CodeProject | Newsletter (10 Feb 2014)

104 articles this week. Monday, February 10, 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 The monthly article contest has been upgraded ever so slightly to make it easier for those writing articles outside of our main categories to get more of the limelight. Previously we had a "Best Overall" category but this has been replaced with a "Best of Everything Else" category which specifically won't include any articles already in the running in the existing categories. Another change we've made is to award a runner up prize. With hundreds of articles a month we need to showcase more of your brilliant creations so doubling the number of winners is a good first step. Please take a moment to vote on the article competition pages. See the homepage for the links. cheers, Chris Maunder Advertisements Mobile Apps are Dead In 2 days, Telerik declares Mobile Apps are Dead and unveils what comes next! Learn why you don't have to choose between a web, native, or hybrid approach. See the platform that will transform mobile and cross-platform development. Win from over $500K in prizes. Register Now! It's Like Giving Your App a Hug! New Relic makes your apps faster by showing you where the code is slow and buggy. Make bad reviews a thing of the past and start optimizing your web and mobile app performance today. Plus, get a t-shirt! SpreadsheetGear 2012 for .NET Now Available! New WPF and Silverlight controls, multithreaded recalc, 64 new Excel compatible functions, save to XPS, improved efficiency and performance, Windows 8 support and more. Download your fully functional SpreadsheetGear trial Today! Learn the Basics of XML Marie Taylor takes you through the basics of XML, including XML Syntax, Elements & Attributes, and the XML Tree Structure. Weekly Poll Results Do you write gaming applications? Survey period: 3 Feb 2014 to 10 Feb 2014 Pacman 2014? Really, really Angry Birds? Or even just the next Scrabble killer? Do you write Games? (An update from our 2013 survey) Option Votes %   Yes, for desktop machines 231 13.38 Yes, for gaming consoles 35 2.03 Yes, for tablets 85 4.92 Yes, for smartphones 114 6.60 Yes, for other types of machines 15 0.87 No, but I will this year 102 5.91 No, but I'd like to 629 36.42 No 733 42.44 Responses 1727    Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100% This week's survey: What type of mobile phone do you have? Most popular new articles 3 Feb 2014 - 9 Feb 2014 Five Great .NET Framework 4.5 Features - Shivprasad koirala Another DataGridView Printer - aureolin PDF File Writer C# Class Library - Uzi Granot The right-angle triangle: Meet your new best friend - Yvan Rodrigues Entity Framework in WinForms - Bernardo Castilho Research Build The Right Thing: 5 Business Leaders' Strategies for Avoiding Common Pitfalls of Product Development Great companies build products that customers love. While this means they build worthwhile and useful features, it also means they don't build things that aren't valuable. The development of unused features is the single biggest waste of time and resources in software development, and companies that build the "wrong things" are easily disrupted. In this guide, five business leaders offer different perspectives on Agile product development. Use it to help you understand how a unifying vision and customer-centric mindset avoids wasted time,... Download Now Latest Additions 104 articles overall. 70 new, 34 updated. New articles added .NET Framework Northwind N-Tier Blueprint Application Using WPF/WCF/LINQ to SQL - The Cool Wayfarer A blueprint application to showcase an enterprise standard architecture using the .NET 3.5 technologies like WPF, WCF, and LINQ to SQL. Android Google Play In-App Billing Demo App - Uzi Granot This article is an example of Google Play In-App Billing Version 3. The attached TestInAppBilling source code is a complete demo application. ASP.NET Membership+ Management System, Part I: Bootstrapping - Shuqian Ying Initiating an Asp.Net Mvc 5 development environment for an administration front-end of extended membership system called Membership+. A Simple MVC Application using LINQ to SQL - Sandeep Singh Shekhawat This article introduces how to create an MVC application using LINQ to SQL. You will create a simple MVC application for Book registration with a Publisher where the Publisher and Book have one-to-many relationships. Build and deploy ASP.NET Web API 2 service layer at the speed of thought! - Naveen Karamchetti Learn how to develop WebAPI service layer using a simple example ASP.NET MVC 4 - Layout and Section in Razor - Sandeep Singh Shekhawat Layout is used for a consistent look and feel of all pages of a web application C / C++ Language Concentration of all the Lessons in Common Win32 Project - Petrov Vladimir Ssupport for the tutorials and lessons on OpenGL C# m.Facebook with C# - dot net tech Performs basic function on your Facebook Profile from C# code without use of Facebook API Deriving from System.Threading.Tasks.Task - Tying The Knot in C# - davidbakin You can subclass Task - but it is tricky. Here's how you do it by "tying the knot" - using lambdas and variable capture to implement lazy evaluation Image Cryptography using RSA Algorithm in C# - SOHAM GANDHI Image cryptography using RSA algorithm in C# Video Capture using OpenCV with C# - SOHAM GANDHI How to capture video from webcam and video file (*.AVI) XNA Scrolling Images at Windows Phone - Juan Carlos Recio Abad Learn how to scroll images at xna to create worlds, level, so on. Database LINQ Script: A Universal Object-Oriented Database Query Language - Mr. Xie.G.Gang 谢桂纲 Using LINQ script to query the Object-Oriented Biological database Design and Architecture Learning to Embrace Changing Requirements - Christopher Diggins A personal story about changing requirements and agile software development Java Downloading JDK with Java - Andrey Chaschev Describes how to download Java by navigating Oracle.com with WebView from JavaFX Libraries Building a framework - Part I (DAL) - V. First article on creating a reusable framework. Macros and Add-ins Visual Studio Extensions - from Add-in to VSPackage - Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter Move your (deprecated) Add-in to VSPackage... MFC Desktop Sharing using RDP APIs and Socket - nuclear_sun You can share a peer's desktop to any other ones using this software Product Showcase Using PDF Forms to Improve User Interaction with DotPdf - Kevin_Hulse Use Atalasoft's DotPdf SDK to improve workflow processes with external customers. Programming Tips Character Encoding and usage in .Net - muhammadumairomee Understanding character encoding with the help of simple examples Shell and IE programming IWebBrowser2 Wrapper Class - David Johns A class that wraps the IWebBrowser2 interface of Microsoft Internet Explorer to enable you to browse, print and save web content programatically Third Party Products and Tools Is Your Software Licensing Flexible? - rawsumit If your software licensing flexible? Threads, Processes & IPC A Lock Free Doubly Linked List - SarmadAsghar Web Services VB-JSON Parser - Improved Performance - Sam Gerené Factor 2 improved performance on VB-JSON Parser Windows Communication Foundation Building RESTful Message Based Web Services with WCF - Sergey Morenko How to create RESTful message based web service with WCF Windows Phone 7/8 How to build a VoIP application for Windows Phone 7 that will not be blocked by the service providers - Bwalsh490 It describes how to develop a WP7 VoIP client application that communicates with a server through TCP/UDP protocol Articles updated .NET Framework Five Great .NET Framework 4.5 Features - Shivprasad koirala In this article I have picked my five favorite features introduced in the .NET 4.5 core framework. Algorithms & Recipes The right-angle triangle: Meet your new best friend - Yvan Rodrigues Did you skip class the day trigonometry was taught? This article will explain what you've been missing all these years. A New Parser Generator for C# - Qwertie LLLPG, the Loyc LL(k) Parser Generator: now parsing C#! Amazon Web Services AWS Deployment With Octopus Deploy - TheCodeKing This article focuses on an alternative way to deploy and update .NET applications running on AWS EC2 instances, and mitigates the shortcomings of the AWSDeploy standalone tool. C# Html Agility Pack - Massive information extraction from WWW pages - morzel What to do if database of over 150,000 records is available only as a list of webpages each holding just 50 records? You can spend a week clicking through it and die of boredom or you can write a scraper that will do the work for you :) Code Generation Mo+ - A model oriented programming language and IDE for model driven development - Dave Clemmer Introducing the Mo+ language and the Mo+ Solution Builder IDE. 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. MySqlBackup.NET - MySQL Backup Solution for C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET - adriancs A tool to export and import MySQL database in .NET DbReaderGenerator Library - Paulo Zemek Generate DataReaders at run-time and get the best performance by avoiding repetitive code and by using the database's most appropriate Get methods. Design and Architecture Dependency Injection For Beginner - I - Pranay Rana What is dependency injection and why there is need of this software design pattern. Dialogs and Windows Go to sleep! Fade to B/W - John A. Johnson Fading a window from color to black and white like Windows/XP Windows 8 Metro UI For Websites: Menu V2 - Arpit Jain Enhanced version of the Windows 8 menu for websites Files and Folders PDF File Writer C# Class Library - Uzi Granot PDF File Writer is a C# class library allowing .NET applications to create PDF files. Hardware & System A USB Library to Detect USB Devices - slelong A USB library to detect USB devices, and manage Attach and Detach events Wake the PC from standby or hibernation - Daniele Di Sarli How to automatically wake up the PC at some time in the future. Internet / Network Multi Threaded WebScraping in C# - dot net tech Beginner to Advance - Multithreaded Web Scraping with Examples of WebBrowser, WebClient, HttpWebRequest/HttpWebResponse, Regex, BackgroundWorker. Libraries vmime.NET - Smtp, Pop3, Imap Library (for C++ and .NET) - Elmue With this project, C++ and .NET Windows programmers get a very versatile library to send and download emails via SMTP, POP3 and IMAP with TLS and SSL support. Miscellaneous The Spiral TrackBar Control - Graham Wilson A track bar control which displays the track line as a spiral. A Collection of Simple Widgets - Graham Wilson A collection of simple .NET 2.0 controls and utilities. Node.js Feeling Jaded with Jade? Don't Be! - DaveAuld Look into the Jade Templating engine and the required syntax Printing Another DataGridView Printer - aureolin DataGridView printing encapsulated in a stand-alone object. Very easy to use! Updated to allow printing columns wider than one page. Product Showcase Using Print to PACS to Digitize Your Legacy Medical Imaging Systems - LEADTOOLS Support This white paper will show how LEADTOOLS Print to PACS can be used as a final cog in your digital migration and aid in the completion of Meaningful Use requirements. Tabs & Property Pages WinForms Tab Control with properly drawn bottom tabs - VUnreal How to correctly draw WinForms Tab Control with bottom alignment when visual styles are enabled Threads, Processes & IPC Internals of Windows Thread - Mahesh Bailwal Basics about Windows thread which may help you in understanding how operating system implements threads. Tree Controls Searchable WPF TreeView - Fredrik Bornander Showing how to prune nodes of a TreeView as a means of searching User Controls CheckBoxList(For) - A missing MVC extension - Mikhail-T Extends MVC HtmlHelper class so you can create POSTable checkbox list. VB.NET CQRS on Windows Azure - Event sourcing - Duncan Edwards Jones How to use a windows azure storage table as an event store for event sourcing Windows API Custom Controls in Win32 API: Standard Messages - Martin Mitáš Make your control answer to the questions system or application may ask. Windows Communication Foundation Building SOAP Message Based Web Services with WCF - Sergey Morenko How to create SOAP message based web service with WCF Implementing 5 important principles of REST using WCF Services - Shivprasad koirala This article will explain about 5 important principles of REST using WCF Services. Windows Phone 7/8 Invasion Game in MonoGame for Windows Phone 8 - Dan Colasanti This article describes my experience porting Invasion from XNA/WP7 to MonoGame/WP8 and includes Invasion's complete source code. New Tips and Tricks added Ajax Store your form data in Google Spreadsheet - Dejan Mauer This is probably the simplest solution for storing web form data into database. We will use Google Forms and Google Spreadsheets as our 'database'. Algorithms & Recipes Simple typesafe CSV Parser - Michael Kurz, ape@map Load CSV files as a list of typesafe record entities Counting Occurrences - CPallini A simple algorithm for counting occurrences of symbols in files Depth First Search (DFS) non-recursive - Shiva var I apply the DFS algorithm to print the element of a Binary Search Tree in order. In which just by traversing with a DFS algorithm is possible. ASP.NET Custom HTML Helper for MVC Application - Mack Ait-Aoudia Add an HTML helper and make it available to your entire application Run Web Application in Multiple Browsers (Visual Studio) - Ahmed Bensaid Run Web Application in Multiple Browsers (Visual Studio) [You can do it] How to Create a Web service in ASP.NET - Subodh Raghav A web service is a web application (a piece of software component) which is available on the internet. Create BarCode Images in ASP.NET - Er. Mayank Kothari Generate barcode image in web application MVC Grid inline edit - meula MVC Grid quick inline edit with Jquery [Mail Sent]How to Send an Email in ASP.NET Application - Subodh Raghav In this tip, you will learn how to send an email in your ASP.NET application. [Explained]Life Cycle of an ASP.NET Page - Subodh Raghav Life cycle of an ASP.NET page Custom Session Warning (Jquery)/ Normal JavaScript Session Alert Pop up in MVC 4 Application with Form Authentication Sliding Expiration -Part I - dotnettechnologyexperts This part just talks of Custom Jquery UI Pop up. Setting up IIS with HTTPS binding - Avinash6474 Set HTTPS binding for web site C / C++ Language SEH vs C++ exceptions - Adamanteus Intercepting SEH exceptions in C++ program C# Beware: The null-coalescing (??) operator is low in the order of operator precedence. - Yvan Rodrigues Maybe writing a tip will mean the last time I fall for this. 4 Ways to do Object Copying - comiscience 4 ways to do Object copy Easy SFTP (Secure FTP) With C# and PSFTP - metastruct SFTP Files using PLINK as a process in C# Reading an Excel Sheet into a DataTable, generic method - OriginalGriff Reading a sheet into a database isn't difficult - it's just I keep forgetting how... :sigh: So I abstracted this from my working code so I wouldn't lose it again. Avoid Creating Inflexible Classes - Bruce S Oberhand Consider the Decorator Pattern! Cross Platform CJSON - Compressed JSON - Karan Savla This is a technique that I have thought of which can help us save bandwidth while communicating. Database Find and fix fragmented indexes - Duncan Edwards Jones Quick tip to allow you to identify indexes that could do with defragmentation sql-functions for better estimation of route-distances and traveling times in pure sql (without routing) - Peter BCKR a simple way to estimate as accurately as possible route-distances and traveling times without exact route calculation in sql Debug Tips How to Setup a Windbg Kernel Debugger to Debug Hyper-V Windows Client - Prasanna Venkatesh . K Debug your driver within a VM Edit Controls Currency TextBox .NET - emarti This tip describes how to display the value as currency text, formatted in accordance with the current culture. Java How to Use OpenCV with Java under Eclipse IDE - SOHAM GANDHI The project in this tip is how to capture video from webcam. This project is made in OpenCV and Eclipse IDE. Menus Changing Visual Studio 2013 CAPS Menus to Normal - Shemeer NS Changing Visual Studio 2013 CAPS Menus to Normal Miscellaneous WPF Bar Chart as simple as possible - S.A.Esmaeily Creating a bar chart with most of needed features. Office Development Merge PowerPoint Presentations (PPTX) & save as PDF - LazyCoder0 This article describes how to merge PowerPoint Presentations (PPTX format) and save as PDF in .NET applications using Office Automation (OpenXML SDK). Progress Controls ProgressBar using JQueryUI and SignalR - Kashif Amin Makhdoom Progressbar using JQueryUI and SignalR WPF Progress Bar Update Class - RFMeyer Simple way to update WPF progress bar SharePoint Server Open Links in A New Window in SharePoint - Ted D Wagner Using JQuery to modify a list anchor tag to open in a new window. Third Party Products and Tools Message Boxes a la carte - freedeveloper Small library to explain how to create basic message boxes using kendo and Typescript. Validation Single Server side Validator for multiple controls - Jitendra_Shri Single Server side validator for multiple controls Web Security Enabling SSL with IIS Express in Visual Studio - Ahmed Bensaid Enabling SSL with IIS Express in Visual Studio Windows 8 Design 3D effects in Windows Store App - AnobikDey A description of how images and other controls can be rotated and used to give 3d Effect in Windows Store Apps Windows Presentation Foundation INotifyPropertyChanged Revisited with .NET Framework 4.5 - Shweta Lodha INotifyPropertyChanged revisited with .NET Framework 4.5 Binding Radio Buttons to a Single Property - Volodymyr Trubachov Describes the approach to bind a group of radio buttons to a single property, regardless of the property type (enum, bool, int, string). Data validation in WPF - DonWim how to implement data validation via regular expressions in a WPF application XML How to Save a Class Instance to an XML File - B. Clay Shannon Easily save an object as XML Tips and Tricks updated Office Development Use OpenXML to create a Word document from a docx template - PrasadShastri Create a Word document from a docx template. Static & Panel Controls Scroll LED-Matrix Class - Derell Licht C++ classes that implement scrolling simulated-LED displays New Technical Blogs added Exception Handling Exception Handling in ASP.NET Web API - Part 2 - Imran Abdul Ghani In order to return HTTP Response with a specific error status code, normally HttpResponseException type is used. In part-1 of this article, we checked a specific condition and return error status code accordingly. What exactly we did? We checked if student object returned from a data source is null, SharePoint Server Avoiding SharePoint Magic Numbers in Unit Testing - sebastianrogers Unit testing really is good. No surprise to those who do it but recently we had a test go red when changing how we configure Enhanced Records Manager, see Appropriate use of AppInstalled for a Provider Hosted SharePoint App for more details. Not a problem we have broken something lets fix it. It tur Uncategorised Technical Blogs SOLID Principles, in Layman's Terms: Dependency Inversion - harleydk SOLID principles in layman's terms: Dependency Inversion Windows Communication Foundation Post JSON data to WCF RESTful Service using jQuery - Imran Abdul Ghani The POST request method is basically designed to post data to a web server for storage. That's why its normally used when submitting a complete form. In this WCF RESTful service tutorial, I'll try to explain how we can post JSON data to a WCF RESTful service using jQuery Ajax call with POST type. We Technical Blogs updated Exception Handling Getting Exact Location of Exception in C# Code - Pranay Rana Post is about locating exact location of the Exception in the code. There is always problem for the developer to locate exact location from where Exception raised, because of that it difficult for the developer what actually went wrong. Most of the time problem occurs when there is too many librarie © 2014 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