CodeProject | Newsletter (4 Nov 2013)

148 articles this week. Monday, November 04, 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 We're travelling across the pond this week to Europe so will be dining on plane food and vending machines and fighting with power adapters for our laptops. If anyone spots tired, hungry guys in CodeProject T-shirts buy them a coffee please. Looking for a Job? In the meantime we're hiring! (Again). Do you live close to Toronto, love software development and have an interest in online advertising? Advertising should never be offensive, annoying or off topic and we need someone who cares as much about coding as we do to help us continue to bring sanity and some serious smarts into the industry. Curious? Email Eric at eric@codproject.com. 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Instant access to thousands of books and videos Technology and business professionals can learn with video tutorials, code samples, books, and certification guides. Start a trial now. Weekly Poll Results Is it time to bid the traditional Desktop UI for PC operating systems goodbye? Survey period: 28 Oct 2013 to 4 Nov 2013 Microsoft sees the non-desktop "Metro" UI as the future of Windows. Is this the direction the industry must take, or a mis-fire? Option Votes %   The desktop UI should go. UIs like Metro and iOS are the future for PCs. 64 5.57 They both have their place 555 48.30 The desktop UI needs to remain on the PC 494 42.99 Undecided 36 3.13 Total 1149   100% This week's survey: How many different operating systems are you currently working with? Most popular new articles 28 Oct 2013 - 3 Nov 2013 Barcode Image Generation Library - Brad Barnhill fastJSON - Mehdi Gholam C++ String Toolkit (StrTk) Tokenizer - Arash Partow RaptorDB - the Document Store - Mehdi Gholam WPF: Webcam Control - Meshack Musundi Research API Gateways, Security, and Innovation with Securosis Join Securosis analysts Adrian Lane and Gunnar Peterson as they discuss their new report, "API Gateways: Where Security Enables Innovation". This "speed round" style webinar focuses on API security best practices. Download Now Latest Additions 148 articles overall. 47 new, 101 updated. New articles added Ajax Streaming Data over WebSockets - TheQult Implementing a simple message delivery system in C# Applications & Tools Day 1: Spider Database Navigator Website - Marc Clifton Creating a website in Ruby on Rails for dynamically displaying and navigating a SQL Server database ASP.NET MVC Patterns (Active and Passive Model) and its implementation using ASP.NET Web forms - Khademul Basher MVC Pattern and it's types and implementation using Passive Model. Web Site Extreme Makeover, Part 7 of 7 - B. Clay Shannon Some final snazzification, polishing, and deployment C / C++ Language A Large Integer Class - Bill_Hallahan Large Integer class acts similar to built-in type Database SQL Scripts Runner - Lyubomir Rumenov Velchev A simple console application, which executes all SQL files added by developers working with decentralised development environment. HTML / CSS Drawings in SVG format. Part 1 - Draft Standard - Vitaliy Sytnik On the Internet you can find a lot of different information about creating drawings in the format SVG. More often invited some editor and export of DXF format to SVG. Looking through the code SVG immediately obvious that there is a lot of excess. Created in a file editor, SVG may not always correctl iPhone Easy UITableView optimizations - NSProgrammer Easy UITableView optimizations. Java Defining Custom Source-Event-Listener in Java - Lộc Nguyễn Event-Driven Programming Model Product Showcase Improving Forms Recognition Results with Automated Alignment - LEADTOOLS Support Improving Forms Recognition Results with Automated Alignment Avoiding and fixing unexpected memory issues in .NET applications - Red Gate Software How to track down and fix unexpected memory leaks - a worked example SQL Reporting Services Call SSRS Reports by using C# - Sandip K Tripathi Call/Run SSRS Reports by using C# Ultrabooks Slim, Trim, and Nimble Intel Haswell - John_Papa John Papa takes a third look at the Intel Haswell Ultrabook. Articles updated .NET Framework Generic Operators / Numerics in C# - Lee Reid How to create 'generic' classes and methods which use operators such as +,-, / and * Returning Multiple Result Sets from an Entity Framework Stored Procedure with Function Import Mappings - Shenwei Liu A practical workaround to fix the Function Import mappings for an EF stored procedure returning multiple result sets. Ajax Three Ways to Dynamically Load HTML Content into a Web Page - B. Clay Shannon Demonstrates three ways to dynamically add or replace HTML content on a web page Algorithms & Recipes C++ String Toolkit (StrTk) Tokenizer - Arash Partow A brief introduction to a C++ String Tokenizer implementation. Data Structures with JavaScript - Paulo Augusto Künzel A tutorial on basic data structures and JavaScript. Linear Equation Solver in C# - Bill_Hallahan Solves a large number of simultaneous equations Android MonoAndroid: Writing ExpandableListView amd BaseExpandableListAdapter in C# - ThatsAlok Creating ExpandableListView and populating it with BaseExpandableListAdapter derived class Why your Android NDK breakpoints might fail and how to fix them - Ivan Shcherbakov This article explains why the breakpoints in native Android code might fail and how to fix them Applications & Tools An Example to Use Kendo Grid - Dr. Song Li This article presents an example to use Kendo grid. Tutorial for creating simple Hyakunin-Issyu application using Sinatra and Heroku - Software Developer's Journal Looping through your XML with NAnt - G. Filkov Looping through your XML with NAnt. ASP.NET MVC Interview questions with answers - Shivprasad koirala The whole purpose of this article is to quickly brush up your MVC knowledge from MVC interview perspective. How to correctly use sitemap for top/left menus - Mangesh V. Devikar Know about sitemap, multiple sitemaps in a web.config and create navigation menus using sitemap in asp.net Getting Started with IIS 7.5 and ASP.NET 2.0 Classic - Juan Steyn Use this article as a guideline for getting your ASP.NET website onto IIS 7.5, from scratch Configuring IIS, ASP.NET, and SQL Server - Juan Steyn This article is an updated one discussing the configuration of IIS, ASP.NET and SQL Server. SSIS Script Task, Extracting attachments from Outlook 2007 in VB.NET - gusmundo This is an alternative for "Extracting mails and attachments from Outlook 2003 in VB.NET". Web Site Extreme Makeover, Part 5 of 7 - B. Clay Shannon Adding a little C# code-behind and more HTML Web Site Extreme Makeover, Part 4 of 7 - B. Clay Shannon In part 4 of the "extreme makeover", we add some pages and perform some light cosmetic enhancements Web Site Extreme Makeover, Part 6 of 7 - B. Clay Shannon Adding a Slider jQuery plugin and social buttons (Twitter and Facebook) and 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 Machine Solution to Einstein's Riddle Revisited - Dezhi Zhao This article shows a fast solution to Einstein's Riddle by using brutal search. Fastest strstr-like function in C!? - Sanmayce Tuned function for searching a needle in a haystack Plain C OO Programming (How To) - roger gc Plain C, not any macro code definition. C OO rocks! A Real Polynomial Class with Root Finder - Bill_Hallahan Uses overloaded operators to make Polynomials easy to use. Linear Equation Solver in C++ - Bill_Hallahan Solves a large number of simultaneous equations C# Controlling Skype with C# - Gabriel Szabo C# example code for controlling Skype ADO.NET Entity framework Interview questions - Shivprasad koirala Quick revision of 25 important ADO.NET Entity framework interview questions with answers Web Scraping (Problems & Solutions) - dpalash From this article, you will be able to get the basic idea about web scraping and a few problems and their solutions while working. Client side scripting Build an HTML Grid Using JavaScript - Nasir Darwish The article describes a JavaScript utility to display a grid for HTML pages. 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. Cryptography & Security Encrypting Editor Notepad Replacement - Frank T. Clark A C# .NET 3.5 (Win7) Windows Forms Application with source code Custom Controls Message Box Control - Ali Al Omairi(Abu AlHassan) A message box that can be drawn with HTML and CSS. TinyMCE, a Javascript rich text editor, and ASP.NET MVC - non-trivial features - Eduardo Antonio Cecilio Fernandes Setting up TinyMCE rich editor in ASP.NET MVC using features that are not so easy to deploy Database Generic Database Frontend– Filtering, Free Text Search, Sorting & Paging - Relly Rivlin This article describes a server and client side code including explanations of a generic database frontend web application. A propertymapping Extension for DataReaders - Jörgen Andersson A propertymapping extension for DataReaders 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. Web Site Extreme Makeover, Part 1 of 7 - B. Clay Shannon This "Web Site Extreme Makeover" series of articles will provide kind of a "behind-the-scenes" step-by-step look at the process I will go through as I create a new web site for a friend, using his business' existing site as a starting point. Web Site Extreme Makeover, Part 3 of 7 - B. Clay Shannon In this third installment of the extreme website makeover journey, we will take up where we left off in getting further along with the basic look and feel before moving on to the nitty-gritty of writing the code-behind, adding any jQuery UI widgets, etc. Web Site Extreme Makeover, Part 2 of 7 - B. Clay Shannon Light SEO and choosing a website theme. Dialogs and Windows NetMeeting for Windows 7 - KMSRao Share Desktops between Windows 7 Systems Files and Folders Unification of Text and Binary File APIs - Wong Shao Voon A portable and easy-to-use C++ file library to read and write structured data Game Development Shoot'em Up .NET - Paulo Zemek This is a small tutorial on how to create a Shoot'em Up game in .NET using mostly declarative animations. GDI+ Drawing Images with Sizing Paddings - PacMani Visual Style-like Image stretching for custom skinning 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. Hardware & System Raspberry Pi as low-cost HD surveillance camera - Christoph Buenger, DaSpors Build a low-cost HD video surveillance cam with worldwide access from any browser HTML / CSS Create an HTML5 (and JavaScript) Maze Game with a timer - ProgramFOX This article explains how to create a maze with a digital timer using HTML5 and JavaScript, without the use of Flash. Internet / Network fastJSON - Mehdi Gholam Smallest, fastest polymorphic JSON serializer (with Silverlight4 and MonoDroid support) fastBinaryJSON - Mehdi Gholam A binary JSON serializer based on fastJSON (support for MonoDroid) Django and Tornado: Python Web Frameworks - Software Developer's Journal Learn about Django and Tornado 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" Interview with HopeLab's Richard Tate: Developing Game-Based Healthcare Apps - CodeProject Richard Tate of HopeLab on developing successful healthcare apps. Java Simplified ORM with NW.ORM - Ogwara Rowland NW.ORM, a helper framework for working Hibernate. Libraries Celero - A C++ Benchmark Authoring Library - DigitalInBlue This article discusses how to implement and use a template-based C++ benchmarking library. Yet another Undo-Redo Framework - ankle Undo-Redo for desktop applications MFC Asynchronous calls in C++ and MFC using boost and tbb - Alfred Molnar Call methods of an existing class in MFC asynchronously, while still preserving the thread affinity required by MFC and COM. Miscellaneous A Software Virtual Keyboard for Your WPF Apps - JamesWittHurst Walks through the creation of an on-screen virtual keyboard for entering non-ASCII chars Programming for Multi Touch - Ben Aldhouse This is a commentary on the MSDN article 'Detecting and Tracking Multiple Touch Points' Vertical scrolling Textbox (Animated Aboutbox) - hgbecker A usercontrol to display vertical scrolled text. By example for an about box. Mobile Development HTML5, jQuery Mobile and ASP.NET MVC 4 – Using the ViewModel between the model and controller - kishore Gaddam Using the ViewModel between the model and controller. NoSQL RaptorDB - the Document Store - Mehdi Gholam NoSql, JSON based, Document store database with compiled .net map functions and automatic hybrid bitmap indexing and LINQ query filters (now with standalone Server mode, Backup and Active Restore, Transactions, Server side queries, MonoDroid support, HQ-Branch Replication) 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 Programming Tips Building a code instrumentation library with Python and ZeroMQ - Software Developer's Journal SharePoint Server Displaying Attachments with the Data View Web Part: Part 1 - Drasko Popovic Displaying WSS or MOSS item attachments with the SharePoint Designer Data View Web Part. SQL Reporting Services SSRS 2012 Forms Authentication - Darey SQL Server Reporting services forms authentication implementation Tablets and All-in-Ones HeMoSiBi™ - DrABELL Her Most Significant Bit™ NY-2013: edutaining app for NY Ladies Threads, Processes & IPC ActiveRecoverySwitcher - Lyubomir Rumenov Velchev How to switch between N number of threads - primary and secondary services. Show a way to implement backup service switch. This could be easily converted to load balancing service. Tools and IDE Getting code coverage from your .NET testing using OpenCover. - Shaun Wilde VB.NET Machine Controller - NewPast Using serial or paraller port to control a machine. Windows Presentation Foundation WPF: Webcam Control - Meshack Musundi A WPF UserControl for displaying and recording video from a webcam Windows Runtime WinRT: StyleMVVM Demo 1 of 2 - Sacha Barber A look at an excellent WinRT MVVM framework. New Tips and Tricks added Android Playing Audio on Android from an HTML5 File - Kyle Burrows Learn how to play Audio in an Android app from an HTML5 page in the Apps Assets folder. Applications & Tools Real Time Web Development - Brief - hagerAly Techniques to achieve real time web development ASP Publishing ASP Website in IIS 7.0 - rajeshkool How to publish website in IIS server ASP.NET How to Run Crystal Report Runtime on IIS Without Default App Pool - Arpit Dixit How to run the Crystal report runtime on any app pool and on any port rather then 80 on IIS ASP.NET MVC Ajax Infinite Scroll - Hovhannes Bantikyan This is a simple infinite scroll with Ajax post and JSON. Have fun :) A Simple ASP.NET MVC Grid with Multilingual Support+Drop Down Menu - Member 626383 Using grid and search grid using Ajax or without Ajax, and using Resource Files to enable multi language support Bugs & Workarounds Workaround to Fix Audio Autoplay on Mobile Browsers! - Elagizy Most of the mobile browsers don't support audio autoplay to save mobile bandwidth on behalf of the user! C# How to use SFTP within SSIS - mgoad99 Using winSCP to download a file thru SFTP within an SSIS package Entity Model to Excel using LINQ in C# - Debopam Pal How to bring data from Entity model to Excel file using LINQ. C++ / CLI Direct access to C++ native code from C++/CLI MSSQL Stored Procedure - fastcom123 Reading hardware information in Stored Procedure HTML / CSS HTML Layouts with Webix - sonic_youth Webix can be used for simplifying HTML markup of a page leaving JavaScript code hidden from view. LINQ Dynamic Sorting in LINQ and VB, Part 3: Pagination - Thomas Corey Dynamically sort query results using LINQ expressions and reflection with sorting and paging using VB.NET. Windows Presentation Foundation Multilanguage Switcher from File WPF - CarcaB0t Multi Language Switcher Dynamically written in WPF VB.NET using XMLDataProvider WinHelp / HTMLHelp How to use localized Help in english Visual Studio 2012 & 2013 - Konstantin Samsonov English Visual Studio and localized Help. Tips and Tricks updated Ajax AJAX vs. Non-AJAX Calls All-in-One Page - Peter Leow This is a simple web application to illustrate visually the difference between Ajax and non-Ajax calls that take place all in a single web page. ASP.NET Simple Listbox Swapper(Non Javascript) in .Net MVC and maintaining MVC view-state as json in hidden field - okdone Simple Listbox Swapper in .Net MVC. And How to maintain view-state for MVC view as JSON in hidden field. SQL script for creating an ASP.NET Identity Database - Mr.Thursday SQL script for creating ASP.Net Identity Database C / C++ Language C99 and C++11: Use isnan to test for NaN - Wong Shao Voon Never test for NaN by comparing it with NaN literal C# EBCDIC to ASCII Converter - Max Vagner Converting mainframe EBCDIC to ASCII format Pillbox Information - Ranjan.D Pillbox is a resource of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Dynamic Sorting in LINQ, Part 3: Pagination - Thomas Corey Dynamically sort query results using LINQ expressions and reflection with sorting and paging. Deriving a concrete class from an abstract UserControl - OriginalGriff Abstract base classes are a very good idea - but when that base class is a UserControl, Visual studio gets very unfriendly. It is possible, and it's not difficult: you just have to know how to do it. DataReader into IEnumerable with C# - meula How to convert any datareader into generic list. Client side scripting Image Sliding Effect with JavaScript - Paulo Augusto Künzel Quick way to insert an image sliding effect on your web site Cryptography & Security Steganography: Simple Implementation in C# - Hamzeh soboh Embed/extract a text in/from an image Database Using Table variable instead of Cursor Variable - S. M. Ahasan Habib I will explain here how to use table variable and over come cursor limitation SQL Synonyms :.: Avoiding Dynamic SQL - Claudio cespon A first approach to avoid Dynamic SQL in stored procedures Debug Tips Getting round Visual Studio when it decides a class isn't the same as itself... - OriginalGriff Sometimes (far too often, I find) you will try to open a form in the Visual Studio designer, and it won't open it because "the type X declared in Project X is not the same as the type X declared in Project X". This is annoying, as well as being blatantly untrue. Stop laughing at the back there! Design and Architecture How to improve the performance of managed code - Paulo Augusto Künzel Summarizes some ideas on how to improve code performance Why and When of MVVM - Shweta Lodha The why and when of MVVM Files and Folders Zipping using System.IO.Compression - Tecfield This post shows how to create a zip package using System.IO.Compressio. Game Development Open Audio Engine - Anis A. Hireche Open Audio Engine - advanced audio middleware for games and multimedia apps HTML / CSS How to Create a jQuery UI-powered Web Page that Requires No Hosting - B. Clay Shannon Create a simple and fun standalone web page How to add image links in HTML - B. Clay Shannon Wherein the gentle reader is instructed on how to add images (which incorporate links) into his or her HTML Miscellaneous Accessing the Controls on a Form at Design Time - Mike-MadBadger How to discover all the controls on a form at design time for a property editor Threads, Processes & IPC A Sketch for a Generic Queue - Multithreading Made Easy - Marco Bertschi Sktech for a generic queue which can handle tasks, process them and report the result Trace and Logs How to Alter console.log - R%S Adding stuff to your logs. VB.NET A PictureBox with Zoom, Grid and Rulers - Luca De Nardi Add zoom capabilities, grid and rulers to the standard WinForms PictureBox control Web Services Creating Web Service Using PHP Within 10 Minutes - Monotosh Roy Mon Developing web service using PHP within 10 minutes Wiki.ASP.NET articles Dynamically menu binding - ASP.NET Community Hi friends..... Many of guys are trying or working on menus for binding it dynamically. i've the solution for ithere , i m putting sample code to Windows Presentation Foundation How to add columns to a DataGrid through binding and map its cell values - Lance Contreras How to add columns to a DataGrid through binding and map its cell values. New Technical Blogs added C# C# Create Secure Desktop (Anti-Keylogger) - Apex95 C# create secure desktop (anti-keylogger) Custom Controls Authentication Against CRM Contact using Custom STS - Manoj.Kumar12 Authentication against CRM contact using custom STS Date and Time Just A Little Visual Studio Time Saver - kdmote CodeProject If you use the Visual Studio wizard for the UnitTest framework, you'll find your test code littered with these helpful reminders: // TODO: Initialize to an appropriate value And by "littered" I mean there are hundreds, if not thousands, … Continue reading → Design and Architecture Searching For Nails: A Hammer's Story - Zac Gery When a project starts to feel heavy, don't be afraid to stop and ask the question, "Am I seeing too many nails?" Grid & Data Controls Big Data Expo - GanesanSenthilvel A little info about the big data expo Installation How to Install Windows 8.1 on Mid-2009 Macbook Pro - Aniruddha Loya How to install Windows on Macs? Miscellaneous Tucking ViewModels Beneath Views in Solution Explorer in Visual Studio 2013 - Karl Shifflett Tucking ViewModels Beneath Views in Solution Explorer in Visual Studio 2013. Other .NET Languages Utilize VB.NET in C# Project - RobNO How to utilize VB.NET in C# project SharePoint Server Adding user profile images to Active Directory and SharePoint 2007 - James Carr (Crashcarr) Adding user profile images to Active Directory and SharePoint 2007. How to Archive SharePoint List Items to SQL Server - Raymund Macaalay You might have reached the threshold of a SharePoint List and you're afraid to increase the limit as you might affect the performance of you server.  Now you are thinking of other solutions and one thing came to mind, why not archive the data? Well that is a good idea but how are you ... Shell and IE programming Evaluating Harmon.ie For IBM Notes 9 - James Carr (Crashcarr) The results have been pleasantly surprising in adding additional functionality to Notes and SharePoint. Uncategorised Technical Blogs Looping through Excel rows in SSIS and Perform CRUD Instructions - Raymund Macaalay Looping through Excel rows in SSIS and perform CRUD instructions Automatic Icon Conversion - Alexander Golde Automatic icon conversion Visual Studio 2012 – Paste Special Feature - Gordon W Beeming Paste special feature in Visual Studio 2012 HTML5 - Pie and Ale More about HTML5 User Controls Adding User Control and Defining its Functionality in C#.NET - Komal Mangal How to add user control and define its functionality in C#.NET Web Security World Wide Web Evolution - Imran Abdul Ghani The evolution of the World Wide Web Windows API Automate SVG templating on Windows Azure – The Azure Badge Generator - IInjac CodeProject A while ago I had the idea to generate Badges automatically on Windows Azure. Using the standard imaging functions of .NET to generate layered graphics seemed a bit of an overhead, because of the wide varieties of badges that…Read more → Google Picasa API Python: Developers Guide - Kristofer Kallsbo Google Picasa API Python: Developers Guide Windows Powershell Get Inventory of All SharePoint Documents Using Windows PowerShell - James Carr (Crashcarr) Get inventory of all SharePoint documents using Windows PowerShell. Technical Blogs updated ASP.NET Code-First Migration and Extending Identity Accounts in ASP.NET MVC 5 and Visual Studio 2013 - John Atten In this post we will review setting up the basic Identity accounts, pointing them at an external SQL Server (or whatever other database you choose) instance instead of the default (local) SQL Server CE in App_Data, and configuring Entity Framework Migrations so seed the database with initial data. 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