Best Article of September 2021

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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.
Articles entries must follow the CodeProject submission guidelines.
No cheating, lying, plagiarizing articles, chicanery, or kicking.
No author can be nominated twice.
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.
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Any breach of the rules and the prize will be awarded to the runner up.
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Current Entries

Articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered.

Multiplatform Avalonia .NET Framework Programming Basic Concepts in Easy Samples

21 Dec 2023Nick Polyak

This article explains the most important and basic concepts of Avalonia WPF-like multiplatform UI package.

.NET

XAML

Dev

Architect

2-D Interpolation Functions

13 Sep 2021Mircea Neacsu

Various algorithms for 2D interpolation

C++

algorithm

Retro Game Cartography: Part Deux

9 Sep 2021Mladen Janković

Improved algorithm for reconstructing game world map from captured game play

RLE: The Human Friendly Compression

16 Apr 2022Patrice T

RLE (Run Length Encoding): The Human Friendly Compression

text

compression

algorithm

Audio Steganography for Pretty Good Concealing (AS4PGC)

25 Sep 2021Clark Fieseln

Compress, encrypt and hide a secret file inside an audio file (MP3, WAV, OGG, FLAC, ..)

Clear All Events Listeners of an Instance or Static Event

29 Sep 2021benji_dv

How to clear all events is quite simple. It needs a finger of reflection...

Dev

reflection

Sudoku Solver using C# Windows Application

25 Sep 2021Senthil Kumeresh

An overview of how the coding is done to solve the Sudoku problem

How to Close a React Native Modal with a Button

11 Sep 2021Cindy Potvin

Add a close button to a React Native and close the modal by clicking beside it.

Linear Regression with Tkinter

1 Sep 2021Azim Zahir

Demonstration of Linear Regression using Tkinter GUI

Python

Design

Fetching Data from a Specific Week Relative to a Date in SQL

14 Sep 2021OriginalGriff

How do you get last weeks data only? It's a little more complex than you might have thought

SQL

Preventing XSS in .NET Core Web APIs

26 Sep 2021Jason Sultana

Protecting an ASP.NET Web API from XSS

ASP.NET

XSS

security

Monitoring SQL Agent with Alerts for Long Running Jobs

2 Sep 2021Member 14691410

Providing admin with an alert mechanism via an SP

T-SQL

SQL

Windows

SVG SketchPad Editor - Imbeddable jQuery Plugin

7 Sep 2021gstolarov

An imbeddable SVG editor - jQuery plugin

Unit Testing Fluent Validations

3 Sep 2021James Walsh Jr

Unit testing Fluent Validation methods for data validation

.NET

Dev

unit-testing

Unable to Start MySQL Service

5 Sep 2021Jason Sultana

A solution for a MySQL service that's refusing to start

macOS

MySQL

permissions

Alternative to React.useState => objectUseState

12 Sep 2021Alen Toma

ObjectuseState - the behavior of React.UseState applies to object properties

Javascript

React

Batch Uninstall Devices in PowerShell

16 Sep 2021Fringe Coder

How to uninstall multiple devices at once using PowerShell ISE

PowerShell

SysAdmin

Type System Features

3 Sep 2021Jon McKee

An introduction to powerful type system features.

Typescript

Javascript

Dev

React Futures - Server Components

1 Sep 2021Kevin Ashley

A new experimental feature, React Server Components, allows to render components on the server

Javascript

React

Building a Simple Typescript ORM around sqlite

4 Sep 2021Alen Toma

This is a very easy way to build your ORM and have full control over how the database and query is setup.

Typescript

SQLite

ORM

Mock ApiException on Refit

7 Sep 2021Alessandro Magistroni

Test Refit status code response 422 (or else) with mock and ApiException

.NET

Dev

Creating an Insomnia-First Swagger Page

24 Sep 2021Jason Sultana

Create an Insomnia-First swagger page, so your API can easily be consumed by Insomnia, all in one click

REST

swagger

JSON

What Do You Need to Pass AWS Cloud Developer Associate Exam

27 Sep 2021Uladzislau Baryshchyk

Examples of questions and examples of services for passing AWS cloud Developer Associate exam

Cinchoo ETL - Merging JSON Array Values to Single CSV Column

28 Sep 2022Cinchoo

Tip to merging JSON array values to single CSV column

Customizable Butterworth Digital Filter

19 Sep 2021Andy Allinger

Filter specified by the pass frequency, stop frequency, passband attenuation, and stopband attenuation

FORTRAN

signal-processing

audio

J4JLogger: A Serilog Wrapper that Provides Source Code Information

30 Sep 2021Mark Olbert

A C# library that automatically adds source code information (e.g., calling method) to Serilog events

.NET

Python vs C++ Series: Getter, Setter, and Property

26 Sep 2021Shun Huang

Introduce Python Property from the concept of C++ Getters and Setters

Python

C++

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Laravel Vapor

27 Sep 2021Vedran Cindric

An honest review of the migration process to a serverless architecture using Laravel, AWS and Laravel Vapor

Cinchoo ETL - Converting Complex Nested JSON to CSV

17 Oct 2021Cinchoo

Tips to convert complex nested JSON file to CSV format file

.NET

Design

Dev

Open Source Security Approaches You Should Know

14 Sep 2021Jin Vincent Necesario

Open-source security approaches

manager

Dev

open-source

How to Implement a Robust C# Cloud Id in the New Nullable Context with Generics?

14 Sep 2021Code Fan

An overview of nulls and generics with id implementation details.

.NET

StringShear - A Science Project Adventure in C# and C++

13 Sep 2021Michael Sydney Balloni

A science program is rearranged, ported from C# to C++, measured, and optimized

C++

.NET

Windows

How to Turn MacroAssembler into a High Level Language

9 Sep 2021Carles Cortés

Macros to help assembler programmers to improve source code

MASM

assembler

ASM

Five Fast Flood Fills

15 Sep 2021FranciskaR

Benchmark for 5 flood fill algorithms

C++

algorithm

How to Turn MacroAssembler into a High Level Language (2)

20 Sep 2021Carles Cortés

Macros to help assembler programmers to improve source code (continued)

MASM

assembler

ASM

Regex+ - Extended Regular Expression Engine

24 May 2023Mirzakhmet Syzdykov

Description of the newly available Regex+ engine for Java

Java

Regex+

Convert Document File to PDF

9 Sep 2021_Flaviu

A simple way to convert an office document to PDF

C++

MFC

C# Function to Calculate the Australian State from a Postcode

15 Sep 2021Philip Ryan

Lots of forms require the Postcode AND the State, when it is a fixed relationship. Use this function and remove the need to collect the State as well.

Current Participants

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

_Flaviu

Romania

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

Alen Toma

Software Developer (Senior)

Sweden

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

Alessandro Magistroni

Italy

Alessandro is a software developer, graduated at politecnico of Milan with the passion for software programming, TDD and music.

Andy Allinger

Engineer Kruger Optical

United States

I work on an assembly line and have been doing amateur programming since 1992. Those rare times away from the computer I spend bicycling, canoeing the Columbia River, or cheering on the Seattle Seahawks.

Azim Zahir

Instructor / Trainer NIIT, India

India

I am a trainer by profession. Currently I am working with iFuture Technologies(India) as a Senior Faculty. I enjoy programming as a hobby. During my career I have seen the growth and decline of many technologies, many of them being my favorites like Flash, WPF, Windows Mobile Development. Few of my current favorites are Android, Xamarin and Python, though I also like traditional and evergreen languages like PHP, C#, Visual Basic and Java.

Apart from computers, my favorite pastime is bicycling.

benji_dv

Web Developer

France

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

Carles Cortés

Software Developer (Senior)

Spain

Analyst & Programmer of technical and industrial apps.

Cinchoo

United States

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

Cindy Potvin

Canada

Cindy Potvin is a software developer based in the Montreal area. At her day job, she creates web applications using the ASP.NET MVC framework and mobile applications using the Android SDK.

Clark Fieseln

Germany

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

Code Fan

Software Developer

Canada

Montreal is the second largest French city in the world, next to Paris. I like the fact that real estate is dirt cheap here, so cheap that software development alone enables a financial capacity to afford a nearly 2,000-square-foot luxurious condo right in the middle of Downtown Montreal, a 5-minute walk from my office, beside the largest and oldest art museum in Canada with visitors and tourists from all over the planet, including Hollywood stars. I've chosen C# as my first language at Code Project, because it is the only garbage-collected language and platform meeting the performance requirements for real-time game programming, proven by Unity. Code must be perfect, providing safety, security, performance, scalability, availability, reliability, maintainability, extensibility, portability, compatibility, interoperability, readability, productivity, just to name a few. C# is the only language that comes close, with Rust second to it. That being said, even C# is far from being perfect. I dream my own programming language, while on my journey to it. We will see how it goes!

FranciskaR

Retired

Netherlands

My name is Franciska Ruessink. I studied IT at The Hague Hogeschool (University) and was employed in IT as software developer, database developer, network administrator, and IT project manager for several years.
After an early retirement I continue to write software for the fun of it and to help friends, I also did some web development. I usually work with VB but started again with VC++ recently.

Fringe Coder

Team Leader

United States

This member doesn't quite have enough reputation to be able to display their biography and homepage.

gstolarov

http://www.GaspMobileGames.com

United States

Writing code since 1987 using whatever language/environment you can imagine. Recently got into the mobile games. Feel free to check them out at http://www.GaspMobileGames.com

James Walsh Jr

Software Developer (Senior) Paycor, Inc

United States

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

Jason Sultana

Software Developer (Senior)

Australia

G'day guys! My name is Jason, and I'm a backend software engineer living in Sydney, Australia. I enjoy blogging, playing chess and travelling.

Jin Vincent Necesario

Software Developer

Philippines

Jin humbles himself as a C# programmer and a web developer, who loves backend and middleware development and still improving his skills at the front-end arena. He loves what he does, but far from perfect, here is a list of what he loves to do: read, write and code.

This is a Social Group

2 members

Jon McKee

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

Software engineer dedicated to constantly learning and improving with a focus on self-documenting code and informed design decisions. Interested in most everything. Currently diving down the rabbit-hole of functional programming and category theory.

Kevin Ashley

United States

As the Product Manager for GrapeCity’s SpreadJS product, Kevin Ashley enjoys trying to solve complex coding problems. After graduating from North Carolina State University with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, he began his career in the software industry at GrapeCity. In his spare time, you can find Kevin playing guitar, drawing, or developing video games.

Mark Olbert

Jump for Joy Software

United States

Some people like to do crossword puzzles to hone their problem-solving skills. Me, I like to write software for the same reason.

A few years back I passed my 50th anniversary of programming. I believe that means it's officially more than a hobby or pastime. In fact, it may qualify as an addiction Smile | :)

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I mostly work in C# and Windows. But I also play around with Linux (mostly Debian on Raspberry Pis) and Python.

Member 14691410

United States

This member doesn't quite have enough reputation to be able to display their biography and homepage.

Michael Sydney Balloni

Software Developer

United States

Michael Balloni is a manager of software development at a cybersecurity software and services provider.

Check out https://www.michaelballoni.com for all the programming fun he's done over the years.

He has been developing software since 1994, back when Mosaic was the web browser of choice. IE 4.0 changed the world, and Michael rode that wave for five years at a .com that was a cloud storage system before the term "cloud" meant anything. He moved on to a medical imaging gig for seven years, working up and down the architecture of a million-lines-code C++ system.

Michael has been at his current cybersecurity gig since then, making his way into management. He still loves to code, so he sneaks in as much as he can at work and at home.

Mircea Neacsu

Canada

Mircea is the embodiment of OOP: Old, Opinionated Programmer. With more years of experience than he likes to admit, he is always opened to new things, but too bruised to follow any passing fad.

Lately, he hangs around here, hoping that some of the things he learned can be useful to others.

Mirzakhmet Syzdykov

Software Developer M.S.-Developers

Kazakstan

Experienced Java programmer

Mladen Janković

Software Developer

Serbia

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

Nick Polyak

Architect AWebPros

United States

I am a software architect and a developer with great passion for new engineering solutions and finding and applying design patterns.

I am passionate about learning new ways of building software and sharing my knowledge with others.

I worked with many various languages including C#, Java and C++.

I fell in love with WPF (and later Silverlight) at first sight. After Microsoft killed Silverlight, I was distraught until I found Avalonia - a great multiplatform package for building UI on Windows, Linux, Mac as well as within browsers (using WASM) and for mobile platforms.

I have my Ph.D. from RPI.

here is my linkedin profile

OriginalGriff

CEO

Wales

Born at an early age, he grew older. At the same time, his hair grew longer, and was tied up behind his head.
Has problems spelling the word "the".
Invented the portable cat-flap.
Currently, has not died yet. Or has he?

Patrice T

Database Developer

France

I am a professional programmer.
Problem analyse is certainly what I am best at.
My main programming expertise is in the xBase languages (dBase, Clipper, FoxPro, Harbour, xHarbour), then VBA for Excel and advanced Excel WorkBooks.

I also have knowledge on C/C++, d language, HTML, SVG, XML, XSLT, Javascript, PHP, BASICs, Python, COBOL, Assembly.
My personal interests goes to algorithm optimization and puzzles.

Philip Ryan

Australia

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

Senthil Kumeresh

Web Developer MNC

India

I am currently working as programmer in a software company. I focus mostly on Microsoft Products and currently in dot net framework 3.5.

Shun Huang

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

My name is Shun. I am a software engineer and a Christian. I currently work at a startup company.
My Website: https://formosa1544.com
Email: shun@formosa1544.com

Uladzislau Baryshchyk

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

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

Vedran Cindric

Founder Treblle

Croatia

This member doesn't quite have enough reputation to be able to display their biography and homepage.

First Prize	Mladen Janković - Retro Game Cartography: Part Deux
Prize pool	CodeProject Mug - CodeProject Bob Sticker - CodeProject


First Prize	Nick Polyak - Multiplatform Avalonia .NET Framework Programming Basic Concepts in Easy Samples
Prize pool	CodeProject Mug - CodeProject Bob Sticker - CodeProject


Second Prize	Clark Fieseln - Audio Steganography for Pretty Good Concealing (AS4PGC)
Prize pool	Bob Sticker - CodeProject


Second Prize	Mircea Neacsu - 2-D Interpolation Functions
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.
Articles entries must follow the CodeProject submission guidelines.
No cheating, lying, plagiarizing articles, chicanery, or kicking.
No author can be nominated twice.
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.