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Current Entries

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4 Jul 2005DeltaEngine
Normal maps are used for realtime 3D rendering (mostly in games) to improve the visual quality, but compressing them makes the 3D content look ugly, this tool helps to fix that problem.
19 Jun 2007Dundas Data Visualization
If you are looking to impress your boss and build a web or windows forms application that many people within your company need, then think about building digital dashboards.
19 Jul 2005Laurence Moroney
Using Mainsoft’s Grasshopper, you can take this reference application from Microsoft® and, in just a few minutes run it on a J2EE™ application server such as Apache Tomcat under Linux®.
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28 May 2007Sau Fan Lee
ASCII Art generator in ASP.NET.
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16 Aug 2005Omar Al Zabir
Comprehensive guide to development of .NET 2.0 Smart Clients working with existing Service Oriented Architecture based XML web services, fully utilizing the Enterprise Library
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3 Jul 2005Igor Tolmachev
Simple C# library for opening and displaying Adobe Photoshop images.
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15 Feb 2006Yuval Naveh
.NET/C# visual effects framework for changing the user's locus of attention to an area on the screen.
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5 Dec 2009Noel Dillabough
A (hopefully) complete extended MAPI wrapper for WinXP, WinCE, and .NET
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16 Aug 2005Omar Al Zabir
RSS Feed aggregator and blogging Smart Client which uses Enterprise Library, Updater Application Block, lots of XML hacks and desktop tricks. A comprehensive guide to real life hurdles of Smart Client development.
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16 Aug 2007Libor Tinka
This article discusses a little weakness in GDI+ filters and shows a class for top-quality image resizing.
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19 Sep 2005Omar Al Zabir
Make version independent COM wrapper using late bound calls yet providing strongly type and disposable interfaces. A version independent managed Outlook Automation Library.
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7 Jul 2005Tomas Petricek
ASP.NET control that allows you to use multi-column layout (known from CSS3) on your web page...
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21 Jul 2005nschan
A framework for adding undo/redo support to a Windows Forms application is presented.
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8 Aug 2005vcepa
An article on sorting strings in C# the way Windows Explorer does with file names.
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9 May 2006Richard Northedge
Presents a Maximum Entropy modeling library, and discusses its usage, with the aid of two examples: a simple example of predicting outcomes, and an English language tokenizer.
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23 Jul 2014Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
What if objects could move from machine to machine? Not just automated downloads, or remotely controlling objects as in remoting, but a system in which the object actually moves about. Mobile software agents do exactly that. In this article I will provide an introduction to this fascinating concept.
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2 Apr 2010MichaelElliott
Demonstrates how to use C#.NET's XML source documentation to produce professional, indexed, and searchable source documentation.
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22 Jul 2005gokselm
Provides samples for XML and SOAP serialization using C#
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10 Jul 2006moah
How to control a base firewall included in Windows XP SP2 using COM.
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11 Jul 2005Alessandro Febretti
This article describes a way to achieve fast late-bound invocation through the generation of custom MSIL code at runtime.
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4 Apr 2007Perry Marchant
An article on decoding Ogg Vorbis audio files in .NET.
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11 Jul 2005SathishVJ
Touches a file with specified date/time so that its access, creation or modified date is changed.
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14 Jul 2005Eric Falsken
A simple framework for implementing the best possible Managed DirectX render loop for games or simulations written in Microsoft .NET.
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26 Jul 2005davojc
An article describing how to use Generics to create a singleton provider.
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21 Aug 2005Arik Poznanski
This article will develop a Sudoku game based on a web service, while presenting useful development techniques of Smart Client applications.
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11 Jul 2006Roman Kiss
The article describes the design, implementation, and usage of WS-Transfer for Indigo-driven applications.
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28 Jul 2005M_Rizwan
Monitoring COM+ running applications.
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8 Jul 2005Stevan Rodrigues
Generates three tier code for ASP.NET.
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26 Jul 2005Noogen
.NET 1.1 - AutoComplete ComboBox, bindable CheckBox and DateTimePicker, ReadOnly simulator, extending the DataGrid for designer support of DataGridComboBoxColumn and more...
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5 Aug 2005Thanh Dao
An improvement on capturing similarity between strings. The algorithm was developed in C#.
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28 Jul 2005Chris Cole
Using CodeDOM and SQL Server to build entity and factory classes - Part 1: CodeDOM basics.
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6 Dec 2006fschudel
A simple tool to find unused subs, functions and variables in your ASP code.
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7 Jan 2008Rahman Mahmoodi
Abstract class versus Interface: Usage and Implementation.
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13 Jul 2005Jonathan Lynas
A component suite to implement full owner-draw MenuItem support, including the painting of Menu Bars
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4 Jul 2005Bill Wagner
Don't emphasize practices that may have an affect on performance in a few cases
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3 Jul 2005Custec
An article on connecting to and using MySQL from Mono.
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29 Jan 2007Mathew John Schlabaugh
1024/2048 bit RSA cryptography in a "Notepad style" program.
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20 Jul 2005Juan Roman
This article explains how to use a BackgroundWorker and a StatusStrip to display an Internet connection status icon on a StatusStrip using .NET Framework 2.0.
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30 Jul 2005Klaus Salchner (Canada)
Indexing Server, SQL Server, Windows SharePoint Services, SharePoint Portal Server, Exchange Server and Windows Desktop Search provide full-text search capabilities. Each utilizes the so called IFilter components to index the content and then allows clients to search the index.
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24 Jul 2005Sean Michael Murphy
A simple game that accumulates facts and appears to learn by conversing with players asking yes and no questions.
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4 Jul 2005Huisheng Chen
Find a fast way to replace case insenstive string.
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20 Sep 2005Matthias Hertel
Calling a server from JavaScript is a fundamental part of AJAX applications. Using WebServices with SOAP and WSDL is easy if proxy objects and methods are available in the browser.
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18 Aug 2005lotuspro
A simple way to generate and manipulate URLs.
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17 Jul 2005Donsw 1 alternative  
An article on license key generation.
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17 Jul 2005smn-12
Creating a single instance application that stays in the system tray.
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5 Mar 2009santosh poojari
This article helps a learner to know more about the different ways of calling client side JavaScript from server side code-behind.
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16 Jul 2005TylerBrinks
Geo-Locating C# Smart Client Application using the 2.0 Framework
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21 Jul 2005jisikoff
Short article on how to drag URL links from a Windows Forms app to the desktop.
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4 Sep 2017Scott Page
FreeCal is a free 100% .NET suite of utilities and instrument drivers for controlling multiple instruments in a Test and Measurement environment.
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21 Jul 2005azamsharp
How to export DataGrid to Excel, Word and Text files.

Current Participants

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

Software Developer Milestone
Italy Italy
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer (Senior) Verint
Israel Israel
Arik Poznanski is a senior software developer at Verint. He completed two B.Sc. degrees in Mathematics & Computer Science, summa cum laude, from the Technion in Israel.

Arik has extensive knowledge and experience in many Microsoft technologies, including .NET with C#, WPF, Silverlight, WinForms, Interop, COM/ATL programming, C++ Win32 programming and reverse engineering (assembly, IL).
Web Developer
United States United States
My name is Mohammad Azam and I have been developing iOS applications since 2010. I have worked as a lead mobile developer for VALIC, AIG, Schlumberger, Baker Hughes, Blinds.com and The Home Depot. I have also published tons of my own apps to the App Store and even got featured by Apple for my app, Vegetable Tree. I highly recommend that you check out my portfolio. At present I am working as a lead instructor at DigitalCrafts.




I also have a lot of Udemy courses which you can check out at the following link:
Mohammad Azam Udemy Courses
Architect Bill Wagner Software LLC
United States United States
Bill Wagner is one of the world's foremost C# developers and a member of the ECMA C# Standards Committee. He is President of the Humanitarian Toolbox, has been awarded Microsoft Regional Director and .NET MVP for 10+years, and was recently appointed to the .NET Foundation Advisory Council. Wagner currently works with companies ranging from start-ups to enterprises improving the software development process and growing their software development teams.
Chad Z. Hower, a.k.a. Kudzu
"Programming is an art form that fights back"

I am a former Microsoft Regional DPE (MEA) covering 85 countries, former Microsoft Regional Director, and 10 Year Microsoft MVP.

I have lived in Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Switzerland, France, Jordan, Russia, Turkey, The Caribbean, and USA.

Creator of Indy, IntraWeb, COSMOS, X#, CrossTalk, and more.
Architect Milliman
United States United States
I have been involved in professional software development for over 15 years, focusing on distributed applications on both Microsoft and Java platforms.

I also like long walks on the beach and a sense of humor and don't like mean people Wink | ;-)
Software Developer (Senior)
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Sixteen years experience in software programming and web development, using C, Visual Basic and C Sharp on Windows and Linux.
Software Developer (Senior)
United Kingdom United Kingdom
I have been developing primarily with .NET for over 10 years now although I have previous experience with Java and C++.

And no, this isn't a recent picture Smile | :)
CEO Delta Engine
Germany Germany
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Web Developer
United States United States
I am a Director of Engineering, have an MBA and work in C# forms, Asp.Net and vb.net. I have been writing Windows program since windows 3.0. I am currently working in the Healthcare industry.

I enjoy reading, music (most types), and learning new technology. I am involved in opensource projects at codeplex.

My linkedin link is
http://www.linkedin.com/in/donsweitzer
United States United States
Since 1992 Dundas Data Visualization has been helping companies all over the world visualize their data. Dundas products have a global reputation of being the highest quality, and are all designed, built and tested to meet the strictest requirements that developers and business managers demand.

Our showcase product is Dundas Dashboard, an easy-to-integrate digital dashboard software solution. Dundas Dashboard allows for the rapid and collaborative development of performance dashboards, helping companies leverage their business intelligence (BI) solutions.

Our web-based dashboard software comes with wizard interfaces, and a unique Dundas DashFlowTM process, allowing for the simultaneous development of an executive dashboard by business analysts, IT staff and database administrators. It also uses premier charts, maps, gauges and graph controls, letting end-users visualize their data as required.

Dundas also offers superb, world class consulting services for those companies that do not have the in-house expertise to implement their data visualization projects.

The quality of our products in conjunction with our unmatched technical support, numerous awards and years of experience reflect Dundas Data Visualization's commitment to being the best!
This is a Organisation

3 members
Web Developer
United States United States
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Web Developer
Switzerland Switzerland
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Web Developer
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Product Manager www.xnlab.com
Australia Australia
I was born in the south of China, started to write GWBASIC code since 1993 when I was 13 years old, with professional .net(c#) and vb, founder of www.xnlab.com

Now I am living in Sydney, Australia.
Software Developer (Senior)
Ukraine Ukraine
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Web Developer
United States United States
MIT grad, SQL and C# programmer.
Web Developer
United Kingdom United Kingdom
I've been programming since 1987, in recent years using Delphi versions 1 to 7 and now C#.

I'm particularly interested in the development of visual controls and components, and developing applications for the PC and Pocket PC

More components and controls can be found at the ControlVault Website
Web Developer
United States United States
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Chief Technology Officer
Canada Canada
Experienced technology leader who is passionate about building cloud and enterprise based products. Building an innovative and modern cloud product is a people business which requires to assemble a team of passionate and continuously improving technologists, establishing a vision and framework to buy into, and then let your team execute and drive that product vision. Ship frequently, build a strong feedback loop with your customers and partners and continuously iterate till you get it right.

I am a seasoned executive which has more then twenty-five years of experience running product development organizations around the globe. Has managed multimillion dollar budgets, experience with outsourcing and off-shoring in India and Vietnam for more than ten years, and experience in the Microsoft and Java/J2EE platform. Managed many initiatives across organizational boundaries and has often been called upon by the CEO, COO or SVP to manage teams, projects or systems from crisis to success. Proven track record to deliver world class enterprise software deployed behind the firewall and in the Cloud by large customers like IBM, HP, US Navy, US Army, Department of Defence, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and many more. Delivered software translated into more than thirty languages, deployed by more than 50% of the Fortune 100 companies and used by more than twenty million users in more than 1300 companies. Has run multiple Cloud operations with uptime SLA’s of four nines. Delivered numerous innovations which resulted in millions of dollar revenue and has been featured in several case studies by Microsoft. Active contributor in the online technical community.

You can read more about the four Product leadership experiences which I have demonstrated over my career and which I deeply care about at my LinkedIn profile
Belgium Belgium
Laurence Moroney is the Director of Product Evangelism for Mainsoft. He joined Mainsoft from Reuters, where he was a Senior Architect in their CTO Office, specializing in Enterprise Architecture and Web Services Interoperability. Laurence has also worked extensively in the financial services and security fields. He is the author of several computer books, including ‘Expert Web Services Security in the .NET Platform’ and ‘ASP.NET 1.1 with VB.NET’ as well as several dozen technology articles.

You can find his blog at: philotic.com/blog
Software Developer ImagingShop.com
Czech Republic Czech Republic
Founder of two companies focusing on digital imaging, computer vision and .NET components.

Currently focuses on Image alignment and stitching library for .NET, software consulting and .NET component development.

He loves digital photography, programming, yoga, math, comics drawing, healthy lifestyle and green tea.
Web Developer
United Kingdom United Kingdom
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Web Developer
Pakistan Pakistan
Muhammad Rizwan is a Software engineer. He did his M.Sc. in Computer Science from Quaid-i-Azam university Islamabad, Pakistan.
He has almost One year experience working in .NET technologies. He feels free to work in Visual C#.NET, Visual C++ and in Java as well. You can reach him at nice_rizwan4u@hotmail.com.

Thanks,
Rizwan
Web Developer
United States United States
Mathew John Schlabaugh
Architect Deutsche Bank AG
Germany Germany
see https://www.mathertel.de
Chief Technology Officer
United States United States
Michael has spent almost 2 decades in the Enterprise IT industry. Michael continues to be hands-on and involved in low-level details of technologies, and he loves to guide and help his clients achieve success.
Web Developer
Korea (Republic of) Korea (Republic of)
Youngjin Kim lives in South Korea. I'm interested in every part of Computer Science, cause it has not been long time since graduate a University.
But now I'm working and researching on Pattern Recognition. Using that trying to recognize a Handwriting Prints. Korean and Chinese are my interesting Research Part.
Software Developer (Senior)
Canada Canada
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Web Developer
United States United States
If at first you don't succeed, refract and refract again...
Web Developer
Canada Canada
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Architect BT, UK (ex British Telecom)
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Founder SpreadTrends.com
United States United States
I've authored many articles that tackle real-world issues to save my peers in the development community valuable time. For example I've written articles that: show how to decode Ogg Vorbis audio files using the .NET Framework; describe best practices for Improving Entity Framework performance; and demonstrate step-by-step how to create a multi-player game.
Software Developer
Australia Australia
Rahman is a very experienced software developer with 10+ years of experience in different programming languages. Has experience in both Web Application Development and Desktop Line of Business Application development.

At the moment his area of interest are .Net both C# and VB.Net, Client side UI frameworks like AngularJs, Bootstrap, etc. Application Architecture, Dependency Injection, Use case Driven Development, Test Driven Development, MOQ etc.

He has Bachelor of Computing with Distinction Grade from University of Western Sydney.
Web Developer
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Richard Northedge is a senior developer with a UK Microsoft Gold Partner company. He has a postgraduate degree in English Literature, has been programming professionally since 1998 and has been an MCSD since 2000.
Software Developer (Senior)
United States United States
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Technical Lead
Australia Australia
Whatsup-->Exploring--> MVC/HTML5/Javascript & Virtualization.......!
www.santoshpoojari.blogspot.com
France France
~/sathishvj
Web Developer
New Zealand New Zealand
Mainly a C# & ASP.NET developer, specializing in research & (back-end) development.
Software Developer (Senior) IndySoft
United States United States
1986 - Started programming

1992-1995 - At 15, I became a PC repair technician at PC Performance Centers in Greenwood Village, CO and worked my way up to a senior repair tech, before they went out of business.

1995-1999 - Worked with Walker Fenton, the Netcom site dev. I waw "Director of IT" at the time.

1999-2007 - Calibration Technician in the U.S. Marines

2004-2007 - Metrologist for Lockheed Martin at Stennis Space Center, MS

2007-2012 - Turbofan Jet Engine Test Team Leader and system programmer for Rolls-Royce at Stennis Space Center, MS.
Invented and developed the first ever multi-computer development turbofan jet engine test cell control room training simulator with a physical throttle interface, and real-time calculated turbofan jet engine for Rolls-Royce global

2012-2016 - Automation Specialist II for Prime Controls in Metairie, LA; New Orleans pump stations, WTPs/WWTPs, jail control systems, etc.

2016 - 2019 Freelance programmer

2019-Present IndySoft Senior Web and Automation Developer.
Technical Lead
Canada Canada
I'm a graduate of the University of Toronto with a degree in zoology. I'm currently a software development manager with a large Canadian financial institution, and a passionate squash player.

I am a proud daddy to Alex and Sarah.
United States United States
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer (Senior)
Australia Australia
Stevan is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer in .Net Architecture (MCSD.Net Early Achiever – one among the first 2500 worldwide), Microsoft Certified Application Developer in .Net – MCAD.Net (Charter Member - one among the first 5000 developers worldwide).
Software Developer
Vietnam Vietnam
I'm still alive...but temporarily moved to work on mobile & web stuffs(j2me/brew/php/flash...something not M$). things have just been very busy, and probably will continue...so don't have chance to maintain & respond. Hope will have time to try to write again, because many ideas with WPF &silver light are waiting. wish me luck Smile | :)

FYI:
- MESHSimPack project(c# library for measuring similarity among concepts of the MESH ontology):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/meshsimpack.
Czech Republic Czech Republic
I live in Prague, the capital city of Czech republic (most of the time Smile | :) ). I've been very interested in functional programming recently and I have a passion for the new Microsoft F# language. I'm writing a book about Functional Programming in the Real World that shows the ideas using examples in C# 3.0 and F#.

I've been Microsoft MVP (for C#) since 2004 and I'm one of the most active members of the F# community. I'm a computer science student at Charles University of Prague. My hobbies include photography, fractals and of course many things related to computers (except fixing them). My favorite book writers are Terry Pratchett and Philip K Dick and I like paintings by M. C. Escher.

PS: My favorite codeproject icon is Sheep | [baah] .
Web Developer PageLabs
United States United States
I'm the founder of PageLabs, a web-based performance and SEO optimization site.

Give your site a boost in performance, even take a free speed test!

http://www.pagelabs.com
Germany Germany
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Architect
United States United States
I've been punching code since the age of 9 when I got my first computer - A Sinclair Spectrum with 48Kb of RAM!
That was a great time, when peek and pokes were the way to do stuff.

I wrote in X86 Assembly, Logo Wink | ;) , Basic, C, C++, Pascal, Delphi, Java and in the last 16 years C#, but NodeJS and Python too.
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