Weekly Newsletter (21 Jul 2014)

164 articles last week match your preferences. Monday, July 21, 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 Android Tutorial Contest - $10K in Prizes We've just launched an Android Tutorial Contest to put together a series of beginner articles on Android and there is plenty of shiny loot to be won. Throughout the contest we'll release a series of article outlines on the Android development topics we want you to write about and you compete with fellow members to produce the best tutorials. The articles should be easy to read and, we hope, very easy to write. Keep it simple and get your readers up to speed as efficiently as possible. The deadline for the first three articles is fast approaching so get writing! Learn how to enter. Speaking of getting beginners into Android... the folks at Intel have been working to get new, young programmers into Android Development and tools like their HAXM technology and the new INDE suite are worth checking out if you're diving into a new Android project any time soon. cheers, Chris Maunder Advertisements Weekly Poll Results Do you use Open Source code in professional software? Survey period: 14 Jul 2014 to 21 Jul 2014 "Professional Software" meaning "code you were paid to write". Option Votes %   Yes, as often as I can 281 14.27 Yes, when it makes sense 1076 54.65 Yes, when there aren't any other sensible options 189 9.60 Yes in extreme or rare cases 129 6.55 No 200 10.16 I don't write professional software 94 4.77 Total 1969   100% This week's survey: Do you like Windows 8.1? Most popular new articles 14 Jul 2014 - 20 Jul 2014 ToDoList 6.9.B3 (Beta Release) - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g., autoQA Learn MVC (Model View Controller) step by step in 7 days – Day 1 - Shivprasad koirala Diving in OOP (Day 1) : Polymorphism and Inheritance (Early Binding/Compile Time Polymorphism) - Akhil Mittal Convolutional Neural Network Workbench - Filip D'haene MinHook - The Minimalistic x86/x64 API Hooking Library - Tsuda Kageyu Research How to Apply Changes to Your DB2 Database with Minimal Risk Watch this new webcast to learn how to evolve your software and databases to support your changing business needs without affecting performance. Find out how to reduce risk, compare database objects, automate scripting and research, and replay database workload to simulate the production environment. Download Now Latest Additions 164 articles overall. 112 new, 52 updated. New articles added .NET Framework Relationship in Entity Framework Using Code First Approach With Fluent API - Sandeep Singh Shekhawat In this article, you will learn about relationships in Entity Framework using the Code First Approach with Fluent API. Algorithms & Recipes Evolution .NET - Maximizing the Unknown - D. Infuehr How to optimize a given problem towards a calculable optimum To Solve a Cubic Equation - Mosi_62 Gerolamo Cardano published a method to solve a cubic equation in 1545. There is a description of this method on Wikipedia. But it is not too detailed and on the German Wikipedia. In fact, the last part is missing and without this part, one cannot implement it into an algorithm. So I thought I could Android Article 2 - Setting Up Your Android Development Environment - Debabrata_Das This article will talk about how to setup Android Development Environment Creating Charts in Android using the AChartEngine Library - Azim Zahir This article explains how you can create charts in an Android application. Printing from a Xamarin.Android Application Developed with Visual Studio - Dominic Burford Printing from a Xamarin.Android application developed with Visual Studio Diagnosing Memory Usage in a Xamarin.Android Application Developed with Visual Studio - Dominic Burford Diagnosing memory usage in a Xamarin.Android application developed with Visual Studio Introduction to Android - History - sandeepten910 History and basic Introduction of Android operating system Applications & Tools jQuery-ko based "components" for web dev: a step beyond MVVM towards OO web dev! - rogerGomez Develop web pages by using and defining jQuery-ko based reusable "components" in a tree-hierarchy manner Issue Tracker - Mihai MOGA Did you spot any bugs today? Than this tool might save some of your time Flexible Framework For Attaching Number of Items [Count] to Menus - Syed Asif Iqbal Article will demonstrate how to develop generalize framework for creating Outlook style Auto Refresh Count of Menu Items Arduino Making an Audio Spectrum analyzer with Bass.dll, C# and Arduino - webmaster442 A mini howto on using bass.dll & bass.net wrapper. Arduino Hardware Random Sequence Generator with Java Interface - Mark H Bishop Build an Arduino Hardware Random Number Generator and use it from Java ASP.NET Understanding, Using and Customizing ASP.NET Identity System for Authentication and Authorization - Rahul Rajat Singh In this article we will look into ASP.NET Identity System which comes as the default authentication and authorization mechanism with ASP.NET MVC 5 internet application template. We will try to understand the ASP.NET Identity system and compare it with the ASP.NET simple membership providor and the c ASP.NET Identity 2.0 Extending Identity Models and Using Integer Keys Instead of Strings - John Atten A deeper look at extending the core set of models afforded by the Identity 2.0 framework, and re-implementing the basic Identity Samples project using integer keys for all of our models, instead of the default string keys which are the default. Exception Log with Request Detail in ASP.NET MVC - diponsust Exception log with request detail in ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET MVC Edit Primary Key Values for Composite Keys - Matthew Katakam ASP.NET MVC Edit Primary Key Values for Composite Keys Single Page Application using Knockout JS and ASP.NET MVC 4 and Web API - Khademul Basher Single Page Application development using Knockout JS, ASP.NET MVC 4 and Web API ATL Automatic Dump Collection and Analysis - Dan Hu Automatic Dump collection and Analysis Bugs & Workarounds Is it Really Better to 'Return an Empty List Instead of null'? - Part 2 - ChristianNeumanns This article aims to answer the question: Should we return an empty list or 'null' from functions? C / C++ Language A Game of Life Implementation using Direct2D - Hans Just for fun, a Conway's Game of Life application with many features using MFC Direct2D classes Writing HTML content to a webpage's DOM with a C++ BHO - Vasily Tserekh How to write your own HTML content into any webpage through BHOs in C++ C# The Semantic Web and Natural Language Processing - Marc Clifton Using AlchemyAPI, process and filter RSS feeds in the Higher Order Programming Environment Getting started with Visual Studio Editor Viewport Adornment Extensions - Shemeer NS This article will help you to start with Visual Studio Editor Viewport Adornment Extensions, Sample extension 'File Properties Info'. Top 10 VoIP IP telephony interview questions and answers with an extra C# softphone development tutorial - pajudev It is a list of the most common VoIP-related interview questions that can be asked by VoIP-interested employers. The article also contains a simple softphone example project in C# that you can use as a first step if you would like to get a taste into the field of VoIP SIP software development. Try Catch handler for C# - diponsust async / await demo - Sharath C V A simple async / await demo Client side scripting BackBone Tutorial – Part 4: CRUD Operations on BackboneJs Models using HTTP REST Service - Rahul Rajat Singh In this article we will discuss how we can perform CRUD operations on a backbone model using a REST based HTTP service. BackBone Tutorial – Part 3: More about Backbone Models - Rahul Rajat Singh In this article we will look at some more concepts related to backbone models. We will try to see how we can override the default model behaviour. We will look at the signification of model IDs, how we can validate a model and finally how a model can be persisted either locally or on a server. Easier Way to Test IE Compatibility (pre IE9.x) w/ app - newton.saber Attempt to make cross-browser compatible JavaScript dev easier. JavaScript Extension / Inheritance: jsExtender - Donny Redmond An easy to use JavaScript Inheritance / Extension Library. Cryptography & Security Using Encrypted Files Without Decrypting To Disk - Matthew Givens Showing how to decrypt files in memory in order to maintain data security. Custom Controls Using Knockout.js to Control Cascading Selects - davekahn An easy way to control the lists of options in multiple related SELECT controls Database Client Side Multi-Column Dynamic Pivot - Jesús López Méndez This article introduces you to client side multi-column dynamic pivot, a cleaner, simpler and elegant alternative to the complex and convoluted dynamic server side pivot. Create First SSRS Report with SQL Server Analysis Services OLAP Cube - Mubin M. Shaikh This Article will give you a good start for Creating SSRS Report First time with SQL Server Analysis Services OLAP Cube Inheritance in Entity Framework: Table Per Type - Sourav Kayal Inheritance in Entity Framework: Table per Type Design and Architecture Dependency Injection in MVC Using Unity IoC Container - Sourav Kayal In this article we will learn the implementation of dependency injection using the Unity container Dialogs and Windows SPC XBAR and Range Chart - syed shanu XBAR and Range Chart using C# Document / View Json Parser, Viewer and Serializer - Bjørn A custom Json state machine parser, viewer and serializer for Json data Sass in Drupal - Latika surse How to use SASS in Drupal ? GDI Using buffering techniques for large list controls - Chris Copeland Making use of buffering techniques to efficiently and flawlessly render large quantities of items in list controls. General Graphics Programming Cairo text output beyond the 'toy' text API (C# X11) - a proof of concept - Steffen Ploetz How to draw text unsing Cairo from C# with full control over character positioning, linebreaking and so on. Libraries Object Tracking on Android and Desktop - lessthanoptimal Simple tutorial on visual object tracking with BoofCV on Android and the Desktop Miscellaneous Enhanced CollectionEditor Framework - _Plutonix An easy to use, customizable Collection Editor; with inheritance support Netduino GPS using the Netduino - Bob Cravens I recently blogged about using the Arduino board as a GPS data logger. I have been using this to collect geo-location data for the Truck Tracker application. In this post, I will explore using the Netduino for that purpose. A Simple Watchdog for the Netduino - Mario Vernari The following is discussion and quick program used to test a "watchdog" for your Netduino OpenGL SimpleScene: 3d scene manager in C# and OpenTK - David Jeske A simple open-source scene manager, and WavefrontOBJ file loader in C# and OpenGL. Testing and QA Mocking External WCF Service in MVC Controller - Using Unity Dependency Injection - Bert O Neill Mock (moq) your service in your MVC controller Third Party Products and Tools SilverPop Integration - Rajan Patekar Web Services Implementing a WADO Server using Orthanc - Sébastien Jodogne This article explains how to create a basic WADO server to provide Web access to DICOM images. The WADO server is implemented as a plugin for Orthanc, a lightweight DICOM store. Windows Presentation Foundation Dynamic View Model Part 2: Key/Ref - Bryan Croteau A technique for generating ViewModel objects dynamically, with foreign key-like references. Articles updated .NET Framework Finite Element Method Programming in C#.NET - Ehsan.MA How to use BriefFiniteElement.NET to analyse solids and structures Ajax Safe Factory Pattern - Private instance state in JavaScript - Duarte Cunha Leão Enabling private state in any JavaScript object. Algorithms & Recipes Convolutional Neural Network Workbench - Filip D'haene A workbench to create, train, and test convolutional neural networks against the MNIST and CIFAR-10 datasets Building a General Purpose Interpreter, Math Engine and Parser in C# - Kashif_Imran An easy to understand and use language interpreter, run time parser and calculation engine from scratch in C#. Swanky Encryption/Decryption in C# - 1337Architect Handy classes to use the .NET Encryption/Decryption Android EPUB Viewer for Android with Text to Speech - dteviot This is an Android application that shows the basics of building an EPUB file viewer for Android. Building a Xamarin.Android Application with Visual Studio and Nant - Dominic Burford Building a Xamarin.Android / Visual Studio application using Nant Applications & Tools ToDoList 6.9.B3 (Beta Release) - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g., autoQA A hierarchical task manager with native XML support for custom reporting. ASP.NET Learn MVC (Model View Controller) step by step in 7 days – Day 1 - Shivprasad koirala As the article's name says, learn MVC. Ao the agenda is simple, we are going to learn ASP.NET MVC in 7 days. CRUD Opearations using AutoMapper in an MVC Application - Akhil Mittal How to do custom mapping and entity to entity mapping with the help of AutoMapper. ASP.NET MVC 5 Identity: Extending and Modifying Roles - John Atten In a recent article I took a rather long look at extending the ASP.NET 5 Identity model, adding some custom properties to the basic IdentityUser class, and also some basic role-based identity management. We did not discuss modifying, extending, or working directly with Roles, beyond seeding the d ASP.NET MVC and Identity 2.0: Understanding the Basics - John Atten On March 20, 2014, the ASP.NET team released the RTM version 2.0 of the new Identity framework. The new release brings with it some long-awaited new features, and marks a substantial expansion of the security and authorization capabilities available to ASP.NET applications of all types. The ASP.NE SingleOrDefault and FirstOrDefault Methods in LINQ to SQL - Sandeep Singh Shekhawat This article explains the differences between the SingleOrDefault and FirstOrDefault Methods in LINQ to SQL. Understanding ASP.NET Templates - Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter How to access controls created from ASP.NET template... ASP.NET Controls Handle GridView.OnSorting() and create sorting expression dynamically using LINQ - Alexander Batishchev How to create a sorting expression from GridViewSortEventArgs using LINQ Expression Tree. C# Diving in OOP (Day 1) : Polymorphism and Inheritance (Early Binding/Compile Time Polymorphism) - Akhil Mittal This article will cover almost every OOPS concept that a novice/beginner developer hunt for, and not only beginners, the article's purpose is to be helpful to experience professionals also who need to sometimes brush-up their concepts or who prepare for interviews Diving into OOP (Day 5): All About C# Access Modifiers (Public/Private/Protected/Internal/Sealed/Constants/Static and Readonly Fields) - Akhil Mittal This article discusses all about access modifiers in c# (public/private/protected/internal/sealed/constants/static & readonly fields) Random Thoughts.. - John Underhill (Steppenwolfe) CSRG random generator in C# and the NIST STS Library (Huge update!) Solving the .resx Merge Problem - Tom Clement This article provides a console utility and a method for extending a merge tool to ensure that only real changes (not reordering) appear when merging files from different source control branches. Code Generation Mo+ - A model oriented programming language and IDE for model oriented development - Dave Clemmer Introducing the Mo+ language and the Mo+ Solution Builder IDE. Mo+- An evolution of the template based code generator - Dave Clemmer Comparing the relative effectiveness of CodeSmith, T4, and Mo+ in meeting code generation requirements. Mo+ - Supersizing Entity Framework to Generate a Working Multi-tier Application - Dave Clemmer Using Mo+ to generate a working application, which includes an Entity Framework model, OData services, view model client, and WPF application. Custom Controls ASP.NET MVC HTML Helper for the jqGrid - Rui Inacio The MvcJqGrid is an HTML helper that eases greatly the implementation of the jqGrid in MVC 3 with the Razor view engine or MVC WebForms. Database Transformalizing NorthWind - dale.newman Combining de-normalization, transformation, replication, and awesome-ness. DBKeeperNet - Keeps Your DB Schema Up-to-date - voloda2 An article describing a simple .NET library which simply keeps your database schema up-to-date. Building on My SQL Storage Engines and APIs to Conduct Complex Analysis Using SQL Query Language: Part 3 - SarmadAsghar Building on My SQL Storage Engines and APIs to Conduct Complex Analysis Using SQL Query Language: Part 2 - SarmadAsghar Building on My SQL Storage Engines and APIs to Conduct Complex Analysis Using SQL Query Language: Part 2 Design and Architecture SCRUM explained - Eduardo Antonio Cecilio Fernandes This is yet another article explaining SCRUM, explanning how it works and giving my perspectives on the framework. Augmenting Test Driven Development with a Model Oriented Approach - Dave Clemmer Using Mo+ to augment a test driven approach to develop an application. Dialogs and Windows Control Chart Using .Net - syed shanu USL/LSL Control Chart using .Net for Quality Control. DLLs & Assemblies Load DLL From Embedded Resource - adriancs Merge DLL with App Into Single EXE Game Development Quantum Striker - Florian Rappl Architecture, design and implementation of a cross-platform Windows Desktop / Windows Store space shoot-em-up game. GDI+ Drawing Images With Sizing Paddings - DebugErr Visual Style-like image stretching for custom skinning General Graphics My first collision algorithm - Vasily Tserekh Collission algorithms aren't rocket science and this article proves this idea. Grid & Data Controls How to fake "freeze" last row in datagridview. Create a footer row for a datagridview. - Heriberto Lugo Footer row to sum columns in a datagridview. HTML / CSS HTML5 Event Calendar/Scheduler - Dan Letecky Weekly HTML5 event calendar with CSS themes, drag and drop support, date navigator. PHP/AJAX and ASP.NET MVC backends. Java Apache Hadoop for Windows Platform - Praba Prakash Apache Hadoop 2.3 for Big Data Analytics Miscellaneous List of 3rd Party .NET UI & Reporting Components - adriancs A quick reference of 3rd party .NET UI & Reporting Components. (C#, VB.NET, Winform, WPF, ASP.NET, Silverlight, Windows Phone, Mono) USB IR with c8051 - ingvar8 USB IR with c8051 OpenGL 3D Plaza in C# with opengl Exploration - Vasily Tserekh A simple 3D exploration of a plaza in OpenGL and C# Product Showcase Avoiding Database Deployment Disasters – 7 Tips - Red Gate Software If you're thinking about adopting database source control, or have a system but aren't using it consistently yet, here are seven tips to avoid deployment disasters. Tools and IDE Repository Utility - Github-style Activity Chart - Alexander Sharykin Creates activity charts for SVN repositories Validation How to Validate ASP.NET and MVC Web Forms Using Business Rules Engine - Misha1964 Learn how to validate complex web forms using business rules engine 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 Web Services A Dynamic Rest Client Proxy with the DLR - Don Kackman An easy to use Rest client using the Dynamic Language Runtime Selfhosted Secure WCF by Id password, custom validation - Himanshu Thawait No config file needed – all setting in code only, No IIS – Self hosted, consume by channel factory Win32/64 SDK & OS MinHook - The Minimalistic x86/x64 API Hooking Library - Tsuda Kageyu Provides the basic part of Microsoft Detours functionality for both x64/x86 environments. Windows Presentation Foundation An active button in WPF - bvgheluwe Change the appearance of a button that is used in a navigation menu, based on the value of a property of that button. New Tips and Tricks added .NET Framework Investigating Managed Assembly Load Failures - himanshu agarwal How to troubleshoot managed assembly load failures? Ajax JavaScript: for(var i;i - essence You would have think they'd have fixed this by now. I wanted to be sure, and here's the test. Algorithms & Recipes JavaScript Quick Sort Array Proto Type Method - Cy Scott Applications & Tools Install Rails 4 and MySQL Server on Windows 7/8 - Rocky R. Fernandes Install Rails 4 and MySQL Server on Windows 7/8 C# A Pagination Solution using IEnumerable - Marlon Hizole An elegant approach to pagination Fast Voronoi Diagram in C# - Burhan Joukhadar Fortune Voronoi Diagram in C# Switch statement alternative - Nitin Sawant switch statement alternative using anonymous code Easy Way to Call a Native COM Method which has a Parameter of type: HWND from C# code - Anton Kaminsky Easy way to call a native COM method which has a parameter of type: HWND from C# code Client side scripting JavaScript Toast notification for the websites and HTML5 apps using toastr.js - Rahul Rajat Singh In this small article, I will talk about toastr.js. A simple JavaScript library to create toast notifications for websites and single page applications. Background I recently came across a requirement which needed toast notification on a website. Random Number Guessing Game using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript (knockoutjs) - John-ph A simple JavaScript program "Random Number Guessing Game" using knockoutjs Using $index in Knockout.js - diponsust Using $index in Knockout.js Database Interview Question: What are the Differences between @@IDENTITY, SCOPE_IDENTITY() and IDENT_CURRENT() - Sandeep Singh Shekhawat How to get the last inserted identity value of an auto increment column of database tables using SQL Server variable (@@IDENITY) and functions (SCOPE_IDENTITY() and IDENT_CURRENT()) Restart a SQL Server Scheduled Job If Hanged - anki.mathur Restart hanged SQL Server scheduled job Changing Databases at Run-time using Entity Framework - Matthew Givens How to change databases at run-time in a user-friendly manner. SPLIT STRING INTO ROW / COLUMNS USING DELIMITERS - kasbaba This tip is to help anyone trying to split strings in SQL into Rows and Columns based on Row/Column Delimiters Date and Time Calculate the available time of a shared resource - Jani Giannoudis Get available time periods, restricted by a maximum usage count. Dialogs and Windows ConnectionString for Winform and Reportsource from a txt File - SREENATH GANGA To set the Connectionstring and the other configuration variables in a file and acess it dynamically DLLs & Assemblies Friend Assembly using C# - Jasminder Singh This article explains how to access internal classes outside the assembly iPhone iOS Tricks: Giving UISwitch's "on" property will/did change observable notifications - Leslie Godwin The UISwitch's UIControlEventValueChanged event is pretty useless if you'd like to get a notification only when the switch value actually changes. Parsing JSON Response from Web service to NSDictionary in iOS – Objective C - Amogh Natu This tip shows how to parse JSON response received from a web service into an NSDictionary object. Libraries Cinchoo - Simplified Command Line Argument Parser - Cinchoo Easy to use command line argument parser, with loaded features like usage creation, type-safe management etc Netduino Rock-Paper-Scissors with Netduino and Arduino - Georgi Hadzhigeorgiev Having been constantly persuaded by my 6 year-old daughter to play Rock-Paper-Scissors I decided that we can make it a bit more interesting, so I've put following schematics on the prototyping shield. Printing Direct print for microsoft_report (RDLC) - sirwan mualla direct print for microsoft report (RDLC) without preview Programming Tips log4net for multiple build configurations - Ryszard Dżegan How to prepare log4net or other custom, xml-based configuration file for particular build or environment Using Extension Methods To Avoid XML Problems - Richard Deeming This is an alternative for "Using Extension Methods To Avoid XML Problems" Progress Controls VB.Net Progress Bar - Single or Multi-Threaded - AlexF185 A dynamic progress bar control easy to use and literally plug and play SharePoint Server How to Append HTML Tags of Content Editor Webpart using JavaScript in SharePoint - MANPREET SINGH How to append HTML Tags of content Editor webpart using JavaScript in SharePoint SharePoint REST : GetUserId by Account/Login Name - Chintankumar Panchasara The below tip will help developers retrieving user id by account name using SharePoint REST APIs. SQL Reporting Services Simple SSRS Report using MDX Query - AjitKumarThakur ITC This tip contains simple step by step solution to read SSAS cube data using MDX query and display in SSRS report. Tips and Tricks updated Client side scripting Using the jQuery unobtrusive validator with Twitter Bootstrap tooltips - Cristian Moldovan jQuery unobtrusive validation plugin with Twitter Bootstrap 3 showing error messages as tooltips. Web Security Encrypt ConnectionString in Web.Config - Yamin Khakhu Encrypting the configuration in Web.Config Windows Presentation Foundation Top and Bottom Appbar in XAML - Shah Ankita Top and Bottom Appbar in XAML New Technical Blogs added .NET Framework MsBuild Notes - MarkPearlCoZa MSBuild msdn reference Script everything but complie with MsBuildFile extension .build Empty Build Script Setting the default target Add a DefaultsTargets attribute to the project element with the TargetName being the name of the target.Depenencies Compiling a VS Client side scripting Strongly Typed JavaScript (TypeScript)–No excuse now for not diving deep into JavaScript!! - Chinmoy Mohanty The mainstay of .NET or for that matter, C# has been its strong type checking which we get at compile time. Its so much a part of C#, that we somewhat take it for granted. If we remove Type checking in C#/VS, we'll be severely handicapped for sure. Type checking and Intellisense  are the 2 […] JavaScript does NOT support Method Overloading–Thats true!! - Chinmoy Mohanty A few weeks back I blogged about how "surprisingly" WCF Operation Contracts do not support Method overloading, due to the way the Web is designed. It may come as a surprise to a lot of folks that even JavaScript does NOT support method overloading in the strictest sense. For people from C# and Java Database No more stray user Tables in Master - Tim Golisch The Master database often seems to be the "Lost & Found" bin of the SQL Server world. There are two popular ways for preventing this kind of problem. Read on. Game Development Taking the Romance Out of Software Development - Kevin Mack This is an article I've been wanting to write for a while, and its mainly to voice some observations that I've had in my ten years in the software development industry.  In my time, so far in this industry I have been truly lucky enough to have worked on some really fun and exciting projects, and al Java Finite Sequence Generators in Java 8 – Part 2 - TheCannyCoder In the last couple of articles we looked at generators. First we looked at ways of generating an infinite sequence. In the second we saw a way of generating a finite sequence. Let’s look at a few more aspects before we move on. In the finite sequence article, we saw that unless we wanted to [& Libraries Programmatically make(fake ;)) HTTP Requests using WebRequest, WebResponse and WebClient - Chinmoy Mohanty Its without a doubt that Microsoft .NET provides us with wonderful APIs to interact with a variety of interfaces/entities. One such API/library exists in the System.Net namespace. WebRequest and WebResponse are two such libraries which help us in programatically making HTTP Requests and analyse the Other .NET Languages Multilingual App Toolkit–Give your app some global appeal - BC3Tech Sure, you're a good dev and you know that you should be putting all your strings in a RESX file if for no other reason than to centralize them so you can only only have to update them in one place. And maybe you do get some translations to other languages (good for you!). But […]CodeProject--> Programming Tips Eliminating #if Preprocessor Directives - Derik Palacino Maybe it's just me, maybe I'm old school, or maybe I'm not old school enough Reviews on Third Party Products and Tools WCF RESTful service hosting on IIS6 and consuming by jQuery - M.Hussain. Couple of days ago I needed to deploy a WCF RESTfull service on IIS6.  Before then I never deployed RESTfull service on IIS6 so it came up with quite configurations for me. While I was deploying this web service on IIS6, I as usual Goggled for some configuration related help, although I found, but m Philly CC 2014 : City of Coding Love - Kevin Mack What a great weekend!  I'm finally back, but those of you who follow me on twitter already know that this weekend I spent it in Philadelphia, at the Philly.net Code Camp. So to start, this code camp has grown a lot of the past few years, and its a credit to the staff of the usergroup that this is th SharePoint Server Analyze and start using API of SharePoint App Store to collect data about apps. - Anton Khritonenkov SharePoint App Store already exists for two years, but there are not so much apps published yet and quality of existing apps is questionable. Nonetheless App store and Office 365 platform are evolving and new apps appear every month. This article is the first in the cycle of articles about analyzing STL Dissecting the C++ STL Vector: Part 1 – Introduction - Hadi Brais CodeProjectThis is the beginning of a series about the vector container of the C++ Standard Template Library. While there are numerous resources discussing how and when to use this container, this series will be a little bit more advanced. We … Continue reading → Uncategorised Technical Blogs Certification? Not For Me - The Proactive Programmer Microsoft offer a wide range of certifications for developers working with their stack. These are divided into five categories: 1. Server - Windows Server, Exchange Server, Lync, Sharepoint 2. Desktop - Windows 3. Applications - Office, Office 365, Microsoft Dynamics 4. Database - SQL Server 5. Deve The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Programmers - The Proactive Programmer I first read Stephen Covey’s book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,  in my early twenties. It’s a great, thought-provoking book that tries to simplify life’s biggest questions and challenges into a handful of practices and principles. Could the application of these habits m Saving prices as decimal in mongodb - Gilly Barr When working with prices in C#, you should always work with the 'decimal' type.Working with the 'Double' type can lead to a variety of rounding errors when doing calculations with them, and is more intended for mathematical equations.(I don't want to go into details about what problems th Introducing Toppler - Cybermaxs Introducting Toppler Done Done - The Proactive Programmer At one of my first jobs, as part of my introduction to the team, my new boss sat me down and bluntly told me: Please don’t tell me something is done, unless it is actually done. A few years later, in a different job, my manager introduced me to the brilliant term ‘done done‘. It How to become a dinosaur! - Kevin Mack So this past week I was talking to a few new hires at our office.  People who this is really their first step out into not only development but their first step into a professional career.  And it's always refreshing to see how much optimism these people have.  Showing up every day grinning like idi TDD – Should I or Shouldn't I? - The Proactive Programmer TDD is great, but it can be tough going at times. Over the past ten years or so I have had a somewhat rocky relationship with TDD. There have been times when I employed it religiously, and others when I consciously chose not to. When I first tried it, working through Uncle Bob Martin's famous [̷ Operation Contract Overloading in WCF.. Not your usual Polymorphism! - Chinmoy Mohanty There is no denying the fact that Microsoft has made life easy for Developers, both Windows and Web. Over the years MS have come up with great IDEs using which any High School Student could go ahead and build a fully functional application(Yes, it’s that easy). Microsoft makes things easy for How to safely convert enums - jgauffin Converting between different types of enums is quite easy and it typically works fine. For a while. But changed business requirements might require that you modify the enums, and it’s easy to forget a conversion somewhere. So let’s say that … Continue reading → Web Security Journey of 50 articles at Web Development Tutorial - Imran Abdul Ghani For last few months, my focus was to explore Microsoft ASP.NET MVC features and learn to build application using ASP.NET MVC with Entity Framework. My last ASP.NET MVC Tutorial was about ASP.NET MVC Html Helpers (A Must Know). It completes a figure of 50 articles on Web Development Tutorial blog rel Web Services Web API, or Cutting out the middle man - Kevin Mack Ok, so I'm back with another blog post.  Tonight I sit here, with the wife and the munchkin passed out and am taking this singular opportunity to catch up on the Blacklist and thinking about the latest blog post.  And then it hit me, Web API. This past week I've been doing a lot of reading and resea Tracking "active" clients using method parameter inspection in a WCF web service - Alekz IntroductionWeb services are recommended to be stateless,that is, clients should not rely or depend upon session information in the service side. But the truth is, inalmost every client/server application, session information is necessary andshould be stored somewhere: in a database, in a separate s Consuming and Deploying ASP.NET WebApi Services – Gotchas!! - Chinmoy Mohanty Last week I posted about how every web programmer should know about the RESTful nature of Web and start using Asp.NET MVC 4 Web Api to accomplish the same. The post was accompanied by a sample HTTP GET resource call to an ASP.NET Web Api controller action. So, I believe you people have already start JSON and RESTful Web services using ASP.NET MVC WebApi–Its what every Web Programmer should know ! - Chinmoy Mohanty In my last post I indicated as to how Microsoft & MS technologies have made programming for the web simple and easy. I also suggested how these same MS technologies have created misinformed web developers (like me) as well. All the abstraction over the RESTful nature of HTML (or HTTP) have solved at Windows API Windows and The Internet of Things ! - Chris Boss Having just read an interesting article by Paul Thurott, about Microsofts Internet of Things SDK built upon 32 bit x86 Windows and using Intels Galileo device (an x86 device the size of the Raspberry PI device) which uses Intels tiny system on a chip CPU (Quark), I found very interesting one of the Windows Communication Foundation Uploading/Downloading a file using WCF REST service in .NET 3.5 - Chinmoy Mohanty Last week I blogged about how to create a RESTful service using WCF and how it was to actually not learn anything in order to make your existing WCF service RESTful. Converting a normal WCF service to being RESTful might be an easy task, but when it comes to streaming files over a REST call [… Creating and consuming a RESTful service using WCF and JavaScript - Chinmoy Mohanty REST !! REST !! REST !! It’s the buzz word recently with the advent of mobile revolution. You know what’s more worse than not having heard about a Buzz word!! Its having heard about it, but having no idea of its implications or practical implementation. Sometime back I blogged about how WCF Contracts Simplified - Imran Abdul Ghani Basically a WCF Contract is an agreement between the two parties i.e. a Service and a Client. In Windows Communication Foundation, Contracts are categorized as behavioral or structural. Behavioral Contracts ServiceContract attribute is used to mark a type as Service Contract that contains operations Windows Phone 7/8 Localizing your app name and tile on Windows Phone 8 - BC3Tech This past week we've been presented with quite a few reasons to make sure that when we develop, we're thinking globally, not just locally in terms of who's going to be using and downloading our app: US, India and Brazil are top Windows Phone Markets- ReportKarbonn Mobiles to launch three Windows Pho © 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