Weekly Newsletter (31 Mar 2014)

145 articles this week. Monday, March 31, 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 Write a Beginner's HTML5 and CSS3 Article and Win a Nexus 7 Last week we kicked off our Beginner's Guide to HTML5 and CSS3 article competition and are busy reading all the great submissions. Week 1 winners will be announced on Friday. For Week 2 we're diving into CSS basics and need your help writing one (or both) of the following articles: Styling Your First Web Page (Article 3) or Laying Out Your First Page (Article 4) You have until Sunday night to submit either article for a shot at a CodeProject Prize Pack or Google Nexus 7 tablet. 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Start learning free Weekly Poll Results Has working at a computer all day caused health issues? Survey period: 24 Mar 2014 to 31 Mar 2014 "Health issues" is a broad term, but assume it means anything affecting your health and your quality of life. Option Votes %   Back / neck problems 978 47.48 Shoulder / Elbow joint problems 464 22.52 Forearm / wrist / hand (including carpel tunnel) 568 27.57 Other Musculoskeletal problems 150 7.28 Vision / eye problems 830 40.29 Headaches 462 22.43 Obesity 522 25.34 Mental health issues 251 12.18 Other 124 6.02 No issues for me! 370 17.96 Responses 2060    Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100% This week's survey: What is the worst thing about the portrayal of software development in movies? Most popular new articles 24 Mar 2014 - 30 Mar 2014 Fast Colored TextBox for Syntax Highlighting - Pavel Torgashov fastJSON - Mehdi Gholam MVC interview questions with answers - Shivprasad koirala Speech recognition, speech to text, text to speech, and speech synthesis in C# - ProgramFOX The Art of Logging - Colin Eberhardt Research Best Practices for Securing Your Private Keys and Code Signing Certificates The efficacy of code signing as an authentication mechanism for software depends on the secure storage of code signing private keys used by software publishers. Companies that are diligent and willing to invest in the appropriate security measures can make the compromise of their private keys highly unlikely. This white paper describes recent security breaches and why they may have happened, along with best practices, especially for the Windows platform, which can help to safeguard the private keys associated with code signing certificates. Download Now Latest Additions 145 articles overall. 105 new, 40 updated. New articles added .NET Framework Dynamic Interface Implementation - Kemeny Attila Generate proxy class dynamically which implements interface WCF Reliable Sessions Bindings: service and client side receiveTimeout and inactivityTimeout - Divish Ranjan Analysis of reliable sessions with respect to server and client side inactivity and receive timeouts. Extending IDbConnection and getting help from Dapper for tedious tasks - Darek Danielewski With a little help from C# Extensions and Dapper, it is easy to streamline coded database interaction, even with encrypted columns Algorithms & Recipes Counting and Generating Sequences - Nasir Darwish The article describes techniques for generationg and counting sequences Android Remote Procedure Calls between Android and .NET - Ondrej_Uzovic Simple example showing Remote Procedure Calls between Android and .NET based on TCP. How to make your Android projects more portable to Windows/MacOS (and vice versa) - Tiancheng Hu Using ThinkAlike, an ongoing Java MVVM framework(employing Android and JavaFX as view layer), to implement a cross-platform HearthStone game card reference and more. ASP.NET ASP.NET Web Optimization Framework - Abhishek Kumar Goswami ASP.NET web optimization framework Start With MVC - Push Start For Beginners(Part - 2) - Er. Puneet Goel ASP.NET MVC for Desktop (WPF/WinForms) developers - Rammohan Raja Web development for desktop applications developers How to Use Web Optimization in MVC 4 - Abhishek Kumar Goswami How to use ASP.NET Web Optimization Framework in ASP.NET MVC 4 Rendering a Partial View and JSON Data Using AJAX in ASP.NET MVC - Sandeep Singh Shekhawat This article explains how to render a partial view and JSON data using AJAX. How to Use ASP.NET Web Optimization Framework in ASP.NET Web Pages Site - Abhishek Kumar Goswami How to Use ASP.NET Web Optimization Framework in ASP.NET Web Pages Site C / C++ Language Abstract Factory Step-by-Step Implementation in C++ - dorodnic Step by Step Implementation of Abstract Factory Design Pattern in C++ A Sensible Smart Pointer Wrap for Most of Your Code - john morrison leon Introducing smart observers of single owners and the concept of Public and Private scope visibility C# Check StyleCop Rules on TortoiseSVN Commit - GWallis This hook validates code with StyleCop before or after they are checked in to ensure they conform to validation rules. XPath assertions in unit tests - Bar Nir Extending Visual Studio unit testing assertions Iterators in C# - A Deep Dive - Karthik Chintala Iterators in C# Database Learn Microsoft Business intelligence step by step – Day 1 - Marla Sukesh In this article we will learn basics about DW, BI, SSIS and ETL Process How to do some magic with indexedDB - David Fahlander Discover the hidden features of indexedDB! Thinking in SQL - Distribution Functions in SS 2012 - Christian Graus Covering how to use the new Distribution functions in SQL Server 2012 Design and Architecture Introduction to Object Oriented Programming (OOP) - Paulo Zemek This is a beginner article that explains Object Oriented Programming (also known as OOP or OO programming) by my personal view and experience with it. Document / View Construct data model, view, and control - Lộc Nguyễn Example of JNotif - A Java Notification App E-commerce How to program crypto currency transactions API on Windows with Crimeacoin. - korol_shahmat The article explains step-by-step how to start programming using cryptocurrency API for Bitcoin, Litecoin, CrimeaCoin etc. The working example has been written for Crimeacoin. Hardware & System Power Over IP: Testing of the First Experimental Facility - Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov Joint Power over IP project has started the phase of public testing. All testers can try it out and charge their laptop batteries, free of charge, for limited period of time. HTML / CSS Beginner's Guide to HTML5/CSS3 - Part 1 of 12 - Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter Writing Your First Code Beginner's Guide to HTML5 CSS3 - Building the Basics - Ravi Gadag Modern Web applications with HTML5 and CSS3 Beginner's Guide to HTML5 and CSS3 - Series 1 of 12 - Ranjan.D Learn HTML5 and CSS3 from basics to advanced level in several parts. Beginner's Guide to HTML5 & CSS3 - Part 1 of 12 - James Jensen Writing Your First Code Beginner's guide to HTML5 and CSS3: Writing your first code - Akinmade Bond An introductory article to learning HTML5 and CSS3. Beginner's Guide to HTML5/CSS3 - Part 2 of 12 - Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter Building on the Basics HTML5 and CSS3 Part 1: Writing Your First Code - Tim Corey Get started in HTML and CSS without getting lost along the way. Writing Your First Code - Peter Leow Beginner's Guide to HTML5 & CSS3 The Idiot's Guide to Modern Web Design Part 1/12 - Jacques Loubser Part 1 of 12 to become a web design rock god! Beginner's Guide to HTML5 & CSS3 - part 2/12: Basic Elements - L. Auer This article covers the basic html elements that are used to define the structure and data in a page. iPhone Interoperation Issues in Mixed C/C++/Objective-C Development, Part 2 - Anna Koneva An article about interoperation issues in mixed C/C++/Objective-C development Java Sharing Experience of SSO Integration via SAML 2.0 Resources - EastBancTech Sharing Experience of SSO Integration via SAML 2.0 Resources Miscellaneous WinForms and TPL - Achieving quick Multitasking and Responsive User Interface - gmaran23 Using the Task Parallel Library (TPL) for multitasking and UI responsiveness in WinForms Product Showcase Krita* Gemini* - Twice as Nice on a 2-in-1 - Tim_Duncan This article will discuss how the Krita developers added 2 in 1 mode-awareness - including implementation of both automatic and user-selected mode switching and some of the areas developers should consider when creating applications for the 2 in 1 experience to their applications. Gameplay: Touch Controls and 2-in-1 Awareness for Your Favorite Games - Erik Niemeyer, Chris Kirkpatrick Ideum's collaboration with Intel gave them access to technology and engineering resources to make the touch overlay and 2-in-1 awareness in Gameplay possible. Programming Tips Controlling Multiple Forms with a Finite State Machine - gggustafson This article presents a method for controlling multiple Forms with a finite state machine Progress Controls Filecopy Control with Progress Information - hgbecker This is a Windows Forms control to copy a file with progress information SharePoint Server Event Calendar Listing Web Part (SharePoint 2013) - Stephen Huen A SharePoint compact widget style calendar VB.NET SPADA-small SCADA for Arduino - jurhas Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition for ARDUINO Spada via Modbus-micro SCADA for Arduino - jurhas Spada via Modbs, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition with visualb basic,Arduino and firebird Windows Presentation Foundation Async Data Binding & Data Virtualization - Yesy Improve WPF async data binding Articles updated ::Workspaces Working with CodeProject Workspaces::Code (::GitMachine) - Marco Bertschi An explanation how to efficiently work with the ::Code App (::GitMachine) provided by CodeProject Workspaces Algorithms & Recipes Genetic Algorithms Implementation - Peter Leow Explain the implementation of a genetic algorithms project. Android Android Sliding Menu - Kevin Murani Android sliding menu. Applications & Tools Parser in JavaScript - Ivan Vodišek Universal text parsing by given grammar ASP.NET MVC interview questions with answers - Shivprasad koirala The whole purpose of this article is to quickly brush up your MVC knowledge from an MVC interview perspective. Membership+ Management System, Part III: Query Intelligence - Shuqian Ying Implementing a unified structured query system of service based relational data source with build-in intelligence. Using Web API 2 (Individual User Account + CORS Enabled) from AngularJS Client - Omar Alani How to use ASP.NET Web API 2 with Individual User Account from AngularJS client with CORS enabled to issue a Bearer token. ASP.NET Controls Flexy Pager for ASP.NET WebForm & MVC - adriancs A pager generator for ASP.NET WebForm & MVC. Supports custom CSS styling. Audio and Video Speech recognition, speech to text, text to speech, and speech synthesis in C# - ProgramFOX This article explains speech recognition, speech to text, text to speech and speech synthesis in C#. C# How to build a basic IVR (Interactive Voice Response) menu system in C# to improve your call center - W.Walker It explains step-by-step how to develop a basic IVR voice menu system in the most simplest way and explains how to create such a professional VoIP functionality as blind transfer. How to easily host WPF control inside Windows Form application - Shai Vashdi This article is demonstrating an easy way to host WPF control inside Windows Form application. Repository with Unit of Work, IoC and Unit Test - mr.aspdotnet Repository with Unit of Work Combo & List Boxes Extended CComboBox - Flaviu2 A combobox control which shows a drop down window to assist the user. Cryptography & Security Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism (SCRAM) SHA-1 - Don Fizachi A C# implementation of the SCRAM SHA-1 (RFC 5802) authentication protocol. Database SQL Server - Change Tracking (CT) - Chandra Sekhar - Raparthi CT is a new feature in SQL Server 2008 which allows us to track information about changes that we have made to tables in which CT is enabled. SQLite Helper (C#) - adriancs Simplify the usage between C# and SQLite Design and Architecture Lightweight Entity Services Framework - lars.michael.dk This article provides a concrete example of a very simple and lightweight – yet useful – entity services framework. Reusable Chain of responsibility in C# - Govindaraj Rangaraj This article explains how to make chain of responsiblity pattern reusable with the help of specification pattern. DLLs & Assemblies cn5apinet - ConceptNet5 API Library - JoeSox Connect to ConceptNet 5's REST API Edit Controls Fast Colored TextBox for Syntax Highlighting - Pavel Torgashov Custom text editor with syntax highlighting Grid & Data Controls Simple Grid - A Win32 message based grid control - David MacDermot A simple to use grid control for Windows SDK C applications. Hardware & System Arduino semi-intelligent air dryer control - hjgode Howto control an air-dryer in your bath room HTML / CSS Ultimate Tower Defense - Florian Rappl Creating a tower defense game from scratch with web technologies. 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) iPhone Interoperation Issues in Mixed C/C++/Objective-C Development, Part 1 - Anna Koneva An article about interoperation issues in mixed C/C++/Objective-C development List Controls Controls Library: Extended ListView with Column Mapping - alexandrvslv Docking windows container, extended listview, extended property editor. Other .NET Languages NeoLua (Lua for the .net dynamic language runtime) - neolithos NeoLua implements Lua as a .NET dynamic language. SharePoint Server Event Calendar Listing Web Part (SharePoint 2010) - Stephen Huen Displays SharePoint events (or any calendar list) in a compact widget style calendar Trace and Logs The Art of Logging - Colin Eberhardt This article provides guidelines for logging within your web or desktop applications, answering questions such as when to log, what to log, and how to log. Web Services Improvements and Enhancements of a Data Access Web Service Using WCF and Entity Framework - Shenwei Liu An article with sample application showing how and what we can do to improve and enhance a WCF and EF data access web service. Windows API Custom Controls in Win32 API: Control Customization - Martin Mitáš Overview of techniques for customizing existing controls. Windows Presentation Foundation WPF Interview questions with answers - Shivprasad koirala In this section we will run through important WPF interview questions asked during .NET interviews. I know the list is not complete but wanted to at least start with something and then keep adding as time goes. New Tips and Tricks added Ajax Simple Google News API - Nirav Prabtani Google API for NEWS Server Side Parameterized Method Call Using JQuery - Manoj Kr. Verma This demo shows how jquery calls the server side parameterized method. ASP.NET Generate Bar Code Using ASP.NET MVC 4 - Yogesh Kumar Tyagi This tip introduces approaches to generate bar code in ASP.NET MVC project. How to Minify js and CSS file using Visual Studio 2012 - Abhishek Kumar Goswami I came up with this article where I can describe how we can create minified version of our js and css file. Export Data from Database Table to Excel File in ASP.NET MVC - Yogesh Kumar Tyagi I'm going to show one simple common method to export. How to Export Crystal Report in Regional Language Marathi, Hindi, Arabic. - saineshwar I am going to resolve Issue of Font Displaying Box or Junk While Exporting Crystal report. C / C++ Language Having a Global named Mutex in Qt 5.2 - Marco Bertschi Qt grew up to be a quite adult framework, but is still missing a global named Mutex - Something I fixed with a little trick. Using COM Binary Interface with C++ - Romain Gailleton A presentation on how to extract data from a Type Library (.tlb) and access COM Binary Interface from C++ using Qt CalcStar: A C++ Math Expression Evaluator - trident99 CalcStar is an expandable, fast C++ function evaluator that gives the user the same computational power as a scientific calculator. A high performance, flexible, cross-platform memory pool - tr0217 A short guide for a high performance, flexible, cross-platform memory pool. Set for Success - DigitalInBlue Guidance on C++/C++!1 Parameter Passing C# How to NLog (2.1) with VisualStudio 2013 - _Noctis_ This will let you start logging quickly with VS2013 and NLog. C# Resize ALL Controls at Runtime - kix46 Simple and easy to use code in resizing all controls Using Linq with Regular Expression results - OriginalGriff Want to use Linq, or Linq methods with the results from your Regex? Yes, so did I...annoying isn't it? So...a solution. Iterators in C# - Karthik Chintala The tip just gives a brief on what iterators are in C# Custom Adding/Updating using Entity Framework 5 - Kinyanjui Kamau Being able to add or update data field by field through winforms using EF5, .NET 4.5 WinForm on the Fly with Events - Member 10291839 Winform programmatically creating a form and with corresponding events Caching What is Gzip/Deflate compression and why do you need it? - apphp Compression is a simple and effective way to save bandwidth and speed up your website. Client side scripting Finding Treasure on Google Map - Peter Leow A brief encounter with computer programming on Google map. Database Create a JMS Configuration on Oracle Weblogic 11g using WSLT - Octavio Sánchez Huerta Python Script using WSLT How to Extract DML SQL Clause Text in Table Trigger - Mirzakhmet Extracting initial SQL clause text in table trigger Edit Controls Expandable Table like Gridview - Nirav Prabtani Virtual Expandable Gridview using Ajax post method Java Loading the Class Information using Reflection - john0609 This tip will provide the basics and one place use of reflection in Java. Menus Custom Context Menu - Alex Culea Shows how to create a window that behaves like a context menu PHP Singleton Classes in PHP - apphp This tutorial describes how to create and use singleton classes in PHP Caching HTML Output with PHP - apphp How to cache HTML output with PHP Programming Tips Barcode 39 without images - Marco Bertschi A short description of the Code 39 Barcode font by Matthew Welch (and how to use it) Usability Making a Nice Wait Effect - Muhsin Fatih Yorulmaz Making a nice tailed round effect Windows Phone 7/8 How to Publish your Windows Phone 8 Application on the Store - Hadrich Mohamed This tip shows you how to publish a Windows Phone 8 application step by step. Using ProgressRing in Windows Phone - Onur Tırpan Using ProgressRing (actually it's only available for Windows 8) Control on Windows Phone 8 Windows Powershell Get Real Time Quotes using PowerShell - george b Get quote using Yahoo finance XML Rewriting XML Files - sbarnes Rewriting and restoring XML files (streams) with two helper classes Tips and Tricks updated Client side scripting DumpYard (A Recycle Bin for webpages) - Akshya Dash Ths jquery plugin helps to store the values that are being changed in the DOM input elements of a webpage for future reference and restoration. Dynamic Events Binding in jQuery - Peter Leow Learn to bind events on jQuery selectors that are created on the fly. Database How to fetch data from the previous or next rows in the resultset - Mika Wendelius This tip demonstrates the use of LAG and LEAD functions in SQL Server. DLLs & Assemblies The Inner Working of FindResource() and LoadString() Win32 Functions. - pasztorpisti A custom implementation of the FindResource() and LoadString() functions with better error indication. Pointing the direction for those who want to learn the binary PE resource format. HTML / CSS Client-side Paging without JavaScript - Anoop_Ravindran Clientside Paging without JavaScript New Technical Blogs added .NET Framework ASP.NET Identity with webforms - Bibhu Dutta Towards the end of last week ASP.NET Identity 2.0 was released. ASP.NET Identity has been developed with the following goals: To provide a single framework that will work with all of the ASP.NET frameworks, such as ASP.NET MVC, Web Forms, Web Pages, Web API, … Continue reading → Ajax How to Display Loading Image with AJAX-Auto Complete - Kelum W. Ganegoda After long time I had a chance to update my Blog. In this post I'm going to show you how to display data fetching progress with AJAX Auto Complete extender. This is very simple. Add ASP Text box to the page (ID=TextBox1) Add AJAX AutoCompleteExtender Insert following javascript code to the web Applications & Tools My Favorite (Critical) Developer Tools - Leonardo Paneque My favorite (critical) developer tools ASP.NET Controls IIS and ASP.Net Authentication and Authorization - Adarsh Kumar Chaurasia First of all lets understand the important terms which will be used throughout this article. Authentication : It is the act of confirming the truth of an attribute of a datum or entity. This might involve confirming the identity of a person or software program, tracing the origins of an artifact. In Code Generation Database related attributes in Code First - Johan Ohlin This post is a follow-up on the post about Validation attributes in Code-First. While validation attributes focus on making sure the data in the model is correct, the attributes listed here instead focus on instructing Entity Framework’s database generation engine how the database should be st Code Minimalism ! What is it ? - Chris Boss If there was one complaint I have with a lot of code today it is the lack of easy readability. True, programming language code by its nature can’t always be easy to read. But shouldn’t it be the goal of programmers to write code which is more readable ? Some to learn from BASIC It [̷ Game Development Goal-Driven Development Continued - Zachary Gardner In my previous blog, I talked about the idea of GDD, or Goal-Driven Development. It is a philosophy that individual programmers can apply to their daily work. I derived it from my experience with successful meetings, then from successful teams, then finally down to great programmers: Great programme Goal-Driven Development - Zachary Gardner There is a lot that goes on from 9 to 5 Monday through Friday. We sit at our desks, we program, we respond to emails, we sit in meetings, we go to backlog grooming, etc. Every day brings its own challenges, and its own opportunities for learning and growth. What matters the most is how […]The Internet / Network Byte Sex - Paul Watt Byte-gender; not, "Yes! Please!"Good! Now that I have your attention let's solve a relatively simple problem, byte sex. A less sensational name for this concept is byte endianess. This is one of those concepts that you should at least be aware of, even if you don't have to pay much attention to it i Java Vacuole Encapsulation - Keyhole Software Encapsulation approach to bring data sources and implementations closer together, allowing reflection-like behavior in a format that mere mortals can read. Mobile Development Developer? 5 Reasons To Make A Mobile App - Michael Banzon #1 – You Already know programming Of course you know programming – you are a developer! You have already made several applications – maybe they are web apps, some server apps or desktop applications – it doesn't really matter. The only thing that matters is that code doesn't NoSQL Jump Start : Using MongoDB with C# - Bibhu Dutta CodeProject Among NoSQL databases, MongoDB is very much popular. For those who need an introduction, MongoDB is an open sourced document database providing high performance, availability, and automatic scaling. Being a document database, a record/row in MongoDB is know as document. The … Conti Other .NET Languages ADO.NET – How to call a stored procedure with output parameters? - Arun Ramachandran India CodeProject In the last article on ADO.Net, we have discussed about preventing SQL injection attack. You can read that article here. In this article, we will go over calling stored procedure with output parameters. Let’s understand this with an example. Our example will be based on tblEmployee F#12 : Arrays - Sacha Barber No language would be complete without arrays (at least in my opinion). They are an excellent structure. F# is of course no fool, and includes them (as you would expect), so this blog will concentrate on looking at using arrays in F#   Creating Arrays There are several ways to create arrays, just as Understanding Routing in ASP.NET MVC - Imran Abdul Ghani Understanding routing in ASP.NET MVC F#11 : Sequences - Sacha Barber Last time we looked at the List module, and we now proceed to look at the sequence module. You will in fact see a lot of similarities with the sequence module compared to the list module. The main difference between F# lists and F# sequence is pretty much the same as it is in C#|VB […] SharePoint Server String processing workflow actions for SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online - Anton Khritonenkov In this article I will demonstrate a set of custom string processing the workflow actions for SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online (Office 365). Out-of-the-box workflow actions have limited functionality of string processing, so I will show how to extend it by using the custom string processing wor Uncategorised Technical Blogs SSIS Do I Union All or Merge?? - derekman9707 SSIS - Do I Union All or Merge? Live Cricket Scoreboard using Node push back style, Bootstrap, jade part1 - RamuSangabathula CodeProject First I would like to save your valuable time before you read any further this article, please check the demo hosted here , you might have to wait a couple of seconds to see the dynamic behavior on the page. If you are interested in further reading, and would like to know how this ...Mor HTTP Error 500.52 (gzip compression) when using IIS as a reverse proxy - Markus Greuel IIS cannot rewrite gzip compressed responses from another web server, but you can prevent the response from being compressed. Creating a Culture of Challenge - Zachary Gardner Creating a culture of challenge Continual Self-Review - Zachary Gardner My fundamental assumptions about life seem to grow and change every single day. As I experience more, they become further refined. I hesitate to say that I’m sure of anything in life as I have been proven wrong time and time again. The set of things that I’d even speculate are true is a What Makes a Startup Great: Facebook, Lyft, Oculus VR - Zachary Gardner People gravitate towards principles and ways of thinking that can be used in nearly any situation. Ideals like “always be good” and “patience over rashness” are simple, yet they produce positive results in every situation they’re used. The more ubiquitous a principle is A developers guide to relationships - good and bad - Duncan Edwards Jones The key, the whole key and nothing but the key (so help me Codd)The relational model, invented in 1970 by E F Codd revolutionised computing.  It allowed the development of relational databases (such as Oracle, SQL Server and oh so many others) and opened up the data itself to being queried in ways t Newsletters I Trust - Zachary Gardner As I’ve said numerous times: I read a lot. Books are my favorite, but they are rarely relevant to programming. To keep up with the latest trends, I subscribe to a lot of different newsletters. The following are a list of my favorite in no particular order.   Hacker Newsletter http://www.hacker My Unit Test Environment - Paul Watt I discussed the merits of selecting a suitable unit test framework for your development project in my previous post. I described the qualities that I found most valuable in the test framework that I use, CxxTest. The qualities are xUnit framework, portability, simplicity, and flexibility. There are Three Stages of an Argument – Resolution - Zachary Gardner In my last post on the three stages of an argument, I discussed how to help group discussions be focused and productive. The following is the thesis for my argument: By focusing on observation, discussion, and resolution, group discussions at work can have a positive, actionable impact. There is ano Windows API MobileDevelopment: Using shFullScreen API to show hide Start icon - hjgode Uuups, sometimes we are looking for a way to do simple things and do not remeber how easy it was. Question: How can one hide/show the start icon in taskbar of Windows Mobile 6.1 (and before)? Answer: Use the API provided by Microsoft for this: SHFullScreen! No need to use FindWindow and subclass, ve Technical Blogs updated Applications & Tools TortoiseSVN pre-commit hook in C# - Save yourself some troubles! - morzel Have you ever committed code that was meant to stay on your machine? We all add temporary hacks to make development or debugging easier... And it's so easy to forget about them! © 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