CodeProject | Newsletter (16 Dec 2013)

165 articles this week. Monday, December 16, 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 It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Toronto, so a shared nod and grimace to all those hunting for the pain medication after spending the weekend shoveling snow and punishing those long dormant snow shoveling muscles. Eggnog is your friend. As a belated Christmas present we'll be giving away a Nexus 7 Android tablet to the best Android article in December. You have 2 weeks to get your article in, though I don't recommend a last minute December 31 caffeine fueled slamfest to get it completed. The outcome could be messy given the results of our latest survey. In the meantime head on over to Learn/Android and dive in. There's a lot to learn but it's worth it. cheers, Chris Maunder Advertisements Haswell really does extend Ultrabook battery life A full day's work on a single charge? With Haswell it's reality, not fantasy. Check out this review to find out why Jesse Liberty calls his Intel® Haswell Ultrabook a "superstar". Learn more about the wicked fast Haswell chip now. 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. 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. Download your fully functional SpreadsheetGear trial Today! Weekly Poll Results Have you, while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, written code intended for production? Survey period: 9 Dec 2013 to 16 Dec 2013 Be honest. Option Votes %   Yes 298 26.77 I...I don't remember. Possibly. 99 8.89 No 716 64.33 Total 1113   100% This week's survey: Who would you rather partner with? Most popular new articles 9 Dec 2013 - 15 Dec 2013 Fast Colored TextBox for Syntax Highlighting - Pavel Torgashov Introduction to Object Oriented Programming Concepts (OOP) and More - Nirosh A Practical Approach to Computer Systems Design and Architecture - Nirosh Convolutional Neural Network Workbench - Filip D'haene Offline Article Editor For CodeProject - Huseyin Atasoy Research 5 Unsung Tools for DevOps in the Enterprise If you're like most enterprise developers and IT managers today, you're probably on a constant hunt for new ways to increase efficiency and optimize your workflow. While most people tend to focus on the latest and greatest solutions to achieve those goals, it's important not to overlook simple tools that are already available. In this whitepaper, Jonathan Thurman helps you do just that and shares five of his favorite DevOps tools that you shouldn't ignore. While these tools have all been around a long time and may not be the flashiest, they... Download Now Latest Additions 165 articles overall. 99 new, 66 updated. New articles added .NET Framework Complete CRUD Operations in MVC 4 using Entity Framework 5 Without Writing a Single Line of Code - Akhil_Mittal Complete CRUD Operations in MVC 4 using Entity Framework 5 without writing a single line of code Easy Performance Monitor Plug-in - Cloud Hsu An easy to use plug-in to monitor CPU and memory usage. Algorithms & Recipes An autocompletion algorithm with use of "popularity factor" - VictorSotnikov The algorithm uses a factor called "popularity factor" to calculate the "relevancy rank" of the autocompletion list items Circular Values Math and Statistics with FORTRAN - Andy Allinger This is an alternative for "Circular Values Math and Statistics with C++11". Android Dual Video Android* Apps Using Intel® WiDi Technology Whitepaper - Android on Intel Dual Video Android* Apps Using Intel® WiDi Technology Whitepaper Using Advanced Intel® C++ Compiler Features for Android* Applications - Android on Intel Using SIMD Technologies on Intel® Architecture to Speed Up Game Code Using SIMD Technologies on Intel® Architecture to Speed Up Game Code - Android on Intel Using SIMD Technologies on Intel® Architecture to Speed Up Game Code Connecting to Google Drive* from an Android* App - Android on Intel Connecting to Google Drive* from an Android* App Changing the default compiler back from Intel C++ Compiler to GCC for x86 targets - Android on Intel Changing the default compiler back from Intel C++ Compiler to GCC for x86 targets Options for Releasing Native Android* Apps for Intel® Architecture (x86) - Android on Intel Options for Releasing Native Android* Apps for Intel® Architecture (x86) ASP.NET Introduction to Knockout.js and CRUD Operations in ASP.Net Web Forms Using Knockout.JS - Akhil_Mittal This article is an introduction to Knockout.js and CRUD Operations in ASP.NET Web Forms using Knockout.JS. Walkthrough: Creating a SharePoint 2013 App with ASP.NET MVC 5 - Jonathan Cardy Guide to creating SharePoint 2013 Autohosted Apps with ASP.NET MVC 5 jQuery Mobile AutoComplete in ASP.NET with SQL Server Database Connection - Mehmet Murat TANDOĞAN How to use jQuery mobile autocomplete in asp.net using generic handler(.ashx) file with database connection. ASP.NET MVC 4 and AS400 Connectivity - Roy Chang of Vunda Accessing and working with AS400 tables from an ASP.NET MVC 4 web application. Lift your petticoats with Nancy.... - AJSON Using NancyFX to provide a web-interface to a windows service How to design login screen in MVC3? - Amey K Bhatkar Kick start to mvc project by creating login screen. Working with SQL Server using the MVP Pattern - Ravindra T C Working with SQL Server in an ASP.NET application using the MVP Pattern. Book Reviews Building Mobile Applications Using Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API - Shaun Wilde A review of the book "Building Mobile Applications Using Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API" C / C++ Language Quick start unit test - How to start working with the Google C++ Testing Framework in less than 10 minutes - Volynsky Alex This tip demonstrates how to start using the "Google C++ Testing Framework" quickly and easily Differences between compiled and Interpreted Languages - Manikandan10 The article describles the differences between compiled and interpreted languages Multinomial coefficients with overflow control - David Serrano Martínez There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. (James Thurber) C# Complete End to End CRUD Operations Using Knockout.JS and EntityFramework 5 in MVC4 Application - Akhil_Mittal This article will be a kind of tutorial to explain how we can set up a knockout.js environment in an MVC4 application that is also capable of performing CRUD operations Charts, Graphs and Images Making Dashboards with Dc.js - Part 1: Using Crossfilter.js - Member 3792090 Using crossfilter.js to manipulate Javascript arrays Client side scripting Right Before Your Eyes - dgDavidGreene Make your page come alive with Knockout.js, Bootstrap, and Google Charts. Learn JavaScript Part 3 - AngularJS and Langton's Ant - Dave Kerr Learn how to use Bower, Bootstrap and AngularJS to create the Langton's Ant simulation in Javascript. Database SQLDevKit: A C++ Object Oriented Wrapper to SQLite - trident99 The SQL Developer Kit, or SQD, is an interface wrapper around the SQLite 3 Database engine. Querying SQL Server 2012 Part I - Sander Rossel The first of two; everything you need to create the most amazing queries! SubStringInstance SQL CLR - Find the nth Instance of a String - C Grant Anderson SQL CLR function to find the nth instance of a string within a string Design and Architecture Comparison of Template and Strategy Design Patterns - muhammadumairomee comparison of template and strategy design pattern from some of my work experience Decorator Design Pattern Simplified - muhammadumairomee Explaining Decorator Design pattern and its implementation Grid & Data Controls Free .NET Spreadsheet Control - Jing-Lu .NET Spreadsheet Control written in C#. Supports Cells Merge, Border Style, Pattern Background Color, Data Format, Freeze, Formula, Macro and Script execution. Hardware & System Recover Data From Corrupted Drives (File Systems: FAT32, NTFS): Part 1 - SOFT_RAJAT Recover data from corrupted drives, FAT32, NTFS. HTML / CSS Html.RatingFor: Extending the MVC HtmlHelper - pollirrata Html.RatingFor: Extending the MVC HtmlHelper Java 5 Facts about the Java String - Issam Lahlali Discover some interesting facts about the Java String Miscellaneous Let's get dirty! - Jason Gleim Creating slightly-smarter dirty flags in our model classes Node.js Getting Started with Node.js Part 1 - George H. Slaterpryce III Getting Querystring data, POST data, and responding with a serialized object OpenGL StarGate 64-bit - zapsolution Mini demoscene Product Showcase Androiding in Parallel - Ted Neward Parallel processing in Android native code Android* Application Development and Optimization on the Intel® Atom™ Platform - Android on Intel This paper introduces detailed methods for developing and porting an Android application on the Intel Atom platform, and discusses the best known methods for developing applications using the Android Native Development Kit (NDK) and optimizing performance. Google Cloud Platform: User Management - Ted Neward Google Cloud Platform - Part 3: Management Google Cloud Platform: Mobile Endpoints - Ted Neward Google Cloud Platform - Part 4: Mobile Endpoints Progress Controls BATTLEFIELD 4 progress indicator - Niel M.Thomas Hide your personal gaming preference in plain sight with this control Reviews on Third Party Products and Tools Exploring the new DevExpress Universal 2013 v13.2 release - Magnus Johansson In this review of the 2013 v13.2 release, I will highlight what is new in the respective areas. But first, let's install the suite. Using Dependency Injection on OpenAccess ORM MVC Project - Raymund Macaalay sing Dependency Injection on OpenAccess ORM MVC Project SharePoint Server InfoPath Forms 2013 - Part 1 - shijuse InfoPath Forms 2013 Testing and QA Techniques to "Fault Find Issues" - Within Your Remote WCF Services - Bert O Neill Know how to find issues within your deployed WCF services Tools and IDE Sharpening Notepad++ - Oleg Shilo This article describes the CS-Script C# Intellisense plugin for Notepad++ (CSScriptNpp). Trace and Logs tailFile: Blazing fast tail utility (watch files in real time) - newton.saber Watch files in real time with this cmd-line utility. Ultrabooks Intel Ultrabook Review: Haswell for the win! - JesseLiberty Intel Ultrabook Review: Haswell for the win! Uncategorised Technical Blogs My Singleton in WPF - comiscience Here is my favourite singleton class which serves a class which has only a private constructor. Windows Communication Foundation First date with WCF Named Pipe Transport (Duplex) - comiscience Windows Presentation Foundation WPF Image Processing Control - Bob Ranck A user control that allows pasting images from clipboard, cropping and transforms. Articles updated .NET Framework All About TransactionScope - S. M. Ahasan Habib In this article, I explain with transaction related theory and code sample, how in various scenarios we can use TransactionScope with various options for managing real life transactions. Visual Studio 2013 New Features of the IDE - Ashoka RKT Visual Studio 2013 Preview has been launched recently. This post talks about the Visual Studio 2013's IDE new features. Dependency Injection Pattern with Autofac - Md.Mobidul Islam(Moin) How Dependency Injection (DI) can help us build a loosely coupled software architecture, and how to implement DI using Autofac. Ajax Creating AJAX enabled web forms - Komal Mangal Benefits of creating AJAX enabled web forms and how to do it. Algorithms & Recipes Convolutional Neural Network Workbench - Filip D'haene A workbench to create, train, and test convolutional neural networks against the MNIST and CIFAR-10 datasets Abstract Nonsense in Software Development Outlook - Petr Ivankov Multidisciplinary paradigm of software development NMEA 0183 sentence parser/builder - carpintero48 Library for working with NMEA0183 devices Tigers and Goats: An Interesting AI Game in Javascript and HTML5 - Saman Saeedi A code sample to explore adversarial search algorithms Primality test algorithms - Prime test - The fastest way to check primialty of a number - Shay Margalit Review primality test algorithms and test their preformance in order to find out which is the fastest. Android An ObjectEditor for Android - Serge Desmedt An ObjectEditor as a custom ExpandableListView Android + iOS Torch sample - Cloud Hsu Samples for present Android and iOS to control torch. Applications & Tools Responsive Web Design Using Twitter Bootstrap - Sacha Barber A look at how to create a responsive web site using ASP MVC / Twitter Bootstrap / WebAPI and Knockout.js. ASP.NET Repository Pattern and Unit of Work with Entity Framework in ASP.NET MVC - Amir Hamza Md. Kayes Repository pattern and Unit of Work with Entity Framework in ASP.NET MVC. MVVM in Web development with Upida.Net - vladimir husnullin MVVM in web development with Upida.Net A Simple Action Filter Overview for Authorization and Exception Handling in ASP.NET MVC - Amir Hamza Md. Kayes A simple action filter overview for authorization and exception handling in ASP.NET MVC. AngularJS Single Page Application with WebAPI and Upida backend - vladimir husnullin This article shows how to create a single page web applciation using AngularJS. It will be helpfull for people willing to study angular and mvvm practices. Audio and Video TCP Audio Streamer and Player (VoIP) - Banjoo Stream and play TCP Audio data from Microphone (VoIP) Mplayer control by VB.NET used in Veron Media Player - S.M.A.Faisal Code describing that how we can easily control mplayer in VB.NET Winform application Author Resources Offline Article Editor For CodeProject - Huseyin Atasoy An offline wysiwyg editor to backup, edit or create new articles for CodeProject. Button Controls Auto-repeat button in 10 minutes - Adam Zgagacz Simple WinForms auto-repeat button in a few lines. C / C++ Language Fastest Exact/Fuzzy/Wildcard Full-text Searcher!? - Sanmayce Optimized multi-threaded console full-text searcher C# Fluent Method and Type Builder - Paulo Zemek Create methods and types at run-time using an easy and fluent API. C# and Asp.Net Question and Answers(All in one) - Akhil_Mittal this article provides a collection of numerous .Net, C#, ADO.NET, Web Services, .Net Framework questions and answers for which a reader has to look around for entire internet on different community web sites. Integer Base Converter - Adam Zgagacz Encode numbers in different positional numeral systems. Code Generation A Code Generating Program for Three-layer Architecture used for Application and Web Design - Rahim Lotfi Customized Three-tier (layer) Architecture for Application and Web Design Collections SortedSplitList - An indexing algorithm in C # - Aurélien BOUDOUX A list for managing tens of millions of objects in your application. Cross Platform Reweaving IL code with Mono.Cecil - Dolinka Márk Gergely First one of a series of tutorials about C# code reweacing using Mono.Cecil Database Entity Framework in WinForms - Bernardo Castilho A component that makes it easy to use Entity Framework in WinForms projects, including design-time binding support. ADO.NET Entity Framework Interview Questions - Shivprasad koirala Quick revision of 25 important ADO.NET Entity Framework interview questions with answers. Design and Architecture Introduction to Object Oriented Programming Concepts (OOP) and More - Nirosh This article helps to understand OOP concepts, focusing on .NET/ C#. This is written in the form of asking questions and writing answers to them, making it easy to understand. A Practical Approach to Computer Systems Design and Architecture - Nirosh This article gives an introduction to system designing and architecture. It introduces a new concept that allows beginners to easily break and design complex software systems. It uses a modular based development approach with a pattern that we all practice in our day to day life. Requirement, Estimation and Planning. How it works and What we should avoid in Agile Software Development Projects. - Monjurul Habib Everybody in software development has the same goal: Rapid, Reliable, Low Risk delivery of high-quality, valuable functionality to users. This article will help them to achieve their goal. Architecture guide: ASP.NET, MVC3, Entity Framework, Code-First with existing database, and a few more.. - Nirosh Developing a simple MVC 3 application architecture using Entity Framework's Code First technology. Programming Vs. Software Development - V. An overview of the difference between "programming" and "software development" Decorator pattern usage on a simplified Pacman game - Petar Brkusanin An example of how Decorator, Dependency Injection, and Composition Root patterns can be used to extend the base game functionality. A Beginner's Guide to Various Software Development Methodologies - Manas Bhardwaj A beginners guide to various software development methodologies Edit Controls Fast Colored TextBox for Syntax Highlighting - Pavel Torgashov Custom text editor with syntax highlighting Files and Folders PDF Merge - Igor Krupitsky This Windows application lets you merge image and PDF files in a given folder into one PDF file. Java Subnetting with IPv6 - Part 2/2 - Yucel Guven IPv6 subnetting tool/calculator explained 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. Miscellaneous Architecture Guide: Windows Forms, Generics, Auto-Mapper, Entity Framework, Framework Design, and many more.. - Nirosh Architecting a Windows Forms based system on top of a framework. This will help you develop a form based application faster. Enhanced Scrollbar - Adam Zgagacz WinForms Scrollbar with enhanced properties, graphical bookmarks and value tooltips. Office Development Outlook add-in integrating Skype - Cristian Amarie Outlook add-in integration for Skype IM: Skype events, Outlook Skype ribbon, and more. Programming Tips The C# trickbox - Florian Rappl A close look at some powerful features of C# that are less known but sometimes come in very handy. 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. String handling Combined Regular Expression Search - Farhad Alizadeh Noori This article details the implementation of an efficient grouped regular expression searcher. Win32/64 SDK & OS Using Python inside Programming Without Coding Technology (PWCT) environment. - Mahmoud Samir Fayed Using Python inside Programming Without Coding Technology (PWCT) environment. 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. MVVM # Episode 3 - _Maxxx_ Using an extended MVVM pattern for real world LOB applications: Part 3 XML XML Visualizer v.2 - Lars Hove Christiansen XML Visualizer v.2 improves the standard XML Visualizer in Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010. XML Serialization and Deserialization: Part-1 - mayankgupta688 XML serialization and deserialization using C#. XML mapping and validation in .NET - Juan Carlos Recio Abad Carry information easily between xml with a different structure. New Tips and Tricks added Applications & Tools Beginners tutorial on how to load Crystal Reports using Crystal Report Viewer in Visual Studio 2012 - Rahul Krishnan R Simple article to load a crystal report rpt file using crystalreportviewer in Visual Studio 2012 ASP.NET List with images for composition - Harold Trujillo Cordova This example shows how you can get a set of images Thumb together into one and display them using CSS sprites technique C / C++ Language Calling C# .NET methods from unmanaged C/C++ code - Member 8489575 Describes with an example of how you can call C#.NET methods from unmanaged C++ code. C# The Null-Coalescing Operator ?? - ♥…ЯҠ…♥ About and how to use ?? operator A Useful Generic Singleton Template - comiscience This is a singleton template class which can be used by classes with a private constructor. Enumerate File System Getting Past UnauthorizedAccessExceptions - Brad Joss Search for files and folders and don't exit the search when there is an error accessing a protected folder, just skip it. Collections How to Listen to Property Changes of Items of an ObservableCollection - Vijaya Krishna Paruchuri How to listen to property changes of items in an ObservableCollection. Database Glance at SQL Constrains - Mohammed Nazer SQL Constrains details and its types Does a Database/Table/Column Exist in SQL Server - ♥…ЯҠ…♥ Query to check Database, Table, Column exists in Sql Server Date and Time Exchange Date Time between Native C++ and C# - dragonfly lee How to exchange date time between C# and C++ Design and Architecture Multiple Projects vs. Single Project (Multiple Directories) - Santinath Multiple projects vs. Single project (multiple directories) General Graphics Resizing NV12 image using Nearest Neighbor Interpolation and Bilinear Interpolation algorithms - risunch NV12 Nearest Neighbor Interpolation scaling and Bilinear Interpolation scaling. Detect Amount of Arc - Mahdi Nejadsahbei With this algorithm, we can detect amount and knoll of an arc Structure of 3D - Mahdi Nejadsahbei This tip describes how 3D images are converted to 2D images. Hardware & System Windows Permission 1 - Mahdi Nejadsahbei This program protects and locks every window in Windows, and encrypts any files even in large volume without any problem. Internet / Network Execute System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Connect Method with Timeout Controlled by System.Threading.Timer - JRINC Connect to remote socket via System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Connect method with timeout controlled by System.Threading.Timer iPhone AutoLayout and UILabel Don't Get Along - Yvan Rodrigues This handy tip is an easy workaround for a shortcoming in iOS 6 and 7. Libraries Remove Blank Space in Crystal Reports Footer Section - learner'sbug Use Reserve Minimum Page Footer in Page Footer Thinking in MVVMLight Messenger - comiscience How to think in MVVMLight Messenger. LINQ Importing Excel XLS files to database tables using Linq to SQL - gardnerp This article shows how to import XLS data to a SQL database using Link to SQL. NoSQL Using XPath to Query the Internet - Bruce Yang cp A way to query the data from Internet PHP An Easy to Use PHP "Email Blast" Utility - doug433 An Easy To Use PHP "Email Blast" Utility. SharePoint Server Adding Custom Context Menu Item to a Specific SharePoint List - ravi gunishetti Adding Custom Context Menu to a Sharepoint List Using Features Site & Server Management Using Dailymotion Publisher Kit in vBulletin - Mian Shahzad Raza Earn Money From Your vBulletin Powred Forum via Dailymotion Videos Testing and QA Unit testing imports in MEF - Loving that lazy interface - Pete O'Hanlon While we are all familiar with testing standard interface implementations, actually testing Lazy imports can be trickier if you don't follow this trick. Uncategorised Tips and Tricks Who's not following me on Twitter? - Brien Givens One line of jQuery to show who's not following you on Twitter External Functions Call Tracer for Executable Linked Shared Libraries - Andrey Grodzovsky External functions call tracer for executable linked shared libraries VB.NET Codes for Semi-Automated Source Control Migration from Visual SourceSafe 6.0 to Team Foundation Server 2012 - scott_liu The codes may be helpful to those who are experiencing the migration of lots of applications Windows Presentation Foundation Formatting Strings in Binding - Shweta Lodha How to format strings in binding Tips and Tricks updated Ajax Dynamically Add File Upload Control and Insert Text File data to Database With jQuery and PHP - Naga Vinodh Peddi How to dynamically create file upload control and add text file data to SQL database C# 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. Client side scripting Auto Suggest Auto Completion - Chirag Patadia Auto suggest and Auto complition of your textbox. jQuery Paging Fast and Easy - ronak-webdeveloper Simple Paging based on Html / CSS / Javascript / Jquery. Ready to implement. Database Type Preference with UNION in SQL Server - Amey A khedekar A scenario with data type of the resultant select columns with UNION. HTML / CSS Web Modal Window Using IFrame - Amir Hamza Md. Kayes Web modal window using IFrame. iPhone Implement Singleton Pattern in Objective-C - Cloud Hsu Implement Objective-C Singleton Pattern How to implement a queue in Objective-C - Cloud Hsu How to implement Queue in Objective-C Remind review in iPhone apps - Cloud Hsu How to remind review in iPhone App Web Services IP Location - Dietmar Schoder How to get the location of a specific IP-address Windows Mobile How to use a memory-mapped file with C# in WinCE - Cloud Hsu How to use a memory-mapped file with C# in WinCE. New Technical Blogs added .NET Framework Using ASP.NET MVC5 within Visual Studio 2012 - Rion Williams This quick article will cover how to go about creating and using ASP.NET MVC5 applications within Visual Studio. Button Controls Solution to Browser Back Button Click Event Handling - Imran Abdul Ghani Solution to browser back button click event handling C# Jagged Arrays - Tariq A Karim Jagged arrays is a one of built-in data structure in .Net framework where all the elements of the data structure are of same type.  Though it seems simple, but it can easily become puzzling when mixed with other array structures. In this blog, I will try to solve this puzzle. Lets start with a simpl Date and Time First date with WCF Named Pipe Transport (Duplex) - comiscience Background I’ve used TCP Transport to make my projects work. Some of my projects are working seperately on different machines which use WCF to get communication with each other. For exemple, we need get Market Data from Bloomberg’s service (it’s legally), and then transfer real-tim SharePoint Server SharePoint 2010 : Sandbox Development in nutshell - Manas Bhardwaj Sandbox Development With SharePoint, the challenge has always been the balance between creating solutions and deploying them in a way that you can trust will not damage or impair theThe post SharePoint 2010 : Sandbox Development in nutshell appeared first on Manas Bhardwaj's Stream. Shell and IE programming Programming Perfection: Noble Quest or Fool's Gold? - Zac Gery The topic of perfection is a common discussion at the programming dinner table. Is it good? It is bad? It is healthy? Is it possible? Is it realistic? As expected, a topic with this many questions has a wide variety of entrenched opinions. Some advocates state perfectionism incubates higher code qua Uncategorised Technical Blogs How to use Tessnet2 library - saramgsilva This article has the goal to show how to use the Tessnet2 library. Tessnet2 is a .NET 2.0 Open Source OCR assembly using Tesseract engine. Download binary here. Another important thing for Tessnet2 work is get the languages packages, get it here for the languages you … Continue reading → Constructors don't get better with age! - ludovicianul The main goal of the article is to make you remember 2 things: Constructors aren’t like cheese i.e. they don’t get better with age An “ad litteram” iterative approach on writing constructors is BAD How bad you wonder? Well… this bad: Usually when you add a new filed to The Abundant Number of Cryptocurrencies - James Carr (Crashcarr) One could be overwhelmed by the number of alternate cryptocurrencies currently circulating fueled by the skyrocketing price of Bitcoin. The original intention of these posts was to each coin individually and I may continue that in future posts; however, so many are similar in nature or just clones o Scaling Spring Batch – Step Partitioning - Keyhole Software We have talked about how to get up and running with Spring Batch in a few of previous articles. Now, we're going to start discussing some of the strategies available for scaling Spring Batch. This article will focus on partitioning a step so that the step has several threads that are each processing Accessing Private Fields in Inherited Classes - BC3Tech How to access private fields in inherited classes C# Password Protected File - Apex95 How to protect a file with a password (any file type) without using ZIP or any other archivers Thinking in MVVMLight Messenger - comiscience How to think in MVVMLight messenger Windows 8 Design My Second Windows 8 Metro App Link File - comiscience My second Windows 8 Metro app link file Windows Communication Foundation Building a Windows 8.1 Developer Environment in Windows Azure - JonB3232 This article was based on the article Step-by-Step: Building a FREE Windows 8 App Dev Lab in the Cloud with Windows Azure Virtual Machines by Keith Mayer. His article pertains to Windows 8 app development in Windows Server 2012; I was able to use the same process to develop Windows 8.1 apps in Windo Windows Mobile Windows Mobile: Some logging tools - hjgode If you ever had a windows mobile device that behaved strange you might need some logging to find the cause. Here is a collection of logging tools I wrote: BatteryLog: logs the status of battery and power management changes (ie Suspend/Resume etc.) Instead of just querying the PowerStatusEx the code Work Issues The coders of tomorrow! (Or coding is a skill, not a game) - Chris Boss Some of my observations about coding today and what it takes to be able to produce valuable software. Technical Blogs updated ASP.NET Routing Basics in ASP.NET MVC - John Atten This post covers the most basic and fundamental concepts of routing as applied to the ASP.NET MVC framework. Files and Folders Splitting and Merging PDF Files in C# Using iTextSharp - John Atten Splitting and merging PDF files in C# using the iTextSharp library. Libraries Kinect and HTML5 using WebSockets and Canvas - Vangos Pterneas Kinect and HTML5 using WebSockets and Canvas © 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