CodeProject | Newsletter (2 Dec 2013)

127 articles this week. Monday, December 02, 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 Welcome to the last month of the year, which happens to coincide with Android Month at CodeProject! We're all gadget freaks at CodeProject. We have our iPad Retina minis, our Pebble watches, our Garmins and our overly ambitious Canon DSLRs. We also have a bunch of Android devices and we want to bend them to our will. Writing an application for a device you can hold in the palm of your hand is one of those magic things every developer needs to do so we've setup a Learn Android section to get your started. We're also starting an Android category for this Month's Best Article competition and we're going to be throwing around a few spot-prizes as the month goes on. So grab your ADT, a willing-and-able Android device, a beverage, and a spare evening and dive in. It'll be fun! cheers, Chris Maunder Advertisements Manage your app and get a shirt! New Relic, the leader in SaaS-based web app performance monitoring, is giving everyone who tries their software a Nerd Life shirt. Do you code in .NET, Ruby, PHP, Python, or Java? Then you can use New Relic at no cost! Puppet in Motion Case Study Danny Woodall & Ali Diaz of Sixense Studios share making their grand-prize-winning app for the Intel® Ultimate Coder Challenge: Going Perceptual contest. Everything from the difficulties in tracking user hand movements, to the joys of Unity, to their director system. Read more. 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. Introduction to HTML5 APP Development with PhoneGap If you know the basics of HTML, CSS and JavaScript, you're ready to get started with mobile. This course will take you through the process of creating HTML5 based mobile applications. Weekly Poll Results What source code control system do you use? Survey period: 25 Nov 2013 to 2 Dec 2013 A narrowed down follow up to Last Year's poll. Pick the one you use the most. Option Votes %   Subversion (SVN) 761 25.03 Git 941 30.95 Team Foundation Server (TFS) 595 19.57 Visual Sourcesafe 213 7.01 Other 262 8.62 I don't use source control. 268 8.82 Total 3040   100% This week's survey: Will you be buying a SmartWatch in the next 12 months? Most popular new articles 25 Nov 2013 - 1 Dec 2013 ToDoList 6.8 Feature Release - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g. Barcode Image Generation Library - Brad Barnhill Introduction to Object Oriented Programming Concepts (OOP) and More - Nirosh Win32 SDK PropertyGrid Made Easy - David MacDermot Convolutional Neural Network Workbench - Filip D'haene Research What You Need to Know When Providing an API to Your Data Expert security analyst firm Securosis outlines the concept of API Gateways and gives expert analysis for how these products can be used to protect application APIs that are exposed externally from the Enterprise. This paper explores the perspectives of buyers who deploy API gateways and the developers who use them. API gateways must implement real security policies and protocols to protect enterprise services, brands, and identity. So while the business demands enablement, security teams must reconcile innovation against a reasonable... Download Now Latest Additions 127 articles overall. 77 new, 50 updated. New articles added .NET Framework All About TransactionScope - S. M. Ahasan Habib In this article, i explain with transaction related theory and code sample, how various scenarios we can use TransactionScope with various options for managing our real life transaction. Dependency Injection Pattern with Autofac. - Md.Mobidul Islam(Moin) Entity Framework 5 vs NHibernate 3.3 with Oracle 11g - Alexander Iskhakov A comparison Entity Framework 5 and NHibernate 3.3 on a real-world .NET application with Oracle 11g Algorithms & Recipes The Loyc LL(k) Parser Generator: Part 2 - Qwertie The new parser generator for C#: now with syntax highlighting. 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 Understanding and Using Simple Membership Provider in ASP.NET MVC 4.0 - Rahul Rajat Singh In this article we will look into ASP.NET Simple Membership Provider which comes as the default authentication and authorization mechanism with ASP.NET MVC 4 internet application NHibernate Setup for ASP.NET - Eduardo Antonio Cecilio Fernandes Learn how to configure NHibernate on your ASP.NET application. 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. Azure Service Bus (Queue and Topics) with MVC4 SignalR - AnujKGupta Notification Service Bus (Queue and Topics) with MVC4 SignalR. C / C++ Language Portable Elmax - Wong Shao Voon A tutorial on a new cross-platform C++ XML DOM library C# Create/Read Advance PDF Report using iTextSharp in C# .NET: Part I - Debopam Pal Create/Read/Write Advance PDF Report using iTextSharp.DLL in Desktop, Mobile, Web Application Client side scripting Understanding JavaScript Object Creation Patterns - Colin Eberhardt This article explores the various ways you can create objects with the JavaScript language, and through this exploration finds that there is much to learn about the language! JavaScript Objects in 15 Minutes - Rolando CC How to deal with objects creation in JavaScript, encapsulation and inheritance, different techniques, and examples. Overloading JavaScript Functions - Ralph Varjabedian Super easy way to overload your functions in JavaScript Database Build Your Own Generic Data Access Layer: Part II - AYDIN EBRAHIMI HOMAY In this article, we will discover the power of generics in C# and we talk about "how to using design patterns in Data Access Layer" to the improving performance Developing Automated Data Purge Solution - DaveAuld Too much data is breaking the system, we need a fix! Design and Architecture Customized Three-tier (layer) Architecture for Application and Web Design - Rahim Lotfi Customized Three-tier (layer) Architecture for Application and Web Design Desktop Gadgets Anatomy of Hover-Click Controls - gggustafson This article presents a template for the implementation of user drawn Hover-Click controls. Wallpaper changer prank - deoxys An app to periodically change the desktop's wallpaper General Graphics Canon EDSDK Tutorial in C# - Johannes Bildstein A tutorial about the Canon SDK to remotly control DSLR cameras. From taking photos to using the LiveView. Libraries How to Use enum with Entity Framework 5 ? - Sampath Lokuge This blog post shows how to use enum with Entity Framework 5. Menus Enhanced ContextMenuStrip - Adam Zgagacz ToolStripMenuItem with RadioButton and Labeled ToolStripSeparator Mobile Development Beyond Mobile Gestures - Yildirim Kocdag What is next for Mobile Gestures? Past and Future of Mobile Gestures Office Development Introduction to Office 365 - Administration Center - vivekthangaswamy This is an introduction to Office 365 (Administration center) Other .NET Languages RS Focus Component - Rameez Raja (RAJ) Focus Component - change the Background Color and Foreground Color of Textbox and ComboBox when they get focused. Product Showcase Intel® Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager - Yuriy Loginov Intel's HAXM greatly reduces the emulators boot up time and in my tests the Atom x86 based emulators performed twice as fast as their ARM counterparts Selection Controls Selecting Form's Controls at Design Time - _Plutonix Accessing the Form's Controls in your UIDesigner SharePoint Server SharePoint 2013 Online Administration Center – What Administrators Know First - vivekthangaswamy What administrators know first about SharePoint 2013 Step In To: SharePoint 2013 Online - Sites & Contents - vivekthangaswamy, Vaishnavi Logachari Step in to SharePoint 2013 online - sites and contents SharePoint 2013 Online App Development – Part 1 - vivekthangaswamy SharePoint 2013 online app development - Part 1 SharePoint 2013 Online Search Administrator – A Walkthrough - vivekthangaswamy SharePoint 2013 Online search administrator - a walkthrough Testing and QA Screenshot Smoke Testing - James Coleman Leveraging Selenium and Image Magick to perform screenshot comparisons for UI regression testing. Windows API Replacing the default Windows calendar with .NET hooks - Vahid_N finding another solution to change or alter the native windows API method calls to replace the default output of the system, with our own implantation Windows Presentation Foundation WPF BreadcrumbTree control - Leung Yat Chun This article provides a implementation Breadcrumb that inherited from TreeView Prism, WPF and Unity based modular application step by step - Gerald Gomes Starting a modular application development using Prism, WPF and Unity container. Windows Runtime WinRT Apps Exception Logging - Borja Prado WinRT Apps Exception Logging with WinrtErrLog and Google Spreadsheets Articles updated .NET Framework PVS.AVPlayer - Peter Vegter MCI wrapper class library for .NET developers .NET Library to Easily Save Property Data - Brad Joss [RegSave] your property to the Registry, and more. 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 The XML Parsing Article That Should (Not) Be Written! - Wong Shao Voon The C++ XML parsing article which should have been written since the advent of XML! This article defines a new Elmax abstraction model over the DOM model. A New Parser Generator for C# - Qwertie LLLPG, the Loyc LL(k) Parser Generator: almost done Android How to Write Your Own Siri Application (Mobile Assistant Application) - Yildirim Kocdag This article helps you to understand how you can write your own Siri application. Applications & Tools ToDoList 6.8 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 Customizing Routes in ASP.NET MVC - John Atten How to customize routes in ASP.NET MVC. ASP.NET MVC 4 with Knockout Js - K. Naveen. Bhat Tips to make Asp.Net MVC4 UI development easier with the flavor of knockout js. MVVM in Web development with Upida.Net - vladimir husnullin MVVM in web development with Upida.Net. ASP.NET Controls DayPilot Scheduler Control for ASP.NET - Dan Letecky Flexible open-source scheduler control (resource booking, project management, timeline and free/busy visualization, Gantt) C / C++ Language ANSI C OO Programming: OOP Model Definition, Implementation and Application with ANSI C - roger gomez castells Trully and powerfull OO with multiple inheritance and tree-like objects within C. Karnaugh Map Minimizer (Three Variables) - Muhammad M. Osama Karnaugh Map Minimizer (three variables) using Quine-McClusky algorithm and Petrick's method. Fastest Exact/Fuzzy/Wildcard Full-text Searcher!? - Sanmayce Optimized multi-threaded console full-text searcher C# Interfaces vs Delegates - Paulo Zemek This article explores the advantages and disadvantages of interfaces that can be used to replace delegates, considering performance, ease of use and versatility. 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. WinForms MVP - An MVP Framework for WinForms - David Rogers Dev A basic introduction to the WinForms MVP framework and how to use it. Using a Plugin-Based Application - Jean-Pierre Bachmann How to create a Plugin Based Shell CRUD Operations Easy with New Scaffolding Feature of MVC 5 using VS2013 - Srinivasa Dinesh Parupalli CRUD operations made easy with the new scaffolding feature of MVC 5. Charts, Graphs and Images Emoji and web application - Tharaka MTR Emoji; is the Japanese term for the ideograms or smileys used mostly in Japanese electronic messages and webpages. Collections Build Your Own Generic Data Access Layer I - AYDIN EBRAHIMI HOMAY In this article we are discover the power of generics in C# Combo & List Boxes Win32 SDK PropertyGrid Made Easy - David MacDermot This article describes the creation of a non-MFC custom PropertyGrid control. Database Duplicate Rows/XML-Nodes Identification and Clean-up from Database - S. M. Ahasan Habib In this article I explain how can we identify duplicate rows from database table and clean them up. I also cover duplicate XML nodes inside XML type fields having the same problem and a solution. Simple and fast CSV library in C# - Pascal Ganaye This library allow serialization and deserialization of objects to CSV with very little code. Design and Architecture Introduction to Object Oriented Programming Concepts (OOP) and More - Nirosh This article helps to understand the 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. Architecture Guide: ASP.NET, MVC3, Entity Framework, Code-First with existing Database and few more.. - Nirosh In this whitepaper, I will walk you through developing a simple MVC 3 application architecture using Entity Framework's code first technology. Later hopefully you can evolve this to be an architecture that you can use for small to mid-size web application development.. "Design, Test, Developement, Test" in-stead of "Test Driven Development" (DTDT over TDD) - Mahmud Hasan The only good thing of Test Driven Development is, it ensures the maximum test coverage but TDD puts you in risk of a week design. DTDT tries to solve this while ensuring maximum test coverage. Exception Handling Exception Handling Using Custom Attributes and Stacktrace - Bala Chandar Exception handling using custom attributes and stacktrace. 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 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 Arduino, C#, and serial interface - Marco Bertschi, Sandro Lorek Serial communication with an Arduino Board via C# and the SerialPort class from the System.IO.Ports namespace Interviews A Coder Interview with Amar Kona, Intel Android technical evangelist - CodeProject, Amar Kona Amar Kona is a technical evangelist whose primary goal is educating and supporting developers on Intel Android tools and devices. See how Beacon Mountain excites, impresses, and most importantly, benefits Android developers. LINQ Dynamically evaluated SQL LINQ queries - Don Kackman Extension methods to evaluate plain text SQL queries against IEnumerable collections. Using LINQ to Calculate Basic Statistics - Don Kackman Extension methods for variance, standard deviation, range, median, and mode. Office Development VBA Extend - NewPast Format, add line numbers, error handling, expose a .NET library to VBA, and number to words in Office. Empowering programming in Microsoft Office Infopath - Juan Carlos Recio Abad Get a way to create and develop so much better and faster Infopath based programs. String handling How to parse chunk by chunk a large CSV file and bulk insert to a database - S. M. Ahasan Habib In this article I will demonstrate how to read a large CSV file chunk by chunk (line basis) and populate DataTable object and bulk insert to database. Tablets and All-in-Ones 3D Logic Sandbox - Chris Boss 3D Sandbox with programable logic built in Testing and QA Unit testing with Mock objects (Rhino Mocks) - Livio Francescucci A basic introduction about how to write unit tests using mock objects (Rhino Mocks). Threads, Processes & IPC Internals of Windows Thread - Mahesh Bailwal Basics about Windows thread which may help you in understanding how operating system implements threads. Windows Communication Foundation 6 Steps to Enable Transactions in WCF - Shivprasad koirala 6 steps to enable transactions in WCF Windows Presentation Foundation Baktun Shell: Hosting WPF Child Windows in Another Process - Ivan Krivyakov Baktun Shell is a demo app that hosts its child windows in separate processes. Guide to WPF DataGrid formatting using bindings - Peter Huber SG Using Style and Binding to control WPF DataGridCell appearance. New Tips and Tricks added Applications & Tools jQuery Autocomplete in MVC 3: Different Approaches and Customizations - user6790 Autocomplete feature of jQuery in a MVC 3 application. ASP.NET Send PDF files directly to client printer without dialog box in ASP.NET application - kashif Atiq How to send PDF files directly to client printer without dialog box in ASP.NET application Error Reporting / Notification Service - maulikdusara Error notification service which helps make application more error free Bind Dropdownlist in ASP.NET using jQuery AJAX - Amol Jadhao How to bind dropdownlist in ASP.NET using JQuery Ajax C# How to Check Whether Word is Installed in the System or Not - Tadit Dash After the tip on Excel, here we will explore the trick to verify whether Word is installed in the client's system or not by C#. Simple Validation in WPF - Gerald Gomes A very simple example of displaying validation error next to controls in WPF Easy to Use XML-Writer Class C# - Feverbird This is an easy to use class that will help you in creating and reading XMLfiles. Setting up CouchbaseClient to be used with IoC - Jeff Vanzella Injecting servers, buckets and passwords into CouchbaseClient Failproof Bulk Upload SqlBulkCopy - lalitsrana Demonstrate a simple yet efficient way to upload the data (SqlBulkCopy) Database Shortest path in SQL Server using hierarchyid - Mehdy Moini Implementing a map as a tree, and finding the shortest path, between the streets, is what you will see. Inno Setup script to install SQL Server 2008 R2 with Tools - RickZeeland Inno Setup script to install SQL Server 2008 R2 with Tools, creating an instance with special rights and displaying the log. Grid & Data Controls Preventing Deselect (Ctrl+Click) in GridRow - AnthonyMG Tip for preventing deselection of rows in DataGridView Java Roger Rabbit - JUnit Tests Runner Across Multiple Projects - Effi Bar-She'an, Lital Kornfeld Running JUnit tests across multiple projects Miscellaneous What's in a Name? On Shakespeare, Lincoln, Cream, and European Starlings (and how they relate to "Software Developers") - B. Clay "The Map Whisperer" Shannon A better definition for what it is we who create software do/are. Mobile Development Firefox OS Browser Simulator - Siddharth Chandra Firefox OS browser simulator using HTML5/JavaScript/CSS3 Web Security RSA SecurID Tokens – Setup on Amazon EC2 - Mumtaz Tariq Setup RSA SecurID on Amazon EC2 Server Wiki.ASP.NET articles Scrolling Bottom to Top Using jQuery in ASP.NET - Narendra Singh Rathod jQuery scroll: bottom to top. Windows Presentation Foundation Passing Cookie Value from webbrowser Control to webclient in an Authenticated Environment - selvaprakash.s This tip will demonstrate how cookies are passed from one control to another control in C# .NET in authenticated webpage. Tips and Tricks updated .NET Framework Microsoft ASP.NET Identity MerlinFramework - Marc Leger Microsoft ASP.NET Identity MerlinFramework ASP.NET Enable Compatibility mode in IE - Murali Gowda Enable Compatibility mode in IE through code in ASP.NET MVC/HTML meta tag. C# Wi-Fi Timer - F. ARO Schedule your wifi status Miscellaneous Grid/Canvas Lined and Squared - Dietmar Schoder How to produce a dynamic lined or squared background on a canvas/grid String handling How to Parse Empty Tokens using CString::Tokenize() - SoMad The example for CStringT::Tokenize() on the MSDN page (and just about everywhere else on the Internet) skips empty tokens. Here is how to use it in order to get empty strings instead of simply skipping those fields. New Technical Blogs added Android How to Transfer Ownership of the Android Application - Tharaka MTR How to transfer ownership of the Android application Applications & Tools Building ASP.NET Web API RESTful Service – Part 1 - Taiseer Joudeh This is the first part of Building ASP.Net Web API RESTful Service Series. ASP.NET Detailed Tutorial for Building ASP.NET WebAPI RESTful Service - Taiseer Joudeh A sample eLearning system API which follows best practices for building RESTful API using Microsoft technology stack. C / C++ Language C++ Inheritance - pi19404 This article describes basic concepts of C++ Inheritance mechanism. Client side scripting Starting with a Node.js webserver - marcofranssen Node.js project for building a simple web server. Combo & List Boxes Grouping and Calculate Totals from One SharePoint List to Another - Raymund Macaalay How to group and calculate totals from one SharePoint List to another Date and Time How to Add ActiveX Control at Run Time using C#.NET - Vivek Goyal How to Add ActiveX Control at Run Time using C#.NET Design and Architecture Abstraction Layers of the Human Body - Paul Watt I want to hopefully connect the dots for many to help convince you of the ultimate importance of a well defined and protected interface. Grid & Data Controls Loops and Iterations - Alexander Golde ANKHOR supports various types of repeated execution and I will cover five of them in this article: implicit, loop, recursive, while and shard. Java Exploit better the results of Pmd, Findbugs and CheckStyle. - Issam Lahlali Many Java static analysis tools exist right there, each one focus on a specific area and has its advantages, we can enumerate: Pmd which is a static rule-set based Java source code analyzer that identifies potential problems like: Possible bugs—Empty try/catch/finally/switch blocks. Dead code—Unused Enum – Comparison of Java and .NET - Andrei Ion Rînea A useful feature added in Java 1.5 (also known as J2SE 5.0, 2004) is the enum. This post makes a comparison of Java and .NET enums. Numeric Literals in Java 7 and in C# - Andrei Ion Rînea Numeric literals in Java 7 and C# Other .NET Languages Welcome to the Family, One ASP.NET - Rion Williams Prior to the introduction of ASP.NET MVC into the .NET Framework in 2009, a .NET developer that needed to create a site or web application had one choice : Web Forms. When MVC came along however, the water became a bit muddled and developers had a major choice to make when starting up a new [… Applying Conditional Attributes in ASP.NET MVC Views - Rion Williams If you have attempted to handle any kind of conditional logic within MVC Views before, you know that the process can often be tricky to get everything to work just right. A feature is present in newer versions of ASP.NET MVC provides support for handling conditional attributes, which might make thos How to Programmatically Change Network and Computer Settings using VB.NET, netsh, and other Windows Command line programs - Part I - Adding Multiple Addresses using netsh - jeffery c This article will focus on network settings that can be changed using VB.NET and sometimes relies on command line programs included with Windows. PHP Introduction to Scaling PHP Applications – Part 2 - Keyhole Software This blog will go into advanced topics that need consideration when moving a LAMP stack to a scaled architecture. Product Showcase Product Canvas Agile Tool - Betclic Tech Product Canvas Agile Tool SharePoint Server SharePoint 2013 Maintenance Notification - Melick Maintenance notification in SharePoint 2013 Static & Panel Controls C++ static members and function - pi19404 This article describes basic concepts of C++ Storage Access Specifiers. Tree Controls Tree Structures and Navigation - Nick Polyak Code Location The code for this blog post can be downloaded from TreeTestsCode.zip. Introduction CodeProject I continue a series of blog posts about implementing WPF concepts outside of WPF. This post talks about generic Tree structures in C#. The relationship with WPF will become clearer once we st Uncategorised Technical Blogs Public Field Not Bound When Posting to WebAPI (or a deep dive into WebAPI model binding) - pollirrata Public Field Not Bound When Posting to WebAPI (or a deep dive into WebAPI model binding) Windows Presentation Foundation What to Choose between XAML and JavaScript for Windows Store apps development. - RaviRanjankr If you are novice in windows store app development then it is obvious to get stuck on the question which platform is best for metro apps development or which one is suitable for you to code and build metro apps. This blog help you to take a wise decision as per your need. Bind Markup Extension - Nick Polyak I continue a series of blog posts about implementing WPF concepts outside of WPF. Technical Blogs updated ASP.NET Controls Nested GridView in ASP.NET using C# - Debopam Pal This example shows you how to create a nested GridView. © 2013 The Code Project.  All rights reserved. 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