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Database Development
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| SQL Server |
26 Oct 2008
Updated: 26 Oct 2008
Rating: 3.25/5
Votes: 4
Popularity: 1.96
Licence: CPOL
Views: 28,572
Bookmarked: 17
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MD5 Digest XSP with error trapping and full Unicode support, in and out.
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General Programming
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| Debugging |
8 Jun 2017
Updated: 8 Jun 2017
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 11
Popularity: 5.21
Licence: CPOL
Views: 21,124
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Historically, ETW has been portrayed as having a very steep learning curve, along the lines of the effort required to summit Everest. Realizing its potential value, I set about to reduce the effort to that required to summit Pike's Peak.
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Programming Languages
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| C |
4 Aug 2018
Updated: 4 Aug 2018
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 7
Popularity: 4.23
Licence: CPOL
Views: 9,452
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Beware the abandoned stack frame, for it can be plundered at will.
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| C# |
12 Jun 2016
Updated: 12 Jun 2016
Rating: 3.86/5
Votes: 3
Popularity: 1.84
Licence: CPOL
Views: 10,551
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What happens when you have more items in your list than you have items in your control string?
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16 Sep 2018
Updated: 17 Sep 2018
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 5
Popularity: 3.49
Licence: CPOL
Views: 15,183
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Some claim that it's hard to use DocFX to generate GitHub Pages, but I discovered that it is pretty straightforward, once you mark all the booby traps.
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23 Jun 2019
Updated: 23 Jun 2019
Rating: 4.00/5
Votes: 2
Popularity: 1.20
Licence: CPOL
Views: 11,276
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Some JSON strings need a little help fitting into a C# object.
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10 May 2015
Updated: 10 May 2015
Rating: 4.67/5
Votes: 7
Popularity: 3.94
Licence: CPOL
Views: 17,462
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This article describes a class that adds color to console program displays.
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19 Jun 2019
Updated: 23 Jun 2019
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 3
Popularity: 2.39
Licence: CPOL
Views: 12,933
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This is the first of a two-part series about string conversion issues that recently arose in my practice.
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| C# 3.5 |
7 Sep 2014
Updated: 7 Sep 2014
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 3
Popularity: 2.39
Licence: CPOL
Views: 14,432
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Join me for an adventure in time zone conversion.
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16 Jun 2016
Updated: 16 Jun 2016
Rating: 3.50/5
Votes: 3
Popularity: 1.67
Licence: CPOL
Views: 9,281
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When I needed to compute the Daylight Saving Time transitions for any year, I had to dig a bit deeper into the time zone information stored in the Windows Registry.
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| C# 7.0 |
2 Sep 2018
Updated: 7 Oct 2018
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 2
Popularity: 1.51
Licence: BSD
Views: 8,320
Bookmarked: 2
Downloaded: 115
This article demonstrates a class library that supports command line parameters with default values stored in application settings.
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| C++ |
10 Apr 2019
Updated: 10 Apr 2019
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Licence: CPOL
Views: 12,003
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The article walks through the steps necessary to create native Windows on Arm builds of several popular libraries.
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| Typescript |
1 Jun 2018
Updated: 7 Jun 2018
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Popularity: 0.00
Licence: CPOL
Views: 12,234
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If you use the Angular CLI, you need a custom command prompt, along the lines of the Visual Studio Developer Tools command prompt.
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| VC++ |
8 Apr 2015
Updated: 2 Jun 2015
Rating: 4.75/5
Votes: 3
Popularity: 2.27
Licence: CPOL
Views: 14,320
Bookmarked: 12
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Use static buffers to guarantee that error message reporting succeeds, even when token replacement is required, and memory is low.
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1 Jun 2015
Updated: 19 Jan 2016
Rating: 4.95/5
Votes: 18
Popularity: 6.22
Licence: CPOL
Views: 27,087
Bookmarked: 17
Downloaded: 128
This article documents issues that I have identified in the new secure overloads of the CRT buffered print routines.
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| Visual Basic |
17 Jun 2016
Updated: 17 Jun 2016
Rating: 3.47/5
Votes: 8
Popularity: 3.13
Licence: CPOL
Views: 14,930
Bookmarked: 9
Downloaded: 321
A Microsoft Excel worksheet for accurate, easy, fast design and application of Windows forms and resource strings
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| XML |
3 Apr 2017
Updated: 1 Aug 2021
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 16
Popularity: 6.02
Licence: BSD
Views: 17,151
Bookmarked: 20
Downloaded: 247
Though useful and mostly harmless, pitfalls can lead unwary developers astray.
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Web Development
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| HTML |
7 May 2015
Updated: 12 Jul 2016
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 6
Popularity: 3.89
Licence: BSD
Views: 19,611
Bookmarked: 5
Downloaded: 162
Share Win32 string resources without the risk of conflicting resource IDs
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25 Jun 2016
Updated: 12 Jul 2016
Rating: 4.92/5
Votes: 15
Popularity: 5.64
Licence: BSD
Views: 22,903
Bookmarked: 10
Downloaded: 202
The Excel powered resource generator, version 2, is vastly improved and better documented.
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| Node.js |
25 Apr 2017
Updated: 25 Apr 2017
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 1
Popularity: 0.00
Licence: CPOL
Views: 9,202
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This article describes a handful of powerful shell scripts that I use to further automate my Angular 2 application development.
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Desktop Programming
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| Win32 |
10 Jan 2016
Updated: 27 Feb 2016
Rating: 4.75/5
Votes: 4
Popularity: 2.86
Licence: CPOL
Views: 11,093
Bookmarked: 7
Downloaded: 0
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Operating Systems
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| Windows |
24 Apr 2018
Updated: 24 Apr 2018
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 7
Popularity: 4.23
Licence: CPOL
Views: 7,431
Bookmarked: 8
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Run many (hundreds, even) files through a program or script, using nothing but CMD.EXE.
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15 Jul 2019
Updated: 17 Jul 2019
Rating: 4.65/5
Votes: 8
Popularity: 4.20
Licence: CPOL
Views: 12,501
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I finally discovered a reliable way to use the same file from two or more directories.
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Programming Languages
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| C |
17 Jul 2016
Updated: 17 Jul 2016
Rating: 4.82/5
Votes: 6
Popularity: 3.75
Licence: CPOL
Views: 8,491
Bookmarked: 4
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Sparsely documented cause of compiler error C2143
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| C# |
17 Nov 2017
Updated: 17 Nov 2017
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 1
Popularity: 0.00
Licence: BSD
Views: 6,140
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Calculating the day on which a reporting period that ends on a specific day of the week is not as easy as it looks.
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| C# 4.0 |
1 May 2015
Updated: 14 Jan 2020
Rating: 3.52/5
Votes: 6
Popularity: 2.74
Licence: CPOL
Views: 34,704
Bookmarked: 22
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The routines in this library can parse any string that I can throw at it, including Common Name strings read from X.509 Digital Certificates.
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| C++ |
11 Nov 2016
Updated: 11 Nov 2016
Rating: 4.67/5
Votes: 2
Popularity: 1.40
Licence: CPOL
Views: 10,162
Bookmarked: 5
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This tip describes how I resolved a C4183 compiler error emitted by the Visual C++ 2013 compiler.
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| VC++ |
1 Jun 2015
Updated: 1 Jun 2015
Rating: 2.50/5
Votes: 4
Popularity: 1.51
Licence: CPOL
Views: 10,690
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Variable scope in C++ can be devastatingly subtle, as in this function.
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| Visual C++ 12.0 |
28 Jun 2015
Updated: 28 Jun 2015
Rating: 3.89/5
Votes: 4
Popularity: 2.34
Licence: CPOL
Views: 8,710
Bookmarked: 0
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While you can often get away with ignoring compiler warnings, failing to at least scan them can bite hard!
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Web Development
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| HTML |
5 Jan 2018
Updated: 5 Jan 2018
Rating: 3.67/5
Votes: 2
Popularity: 1.10
Licence: CPOL
Views: 6,471
Bookmarked: 1
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URL Encoded Text is URL Encoded Text, wherever you find it, even if it happens to be in and old school Windows INI file.
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Average reference rating: 5.00
DevOps
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28 Jun 2016
Updated: 28 Jun 2016
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 5
Popularity: 3.49
Licence: CPOL
Views: 17,545
Bookmarked: 6
Downloaded: 266
A reference chart that doubles as the engine behind a data structure mapper
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4 Apr 2019
Updated: 4 Apr 2019
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 4
Popularity: 3.01
Licence: CPOL
Views: 13,002
Bookmarked: 8
Downloaded: 193
Here I present a cheat sheet that I assembled for my own use, in the hope that others may as well find it useful.
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Operating Systems
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| Windows |
14 May 2019
Updated: 14 May 2019
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 3
Popularity: 2.39
Licence: CPOL
Views: 3,750
Bookmarked: 1
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Use this reference table to expedite the use of specialized fonts, such as Wingdings.
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29 Dec 2018
Updated: 29 Dec 2018
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 2
Popularity: 1.51
Licence: CPOL
Views: 5,562
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When the command-line help falls short, we improvise.
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Programming Languages
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| C |
20 Jun 2018
Updated: 20 Jun 2018
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 1
Popularity: 0.00
Licence: CPOL
Views: 7,331
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This article demonstrates every documented strftime substitution token, and provides a tool to generate your own list for your platform.
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