• True Windows control subclassing - Jordan Gigov
  How to subclass a Windows control with more actual control over message handling.
  
  

Articles updated

.NET Framework

• Late Binding to .NET objects in .NET 4.0 - Igor Krupitsky
  This article talks about late binding to .NET object (not COM objects).
  
  

Algorithms & Recipes

• C++ String Toolkit (StrTk) Tokenizer - Arash Partow
  A brief introduction to a C++ String Tokenizer implementation
  
  
• Visualizing the Mandelbrot set - Andy Bantly
  Visualizing the Mandelbrot set using multiple threads of execution.
  
  

Android

• Android: Generating an EAN13 Barcode - va_dev
  Quick EAN13 barcode generation class.
  
  
• Android Pick Ball - To x86 Emulator - R S Dodiya
  A very simple game.
  
  

Applications & Tools

• ToDoList 6.5.10 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.
  
  
• Toolbar Editor for Visual Studio - Francesco Aruta
  A toolbar editor for Visual Studio. It can modify, add and create buttons, images and all that is needed for a toolbar.
  
  

ASP.NET

• Creating a simple application using MVC 4.0 - Anuja Pawar Indore
  Creating simple application using MVC4.0.
  
  
• ASP.NET Pagination - Srinivasu Pemma
  This is most common but very important part of every developer's life, Taken from my technical blog http://www.srinetinfo.com
  
  
• Building ASP.NET applications using Knockout.js with a server side defined view model - Paolo Costa
  Let's build a simple framework that allows to have the power of knockout.js with no JavaScript coding.
  
  

Audio and Video

• PracticeSharp (or Practice#) - A Utility for Practicing your Musical Instrument with Playback - Yuval Naveh
  A playback practice tool for musicians that allows slowing down, changing pitch, defining presets and loops on music files.
  
  

C / C++ Language

• Rendering text with Direct2D & DirectWrite - Espen Harlinn
  Direct2D, DirectWrite, Windows API, C++, std::shared_ptr and more
  
  
• 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'
  
  

C#

• Query Notification using SqlDependency and SqlCacheDependency - Abhishek Sur
  The article demonstrates how you can use SQL Server Query Notification feature to get notification from database whenever the result of a command gets changed. Sample application demonstrating SqlDependency and SqlCacheDependency is also included.
  
  
• WAVE File Processor in C# - Sujoy G
  A very simple class containing useful methods to process WAVE audio files
  
  
• How to Create a High Performance Syntax Highlighting RichTextBox Control - Yvar Birx
  Highlight Text, Fast, Easy, and afcourse, nice.
  
  

Caching

• A single line acces generic ASP.NET cache manager - Paolo Costa
  Provides a simple architecture that allows fast and easy access to cached methods.
  
  

Client side scripting

• Use JavaScript and WebRTC API to access your Camera and Microphone from browser - saadmos
  How to access Camera and Microphone using JavaScript, HTML5 and a new browser
  
  

Clipboard

• Create your own Snipping Tool - Eder A. Castro
  This tool captures a screen shot of anything on your desktop, like a picture or a section of webpage. This tool allows you to select a partial section of the whole screen with shortcut key.
  
  

Collections

• Quadrant Map - ohmusama
  Tree representation for a 2D space allowing for infinite expansion
  
  

Custom Controls

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

Database

• Implementing Repository Pattern With Entity Framework - Morshed Anwar
  Implement Repository Pattern in data access layer with Entity Framework 4.0 and Below version( Working with ObjectContext and EntityObject )
  
  
• Data versioning in SQL Server using row versions - Mika Wendelius
  This article describes how to enable SQL Server internal row versioning to achieve greater concurrency in OLTP systems.
  
  
• SQL Joins - charan anasam
  I will outline a few concepts I believe they shouldn't be forgot each time we combine data from two tables or more.
  
  
• Repository pattern with Entity Framework Code-First in Composable Service End - Morshed Anwar
  Implement Repository, UnitOfWork with Audit support in Composable Service End
  
  

Edit Controls

• Fast Colored TextBox for Syntax Highlighting - Pavel Torgashov
  Custom text editor with syntax highlighting
  
  
• i00 Spell Check - No Third Party Components Required! - i00
  Simple to use, open source Spell Checker for .NET
  
  

Game Development

• Anagrams - A Word Game in C# - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
  The classic word game using words and letter scores allowed in Scrabble
  
  

General Graphics

• Barcode Image Generation Library - Brad Barnhill
  This library was designed to give an easy class for developers to use when they need to generate barcode images from a string of data.
  
  
• ExifLib - A Fast Exif Data Extractor for .NET 2.0+ - Simon McKenzie
  Reads JPEG Exif data without the heavyweight and unnecessary instantiation of GDI+ objects.
  
  

Grid & Data Controls

• jqGrid MVC Html Helper - Ken C. Len
  MVC 3 jqGrid HTML Helper.
  
  

Hardware & System

• Simple URB (USB Request Block) Monitor - Deka Prikarna A.
  Simple URB (USB Request Block) Monitor
  
  
• Partition Tables Explained - Elias Bachaalany
  An article describing the format of the partition table accompanied with a GUI demonstration tool.
  
  

HTML / CSS

• 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

• WebScraping in CSharpDotNetTech - dot net tech
  The article explains Web Scraping for beginners with examples of WebBrowser, WebClient, HttpWebRequest/HttpWebResponse, Regex, BackgroundWorker.
  
  
• ZeroMQ via C#: Introduction - Manar Ezzadeen
  An Introduction to ZeroMQ, a very lightweight message queuing open source software.Then exploring and testing in a very easy way its main communication patterns using C#.
  
  

Interviews

• 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.
  
  

iPhone

• Versatile, programmer-friendly Split View Controller for iOS - Bernhard Häussermann
  An Objective-C class that sub-classes UIViewController to enable easily implementing split views in iPad applications.
  
  
• Debugging SSL on Both iOS Devices and Simulators with Man-in-the-middle Proxies - Tony_Fu
  This article describes how to set up a debugging environment for SSL web services from iOS clients to a server using man-in-the-middle proxies.
  
  

Libraries

• Razor 2.0 template engine, supporting layouts - Jaap Lamfers
  Razor 2.0 template engine that works outside MVC and that supports layouts (masterpages) and _ViewStart, like ASP.NET MVC.
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Async database polling with EntityFramework 5 - Tom Cook (UK)
  How to asynchronously poll a database for an Entity with EntityFramework 5
  
  

LINQ

• cpplinq - LINQ Query Operators for C++ Sequences - Marius Bancila
  An introduction to cpplinq, a open-source template library that provides LINQ-like operators for querying collections (arrays and STL containers) in C++11.
  
  
• LinQ Extended Joins - Juan Francisco Morales Larios
  The lost joins in System.Linq
  
  

List Controls

• A Much Easier to Use ListView - Phillip Piper
  An easier to use ListView that supports sorting, grouping, editing, overlays, and drag-n-drop.
  
  

MFC

• MFC Snapping Windows - Vachaun22
  Easily create windows that snap to each other.
  
  

Microsoft BizTalk Server

• BizTalk ESB Exception Handling – Consuming WCF Services – Part II - Grant Harmer
  Managing exceptions when consuming WCF services via the BizTalk ESB Toolkit - Part II
  
  

Mobile Development

• Box 2D vehicles - Part 2 (box2d polygon shape) - PavolSatala
  In the previous part (Box 2d vehicles - part 1), I showed you how to create a basic box2d car using Moscrif SDK. The following article is going to show some advanced techniques and upgrades the game.
  
  

Office Development

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

OpenGL

• Getting started with Volume Rendering - dvnOye
  Step by step explanation of volume rendering.
  
  

PHP

• Token Manager - VectorX
  The Token Manager allows web developers to program PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript into tokens that can be used throughout WordPress.
  
  

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.
  
  

Ultrabooks

• Book tracker App - Maneesh Sharma
  Book tracker App keeps track of shared books with QR code/NFC tags
  
  
• Dashboard Ultra - michael belshaw
  This app, which harnesses the exciting sensor interface of the Ultrabook, will enable car driver to log and display in real-time there driving/racing activities
  
  
• Sticky Notes - Vj_in
  Sticky Notes is a simple but efficient app that helps you take notes and also ensure that it is arranged easily for you to look it up anytime.
  
  
• Deals Desk - GeorgeChris
  Deals Desk is a fantastic app that brings all the interesting deals for you to your desktop rather than you having to go and search for them.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• MVVM Pattern Made Simple - Nick Polyak
  This article gives an overview of MVVM pattern, its usage and advantages
  
  
• Anagrams2 - A Simple WPF Game Application - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
  My Anagrams game ported to WPF.
  
  
• RuntimeExtensionManagement - Paulo Zemek
  Extend your objects at run-time and create really loosely-coupled applications.
  
  

Windows Workflow Foundation

• WF4 Custom activities for message mediation - Roman Kiss
  This article describes a design, implementation and usage of the custom message mediation activities for xaml workflow.
  
  

XML

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

New Tips and Tricks added

Algorithms & Recipes

• Uniquely Restricted Matchings in a Graph - Subhendu Sekhar Behera
  Algorithm to find out all the Matchings and Uniquely Restricted Matchings in a Graph
  
  

ASP.NET

• Check which .NET Framework version is installed from command line - Fenil Desai
  Check which .NET Framework version is installed from command line
  
  

C#

• Enhance String type to get Converted In Given Type - Pranay Rana
  Enhance String type to get Converted In Given Type
  
  
• Managed Extensibility Framework advancements in .NET 4.5 - Milan Raval
  This article explains Microsoft Extensibility Framework advancements in .NET 4.5 with examples.
  
  

Database

• SQL Server Connection Dialog - Hernán Hegykozi
  Show you how to make a connection dialog developed completely from scratch.
  
  
• SQL Server Scripts: Get All Nested Stored Procedures List (Procedures with dependent Procedures) - aasim abdullah
  A stored procedure can be called from another stored procedure as nested stored procedure. How to get list of these stored procedures with their nested one
  
  

Files and Folders

• Extract Bookmark from PDF file - Md Kamruzzaman Sarker
  Bookmark extraction from PDF files and showing it in a treeview.
  
  

PHP

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

Third Party Products and Tools

• DevExpress ASPxGridView Custome Edit- Icon on Header - Member 2361152
  
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• WPF Custom Window W/Full Windows Functionality - Member 8066864
  WPF Custom Window W/Full Windows Functionality.
  
  

Tips and Tricks updated

ASP.NET

• JavaScript Cookie Manager - William C. Anderson
  A powerful, stand-alone Javascript cookie manager.
  
  

C#

• Using "using" Statements: DisposalAccumulator - Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
  Helps to deal with irregular construction patterns of disposable objects
  
  
• Start developing Windows Store apps - Dellai Houssem
  This article provides some tips you may need when developing Windows 8 applications.
  
  

Cryptography & Security

• Cryptography with certificates - Mathlab
  Cryptography Class for Certificates
  
  

Files and Folders

• Zipping using System.IO.Compression - Tecfield
  This post shows how to create a zip package using System.IO.Compression
  
  

Installation

• Adding connection string during installation - Purushotham Agaraharam
  Setup file creation and adding a connection string custom control.
  
  
• SetUp file Creation for Web Application which Consumes WCF Service - Purushotham Agaraharam
  Framing Conection String for WCF and Providing service url to Web App for Communication
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Multiple values slider - InbarBarkai
  Create and use a multiple value slider
  
  

Silverlight

• Cache system in Silverlight 5 RIA Application - Part 1 - Data load - Michele Ziparo
  An effective way to implement a caching system in Silverlight (MVVM) RIA
  
  

Web Services

• TIP: Create local users when deploying an Azure Web Role - Jaime Olivares
  Configure an Azure solution to create users during deployment
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• TIP: Make a WPF dialog/window as application modal - Jaime Olivares
  Generic tip to make a WPF window modal to the application's main window
  
  

New Technical Blogs added

Algorithms & Recipes

• Finding Primes: Part II – A Python Implementation - David Corne
  As it is easy to get started I first wrote a prime finding algorithm in Python. I used a very basic algorithm for this. I store a list of prime numbers, and I check the numbers less than the square root of the possible prime, if any are a factor of the number I’m checking [...]
  
  

ASP.NET

• Response new function named as Response.RedirectPermanent - Khanna_Varun
  So what is Response.RedirectPermanent?
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• DataGridView – Stacked Header – Export to HTML/Excel - Deepak-VS
  How to export data to Excel with formatted headers.
  
  

Client side scripting

• River Trail – A Commentary - John Michael Hauck
  This entry is my own commentary on Teaching Parallelism with River Trail.
  
  

Code Generation

• Developing a MatrixStack in Pure Managed C# Code (ready for XNA) - Inaki Ayucar
  Some time ago, we already talked about the possibility of creating your own Math library directly in C#, with no native code. If you take enough care, it can be as fast as performing interop with a native one. Today, we are showing an additional example on this matter, and we are going to develop
  
  

Exception Handling

• Google’s gtest not handling friend tests correctly - VentsyV
  You can’t properly friend test methods that are in a different namespace than the class being tested.
  
  

Libraries

• Using Unity for IoC and DI - RizviHasan
  In this article I will try to describe all about using unity in our .NET projects and thus how to implement IoC (inversion of control) and DI(Dependency Injection).
  
  

PHP

• Encrypt – Decrypt Class - jotorres
  An encrypt-decrypyt class.
  
  

Scrapbook

• Microsoft got cool? Apple is getting clobbered in the ad wars? - VentsyV
  Apple getting clobbered in the ad wars?
  
  

Web Security

• Guard your privacy - VentsyV
  Improving your security does not need to be complicated. You only need a few pieces of free open source software and a few hours to get your accounts secured.
  
  

Windows 8 Design

• CharmFlyout – The Design - John Michael Hauck
  This post describes the design of the CharmFlyout custom control, discussing both the C# and XAML that achieves the desired functionality.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• The Quest for a Settings Flyout - John Michael Hauck
  If you want to use a flyout for your settings then use the standard SettingsFlyout which comes from the right side and has an integrated back button.
  
  

Work Issues

• A Developer's Guide to Starting a New Job - Zac Gery
  A list of tips and tricks for a successful first week.
  
  

Technical Blogs updated

.NET Framework

• To log or NLog - Sebastian Solnica
  Today’s post is dedicated to NLog – one of the logging libraries available for .NET developers.
  
  

Algorithms & Recipes

• FizzBuzz - David Corne
  FizzBuzz is variously a drinking game, a math game, a way of learning numbers in a foreign language and more importantly (for this blog) a programming kata.
  
  

ASP.NET

• Default Browser Switcher in Visual Studio 2012 - Khanna_Varun
  Testing application on different browsers manually would decrease our productivity and also would waste our time.
  
  

C / C++ Language

• Auto - David Corne
  The new auto keyowrd.
  
  
• Mutable and Data Caching - David Corne
  This blog post is going to be about the C++ keyword mutable, it is also going to go into using mutable for data caching.
  
  

HTML / CSS

• Under the hood of @Html.Checkbox() - Jigar Bagadai
  CodeProject Yesterday, I have used checkbox helper in my mvc project and found some interesting thing when I saw render html of checkbox helper and access value of checkbox from form collection in controller action. I have described both the things below. 1. CheckBox helper renders 2 input element
  
  

Web Security

• Guard your privacy - VentsyV
  What I’m using for my own online security.
  
  

Windows 8 Design

• CharmFlyout - Another Charming Custom Control - John Michael Hauck
  Settings charm flyouts to a C# Metro application.