game: Weekly Newsletter (20 Jul 2020)

Weekly Newsletter (20 Jul 2020)

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Weekly Poll Results

ASP.NET developers: which would you choose for a new project?

Survey period: 13 Jul 2020 to 20 Jul 2020

The best thing about this choice is we can choose them all.

Option	Votes	%
ASP,NET WebForms	80	7.01
ASP.NET MVC (any view engine)	78	6.84
ASP.NET Web Pages (Razor)	67	5.87
ASP.NET Web API	135	11.83
ASP.NET Core MVC	161	14.11
ASP.NET Core Razor pages	121	10.60
A client side framework (eg Angular or React) sitting on top of ASP.NET X	125	10.96
I wouldn't choose ASP.NET at all	97	8.50
I don't do Web Development	637	55.83
Responses	1,141
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%

This week's survey: You come across a terminal at a store, gas station, government dept etc that has rebooted and is showing an admin menu. Do you:

Latest Additions

New articles added

APIs

Whiteapp ASP.NET Core using Onion Architecture

(6 votes) by amitp_naik (updated 18 hours ago)

WhiteApp or QuickApp API solution template built on Onion Architecture

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Interpreting Hand Gestures and Sign Language in the Webcam with AI using TensorFlow.js

(6 votes) by Raphael Mun (updated 4 days ago)

In this article, we will take photos of different hand gestures via webcam and use transfer learning on a pre-trained MobileNet model to build a computer vision AI that can recognize the various gestures in real time.

Face Touch Detection with TensorFlow.js Part 1: Using Real-Time Webcam Data With Deep Learning

(4 votes) by Raphael Mun (updated 6 days ago)

In this article, we are going to use all that we've learned so far with computer vision in TensorFlow.js to try building a version of this app ourselves.

Age Estimation With Deep Learning: Getting Started

(3 votes) by Sergey L. Gladkiy (updated 2 days ago)

In this article, we'll begin the process of how to use a deep neural network to estimate a person's age from an image.

Face Touch Detection with TensorFlow.js Part 2: Using BodyPix

(2 votes) by Raphael Mun (updated 5 days ago)

In this article, we are going to use BodyPix, a body part detection and segmentation library, to try and remove the training step of the face touch detection.

ASP.NET

ASP.NET CORE: Using SFTP/FTP in ASP.NET CORE projects

(1 votes) by DiponRoy (updated 5 days ago)

Using SFTP/FTP in ASP.NET CORE projects

Client side scripting

How to Load and Display Hierarchical Structured Comments

(0 votes) by Han Bo Sun (updated 14 hours ago)

This tutorial will show you how to load and display hierarchical structured comments using RESTFul service and JavaScript.

Code Generation

Running C# Code (and CSX Scripts)

(6 votes) by Rick Drizin (updated 3 days ago)

How to run C# Scripts (CSX scripts), load third-party libraries, and generate code directly from inside Visual Studio

Database

Intel PAUSE Change Affects MySQL Performance - How to Address It

(3 votes) by Ming Gao (Intel), Chunlin Ge (updated 5 days ago)

Solving the issue of Intel Pause change affecting MySQL performace

Export All Tables from Microsoft SQL Server Database in Flat File format (csv, txt) at one Go !!

(4 votes) by Mubin M. Shaikh (updated 4 days ago)

Walkthrough of the process for one of the industry best practice to export all SQL tables in Flat file format

General Graphics

Animation Editor - Bring Cartoon Color to Your Otherwise Drab Covid World

(6 votes) by Christ Kennedy (updated 3 days ago)

Combine your own sprites with any MP4 you choose using this Animation Editor

Miscellaneous

Assorted MIDI Controls - MidiUI Part 2

(3 votes) by honey the codewitch (updated 5 days ago)

Continuing our series with a knob control and a MIDI visualizer

A Fully Customizable Knob Control Without Images

(5 votes) by honey the codewitch (updated 2 days ago)

Add a flexible knob control to your .NET projects

Threads, Processes & IPC

Implementing a Thread Safe Message Queue in C#

(10 votes) by honey the codewitch (updated 5 days ago)

This article explores a message passing mechanism for safe thread to thread communication

A Thread Pooling and Task Queuing Demonstration Using Message Passing

(7 votes) by honey the codewitch (updated 3 days ago)

How to implement a complicated multithreaded message passing scenario

Customizing the TaskScheduler: Queue Your Task Work Items to Run When You Want Them To

(3 votes) by honey the codewitch (updated yesterday)

Leveraging some less well known areas of the .NET Task framework to schedule tasks to execute on your own conditions.

Articles updated

Algorithms & Recipes

Introduction to ELENA Programming Language

(58 votes) by Alex Rakov, Alexandre Bencz (updated 5 days ago)

ELENA is a general-purpose, object-oriented, polymorphic language with late binding

Partially-Sampled Exponential Random Numbers

(1 votes) by Peter Occil (updated yesterday)

A Python implementation of partially-sampled exponential random numbers, or e-rands.

An Exact Beta Generator

(1 votes) by Peter Occil (updated yesterday)

A sampler in Python for beta-distributed random numbers without floating-point arithmetic.

Applications & Tools

IntelliPort - An Alternative Windows Version to the Famous HyperTerminal

(38 votes) by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA (updated yesterday)

You can use IntelliPort to transfer large files from a computer onto your portable computer using a serial port rather than going through the process of setting up your portable computer on a network.

Audio and Video

CaptureManager SDK - Capturing, Recording and Streaming Video and Audio from Web-Cams

(154 votes) by Evgeny Pereguda (updated 2 hours ago)

This article presents my project for capturing of video and audio sources on Windows OS by Microsoft Media Foundation.

C / C++ Language

A Static Analysis Tool for C++

(14 votes) by Greg Utas (updated 5 days ago)

Automating Scott Meyers' recommendations and cleaning up #include directives

A Command Line Interface (CLI) Framework

(5 votes) by Greg Utas (updated 5 days ago)

Automating help, validating user input, running scripts...

C#

How to Send Inputs using C#

(20 votes) by Bojidar Qnkov (updated 4 days ago)

A guide on how to use the Windows API and C# to send Inputs

Programming Languages

VRCalc++ Object Oriented Scripting Language :: Vincent Radio {Adrix.NT}

(9 votes) by Vincent Radio (updated 6 days ago)

VRCalc++ Engine is embeddable in any Delphi Application using Dynamic Packages