Articles by DrABELL (Articles: 17, Tip/Tricks: 31)

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Desktop Programming
WPF	HeMoSiBi™ WPF App 20 Aug 2013 Updated: 16 Feb 2015 Rating: 4.77/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.33 Licence: CPOL Views: 30,571 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Her Most Significant Bit™ NY-2013, All-in-One/Win8 (AIC-2013 FINALIST app)
	Edumatter-MT 19 Aug 2013 Updated: 17 Feb 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.77 Licence: CPOL Views: 22,541 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. 5-in-1 educational software package for Tablet PC/Win8: Fraction Calculator, Prime Factoring, Linear, Quadratic and System of Equation solvers (AIC-2013)
	Inflatimeter™ Inflation Calculator 14 Aug 2013 Updated: 17 Feb 2015 Rating: 4.60/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 29,993 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Win8/Tablet PC app allows inflation calculation on individual products and basket of goods (AIC-2013)
	PaydayUSA™ Employment Tax Calculator and Payroll Organizer 2 Aug 2013 Updated: 17 Feb 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 6.15 Licence: CPOL Views: 64,698 Bookmarked: 24 Downloaded: 367 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Employment Tax computation and Payroll management app for Windows 8: contest entry
	Road and Driving Pattern Analyzer using Ultrabook™ 10 Jun 2013 Updated: 17 Feb 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,201 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Article describes concept/implementation of using novel Ultrabook™ features to extract and anylize road conditions and vehicle movement dynamics
	Edumatter-814: School Math Calculators and Equation Solvers 2 Oct 2012 Updated: 17 Feb 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 6.15 Licence: CPOL Views: 72,501 Bookmarked: 33 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Educational software package for Microsoft Windows® 7/8 contains “5-in-1” School Math Calculators and Equation Solvers intended for students and educators
	Semafon™ semantic phone number-to-text converter 8 Oct 2015 Updated: 8 Oct 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 38,020 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. App implements bi-directional semantic phone number-to-text converter, extended with novel Lottery+Quiz engine
General Programming
Performance	Efficient Algorithms to Trim In-String White Spaces 1 Aug 2015 Updated: 14 Aug 2015 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 6.69 Licence: CPOL Views: 75,824 Bookmarked: 34 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is an alternative for "Fastest method to trim all whitespace from Strings in .NET"
Hosted Services
Azure	Azure-Volta 2013 Engineering Calculator is up and running! 23 Apr 2013 Updated: 17 Feb 2015 Rating: 3.18/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 1.92 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,510 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Migration from VS2010->VS2012->Azure cloud computing: practical and didactic aspects
	Quiz Engine powered by Azure cloud 26 Apr 2013 Updated: 17 Feb 2015 Rating: 4.64/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.79 Licence: CPOL Views: 44,902 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. NY Trivia Quiz w/backend Database migration to Azure cloud
Internet of Things
	Perpetuum-M: Realtime NY bus tracking app for Win7/8 26 Mar 2015 Updated: 26 Mar 2015 Rating: 4.82/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.75 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,532 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 352 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. New York City MTA bus tracking app for Win 7/8 with Azure Cloud backend services
	'enRoute': Real-time NY City Bus Tracking Web App 11 Mar 2015 Updated: 6 May 2015 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.17 Licence: CPOL Views: 50,828 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 74 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Web Application capable of NY MTA bus routes and stops monitoring in real-time/low-latency mode.
Mobile Apps
	Cardar™, credit cards metadata organizer 15 Aug 2013 Updated: 17 Feb 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,580 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Store securely credit cards' structured meta-data, like contact info, PIN, APR on balance transfer/purchase/cash advance, and other terms/conditions
Web Development
HTML5	Engineering Calculator VOLTA-814 19 Dec 2016 Updated: 19 Dec 2016 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 38 Popularity: 7.71 Licence: CPOL Views: 124,837 Bookmarked: 52 Downloaded: 1,782 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Engineering Calculator VOLTA-814 (Productivity Software contest submission) was originally developed as HTML5 web application and later converted into desktop app using Intel’s AppUp encapsulator. The latest version for Win 7/8 released in 2014 is built on .NET/WPF.
	Scientific Calculator ZENO-5000 7 Dec 2010 Updated: 16 Feb 2015 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 32 Popularity: 7.14 Licence: CPOL Views: 79,564 Bookmarked: 58 Downloaded: 1,286 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Scientific Calculator ZENO-5000: HTML 5, CSS 3 and client-side jQuery/JavaScript
	YouTube™ Embedded Video Player: Extended API (C#) 2 Oct 2009 Updated: 13 Jul 2015 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 24 Popularity: 6.73 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 218,048 Bookmarked: 115 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. YouTube™ video player API provides variety of customization features (ASP.NET, C#)
	YouTube™ API for ASP.NET 2 Oct 2009 Updated: 2 Oct 2023 Rating: 4.97/5 Votes: 49 Popularity: 8.30 Licence: CPOL Views: 230,235 Bookmarked: 205 Downloaded: 11,272 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. YouTube™ API for ASP.NET, AJAX-extended (C#)

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Database Development
	Use SQL to generate large data sequence [Tip/Trick] 17 Dec 2010 Updated: 19 Feb 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 22,060 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Generate large data series by using Cartesian Product and small data table
	Aggregate Product function extends SQL [Tip/Trick] 17 Dec 2010 Updated: 19 Feb 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.77 Licence: CPOL Views: 54,282 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Technique to extend capability of standard SQL by adding the Aggregate Product Function
General Programming
Algorithms	Fast Greatest Common Divisor (GCD) Algorithm [Tip/Trick] 11 Feb 2011 Updated: 15 Feb 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 23,250 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The computational efficiency of the Euclid's algorithm is much higher that the alternatives
	Letter Case Conversion Algorithms: Title Case, Toggle Case [Tip/Trick] 26 Feb 2011 Updated: 5 Mar 2011 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.94 Licence: CPOL Views: 31,531 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Algorithms extending the System.Globalization.TextInfo.ToTitleCase Method
High Performance Computing
Parallel Processing	Fast Greatest Common Divisor and Least Common Multiple Algorithms [Tip/Trick] 24 Feb 2011 Updated: 19 Apr 2011 Rating: 4.71/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.50 Licence: CPOL Views: 52,073 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. .NET/C# managed code implementation of 2 core algorithms of integer arithmetic: GCD and LCM (used in "3 Fraction Calculator", best on Google)
Internet of Things
	The Orthodromic Distance Between Two Geo-points [Tip/Trick] 23 Jun 2015 Updated: 23 Jun 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,261 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Computational algorithms pertinent to finding the great-circle distance between 2 points on Earth
Productivity Apps and Services
Microsoft Office	Statistical Outliers Detection: Worksheet Solution [Tip/Trick] 21 Jun 2011 Updated: 23 Mar 2019 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.14 Licence: CPOL Views: 84,766 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Statistical Outliers detection in Microsoft Excel worksheet using Median() and array formula
	Pure SQL solution to Database Table Paging [Tip/Trick] 15 Aug 2012 Updated: 15 Aug 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,172 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Portable solution encapsulated in single SQL query allows to select N rows offsetting M records
Programming Languages
C#	How to Toggle String Case in .Net [Tip/Trick] 11 Feb 2011 Updated: 11 Feb 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,770 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Interesting finding in regards to the Case Toggle Algorithm by Robert (see the following code snippet): protected string ToggleCaseByRobert(string s){ var sb = new StringBuilder(s.Length); foreach (char c in s) sb.Append(char.IsUpper(c) ? char.ToLower(c) :...
	How to Toggle String Case in .NET [Tip/Trick] 10 Feb 2011 Updated: 14 Feb 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,721 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is an alternative for "How to Toggle String Case in .NET"
	How to Toggle String Case in .NET [Tip/Trick] 14 Feb 2011 Updated: 14 Feb 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 4,940 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
	How to Toggle String Case in .NET [Tip/Trick] 22 Feb 2011 Updated: 22 Feb 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,441 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Following two Toggle Case Algorithms, implemented as "pure" .NET solution (no "unsafe" coding technique, all managed code) demonstrate the best performance, tested against a variety of text strings, containing: ASCII, Unicode, all Low case, all Upper case, long numeric strings
C# 4.0	GCD Simplified using lambda [Tip/Trick] 12 May 2011 Updated: 12 May 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,510 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Hello Steven,As FYI: recently I have published on CodeProject a short article (tip) on rather efficient implementation of GCD/LCM based on Euclid algorithm. They use iteration instead of recursion, because re-cursive algorithms in general and in this particular case are relatively...
	MultiKeyDictionary generic class. [Tip/Trick] 4 Jul 2011 Updated: 4 Jul 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,970 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. AsFYI: In addition to my previous comments, here is the link to an excellent article published by Aron Weiler on CodeProject addressing the same issue of Multi-Key Dictionary Object: C# Multi-key Generic Dictionary[^]
Web Development
	Watch Your Mouse! Triple-click Saves Time & Labor [Tip/Trick] 8 Feb 2011 Updated: 22 Jun 2015 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 42 Popularity: 7.73 Licence: CPOL Views: 198,778 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Computer mouse triple-click is a convenient feature
ASP.NET	Fast Prime Factoring Algorithm [Tip/Trick] 8 Feb 2011 Updated: 3 Jul 2015 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 22 Popularity: 6.45 Licence: CPOL Views: 70,412 Bookmarked: 29 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Serial and Parallel implementation of efficient Prime Factoriing algorithms
	Online Geocoder with interactive Map [Tip/Trick] 27 May 2011 Updated: 29 Jun 2015 Rating: 4.72/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.26 Licence: CPOL Views: 41,710 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Web app to find geographical coordinates and apply them to the Bing Map
	Binding ASP.NET DropDownList to Array, Dictionary and Enum [Tip/Trick] 21 Jun 2011 Updated: 2 Jul 2015 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.29 Licence: CPOL Views: 109,954 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. DropDownList Data Binding to Array (1D/2D), Enum and Dictionary objects in .NET
HTML	Browser Type Checking By jQuery [Tip/Trick] 12 May 2011 Updated: 12 May 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,250 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Hi,As FYI: You could refer to my article published on CodeProject, which describes the similar solution and has been tested to work with all major browsers: How to Detect Browser Capabilities in ASP.NET[^]Kind regards,Alex B.
	Real-Time Ticker Showing Your Government's Cash Burn Rate [Tip/Trick] 20 Mar 2011 Updated: 16 Feb 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,141 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Essentially the same code snippet with just a little bit cleaner and more efficient code1. setTimeout() is replaced with setInterval() function2. The interval is correctly set to 333 msec to produce 3 updates per second as specifiedRelated application (as FYI): Inflation...
HTML5	Nested GridView controls in ASP.NET: best practices [Tip/Trick] 13 Jul 2011 Updated: 30 Oct 2011 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.43 Licence: CPOL Views: 89,482 Bookmarked: 19 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. ASP.NET GridView control hosting another GridView in data-centric web applications
	Hyperlinked Images in ASP.NET GridView [Tip/Trick] 13 Jul 2011 Updated: 11 Feb 2015 Rating: 4.75/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.59 Licence: CPOL Views: 115,459 Bookmarked: 25 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. 3 different techniques of adding hyperlinked image to ASP.NET GridView in data-centric RIA
	Advanced CSS3: pseudo-icons made of HTML5 div Elements [Tip/Trick] 16 Apr 2015 Updated: 8 May 2015 Rating: 4.59/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.38 Licence: CPOL Views: 40,474 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. CSS3 technique utilizes HTML5 div elements to produce compact pseudo-graphics
	Vertical Stretch 100% in HTML5/CSS3 [Tip/Trick] 9 Sep 2011 Updated: 3 Oct 2011 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.16 Licence: CPOL Views: 94,077 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Make DIV element stretch vertically 100%. Works in all HTML5-compatible browsers
	Toggle Button built on ASP.NET CheckBox and HTML5/CSS [Tip/Trick] 16 Mar 2015 Updated: 16 Mar 2015 Rating: 4.74/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.28 Licence: CPOL Views: 54,609 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is an alternative for "Using CSS to Style a CheckboxList/RadioButtonList Control in ASP.NET"
	YouTube® playback customization options [Tip/Trick] 2 Feb 2011 Updated: 14 Feb 2015 Rating: 4.75/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 6.18 Licence: CPOL Views: 97,231 Bookmarked: 26 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Customize YouTube® video playback by adding web query parameters
	Click/Select row in ASP.NET GridView or HTML 5 Table [Tip/Trick] 10 Jun 2011 Updated: 15 Feb 2015 Rating: 4.84/5 Votes: 32 Popularity: 7.21 Licence: CPOL Views: 269,519 Bookmarked: 51 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Make entire table row clickable/selectable by adding "onclick" event and formatting features via JavaScript and CSS3.
	HTML5/CSS3 graphic enhancement: buttons, inputs [Tip/Trick] 14 Feb 2011 Updated: 23 Feb 2015 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 101 Popularity: 9.63 Licence: CPOL Views: 832,087 Bookmarked: 171 Downloaded: 4,722 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Aesthetic enhancement of HTML5 web elements via pure CSS3; no image files required
	Fixed Table Header Atop Scrollable GridView in ASP.NET [Tip/Trick] 6 Oct 2012 Updated: 26 Feb 2015 Rating: 4.72/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.26 Licence: CPOL Views: 157,795 Bookmarked: 40 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Tip describes CSS3 formatting technique that allows to create web Table header, which always stays atop the table regardless of scrolling
	Advanced CSS3 Styling of HTML5 SELECT Element [Tip/Trick] 24 Mar 2015 Updated: 25 Apr 2015 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.67 Licence: CPOL Views: 150,852 Bookmarked: 33 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Pure CSS3 styling solution applicable to HTML5 SELECT element and ASP.NET DropDownList control
	HTML5/CSS 3 Modal Dialog Box; no JavaScript [Tip/Trick] 17 Mar 2011 Updated: 13 Jun 2015 Rating: 4.78/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 6.76 Licence: CPOL Views: 231,639 Bookmarked: 55 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Pure HTML5 modal pop-up box ("darkbox") implemented via CSS 3
	Online Slide Show as Pure HTML5/CSS3 Solution: NO JavaScript [Tip/Trick] 16 Mar 2011 Updated: 15 Jun 2015 Rating: 4.97/5 Votes: 42 Popularity: 8.07 Licence: CPOL Views: 283,521 Bookmarked: 62 Downloaded: 111 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. SAY IT WITH CSS3! - Online slide show implements "darkbox" pop-up using pure CSS3/HTML5 features
	HTML5 Tables Formatting: Alternate Rows, Color Gradients, Shadows [Tip/Trick] 30 Sep 2011 Updated: 16 Jun 2015 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 29 Popularity: 7.15 Licence: CPOL Views: 213,922 Bookmarked: 58 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. HTML5/CSS3 advanced formatting of web Tables and ASP.NET GridView

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DrABELL

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Dr. Alexander Bell (aka DrABell), a seasoned full-stack Software (Win/Web/Mobile) and Data Engineer holds PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, authored 37 inventions and published 100+ technical articles and developed multiple award-winning apps (App Innovation Contests AIC 2012/2013 submissions) Alexander is currently focused on Microsoft Azure Cloud and .NET 6/8 development projects.

Articles by DrABELL (Articles: 17, Tip/Tricks: 31)

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