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Headline article Outline Text   (232 votes) by Shao Voon Wong (updated 16 hours ago) How to draw a text with an outline New Articles, Tech Blogs and Tips Ajax Working with D3 - Having an AJAX Loader Image   (1 votes) by Right Handed Monkey (updated 10 hours ago) Working with D3 - having an Ajax Loader Image Algorithms & Recipes MS Elmax: MSXML C++ DOM Parser Wrapper   (70 votes) by Shao Voon Wong (updated 16 hours ago) The C++ XML parsing article which should have been written since the advent of XML! This article defines a new Elmax abstraction model over the DOM model. Combinations in C++   (51 votes) by Shao Voon Wong (updated 16 hours ago) An article on finding combinations Combinations in C++, Part 2   (31 votes) by Shao Voon Wong (updated 16 hours ago) Introduce 4 new algorithms on finding combinations Octave bands and auditory filters in acoustics   (2 votes) by Kenneth Haugland (updated 12 hours ago) The origin, design and usages of octave band frequencies and designing weight filters Sorting Rectangular Arrays By Any Column in C# and VB.NET   (0 votes) by Stefano Castelli (updated 15 hours ago) The following article was born from a wish to share a deep re-elaboration of a nice tip about sorting rectangular arrays C / C++ Language C++: Minimalistic CSV Streams   (46 votes) by Shao Voon Wong (updated 16 hours ago) Read/write CSV in few lines of code! STL Sort Comparison Function   (43 votes) by Shao Voon Wong (updated 16 hours ago) Writing comparison function for std::sort Pointer to Pointer and Reference to Pointer   (66 votes) by Shao Voon Wong (updated 16 hours ago) Explains the reason behind using pointer-to-pointer and reference-to-pointer to modify a pointer passed to a function. SSE2 Vectorization of Alphablend Code   (17 votes) by Shao Voon Wong (updated 16 hours ago) Using SSE2 to speed up alphablending. Visual C++ 11 Beta Benchmark of Parallel Loops   (16 votes) by Shao Voon Wong (updated 16 hours ago) Showdown between OpenMP, Parallel Patterns Library and Auto-Parallelizer Boost Multiprecision Library   (16 votes) by Shao Voon Wong (updated 16 hours ago) Introduction to Boost Multiprecision Library Hash-container and Red-Black Tree Face-off (STL Benchmark)   (18 votes) by Shao Voon Wong (updated 16 hours ago) Benchmark of hash and non-hash container Outline Text With DirectWrite   (12 votes) by Shao Voon Wong (updated 16 hours ago) Draw text outline using DirectWrite Portable Elmax: C++ XML DOM Parser   (13 votes) by Shao Voon Wong (updated 16 hours ago) A tutorial on a new cross-platform C++ XML DOM library C++: New Text Streams   (11 votes) by Shao Voon Wong (updated 16 hours ago) A C++ Text Stream design which has read/write symmetry Linq-To-XML Style of Node Creation for C++   (11 votes) by Shao Voon Wong (updated 16 hours ago) Linq-To-XML Node Creation for Native C++ SequelMax: C++ XML SAX Parser   (12 votes) by Shao Voon Wong (updated 16 hours ago) A new C++ SAX library to simplify parsing C99 and C++11: Use isnan to test for NaN   (5 votes) by Shao Voon Wong (updated 16 hours ago) Never test for NaN by comparing it with NaN literal Debug Print in Variadic Template Style   (7 votes) by Shao Voon Wong (updated 16 hours ago) Debug Print using C++11 Variadic Template C++: Custom RTTI   (4 votes) by Shao Voon Wong (updated 16 hours ago) This tip presents a custom RTTI class which is 10x faster than dynamic_cast C++: Simplistic Binary Streams   (4 votes) by Shao Voon Wong (updated 16 hours ago) After Minimalistic CSV Streams, we have Simplistic Binary Streams C++: Enum to String Converter Generator (asm.js)   (1 votes) by Shao Voon Wong (updated 16 hours ago) Enum to String Converter Generator written in C++ transpiled to asm.js C# SequelMax.NET: C# XML SAX Parser   (1 votes) by Shao Voon Wong (updated 16 hours ago) New SAX parsing model comes to .NET! Client side scripting A Simple JavaScript Tabbed Interface   (0 votes) by BlueSkyCoder (updated 14 hours ago) Provides a skeleton tabbed browser interface implemented with JavaScript and CSS that supports tab content resizing and print formatting Database How to prevent SQL Injection in Stored Procedures   (8 votes) by Shao Voon Wong (updated 16 hours ago) How to prevent SQL injection attacks when using dynamic SQL in stored procedures Having Not ONE But TWO Identities in Single SQL Server Table   (2 votes) by Aqeeel (updated 17 hours ago) Having not ONE but TWO Identities in a single SQL Server Table Design and Architecture Integrate design patterns into your code   (0 votes) by Klaus78 (updated 5 hours ago) This article shows pieces of code that can be rewritten using design patterns. At the same time some object oriented principles behind design pattern are also shown. Desktop Gadgets Simplest MVVM Tutorial -A Quick Refresher to WPF MVVM   (3 votes) by @nkit Bajpai (updated yesterday) This article discuss a simple application built using WPF MVVM design pattern and explain the basics of Command Binding and DataBinding. Game Development Infinite Maps (for games or similar)   (3 votes) by Paulo Zemek (updated 17 hours ago) Infinite maps (for games or similar) GDI How to Use a Font Without Installing it   (51 votes) by Shao Voon Wong (updated 16 hours ago) How to use a font without installing it first on user systems GDI+ Outline Text - Part 2   (21 votes) by Shao Voon Wong (updated 16 hours ago) Outline Text Part 2 General Graphics An MSChart Class for Graphing Line Series   (0 votes) by Darryl Bryk (updated 11 hours ago) A C# class for utilizing the Microsoft chart control to graph data as a line series is described. GPU Programming Permutations with CUDA and OpenCL   (6 votes) by Shao Voon Wong (updated 16 hours ago) Finding lexicographical permutations on GPU Office Development Excel, Jira, Rest API end to end example   (0 votes) by bradyguy (updated 6 hours ago) An end to end view of how to integrate Jira REST API's with Excel. SharePoint Server Learn SharePoint Step by Step in 8 Hours – Hour 1   (0 votes) by Shivprasad koirala (updated 23 hours ago) In this article, we will learn SharePoint step by step in 8 hours. VB.NET Getting All "Special Folders" via VB.NET   (0 votes) by Jalapeno Bob (updated 5 hours ago) A VB.NET version of Ray Koopa's 21 Mar 2016 article, Getting All "Special Folders" in .NET Windows API The Forms and Web API Bridge   (2 votes) by Passion4Code (updated 22 hours ago) The Forms and Web API Bridge Updated Articles, Tech Blogs and Tips C / C++ Language Replace malloc/free with a Fast Fixed Block Memory Allocator   (11 votes) by David Lafreniere (updated yesterday) Replace malloc/free with xmalloc/xfree is faster than the global heap and prevents heap fragmentation faults. Charts, Graphs and Images Tracking of Markers Over A Route Via Google Maps API   (2 votes) by Shivi Gupta Lucknow (updated 18 hours ago) To showcase the tracking by placing markers on a route displayed by directions service of the Google maps API every 5 seconds Database How to import data into MS SQL server from CSV and XML   (12 votes) by AJSON (updated 12 hours ago) How to bring CSV and XML data into MS SQL server STL A Custom STL std::allocator Replacement Improves Performance   (6 votes) by David Lafreniere (updated yesterday) Protect against heap fragmentation faults and improve execution speed with a fixed block alternative to STL std::allocator © 2016 The Code Project.  All rights reserved. This email was sent to vutunglampro@gmail.com. To stop receiving The Daily Build click Unsubscribe. CodeProject 503-250 Ferrand Drive, Toronto Ontario, M3C 3G8 Canada +1 416-849-8900 x 100 Please do not reply directly to this email. It was sent from an unattended mailbox. 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