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Our follow up article competition to the AppInnovation contest has been won! DaveAuld UltraDynamo series pipped the other contenders by a nose. If you're thinking about dipping your toes into the waters of Ultrabook development, read this series. Well done Dave - a shiny new Ultrabook is headed your way as soon as you can decide which one to grab. Decisions, decisions!

The regular monthly article competition has also been run and won, with the top prizes going to:

Best C# article of December 2012
Florian Rappl - Way to Lambda
Prizes:	Shell MegaPack.Net 2010; SmartOutline 2010; Crypto Obfuscator For .Net - Enterprise Edition; The latest C# ebooks from informIT; ActiveReports 7;

Best C++ article of December 2012
Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי - Strings Obfuscation System
Prizes:	Codejock Xtreme ToolkitPro; SmartOutline 2010; CryptoLicensing For MFC - Enterprise Edition; The latest C++ ebooks from informIT;

Best Web Dev article of December 2012
Nick Polyak - Anatomy of HTML5/JavaScript Single Page Application in Samples (basics, navigation, composition, communications with the server)
Prizes:	SmartOutline 2010; The latest Web Dev ebooks from informIT; Spread .NET; Spread WPF-Silverlight;

Best Mobile article of December 2012
dteviot - Simple Comic Book Viewer for Android
Prizes:	Code Project Mug; Code Project Mousepad; The latest Mobile ebooks from informIT; ComponentOne Studio Enterprise;

Best VB.NET article of December 2012
Karl Stoney - Creating an RSS 2.0 feed with .NET Syndication Namespace
Prizes:	Shell MegaPack.Net 2010; SmartOutline 2010; Crypto Logger For .Net; The latest VB.NET ebooks from informIT;

Best overall article of December 2012
Florian Rappl - Way to Lambda
Prizes:	Code Project Mug; Hyper Build; Spread .NET;

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Weekly Poll Results

This week's survey: What would tempt you to write an app for an App Store?

Most popular new articles

• ToDoList 6.6.b3 Beta Release - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g.
  
• Fast Colored TextBox for Syntax Highlighting - Pavel Torgashov
  
• AJAX based CRUD tables using ASP.NET MVC 3 and jTable jQuery plug-in - Halil ibrahim Kalkan
  
• MFC/C++ Helper Class for Window Resizing - Mizan Rahman
  
• Open a command prompt anywhere. - Yvan Rodrigues
  

Latest Additions

138 articles overall. 52 new, 86 updated.

New articles added

Applications & Tools

• Rails 3.2: A Nested-Form Demo, Part 1: All Wings Report In! - Member 9783921
  A nested-form demo.
  
  

ASP.NET

• Master-Details using ASP.NET MVC - Meir Krudo
  three ways to create Master-Details Using ASP.NET MVC
  
  
• Troubleshooting ASP.NET based Enterprise Application Performance Problem - Henry He
  In this article, I introduce a process and related skill for troubleshooting ASP.NET based enterprise application performance problem. This process is summarized from my personal experience in this area.
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• Binding Image Slider with ASP.NET having Image Upload Panel - dpalash
  This article is meant for binding image from backend with your favorite image slider.
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Family Tree - SergeyAndreyev
  The development of a Family Tree application.
  
  

HTML / CSS

• Pinned Sites in Windows 8: Getting more visibility of your site - Rahul Lalmalani
  This articles shows you how to put your site logo right next to apps on the Windows 8 Start Screen.
  
  
• Building HTML5 Games for the Atari Arcade - HTML5 Partners
  Building HTML5 Games for the Atari Arcade
  
  
• Flexibility: A Foundation for Responsive Design - HTML5 Partners
  Flexibility: A Foundation for Responsive Design
  
  
• Other People’s Data, Your Security: Mashup Applications for Enterprises, Part 2 - HTML5 Partners
  In the first article in this series, I covered cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) and building iframe sandboxes and described how to use these techniques in mashup applications to consume data from other domains and provide a layer to a defense-in-depth strategy.
  
  
• Accessing Configuration Data Through a Project Silk Widget - HTML5 Partners
  Accessing Configuration Data Through a Project Silk Widget
  
  
• Getting to Know CSS3 Selectors, Part 2: State-Based, Target and Negation Pseudo-Classes - HTML5 Partners
  Getting to Know CSS3 Selectors, Part 2: State-Based, Target and Negation Pseudo-Classes
  
  

Product Showcase

• Take a Photo from a Desktop Webcam and Upload in a Web Browser - Dynamsoft
  Control web cameras or the built-in laptop webcams inside IE, Firefox and Chrome with JavaScript.
  
  
• OCR Documents in .NET - Dynamsoft
  OCR Documents in .NET.
  
  

Shell and IE programming

• .NET Shell Extensions - Shell Preview Handlers - Dave Kerr
  Quickly create Shell Preview Handlers for Windows or Outlook using .NET!
  
  

Web Services

• PHP Web Service WSDL Generator / SOAP Server (Document/Literal) - LyndonL37
  Generates the required WSDL file and SOAP server for receiving data from InfoPath (Document/Literal format)
  
  

Articles updated

.NET Framework

• Analyzing a .NET executable or DLL without .NET installed - Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי
  A pure Win32 API applicaiton that can analyze a .NET binary without .NET installed.
  
  
• PVS.AVPlayer - Peter Vegter
  MCI wrapper class library for .NET developers
  
  

Ajax

• AJAX based CRUD tables using ASP.NET MVC 3 and jTable jQuery plug-in - Halil ibrahim Kalkan
  Creating AJAX based CRUD tables using ASP.NET MVC 3 and the jTable jQuery plug-in.
  
  
• Ajaxion - Standalone AJAX - Part 2 of 2 - C# and Java Example - radumi
  An article about how to keep AJAX simple as it is and get the most out of it.
  
  
• Ajaxion - Standalone Ajax - Part 1 of 2 - a UI perspective on REST - radumi
  An article about how to build Web applications of the future relying on the current standards and less technology
  
  
• YouTube Dynamic AJAX / JSON Search API Demo - david alimian
  This article shows how to search dynamically for YouTube videos from your site, parse the JSON response, and embed videos.
  
  

Algorithms & Recipes

• Creating a crossword generator - Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי
  Creating an application that can generate crosswords from a list of words
  
  
• Text Documents Clustering using K-Means Algorithm - Samir Kunwar
  Text documents clustering using K-Means clustering algorithm.
  
  
• Domain Coloring Method on GPU - Khaldoon Ghanem
  This article describes how to visualize complex-valued functions of a single complex variable using the domain coloring method on GPU.
  
  
• Time moving average - kosmoh
  An introduction to a special type of Moving average, which considers not the last N events, but the last events that happened in the given time interval.
  
  
• Fastest In-Place Stable Sort - Craig Brown
  A stable version of quicksort
  
  

Applications & Tools

• ToDoList 6.6.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.NET

• WebForms vs. MVC - Marla Sukesh
  Is ASP.NET MVC replacement for Web Forms? No, Both have there pros and cons
  
  
• 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
  
  
• MVC Basic Site: Step 1 – Multilingual Site Skeleton - Raul Iloc
  MVC Basic Site is intended to be a series of tutorial articles about the creation of a basic and extendable web site that uses ASP.NET MVC. This article is intended to be the first one from this series and it is focused mainly in the creation of a multilingual MVC web site skeleton. It also provides
  
  
• Custom ASP.NET MVC ActionResults - Ranjan.D
  Implementing custom ActionResult, Here we shall see how to build custom ActionResult to return xml and rss feeds
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• ASP.NET Charting Controls - Madhukar Mudunuru
  Usage of ASP.NET Charting Controls provided with .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
  
  

C / C++ Language

• How to send an SMS message from an application - Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי
  How to send an SMS from a Desktop Applicaiton (written in C++).
  
  
• Strings Obfuscation System - Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי
  A string obfuscation system that integrates in a Visual Studio C++ solution
  
  
• Safely accessing pointers - Jaskiran Singh
  The topic discusses how to safely access the pointers, which are considered as bomb shells if used unsafely.
  
  

C#

• Task Parallel Library and async-await Functionality - Patterns of Usage in Easy Samples - Nick Polyak
  TPL/Async tutorial with emphasis on how to use it and why it is needed
  
  
• Await Tasks in C#4 using Iterators - Keith L Robertson
  Write synchronous-looking asynchronous methods without async/await in Visual Studio 2010.
  
  
• Main Method in C# - SChristmas
  This article is all about the Main method in C#.
  
  

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.
  
  

CodeProject FAQs

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

Collections

• Enhanced ObservableCollection with ability to delay or disable notifications - Eugene Sadovoi
  Implements delayed or disabled INotifyCollectionChanged.
  
  
• A Simple C# Property System - zaphoed
  The following article demonstrates a C# implementation of a simple property system.
  
  

Cryptography & Security

• Encrypted code compiled at runtime - Bruno Tabbia
  Encrypt your C# classes and compiling them during run-time (hiding their code in the exe file).
  
  

Database

• The Data Tune System - Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי
  The DataTune system was one of the earliest data cleansing systems.
  
  
• EpOraLibrary - A lightweight C++ wrapper over Oracle's OCI library - Woong Gyu La
  This is an alternative project of "OraLib - a lightweight C++ wrapper over Oracle's OCI library"
  
  

Debug Tips

• yaolog: A powerful, easy-use, cross-platform C++ log utility - Neil_lu
  A powerful, easy-use, cross-platform C++ log utility.
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Easier .NET settings management - Antonio Nakić Alfirević
  Creating a library for persisting the application state between sessions
  
  
• Service Oriented Architecture and WCF - Marla Sukesh
  In this article we will talk about Service oriented architecture and its characteristics
  
  

Desktop Gadgets

• System Information - MehdiNaseri
  How to collect system information from local or remote computer.
  
  
• A simple WPF Text Clock Gadget for Windows - Sanjay_007
  A simple WPF text clock gadget for Windows.
  
  

Dialogs and Windows

• MFC/C++ Helper Class for Window Resizing - Mizan Rahman
  Gives you total control when it comes to resizing windows
  
  

DLLs & Assemblies

• Accessing an API through a closed source C++ DLL - Robert Bermani
  Making calls on a C++ DLL without source code or header files, even when the DLL depends on C run-time libraries
  
  

Edit Controls

• Fast Colored TextBox for Syntax Highlighting - Pavel Torgashov
  Custom text editor with syntax highlighting
  
  

Files and Folders

• Target Eye Revealed part 3 - The Shopping List Mechanism - Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי
  How the Shopping List mechanism was used as part of the Target Eye project
  
  
• Named Binary Tag serialization - Alberto Molero
  This article describes the file format NBT and shows how can be implemented in a real application to store data.
  
  

GDI+

• Persian Gulf in 3D Anaglyph - Mohammad Reza Khosravi
  This application uses some simple 2D methods to make 3D scenes which can be seen with Red/Cyan Anaglyph glasses.
  
  
• WPF-Less GDI+.NET Report Component: Star Report - FatCatProgrammer
  StarReport: WPF-less GDI+.NET report component.
  
  

Grid & Data Controls

• "One size fits all" solution for freezing a Grid's header rows, why not? - Mr. Truong Pham
  Enhance usability and look-and-feel of table/grid with freezing header rows. Let's discover it.
  
  

Hardware & System

• Searching for a reliable hardware ID - Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי
  How a computer can be identified in order to generate a unique ID.
  
  
• Active Directory Users and Computers - MehdiNaseri
  Display Active Directory users and computers and export them to CSV or Excel document.
  
  

HTML / CSS

• Building Atari with CreateJS - Lanny McNie
  Building Atari with CreateJS.
  
  

Internet / Network

• EpServerEngine - A lightweight Template Server-Client Framework using C++ and Windows Winsock - Woong Gyu La
  How to create a server-client network quickly using template server-client framework, EpServerEngine (C++ and Windows Winsock).
  
  

iPhone

• Developing an App that sends SMS messages - Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי
  How great could it be to be able to send SMS messages from your IPhone using the Internet connection
  
  

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.
  
  
• Persistence is the Key - Jay Kint
  Tutorial for using the Calvin C++ persistence library.
  
  

Miscellaneous

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

Mobile Development

• Techniques for Mobile-friendly ASP.NET MVC 4.0 web sites - Part 2 - jQuery Mobile - Peter Carrasco
  Using jQuery Mobile to enhance the mobile user experience of ASP.NET MVC applications.
  
  

Scrapbook

• Code Project GIT Meet 2010 - Abhijit Jana, Abhishek Sur, Ankur\m/, _ Kunal Chowdhury _, SChristmas
  It's all about the unofficial CodeProject meetup in Lonavala (a hilly region between Pune and Mumbai), India on 11th December 2010. Supported by GIT members.
  
  
• Developing multi-lingual support as part of the development of Rashumon word processor - Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי
  When I have devleoped Rashumon, there was no built in support for multi-lingual / bi-directional text and I had to develop such from scratch
  
  

Shell and IE programming

• Target Eye Revealed part 1 - Target Eye's Unique AutoUpdate Mechanism - Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי
  How Target Eye's Auto updating mechanism allows a silent update of an application from identifying newer versions, downloading them and running them instead of the old one
  
  

SQL Reporting Services

• Zip Rendering Extension for SQL Server Reporting Services 2005/2008/2012 - Harmen Brouwer
  How to create and deploy a SSRS rendering extension, explained by a functional Zip Rendering extension for SSRS 2005, 2008 (R2) and 2012.
  
  

String handling

• Schemeer, a Semi XML and JSON Handler - lxdfigo
  It is a lib that can process XML documents or JSON by changing a config file.
  
  

Threads, Processes & IPC

• Multithreading Demystified - anshudutta
  Multi-threading in .NET - A walkthrough.
  
  

Ultrabooks

• cStats - A cPanel Statistics application - Rahul Vijay Manekari
  Access realtime Linux Web server statistics right away from Windows Store App
  
  

VB.NET

• Entity Framework and Crystal Reports - Entities to Datasets - Justin Shepertycki
  Using Entity POCOs as a DataSource for your Crystal Reports
  
  

Web Security

• Target Eye Revealed part 2 - Target Eye's Screen Capturing - Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי
  How Target Eye's screen capturing mechanism works
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• MVVM Diagram Designer - Sacha Barber
  A WPF diagram designer written with MVVM in mind
  
  
• Localisation made easy for WPF - Vincent Piel
  Localize your WPF application in a snap, and allow others to translate it easily.
  
  

New Tips and Tricks added

ASP.NET Controls

• Dropdown list extension method for HTML helper - rakesh1503
  How to create an extension mothod for a dropdown list in MVC.
  
  

C#

• Sorting C# collections that have no collating sequence - Andreas Gieriet
  This is an alternative for "Sorting using C# Lists"
  
  

Database

• SSIS: Transform data using Regex - mparvez
  Transform data by using regex and Script Component.
  
  
• Dynamic query and incorrect syntax near 'GO' error - pAtuAry
  Here I have tried to figure out some basic concept about dynamic query.
  
  

Game Development

• How To Draw Text Aligned In A Rectangle XNA - F.moghaddampoor
  Here we see how to align a Text
  
  

Libraries

• Use Intel Perceptual Computing SDK with VS2012 - Verma.No.1
  Use Intel Perceptual Computing SDK with VS2012.
  
  

Progress Controls

• WPF Dispatcher.Invoke style UI element update for WinForm applications in C# - Grasshopper.iics
  Simple code wrap for updating UI elements in cross thread applications
  
  

String handling

• Splitting a file up into a list based on certain characters - James IV
  A useful piece of code for reading in and parsing a file.
  
  

Threads, Processes & IPC

• Hook Unmanaged Processes Using VB.NET DLLs - Simon-Benyo
  Hooking unmanaged processes using VB.NET.
  
  
• A thread pool for the producers/consumers process - Alessandro Lentini
  This tips is conected to my previous one. I'm showing how use .Net 4.0 BlockingCollection in a simple way
  
  

Tips and Tricks updated

.NET Framework

• Usage of singleton wrapper for better coding - Oleksandr Kulchytskyi
  More advanced singleton implementation.
  
  

Algorithms & Recipes

• Math Parser .NET C# - kirnbas
  This is light, fast and simple to understand mathematical parser designed in one class, which receives as input a mathematical expression (System.String) and returns the output value (System.Double)
  
  

ASP.NET

• BBCode for ASP.NET (BBCode.Net) - adriancs
  Convert BBCode to Html.
  
  

Audio and Video

• TCP Audio Streamer and Player - Banjoo
  Stream and play TCP Audio data from Microphone or Wav-File
  
  

C#

• For Vs Foreach - Benchmark 2013 - adriancs
  Performance Comparison of For Loop and Foreach Loop
  
  
• Using Extension Methods in .NET 2.0 SP2 - wmjordan
  Compile extension method without installing .NET 3.5 on WinXP or 2003.
  
  

Client side scripting

• jQuery introduction and how to use jQuery with ASP.NET Master page and simple pages - Sarvesh Kushwaha
  How to access elements of a master page in jQuery.
  
  

Design and Architecture

• MVC v/s MVP - How Common and How Different - Neeraj.Soni
  A comparative introduction to MCV and MVP
  
  

Hardware & System

• Set/Update Active Directory attributes to user - cberthu
  How to set/update Active Directory attributes to user.
  
  

Libraries

• Cinchoo - Using SQLServer database as configuration source - Cinchoo
  This article shows how to use a SQL Server database as configuration source using the Cinchoo Configuration Manager.
  
  

LINQ

• LINQ - GroupBy - Srinivasu Pemma
  This is provide an easy way of dealing with different types of data sources for LINQ Group By taken from my blog http://www.srinetinfo.com/2012/12/linq-group-by.html
  
  

List Controls

• ListBox Color Item - chocolade
  User control to color items on a listbox.
  
  

Programming Tips

• Browser back button issue after logout - Sandeep Mewara
  How to stop user from accessing the previous pages once he/she logs out and presses browser back button.
  
  

Site & Server Management

• Setting Up a SmartOS Machine With Node.js and an AMP Stack - simsam77
  How to set up a SmartOS machine with Node.js and an AMP stack.
  
  

VBScript

• VBScript - Count Instances of a Process - bEGI23
  Determine how many instances are currently running from a specified process.
  
  

Win32/64 SDK & OS

• Open a command prompt anywhere. - Yvan Rodrigues
  This hidden key-click combination adds the ability to open a command prompt window from a Windows Explorer view.
  
  
• Disabling "Restart Now" Windows message after automatic OS updates - Vinod Viswanath
  Are you annoyed of the "Restart now" message in Windows? Here is a solution for that.
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• Mouse Event Commands for MVVM - Matthew Searles
  Use an Attached Property to execute an ICommand.
  
  
• Settings a TreeViewItem as not selectable - Shahare
  Settings a TreeViewItem as not selectable.
  
  

New Technical Blogs added

Ajax

• How to set programmatically a value of a watermarked TextBox via JavaScript - Update - Alexander Turlov
  How to programmatically set a value of a watermarked TextBox via JavaScript.
  
  

ASP

• ASP.NET Web Config Transform Console Utility Released on Nuget - eric hexter
  Overview ASP.Net Web.config transformations are a great way to manage configuration differences between environments. You can easily change a database connection string or change the compilation model for asp.net.  Here is a link to the syntax documentation on msdn.
  
  

ASP.NET

• Access a UserControl from another page - Md Nazmoon Noor
  How to access a UserControl from another page.
  
  
• Extending the behavior of MVC AuthorizeAttribute for activity-based authorization - Stacy Vicknair
  Extending the behavior of MVC AuthorizeAttribute for activity-based authorization.
  
  

C#

• Introducing this.Log - ferventcoder
  Introducing this.Log
  
  

Database

• Super D to the B to the A - AKA Script for reducing the size of a database - ferventcoder
  Script for reducing the size of a database.
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Some myths of 'Textbook-TDD', and why they are wrong - Thomas Weller
  During the last months, I was (for some reasons that are not related to programming) working for a dev shop where software development was done the 'traditional' way: You just write your application's production code, do it as good as you can, and hopefully it will be good enough and no problems wil
  
  
• Builder Pattern - David Corne
  The idea behind the builder pattern is to abstract away the construction of an object so that many implementations can use the same builder.
  
  

Exception Handling

• SMTP Exception: 550 5.7.1 Unable to Relay - MJ Ferdous
  SMTP Exception: 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay.
  
  

Grid & Data Controls

• Calculated Columns in .NET DataTables (C#) - Melick
  Adding Calculated Columns in .NET DataTables.
  
  
• Data Import from Excel File and Build an Automated Insert Script to export into excel file or to export into SQL Server Table - MJ Ferdous
  Sometimes it is necessary to import data from Excel file and insert into SQL Server table or building an automated script for inserting data into SQL Server table or building an automated script for inserting data and save into another excel file to insert later. Today I will discuss all the possibi
  
  

HTML / CSS

• Parsing HTML with Python - Richard Penman
  HTML is a tree structure: at the root is a tag followed by the and tags and then more tags before the content itself. However when a webpage is downloaded all one gets is a series of characters. Working directly with that text is fine when using regular expressions, but often we want to traverse
  
  

Internet / Network

• HowTo: Use .NET Code on a Network Share From Windows - ferventcoder
  Use .NET Code on a Network Share from Windows.
  
  

Libraries

• Using the GeoCoordinateReactiveService - Paulo Morgado
  How it can be used in a simple application.
  
  

Office Development

• Export to Excel – Multiple GridView into Multiple Worksheet - Sandeep Ramani
  Multiple GridView into multiple worksheets.
  
  

Other .NET Languages

• Quartz.Net Windows Service on Server Important Configuration Steps To Remember - Tarun_Arora
  Are you running Quartz.Net as a windows service on a remote server and trying to connect to it from a client to schedule jobs?
  
  

SharePoint Server

• SharePoint Alternate Access Mapping Configuration - MJ Ferdous
  Alternate Access Mappings is a feature of SharePoint which allows a website to function correctly under different URL scenarios, including, reverse proxies and load balancing.
  
  
• Sharepoint Custom Themes && Custom Cascading Style Sheet(CSS) Guideline - MJ Ferdous
  How to Customize theme code for MYTHEME theme.
  
  

Shell and IE programming

• Functional Programming In A Nutshell - Luis D. Aguilar
  Introduction Functional programming is a programming paradigm that treats application operations as a sequential execution of functions. Basically, your code becomes a huge math operation. But wait, is not as bad as it sounds. In C#, this is achieved by using delegate functions, lamb
  
  
• Exam 70-480 Study Material: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 - Stacy Vicknair
  Here’s a list of sources of information for the different elements that comprise the 70-480 exam: General Resources
  
  

Site & Server Management

• 'Unable to connect to the remote server' Error with Azure Table Storage - Paul S. Chapman
  Azure's storage functionality error solved.
  
  

Uncategorised Technical Blogs

• Codeigniter Template Parser Class - jotorres
  CodeIgniter Template Parser Class enables you to parse pseudo-variables contained within your view files. It can parse simple variables or variable tag pairs.
  
  
• MSDN / TechNet Key Importer for KeePass 2 - Stacy Vicknair
  If you have an MSDN account and, like me, systematically claim keys just as well as you systematically forget which keys you’ve used in which test environments!
  
  

Web Security

• Typical web scraping job - Richard Penman
  In this post I will clarify what I do by walking through a simple web scraping job I worked on.
  
  
• Setting a "Content-Disposition" HTTP Header in Web API Controller Method - Alexander Turlov
  Setting a "Content-Disposition" HTTP Header in the Web API Controller method.
  
  

Web Services

• Quartz.Net scheduler exposed via a Web Service - Tarun_Arora
    I had been given a business requirement to provide a self service Website for job scheduling. Having worked with Quartz.Net, it seemed the perfect backend engine to schedule and process jobs. I decided to expose the functionality of the Quartz.Net via a few web methods using Web services to allow
  
  

Windows Powershell

• Update the "Created By" and "Modified By" Columns in SharePoint lists using PowerShell - MJ Ferdous
  Update the "Created By" and "Modified By" Columns in SharePoint lists using PowerShell.
  
  

Technical Blogs updated

Button Controls

• Authentication vs. Session timeout – Session expired message on clicking the login button - Brij
  Authentication vs. Session timeout.
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Strategy Pattern - David Corne
  The idea behind the strategy pattern is to encapsulate the implementation details of an algorithm and make them interchangeable.
  
  

Dialogs and Windows

• Building OpenCV Libraries for Linux on Windows Using MinGW and MSYS - Vijay Rajanna
  PurposeThis article delineates procedure to be followed in order to generate OpenCV libraries for Linux operating system using MinGW and MSYS toolkit on Windows Operating system.Why can't we directly build OpenCV binaries on Linux ?This is a common question,  which broaches up in everyone's mind. Un
  
  

Windows Phone 7

• Implementing the GeoCoordinateWatcher as a Reactive Service - Paulo Morgado
  With Rx, events are first class citizens that can be passed around and composed as needed in a very simple way.