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Database Development
SQL Server
3 Jan 2014   Updated: 6 Jan 2014   Rating: 4.86/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 4.63
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Just a quick explanation of why it's not always a good idea to use DISTINCT
21 Dec 2013   Updated: 23 Jan 2014   Rating: 4.81/5    Votes: 42   Popularity: 7.77
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The first in a series of articles seeking to explain the intermediate to advanced features of T-SQL
24 Dec 2013   Updated: 12 Mar 2014   Rating: 4.83/5    Votes: 16   Popularity: 5.82
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The second in my series digs in to some of the different things you can do within a select statement.
12 Mar 2014   Updated: 14 Mar 2014   Rating: 4.58/5    Votes: 20   Popularity: 5.96
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In this installment, I talk about working with dates and date functions in SQL Server
3 Jan 2014   Updated: 12 Jan 2014   Rating: 4.74/5    Votes: 19   Popularity: 5.95
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Ways to pass an arbitrary list of values to SQL Server
26 Dec 2013   Updated: 12 Jan 2014   Rating: 4.99/5    Votes: 19   Popularity: 6.38
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In this third installment, we look at how Common Table Expressions can simplify your SQL and help you perform complex tasks
12 Jan 2014   Updated: 13 Jan 2014   Rating: 4.70/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 4.48
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A discussion of windowing functions, from sum to row_number(), to the new functions in SS2012
16 Jan 2014   Updated: 16 Jan 2014   Rating: 4.98/5    Votes: 13   Popularity: 5.55
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Discussion on pivot and other ways to turn columns of data in to rows in SQL Server
19 Jan 2014   Updated: 21 Jan 2014   Rating: 4.96/5    Votes: 20   Popularity: 6.35
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A description of the best way to create tally tables, and how to use them
23 Jan 2014   Updated: 23 Jan 2014   Rating: 4.80/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.44
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A discussion of ways to create random number sequences in SQL Server
24 Mar 2014   Updated: 24 Mar 2014   Rating: 3.67/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 1.75
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Covering how to use the new Distribution functions in SQL Server 2012
Desktop Programming
MFC
17 Apr 2002   Updated: 16 May 2002   Rating: 4.41/5    Votes: 16   Popularity: 5.06
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Our attempt at a screen saver with a Code Project theme, written in C#
12 Mar 2001   Updated: 12 Mar 2001   Rating: 4.94/5    Votes: 18   Popularity: 5.95
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A Static derived class which provides a check box to enable/disable items inside it
20 Feb 2001   Updated: 20 Feb 2001   Rating: 3.86/5    Votes: 8   Popularity: 3.48
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A flexible extension to the CToolBar class
7 Apr 2002   Updated: 7 Apr 2002   Rating: 4.95/5    Votes: 22   Popularity: 6.33
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An Asteroid's clone which needs some work but will illustrate some points about writing games.
12 May 2001   Updated: 30 May 2001   Rating: 4.72/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 4.51
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Using GDI+ to draw solid/gradient filled and textured shapes
12 May 2001   Updated: 12 Mar 2003   Rating: 4.80/5    Votes: 70   Popularity: 8.67
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Getting started with the new Microsoft Graphics Libraries
WPF
12 Apr 2007   Updated: 12 Apr 2007   Rating: 4.85/5    Votes: 53   Popularity: 8.28
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This article covers how animations can be applied on properties that do not have an associated animation class
21 Jul 2006   Updated: 28 Jun 2010   Rating: 4.40/5    Votes: 56   Popularity: 7.63
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A brief introduction to using transformations with the WPF
Hosted Services
Azure
15 Apr 2019   Updated: 15 Apr 2019   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
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First in a series on using Azure AD with Angular applications
16 Apr 2019   Updated: 16 Apr 2019   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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In part two, we start protecting our back end APIs with Azure AD
17 Apr 2019   Updated: 17 Apr 2019   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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Adding role based security to our Azure AD/Angular website
Mobile Apps
4 Nov 2002   Updated: 5 Nov 2002   Rating: 4.50/5    Votes: 5   Popularity: 3.15
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Building on previous articles, we develop a simple application and discuss some of the components available for Palm GUI.
6 Nov 2002   Updated: 6 Nov 2002   Rating: 4.17/5    Votes: 8   Popularity: 3.76
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Continuing our series of articles, we discuss how to create databases, and create, modify and delete records
7 Nov 2002   Updated: 7 Nov 2002   Rating: 4.83/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 4.61
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An overview of the Palm world, including a list of C functions which have preferred equivalents in PalmOS
Multimedia
DirectX
13 Sep 2004   Updated: 13 Sep 2004   Rating: 4.68/5    Votes: 38   Popularity: 7.22
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A guided tour of the many reasons NOT to use DirectX9 for your audio/video playback needs
GDI+
3 Jun 2001   Updated: 3 Jun 2001   Rating: 4.72/5    Votes: 15   Popularity: 5.41
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Using GDI+ to create a paint program with soft brushes and loading/saving images
15 Feb 2002   Updated: 15 Feb 2002   Rating: 3.80/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 3.63
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Providing a RoundedRect function for GDI+
20 Mar 2002   Updated: 20 Mar 2002   Rating: 4.91/5    Votes: 200   Popularity: 11.23
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The first in a series of articles which will build an image processing library in C# and GDI+
Operating Systems
Windows
8 Mar 2008   Updated: 8 Mar 2008   Rating: 4.38/5    Votes: 161   Popularity: 9.65
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A primer for people looking to learn to help themselves find answers to programming questions
Programming Languages
C#
18 Nov 2002   Updated: 27 Nov 2002   Rating: 4.79/5    Votes: 29   Popularity: 6.77
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This tool uses ADO.NET to offer browsing of databases and tables, editing values and an SQL window to test queries.
26 Jan 2007   Updated: 18 May 2007   Rating: 4.94/5    Votes: 31   Popularity: 7.23
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A wrapper to allow remote capture of images with Canon cameras in C#
31 Mar 2002   Updated: 31 Mar 2002   Rating: 4.92/5    Votes: 71   Popularity: 9.02
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The third in a series of articles which will build an image processing library in C# and GDI+
14 Apr 2002   Updated: 14 Apr 2002   Rating: 4.80/5    Votes: 49   Popularity: 7.94
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The fourth installment covers how to write a filter that resizes an image, and uses bilinear filtering
23 Dec 2002   Updated: 25 Dec 2002   Rating: 4.90/5    Votes: 146   Popularity: 10.54
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In the fifth installment, we build a framework for generating filters that work by changing a pixel's location, rather than colour.
22 May 2004   Updated: 28 Jun 2004   Rating: 4.84/5    Votes: 57   Popularity: 8.46
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A discussion of the HSL color space, including code for a color picker and image filters
23 Mar 2002   Updated: 7 Nov 2005   Rating: 4.91/5    Votes: 120   Popularity: 10.14
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The second in a series of articles which will build an image processing library in C# and GDI+.
14 May 2002   Updated: 14 May 2002   Rating: 3.56/5    Votes: 11   Popularity: 3.70
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A simple tool that can be used to time how long different parts of your code take to execute, and where bottlenecks occur
16 Apr 2002   Updated: 16 Apr 2002   Rating: 3.86/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 2.32
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In which I attempt to write a simple game in C#
16 Apr 2002   Updated: 16 Apr 2002   Rating: 3.22/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 1.54
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Continuing my attempt at a simple game in C#
16 Apr 2002   Updated: 16 Apr 2002   Rating: 4.38/5    Votes: 16   Popularity: 5.15
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Finishing my attempt at a simple game in C#
C++
15 Dec 2002   Updated: 15 Dec 2002   Rating: 4.34/5    Votes: 37   Popularity: 6.54
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A discussion of Koenig namespace lookup, for those with VS.NET 2003
20 Feb 2002   Updated: 20 Feb 2002   Rating: 3.31/5    Votes: 23   Popularity: 4.51
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The first in a series of articles on STL, this one covers vector and some common algorithms
24 Feb 2002   Updated: 24 Feb 2002   Rating: 4.20/5    Votes: 11   Popularity: 4.20
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My second STL article covers std::list and discusses different iterator types
23 Mar 2002   Updated: 23 Mar 2002   Rating: 4.71/5    Votes: 15   Popularity: 5.25
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Coverage of two more containers from the STL, namely set and map, and the functions provided for them.
24 Feb 2002   Updated: 1 Apr 2002   Rating: 3.52/5    Votes: 16   Popularity: 4.24
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This third article describes how to write function adaptors which allow customization of STL functions.
20 Mar 2002   Updated: 20 Mar 2002   Rating: 4.71/5    Votes: 28   Popularity: 6.67
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A typesafe alternative to sprintf from the std library
16 Apr 2002   Updated: 16 Apr 2002   Rating: 4.29/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 4.10
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Showing how to extend iostreams in order to stream custom types
14 Jul 2002   Updated: 14 Jul 2002   Rating: 4.60/5    Votes: 7   Popularity: 3.89
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An exploration of extending the iostreams framework through stream modifiers
24 Jul 2002   Updated: 24 Jul 2002   Rating: 3.80/5    Votes: 7   Popularity: 3.21
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An exploration of extending the iostreams framework through custom streams.
Web Development
ASP.NET
11 Apr 2008   Updated: 11 Apr 2008   Rating: 4.38/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 4.17
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A .NET wrapper for Authorize

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Programming computers ( self taught ) since about 1984 when I bought my first Apple ][. Was working on a GUI library to interface Win32 to Python, and writing graphics filters in my spare time, and then building n-tiered apps using asp, atl and asp.net in my job at Dytech. After 4 years there, I've started working from home, at first for Code Project and now for a vet telemedicine company. I owned part of a company that sells client education software in the vet market, but we sold that and I worked for the owners for five years before leaving to get away from the travel, and spend more time with my family. I now work for a company here in Hobart, doing all sorts of Microsoft based stuff in C++ and C#, with a lot of T-SQL in the mix.