CodeProject | Newsletter (30 Dec 2013)

110 articles this week. Monday, December 30, 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 2013 is almost feature-complete and we're now preparing for a very, very big 2014. Some of you have already been invited to take a sneak peak but even that is merely the tip of the iceberg. Let me know if you want to join the beta program. There is one item for 2013 that does need to be completed and that's our CodeProject MVP awards. The top members will be determined January 1 and the announcements made January 2nd in the Daily Build and January the 6th in the weekly newsletter. Speaking of top members we're proud to announce the best articles for November 2013: Android: César de Souza, Diego Catalano  Catalano Framework C#: Marla Sukesh Visual studio 2012 Fakes C++: David MacDermot Simple Grid - A Win32 message based grid control Database: Aydin Ebrahimi Homay Build Your Own Generic Data Access Layer: Part II Web: Colin Eberhardt Understanding JavaScript Object Creation Patterns Mobile: Yildirim Kocdag Beyond Mobile Gestures VB.NET: _Plutonix Selecting Form's Controls at Design Time Overall: Marla Sukesh Visual studio 2012 Fakes In the meantime have a safe (but maybe slightly messy) New Years and we'll see you in the New Year. cheers, Chris Maunder Advertisements Learn Dev and IT Your Way Watch, listen, read, do – master SharePoint, Visual Studio, C#, MVC, SQL Server, Mobile, Cloud, Java, UX Design, Windows Server, ITIL, PMP, CompTIA and more with step-by-step video tutorials, eBooks, hands-on labs and sample code. Voted the best! Subscribe today 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! Weekly Poll Results What do you want for Christmas this year? Survey period: 23 Dec 2013 to 30 Dec 2013 Assuming you're on the Nice list. Option Votes %   A new smartphone or tablet 324 25.27 A wearable computer (Google Glass, Pebble, Gear etc) 101 7.88 Consumer electronics: TV, camera, game console etc 241 18.80 A payrise and/or a promotion 474 36.97 Better work / life balance 521 40.64 More say in the decisions at work 179 13.96 A job 166 12.95 The chance to use a different or more modern programming language 252 19.66 Health and fitness gear 254 19.81 Books / eBooks 366 28.55 Responses 1282    Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100% This week's survey: Will next year be better than this year? Most popular new articles 23 Dec 2013 - 29 Dec 2013 Fast Colored TextBox for Syntax Highlighting - Pavel Torgashov Gradients made easy - Mike Hankey Requirements, Estimation and Planning: Steps to work with Agile software development projects - Monjurul Habib MySqlBackup.NET - MySQL Backup Solution for C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET - adriancs Complete CRUD Operations in MVC 4 using Entity Framework 5 Without Writing a Single Line of Code - Akhil_Mittal Research IDC Analyst Connection: Why the American Enterprise Needs SaaS Application Performance Management As IT trends like cloud, Big Data and mobile work styles proliferate at enterprises, so too does the complexity of mission-critical application environments. To combat this issue, Application Performance Management (APM) is becoming a top priority for IT teams that need to quickly and cost effectively track end-to-end application performance, identify and remediate the root cause of performance problems, and maintain service levels required by end users and business stakeholders. In this report, Mary Johnston Turner, research vice president... Download Now Latest Additions 110 articles overall. 79 new, 31 updated. New articles added .NET Framework Windows service auto-update plugin framework - AJSON Using a plugin system to auto-update functionality of a windows service without the need to re-install the service Generic Pipeline - Alexander Sharykin Implementation of a computing pipeline, with design explanation and code sample Algorithms & Recipes C# - Optical Marks Recognition (OMR) Engine 1.0 - LamYongXian This is an alternative for "C# - Optical Marks Recognition (OMR) Engine 1.0" Android Android vs. CraigDJ - CraigDJ I'm creating an Android Game with the aid of HTML5, CSS, Javascript, Node.js, and PhoneGap. What could go wrong? Create your first Android Game with libgdx - Giannakakis Kostas Create your first Android Game with libgdx ASP.NET 40 important HTML 5 Interview questions with answers - Shivprasad koirala In this article we will quickly brushup 40 important HTML 5 interview questions with answers , Happy job hunting. A Custom Model Binder for Passing Complex Objects with Query Strings to Web API Methods - Shenwei Liu Presenting a custom model binder for passing query strings as nesting objects or collections to Web API GET or POST methods. Audio and Video Camera_Net Library - free5lot Camera in .NET application using .NET library (DirectShow). C# Program to Interface, not Implementation - Beginner's Tutorial for Understanding Interface, Abstract class and Concrete class - Rahul Rajat Singh In this article we will look into the details of Interfaces, Abstract class and Concrete class in C#. We will try to what each of them are and what should be used when to have a better design for the application. Interface based Programming in C# - Nagaraj Muthuchamy This article is aimed to help junior developers to understand the Interface concept in C# language. Charts, Graphs and Images Making Dashboards with Dc.js - Part 3: Tips and Tricks - Member 3792090 Tips and tricks for working with dc.js. Client side scripting Jooshe Tables - Part 2 of JavaScript Object-Oriented Subclassing of HTML Elements - Makes Dynamic Tables a Snap! - Brien Givens Jooshe is juicy! GridView-like JavaScript control for displaying JSON data - Sitalkes small, customizable control for displaying JSON data similar to a GridView A real-time visitor counter with autorefresh feature - luigidibiasi Build a realtime visitor counter with AJAX and a server-side language. Gridview - like jQuery plugin for JSON data and other jQuery fun - Sitalkes jQuery plugin for Grid data display Database SQL Wizardry Part 2 - Select, beyond the basics - Christian Graus The second in my series digs in to some of the different things you can do within a select statement. SQL Wizardry Part Three - Common Table Expressions (CTEs) - Christian Graus In this third installment, we look at how Common Table Expressions can simplify your SQL and help you perform complex tasks Design and Architecture How not to back yourself into a corner... - AJSON Things to remember when approaching a new project, questions to ask, things to consider and tips learned the hard way! Software Estimation by example - muhammadumairomee Estimate size, effort and schedule for a software product Java Comparator and Comparable objects. - Orel Eraki Comparator and Comparable objects tutorial. SharePoint Server Using Knockout.js for SharePoint Web Part Templating: Part 1 - Drasko Popovic How to template web parts with Knockout.js framework Using Knockout.js for SharePoint Web Part Templating: Part 2 - Drasko Popovic Part 2 of the series "Using knockout for web part templating" Smart Client Real Time StockFeed DashBoard (Applying Observer Design Pattern using WPF and C#) - gokuldas This article shows the application of Observer Design pattern to real life scenario. Static & Panel Controls A simple NewsTicker - Two implementations - Graham Lemon (UK) Implementing a simple News Ticker custom control for Winforms .NET to reduce flicker as much as possible. Web Services A Beginner's Tutorial on ASP.NET WebApi Hosting(IIS Hosting and Self Hosting) - Rahul Rajat Singh In this article we will look at the various ways of hosting ASP.NET WebApi. Articles updated .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 Algorithms & Recipes QuickSortByRange, QuickSelectByRange, PartitionByRange - Brien Givens A performance improvement for the classic sort / select algorithms. 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. D3.js crash course - Part2 - Espen Harlinn D3.js meets jQuery Mobile, WCF & ASP.Net Implementing multiple file upload with progress bars within ASP.NET - Mark V Sullivan Demonstration and useful code for implementing multiple file upload with real-time progress bars by utilizing the Uploadify library within ASP.NET with added security. 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 dynamic could be better - Paulo Zemek This article explains why the dynamic keyword is not as useful as it should be. Database MySqlBackup.NET - MySQL Backup Solution for C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET - adriancs Unicode, UTF8 character backup and restore of MySQL database in C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET SQL Wizardry Episode One - Joins - Christian Graus The first in a series of articles seeking to explain the intermediate to advanced features of T-SQL Design and Architecture Requirements, Estimation and Planning: Steps to work with 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. Edit Controls Fast Colored TextBox for Syntax Highlighting - Pavel Torgashov Custom text editor with syntax highlighting Files and Folders Rendering PDF Documents with Mupdf and P/Invoke in C# - wmjordan Converting PDF into bitmaps without installing extra components. GDI+ Gradients made easy - Mike Hankey A utility to design gradients interactively. 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. DownloadProgress, DownloadProgressOffset, and BufferProgress of the MediaElement - Anil_gupta This article is about the DownloadProgress, DownloadProgressOffset, and BufferProgress of the MediaElement. Tablets and All-in-Ones Augmented World - Grasshopper.iics Augmented World is an animation app that allows you to create animation movies by augmenting yourself into the scene Datafly - Grasshopper.iics Is your business getting hampered due to documentation load? Switch to Datafly VB.NET Deconstruction of a VBA Code Module - Mark Regal This article is intended to build on the extensibility knowledge base with a focus on deconstructing a VBA code module. Windows Presentation Foundation WPF Grid Column and Row Hiding - immortalus WPF Grid column and row hiding. Customizing the Caret of a WPF TextBox - d.moncada How to create a custom caret for a WPF TextBox New Tips and Tricks added .NET Framework Lazy behavior of IQueryable - Bohdan Stupak Here's a workaround how to fix exception "DbContext has been disposed". Ajax Repeated Ajax Call - Sitang Ruan How to make a sequential Ajax call Algorithms & Recipes Fast floor/ceiling functions - YvesDaoust Yet another home-made implementation of the floor function ASP.NET A master page level spinner animation - Sitang Ruan How to display a spinner with disabled background when doing postback or Ajax call Simplest knockoutJS and MVC4 demo - Jeson Martajaya MVC 4 knockoutJS project at bare minimum Automatic Dropdpown Lists for Razor Views. - Brady Kelly Using a metadata attribute and editor template for DropDown lists in Razor. C# Single Instance Form Application in C# - AdventureRider Make a single instance form application that redisplays the one and only interface of the other instance. How to find dictionary duplicate values in C# - Sk. Saiful Alam It is very simple and useful tip to find duplicate values from a dictionary. Cross Platform How to Install Windows Forms 2.0 on Mono in Ubuntu 13.10? - Nelson Kosta Souto Run .net windows forms 2.0 on Ubuntu 13.04 Database How to: Get data from mulitple Workbooks using one OleDbConnection? - Maciej Los This tip shows how to get data from multiple workbooks using one OledbConnection. Desktop Gadgets Change resolution before starting application - Kees van Spelde Installation Get Version of a Software using C# - Dinesh Thammineni Get Version of any software on MSI installed in any System/Server Java Quick Tip: Java Stored Procedures in Oracle – Reading Content - Sam Varadarajan This post is about how to get the contents of a resource file that is loaded into Oracle as part of Java Stored Procedures package. I’ve recently posted about Java Stored Procedures in general here. While working on enhancing some Java procedures, I added a simple Java logger class, fashioned Libraries DNN 7 Features - Kishan Zunjare Dotnetnuke 7 features Miscellaneous How to Control a Windows Service from Code - Kees van Spelde How to control a Windows Service from C# .NET Node.js How to scrape data from the Web using Node.js - Hadrich Mohamed This article shows you how to fetch data from the Web using the powerful Node.js Office Development How to Check Whether Word is Installed in the System or Not - Reiss This is an alternative for "How to Check Whether Word is Installed in the System or Not" Programming Tips Creating mock data for software testing - Antonio Ripa Need some mock data to test your app? MockData is a free library How to work with legacy code - Ryszard Dżegan What you should avoid while working with legacy code and what strategy choose to succeed. Windows Presentation Foundation A Generic Implementation for ICommand - Senthilvel Samatharman This article provides a simple implementation for the ICommand interface and enables to write quick code leaving the nuances of fetching the return types and asynchrony Kinect status and setup the Kinect for interaction - Pankaj Deharia Ignatiuz Kinect for windows status and setup the Kinect for interaction If Behaviors complete MVVM, then? - comiscience Behaviors complete MVVM Windows Runtime Implementing a complete WRL native C++ XAML blank project template - Gregory Morse Implementing a complete WRL native C++ XAML blank project template. Windows Security Reduce System Load and Speed Up Your Computer - IPI Paul Reduce system load and increase performance Tips and Tricks updated .NET Framework Microsoft ASP.NET Identity MerlinFramework - Marc Leger Microsoft ASP.NET Identity MerlinFramework ASP.NET ASP.NET Website and C# with Multi-Language - chien.vh This article will guide you how to implement asp.net website with multi-language Using the ASP.NET SQLDATASOURCE - Member 4296147 How to use the ASP.NET SQLDATASOURCE ASP.NET Controls FileUpload - Filter File Type/File Extension - adriancs Filtering file type or file extension for ASP.NET FileUpload web control. Desktop Gadgets Upload and resize images on the fly (resume no-support) - Member 4296147 This Article explains the upload and resizeing of a load of images in one go HTML / CSS Intuitively Understandable HTML Content - Vadym Poberezhny Making HTML intuitively understandable using CSS and JavaScript. Internet / Network Email Providers (SMTP/GMail) using Provider Design Pattern - Kishan Zunjare Configure different email provider sources using the Provider design pattern Windows Presentation Foundation Scroll Synchronization - immortalus This is an alternative for "Scroll Synchronization" New Technical Blogs added .NET Framework Injecting code into .NET applications - Sebastian Solnica In this post I will present you my MDbg plugin (includes a command: inject) that adopts the funceval API and an example diagnostics case in which I used it. Applications & Tools Tools: Notepad++ – Syntax Highlighting - Sam Varadarajan This post is about the syntax highlighting in the tool and how you can customize it. ASP.NET ASP.NET MVC: Show Busy Indicator on Form Submit using JQuery and Ajax - John Atten As we all know, users are impatient. We also know that if we don't tell them our application is "doing something" they tend to do silly things like click the mouse repeatedly, seeking some sign that the requested action is indeed being performed. For this reason, it is a good idea to throw up some ASP.NET 4.0 Web forms URL Routing - Vivek Goyal Web forms URL routing. C / C++ Language Template Meta-Programming - Paul Watt Template meta-programming is the practice of using templates to generate types and functions to perform computations at compile-time and generate programs. C# Yield! Reconsidering APIs with Collections - Nick Cosentino In this article, I'd like to go over a couple of different approaches for an API and then explain why the yield keyword might be something you consider next time around. Database Gotcha: "BEGIN" in Oracle - Sam Varadarajan "BEGIN" keyword in Oracle. QuickTip: Oracle SQLPlus – (IF) Check for parameters to script - Sam Varadarajan (IF) Check for parameters to script. SQLite Database - Sam Varadarajan An introduction to SQLite. Gotcha: Oracle11g Password Case Sensitivity - Sam Varadarajan Apparently, passwords are case sensitive in Oracle 11g by default. This can be overridden. Grid & Data Controls Data Optimization Using Data Request Objects Implementing IEquatable - newkie Anyone who has written enterprise software often knows an ideal design and a linear code path are not too common. Even if you are the architect of your application that doesn’t save you from the hoops you must jump through to connect and interact with other systems in your enterprise’s e Hardware & System Ubuntu in action… – NDAS - Sam Varadarajan Last week, my Windows PC stopped working. (I have to look into it later). At the moment, I am working with my taxes and I needed some files from the old machine, desperately. Luckily, I’ve been backing up. For this, I use IOCell Networks (also Ximeta)1, NetDisk. NetDisk is a Network Direct Att Miscellaneous Windows Automation Tools/Scripts - Sam Varadarajan Several nice tools and scripting languages to automate Windows GUI applications. Parallel Programming PARALLEL PROGRAMMING IN C# AND OTHER ALTERNATIVES - Jake Drew ABSTRACT This article comprises a detailed overview of the various multicore and parallel programming options available within the C# programming language.  In addition, other programming languages and libraries which support multicore programming such as OpenMp, Thread Building Block, Message Passi SharePoint Server Forms in multilingual sites of SharePoint 2010/2013 - Dmitriy Kozlov Forms in multilingual sites of SharePoint 2010/2013. SQL Reporting Services Oracle SQL*PLUS: How to silence SQL*Plus - Sam Varadarajan While researching about Oracle Command Line parameters, stumbled on the following question. https://forums.oracle.com/message/2449066 The OP is asking how to silence SQL*Plus, so he/she could turn off all the prompts coming out in the log. The simple answer is, using command line option -S, like thi Oracle: Forward Slash in SQL*Plus – Take 2 - Sam Varadarajan Take 2? I posted about Forward slash in Oracle SQL before. I even went back and updated it a few times based on the traffic. Believe it or not, I still get a lot of traffic to this blog site solely based on this one little topic!! So, I thought I would spend a little […] Uncategorised Quick Answers Quick Tip: tnsping - Sam Varadarajan Tnsping is a nice little utility that comes with Oracle. Lot of developers don’t know about this. If you have SQL*Plus available on your machine, chances are you also have tnsping. You can use this tool to troubleshoot Oracle connectivity issues, sort of like ping for TCP/IP. To use it, just t Uncategorised Technical Blogs Arrays and Pointers - Eric Z (Jing) I list various array-and-pointer-problems I heard or I met by myself. They’re so basic and important that they worth a detailed discussion. Can a const be an array bound? It depends. Just like C89, C++ requires that the number of … Continue reading → C Struct Hack - Eric Z (Jing) This blog introduces struct hack and compares it with several implementation alternatives. A typical C struct hack is a struct whose last element is an array of size one. The trick is to allocate more memory than sizeof (Foo), and … Continue reading → Sign extension of C++ pointer: the cause of NIC's failure to send packets - Eric Z (Jing) I’ve been working on a NIC driver project on Pharlap. Due to some cause, it can’t send out any packets. I took some time troubleshooting the problem and finally it turned out to be the incorrect setting of the following … Continue reading → Netgear Router issue - Sam Varadarajan I’ve been having issue with the router on and off. It’s a decent router: Netgear WNDR3400. It used to work fine with Charter earlier. Since we recently moved and started using Time Warner cable service, we have had a strange issue. The computer would connect to Internet fine, if I connec HW: Salvage a smoked hard disk - Sam Varadarajan I admit. I have old PCs hanging around. I know it’s hoarding, but you may need something from it, some day! Like the one with Windows 2000. I recently decided to get rid of it. But, I wanted to move the programs and data from the hard disk to a new one, so I can […] (a |= b) Is Not Equal to (a = a | b) ? - Eric Z (Jing) I’m trouble-shooting a driver of Intel network interface card(NIC) on pharlap which can’t send Ethernet packets out successfully. I track it down to the following code. If the following code is used instead, the problem is gone. Frankly, I can’t … Continue reading → Oracle: Commit and Forward Slash - Sam Varadarajan Further to my post earlier about DDL and Forward Slash, I would like to explain Forward slash’s role (or lack thereof) in other scenarios. One such scenario people seem to get confused with is COMMIT. They seem to want to find some type of connection between the two. Let me say it upfront, the Oracle: DDL and Forward Slash - Sam Varadarajan In this blog,  I write about various technologies I come across. Only a few topics seem to get a lot of attention. One of them happens to be Forward slash in (Oracle) SQL. I’ve already posted about this here and here. When I look at the search terms that lead to my site, I sense a lack [… Continuous Integration & Delivery For GitHub With TeamCity - Mehdi Khalili This is an end to end tutorial for setting up Continuous Integration (AKA CI) and Continuous Delivery (AKA CD) for a GitHub project using TeamCity.This is the technology stack I am using in the project, Humanizer, for which I am setting up the TeamCity project:.Net: the programming language used for Web Services Performing CRUD operations using ASP.NET Web API - Part 1 - Imran Abdul Ghani In one of my previous articles, I explained 3 simple steps to create your first ASP.NET Web API service. In this article, I'll try to perform all CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations using Microsoft ASP.NET Web API.I already has discussed that ASP.NET Web API is a framework that simplifies Windows Presentation Foundation WPF UIEventHub – MultiSelect and DragnDrop - Leung Yat Chun I hope this rewrite can reduce the effort needed to implement other touch based code and other gesture. If Behaviors complete MVVM, then? - comiscience Sometimes we need to have an independent View-ViewModel part which divides a part of the work to an independent module. Why do we do this? Technical Blogs updated C# C# SMTP Configuration for Outlook.Com SMTP Host - John Atten C# SMTP configuration for Outlook.com SMTP host Database Oracle SQL*Plus – Forward Slash contd… - Sam Varadarajan Forward Slash contd… © 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. 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