15,904,024 members
Sign in
Sign in
Email
Password
Forgot your password?
Sign in with
home
articles
Browse Topics
>
Latest Articles
Top Articles
Posting/Update Guidelines
Article Help Forum
Submit an article or tip
Import GitHub Project
Import your Blog
quick answers
Q&A
Ask a Question
View Unanswered Questions
View All Questions
View C# questions
View C++ questions
View Javascript questions
View Visual Basic questions
View Python questions
discussions
forums
CodeProject.AI Server
All Message Boards...
Application Lifecycle
>
Running a Business
Sales / Marketing
Collaboration / Beta Testing
Work Issues
Design and Architecture
Artificial Intelligence
ASP.NET
JavaScript
Internet of Things
C / C++ / MFC
>
ATL / WTL / STL
Managed C++/CLI
C#
Free Tools
Objective-C and Swift
Database
Hardware & Devices
>
System Admin
Hosting and Servers
Java
Linux Programming
Python
.NET (Core and Framework)
Android
iOS
Mobile
WPF
Visual Basic
Web Development
Site Bugs / Suggestions
Spam and Abuse Watch
features
features
Competitions
News
The Insider Newsletter
The Daily Build Newsletter
Newsletter archive
Surveys
CodeProject Stuff
community
lounge
Who's Who
Most Valuable Professionals
The Lounge Â
The CodeProject Blog
Where I Am: Member Photos
The Insider News
The Weird & The Wonderful
help
?
What is 'CodeProject'?
General FAQ
Ask a Question
Bugs and Suggestions
Article Help Forum
About Us
Search within:
Articles
Quick Answers
Messages
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
Neural Networks
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
ML.Net
Big Data
Data Science
Tensorflow
ChatGPT
Internet of Things
Internet of Things
Arduino
Edge Device
Raspberry-Pi
Wearables
IoT Edge
Industrial IoT
DevOps
DevOps
Agile
Automation
Continuous Build
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Deployment
Continuous Integration
Deployment
Git
Installation
Integration Testing
Load Testing
Quality Assurance
TFS
Unit Testing
Testing
Containers
Containers
Docker
Kubernetes
Virtual Machine
High Performance Computing
High Performance Computing
GPU
Parallel Processing
Parallelization
Vectorization
Hosted Services
Hosted Services
AWS
Cordova
ExtJS
Google Cloud
Microservices
PhoneGap
Serverless
Storage
Web Hosting
WordPress
Azure
Security
Security
Blockchain
Cryptography
Encryption
Identity
Identity Server
Web Development
Web Development
Blazor
CSS3
Flask
HTML5
Kestrel
LESS
Nginx
Node.js
React
SCSS
Spring
Vue.js
ASP.NET
CSS
Apache
HTML
IIS
XHTML
Mobile Apps
Mobile Apps
Flutter
Ionic
iOS
Nativescript
React Native
Xamarin
Windows Mobile
Android
Desktop Programming
Desktop Programming
Cocoa
Electron
QT
Universal Windows Platform
X11
Windows Forms
ATL
MFC
Swing
Win32
WTL
WPF
XAML
System
Database Development
Database Development
Data Visualization
Elasticsearch
Lucene
MariaDB
MongoDB
NoSQL
PostgreSQL
Redis
MySQL
SQL Server
Productivity Apps and Services
Productivity Apps and Services
LibreOffice
OpenOffice
Sharepoint
Team Communication Tools
Biztalk
Microsoft Office
SAP
Game Development
Game Development
Doom
Kinect
Playstation 4
Playstation 5
Unity
Unreal
XBox
Multimedia
Multimedia
Audio
Image Processing
Video
Audio Video
DirectX
GDI
GDI+
OpenGL
General Programming
General Programming
Algorithms
Compression
Computational Geometry
Emulation
Exceptions
File
Internet
Localization
Memory Management
Optimization
Parser
Performance
Regular Expressions
Sorting
State Machines
Architecture
Design / Graphics
Printing
String
Threads
Usability
Programming Languages
Programming Languages
ASM
Bash
Basic
COBOL
Dart
Go
Haskell
Kotlin
Lua
Pascal
R
Razor
Rust
Scala
Swift
Typescript
Objective C
Visual Basic
VBScript
C++
C#
F#
FORTRAN
Java
Javascript
Perl
Python
Ruby
SQL
PHP
PowerShell
XML
Articles by James Curran (Articles: 4, Technical Blogs: 10)
Articles: 4, Technical Blogs: 10
Articles
Technical Blogs
Tips and Tricks
Reference Articles
Projects
Average article rating: 4.54
Database Development
SQL Server
Locate SQL Server instances on the local network
24 Nov 2005 Updated:
24 Nov 2005
Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 46 Popularity: 7.79
Licence: CPOL Views: 309,512
Bookmarked: 139
Downloaded: 5,044
Please
Sign up or sign in
to vote.
An article on locating MS SQL Server instances on the local network, and retrieving information about them.
Desktop Programming
Windows Forms
Writing Text to a Printer with LPrintWriter
8 Jun 2006 Updated:
8 Jun 2006
Rating: 4.18/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 3.99
Licence: CPOL Views: 94,788
Bookmarked: 30
Downloaded: 1,804
Please
Sign up or sign in
to vote.
A TextWriter object for writing to a printer
Programming Languages
C++
The Object-Oriented Text Star Trek Game in C++
6 Aug 2008 Updated:
6 Aug 2008
Rating: 4.74/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.52
Licence: CPOL Views: 42,614
Bookmarked: 34
Downloaded: 817
Please
Sign up or sign in
to vote.
The Classic Super Star Trek Game rewritten in modern Object-oriented C++
Web Development
ASP.NET
JavascriptHelper:Managing JS files for ASP.NET MVC (With Bundling)
29 Jun 2012 Updated:
30 Jun 2012
Rating: 4.43/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.10
Licence: CPOL Views: 49,114
Bookmarked: 20
Downloaded: 499
Please
Sign up or sign in
to vote.
JavascriptHelper is a MVC component which allows you to specify that a JavaScript file is needed, wherever you need it and the helper will collection them all up, plus all their dependencies and insert all the (along with their associated CSS files) tags in one spots in the layout.
Average blogs rating: 4.55
Creating an Entity Framework Connection from Another One [Technical Blog]
7 Jun 2012 Updated:
7 Jun 2012
Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00
Licence: CPOL Views: 9,351
Bookmarked: 1
Downloaded: 0
Please
Sign up or sign in
to vote.
How to create an Entity Framework Connection from another one
All Topics
Lambda Expressions as Properties [Technical Blog]
7 Jun 2012 Updated:
7 Jun 2012
Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01
Licence: CPOL Views: 14,935
Bookmarked: 2
Downloaded: 0
Please
Sign up or sign in
to vote.
Using lambda expressions as properties.
Mobile Apps
Windows Phone 7
Get an ApplicationBarIconButton by name (Redux) [Technical Blog]
7 Jun 2012 Updated:
7 Jun 2012
Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.20
Licence: CPOL Views: 7,700
Bookmarked: 1
Downloaded: 0
Please
Sign up or sign in
to vote.
How to get an ApplicationBarIconButton by name.
Programming Languages
C#
Running an Async Event Handler on the UI thread (with lambdas and extension methods!) [Technical Blog]
7 Jun 2012 Updated:
7 Jun 2012
Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00
Licence: CPOL Views: 13,260
Bookmarked: 5
Downloaded: 0
Please
Sign up or sign in
to vote.
Run an Async Event Handler on the UI thread.
The Evolutionary Guide to C# Lambda Syntax [Technical Blog]
7 Jun 2012 Updated:
7 Jun 2012
Rating: 4.87/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.64
Licence: CPOL Views: 11,684
Bookmarked: 14
Downloaded: 0
Please
Sign up or sign in
to vote.
All you need to know to write a lambda function.
Code Tune-Up: Shuffling a List [Technical Blog]
7 Jun 2012 Updated:
7 Jun 2012
Rating: 4.29/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.58
Licence: CPOL Views: 9,050
Bookmarked: 3
Downloaded: 0
Please
Sign up or sign in
to vote.
How to shuffle a List.
Automating Retry on Exception [Technical Blog]
7 Jun 2012 Updated:
7 Jun 2012
Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00
Licence: CPOL Views: 21,950
Bookmarked: 2
Downloaded: 0
Please
Sign up or sign in
to vote.
How to automate Retry on Exception.
PropertyBagTextWriter (Stream into Dictionary) [Technical Blog]
7 Jun 2012 Updated:
7 Jun 2012
Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00
Licence: CPOL Views: 4,951
Bookmarked: 1
Downloaded: 0
Please
Sign up or sign in
to vote.
An article on PropertyBagTextWriter.
Javascript
A (somewhat) new jQuery plug-in: Wizard [Technical Blog]
7 Jun 2012 Updated:
7 Jun 2012
Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00
Licence: CPOL Views: 7,730
Bookmarked: 0
Downloaded: 0
Please
Sign up or sign in
to vote.
A new jQuery plug-in called Wizard.
Web Development
ASP.NET
JavascriptHelper–Managing JS files for ASP.NET MVC [Technical Blog]
7 Jun 2012 Updated:
7 Jun 2012
Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.40
Licence: CPOL Views: 17,521
Bookmarked: 7
Downloaded: 0
Please
Sign up or sign in
to vote.
Managing JS files for ASP.NET MVC.
Average tips rating:
No tips have been posted.
Average reference rating:
No reference articles have been posted.
Average project rating:
No projects have been posted.
James Curran
Software Developer (Senior)
NovelTheory LLC
United States
20+ years as a developer : Assembly, C, C++ and C# (in that order) with sidelines in ASP/VBScript, ASP.Net, JavaScript, Perl, QuickBasic, VisualBasic, plus a few others which I'm not going to mention because if I did someone might ask me to use them again (shudder)
Microsoft MVP in VC++ (1994-2004)
I also run www.NJTheater.com as a hobby.
Full resume & stuff at NovelTheory.com
Underused blog at HonestIllusion.com