Best Article of April 2022

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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.
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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.
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Current Entries

Articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered.

Running and Debugging Multiplatform .NET (.NET Core, .NET5 and .NET6) GUI and Console Applications on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

26 Dec 2023Nick Polyak

This article describes how to test and debug .NET/Avalonia Linux applications using WSL.

.NET

Avalonia

Multiplatform

Building an Angular 13 Application with .NET 6 (Global Market) - Part 1

19 May 2022Fred Song (Melbourne)

Build a simple finance application with Angular 13 and .NET 6

FPGA Hardware Simulation Framework (FPGA_HW_SIM_FWK)

11 Jan 2023Clark Fieseln

Simulate hardware containing an FPGA programmed in VHDL interactively

Avalonia DataGrid - Advanced Features coming from NP.Ava.Visuals Package

26 Dec 2023Nick Polyak

Explain the new code whose purpose is to add Filtering, Layout Saving/Restoring and Column Visibility functionality to Avalonia DataGrid

.NET

Avalonia

How to Change Text Color in a Windows Terminal

7 Apr 2022Chris Maunder

A quick overview and a simple Windows CMD script to make your terminal output a little more lively

A Polynomials Math Parser in VB.NET

4 May 2022Xavier Junqué i de Fortuny

Polynomials Math Parser and Evaluator in VB.NET

Python Fourier Transform Helper Library

13 Apr 2022Steve Hageman

A Python Library to help make properly scaled Fourier Transforms including utility functions

How to Change Text Color in a Linux Terminal

7 Apr 2022Chris Maunder

A quick overview and a simple bash script to make your script output a little more lively

mscript 2.0.2: DLL Authoring, Registry DLL, exec() Error Handling

6 Apr 2022Michael Sydney Balloni

Minor release improves DLL security, adds registry DLL, enhances exec() error handling

C++

Windows

Win32

Blazor Component Callback from a RenderFragment Template

16 Apr 2022Graeme_Grant

Blazor Component method callback from an external RenderFragment Template

.NET

Blazor

It's Not About How You Inject Your Services, It's About How You Test Them

18 Apr 2022Bohdan Stupak

A short take on brittle unit-tests and how to avoid them

5 Ways to Add Artificial Intelligence to an Existing Application

22 Apr 2022Chris Maunder

Adding AI to your applications doesn’t have to be all about fighting the tools and libraries

artificial-intelligence

API

Density-Based Resampling for Digital Images and an Example: Fake Antique Mosaics

22 Apr 2022ADMGNS

A very simple method to resampling points from a digital image and drawing it as antique mosaics, dots (stippling) and Voronoi cells

Pascal

image

processing

An Introduction to ASP.NET Core MVC through an Example (Part 4)

5 Apr 2022Coding Notes

An introduction to ASP.NET Core MVC

Simulating CUDA/OpenCL on CPU, with Auto-vectorization and Speedup against Serial Scalar Code

25 Apr 2022tugrulGtx

A small tool for writing various algorithms as if they were CUDA/OpenCL kernels

Writing an X11 Color Picker With GFX

20 Apr 2022honey the codewitch

Implement a fancy color picker in your ESP32 WROVER or WROOM IoT applications

CodeProject Article FAQ - Part 3: How to Use the CodeProject Article Editor

22 Apr 2022Sean Ewington

This is the third article in our Article FAQ series. In this entry we do a deep dive in how to use the CodeProject article editor.

Batch Downloading With Python

21 Apr 2022Matt Pogue

Scripting is a crucial skill for any admin to learn. This post walks through the process to develop a batch file download script in Python, demonstrating how to use the interactive Python shell to troubleshoot while writing code.

shell

Python

Using OSMnx for Graph Analysis of Street Networks in Python

4 Apr 2022Muhammad Jarir Kanji

This tutorial will go through the GeoPandas GeoDataFrame, quick and easy visualization of the OSM street networks, with additional helper functions for added customization of the resulting maps using OSMnx, with code samples.

Python

OSMnx

How to Rename Files so that Git can Detect them?

3 Apr 2022Truemark Technology

A step-by-step process to rename files so that Git can detect them

GitHub

Git

Reducing Technical Debt with Automatic Code Rewriting

11 Apr 2022Dmitry Zaharov

In this article, we’ll look a little deeper into technical debt and explore some solutions for developers to dig themselves out of the hole.

.NET-Compiler-Platform

Managing GridView/DataGrid Control Programmatically in Visual Studio (C#) Web Form

17 Apr 2022Raphael Adeniji

Many a times, we need to programmatically manage GridView/DataGrid in Visual Studio web applications and this looks very difficult because we do not know what properties or events of the control to use. It may also be as a result of time constraint.

ADO.NET

ADO

Tracking Changes in EntityFramework and Notifying these Changes to Client Apps using SignalR

17 Apr 2022Pusparag Subudhi

Extending SignalR to push EF change notification to connected client applications

.NET

Dev

SignalR

Internal SSL Certs with Let's Encrypt

22 Apr 2022Matt Pogue

I was reading a great article recently about subdomain enumeration services and it got me thinking about Let's Encrypt and internal domains.

100 Days of TypeScript (Day 8)

26 Apr 2022Pete O'Hanlon

A simple web-based calculator shows how to let TypeScript interact with contents of a web page

uSNMP - A Small and Portable 'C' SNMP Library

5 Apr 2022Francis Tay

How to fit a SNMP agent into an Arduino UNO or NodeMCU ESP8266

Arduino

IoT

SNMP

Use Remote-Storage, a Community-Derived FOSS, Offline-First, Un-Hosted, Zero-Back-End for Your Web Product - A How-To Tutorial Guide

12 Apr 2022Jakub Ner

A tutorial for RemoteStorage (RS)

HTML

Javascript

Schedule Generation of All Object Creation Scripts for All Specified SQL Server Databases

22 Apr 2022CMYork01

How to schedule generation of all object creation scripts

SQL

Driving Multiple Screens with GFX and an ESP32

22 Apr 2022honey the codewitch

How to use GFX to drive multiple screens at the same time on an ESP32

Discussing Alternative Memory Management Strategy for .NET

26 Apr 2022Mark Pelf

Discussion about problems with Garbage Collector and possible alternative solutions

.NET

garbage-collection

Smart Numeric Casts to End the Agony of (int)... or static_cast<int>(...)

18 Apr 2022john morrison leon

Smart numeric conversion casts that resolve the issue of should I write (int) or a static_cast by being a better choice than both

C++

Using Bitwise Operations on Bitfields as a Primitive SIMD

2 Aug 2023Patrice T

How to use bitwise operations on Bitfields as primitive SIMD

C++

text

algorithm

High Performance Batching w/ GFX

25 Apr 2022honey the codewitch

Use batching to increase performance during complex rendering operations.

Using Notepad++ Plugin to Debug Algorithms

23 Apr 2022Bruno Tabbia

A standard Notepad++ plugin that allows you to use an external DLL containing an encoding algorithm to be tried and tested

Decorator Pattern in C# - 3 Versions

1 Apr 2022Mark Pelf

Tutorial on Decorator Pattern in C#, showing 3 versions in C#

patterns

PDF from Image Files in One Click

30 Apr 2022Petrov Vladimir

Simple solution for PDF performance from Image files of any kind

Reflected Image in C# with GDI and Unchecked Code

11 Apr 2022AdventureDriver

Creating a optionally sheared mirrored image from a source image in a collage

Cross-Domain Embedding: Making Third-Party Cookies Work Again

21 Apr 2022Terrence Sheflin

Basics of making third party cookies work again using an example node.js web host

Javascript

Node.js

How to Create a Web Page with HTML

24 Apr 2022Rahul221

Build a simple web page using HTML

HTML

Fusion Development for Sales Apps Part 3: Working with Form Data

12 Apr 2022Lontia Nkhuwa

In this article we create a custom connector, call the API, and create a reservation button.

Current Participants

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

ADMGNS

Software Developer (Senior)

Turkey

a nice person Smile | :)

KISS (keep it simple and smart)

AdventureDriver

Software Developer (Senior)

South Africa

Started in 1988 programming in Pascal, making a 68000 emulator on a DOS platform. Then from Pascal to Clipper, to C++ and now using C#. I've been programming for all walks of businesses; opticians, opthomologist, carbage collectors, reinforcement steel producers, retail chains, and more.
I'm now travelling through Africa with a home-build expedition truck.

Bohdan Stupak

Team Leader

Ukraine

Team leader with 8 years of experience in the industry. Applying interest to a various range of topics such as .NET, Go, Typescript and software architecture.

Bruno Tabbia

Software Developer (Senior)

Switzerland

C#, SQL (and in the past also: C++, C, VBA)

Chris Maunder

Founder CodeProject

Canada

Chris Maunder is the co-founder of CodeProject and ContentLab.com, and has been a prominent figure in the software development community for nearly 30 years. Hailing from Australia, Chris has a background in Mathematics, Astrophysics, Environmental Engineering and Defence Research. His programming endeavours span everything from FORTRAN on Super Computers, C++/MFC on Windows, through to to high-load .NET web applications and Python AI applications on everything from macOS to a Raspberry Pi. Chris is a full-stack developer who is as comfortable with SQL as he is with CSS.

In the late 1990s, he and his business partner David Cunningham recognized the need for a platform that would facilitate knowledge-sharing among developers, leading to the establishment of CodeProject.com in 1999. Chris's expertise in programming and his passion for fostering a collaborative environment have played a pivotal role in the success of CodeProject.com. Over the years, the website has grown into a vibrant community where programmers worldwide can connect, exchange ideas, and find solutions to coding challenges. Chris is a prolific contributor to the developer community through his articles and tutorials, and his latest passion project, CodeProject.AI.

In addition to his work with CodeProject.com, Chris co-founded ContentLab and DeveloperMedia, two projects focussed on helping companies make their Software Projects a success. Chris's roles included Product Development, Content Creation, Client Satisfaction and Systems Automation.

Clark Fieseln

Germany

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

CMYork01

Software Developer (Senior) Marlow Solutions Ltd.

United Kingdom

Developer (VB and SQL Server) and IT consultant in business operations and financial services sectors.
Also capable with DevExpress (ASP.NET)
Can also do VBA and Crystal Reports...

Coding Notes

Software Developer

Vietnam

I am a teacher, a software developer. I love reading, travelling and I am also blogging on ngocminhtran.com(in VietNamese).

Dmitry Zaharov

United States

Dmitry Zaharov is an experienced developer and has written for ContentLab in the past. He holds a Master's degree in Applied Math from Ukrainian University and has worked for nearly 20 years taking on various tech challenges in the insurance industry. Dmitry has a solid background in computer imaging, DSP, and compiler theory.

Francis Tay

Singapore

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

Fred Song (Melbourne)

Software Developer (Senior)

Australia

Fred is a senior software developer who lives in Melbourne, Australia. In 1993, he started Programming using Visual C++, Visual Basic, Java, and Oracle Developer Tools. From 2003, He started with .Net using C#, and then expertise .Net development.

Fred is often working with software projects in different business domains based on different Microsoft Technologies like SQL-Server, C#, VC++, ASP.NET, ASP.Net MVC, WCF,WPF, Silverlight, .Net Core and Angular, although he also did some development works on IBM AS400.

Graeme_Grant

Technical Lead

Australia

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

honey the codewitch

United States

Just a shiny lil monster. Casts spells in C++. Mostly harmless.

Jakub Ner

United States

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

john morrison leon

Retired

Spain

Software Author with engineering, science and mathematical background.

Many years using C++ to develop responsive visualisations of fine grained dynamic information largely in the fields of public transport and supply logistics. Currently interested in what can be done to make the use of C++ cleaner, safer, and more comfortable.

Lontia Nkhuwa

United States

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

Mark Pelf

Software Developer

Serbia

Mark Pelf is the pen name of just another Software Engineer from Belgrade, Serbia.
My Blog https://markpelf.com/

Matt Pogue

Systems Engineer

United States

Old-school hacker from the STL, 25 year IT veteran, Systems Director @ Worldwide Freight Management, author of The Solo Admin blog (https://thesoloadmin.com) and founder of Darkstar Consulting, LLC (https://darkstarconsulting.net).

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.

Muhammad Jarir Kanji

United States

Muhammad Jarir Kanji is a data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning enthusiast with a background in physics. He has authored articles with ContentLab, and he's currently pursuing a Master's degree in Analytics at Georgia Tech. Muhammad plans to delve into machine learning research in the future.

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

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.

Pete O'Hanlon

CEO

United Kingdom

A developer for over 30 years, I've been lucky enough to write articles and applications for Code Project as well as the Intel Ultimate Coder - Going Perceptual challenge. I live in the North East of England with 2 wonderful daughters and a wonderful wife.

I am not the Stig, but I do wish I had Lotus Tuned Suspension.

Petrov Vladimir

Russian Federation

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

Pusparag Subudhi

Architect Infosys Limited

India

Since my first handshake with coding in 1996, I knew its a world for me. Started the professional deep dive in 2006 and never felt like leaving the pool since.

Rahul221

United States

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

Raphael Adeniji

CEO Completesoft Global Solutions Limited

Unknown

Adeniji, Raphael ‘Gbenga BSc (Hons), MSc, MCSD
Mr. Adeniji Raphael Gbenga graduated with second class upper division from the Computer Science department of the Federal University of Technology, Akure in 1995. He also has Masters in Computer Science from the University of Lagos in 2005/2006..
He was one of the first few people to bag the highest level of Microsoft Certification, Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD - Aug 2001), in the early days of Microsoft certifications- August 2001.

He has worked with different software houses at home and abroad. He has visited India, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and United States for the purpose of software development and boosting in Africa. He worked in Wadof Software Consulting, Computer Systems Associates (CSA) and Precise Financial Systems (PFS) before starting Completesoft Global Solutions Ltd in Jan 2007. He rose to the level of General Manager (GM) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in PFS before his final disengagement to form CompleteSoft Global Solutions Limited (Formerly Completesoft Company Ltd) with some of his colleagues. He has also worked as a Contractor and Consultant to Ericsson North America (Plano Texas, USA).
He currently works as Managing Partner and Cloud Architect/Consultant of the Company.

Sean Ewington

Technical Writer CodeProject

Canada

Sean Ewington is the Content Manager for CodeProject.

His background in programming is primarily C++ and HTML, but has experience in other, "unsavoury" languages.

He loves movies, and likes to say inconceivable often, even if it does not mean what he thinks it means.

Steve Hageman

Engineer AnalogHome.com

United States

Steve Hageman has been a confirmed “Analog-Crazy” since about the fifth grade. He has had the pleasure of designing op-amps, switched-mode power supplies, gigahertz-sampling oscilloscopes, Lock In Amplifiers, Radio Receivers, RF Circuits to 50 GHz and test equipment for digital wireless products. Steve knows that all designs can’t be done with Rs, Ls, and Cs, so he dabbles with programming PC's and embedded systems just enough to get the job done (like for this project).

Terrence Sheflin

Team Leader

Canada

I am a Lead Software Architect (UI/UX), focusing mainly on developing with JavaScript, C#, ASP.NET WebApi and MVC.

Truemark Technology

Nepal

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

tugrulGtx

Turkey

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

Xavier Junqué i de Fortuny

Spain

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

First Prize	Mark Pelf - Discussing Alternative Memory Management Strategy for .NET
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First Prize	Fred Song (Melbourne) - Building an Angular 13 Application with .NET 6 (Global Market) - Part 1
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Second Prize	Michael Chourdakis - Web-Controlling a Win32 App using WebSockets
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Second Prize	Steve Hageman - Python Fourier Transform Helper Library
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.