CodeProject | Newsletter (13 Jan 2014)

138 articles this week. Monday, January 13, 2014 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 Intel AppInnovation Contest 2013 – Grand Prize and 8 Category Winners Announced! When the contest launched back in July we were in shorts and t-shirts, burning meat on BBQs and soaking up the sunshine here at our Toronto office. Now six (much colder) months later, after three rounds of intense competition and lots of hard work put in by contestants… the marathon that was the Intel App Innovation Contest 20133 has finally culminated in an exciting finale. Four competing online developer communities from across the globe (CodeProject, Habrahabr, CSDN and ThinkDigit) competed against one another, but in the end CodeProject contestants claimed 6 out of 9 possible prizes and secured our spot as the top developer community. A big congratulations goes to CodeProject member linkedPIXEL for claiming the $20,000 Grand Prize for his submission Scribblify and to the five other category winners from CodeProject that will take home $10,000 each – you've done us proud! AIO Category Winner - Hot Shots by Adam David Hill Education Category Winner - SensiGator by Bryan K. Brown Finance Category Winner - Smart Replenishment by TinyDevices Games Category Winner - Wormhole Pinball by Dave Gannon Healthcare Category Winner - My Health Assistant by Tim Corey Intel announcement with full list of winners There were dozens of great app ideas and demo apps that didn't make it into the final rounds, but we tip our hats to the tremendous efforts and long hours that contestants put in. A huge thank you to all the developers that participated and made this contest such an amazing success.  cheers, Chris Maunder Advertisements Code-Monkeys Case Study The Intel® Ultimate Coder Challenge: Going Perceptual contest challenged Code Monkeys with perceptual computing. See how they took Stargate Gunship*, an orbital shooter game, and modified it to accept movements of the head, hands, and voice commands. Read more here. Graphical Planning Boards and Fast UX Design 89 Appointment, Gantt style Resource Planning, Text Analysis and UX Design Controls on Multiple Platforms. 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Option Votes %   ASP.NET 540 20.49 Android Development 772 29.29 C / C++ / Objective C 416 15.78 C# 646 24.51 HTML5 / CSS3 762 28.91 iOS Development 333 12.63 Java 309 11.72 Javascript 525 19.92 node.js 404 15.33 PHP 211 8.00 Python 289 10.96 Ruby 156 5.92 SQL 322 12.22 WinRT Development 216 8.19 Responses 2398    Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100% View optional text answers (353 answers) This week's survey: What's the most interesting development platform for you? Most popular new articles 6 Jan 2014 - 12 Jan 2014 ToDoList 6.8.5 Feature Release - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g. fastJSON - Mehdi Gholam C++ String Toolkit (StrTk) Tokenizer - Arash Partow Beginner's Walk - Web Development - Sean Ewington DayPilot - Building an Outlook-Like Calendar Component for ASP.NET - Dan Letecky Research Break Down Barriers and Reduce Cycle Times with DevOps: Tips for Enterprises in USA/Canada Learn how companies like Netflix, Amazon, Etsy, Facebook and many other enterprises deliver new features faster, sometimes several times per day, while other companies wait months to release software updates. Dismantling the traditional silos between Development and Operations, their teams work together through what is now known as DevOps. This report explores ways in which Development and Operations teams need to evolve, view software holistically, have a shared toolset and actively seek ways to collaborate. It showcases both the... Download Now Latest Additions 138 articles overall. 90 new, 48 updated. New articles added .NET Framework Introducing OneTrueError.com - jgauffin OneTrueError.com is my new startup for .NET developers. It’s a bit like ELMAH, but for most of Microsoft’s different frameworks, and with a tad bit of analytics. As you might have noticed I’ve not been blogging that much the last … Continue reading → Version Helper API for .NET - Petr Alexeev Version Helper API for .NET – checking version of Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012 R2 without Environment.OSVersion or application manifest AutoCompleteExtender with WCF using Entity Framework - Vinay Jade AutoCompleteExtender with WCF Ajax Popup editing/adding/deleting records with GridView - Vinay Jade ModalPopupExtender and ConfirmButtonExtender with GridView to View/Add/Edit data Algorithms & Recipes Abstract Nonsense in Software Development. Real-time - Petr Ivankov Application of abstract approach to real-time. Genetic Algorithms Demystified - Peter Leow Explain the fundamental concepts of genetic algorithms Bounded Knapsack Algorithm - Brien Givens The most valuable sack! Android AndroidVision: Learn Image Processing on your mobile - Serge Desmedt Experiment with OpenCV imageprocessing methods on your mobile phone ASP.NET Create Database Tables for ASP.NET Build in Membership, Role and Profile - Khademul Basher This tutorial gives the idea of how to create a database and tables to implement the build in membership and role management of ASP.NET. IP2Nation.NET - Get Country/Nation From IP - adriancs Utilize the database provided by ip2nation.com to identify the country of website's visitors based on their ip. C# Partial Classes in C# With Real Example - Sandeep Singh Shekhawat I explain partial classes in C# language with an example XML Driven introduction to Automated User Interface Testing in .NET Using Microsoft UI Automation - Ger Hayden This is a dual working example of identical C# and C++/CLR test harness reading test data from identical XML inputs and conducting tests on a common Windows Forms application. An LL(1) Syntax Directed Engine in C# - Michele Sobrero This article is dealing with parsing and semantic analysis. A full LL(1) parsing engine is introduced as an example to show a possible implementation. Database DbToolbox: Utilities for data access and management - Gregory.Gadow Database access and management can be a chore in .Net. This toolbox can make it easier. SQL Wizardry Part Six - Windowing Functions - Christian Graus A discussion of windowing functions, from sum to row_number(), to the new functions in SS2012 Design and Architecture Architecture of a Remoting Framework - Paulo Zemek This article presents important architectural decisions that must be considered if you want to create a really expandable remoting framework and, well, those decisions may apply to any kind of framework. CQRS Event Sourcing pattern with NServiceBus, ASP.NET MVC and SignalR - Michael Trembovler The current article might be useful for users attempting to use NServiceBus. It contains detailed instruction for creating pairs: publisher-subscriber through ServiceMatrix. Solution architects may find this technique useful in many CQRS scenarios as a good alternative to WCF. Desktop Gadgets Autoshutdown service in c# - Kees van Spelde This is an alternative for "AutoShut, my first program in C#" General Graphics Image Warping using Simplified MLS in C#/WPF - wim4you Demo Program WarpImage, Creating and Dragging linked points(Thumbnails,MVVM), access all pixels from/to WPF image, rigid MLS algorithm Miscellaneous C# Bin Packing - Cutting Stock Solver - Alberto Montibelli Application for solving Bin Packing and Cutting Stock problem PHP jQueryUI Sort Example - CorvinusSoftware A fairly complete PHP example demonstrating how to use the jQuery 'sortable' method with a single DB Update Product Showcase 4 Tips to Make Your ASP.NET Project Mobile-Ready - Telerik Websites are now expected to be available and accessible on mobile devices. In this article, learn how to optimize your ASP.NET applications for mobile web browsers and how the Telerik ASP.NET AJAX controls can make that task easier for you. Testing and QA Part 1: Windows Debugging Techniques - Debugging Application Crash (Windbg) - shailesh91082 This is Part 1 covering various techniques on how to debug applications on Windows, focussed on application crashes Part 2: Windows Debugging Techniques - Debugging Application Crash (DebugDiag, AppVerifier) - shailesh91082 This is Part 2 of various techniques to debug applications on Windows, focussed on Application Crash Part 3: Windows Debugging Techniques - Debugging Application Crash (Self Dump Generation) - shailesh91082 This is Part 3 of various Techniques to Debug Applications on Windows, focused on automated way of generating an Application Crash Third Party Products and Tools Faster JPEG2000 viewer - Adam Wojnar Simple .jp2/.j2k viewer using Kakadu executables demonstration pack for decoding Tools and IDE Visual Studio Custom Tools - Make It Smarter - Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter Improve the way your custom tool creates file... Win32/64 SDK & OS A C++ Wrapper for WaitForMultipleObjects Part II - Adding Timer Support - Hari Mahadevan Describes a C++ class that encapsulates the WaitForMultipleObjects API usage pattern making it easy to integrate it with C++ objects. Windows Phone 7/8 MoneyPit - Jan van den Baard A fuel logging app for Windows Phone. Windows Presentation Foundation Dialogs the MVVM Way - JP van Mackelenbergh This article and the attached example will show how to show dialogs the MVVM way with databinding and no code-behind in the view. Work Issues Definition of Done explained - Christian Vos Explaines the function of the Definition of Done and how to use it in an agile project XML Using AutoMapper with Complex XML Data - Scott Toberman Need to use automapper for non-trivial XML data? Here's how! 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. Instrumenting WCF, Extending WCF using IServiceBehavior, IOperationBehavior, and IParameterInspector - Assil This article describes an advanced technique or feature in WCF Ajax DataAsyncBlock (DAB) - VectorX How to send async blocks of form data to a remote server without using Ajax. Algorithms & Recipes C++ String Toolkit (StrTk) Tokenizer - Arash Partow A brief introduction to a C++ String Tokenizer implementation. Android Create your first Android Game with libgdx - Giannakakis Kostas Create your first Android Game with libgdx An Android File Save Dialogue - cigwork A general purpose file save popup for Android. Applications & Tools ToDoList 6.8.5 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 Beginner's Walk - Web Development - Sean Ewington Web development beginner tutorials. A compilation of web development tutorials that serve as a beginner's walk to web development 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. Create and Implement 3-tier Architecture for Our Project in ASP.NET - saineshwar This article aims to explain the uses of 3 tier architecture and how to create and implement 3 tier architecture for our project in ASP.NET Scraping HTML DOM elements using HtmlAgilityPack (HAP) in ASP.NET - Ashad Shanto Scrap/Parse the DOM elements of a website. ASP.NET Controls Dynamically adding and deleting rows from ASP.NET GridView - AshishChaudha This article talks about a small project that presents the idea of having a gridview which facilitate the addition and removal of rows dynamically at run time. 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. C# Project on Database for Beginners - Hasan Habib Surzo Class, Database Connection, Login Winform .NET Asynchronous Patterns - Assil This article describes asynchronous patterns in .NET and how to do them. Cryptography & Security Salted Password Hashing - Doing it Right - adriancs, Taylor Hornby Securing Password by Hashing with Salt Custom Controls DayPilot - Building an Outlook-Like Calendar Component for ASP.NET - Dan Letecky A good-looking ASP.NET control that shows events visually arranged in a day calendar. Includes design-time support and data binding. Database 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 Simple and fast CSV library in C# - Pascal Ganaye This library allow serialization and deserialization of objects to CSV with very little code. Querying SQL Server 2012: Part II - Sander Rossel The second of two; everything you need to create the most amazing queries! 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 SQL Wizardry Part Four - passing lists of data to SQL Server - Christian Graus In which we talk of ways to pass an arbitrary list of values to SQL Server SQL Wizardry Part Five - when not to use DISTINCT - Christian Graus Just a quick explanation of why it's not always a good idea to use DISTINCT Truncate Log File in SQL Server 2005 - Assil A tool that facilitates the truncation of SQL log file Edit Controls i00 Spell Check and Control Extensions - No Third Party Components Required! - i00 Simple to use, open source Spell Checker for .NET Files and Folders ExpTreeLib Version 3 - Explorer-like Navigation and Operation for your Forms - Jim Parsells A Class Library for building Forms with a folder navigation TreeView and form specific ListViews that can be tailored for your application and behave like Windows Explorer. Full documentation. General Graphics ExifLib - A Fast Exif Data Extractor for .NET 2.0+ - Simon McKenzie Reads JPEG Exif data without the heavyweight and unnecessary instantiation of GDI+ objects. 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. HTML / CSS CSS3 Selector - Pranay Rana CSS3 Selector 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) TCP Socket Off-the-shelf - Igor Ladnik Wrapper to facilitate usage of TCP sockets. Make Site Compatible to IE6, IE7, IE8 and IE9 - neerajgeit How to make a site compatible to IE6, IE7 and IE8 Libraries Introduction to Nido (FREE) Framework .NET/ C# - Nirosh Nido Framework with .Net 4.0 and Entity Framework help you standardize your Business Logic Layer (BLL). 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. VB.NET VBA Enumeration Database - Mark Regal It is the intention of this article to add a measure of detail to all user defined enumerations through the creation of an enumeration database. Windows Communication Foundation Message based web service in WCF - Sergey Morenko How to create a message based web service in WCF. XML XMLFoundation - Brian Aberle XMLFoundation is the fastest approach to dealing with XML and it also delivers a simple and easy to manage pattern of software development into your application. New Tips and Tricks added .NET Framework How to make your own Gmail Notifier Using Vb.Net - Hadrich Mohamed This article shows you how to make your own Gmail Notiifer using VB.Net Sliding Timer - Tomas Takac How to run an action after a quiet period Algorithms & Recipes Finding a Valid Flow in a Flow Network with Minimum and Maximum Capacities - Philipp1000 Finding a valid flow in a flow network with minimum and maximum capacities Android Soap Manager - n.massari Library to send and receive objects between an android client and a web service ASP.NET About HTML5 SSE, A Practical Working Example Application - Louwgi HTML5 SSE example application ASP.NET Controls ASP.NET Validation Made Easy - nasir_ml ASP.NET textbox validation made easy. Bugs & Workarounds HTML5 - Encounter of the Third Kind - gggustafson Tracking a bug in HTML5 that's not a bug in HTML4 C / C++ Language C++ Multicast Events - zaphoed Helpers to declare and define multicast event sources and sinks in C++ Events and Delegates in Standard C++ - Slavisa Events and Delegates in Standard C++ implemented using Macro functions C# Extension Method In C# - Sandeep Singh Shekhawat A brief discussion about extension methods in C# C# Extension Methods - nasir_ml Reduce your code using Extension methods Mocking Task.Factory.StartNew - Craig Jewiss Task.Factory.StartNew can be very useful for executing a method on another thread where you don't care about the result, but it can also make the host method hard to test. This tip describes how to inject Task.Factory and mock it for testing. Building a Scrolling Sprite-based Star Field Background with C# and MonoGame - Masoud Darvishian In this simple tutorial, we want to create a scrolling sprite-based star field background using Xamarin Studio and MonoGame. Client side scripting Easy JavaScript Templating - VectorX Below is an easy way to create Templates in JavaScript without changing the code format. Cross Platform C# .NET Interoperability with Native C Libraries on Cross Platform - deepi2014 This tip is to showcase how to write "Native C Library" so that it can be used for Cross Platform with .NET interoperability with Native C Libraries. Dialogs and Windows Move and resize controls on a form at runtime (with drag and drop) - zomorrod.company Move and resize controls on a form at runtime (with drag and drop) Hardware & System Using PIR motion detector with Arduino - Vedat Ozan Oner A library for PIR motion sensor ADKeyboard Library for Arduino - Vedat Ozan Oner A library for 5-button analog keypad Java EJML Now with Apache 2.0 and Fixed Sized Matrices! - lessthanoptimal With the release of v0.24 EJML is now under Apache 2.0 license and supports fixed sized matrices. Google App Engine JAVA - Azhar Mehmood Google App Engine - JAVA, DataStore implementation using JPA 1.0 Office Development How to Insert Spaces Between Words Even When They Begin or End with "Strange" Characters Using C# and the DocX Library - B. Clay Shannon Inserting spaces between words using C# and the DocX Library Insert Spaces Between CrammedTogetherWords in .docx files using C# and the DocX Library - B. Clay Shannon Yet another docx tip - insert spaces between lowercase and uppercase chars Parallel Programming Creating and Using the Parallel Task Library Ported for Native C++ WRL - Gregory Morse How to create and use the parallel task library ported for native C++ WRL SharePoint Server State Machine Workflow in Sharepoint - HIREN B PATEL Create state machine workflow using Visual Studio Tablets and All-in-Ones Windows 8.1 Store App and SkyDrive Live Connect - Prasanna Venkatesh . K Write a Windows 8.1 store app to save your files on SkyDrive using Live Connect SDK VB.NET Establishing Telnet and SSH connections with remote UNIX terminals - Luke Millanta This article demonstrates how to create an application that establishes a Telnet or SSH connection with, executes commands on, and receives responses from, a remote UNIX terminal. Tips and Tricks updated ASP.NET Controls FileUpload - Filter File Type/File Extension/File Size - adriancs, Vishal Pand3y, Wombaticus Sample Javascript for Filtering File Extension and File Size CodeProject FAQs Tips and Tricks for CodeProject.com - Chris Maunder A community wiki of tips, features and easter eggs on CodeProject.com 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 Insert Missing Spaces After Punctuation Marks in .docx Files using C# and the DocX Library - B. Clay Shannon Insert missing spaces following punctuation marks New Technical Blogs added .NET Framework Why .NET is .NET !!! - Tadit Dash Background This was indeed asked by one interviewer to me, when I was in Final Year of my Engineering. Funda The full Form of .NET is Network Enabled Technologies. .Net is a Framework, which can be used in the development of any kind of application like… Desktop Application Web Application Mob Uploading and Viewing Images With ASP.Net MVC and Mongo DB - SleepyCrat Download Source Files The goal today is to create a small and quick ASP.Net MVC application that will allow us to upload and view images using MongoDB as the database. One of the methods for handling files with MongoDB is using Mongo’s GridFS specification. This method stores the file in chunk ASP.NET ASP.NET MVC Display an HTML Table with Checkboxes to Select Row Items - John Atten Often we need to create a table for our ASP.NET MVC web application with a checkbox next to each row, in order to allow the user to select one or more items from our list for additional processing. While the concept is not terribly challenging, it is not intuitive or obvious if you are newer to MVC. ASP.NET MVC: Add a Select All Checkbox to a Checklist Table Using JQuery - John Atten Often, we find we need to present our users with a list of items in a table or list, with checkboxes such that the user can select one or more items from the list for additional processing. Most of the time, the user will either be selecting a few items from the list but leaving most unchecked, or s ATL Server How to Count Work Days Between 2 Dates in SQL Server - Nitesh Luharuka How to count work days between 2 dates in SQL Server Solution: Error: 26 – Error Locating Server/Instance Specified - Nitesh Luharuka Solution to a very common problem that we face while working with SQL Book Chapters Book Review – Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Expert Development Cookbook - Nitesh Luharuka Friends, Recently one of my good friends, Abhishek Sur (Microsoft MVP, Client App Dev) has published a book named “Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Expert Development Cookbook” and published from Packt, a leading publishing website. This book covers various components of Visual Studio 201 Book Reviews Book Review : Knockout.js Succinctly - Sampath Lokuge This is a Book Review, about Knockout.js Succinctly. Date and Time tick, tock… Time waits for No One - Dennis E White Ok so what I am about to discuss might be old news for most but for me it’s new. After discovering this I have to admit that I am a bit disappointed in myself for not already knowing this. When implementing asynchronous methods in Node I had always done the following: function asynchProcessFun Files and Folders Solution: The WITH MOVE clause can be used to relocate one or more files - Nitesh Luharuka Friends, Today working with SQL Server I was trying to restore a DB from .bak file and got a strange error while restoring using the normal procedure. I was working on SQL Server 2008 R2 and the backup was from an old version making me think the problem may be because incorrect SQL versions. The  iPhone A UITextView with borders - Dennis E White Ok I very rarely ever work with the UITextView (more like ever) and this will be a quick post to go over what I am sure is probably a simple and widely known fix for some developers. So in my current project I have a need for the user to be able to enter multiple […] Java Myths about FileName Should be Same as Class Name in Java - RaviRanjankr This is very important session for us to know about myth of File name in Java. When I started to learn Java I got that every book, resources and even most of web blogs stated that we should keep the “name … Continue reading → Discovering the future of Java - Issam Lahlali Java 6 was released in 2006 and Java 7 in 2011. No major changes were added to the Java7, many of the new features were present in Java 6 updates. After Java 7 Oracle has decided to implement a two years roadmap planning for Java, and the next major release will be available in 2013. […] Mobile Development Software Development for Today's Mobile Would Benefit from Something Which Would Surprise You ! - Chris Boss Software development for today's mobile would benefit from something which would surprise you How to Setup your PC to start using Xamarin - Nitesh Luharuka Friends, Mobile Market has grown at a rapid speed in past few years and with the advent of big players like Apple, Google and Microsoft with their different OS, we have been hooked to use smartphones more than PC these days. As the use of smartphones has increased, so has increased the use of apps & Other .NET Languages Unit of work sample implementation for ADO.NET - jgauffin This article demonstrates how you can create a Unit Of Work implementation for ADO.NET I’ve got a couple of questions in my “Repository pattern” article about a unit of work implementation. Here is a sample. This is the actual UoW … Continue reading → Reviews on Third Party Products and Tools Keyboard configuration for Windows' developers on OS X (& also IntelliJ) - PeteBarber Recently I've been doing some ActionScript programming. Rather than target a Flash Player app. I've been using ActionScript in combination with Adobe AIR in order to create an iOS app. This has meant I've been spending time in OS X and using IntelliJ with the the ActionScript/Flex/AIR plugin as my I Solution: Apache start Issues on windows 8.1 - Nitesh Luharuka Dear Friends, I recently installed WAMP on my Windows8.1 and installation went fine. After installation, when trying to start Apache server, I noticed that Apache server is not starting properly and was conflicting with something pre-installed on my PC. At the very first glance I thought it may be I Advanced Debugging Techniques in JavaScript – Part 1 - Keyhole Software Advanced debugging techniques in JavaScript Status Bar How to Show Your Yahoo Messenger Availability Status on your Website - Nitesh Luharuka In my last post, I discussed how to get the status of a Yahoo user using a simple URL. Though this was just for fun and I discovered it accidentally. This made me think if we can display the LIVE status of a Yahoo user account on my website pictorially. We could have done it …Read more → Uncategorised Technical Blogs CRUD Operations using WCF RESTful Service - Part 1 - Imran Abdul Ghani Crude operations using WCF RESTful Service How to change default port of IIS Manager from 80 in Windows8.1 - Nitesh Luharuka Friends, After installing IIS on any Windows machine, by default IIS Server listens on port 80. The same is true with Windows8.1. For most of the times, it works fine. However, in some cases we need to modify this port from 80 to a different port. One of the Scenarios where you might need to … Unity : Another dimension - Vidyasagar MSC After my learning curve with unity3D,I started looking into the 2D world…The first question in my mind was What is the best 2D Game Engine? I found the answer at slant.co with unity 3D leading the race….unity 3D game engine for 2D development?…you should be kidding me With the rele CRUD Operations using WCF RESTful Service - Part 2 - Imran Abdul Ghani In previous part of this article, we created a WCF RESTful service step by step and make it available to be consumed by a client. Here in this part, we will write and understand code to consume the RESTful web service using jQuery. Same like previous part, I will write complete jQuery code for all C How to Enforce Check-In Policies - Gordon W Beeming So one of the benefits of using Server side Plugins is that you can't override them. The problem with this is that the users don't know that the policy is in place until they check-in their code. Wouldn't it be nice if me as a user were told this is what I need to do as in see the requirements from Getting start with a Team Explorer Plugin for VS 2013 Part 3 - Gordon W Beeming In Getting start with a Team Explorer Plugin for VS 2013 Part 2 we created a Team Explorer Navigation Item and we will be using that item in this post and therefore assume that you have been through it already and created the navigation item. Creating a Team Explorer Page Add a new const to the Guid Getting start with a Team Explorer Plugin for VS 2013 Part 2 - Gordon W Beeming In Getting start with a Team Explorer Plugin for VS 2013 Part 1 we setup a base to start extending Team Explorer, this post assumes you have already have the base project setup. Creating a new Team Explorer Navigation Item Add a new const to the GuidList class (in the Guids file) like below public c Getting start with a Team Explorer Plugin for VS 2013 Part 1 - Gordon W Beeming In these posts we will be going through creating different elements that can be found in the Team Explorer, the aim is to give you the ground knowledge required to extend Team Explorer your way. For an example of some great Team Explorer plugins that demonstrate how much you can do take a look at Te User Controls How to Add Custom Fields to User Profile in WordPress Using Plugins - Nitesh Luharuka Friends, WordPress is definitely a very user-friendly and easy platform for creating websites and it provides an easy way to extend/customize the existing core functionality using Plugins. When working with plugins, we often have the need of creating some extra fields associated with the user. WordP Windows Presentation Foundation Book Review – Mastering Windows 8 C++ App Development - Nitesh Luharuka Friends, Recently I got a chance to read the book – “Mastering Windows 8 C++ App Development“, written by Paul Yosifovich and published from Packt, a leading publishing website. This book explains the basics and advanced concepts of writing a Windows Store App using C++ and XAML. I Windows Runtime How to Move a Windows Form By Dragging - Nitesh Luharuka Friends, Today, I was working on a Desktop application where I was required to drag a form by Mouse left click as we do in normal drag and drop operations. the only difference in this scenario was I needed to drag the entire form and the form was not supposed to be dropped anywhere else. …Read Work Issues The Road to Missed Deadlines is Paved with Good Intentions - Zac Gery Meet Jim. Jim is the development manager in charge of a very important software project. He and his team of developers are responsible for seeing this high priority project to completion. After a few months of development, the sales team asks for a few changes to the application. Jim promptly reorga Technical Blogs updated Android Fragments: Creating a Tabbed Android User Interface - Nick Cosentino Creating a tabbed Android User Interface. C# Is Duck Typing a Type System, or a Way of Thinking? - John Atten Ok, so there is what might be my first-ever "link bait" title. Especially dangerous because I am about to jump into a discussion propagated by some well-known, highly-respected developers against whom my own self-taught, inexperienced knowledge pales.  I lack the formal schooling or training to jo Client side scripting The jQuery 'live(…)' Function - Steve Wellens On the Asp.Net forums where I am a moderator, a developer was having a problem hooking up click events to the rows of a dynamically created html table. He didn't want to embed the onclick handler in the table rows as each row was created so he tried using jQuery. The problem was he was trying to hoo Secret Covert Hush-Hush White Space in the DOM…EXPOSED! - Steve Wellens Lurking in the shadows of the Stack Overflow website, selling aerosol cans of Bug-No-More to the rubes, I came across a question I thought I could answer. The OP (original poster) was using JavaScript to select and modify HTML elements without success.The HTML was simple:    Prev    Middle    NextF Database 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 […] © 2014 The Code Project.  All rights reserved. This email was sent to vutunglampro@gmail.com. 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