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Internet of Things
	The Road to Building Industrial IoT Solutions 2 Aug 2016 Updated: 5 Aug 2016 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.94 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,954 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article discusses the common practices of how we develop industrial IoT solutions and avoid pitfalls on the road.
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C#	Rendering PDF Documents with Mupdf and P/Invoke in C# 24 Nov 2012 Updated: 23 Jan 2017 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 30 Popularity: 7.31 Licence: CPL Views: 253,303 Bookmarked: 97 Downloaded: 8,851 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Converting PDF into bitmaps without installing extra components.
	Function Decorator Pattern - Reanimation of Functions 3 Jun 2016 Updated: 15 Jun 2016 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 52 Popularity: 8.25 Licence: CPOL Views: 75,186 Bookmarked: 81 Downloaded: 306 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is an alternative for "Interceptor in the Wild". The Function Decorator Pattern offers a way to inject new behaviors into existing methods without using IoC frameworks nor modifying method implementations.
	PowerJSON - A Powerful and Fast JSON Serializer 1 Apr 2015 Updated: 2 Feb 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 30 Popularity: 7.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 73,531 Bookmarked: 63 Downloaded: 874 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is a fork of "fastJSON" with new power to control many aspects in JSON serialization and deserialization, such as, serializing interface instances (polymorphic serialization) and private types, including or excluding members, performing data conversions, conditional serialization, etc.
MSIL	Some Fun with Dynamic Methods and CLR (Part 1) 30 Nov 2017 Updated: 14 Sep 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,292 Bookmarked: 20 Downloaded: 188 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Circumventing language obstacles and optimizing performance with Dynamic Methods, Dynamic Assemblies.
Python	Compiling MuPDF DLL to Render and Edit PDF Documents 17 Nov 2017 Updated: 27 Apr 2020 Rating: 4.71/5 Votes: 28 Popularity: 6.74 Licence: CPOL Views: 76,445 Bookmarked: 71 Downloaded: 3,975 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. MuPDF is an open-sourced, high performance PDF rendering and editing engine written in C. This article describes how to compile its source code to a DLL for use in other programming languages.
XML	Some Fun with Dynamic Methods and CLR (Part 2) 16 Sep 2018 Updated: 23 Oct 2019 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 6.80 Licence: CPOL Views: 43,404 Bookmarked: 44 Downloaded: 272 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Do something crazy and dangerous with CLR and a method made from Dynamic Assembly

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Windows Forms	Rendering Text with OpenType Fonts Using GDI [Tip/Trick] 6 Mar 2013 Updated: 6 Mar 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 177,239 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 1,825 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Rendering text with OpenType fonts by P/Invoking GDI API in WinForm applications.
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C#	Proper Way of Releasing COM Objects in .NET [Tip/Trick] 27 Feb 2011 Updated: 3 Dec 2012 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 4.69 Licence: CPOL Views: 60,893 Bookmarked: 26 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Fully release resources engaged by COM objects.
	Supporting Contravariance in Generic Types, .NET 2.0 [Tip/Trick] 22 Feb 2013 Updated: 8 Apr 2013 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,541 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Generic Lists or Generic Types contravariance without casting.
	Using Extension Methods in .NET 2.0 SP2 [Tip/Trick] 20 Dec 2012 Updated: 22 Feb 2013 Rating: 4.33/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.03 Licence: CPOL Views: 30,211 Bookmarked: 16 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Compile extension method targeting .NET 2.0 only
Javascript	Incrementing AssemblyVersion revision number on each build [Tip/Trick] 24 Feb 2011 Updated: 2 Oct 2011 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 6.34 Licence: CPOL Views: 72,964 Bookmarked: 36 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Change the revision number of your project without manual intervention.
	Incrementing AssemblyVersion revision number on each build [Tip/Trick] 8 Sep 2011 Updated: 3 Oct 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,050 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Some people remarked that the Visual-Studio-generated build number actually contains a hidden timestamp, which, I think, is far from being intuitive. I wrote the following snippet to do something similar but is easier to understand.Beside changing the version number, we can even write build...

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wmjordan

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China

I am now programming applications for the Internet of Things.