Weekly Newsletter (4 Aug 2014)

200 articles last week match your preferences. Monday, August 04, 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: 3 New Article Topics Released Yesterday marked the deadline for the first three tutorials in the competition series and our judges are already busy reviewing all the excellent entries that were submitted. The next round of competition focuses on Android UI/UX design, and the outline of topics that you need to cover in Articles #4, #5 and #6 are now published on the contest page. You have three weeks to write and submit the tutorials for this round. Try to keep them as simple and concise as possible, and remember that I'll be following along with the articles myself as I delve into developing my very own (and very first) Android app. There is $10,000 in prizes up for grabs, so what are you waiting for... write a beginner's Android tutorial and enter the enter the contest today! cheers, Chris Maunder Advertisements Weekly Poll Results What's the hardest bit about writing an app? Survey period: 28 Jul 2014 to 4 Aug 2014 We'll assume writing the actual code is the easy bit... Option Votes %   Interpreting specs (or lack thereof) 792 48.56 Getting the architecture right (without redoing it 3 times) 551 33.78 Dealing with the compiler / framework / libraries / OS etc 225 13.80 Ensuring it works on different hardware / browsers / systems 485 29.74 Ensuring it's fast / small / resource friendly enough 242 14.84 Getting the User Experience and UI / graphics spot on 540 33.11 Testing sufficiently 503 30.84 Dealing with the client 548 33.60 Other 80 4.90 Responses 1631    Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100% This week's survey: Is the amount of legacy code you're responsible for increasing or decreasing? Most popular new articles 28 Jul 2014 - 3 Aug 2014 ToDoList 6.9.B6 (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 MVC interview questions with answers - Shivprasad koirala, Marla Sukesh Peer to Peer File Sharing Through WCF - Amir Jalilifard Learn MVC (Model View Controller) Step by Step in 7 Days – Day 3 - Shivprasad koirala, Marla Sukesh Research Toad Oracle: Tips to Simplify Database Administration and Development Are you leveraging all of Toad's powerful features? In this on-demand webcast, Oracle ACE and Toad Product Architect Bert Scalzo discusses Toad's hidden functionality, and how it can make your job easier. Watch it today. Download Now Latest Additions 200 articles overall. 143 new, 57 updated. New articles added .NET Framework Introducing K-Pattern: A Rapid Way to Make CRUD Operations with Entity Framework - Kundan Singh Chouhan This article is all about of my developed entity framework pattern named "K-Pattern" Code First Migrations With Entity Framework - Sandeep Singh Shekhawat This article will provide answers to the following questions relevant to relationships in Entity Framework: whether or not to create a database, how to add / remove a field from an existing table, how to avoid data loss and how to get a database script that has the changes. Anonymous Methods and Lambda Expressions in .NET - Adalat Khan Anonymous methods and lambda expressions in .NET Algorithms & Recipes Using a rolling hash to break up binary files - Clay Borkholm Using C# and a Rabin-Karp rolling hash, we'll break a file into identifiable chunks A*: In Gratitude for Seunghyop Back's Introduction - Member 8793129 The results and learnings of tinkering with an existing A* implementation. Corporate projects & human resource management using Banker's algorithm - Rakesh Waghulde This will show the simple and useful way to implement Banker's algorithm in managing & scheduling projects,their resources & to give effective solution. Android Article 1 - Introduction to Android - Ranjan.D In this article you will be learning the basics about Android, It's architecture stack etc. Also it covers the brief summary about Android, comparison with other phones etc. Hello Android - The Hello World Application - Varavut learn to develop your first Android application Setting up Android Development Environment and Tips for Beginners - V.Naveen The article referes to Setting Up android development environment, basic information about the Android Studio edge over Eclipse ADT and beginners Tips to develop for Android. Article 3: Creating a Simple Hello World Android Project - Ranjan.D In this article you will be learning how to code a simple Hello World Android App and build, test and run the same in your physical device. In addition to this, you will learn the basic files and components of an android app. Article 3: "Saying Hello World with Android Studio" - V.Naveen It is the article for the first application with Android Studio by saying "Hello World!", I have tried to brief every details to guide readers to create their first application through Android Studio and surly providing a little fun to Deploy on Virtual as well as Physical Android Device. Thanks Writing Games with C++ for Android on a Mac - Setting Up - _Maxxx_ A step-by-step beginners guide to setting up a development environment to write games using Cocos2d-X 3.2 on a Mac Create Your 1st Android Application - Ahmed Alaa El-Din Help Beginners to create their 1st Android Application by a step-by-step guide Brainless Android - Introduction - BrainlessLabs (Brainlesslabs.com) A gentle introduction to android. Hallo - flavored - World - K2DaC2 "Hello World" example for google and non-google Android development with different variations of the App Starting Android development on Windows - Leandro Taset Set up your own environment for Android development on Windows, from the ground up and everything in between. Creating a Simple Hello World Android Project - Peter Leow Getting real with Android by writing your first app to say Hello to the World. Installing MoSync for Android (and other mobile platforms) - K Stock Article #2: How to install the multi-mobile-platform MoSync development environment Article 2 - Setting Up Your Android Development Environment - Ranjan.D In this article you will be learning how to set up your android development environment, Creating android virtual device. Also you will see a comparison about Eclipse vs Android. Introduction to Android - Peter Leow Kick start the learning journey to Android development with an introduction to Android, a comparison with other mobile platforms, followed by a high-level overview of Android architecture and the application components. Setting Up Your Android Development Environment - Sushil Sh. How to setup android development enviornment using eclipse and Android studio. Setting Up Your Android Development Environment - Peter Leow Getting ready and putting together all the development and testing tools into an integrated development environment for Android. Writing Games with C++ for Android on a PC - Setting Up - _Maxxx_ A step-by-step beginners guide to setting up a development environment to write games using Cocos2d-X 3.2 on a PC Hello Web Android - Zach B A simple but powerful HTML/JavaScript Hello World app template Setting Up Your Android Development Environment on Ubuntu - Max Spencer Article 2 - Setting up Android Studio or Eclipse ADT on Ubuntu Roger's Clock - K Stock Article #3: Getting started with MoSync for Android (and other mobile platforms) Article1- Introduction to Android OS - Riju_Vashisht This article gives you information about the history and architecture design of Android Operating System.It also covers the comparisons between various other Mobile Operating Systems. Creating a Simple Hello World Android Project - Member 10987845 In this tutorial I will explain about the basic components of an Android application and show you step by step how to create, fix, and test your first android application. Article 1 - Very Basic Introduction to Android - relhok13 This is a very basic introduction to Android for those who are new Introduction to Android - Sushil Sh. Introduction to Android and Overview of Android Architecture Introduction To Android Development ( why to develop for Android) - Mahmoud Bayoumi Let's take our first steps together into Android development world Getting Started With Android Development - Madhur Kapoor Article #3 - Creating Hello World Android Application in Eclipse Article 1 - Introduction to Android - ridoy A comparative and brief description of Android, helpful for every beginner android developer. Android Dev Environment for mutiple OS - Abhishek Nandy Article #2 for the challenge Android Development Environment Made Easy - William SerGio Article 2 - Setting Up Your Android Development Environment Applications & Tools Retrieval and Parsing of XML Formatted API data. - CodeFate Useful learning application to retrieve, parse and, format API XML documents to user friendly text. ASP.NET Comparing .NET chart solutions for web-applications - rikkiua In this article collected most popular freeware/commercial solutions for data visualization in .NET Authentication and Authorization with ASP.NET Identity 2.0 for WCF Services - Zijian Real world WCF project structure, Authentication and Authorization Asp.Net MVC-4,Entity Framework and JQGrid Demo with simple Todo List WebApplication - Dileep Ashok Asp.Net MVC-4,Entity Framework and JQGrid Demo with simple Todo List WebApplication C / C++ Language Comparing doubles using Google's C++ testing framework - Andy Bantly Using a portion of Google's C++ testing framework to compare doubles A Fundamental Lock-Free Building Block - The Lock-Free Stack - Michael Gazonda A Fundamental Lock-Free Building Block - The Lock-Free Stack A Simple C++ Profiler on x64 - syed_babu A Simple Profiler for C++ apps on x64 platform C# Working with database one more time - the algabban using ADO.net All you wanted to know about Satellite Assemblies (C# .Net) - Rasik Bihari Tiwari Knowing, creating and using satellite assemblies in C# .Net C# Classes vs. Interfaces with Tree Traversal Example - Paul C. Rhodes Example for the usage of classes and interfaces when working with hierarchical trees Manage YouTube using C# and Youtube API 1.6 - CodeFate Revision: "Manage YouTube using C# and Youtube API 1.6" Manage Entity Framework code first in real time projects - diponsust Client side scripting AngularJS - The next BIG thing - Robin Rizvi Javascript MVW Framework BackBone Tutorial – Part 6: Understanding Backbone.js Views - Rahul Rajat Singh In this article, we will try to look at the View classes in Backbone.js and see how view classes help us in updating the relevant parts of the application easily. AngularJS: Organizing Your Code With Modules - newton.saber Learn the JavaScript Module Pattern and See How/Why AngularJS Implements The Pattern TypeScript - 101 : The Basics - sachinohri The article intends to provide a jump start for web developers on TypeScript BackBone Tutorial – Part 7: Understanding Backbone.js Routes and History - Rahul Rajat Singh In this article, we will try to look at Routes in Backbone.js. We will try to understand how routes can be useful in a large scale single page applications and how we can use routes to perform action based on requested URL. Part1: Introduction to AngularJS - NitinShrivastava A brief introductory tutorial on AngularJS Cryptography & Security Crypt Library Demo - Mihai MOGA Learn the basics of Microsoft CryptoAPI Library Database Reading OLAP Cube using MDX: Part 1 - AjitKumarThakur ITC This article explains the step by step process to learn MDX query. It will help user to read data from OLAP cube. Reading OLAP Cube using MDX: Part 2 - AjitKumarThakur ITC Reading OLAP Cube using MDX: Part 2 Design and Architecture Data Structures in Object Oriented Programming - Paulo Zemek There's a popular book that presents Data Structures tied to procedural code. Well, this article is all about using Data Structures in Object Oriented Programming. Dialogs and Windows Pareto Chart C# - syed shanu Pareto Chart Control Using C# LightSwitch Create .rdlc Report in Lightswitch Html Client Using Visual Studio 2013 - kametepe This article shows how to simply create .rdlc report in Lightswitch Html client without using WCF RIA Services Product Showcase Searching SQL Server Databases with Red Gate's SQL Search - Chris_Yates When managing a large amount of servers and databases, having an efficient way to search for objects in a particular database, SQL Server instance or the object metadata is crucial. DBA Chris Yates tells us why SQL Search from Red Gate helps him achieve this with ease, and at no cost. Why I Use Crashlytics - Part 2 - donn-felker In this article I'm going to discuss how this data can help you fix the most critical crashes with minimal effort and create happy users and customers for your business. I'll also talk about how I use Crashlytics in an application that is very large in scale. Reviews on Third Party Products and Tools A Review of Three Natural Language Processors, AlchemyAPI, OpenCalais, and Semantria - Marc Clifton In this article, I review three NLP services SharePoint Server Site Settings in SharePoint 2013 - MANPREET SINGH Site Settings in SharePoint 2013 Site & Server Management Untrusted Domain Connectivity in Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 - Sreekanth Mohan Steps to deploy web application to a server with out any domain trust using Microsoft Release Management tool. Testing and QA Deploying Web Applications using Team Foundation Build Server – Part 2 (Database Deployment) - mkalos Learn how to deploy database schema using Team Foundation Server Tools and IDE Ynote Classic - Text and Source Code Editor - Samarjeet Singh A multi-purpose open source text editor and source code editor with syntax highlighting, code folding, auto indentation and much more Windows API Processes and threads made easy - Hassan Hashemi in this article we`ll take a look at processes and threads in windows Windows Communication Foundation WCF - Exception Handling, FaultException and FaultContracts - Shemeer NS WCF - Exception Handling, Global Exception Handling, FaultExceptions and FaultContracts- Detailed explantion with Sample Codes. Windows Powershell Elevated Privileges through command line in windows - Muhammad Muddasar Yamin The article is about launching elevated processes through command line Windows Presentation Foundation View-View Model based WPF and XAML Implementational Patterns. (WPF and XAML Patterns of Code Reuse in Easy Samples. Part 2) - Nick Polyak View-View Model based implementational patterns A WPF MVVM In-Place-Edit TextBox Control - Dirkster99 Rename an item via textbox overlay as in Rename of Windows Explorer Articles updated .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. Finite Element Method Programming in C# - Ehsan.MA How to use BriefFiniteElement.NET to analyse solids and structures Ajax AJAX DLL - Mehul M Thakkar .NET library to call server side method from JavaScript. Algorithms & Recipes Swanky Encryption/Decryption in C# - 1337Architect Handy classes to use the .NET Encryption/Decryption A Sudoku Solver using Graph Coloring - Mostafa Eissa This article explains the concept of graph coloring and how to use graph coloring to solve Sudoku Puzzles. Android Introduction to Android System and its Basic Structure - V.Naveen The article is my first submission to a series for Android Development. I had tried to include as little technical stuff as possible, because of the articles being marked as for beginners. But I have included whatever naccessary for a Developer. Thanks Applications & Tools ToDoList 6.9.B6 (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. MVC interview questions with answers - Shivprasad koirala, Marla Sukesh The whole purpose of this article is to quickly brush up your MVC knowledge from an MVC interview perspective. Learn MVC (Model View Controller) Step by Step in 7 Days – Day 3 - Shivprasad koirala, Marla Sukesh This article is Part 3 and continuation to the Learn MVC Step by Step in 7 Days series. Learn MVC (Model view controller) Step by Step in 7 days – Day 2 - Shivprasad koirala, Marla Sukesh Learn MVC (Model view controller) Step by Step in 7 days – Day 2 Learn MVC (Model view controller) Step by Step in 7 days – Day 4 - Shivprasad koirala, Marla Sukesh In day 4 we will look in to JSON ,Jquery ,Aysnch controllers and session management. Learn MVC (Model view controller) Step by Step in 7 days – Day 5 - Shivprasad koirala, Marla Sukesh As the article's name says, learn MVC. Ao the agenda is simple, we are going to learn ASP.NET MVC in 7 days. Learn MVC (Model view controller) Step by Step in 7days – Day 6 - Shivprasad koirala, Marla Sukesh This article is Day 6 of learn MVC step by step in 7 days. Bundling and Minification (ASP.NET 4.0) - Kapil Khadgi Implementing Bundling and Minification in a manageable way C# 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) How to build a simple SIP PBX in C# extended with dial plan functionality - W.Walker It demonstrates how to develop a fully-functional SIP PBX in the most simplest way and explains how to create such useful VoIP features as dial plan. Dynamic Treeview with Drag and Drop by Kendo - Mahsa Hassankashi 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 Passing C/C++ Constants, enums, and structs to C# at compile time - Ryan S White CppHeader2CS: A compile-time tool for converting C/C++ header constants, enums, and structures to C#. Dynamic View Model - Bryan Croteau A technique for generating ViewModel objects dynamically. Client side scripting BackBone Tutorial – Part 1: Introduction to Backbone.Js - Rahul Rajat Singh A gentle introduction to backbone.js 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 2: Understanding the basics of Backbone Models - Rahul Rajat Singh In this article we will discuss the basics of backbone models BackBone Tutorial – Part 5: Understanding Backbone.js Collections - Rahul Rajat Singh In this article we will discuss about backbone.js collections. We will see how we can use collections to manipulate a group of models and how we can use restul API to easily fetch and save collections. 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. JavaScript Extension / Inheritance: jsExtender - Donny Redmond An easy to use JavaScript Inheritance / Extension Library. Cryptography & Security Encrypting Editor Notepad Replacement - Frank T. Clark A C# .NET 3.5 (Win7) Windows Forms Application with source code 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. Code First Stored Procedures - aureolin Access Stored Procedures using Code First. Debug Tips Building a Mixed-Mode Sampling Profiler - Mattias Högström Walking a native and a managed callstack is fairly easy. Walking a mixed-mode callstack is much much harder. Existing documentation is truly minimal. I hope this article and its sample profiler can shed some light in this area. 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. Event Stream Accounting - Duncan Edwards Jones Use of the Event Source application architecture in financial software Emulation Commodore 64 Emulator - Mladen Janković Another implementation of Commodore 64 emulator written in C# 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. List Controls A WPF File ListView and ComboBox (Version II) - Dirkster99 This is an alternative for "A WPF File ListView and ComboBox" Localisation Beyond Localization: Software for a Global Audience - Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu Delivering software globally goes far beyond simply localizing. This article covers cultures, graphics, text spacing and more. 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 (OpenTK). Runs on MacOS and Windows. 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. Selection Controls iPhone like controls for .Net Part 1: Rotator - hgbecker iPhone selection rotator as Winform .Net control iPhone like controls for .Net, Part 2: IOS switch - hgbecker Animated IOS like On/Off switch. 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 Communication Foundation Peer to Peer File Sharing Through WCF - Amir Jalilifard In this article, you are going to learn about P2P Network and Windows Communication Foundation to share your files between peers through a P2P network. WCF for the Real World, Not Hello World - Zijian WCF development for real RAD in enterprise Windows Presentation Foundation Dynamic View Model Part 2: Key/Ref - Bryan Croteau A technique for generating ViewModel objects dynamically, with foreign key-like references. New Tips and Tricks added Android Device not recognized with ADB: What to do when everything else failed - pjaar89 Manufacturer's driver does not work? Device not listed in console or with Eclipse? Applications & Tools A basic single page application using custom dojo templated widgets - srikantsahu This article can be used to know more about how dojo templated widgets can be created and used inside a portlet programmatically FretboardJs - CognitiveFeedback A simple fretboard framework for JavaScript with a demo app: 'Chord Explorer' ASP.NET How to kill process by process name and user name using C#? - yosonwan Sometimes we need to kill a process programly. This article talk about how to get process array to process name and filter it. ASP.NET Controls Access Master Page Controls from Content Page in C# - Prakash Lekhak This article describes how to access master page control from content page. Bugs & Workarounds Solving "The IControllerFactory 'MefContrib.Web.Mvc.CompositionControllerFactory' did not return a controller for the name xxx" - Omar Gameel Salem Solving "The IControllerFactory 'MefContrib.Web.Mvc.CompositionControllerFactory' did not return a controller for the name xxx" C# Use Generics Constraints to Reuse Code and Do Compile Time type checking - Anton Kaminsky An example of how to use generics with constraints to reuse code and have compile time type validation. OctTree Implementation for overlap detection in C# - sajjad kardani moghadam Octa Tree is a 3D space partitioning algorithm Code First Migration in Entity Framework - Sourav Kayal In this tip, we will discuss code first migration using Entity Framework Entity Framework code first migrations alternative - diponsust Here we will see how we can handle database scheme changes with normal SQL scripts, without migration in Entity Framework code first. Microsoft Chart in MVC Application - Sourav Kayal In this tip, we will implement Microsoft chart chart in MVC application Programmatically Using the Object Model Override for the List View Threshold - sagarp99 Programmatically Using the Object Model Override for the List View Threshold Caching How to Add JS Version before referencing JS file to the Page - Junell Zenarosa Updating referenced scripts realtime Client side scripting oCanvas, the object-based Canvas - Jose Cintra Small introduction about oCanvas library whose objective is to facilitate development with the HTML5 CANVAS element Database Code First Migration in Multiple DbContext - Sourav Kayal In this tip, we will learn to migrate database when multiple DbContext is present in the same application. Sliding Window Partitioning - Arvind Kumar Chaubey It is a functionality/technique that SQL server uses to "SWITCH" a partition from a source table to destination table. Normal insert or delete command is not handy when dealing with large volume of data. Sliding Window enables very quick way to perform movement of data from one table to other. COALESCE and ISNULL in SQL Server - Uppuluri Aditya COALESCE VS ISNULL in SQL Server-Part1 How to Partition Table in SQL Server - Kale Yogesh How to Partition Table in SQL Foreach File Enumerator in SSIS - Sreekanth Mohan Foreach file enumerator in SSIS Query Assistant - peterswinkels Query Assistant - connect to databases with ADO and execute queries. Conditional Split Transformation in SSIS - Sreekanth Mohan Conditional split is used to route data rows to different outputs based on conditions. This is similar to CASE statement in programming languages. Here I am explaining conditional split with an example. Get SSRS Report Information - AjitKumarThakur ITC This article explain report server database details. It will help to get the report details available in report server database. HTML / CSS Datepicker directive using AngularJS and Bootstrap - Chinh Vo Wili This is simple creating datepicker directive using AngularJs and Bootstrap Internet / Network Highlighting the Elements in Web Browser Control and Getting the HTML XML Path of the Element Clicked - Prasaad SJ This is a small tip regarding highlighting items and getting the element XML path that is clicked in the Web Browser control. List Controls Preserve the Selected Item of a WPF List Box - MichaelLPerry A behavior to attach to a ListBox to keep WPF from clearing the selected item Miscellaneous Adding Functionality To .NET Controls - Matthew Givens Two ways to add functionality to .NET controls Printing How to send a command to a Zebra QLn220 Printer from a Compact Framework app - B. Clay Shannon Sending commands in a Compact Framework app via C# to a Zebra QLn220 printer Programming Tips State Monad in javascript - Wieslaw Popielarski Shows how to start from problem to get state monad SharePoint Server The Right Way to Use the Rating Field in a SharePoint List or Library - sagarp99 This tip shows you the right way to use the Rating field in a SharePoint list or library Add an App in SharePoint 2013 - MANPREET SINGH How to add an app in SharePoint 2013 Carousel or Bright Banner App in SharePoint 2013 - MANPREET SINGH Carousel or Bright Banner App in SharePoint 2013 Site Settings in SharePoint 2013 – Part 1 - MANPREET SINGH Site Settings in SharePoint 2013 –Part 1 Uncategorised Tips and Tricks TFS API Queue a New Build with Custom Parameters - Srinibas Das Queue a new build using different build definition attributes at runtime. This tip will show you how to queue a new Build with custom parameters using TFS API. VB.NET Sample VB.NET program using Google APIs for .NET V3 with YouTube - Mike Meinz Provides a sample program using Google APIs for .NET V3 with YouTube VBScript Custom disk clean up using WSH VBScript - Gautham Prabhu K Perform custom disk clean up when hard disk free space goes low Web Security Running phpMyAdmin on different port - Marin Cokarić Securing Your phpMyAdmin Windows Presentation Foundation WPF AutoComplete TextBox - Bhardwaj Deepak An advanced and fully featured WPF AutoComplete TextBox control Tips and Tricks updated .NET Framework MVC using Web API and JQuery to GET or POST Data - sankarsan parida In this tip, you can learn about how to use WebApi with MVC and jquery. Algorithms & Recipes Fourth Order Runge-Kutta Method in Python - tyebillion Implementation of the fourth order Runge-Kutta method in Python for solving n-dimensional ordinary differential equations ASP.NET Copy Remote Website to Modify Functionality Locally - Bryan Lyman A method for duplicating a web page (including all scripts and styles) to run as if it originated from your own server, then modify server-side and client-side functionality afterwards. Button Controls Reusable WPF RadioButton control - alexbk66 Reusable WPF RadioButton control which takes the pain away C# A quick overview of NUnit tests - G.TR how to use NUnit to code tests Custom Controls ASP.NET DatePicker (Persian/Gregorian) - Ruhollah Heidarpour Just another ASP.NET Persian(Jalali/Shamsi/Solar) / Gregorian Datepicker Office Development C# How To Read .xlsx Excel File With 3 Lines of Code - Dietmar Schoder Read rows and cells from an xlsx-file: quick, dirty, effective. Programming Tips Encrypting all the Stored Procedures of a Database - qadirv Quick C# console application to Encrypt all your database stored procedure. Statically linking to EasyHook - Jerry.Wang Instructions about linking EasyHook library statically Shell and IE programming Embedded WebBrowser (IWebBrowser2) in Pure C++ (no MFC, etc) - Emiliarge Simple WebBrowser (IE) class in Pure C++ Windows Communication Foundation File Upload using WCF REST API and JavaScript - lusgon Uploading a file using WCF REST API and JavaScript New Technical Blogs added .NET Framework Collect .NET applications traces with sysinternals tools - Sebastian Solnica In this short post I would like to show you how, with sysinternals tools, you may noninvasively trace .NET applications. This is especially useful in production environment where you can’t install your favorite debugger and hang whole IIS to diagnose…Read more › Asp.Net MVC-4,Entity Framework and JQGrid Demo with simple Todo List WebApplication - Dileep Ashok Overview       TodoList is a simple web application to create, store and modify Todo tasks to be maintained by the users, which comprises of following fields to the user (Task Name, Task Description, Severity, Target Date, Task Status).         TodoList web application is created using MVC - 4 archi Algorithms & Recipes Integer Overflow in Hearthstone - Grant Curell Integer Overflow Illustrated in Hearthstone How having over 2 billion health destroys the monster A friend recently showed me this video and asked what happened and I thought it was a perfect illustration of a classic problem in computer science – the integer overflow. At 8:25 the monster has Is the XCOM PRNG Broken? - Grant Curell So I sat down to play XCOM the other day. Great game for the most part. However, there were a couple of sequences where I would fire with 3 different soldiers at 90+% chance to hit and I would miss all three times. Well, when you do  the math on that ~.1^3 chance for that […] ASP.NET Controls ASP.NET GridView Client Side Validation - Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ) We will explore the technique in jQuery to validate the ASP.NET GridView. C / C++ Language How I rolled my own simple (DSL) Domain specific Language and you can too! - TerranceSmith CodeProject FYI I'm talking about this.... PreambleSo a project required me to take the following statement"C#" or "Vb.net" and Not "Java"and create a filter based on it that equates to the following logic.if((file.Contains("C#")||file.Contains("Vb.net"))&&(!file.Contains("Java"))){ SearchResult.Ad Client side scripting JavaScript Promises Are Cool - Keyhole Software "And when I promise something, I never ever break that promise. Never." ― Rapunzel Many languages have libraries of interesting schemes called promises, deferreds, or futures. Those help to tame the wild asynchronous into something more like the mundane sequential. JavaScript promises can promote se Content Management Server Setting Up a VPN Server on Ubuntu Using OpenVPN - Grant Curell Below is a setup for OpenVPN on Ubuntu 14.04. With some modifications, it should work on most flavors of Linux  Much of the setup came from https://help.ubuntu.com/14.04/serverguide/openvpn.html with a couple of modifications to work out any bugs I ran across. Keep in mind this is for a routed VPN. Dialogs and Windows WIN32, 32 bit Atom SOC's and Windows ! A powerful combination. - Chris Boss I just have to say that I am getting very excited about some of the things both Intel and Microsoft are working on. Why ? Old time programmer feeling lost I have been programming since the 1980′s professionally (anyone remember the Commodore 64, TI-99, CPM ?) and like most programmers change i Game Development Flexible particle system - How to start with Software Optimization - Bartlomiej Filipek How to start optimizing the particle system code. Mastering Unity 2D Game Development–Animation Curves - Simon Jackson In the run up to the launch of my first published title (a book this time) I’m going to be doing some short snippets from some of the many exciting things you will learn within its pages. The sample project and code for this snippet can be found here: - AnimationCurves.zip … Java Create Smileys or Image using Bit Arrays in Java - Psycho_Coder Hello Everyone,Today I will show you how to create a simple image by using code in Java in Applet. I have used Netbeans IDE 7.3 beta 2 and Java 7. You must have a bit knowledge about java and Applets for you to understand this code properly.We will create a simple smiley and a hut. To create a sim Other .NET Languages Checking Open Ports with Ruby - Grant Curell Below is the code for listing open ports on a windows box via Ruby. This line first lists all active connections via netstat. The find “LISTENING” section lists those ports in a listening state. The “find /V” looks for any line without “0.0.0.0″. This last part is SharePoint Server How to conditionally hide, disable, and make mandatory fields on SharePoint forms dynamically - Dmitriy Kozlov Here I'd like to demonstrate the most popular cases you may face during implementation of SharePoint forms with complex logic. Most likely you will need to combine the cases described below to cover your requirements but it's quite easy if you have enough samples. To accomplish the tasks Shell and IE programming Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, Addison-Wesley - MarkPearlCoZa I have read many software development books, but there are only a handful that had such an impact on my life that they fundamentally made me look at software development differently. Today I have to add Kent Beck's Extreme Programming Explained 2nd Edition to that elite group.The physical book looks The Art of UNIX Programming by S. Raymond, Addison-Wesley - MarkPearlCoZa The Art of UNIX Programming is another one for the bookshelf. It is jam-packed with insights into the philosophy, mindset and approach a Unix developer has when tackling software design the Unix way. While I have been involved with software development for a number of years, nearly all the systems I SQL Reporting Services Run SQL Script (.sql) containing DDL, DML, SELECT statements & PL/SQL Block through Reader in Java - Debopam Pal DOWNLOAD Source Files: 1. ScriptRunner.java 2. Table.java 3. commons-lang.jar Introduction: In this Article, I will show you how to run a SQL script file using ScriptRunner class. Through this class, you can execute any DDL, DML statement including SELECT Statement and any PL/SQL Block like PROCEDUR Third Party Products and Tools Virtual Method Call In contructor - Matthew Edmondson I recently discovered the following warning from ReSharper: So what exactly does Virtual member call in constructor actually mean, and why am I being warned about this?Virtual membersIn C# a virtual member is a method or property which is prepended with the modifier virtual, meaning that it may be o Uncategorised Technical Blogs Small Classes - MarkPearlCoZa For the last few years I have been an advocate of SOLID principles and trying to keep classes to a level where they have a single responsibility. In learning how to apply the Single Responsibility Principle I have found my classes have become small, focussed and reusable. 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In that vain, I’ve been trying out the Peach 3 Fuzzer. Here are some of the tutorials I tried out: Fuzzing with Peach – Part 1 Fuzzing with Peach – Part 2 I also start Visual Studio Integrated ULS Viewer (free Visual Studio 2012/2013 add-in) - Kyriakos Akriotis Project Description Visual Studio integrated ULS Viewer does not come to substitute or demand a place among the currently existing ULS viewers. Definitely it cannot even be compared with the richness of functionality of the originial UlsViewer from Microsoft (currently discontinued) but this is not Making your own corpus using Wikipedia - Psycho_Coder Hello Reader,PrefaceIn this section and also from now on I will sharing my little experience with NLP (Natural Language Processing). At present I am conducting research on Question Generation which is a part of Question Answering systems in NLP. In the process of my research I decided to first Web Security Designing For Security -Security Patterns - CdnSecurityEngineer Intro & Reasoning We’ve all heard of, considered and know what a Design Pattern in software is. Or do we? Software design patterns were really made famous in 1994 by the gang of 4. These patterns provided the bedrock of…Read more › Security Design Patterns – Secure Process Creation - CdnSecurityEngineer Intro – Secure Process Creation I chose the Secure Process Creation pattern as the first pattern to kick of the series on security design patterns because process creation is everywhere in the software world today. Ensuring that the way processes…Read more › Web Services ASP.Net Web Services – How to consume a web service from a client application? - Arun Ramachandran India In last day, we were discussing about creating ASP.Net Web Services. You can read that article here. In this article, we will go over consuming a web service from a client application. Let’s try to consume the web service which we have created in the previous article. Follow the be Windows Communication Foundation Understanding Fault Contract in WCF - Imran Abdul Ghani In previous WCF tutorials, we learnt about different WCF Contracts including Behavioral (Service Contract, Operation Contract) and Structural (Data Contract and Message Contract). In this post, we will learn about another behavioral Contract i.e. Fault Contract. What is a Fault Contract? In WCF (Win Work Issues Using Visual Studio AutoRecover to Avoid Losing Your Work (and your Mind) - Rion Williams If you have ever worked in an environment that may not have been the most reliable or you are simply a worry-wart when it comes to possible data loss, then this might be for you. When discussing a recurring issue with another developer, he complained that his older computer frequently crashed which TFS Work Item Visualizers - Gordon W Beeming In my last post (Introduction to DotNet Pretty) I mentioned that I would be added more visualizers to DotNet Pretty soon . Today I finally managed to get around to that and added some visualizers for TFS Work Items. 3 new visualizers were added 2 debugger display visualizers and 1 debugger visualize Technical Blogs updated .NET Framework How Fast is .NET Garbage Collector? Part 1 - morzel How fast is .NET garbage collector How fast is .NET Garbage Collector? Part 2. - morzel Read the first part of the article if you haven’t done so already. Part 1 has a brief overview of what GC is and how it performs its magic. It contains a test of GC performance with regards to large array of bytes. You can also find there a detailed information about my test environment&hellip © 2014 The Code Project.  All rights reserved. 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