Weekly Newsletter (15 Nov 2021)

Monday, November 15, 2021 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. Advertisements Application monitoring for customer-centric teams Raygun makes it easy to monitor the impact of your performance improvements, quickly identify and resolve issues, and see how your code performs in the hands of your customers — saving you time, money, and sanity. Try Raygun for free today! The Azure Friday Quiz Sweepstakes with Scott Hanselman T&Cs apply. Watch Scott Hanselman and Justin Yoo talk about deploying OpenAPI enabled Azure Functions with .NET in Visual Studio 2022, take a quiz, and qualified participants are entered for a chance to win Microsoft swag! Stop Overpaying for Big Tech Cloud Tired of egregious egress? Vultr is ready to save us all time, money, and hassle by providing Cloud Compute and high-performance bare metal at a fraction of the cost of Big Tech cloud. Redeem $100 in credit to try Vultr FREE for two weeks. Weekly Poll Results What's your favourite reason to code? Survey period: 8 Nov 2021 to 15 Nov 2021 It can depend on the day, or the job, or the paycheck, but pick the one that is the number one reason you keep coding Option Votes %   To get paid 273 33.54 To experiment and learn something 129 15.85 For the sake of creativity and imagination 200 24.57 To build something that helps me at my job 63 7.74 To build something that helps my non-work life 49 6.02 To help others 56 6.88 I don't actually like coding 9 1.11 Other (please comment!) 35 4.30 Total 814   100% This week's survey: How many hours a week are you working? Latest Additions New articles added General Programming Why I Targeted T-SQL: A Confession   (2 votes) by honey the codewitch (updated 2 days ago) Silly SQL Tricks, Mistakes and Other Nonsense Dismantling Reggie   (1 votes) by honey the codewitch (updated 6 days ago) Deep dive some advanced source generation in a real world application Hosted Services Building Microsoft Teams Tabs Apps with Java Part 1: Creating a Personal Tab App with SSO   (1 votes) by Jeff_Griffith (updated 2 days ago) In this article series we will demonstrate how to build out Microsoft Teams apps in Java. Building Microsoft Teams Tabs Apps with Java Part 2: Creating a Channel or Group Tab with SSO   (0 votes) by Jeff_Griffith (updated 3 days ago) In this article we'll explore creating a channel or group tab with SSO. Programming Languages SortedBucketCollection: A memory efficient SortedList accepting multiple items with the same key   (4 votes) by Peter Huber SG (updated 2 days ago) A detailed guide how to write your own collection. QUDP - a reliable UDP protocol   (1 votes) by Mark Beharrell (updated yesterday) A queue based UDP protocol Security Creating Your Very Own x64 PE Packer/Protector from Scratch using C++   (5 votes) by The Ænema (updated yesterday) This article brings you a very detailed but easy to learn experience on creating your own x64 PE packer/protector using only VC++! Web Development How to Display Password Protected PDFs in a Web Application   (0 votes) by Karl_Hughes (updated 2 days ago) In this tutorial, we build a Node web application that allows users to preview password-protected PDFs in their browser securely. How to Create a PDF Invoicing Web Application   (1 votes) by Karl_Hughes (updated 2 days ago) In this tutorial, you'll see how to create a NodeJS application that uses the Foxit PDF SDK to generate PDF invoices from HTML invoices in a web app. PDF Manipulation for Programmers   (0 votes) by Shahed Nasser (updated 2 days ago) This tutorial will explain PDF manipulation, its importance, and its use cases. Articles updated Database Development NoSQL or not NoSQL?   (52 votes) by Daniele Fontani (updated 5 days ago) That is the question. A comparison between these two technologies and some tips to choose the best that suits your needs. Desktop Programming UniDock - A New Multiplatform UI Docking Framework. UniDock Power Features.   (12 votes) by Nick Polyak (updated 3 days ago) Describes the new powerful features of UniDock, the new multiplatform UI docking framework. Multiplatform Avalonia .NET Framework Programming Advanced Concepts in Easy Samples   (5 votes) by Nick Polyak (updated 2 days ago) This article covers important concepts of Avalonia/WPF needed for programming and software design General Programming Reggie: A Non-Backtracking Streaming Regular Expression Code Generator   (16 votes) by honey the codewitch (updated 3 days ago) Embed fast streaming C# code to match text based on inputted regular expressions Hosted Services SQL Index Manager – Free GUI Tool for Index Maintenance on SQL Server and Azure   (143 votes) by Sergii Syrovatchenko (updated 6 days ago) Open source index maintenance tool for SQL Server and Azure Internet of Things GFX Forever: The Complete Guide to GFX for IoT   (34 votes) by honey the codewitch (updated yesterday) GFX is a fast and full featured replacement for standard IoT drawing libraries that is optimized to reduce bus I/O Programming Languages Why Does x = ++x + x++ Give Me the Wrong Answer?   (55 votes) by OriginalGriff (updated 3 days ago) When they first meet them, developers are often tempted to play with pre- and post- increment operators. Then they get confused, because they don't do what is expected. Or ... do they? New Tips and Tricks added Desktop Programming Win32:C++ Add Icon to Right Side of Button Text   (4 votes) by REALTBU (updated 17 hours ago) Easy to use class which supports displaying icons on button controls Programming Languages Split grapheme in C#   (0 votes) by DebugST (updated 5 days ago) Use [Unicode 14.0.0] version. Can support automatic code generation according to the latest version. Tips and Tricks updated Programming Languages .NET Configuration File Corrupts On Write   (2 votes) by Member 12660776 (updated 5 days ago) Programmatically Adding New ConfigurationSectionGroup Corrupts Declaration Section With Multiple Group Declarations. © 2021 The Code Project.  All rights reserved. This email was sent to vutunglampro@gmail.com. To stop receiving The Weekly Newsletter click here. 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