CodeProject | Newsletter (21 Oct 2013)

170 articles this week. Monday, October 21, 2013 View online | Switch to the Daily Build Welcome to this week's newsletter from CodeProject. To ensure that future newsletters you receive from The Code Project aren't mistakenly blocked by antispam software, be sure to add the maillist.codeproject.com domain to your list of allowed senders. Site News A Surprise in Store for a few select members Keep an eye out in your inbox. 50 members will get an invitation to a new service we're launching this week. More to come... The Best of The Best As always we look to you to pick those authors who have put the most blood, sweat and tears into helping their fellow developer. The top authors from last month have been chosen: Best Database article of September 2013 Mubin M. Shaikh - Create First OLAP Cube in SQL Server Analysis Services Prizes: CodeProject Mug; CodeProject Mousepad; SQL Prompt from Red Gate Software;   Best C++ article of September 2013 Pablo Aliskevicius - 4350% Performance Improvement with the StringBuilder for C++! Prizes: Codejock Xtreme ToolkitPro; SmartOutline 2010; CryptoLicensing For MFC - Enterprise Edition; The latest C++ ebooks from informIT;   Best C# article of September 2013 Nicolas Dorier - Upgrading your car with .NET Micro Framework Prizes: Shell MegaPack.Net; SmartOutline 2010; Crypto Obfuscator For .Net - Enterprise Edition; The latest C# ebooks from informIT; ActiveReports 7;   Best VB.NET article of September 2013 Fredrik Bornander - Deadlocks, avoidance and detection Prizes: Shell MegaPack.Net; SmartOutline 2010; Crypto Logger For .Net; The latest VB.NET ebooks from informIT;   Best Mobile article of September 2013 ThatsAlok - MonoAndroid: Using Started Service Prizes: CodeProject Mousepad; The latest Mobile ebooks from informIT; ComponentOne Studio Enterprise;   Best Web Dev article of September 2013 Syed Rafey Husain - Challenges and solutions - Architecture of a Modern Web Application - Part 1 Prizes: SmartOutline 2010; The latest Web Dev ebooks from informIT; Spread WPF-Silverlight; JArchitect;   Best overall article of September 2013 Nicolas Dorier - Upgrading your car with .NET Micro Framework Prizes: CodeProject Mug; Hyper Build; Spread .NET;   cheers, Chris Maunder Advertisements Manage your app and get a shirt! 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Option Votes %   Standard (flat) external keyboard 1239 72.29 Ergonomic keyboard 287 16.74 Touchscreen (eg Tablet / iPad) 247 14.41 Thumb controlled (eg phone) 156 9.10 Laptop keyboard 600 35.01 Hand-held (eg game controller style keyboard) 23 1.34 Touch cover (eg Surface) 39 2.28 Other 59 3.44 Responses 1714    Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100% This week's survey: Do dedicated testers reduce total debugging time? Most popular new articles 14 Oct 2013 - 20 Oct 2013 Barcode Image Generation Library - Brad Barnhill Learn MVC (Model View Controller) step by step in 7 days – Day 1 - Shivprasad koirala Gallery Server Pro - An ASP.NET Gallery for Sharing Photos, Video, Audio and Other Media - Roger Martin Fluent and Imperative Animations - Paulo Zemek Learn MVC (Model View Controller) Step by Step in 7 Days – Day 3 - Shivprasad koirala Research Protecting Your Brand Against Malware Threats With Code Signing Today malware is big business for cyber criminals. The availability of exploitation kits, malware-as-a-service, rogue anti-malware software (AKA "scareware"), and other tools have made it too easy for unscrupulous individuals and criminal groups to infiltrate home and business computers and networks. Faced with the increasing sophistication of these threats, even the savviest computer users are getting infected. Code signing is an industry-recommended and widely-used defense against tampering, corruption, or malware infection in software... Download Now Latest Additions 170 articles overall. 61 new, 109 updated. New articles added Algorithms & Recipes Simple TLV Parser - Hakan_KILIC This project is aimed at explaining TLV encoding rules, used in EMV technology, by designing a simple decoding utility. Applications & Tools Build a Tool for Filter, Export, Download web links - Mojtaba Mahdavi Eng web site links and link file manager for automatically manage and filtering links to avoid vast of time. Azure Scheduled backup of Azure SQL Virtual Machine data - AJSON Using SQL job agent to backup databases in virtual machines to an Azure blob container, SQL, Cloud, SQL-Server, Azure C# Making .NET Applications Scriptable with Aphid, an Embeddable Scripting Language - John_Leitch This article details how to make .NET applications scriptable with Aphid, an embeddable scripting language. Client side scripting Lightweight JavaScript Validation Library - Nitij Kumar A lightweight JavaScript library that helps to easily setup a variety of client side validations. HTML5 File API: Capability and Compatibility - Zhuyun Dai Deeply investigating HTML5 File API capabilities and compatibility with different web browsers with code demonstrations. Code Generation Generate C Code That Partially Simulates A C++ Class - Bill_Hallahan C code generator uses program make_cpp_class.py input file Custom Controls Creating your own widget in iDevUI - Jamesking56 Adding functionality to the iDevUI framework Debug Tips Analyzing C/C++ matrix in the gdb debugger with Python and Numpy - M.Mo Using the gdb debugger's Python API to analyze and visualize C/C++ arrays in a debugging session. Design and Architecture Specification pattern in C# - Govindaraj Rangaraj This article explains how to compose Linq queries in C# using Specification pattern. Game Development XNA Basics - Patchrick Learn the basics of game development in C# and XNA Toolsmithing -- The Rule of Ready - Christopher Stevenson The Rule of Ready project continues with some utility functionality Interviews What makes a successful educational app? A chat with Pierre Le Lann of Tribal Nova - CodeProject Pierre Le Lann of Tribal Nova talks about "what makes a successful educational app" Microsoft BizTalk Server Custom Service Authorization Manager for WCF Service Published by BizTalk's Wizard - Prasoon Kumar Gupta This blog simply talks about a solution to implement role based authorization in a WCF service which is exposed by using BizTalk’s WCF Service publishing wizard. Miscellaneous Programming for Multitouch - Ben Aldhouse This is a commentary on the MSDN article 'Detecting and Tracking Multiple Touch Points' NoSQL BigData Elite - GanesanSenthilvel The fund, called Big Data Elite, is backed by celebrity investors like Ron Conway, one of Silicon Valley's most prominent angel investors, and Andreessen Horowitz, the $2.5 billion venture capitalist firm, as well as Social+Capital Partnership and Anand Rajaraman, whose social media start-up was bou OpenGL Rendering AltNETType (= .NET FreeType port) with OpenGL - Demid Korneev Example of AltNETType use in OpenGL Reviews on Third Party Products and Tools Semantic Merge Emerges (from Beta) - Rion Williams Semantic merge emerges (from Beta) Reweaving IL code with Mono.Cecil - Dolinka Márk Gergely First one of a series of tutorials about C# code reweacing using Mono.Cecil Scrapbook CodeProject 10 Million Members Celebration - Nish Sivakumar, Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira, _ Kunal Chowdhury _, Shai Raiten In the summer of 2013, CodeProject celebrated hitting 10 million members and invited various CodeProject members to host get-togethers around the world. Here are some of the goings-on at those celebrations. Silverlight Silverlight ViewModel Unit Testing (RIA Services) - Zelzer This article describes how to write Unit Tests for Silverlight ViewModels with a mocked DomainContext. Ultrabooks It's been a Haswell Summer... Haswell/Harris Beach Intel SDS Ultrabook Review - Part 3 - Greg Duncan It's been a Haswell Summer... Haswell/Harris Beach Intel SDS Ultrabook Review - Part 3 Review Part 3: Two Months with Intel Haswell Harris Beach SDS Ultrabook - Martin Hinshelwood Now that I have had two months with the Intel Haswell Harris Beach SDS Ultrabook I thought that it would be a good idea to give you an update. Haswell – Intel SDP Unit (Software Developer Preview) – a death in the family - Pete O'Hanlon Haswell – Intel SDP Unit (Software Developer Preview) – a death in the family Windows Communication Foundation SerializableSecureString - David Killian SerializableSecureString wraps System.SecureString so that it can participate as a DataMember while maintaining maximum data security. Windows Phone 7/8 Windows Phone 8 - A Simple Helper Class for Working with SkyDrive Files using SkyDrive API - Dennis Shchuka How to upload, download and synchronize application's files using SkyDrive Windows Presentation Foundation Yes, this also is an ItemsControl - Part 2: A minimalistic Property Editor - Serge Desmedt A property editor implemented as an ItemsControl Articles updated Ajax AsyncFileUpload Control - New Control in Ajax Control ToolKit - jQuery By Example This article demonstrates how to use the newly launched AsyncFileUpload control of Ajax Control Toolkit. DayPilot 4: Event Calendar/Scheduler with CSS Themes (ASP.NET) - Dan Letecky DayPilot Lite 4 (Apache Software License 2.0) brings a new feature: full CSS styling and themes support. Algorithms & Recipes Data Structures with JavaScript - Paulo Augusto Künzel A tutorial on basic data structures and JavaScript. Another approach to the first order Goertzel algorithm - Mosi_62 This approach shows a quite easy to be understood way to the first order Goerzel algorithm. Function Composition, Function Chaining, Currying, and Partial Functions / Application in F# and Ruby - Marc Clifton Exploring how to implement functional programming features such as function composition and chaining in Ruby. Encapsulated Decision Tables - David Killian A mechanism for specifying program control flow via delegated calls from a decision table Applications & Tools Tutorial for creating simple Hyakunin-Issyu application using Sinatra and Heroku - Software Developer's Journal ASP.NET Learn MVC (Model View Controller) step by step in 7 days – Day 1 - Shivprasad koirala As the article's name says, learn MVC. Ao the agenda is simple, we are going to learn ASP.NET MVC in 7 days. Learn MVC (Model View Controller) Step by Step in 7 Days – Day 3 - Shivprasad koirala This article is Part 3 and continuation to the Learn MVC Step by Step in 7 Days series. Learn MVC (Model view controller) Step by Step in 7 days – Day 2 - Shivprasad koirala Learn MVC (Model view controller) Step by Step in 7 days – Day 2 Custom Membership Providers - Karthik. A This article concentrates on implementing forms authentication for an ASP.NET MVC application. Learn MVC (Model view controller) Step by Step in 7 days – Day 4 - Shivprasad koirala In day 4 we will look in to JSON ,Jquery ,Aysnch controllers and session management. Extensible Web Application - Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter Howto replace existing ASP.NET pages using MEF based plugin solution... WCF 4.5 Services Development with Entity Framework and MVC 4 - Balimusi WCF 4.5 Services Development using Entity Framework and MVC 4 front-end ASP.NET Web API, CORS Authentication, SSL, and self signing certificate - Ilan Geller How to enable CORS Authentication from ASP.NET Web API in development environments. C / C++ Language Writing a boot loader in Assembly and C - Part 1 - AshakiranBhatter How to boot a floppy image with your own hand written code in C and Assembly Fastest strstr-like function in C!? - Sanmayce Tuned function for searching a needle in a haystack Writing a boot loader in Assembly and C - Part 2 - AshakiranBhatter Reading the contents of a floppy disk using BIOS interrupts and Services. Another argument parsing function for C and C++ - Bill_Hallahan Argument parsing function identifies both optional and positional arguments. Implementing AList - Marco Bertschi Arduino's C++ accent is missing the std::list - So I decided to implement AList. C# Fluent Method and Type Builder - Paulo Zemek Create methods and types at run-time using an easy and fluent API. Fast declarative typesafety with DynamicMethods for SQL - tcassisi Generating typed field accessors and applying them to object mapping and SQL Stored Procedures Read CSV input from a text file and add integer values in each string read - SimbarasheM Read CSV input from a text file, and add integer values in each string read (line by line). Incorporate Unit Tests to test the program's functionality using C#. A Visual Studio Solution Cloner - Bill_Hallahan Creates copies of a Visual Studio C++ or C# solution. Client side scripting Proxy pattern in JavaScript - Ralph Varjabedian With one function call, wrap a class with a proxy in Javascript. A precursor to easy error mocking in node.js using mocha Code Generation Mo+ - A model oriented programming language and IDE for model driven development - Dave Clemmer Introducing the Mo+ language and the Mo+ Solution Builder IDE. Python Code Generator written in Python - Bill_Hallahan Code generator writes argument parsing code. C or C++ Console Program Code Generator - Bill_Hallahan The following program is a code generator that generates a C program or a C++ program that has auto-generated parsing code. Mo+- An evolution of the template based code generator - Dave Clemmer Comparing the relative effectiveness of CodeSmith, T4, and Mo+ in meeting code generation requirements. A C++ Class Code Generator - Bill_Hallahan Generate C++ class header and implementation files automatically Combo & List Boxes Dialog to select and sort data with CListBox - MaxMax14 Dialog box to choose data / Items and sort them Content Management Server Gallery Server Pro - An ASP.NET Gallery for Sharing Photos, Video, Audio and Other Media - Roger Martin Gallery Server Pro is a complete, stable ASP.NET gallery for sharing photos, video, audio and other media. This article presents the overall architecture and major features. Custom Controls ASP.NET MVC HTML Helper for the jqGrid - Rui Inacio The MvcJqGrid is an HTML helper that eases greatly the implementation of the jqGrid in MVC 3 with the Razor view engine or MVC WebForms. Database HowTo: Install the Northwind and Pubs Sample Databases - Brian C Hart To save you from hunting through the docs and locating downloads, we gather both databases here and walk you through installing them using SQL Server Management Studio Express. HowTo: Install the Northwind and Pubs Sample Databases in SQL Server 2008 Express - Brian C Hart To save you from hunting through the docs and locating downloads, we gather both databases here and walk you through installing them using SQL Server Management Studio Express -- updated for SQL Server 2008 Express Edition! Design and Architecture Populating a business logical layer from Stored Procedures - andrewbb@gmail.com A brief look at a technique mapping tables to a basic business layer. Game Development Fluent and Imperative Animations - Paulo Zemek Create animations easily using a Fluent API that integrates well with frame-based animation segments. 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. Grid & Data Controls Fast custom formulae, filtering and sorting in DataGrids - tcassisi Tame the WinForms and WPF inbuilt DataGrids to work with 200,000+ rows by using compiled Linq Expressions Hardware & System Windows-Service for Multithreading with Remote Control GUI - J.Starkl A windows-service which can handle different operations in seperate threads and which can be controlled by a small GUI program Internet / Network IDTP, An Innovative Communication Protocol - huangng If you are looking for a tool Office Development VBA Extend - NewPast Format, add line numbers, error handling, expose a .NET library to VBA, and number to words in Office. Read and Write Microsoft Excel with Open XML SDK - Dr. Song Li This article presents an example on how to read and write Microsoft Excel with Open XML SDK. PHP How to handle appointments and send automated reminder calls using PHP and your MySQL database - Simon Robert VoIP This article presents a simple example on how to insert automated reminders about appointments, meetings to MySQL table with the help of PHP Printing Printing the .NET TreeView Control - Mark Pitman A class to handle printing a .NET TreeView control. Tablets and All-in-Ones ManicPong - Pete O'Hanlon Edumatter M12: Math Calculators and Equation Solvers - DrABELL 5-in-1 educational software package, including: Fraction Calculator, Prime Factoring, Linear, Quadratic and System of Equation solvers Weaver - Alexander SchuIze, Felix Herbst, Paul Kirsten Multi-User game for AIO where players build their own spider's web The Mothernode - Ched1980 Four player sci-fi maze game with traps and looting and that Inflatimeter™ : Inflation Calculator - DrABELL Windows 8 application adapted for Tablet PC allows inflation calculation on individual products/service and basket aggregates Threads, Processes & IPC Internals of Windows Thread - Mahesh Bailwal Basics about Windows thread which may help you in understanding how operating system implements threads. CAPS: Computing Analyzer and Process Simulator - Dr Neelendra Badal, hifzan ahmad The tool Computing Analyzer and Process Simulator (CAPS) allows the user to make a dynamic presentation on various computing as well as make an analysis on the new computing with the existing one. VB.NET Undo/Redo Framework - E.F. Nijboer Undo/Redo framework for editing controls in a Windows application. Web Services Cloud over IFileSystemInfo Extension (Cofe3) - Part I - Leung Yat Chun Framework library for designing RESTful home cloud services using an FSI like interface. Cloud over IFileSystemInfo extension (Cofe3) - Part II - Leung Yat Chun Framework library for designing RESTful home cloud services using FSI like interface. Wiki.ASP.NET articles Making server side decision based on client side JavaScript - ASP.NET Community Many of you might have come across the situation where you need to making server side discussion based on client side JavaScript confirm message Factory - ASP.NET Community FactoryThe job of the Factory design pattern is to create concrete sub classes. You can see the Factory design pattern used throughout the .NET Memento Pattern - ASP.NET Community The memento design pattern is a pattern that helps to save the object internal in an external place enabling us to restore the state later when needed. Image Rotator in Javascript - ASP.NET Community Image Rotator in Javascript There are many ways to create Image Rotator in JavaScript .I write two simple examples to create an Image rotator in Composite - ASP.NET Community Composite Design PatternThe Gang of Four definition is "Compose objects into tree structures to represent part-whole hierarchies. Composite lets Image Recaptcha using Generic Handler - ASP.NET Community Hosting WCF Service with netTcpBinding on IIS7 - ASP.NET Community  I hosted my wcf service with wsHttpBinding as well as netTcpbinding.While I hosted with netTcpBinding on IIS 7 follwing things I have considered, Visitor Pattern - ASP.NET Community The visitor design pattern enables us to create new operations to be performed on an existing structure. The new operations don't change the Iterator Pattern - ASP.NET Community The iterator pattern's role is to provide a way to access aggregate objects sequentially without the knowledge of the structure of the aggregate. Facade - ASP.NET Community FacadeThe Facade Design Pattern provides a simple interface and controls access to a series of complicated interfaces and or sub systems.Some of Developer Guidelines - ASP.NET Community Things to be taken care by developers while writing code or designing different layersPresentation Layer:Choose your UI elements Asynchronous Pages - ASP.NET Community Improve the scalability of a website and efficient design for time consuming processes. Mediator Pattern - ASP.NET Community The mediator pattern encapsulate the interaction between a set of objects. Also it encapsulate the protocol between those objects. The pattern help  Chain Of Responsibility Pattern - ASP.NET Community The chain of responsibility pattern is a way of communication between objects. As it's name indicate a chain of handlers is built  and every handler Windows Communication Foundation Basic Step by Step WCF WebService - yani papi Basic steps in creating and consuming a simple WCF web service. Understanding Operation types in WCF - Praveen Kumar Katiyar This article explains the operaton type supported in WCF Creating and consuming a simple WCF Service without using configuration files - Praveen Kumar Katiyar This article explains how to create a simple WCF Service, and host it according to supplied parameters, and a client to use this service. Understanding Contracts in WCF - Praveen Kumar Katiyar This article explains the Contracts type supported in WCF Windows Phone 7/8 Invasion Game in MonoGame for Windows Phone 8 - Dan Colasanti This article describes my experience porting Invasion from XNA/WP7 to MonoGame/WP8 and includes Invasion's complete source code. Windows Powershell Use Excel in PowerShell without a full version of Excel - Douglas M. Weems Easily import Excel Sheets into PowerShell as PS Objects Windows Presentation Foundation WPF/XAML NotifyIcon and Taskbar (System Tray) Popup Window - Murray Foxcroft Integrating WPF and XAML with the Windows forms NotifyIcon control to produce a slick, styled popup window when the mouse is moved over the NotifyIcon Simple Metro Style Panorama Control for WPF - Sacha Barber A simple Metro style Panorama control for WPF. Yes, this also is an ItemsControl - Part 1: A Graph Designer with custom DataTemplate - Serge Desmedt A graph visualizer implemented as an ItemsControl. New Tips and Tricks added .NET Framework A Generic Factory Method-Create Object From Interface Parameter using Reflection - S. M. Ahasan Habib I will demonstrate a generic factory method which will create object from interface type parameter from an assembly (either current or provided) with the help of reflection ASP.NET Enable/Disable controls on a web page using MVC Razor view engine and Extension methods - Massimiliano Peluso "WeDev Limited" Enable/Disable control on a web page using MVC Razor view engine and Extension Methods. Implementing Remote Validation in MVC - Sachin Dev Tripathi Validating MVC fields at by ajax call on controller without posting form data. Simple Profile Search using AngularJS - Manivannan Chidambaram This tip will help beginners to understand basic data-binding of model-view using AngularJS. C# How to Cascade Delete an Adjacency List Model in SQL in C# - marks-mike Demonstrates how to cascade delete on a single table that maintains hierarchy by a ParentId that points to the primary key of the same table Get an object instance given just a name - jolsen How to get a reference to a class member when all you have is its name and type. Client side scripting Image Sliding Effect with JavaScript - Paulo Augusto Künzel Quick way to insert an image sliding effect on your web site Database Dynamic SQL From DB Table with Parameters - jlwash2 How to execute store SQL with parameters via Procedure Rowversion: Version Stamping A Row - SonuKSingh rowversion datatype in SQL Server: Track which row has been modified View for SQL Agent Job Histories - Brad Joss Views to make analyzing SQL Agent Job statistics easier. Design and Architecture Best Practices for ORM - Shweta Lodha I want to share some of the best practices which needs to be followed while dealing with any ORMs (Object Relational Models) Game Development Hanoi Tower - ryowu A full functional Hanoi Tower game base on WPF Internet / Network Cross Domain Data Loading with Webix - sonic_youth two techniques to avoid the pitfalls of cross domain data loading: cross-origin resource sharing and JSONP. Java Debug Java Code in Java COM Windows Application (Remote Java Debugging) - Vivek Goyal Debugging Java JNI and C++ code in COM based application List Controls Get Highlight Selected Items on CListCtrl when there is no Focus - MaxMax14 Keep the items highlighted when focus is on another control PHP PHP Multiple File Uploader - Emerald kweks PHP multiple file uploader Programming Tips Print Image to Zebra Printer using EPL Language - Martin Ton Print image to Zebra printer VB.NET How to export data to Excel in VB.NET - Alireza Chegini I want to show how we can export data from data table to excel simply. Windows Presentation Foundation WPF DataGrid: Enable standard sorting of nullable types on autogenerated columns - OrlandoCurioso DataGrid does not sort a nullable value type on an autogenerated column. Tips and Tricks updated .NET Framework Archive Multiple Files In Zip & Extract Zip Archive - Farhan Ghumra Learn how to create zip archive and extract it without any 3rd party library Summary of the Behaviour exhibited by Enum.IsDefined method (.Net) - Mike-MadBadger What responses to expect from the enum.IsDefined method in .Net given a variety of inputs Automatic Translation of Resource Files - Lucas Bonifacius Translate your RESX files by using your own translation storage ASP.NET How to create an IVR system using ASP.NET - Simon Robert VoIP This project is an IVR example, what you can use with Ozeki Phone System XE PBX. Simple Usages of HttpWebRequest and RestSharp with JSON.NET - B. Clay Shannon Simple RestSharp and HttpWebRequest with JSON.NET examples Good Universal Paramerter and Stored Procedure Execution - Robert Bettinelli Check this for a good universal way of running stored procedures.. Example Of JavaScript Serializer And Json String Using WebMethod - Nandakishorerao Simple example of using JavaScript Serializer in webmethod and consuming in client side using jquery C# How to get Connection String from App.Config in C# - Alireza Chegini This code helps you to grab ConnectionString from App.config. Better factories in C# - arturomonriv This short article just shows the evolution of my implementation of the Factory pattern in C#. How to Split a GIF Frame By Frame and Save Them to Memory - blitzkrieged This is a demonstration of splicing an animated GIF (or any image) frame by frame without having to write to the disc. Asynchronous Process With Mutex - John Pravin This tip will help programmers to work with asynchronous programming in C# using Delegates, Events, Anonymous methods, and Lambda, and detach an element from the parent to a new one. Using ObservableCollection in MVVM - Houssem_Dellai Reduce the number of properties in the View-Model by using ObservableCollection C#: Display Photo Taken Location on a Map in Windows - Brad Joss Smart phones all seem to geo tag (add GPS details) to the photos they take. However, after you copy that photo to your PC it is difficult to see, in human terms, where that photo was taken. This project parses the photo for the GPS data and opens that location on a map. Combo & List Boxes Moving Listbox Items Up and Down - MaxMax14 For single or multiple selection CListBox Cryptography & Security Embed Messages in Images, The Easy Way! - Aravind.V.S Embed secret messages in image files using Autohotkey. Custom Controls Simple jQuery Color Picker - Ming_Lu Simple and Fast Color Picker Built on JQuery Database How to Generate T-SQL Code by Using Dynamic SQL? - Sergey Syrovatchenko T-SQL code generation by using Dynamic SQL for routine tasks automation. SQL Server 2012 Auto Identity Column Value Jump Issue - S. M. Ahasan Habib From SQL Server 2012 version, when SQL Server instance is restarted then its auto Identity column value is jumped based on identity column datatype. T-SQL: Search SQL Code - Brad Joss Search your SQL code with simple T-SQL statements. Progress Controls Creating a Custom wxPython Progress Bar Widget - freeluna A simple alternative progress bar or gauge in wxPython Reviews on Third Party Products and Tools Solution when it comes to filter Foreign Keys with Guid identifiers in the grid of the Telerik MVC Extensions controls suite - Javier Tirado Pampín This article talks about how to solve the filter problem in Telerik MVC Extensions control suite Tools and IDE Structuring Large Visual Studio Solutions - Dimitri Dering Large Visual Studio solutions Web Services Rest Service with Ruby + Sinatra + Datamapper - Carlos Luis First web service with Ruby, Sinatra and Datamapper Wiki.ASP.NET articles ASP.NET Open Source Projects - ASP.NET Community Links to ASP.NET Open Source ProjectsBlogsBlogsa.net - A blog engine in Asp.net.dasBlogBlogEngine.NET - Very functional, simple and clean Silverlight Examples - ASP.NET Community Here's some particularly amazing Silverlight examples found in the blogosphere. Also, be sure to check out the Silverlight Galleries and the Learn Silverlight Blogs - ASP.NET Community Here are some recommended blogs and podcasts dedicated to Silverlight either completely or for the most part.BlogsList of Silverlight Community Add Images in Image Rotator with the Help of FileUpload Control - ASP.NET Community How to add images in Image Rotator with the help of FileUpload control New Technical Blogs added ASP.NET Controls Difference betweeen ASP.NET WebForms and ASP.NET MVC - Imran Abdul Ghani Difference between ASP.NET Webforms and ASP.NET MVC C# C# Read/Write another Process' Memory - Apex95 This article aims to show you how to read/write a process' memory using C# and some methods found in kernel32.dll. Cross Platform Use Cross-Platform/OSS ExcelDataReader to Read Excel Files with No Dependencies on Office or ACE - John Atten Use cross-platform/OSS ExcelDataReader to read Excel files with no dependencies on Office or ACE. Dialogs and Windows Windows 8.1 Has Been Released - Garry Pilkington Some highlights of my own. Microsoft BizTalk Server BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.1 – Custom Itinerary Resolver - Prasoon Kumar Gupta BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.1 – Custom Itinerary Resolver Other .NET Languages Building ANKHOR Operators in Python - BuzzLightyear Building ANKHOR operators in Python. Parallel Programming Parallel Execution in ANKHOR FlowSheet - BuzzLightyear Parallel execution in ANKHOR flowsheet Ultrabooks Haswell – Intel SDP Unit (Software Developer Preview) – a death in the family - Pete O'Hanlon I'm delighted with the help and support that I've had from Intel. Uncategorised Technical Blogs C# ASCII Art Tutorial - Apex95 ASCII Art tutorial Strategist: Safe & DRY JavaScript Augmentation - Caleb McElrath Augmentation is one of my favorite features of JavaScript. Being able to, at any point, add static and instance methods to new and existing types is a wonderful feature of this dynamic language. In this post I’ll describe two common ways of augmenting JavaScript types and how those ways can be C# Prevent Reflector from Decompiling - Apex95 A simple way to protect your application from any so-called "cracker", without involving obfuscation. C# Protect the Password inside a TextBox - Apex95 How to protect the password inside a textbox Windows Runtime Strategist: Detecting Windows Store App Configuration Mode (Debug vs. Release) in JavaScript - Caleb McElrath Detecting Windows Store app configuration mode. Rudimentary Way to Make a WinRT Component Object Bindable in WinJS - Caleb McElrath When projecting a WinRT Component object to WinJS, I kept running into an exception saying that the WinRT object could not be extended. This post will briefly describe how I got around this issue. There are a few things known that helped come to this solution: I didn’t need to worry about diff Work Issues The Designer Developer Divide - Garry Pilkington The divide between designer (Digital Barn) and developer (DevDevDev). Technical Blogs updated C# C# Detect if Debugger is Attached - Apex95 C# detect if debugger is attached LINQ C#: Query Excel and .CSV Files Using LinqToExcel - John Atten C#: Query Excel and .CSV files using LinqToExcel Tools and IDE Merge Smarter with Semantic Merge - Rion Williams How to merge smarter with Semantic Merge. © 2013 The Code Project.  All rights reserved. This email was sent to vutunglampro@gmail.com. To stop receiving The Code Project Insider News click here. 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. For correspondence please use webmaster@codeproject.com