Best Web Dev Article of February 2018

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Each month at CodeProject we gather together the best of the articles submitted the previous month and ask our readers to choose the best of the best. Entry is automatic - just submit you articke and we'll do the rest.

Check out the submission guidelines for information on posting articles.

Current Entries

Articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered.

Email Directly from C# .NET on Azure with No Mail-server

4 Feb 2018DataBytzAI

Easy way to send email on Azure with no mail server, using DNS MX and SMTP

ASP

SMTP

DNS

POP3

SmtpClient

Simple Service-Based System for Massive Data Processing with ZooKeeper-Kafka and Redis

15 Feb 2018Igor Ladnik

Basic infrastructure for massive continuous data acquisition and processing using ZooKeeper-Kafka and Redis

Client and Server-Side Data Filtering, Sorting, and Pagination with Angular NgExTable

20 Dec 2020Shenwei Liu

A custom and configurable Angular data grid tool and demo application presenting both client and server-side data filtering, sorting, and pagination (updated to Angular 11)

WpGet: Private Wordpress Plugin Repository

9 Dec 2022Daniele Fontani

Implement a private Wordpress reposiotory using Angular and PHP slim framework as backend

How to Configure Node.js and MongoDB for Production in Ubuntu

23 Feb 2018Manjunath Matathamana

Setting up Node.js and MongoDB backend, and then getting an application up and running can be challenging. This tutorial helps you make the whole process easier.

Creating Dynamic Object from XML using ExpandoObject and Put Intellisense using C#

14 Feb 2018Apurba pan

Creating dynamic object from XML using ExpandoObject and put Intellisense using C#

VS2013

ASP.NET

GoogleCharts Renderer

20 Feb 2018Satish A. J. Wadekar

Implement google charts with some easy steps.

Scraping Web Pages with XHtmlKit

20 Feb 2018jrsell

Use the XHtmlKit Nuget Package to make scraping web pages in C# fun

XHTML

.NET

Case Insensitive Search Filter in OData ASP.NET Core 2.0 Web API as an OWIN Middleware

31 Jan 2018Pawel idzikowski

How to replace the web API request query string to provide case insensitive OData search

Handling JSON Errors in OWIN Web Application

8 Feb 2018Ivan Yakimov

In this short article, I'll describe how to configure JSON serializer error handling differently for each request.

Creating the Custom Directives in AngularJs

11 Feb 2018Areshdeep Singh

Simple steps to learn, create or work with custom directives in Angularjs

AngularJs

Bootstrap Modal Dialog Interaction with AngularJS 1.6.x

7 Feb 2018Han Bo Sun

In this tutorial, I will discuss some techniques that can be used so that modal dialogs can be used with AngularJS without integrating with ui-bootstrap.

Driver Recognition and Fatigue Detection Systems with Devices Powered by Intel

13 Feb 2018Intel

This article discusses fatigue detection systems.

HTML

cloud

IoT

Learn Angular in 10 days – Day 4 – Part 1

9 Feb 2018 Marla Sukesh

Learn Angular in 10 days

Javascript

AngularJs

Where and When to Fetch Data With Redux

2 Feb 2018Dave Ceddia

Where and when to fetch data with Redux

Javascript

Redux

React

Build an Autonomous Mobile Robot with the Intel® RealSense™ Camera, ROS, and SAWR

13 Feb 2018Intel

In this article, we give an overview of the SAWR project and also offer some tips for building your own robot using the Intel RealSense camera and SAWR projects.

Optimizing Traffic for Emergency Vehicles using IOT and Mobile Edge Computing

13 Feb 2018Intel

In this paper we focus on how Vehicle-to-Infrastructure connectivity can help to optimize city traffic for emergency vehicles, and provide personalized treatment to patients in need.

Enabling FPGAs for Software Developers

23 Feb 2018Member 13680125

Boosting Efficiency and Performance for Automotive, Networking, and Cloud Computing

Installing OCI8 & PHP 7.2 on RHEL or CentOS 6

19 Feb 2018Alvin Bunk

Installing OCI8 & PHP 7.2 on RHEL or CentOS 6

PHP

A Note on Gradle - 2

5 Feb 2018Dr. Song Li

This is a note on building Java applications by Gradle. It will give an example to build a multi-project application.

ASP.NET Core Security Overview

17 May 2018Sriganesha Rao

This article provides an overview of ASP.NET Core security features.

MEAN Stack

20 Feb 2018Shashangka Shekhar

MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, Node.js abbreviated as MEAN - these development tools all use Javascript. In this sample, we are going to use MSSQL Server instead of MongoDb.

Scaffolding ASP.NET Core 2 with CatFactory

11 Apr 2020HHerzl

Scaffolding ASP.NET Core 2 with CatFactory

Securing ASP.NET CORE Web API using Custom API Key based Authentication

6 Feb 2018 Saineshwar Bageri

In this article, we are going to learn how to create a secure Web API in ASP.NET Core MVC.

SQL

VS2017

ASP.NET-Core

Dynamic High Performance Query Builder for MongoDB using DataTables for Over a Million Records

3 Feb 2018Syed Hasan Hyder

Provides plausible and high performing data display, for very large data (over a million records)

Naїve Bayesian Anti-Spam Filter Using Node.JS, JavaScript And Ajax Requests

11 Mar 2018Arthur V. Ratz

In this article we’ll formulate and thoroughly discuss about probabilistic Bayesian classification algorithm and its implementation in Node.JS and JavaScript that can be actively used to detect and locate messages containing potential spam and other unsolicited data.

Javascript

Linux

Windows

artificial-intelligence

Dev

Architect

web_application

How to create a unique style for a JavaScript org chart?

5 Feb 2018Stas Wolski

Here is an overview of customization options for dhtmlxDiagram, JavaScript library for creating org charts and other types of diagrams.

HTML5

Javascript

chart

Configure IIS to Allow Any File Type to be Downloaded

15 Feb 2018Anupkumar7186

Configure IIS to allow any file type to be downloaded

IIS

ASP.NET

Binding Events to Not Yet Added DOM Elements with JQuery

20 Feb 2018Khrystyna Popadyuk

Provides tip for attaching events to not yet created DOM element

Javascript

jQuery

Dev

3 Tips for Developers to Improve Technical Presentations Using Open Source Jupyter Notebooks

14 Feb 2018Jesse Casman

Using open source Jupyter Notebooks to show live code in your presentation

Creating and using a content provider

14 Feb 2018David Crow

How to use a content provider rather than a collection class (e.g., ArrayList) to hold data

Xamarin: Starting an Activity from Webview

26 Feb 2018Shailesh Pisat

Open a Phone Dialer on click of a link in Webview

Dependency Injection in ASP.NET Core 2.0

19 Feb 2018syed shanu

How to use Dependency Injection in ASP.NET Core 2.0 and use the result to bind in our View page

How Expensive Can DOM Manipulation Be

21 Feb 2018Silvia Campo

How expensive DOM manipulation can be

Learn MongoDB With Me

20 Feb 2018Sibeesh Passion

Here we are going to do some exercises with MongoDB, we will be talking about Mongo Shell, how we can configure MongoDB, what are Indexes in MongoDB, etc.

SQL

Javascript

MongoDB

Current Participants

Those with articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered.

DataBytzAI

Chief Technology Officer SocialVoice.AI

Ireland

Allen is CTO of SocialVoice (https://www.socialvoice.ai), where his company analyses video data at scale and gives Global Brands Knowledge, Insights and Actions never seen before! Allen is a chartered engineer, a Fellow of the British Computing Society, a Microsoft mvp and Regional Director, and C-Sharp Corner Community Adviser and MVP. His core technology interests are BigData, IoT and Machine Learning.

When not chained to his desk he can be found fixing broken things, playing music very badly or trying to shape things out of wood. He currently completing a PhD in AI and is also a ball throwing slave for his dogs.

Saineshwar Bageri

Technical Lead

India

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional
Code Project Most Valuable Author
C# Corner Most Valuable Professional

I am Senior Technical lead Working on.Net Web Technology
ASP.NET MVC,.Net Core,ASP.NET CORE, C#, SQL Server, MYSQL, MongoDB, Windows

Marla Sukesh

Founder Just Compile

India

Learning is fun but teaching is awesome.

Who I am? Trainer + consultant + Developer/Architect + Director of Just Compile

My Company - Just Compile

I can be seen in, @sukeshmarla or Facebook

Alvin Bunk

Software Developer Taft College

United States

I’m a software developer. Currently I’m working at Taft College as a Programmer.

Anupkumar7186

India

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Apurba pan

Software Developer (Senior)

India

I have extensive professional experience with Microsoft technologies with an expertise in Microsoft .NET, C#, JavaScript, SQL, and ASP.NET. I also have an advanced understanding of the concepts behind these technologies including Object-Oriented Programming, Relational Data, MVC and MVVM.

Some of my more recent work has been designing and building web applications primarily with JavaScript in conjunction with many of the JavaScript libraries/frameworks including JQuery, AngularJS and Bootstrap and consuming both JSON and REST services.

Areshdeep Singh

Software Developer (Senior) Sapient

India

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Arthur V. Ratz

Software Developer (Senior) EpsilonDev

Ukraine

I’m software developer, system analyst and network engineer, with over 20 years experience, graduated from L’viv State Polytechnic University and earned my computer science and information technology master’s degree in January 2004. My professional career began as a financial and accounting software developer in EpsilonDev company, located at L’viv, Ukraine. My favorite programming languages - C/C++, C#.NET, Java, ASP.NET, Node.js/JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Python, SQL, HTML5, etc. While developing applications, I basically use various of IDE’s and development tools, including Microsoft Visual Studio/Code, Eclipse IDE for Linux, IntelliJ/IDEA for writing code in Java. My professional interests basically include data processing and analysis algorithms, artificial intelligence and data mining, system analysis, modern high-performance computing (HPC), development of client-server web-applications using various of libraries, frameworks and tools. I’m also interested in cloud-computing, system security audit, IoT, networking architecture design, hardware engineering, technical writing, etc. Besides of software development, I also admire to write and compose technical articles, walkthroughs and reviews about the new IT- technological trends and industrial content. I published my first article at CodeProject in June 2015.

Daniele Fontani

Chief Technology Officer

Italy

I'm senior developer and architect specialized on portals, intranets, and others business applications. Particularly interested in Agile developing and open source projects, I worked on some of this as project manager and developer.

My programming experience include:

Frameworks \Technlogies: .NET Framework (C# & VB), ASP.NET, Java, php
Client languages:XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, angular.js, jQuery
Platforms:Sharepoint,Liferay, Drupal
Databases: MSSQL, ORACLE, MYSQL, Postgres

Dave Ceddia

United States

Dave is a Software Engineer in the Boston area and writes about AngularJS and other JavaScript things over at daveceddia.com

David Crow

Software Developer (Senior) Pinnacle Business Systems

United States

The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

HTTP 404 - File not found
Internet Information Services

Dr. Song Li

United States

I have been working in the IT industry for some time. It is still exciting and I am still learning. I am a happy and honest person, and I want to be your friend.

Han Bo Sun

Team Leader The Judge Group

United States

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

HHerzl

Software Developer

El Salvador

CatFactory Creator.

Full Stack Developer with Experience in C#, Entity Framework Core, ASP.NET Core and Angular.

Igor Ladnik

Software Developer (Senior)

Israel

Nov 2010: Code Project Contests - Windows Azure Apps - Winner
Feb 2011: Code Project Contests - Windows Azure Apps - Grand Prize Winner

Intel

United States

You may know us for our processors. But we do so much more. Intel invents at the boundaries of technology to make amazing experiences possible for business and society, and for every person on Earth.

Harnessing the capability of the cloud, the ubiquity of the Internet of Things, the latest advances in memory and programmable solutions, and the promise of always-on 5G connectivity, Intel is disrupting industries and solving global challenges. Leading on policy, diversity, inclusion, education and sustainability, we create value for our stockholders, customers and society.

This is a Organisation

42 members

Ivan Yakimov

Software Developer (Senior) Finstek

China

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Jesse Casman

President Oppkey

United States

President of Oppkey, a developer relations firm based in San Francisco that builds online developer communities. Open source loving ice hockey playing New Mexican Japanophile.

See oppkey.com for more details.

jrsell

Canada

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Khrystyna Popadyuk

Software Developer

Ukraine

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Manjunath Matathamana

India

Founder of Storylens - A content publishing platform for the devs. Amateur musician. Favorite quote? "Being a jack of all trades doesn't mean you're a master at none."

Member 13680125

United States

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Pawel idzikowski

Software Developer (Senior) Polenter - Software Solutions

Germany

I'm C# developer from Cologne, Germany. Here I owe a small software company. My hobby is general optimization - natural talent of all lazy people Wink | ;-)

Satish A. J. Wadekar

Technical Lead

India

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Shailesh Pisat

Software Developer (Senior)

India

I am a senior software developer. I work for a web development company as team lead. Most of the solutions developed by myself are for web using DotNet Framework but do have keen interest in developing for mobile app as well. At work I am responsible to provide solutions to clients and work with dynamic teams developing for web and mobile. I have been closely working with teams and mentoring them developing in technologies like ASP.Net and PHP for Web and Objective C, Android SDK and cross platform Mobile app.

I like to try my hands-on various other web and mobile development technologies. My current interests apart from ASP.Net (WebForms, MVC and DotNet Core) is for NodeJS, Angular, React and Typescript for developing Web and Mobile Apps. I have been constantly exploring new technologies and implementations for CI/CD, Source Control & Versioning and Automation. Also, looking forward to work on Bots, Machine learning, IoT, VR & AR.

I use tools to do my work and suit my workflows. I was made aware of blogging during my training at Aptech and has been constantly working on having blogs for myself and my work. Including this blog there are few more links of my online presence mentioned below.

Shashangka Shekhar

Software Developer (Senior) s3 Innovate Pte Ltd

Bangladesh

Hi, I am Shashangka Shekhar,

Working with Microsoft Technologies. Since March 2011, it was my first step to working with Microsoft Technologies, achieved bachelor’s degree on Computer Science from State University of Bangladesh(Dhaka). Have 12+ years of professional experience, currently working as Technical Lead at Surbana Jurong Private Limited.

I believe in desire of learning & also love to be a part of .Net Community by sharing knowledge’s.

Shenwei Liu

United States

Shenwei is a software developer and architect, and has been working on business applications using Microsoft and Oracle technologies since 1996. He obtained Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) in 1998 and Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) in 1999. He has experience in ASP.NET, C#, Visual Basic, Windows and Web Services, Silverlight, WPF, JavaScript/AJAX, HTML, SQL Server, and Oracle.

Sibeesh Passion

Software Developer

Germany

I am Sibeesh Venu, an engineer by profession and writer by passion. I’m neither an expert nor a guru. I have been awarded Microsoft MVP 3 times, C# Corner MVP 5 times, DZone MVB. I always love to learn new technologies, and I strongly believe that the one who stops learning is old.

My Blog: Sibeesh Passion
My Website: Sibeesh Venu

Silvia Campo

Canada

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Sriganesha Rao

Software Developer (Senior)

Australia

Senior Software Developer working on different Microsoft Technologies.
Desktop applications , Web application , Service layer , Azure

Stas Wolski

Software Developer (Senior)

Russian Federation

Building web apps since 2001. Rich experience in HTML frontends for different platforms.

Syed Hasan Hyder

Software Developer

Pakistan

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

This is a Organisation

33 members

syed shanu

Team Leader

India

Microsoft MVP | Code Project MVP | CSharp Corner MVP | Author | Blogger and always happy to Share what he knows to others. MyBlog

My Interview on Microsoft TechNet Wiki Ninja Link

First Prize	DataBytzAI - Email Directly from C# .NET on Azure with No Mail-server
Prize pool	CodeProject Mug - CodeProject Bob Sticker - CodeProject


Second Prize	Saineshwar Bageri - Securing ASP.NET CORE Web API using Custom API Key based Authentication
Prize pool	Bob Sticker - CodeProject

Contest Entries and Requirements

The contest period covers the the first day of the month 12AM US Eastern Standard Time and ends the final day of the month at 11:59:59 PM US Eastern Standard Time. All entries must be submitted during this period in order to qualify.
Entries must be an article, or blog entry.
With the exception of the Everything Else category, the article must be tagged with at least one of the tags corresponding to that competition's category (for example, to enter the C# Competition you would need to tag your article with a C# tag).
Articles entries must follow the CodeProject submission guidelines.
No cheating, lying, plagiarizing articles, chicanery, or kicking.
Articles may only be considered for a single category. If an article is eligible for multiple categories (for example, it pertains to both the C# and Web Dev categories), CodeProject editors and judges will decide which category the article shall be entered in.
No author can be nominated twice in the same category.
If an author writes has two separate articles, each article may be considered in their respective categories provided none of the aforementioned rules are broken. For example, if an author wrote two separate articles, one related to C# and one related to VB.NET, the author and articles could be nominated in the C# and VB.NET competitions, respectively.
In the event an author wins multiple competitions, and repeat, identical prizes, the number of prizes issued is solely at the discretion of the prize issuer.
In the event an article has multiple authors and/or contributors, the number of prizes issued is solely at the discretion of the prize issuer.
In the event of a tie, the number of prizes issued is solely at the discretion of the prize issuer.
Multiple votes from the same IP will be automatically disqualified.
The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
Only those who live in jurisdictions in which this contest is legal may enter.
Any breach of the rules and the prize will be awarded to the runner up.
By entering the contest you agree to the rules, conditions of entry, and agree that your member alias and any submitted material can be used for promotional purposes by CodeProject.
Entries shall be deemed to be submitted by the authorized account holder of the email address submitted at the time of entry unless clearly indicated otherwise. "Authorized account holder" is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an email address by an internet access provider, on-line service provider, or other organization (e.g. business, educational institution, etc.) that is responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted email address.

Eligibility

This competition is open to software development professionals & enthusiasts who are of the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence; however, residents of Quebec and of the following countries are ineligible to participate due to legal constraints: Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. Employees (or a member of their immediate family) of CodeProject or any of their affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising or promotional agencies are also ineligible to participate. Void where prohibited by law.

How to Enter

Entry is by the submission process described above. Please read the submission requirements before submitting your entry and ensure the article is tagged with at least one of the tags corresponding to that competition's category.

Lost, late, misdirected, or illegible entries will be disqualified. Any entry containing content that CodeProject deems objectionable for any reason will be disqualified. All decisions of CodeProject with respect to any aspect of the competition, including, without limitation, the eligibility of entries, are final and binding on all entrants in all matters as they relate to this competition. CodeProject reserves its right to modify the Rules.

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