Weekly Newsletter (25 Aug 2014)

147 articles posted last week that match your preferences. 25 listed. Welcome to the CodeProject Weekly Digest Read online version Monday, August 25, 2014 Switch to the Daily Build New Format A little spring cleaning on the layout and we're also limiting the goodness to just the top 25 articles. 150 a week was getting a little crazy to list. Any comments? Email me at chris@codeproject.com Android Tutorial Contest: $10K in Prizes Today marks the beginning of Round 3 in our ongoing Android Tutorial Contest. This round's topics are all about Android Input/Output and touch on topics such as handling keyboard input, accessing sensors, storing data, and interacting with other devices over Bluetooth, NFC, USB and Wi-Fi. You have three weeks to submit your Round 3 articles and entries, meanwhile we'll be nose deep in all Round 2 entries with the tough job of selecting the winners. Remember, there are $10,000 in total prizes. Check out the contest page for details on how to enter and then submit an article today for your chance to win. July Monthly Competition Winners Congratulations to the best articles and authors of July 2014! C# Winner Akhil Mittal Diving into OOP (Day 5): All About C# Access Modifiers   Runner-up Bwalsh490 How to create an IVR-based telephone client gate system in C#/XML/HTTP/PHP by using DTMF authentication C++: Winner Nish Sivakumar 7 reasons C++ devs will love the VS 14 CTP   Runner-up David O'Neil DWinLib 6: Pretty WinAPI Incorporation Database: Winner Omar Al Zabir Web-based real-time SQL Server Performance Dashboard   Runner-up Kundan Singh Chouhan Introducing K-Pattern: A Rapid Way to Make CRUD Operations with Entity Framework Web Dev: Winner Halil ibrahim Kalkan Using AngularJs, ASP.NET MVC, Web API and EntityFramework to build NLayered Single Page Web Applications   Runner-up Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira Html5 Image Markup Mobile: Winner twit88 Use Android Phone as Webcam and Surveillance Camera   Runner-up (Tie) Stuart Wheelwright Using Markdown for Effective Logging   Runner-up (Tie) Borja Prado Windows Phone 8.1 Media Editing API VB.NET: Winner Adalat Khan Delegates in .NET   Runner-up CodeMaster9 Make Your Own Tic Tac Toe Game "Everything Else"  Winner Mladen Janković Commodore 64 Emulator   Runner-up (Tie) Paulo Zemek Travelling Salesman - Genetic Algorithm   Runner-up (Tie) Florian Rappl Quantum Striker Weekly Poll Results Do you feel Open Source software is better than proprietary software? Survey period: 18 Aug 2014 to 25 Aug 2014 "It depends" is an obvious answer but think of your most common scenarios. Option Votes %   Yes, it's more reliable 237 14.35 Yes, it's more secure 165 9.99 Yes, it's cheaper (in terms of total cost) 605 36.64 Yes, it's fixed / updated more often 381 23.08 Yes, because we can fix / update / mod it ourselves 700 42.40 Yes, because there's more innovation in open source code 427 25.86 No (add your reasons in the comments section) 519 31.44 Responses 1651    Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100% This week's survey: Is coding addictive? Expanding active decision-making: The power of integrating business rules and events Sponsored by Red Hat By easing the process of integrating business events into automated decision-making, Red Hat JBoss Business Rules Management System (BRMS) is... Latest Additions ToDoList 6.9.B8 (Beta Release) - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks     (2,101 votes) by .dan.g., autoQA (posted over a year ago, updated yesterday) A hierarchical task manager with native XML support for custom reporting. Pivoting DataTable Simplified     (95 votes) by Anurag Gandhi (posted over a year ago, updated 4 days ago) A class to pivot a DataTable with various aggregate functions. Why We Should Love 'null'     (76 votes) by ChristianNeumanns (posted 2 months ago, updated 4 days ago) This article looks at popular techniques used to avoid null pointer errors and answers the question: Which is the best solution you should use in your code? HTML5/CSS3 graphic enhancement: buttons, inputs     (78 votes) by DrABELL (posted over a year ago, updated 6 days ago) Aesthetic enhancement of HTML5 web elements via pure CSS3; no image files required C# / C++ CLI Micro Chess (Huo Chess)     (74 votes) by Palavos (posted over a year ago, updated yesterday) An article about Huo Chess, a chess program in C++ and C# that attempts to be smaller in size than the Commodore-era Microchess Windows Development in C++, working with menus     (48 votes) by Espen Harlinn (posted over a year ago, updated 4 days ago) Windows API, menus, c++ lambda expressions, std::enable_shared_from_this Visual Studio Design Patterns add-in     (45 votes) by dmihailescu (posted 3 months ago, updated 2 days ago) A Visual Studio add-in that inserts some commonly known OO paterns into your working project. Travelling Salesman - Genetic Algorithm     (47 votes) by Paulo Zemek (posted 7 weeks ago, updated 4 days ago) This article presents a Genetic Algorithm that searches for the shortest path to visit many places and return to the original one. vmime.NET - Smtp, Pop3, Imap Library (for C++ and .NET)     (42 votes) by Elmue (posted 6 months ago, updated 4 days ago) 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. Group GridView Data     (42 votes) by Anurag Gandhi (posted over a year ago, updated 2 days ago) A custom GridView control which provides you an additional facility to group the data in gridview along with the facility to customise the Group Header and Group Footer Getting started with AngularJS and ASP.NET MVC - Part One     (33 votes) by JMK-NI (posted 2 weeks ago, updated 4 days ago) How to hit the ground running with AngularJS on ASP.NET MVC: Part 1 NeoLua (Lua for the .NET Dynamic Language Runtime)     (32 votes) by neolithos (posted 10 months ago, updated 2 days ago) NeoLua implements Lua as a .NET dynamic language. Dynamic Treeview with Drag and Drop by Kendo     (35 votes) by Mahsa Hassankashi (posted 4 weeks ago, updated 2 days ago) This article explains how to make data source for kendoTreeView, particularly it is designed for organization chart such as personals or documents which need nested query, after drag and drop one node to another one it will save it. Look at Demo Developing a Large Scale Application with a Single Page Application (SPA) using AngularJS     (30 votes) by Mark J. Caplin (posted 7 days ago, updated 12 hrs ago) AngularJS and the MVC/MVVM design patterns Rendering text with Direct2D & DirectWrite     (31 votes) by Espen Harlinn (posted over a year ago, updated 4 days ago) Direct2D, DirectWrite, Windows API, C++, std::shared_ptr and more Diving in OOP (Day 6): Understanding Enums in C# (A Practical Approach)     (30 votes) by Akhil Mittal (posted 6 days ago, updated 3 days ago) Diving in OOP (Day 6).My article of the series "Diving in OOP" will explain enum datatype in C#. Briefly exploring C# 6 new features     (30 votes) by Hassan Hashemi (posted 6 days ago, updated 4 days ago) briefly exploring most important new features of C# 6 Swanky Encryption/Decryption in C#     (37 votes) by 1337Architect (posted 6 weeks ago, updated 2 days ago) Handy classes to use the .NET Encryption/Decryption Open.NAT - A NAT Traversal library for .NET and Mono     (26 votes) by lucasontivero (posted 7 days ago, updated 3 days ago) A class library for port forwarding in NAT devices that support Universal Plug and Play (UPNP) and/or Port Mapping Protocol (PMP) View-View Model based WPF and XAML Implementational Patterns. (WPF and XAML Patterns of Code Reuse in Easy Samples. Part 2)     (23 votes) by Nick Polyak (posted 4 weeks ago, updated 5 days ago) View-View Model based implementational patterns Windows Development in C++, COM API clients     (23 votes) by Espen Harlinn (posted over a year ago, updated 4 days ago) Using the Facade Pattern to simplify development with COM based APIs' A C++ String class     (23 votes) by Espen Harlinn (posted over a year ago, updated 4 days ago) A fast, reference counted, copy-on-write string class An End-To-End Visual Studio LightSwitch 2013 HTML5 Application     (23 votes) by defwebserver (posted 5 months ago, updated yesterday) A Visual Studio 2013 LightSwitch HTML 5 Application Tutorial Fluentx: A Special .NET Library     (21 votes) by Samer Abu Rabie (posted 6 days ago) This article talks about Fluentx .NET Library Stopwatch     (19 votes) by Espen Harlinn (posted over a year ago, updated 4 days ago) Benchmark C++ std::vector vs raw arrays, move assignable/constructable & copy assignable/constructable © 2014 The Code Project.  All rights reserved. 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