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Monday, November 24, 2014

IoT Contest: $10,000 in Prizes

There's still a few weeks and plenty of chances to win left in our ongoing Internet of Things Contest. Submit your tutorials today for a chance to win.

If you're looking for ideas and inspirition then please take a look at the IoT section on Intel Developer Zone and our own IoT sections.

Monthly Article Contest Winners

Congrats to the winners of the best articles of October 2014!

Mobile	Winner:	gupta.avinash	Article 10 - Beginner's Guide to Android Services
	Runner-up:	Joel Ivory Johnson, Taryn Blake	Speedometer for Galaxy Gear (Tizen Based)
Web Dev	Winner:	Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira	HTML5 Guitar Tab Player
	Runner-up:	Marla Sukesh	Learn HTML 5 in 3 days – Day 1
Database	Winner:	Marc Clifton	Semantic Database: Concept, Architecture and Implementation
	Runner-up:	Jose Segarra	Nested XML from SQL to JSON
C++	Winner:	Evgeny Pereguda	Applying algorithm of the Chaos Theory on development of the new technology of compression of audio data.
	Runner-up:	David O'Neil	Object Oriented Programming with C++
C#	Winner:	Nicolas Dorier	NBitcoin : Build Them All
	Runner-up:	Shivprasad koirala	C# Attributes in 5 minutes
VB.NET	Winner:	Hung, Han	Complete Sudoku Game for Windows using VB.Net 2013
	Runner-up:	bigbro_1985	Lego NXT Bluetooth Communication Library for .NET
"Everything Else"	Winner:	SergeiR[MCTS]	Smart Monitor for Automotive Battery
	Runner-up:	Chris Boss	Keep it simple. Keep it fast. Code it so you can read it.

New Articles, Tech Blogs and Tips

.NET Framework

Measuring the performance of AES implementations in .Net Framework (AesManaged vs AesCryptoServiceProvider)

(1 votes) by Farzad E. (dNetGuru) (updated 2 days ago)

.Net framework provides two classes that implement AES, a native implementation that calls CAPI and AesManaged which is a purely managed implementation. Which one should you use ?

Pushing a new project to Chocolatey

(0 votes) by Gordon W Beeming (updated 2 days ago)

Inspiration Today my DotNet Pretty articles were featured on @coding4fun by Greg Duncan and one of the comments by Niner bc3tech (@bc3tech) requested that I share this solution on Chocolatey. I decided that this was a good idea and decided to share my experience . Creating a Chocolatey Account Cre

ASP.NET

Single Page Application using AngularJS and Web API and Responsive using Bootstrap.

(3 votes) by Khademul Basher (updated 2 days ago)

This article describe the AngularJS JavaScript framework and shows how to use it to develop a Single Page Application.

How to improve Web application performance by enabling dynamic compression for JSON and JavaScript

(2 votes) by ManojKumar19 (updated 2 days ago)

Learn how to configure dynamic compression in iis 7.5 to improve performance

Azure

Azure : Blob Storage / Retrieval

(1 votes) by Sacha Barber (updated 2 days ago)

This is a new post in a series of beginners articles on how to do things in Azure. This series will be for absolute beginners, and if you are not one of those this will not be for you. You can find the complete set of posts that make us this series here : http://sachabarbs.wordpress.com/azure/ [R

Book Chapters

Book Review : JavaScript Promises Essentials

(0 votes) by Sampath Lokuge (updated 6 hours ago)

IntroductionToday I am going to Review a Book which has been published by Packt Publishing.The Book is JavaScript Promises Essentials.The Author of this book is Rami Sarieddine.Table of Contents *What you will learn from this book ? *Implement asynchronous programming in JavaScriptGet acquainted wit

C / C++ Language

One line template call for a dynamically loaded DLL function

(5 votes) by Michael Chourdakis (updated 12 hours ago)

One-call of any DLL function with custom parameters, implemented with C++ tuple and templates.

C#

Difference between int.Parse,Convert.ToInt32 and int.TryParse

(3 votes) by Rapuru Amarendra (updated 17 hours ago)

This tip presents the main difference between int.Parse(), Convert.ToInt32() and int.TryParse().

Mouse and Keyboard Tracking and Simulator

(1 votes) by CodeFate (updated 2 days ago)

Revision of the Global Mouse and Keyboard Library from Brian Geiman

IoCSharp Example Project

(0 votes) by Member 10312566 (updated yesterday)

IoC in few steps!

Change WPF DataGrid Styles in code behind.

(0 votes) by ferragus (updated 2 days ago)

Change WPF DataGrid Styles in code behind.

Transfering Large Data With WCF

(0 votes) by sunil pal 007 (updated 2 hours ago)

Configuration settings need to be made to transfer large data with WCF

Client side scripting

Using iframe to Interact Between Parent and Child Page in Jquery Syntax

(0 votes) by barry fat (updated yesterday)

Using iframe to Interact Between Parent and Child Page in Jquery Syntax

Design and Architecture

Why are associations so difficult to understand, not just for developers?

(1 votes) by Gerd Wagner (updated 2 days ago)

In summary, the answer to this question is: because unlike the general concept of an object type or class, the general concept of an association, as defined by UML, does not have a direct computational counterpart, neither in common object-oriented (OO) programming languages, nor in SQL. Only the si

The absolute bare minimum every programmer should know about memory management

(0 votes) by Arthur Minduca (updated 2 hours ago)

Advances in technology come with increased complexity. That is just the nature of how technology evolves. However, things get simpler for the users as they are getting more demanding about alignment with their intentions. In "The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer

Dialogs and Windows

Writing a XAML application for X11 with massive data binding and zero code

(1 votes) by Steffen Ploetz (updated yesterday)

Currently none of the big Linux/Unix (X11) GUI application frameworks (GTK+, KDE) support XAML based application development. The Moonlight project (including XAML support) was abandoned on May 29, 2012. This article reviews a XAML based application utilizing massive data binding with zero code.

E-commerce

Printing Dispatch Labels Direct from Kartris

(0 votes) by Craig A. Moore (updated yesterday)

Creating labels in a PDF document using iTextSharp

Edit Controls

CodeEditor ~ syntax-highlighting and intellisense control

(0 votes) by Niquo (updated 2 hours ago)

This control provides fully functional syntax-highlighting (via regex) and an attempt for intellisense.

Files and Folders

Convert a Binary files to a Hex encoded Text File

(2 votes) by PJ Arends (updated yesterday)

A small command line utility to convert a binary file to hex encoded text file.

Using WinSCP and SSIS to Download files from SFTP

(0 votes) by JammoD87 (updated yesterday)

Recently a client of the company I work for required us to download files using their SFTP server and process these files and for that we decided that we would use SSIS to complete the task. SSIS provides functionality to connect to a FTP server but not a SFTP server. Luckily SSIS allows you to [

HTML / CSS

Web development #3: Styling our page with CSS 3

(4 votes) by Sander Rossel (updated 2 days ago)

The third in a series on web development.

Start SASS in Visual Studio with example

(3 votes) by mdshohelrana (updated 2 days ago)

Use of SASS in Visual Studio is the little bit confuse when you will start as beginner. That's why I have written this article. I think this will be helpful for all of SASS developers.

Analyzing HTML Documents with Ease: An Introduction to NSoup and ExCSS

(1 votes) by Farzan Hajian (updated 2 days ago)

Analyzing HTML documets using NSoup and ExCSS libraries

Change/override the default selection color for html.

(0 votes) by ManishHPatil (updated 2 days ago)

Change/override the default selection color for html.

Internet / Network

C# & Browser controls in WF / WPF: WebBrowser vs Awesomium comparison + few tricks

(0 votes) by Emiliarge (updated 9 hours ago)

Comparison of 2 browser engines + some tips for their using (in attached projects and in tip text). Short and clear.

IoT Services

Stage 3:Turn your basic Arduino device without Any Internet Sheild into IoT using Clever Serial Communication and ASP.Net Webservices

(1 votes) by Grasshopper.iics (updated 7 hours ago)

A beginners hack to turn Arduino in to a IoT device with C#, Asp.Net web services

Stage 3: Live Weather Station With Arduino and ThingSpeak

(1 votes) by Grasshopper.iics (updated 3 hours ago)

This article is a beginners walk through of Developing an IoT framework for Arduino without Ethernet/WiFi shield using ThingSpeak Services with a real time Online Weather Station

An Introduction to ThingSpeak

(0 votes) by KRISHNA ANIPINDI (updated 6 hours ago)

An Introduction to what ThingSpeak is, various capabilities and features offered by it and a quick programming overview to work with it.

Libraries

jQuery Datatables For Beginners

(5 votes) by Mohammed Sadullah (updated 2 days ago)

Simplest Way to add Sorting, Filtering, Paging and many features to your plain HTML table

LINQ

Cascading dropdownlists with three RadComboBox and LINQ in 4 steps

(0 votes) by Víctor Sumozas (updated yesterday)

This article explains how to create cascading dropdownlists with three ComboBox (in this case RadComboBox from Telerik) and LINQ. In this sample the user is presented with a list of countries. Once a country is selected, a new drop down list is enable showing the states in the selected country. Once

Mobile Development

How to Easily set up a Textbox to Accept Scans from Motorola/Symbol Barcode Scanners in Windows CE / .NET CF Projects

(0 votes) by B. Clay Shannon (updated 2 days ago)

Step-by-step guide to add barcode-scanning capability to a Windows CE / Compact Framework app

NoSQL

TmStorage, open-source storage engine for .NET

(5 votes) by Tomaz Koritnik (updated 2 days ago)

TmStorage is a structureless virtual file system from which complex storages or databases can be built.

Programming Tips

A Typescript library for Google Knowledge Graph (Freebase)

(0 votes) by Arthur Minduca (updated 2 hours ago)

I developed a Typescript library that wraps the Freebase API and expose some services. The library contains some definitions to provide type checking at compile time and intellisense. I also published the resulting Javascript. The project is available under MIT license (open source) and is available

Third Party Products and Tools

Solid Edge ST7 AddIn in C++

(2 votes) by Jason Newell (updated 21 hours ago)

Solid Edge ST7 AddIn in C++

Develop a Client Server Based Application in C# in Minutes using the ccDevnet Data Access Server

(2 votes) by GeorgeStevenson (updated 2 days ago)

This article describes a step by step guide to develop a client server based application in C# in minutes using the ccDevnet Data Access Server.

Uncategorised Technical Blogs

My Experience with Codealike

(0 votes) by Gordon W Beeming (updated 2 days ago)

I have been using Codealike for a while now and thought I'd share my experience and things that I like about codealike with everyone. I did mention codealike on This Week on Ch9 when I hosted it last week with Greg Duncan. What is codealike? Codealike is a service that tracks your activity while you

Configuring a Chocolatey Install

(0 votes) by Gordon W Beeming (updated 2 days ago)

So yesterday I posted Pushing a new project to Chocolatey and I said I would create another post showing how to configure how the Chocolatey install runs and this is that post . ChocolateyInstall.ps1 The first (only really) step to do this is creating a ChocolateyInstall.ps1 script. From looking at

Windows Powershell

Upgrade/Publish TFS 2013 Process Templates with PowerShell

(0 votes) by Gordon W Beeming (updated 2 days ago)

I use to make a lot of TFS customizations and had to apply the template changes to multiple team projects which took a bit of time. Depending on the method you use it could be a quick or loooong process . When I first started doing customizations I used the TFS Power Tools to upload changes which is

Windows Presentation Foundation

C#/WPF State Machine driven by DGML

(1 votes) by jro.johnro (updated yesterday)

Design a DGML state machine using visual tools,... then depend upon C# Reflection to implement the state machine boundaries and triggers in your application.

Work Issues

TFS Work Item Visualizers

(0 votes) by Gordon W Beeming (updated 2 days ago)

In my last post (Introduction to DotNet Pretty) I mentioned that I would be added more visualizers to DotNet Pretty soon . Today I finally managed to get around to that and added some visualizers for TFS Work Items. 3 new visualizers were added 2 debugger display visualizers and 1 debugger visualize