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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.
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Current Entries

Articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered.

From WAV to Graphics to MIDI

12 Aug 2023Andy Allinger

Convert audio to image. (Edit the image.) Convert image to music.

FORTRAN

multimedia

audio

text

MIDI

C# MVVM Toolkit Demo

27 Feb 2023Jo_vb.net

This article and the demo are about getting started using the MVVM Toolkit and some self-created interfaces / services for MessageBox and some dialogs.

Building an Angular 13 Application with .NET 6 (Global Market) - Part 2

7 Jun 2022Fred Song (Melbourne)

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

Photino: Open Source for Building Cross-Platform Desktop Apps via .NET Core

30 May 2022raddevus

Fully Open Source Library for building Cross-Platform Desktop apps on .NET Core

Javascript

HTML5

.NET

Logging Proxy in C#

9 May 2022Mark Pelf

In this article, we build a practical reusable Logging Proxy in C#

Sharing a USB Serial Device to Multiple Clients over TCP

23 May 2022DaveAuld

Putting together an application to share a USB Sky Quality Meter to Multiple Clients

.NET

StructMapping - Mapping JSON to and from a C++ Structure

1 May 2022bk192077

I would like to define a C++ structure, pass the person instance to the mapping method along with JSON data, then use the filled structure. Or vice versa, get Person as JSON. StructMapping is trying to solve these problems.

CSV File Processor - Manage Comma Separated Value Files

31 May 2022Jochen Haar

Class to manage the content of Comma Separated Value Files or to deal with Structured Tables in memory

number_cast<To, From> and Named Smart Casts

6 May 2022john morrison leon

A more descriptive and tightly scoped cast for numeric conversions. Includes rounding options, overflow checks, a high resilience to coding errors and some special syntactical conveniences.

C++

Raspberry Pi 400 Docking Station

8 May 2022Jan Dolinay

DIY docking station for Raspberry Pi 400 with battery, real-time clock and a widget to show battery status

C++

Dev

Raspberry-Pi

Fixing Unregistered .OCX Files in Running Legacy Application on Windows 10 (64-bit)

18 May 2022Southmountain

How to install and register .OCX components for legacy application

C++

Win10

ActiveX

Supporting the Lost Animals Search Service Through a Simple and Useful Mobile App

19 May 2022André Marcos (Advisor), GracianoSouza

React Native, Node.js and PostreSQL, a PERN stack to develop an app to support the lost pets searching process

Easy to Learn .NET 6.0 and Angular - Getting Started Angular Template - Part 1

25 May 2022syed shanu

Get started with .NET 6.0 and Angular using the Angular Template available in VS 2022

.NET

ASP.NET

.NET6.0

Advanced Streaming on Little Gadgets: MIDI Files

9 May 2022honey the codewitch

Explore some streaming techniques while getting your shiny new ESP32S3 to do some USB and MIDI tricks

100 Days of TypeScript (Day 9)

26 May 2022Pete O'Hanlon

App to retrieve Intraday trading prices for Microsoft and display them

Typescript

Javascript

bootstrap

Adding a New Module to CodeProject.AI Server

8 Nov 2023Chris Maunder

In this article we explore how CodeProject.AI Server really works, and how simple it is to add your own functionality to CodeProject.AI server quickly and easily, leaving you to focus on your business, not your MLOps

artificial-intelligence

CodeProject.AI

Generate Variable Substitution-Boxes Starting from a Key

8 May 2022Bruno Tabbia

Creation of a substitution box starting from a key and using it in a direct substitution cipher

Dev

text

cryptography

CodeProject FAQ Main Guide

5 May 2022Sean Ewington

This is our main hub for our FAQ entries. Everything from how to post articles, how to use our article editor, to membership and reputation.

Prang: A MIDI "Score Sampler" on the ESP32S3

15 May 2022honey the codewitch

Trigger tracks from Type 2 MIDI files to add to your recording or performance

Flexible Tado Schedules using Home Assistant and Node-RED

18 May 2022Jasper Lammers

How to use Home Assistant and Node-RED for flexible Tado schedules

IoT

Top Tips for Developing a Recordist Function

7 May 2022Jackson Jiang

Introduction to and development journey of a real-time transcription function

Java

audio

programming

Development of a Web System based on PHP Technologies for Tickets Control

29 May 2022André Marcos (Advisor), RBPSilva

Development of a tickets system based on PHP, Laravel, Bootstrap and MySQL database

CI Pipelines for Dockerized PHP Apps with Github & Gitlab

2 May 2022PascalLandau

How to setup CI pipeline to run code quality tools and tests on Github Actions and Gitlab Pipelines

Use git-secret to Encrypt Secrets in the Repository [Tutorial Part 6]

1 May 2022PascalLandau

How to setup git-secret to store secrets directly in the repository

Set up PHP QA tools and control them via make [Tutorial Part 5]

1 May 2022PascalLandau

In the fifth part of this tutorial series on developing PHP on Docker we will setup some PHP code quality tools and provide a convenient way to control them via GNU make.

BigQuery: Monitor Query Costs via INFORMATION_SCHEMA

2 May 2022PascalLandau

Debugging BigQuery usage

SQL

monitoring

MathML to/from Plain Text Converter

17 Apr 2024UXavier Junqué i de Fortuny

Converts MathML coded string to/from plain text string

How to Use GPU in VBA/Excel

16 May 2022Excel-lent

This article shows how to compile and execute OpenCL code from VBA.

IntelliFile - An Alternative Windows Version to the Famous Total Commander

30 Mar 2024Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

This article is about the IntelliFile application which is a free alternative Windows version to Total Commander and uses many components that have been published on CodeProject.

Bring Antimalware Scanning into your Application

7 Jun 2022Shao Voon Wong

Incorporate Antimalware scanning inside your application

A Free & Useful Converter from VB project to C# project

3 Jun 2022Southmountain

This tip shares some lessons and thoughts after using this converter.

XML

mscript 3.0: Database Programming, Logging, and Many Language Improvements

26 May 2022Michael Sydney Balloni

Check out the third major revision of mscript for replacing your nasty batch files with simple mscripts

Web-Controlling a Win32 App using WebSockets

30 Apr 2022Michael Chourdakis

A quick way to interoperate between Win32 and a browser using WebSockets

A way for CP members to reduce RSI during spam wave events

19 May 2022OriginalGriff

Unless you have sufficient permissions (i.e. you are a protector) you can't see the moderation queue, so this is useless to you. Sorry!Spam waves: A flood of spammers filling the moderation queue with new users all advertising the same thing.

Emulating SD Reader Card Change Detection When You Don't Have It

15 May 2022honey the codewitch

Detect when your SD card gets removed and recover gracefully, even without a card change pin.

C++

Arduino

How Utilizing Lazy Evaluation and Caching can Save Us from Wasteful Computation

30 May 2022Bohdan Stupak

This article shows how utilizing lazy evaluation and caching can save us from wasteful computation

Dev

performance

Code Style & Readability

24 May 2022Paulo Zemek

Reasonings behind code-styles and why we shouldn't be using "auto-formatters" all of the time

Dev

Architect

Unit Test Your Database Classes

16 May 2022freedeveloper

How to create a data access class in a way, that is possible to execute unit test on it

Split Quick Sort a Multi-Threaded Sort

25 May 2022spore123

This is a fast multi-threaded quick-sort based algorithm

Integrating TinyMCE Editor (WYSIWYG) to an ASP.NET MVC Application

16 May 2022Pankaj Mohapatra

Integrating TinyMCE editor In ASP.NET MVC

Why We Need to Move from .NET 5.0 to .NET 6.0

22 May 2022syed shanu

Why should we move our existing projects from .NET 5.0 to .NET 6.0

.NET6.0

.NET 6 - New Features

29 May 2022koolprasad2003

What's new in .NET 6

.NET6

Current Participants

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

André Marcos (Advisor)

Business Analyst

Brazil

agile and devops enthusiast; master in computer science and professor in technology courses; I have worked with projects and development for the telecommunication area

This is a Collaborative Group

5 members

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.

bk192077

Russian Federation

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

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.

DaveAuld

Engineer

Scotland

I have been working in the Oil & Gas Industry for over 30 years now.

Core Discipline is Instrumentation and Control Systems.

Completed Bsc Honours Degree (B29 in Computing) with the Open University in 2012.

Currently, Offshore Installation Manager in the Al Shaheen oil field, which is located off the coast of Qatar. Prior to this, 25 years of North Sea Oil & Gas experience.

Excel-lent

Employed (other)

Germany

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.

freedeveloper

Software Developer (Senior) Avalon Development

United States

Jose A. Garcia Guirado, Electronic Engineer, graduated in Havana/Cuba 1982, MCTS, MCSD.NET, MCAD.NET, MCSE. Worked in the Institute for Cybernetics and Mathematics of Academy of Science of Cuba for 8 years; since 1995 working as free software architect, developer and adviser, first in Argentina and from 2003 to 2010, in Germany as External consultant in DWS Luxembourg, AIXTRON AG and Shell Deutschland GmbH and from 2010 to 2012 in Mexico working for Twenty Century Fox, and Mexico Stock Exchange (BMV). From 2013 to now in USA, Florida, First in FAME Inc. and now as Senior Software Engineer in Spirit Airlines.

honey the codewitch

United States

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

Jackson Jiang

Software Developer

China

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

Jan Dolinay

Employed (other) Tomas Bata University in Zlin

Czech Republic

Works at Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic. Teaches embedded systems programming. Interested in programming in general and especially in programming microcontrollers.

Jasper Lammers

Software Developer (Senior)

Netherlands

Enthusiastic Senior Software Engineer.

Experience working in a multinational and multidisciplinary environment with involvement in all stages of the software development process. Supportive and reliable team player with a strong aim towards software quality and customer satisfaction. Fast and eager learner.

His passion for programming can be traced back to his pre-professional days. Where, even as an elementary school student he could be found on the computer creating computer games. The reason? There is just no feeling like being able to think something up, create it, and then see others enjoy it.

Outside the office, he's a contributor to the Code Project and there is always a project he's working on. When he's not coding he likes to make and edit video’s, can discuss theoretical physics for hours and if you challenge him to a board game, he won’t say no. He can also frequently be found in the gym and travels when he can.

Jo_vb.net

Engineer

Germany

Retired

Jochen Haar

Software Developer (Senior)

Germany

Starting software design and development as student with Fortran IV and Assembler. Was working as a software professional with PEARL, Pascal, C, C++, Java and loves C# much.

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.

koolprasad2003

Technical Lead

India

Hi there, I am Prasad. Author, Blogger, contributor and passionate about Microsoft .NET technologies. I like to write an articles/blogs on different .NET aspects and like to help Developers, to resolve their issues and boost them on Microsoft Technologies.

Certifications: Microsoft Certified professional (MCP), Microsoft Certified technology specialist (MCTS), Agile-Scrum Master.

Awards: Microsoft Re-connect MVP (GSC Member), Most valuable member at dotnetspider, Most popular curator, Most active curator, featured curator at Microsoft Curah, Editor at dotnetspider.

Microsoft MVP 2014 [ASP.NET/IIS]
Click here for more .NET Tips
-After all Knowledge is an endless entity

Mark Pelf

Software Developer

Serbia

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

Michael Chourdakis

Software Developer

Greece

I'm working in C++, PHP , Java, Windows, iOS, Android and Web (HTML/Javascript/CSS).

I 've a PhD in Digital Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence and I specialize in Pro Audio and AI applications.

My home page: https://www.turbo-play.com

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.

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?

Pankaj Mohapatra

Web Developer

India

Currently working as a Senior software developer. Worked on various tools including C# Programming Language, JavaScript, HTML, ASP .NET MVC, MVVM, JCL, VSAM, DB2, SQL Server. Have good working knowledge in ReactJs as well.

PascalLandau

Technical Lead

Germany

Technical Director at ABOUT YOU - mostly into Software Engineering in PHP and Data Engineering with Google BigQuery. I maintain a blog at https://www.pascallandau.com/ and post regularly on twitter under https://twitter.com/PascalLandau

Paulo Zemek

Software Developer (Senior) Microsoft

United States

I started to program computers when I was 11 years old, as a hobbyist, programming in AMOS Basic and Blitz Basic for Amiga.
At 12 I had my first try with assembler, but it was too difficult at the time. Then, in the same year, I learned C and, after learning C, I was finally able to learn assembler (for Motorola 680x0).
Not sure, but probably between 12 and 13, I started to learn C++. I always programmed "in an object oriented way", but using function pointers instead of virtual methods.

At 15 I started to learn Pascal at school and to use Delphi. At 16 I started my first internship (using Delphi). At 18 I started to work professionally using C++ and since then I've developed my programming skills as a professional developer in C++ and C#, generally creating libraries that help other developers do their work easier, faster and with less errors.

Want more info or simply want to contact me?
Take a look at: http://paulozemek.azurewebsites.net/
Or e-mail me at: paulozemek@outlook.com

Codeproject MVP 2012, 2015 & 2016
Microsoft MVP 2013-2014 (in October 2014 I started working at Microsoft, so I can't be a Microsoft MVP anymore).

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.

raddevus

Software Developer (Senior) RADDev Publishing

United States

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

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.

Shao Voon Wong

Software Developer (Senior)

Singapore

Shao Voon is from Singapore. His interest lies primarily in computer graphics, software optimization, concurrency, security, and Agile methodologies.

In recent years, he shifted focus to software safety research. His hobby is writing a free C++ DirectX photo slideshow application which can be viewed here.

Southmountain

Software Developer

United States

turns good thoughts into actions...

spore123

United States

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

Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

Software Developer NXP Semiconductors

Romania

My professional background includes knowledge of analyst programmer for Microsoft Visual C++, Microsoft Visual C#, Microsoft Visual Basic, Sun Java, assembly for Intel 80x86 microprocessors, assembly for PIC microcontrollers (produced by Microchip Inc.), relational databases (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server), concurrent version systems, bug tracking systems, web design (HTML5, CSS3, XML, PHP/MySQL, JavaScript).

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

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	DaveAuld - Sharing a USB Serial Device to Multiple Clients over TCP
Prize pool	CodeProject Mug - CodeProject Bob Sticker - CodeProject


First Prize	raddevus - Photino: Open Source for Building Cross-Platform Desktop Apps via .NET Core
Prize pool	CodeProject Mug - CodeProject Bob Sticker - CodeProject


Second Prize	Paulo Zemek - Code Style & Readability
Prize pool	Bob Sticker - CodeProject


Second Prize	Fred Song (Melbourne) - Building an Angular 13 Application with .NET 6 (Global Market) - Part 2
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.