CodeProject | The Daily Build - 9 Dec 2013

20 articles yesterday. Monday, December 09, 2013 View online Welcome to today's Daily Build from CodeProject. The voting forms are up on the homepage for the best articles from last month. Please take a minute to give a vote to the articles that helped you the most lst month - it's important. This month is slightly different in that our Month of Android means we have a new Android category for the contest. shows the top Android articles from last month and this month we're going to sweeten the pot with some hardware prizes for the best Android article. Trying to decide which tasty gadget we settle on is proving to be an enjoyably hard decision. Got a prize you'd like to donate to the prize pool for the Android (or any other) article contest? Please email Sean at submit@codeproject.com and he'll gladly look after you. Advertisements Dictating Text Messages with Plantronics and Twilio With the help of Twilio and some cool API usage from a Plantronics Voyager Legend headset, you can send text messages from your desktop with dictation capabilities. Read this blog post for more info. SpreadsheetGear 2012 Now for Silverlight! Take your browser based applications beyond the limits of HTML and JavaScript with high performance Excel compatible spreadsheet controls from the leader in .NET spreadsheets. Try the live SpreadsheetGear Silverlight Samples Now! Most popular new articles 6 Dec 2013 - 8 Dec 2013 ToDoList 6.8.2 Feature Release - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g. Barcode Image Generation Library - Brad Barnhill Versioning Controlled Build - Julijan Sribar Requirement, Estimation and Planning in agile software development projects - Monjurul Habib Learning MVC - Part 1: Introduction to MVC Architecture and Separation of Concerns - Akhil_Mittal Research In-The-Wild Testing: How to Ensure Your Apps Work in the Real World Is your new app designed for testers who constantly update their devices the minute a new platform version is available? Was it designed for developers who spend most of their time in a well-connected office? Probably not. Then why would you rely on a similar environment to test your apps when that's not where your end users actually are? The only way to launch apps that consistently work in the hands of users and meet their expectations – apps that are functional, reliable, secure and intuitive from the very first download – is to move a... Download Now Latest Additions 20 articles overall. 2 new, 18 updated. New articles added ASP.NET Why(s) and How(s) of ASP.NET MVC: Part 3 - Shahriar Iqbal Chowdhury/Galib ASP.NET MVC controller and routing fundamental ideas, advantages, and validating controllers. Bundling and Minification (ASP.NET 4.0) - Kapil Khadgi Implementing Bundling and Minification in a manageable way Articles updated Android A Domain Specific Language for Android touch events: Part 1: Description and usage of the DSL - Serge Desmedt A DSL for creating touch gestures in Android. Applications & Tools ToDoList 6.8.2 Feature Release - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g. A hierarchical task manager with native XML support for custom reporting. ASP.NET Learning MVC - Part 1: Introduction to MVC Architecture and Separation of Concerns - Akhil_Mittal Introduction to MVC architecture and Separation of Concerns. C / C++ Language How to ensure proper dynamic library boundary crossing for objects using smart pointers' custom deleters - Philippe Cayouette, Sebastien Gibeau Ensuring that objects allocated in one dynamic library are deleted by the same library has always been a challenge. Solutions prior to the advent of C++11 often make the usage of the library cumbersome. This is a solution using smart pointers' custom deleters. Client side scripting Include JavaScript exceptions in your server side logs with JSNLog - Matt Perdeck JSNLog lets you insert loggers in your client side JavaScript, configure them in your web.config, and store their messages in your server side logs. Cryptography & Security Encrypting Editor Notepad Replacement - Frank T. Clark A C# .NET 3.5 (Win7) Windows Forms Application with source code Database SqlMetalPlus- A VS Add-in to Manage Custom Changes to DBML - Azeet Chebrolu This add-in adds easily accessible context menu commands to your DBML files to either apply custom changes or to refresh the whole DBML file with the latest changes from the database. Design and Architecture Requirement, Estimation and Planning in agile software development projects - Monjurul Habib This article is about requirement, estimation and planning in agile software development projects. Everybody in software development has the same goal: Rapid, Reliable, Low Risk delivery of high-quality, valuable functionality to users. So what will help them to achieve their goal ? just coding ? Expandable IoC Container - Paulo Zemek Learn how to create a very small (less than 3kb) yet very expandable IoC container. 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 - [Episode 3] Get Coding With Coder - DaveAuld Google Coder == "A simple way to make web stuff on Raspberry Pi.", well that is what they claim! Libraries C# - Generate and Deliver PDF Files On-Demand from a Template Using iTextSharp - John Atten In this article, we will examine the specifics of this "Just-In-Time" PDF generation. Macros and Add-ins Versioning Controlled Build - Julijan Sribar A Visual Studio add-in and command-line utility that automates versioning of .NET and VC++ projects Mobile Development Beyond Mobile Gestures - Yildirim Kocdag What is next for Mobile Gestures? Past and Future of Mobile Gestures Silverlight Creating a discrete value slider in Silverlight - Kashif_Imran The article shows the proecess of creating and using a discrete value slider for Silverlight. Site & Server Management Production Server Migration Challenges - S. M. Ahasan Habib I explain in this article what type of challenges may face when any one start migrating their production server. Windows Presentation Foundation WPF and multi-touch - Florian Rappl Exploring WPF capabilities, limitations and work-arounds to create state-of-the-art applications with multi-touch features. Technical Blogs updated Design and Architecture A Beginner's Guide to Various Software Development Methodologies - Manas Bhardwaj A beginners guide to various software development methodologies © 2013 CodeProject.  All rights reserved. This email was sent to vutunglampro@gmail.com. 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