Best C# article of October 2013

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Transmission Line Matrix for Acoustic Simulations

12 Oct 2013Kenneth Haugland

Implementation and theory behind TLM modelling for acoustic wave propagation with 2D and 3D view. Also includes a raindrop and boat wake simulation.

C#4.0

WPF

parallel

Windows-Service for Multithreading with Remote Control GUI

25 Feb 2016J.Starkl

A windows-service which can handle different operations in separate threads and which can be controlled by a small GUI program

WinRT: StyleMVVM Demo 1 of 2

4 Nov 2013Sacha Barber

A look at an excellent WinRT MVVM framework.

Understanding SelectedValue, SelectedValuePath, SelectedItem & DisplayMemberPath + Demo

21 Oct 2013_Noctis_

Sorting out the confusion about these properties, and providing a demo app for them

Performance POC ATOM vs. JSON

23 Oct 2013Koustav Modak

Performance POC ATOM vs. JSON.

JSON

Generic Sparse Array and Sparse Matrices in C#

25 Oct 2013Bill_Hallahan

Generic Sparse Collection Containers

Using JayData to Consume the Visual Studio LightSwitch OData Business Layer in a AngularJs CRUD Application

26 Oct 2013defwebserver

You can consume your backend OData Visual Studio LightSwitch services in AngularJs

Dynamic Programming with Python and C#

1 Oct 2013Dev Leader

With this post, we’re still just scratching the surface of what’s doable when integrating Python and C#.

ReaderWriterLockSlim and the IDisposable Wrapper

2 Oct 2013Sebastien GASPAR

Clean code and DRY to handle ReaderWriterLockSlim

.NET

Dev

Add Multiple Pushpins to Map in a Customized Way on Windows Phone 8

3 Oct 2013NitinShrivastava

In this tip, we will discuss a quick way of how to locate a point in the Map and then adding a customized pushpin to these locations through a sample XML.

Programmatic Execution of an Excel Macro on Remote Machine from a Website

6 Oct 2013Raymund Macaalay

Programmatic execution of an Excel macro on remote machine from a website

All-Topics

Use Cross-Platform/OSS ExcelDataReader to Read Excel Files with No Dependencies on Office or ACE

18 Oct 2013John Atten

Use cross-platform/OSS ExcelDataReader to read Excel files with no dependencies on Office or ACE.

.NET

All-Topics

Dev

Web Site Extreme Makeover, Part 5 of 7

2 Nov 2013B. Clay Shannon

Adding a little C# code-behind and more HTML

Rendering AltNETType (= .NET FreeType port) with OpenGL

14 Oct 2013Demid Korneev

Example of AltNETType use in OpenGL

Silverlight ViewModel Unit Testing (RIA Services)

16 Oct 2013Anton Kleshchev

This article describes how to write Unit Tests for Silverlight ViewModels with a mocked DomainContext.

C#3.0

Silverlight

Passing Anonymous Types with Dynamic Lists

1 Oct 2013Chris_Green

With the dynamic keyword C# is one step ahead of me allowing a future of amazing code determined by an unlimited number of factors at runtime.

Dev

XNA Basics

17 Oct 2013Patchrick

Learn the basics of game development in C# and XNA

XNA

Mastering Unity 4 Scripting (video series)–A Review

23 Oct 2013Simon Jackson

By the end of this book you should be able to make scrolling backgrounds, clever AI for bad guys, and be able to save / load and change levels in the way Unity3D always wanted you to but forgot to mention.

Encrypting InfoPath form Data

3 Oct 2013Dragonranger

A neat library which can be used to easily add encryption for InfoPath form data.

InfoPath

encryption

Using a Sybase with S#arp Architecture and nHibernate

5 Oct 2013Raymund Macaalay

How to use a Sybase with S#arp architecture and nHibernate

Windows

WTL

Solution when it comes to filter Foreign Keys with Guid identifiers in the grid of the Telerik MVC Extensions controls suite

17 Oct 2013Javier Tirado Pampín

This article talks about how to solve the filter problem in Telerik MVC Extensions control suite

Authentication Against CRM Contact using Custom STS

30 Oct 2013Manoj.Kumar12

Authentication against CRM contact using custom STS

Button Tip - IsDefault / IsCancel (and other usability tips)

9 Oct 2013_Noctis_

Quick tip for forms/windows/views where save/insert/cancel buttons are used

WCF Service FAQs - Part 4

10 Oct 2013Imran Abdul Ghani

This WCF service tutorial is part-4 in series of WCF Service FAQs.

XML

WCF

Strategist: Detecting Windows Store App Configuration Mode (Debug vs. Release) in JavaScript

15 Oct 2013Caleb McElrath

Detecting Windows Store app configuration mode.

Javascript

All-Topics

Dev

Personal Integration Platform

24 Oct 2013yafeya

A MVVM platform based on the thought of Prism.

Yes, this also is an ItemsControl - Part 2: A minimalistic Property Editor

20 Oct 2013Serge Desmedt

A property editor implemented as an ItemsControl

BetterMembership.Net v1.0

3 Oct 2013TheCodeKing

A better implementation of ExtendedMembershipProvider with support for legacy MembershipProvider APIs.

Cloud over IFileSystemInfo Extension (Cofe3) - Part I

17 Oct 2013Leung Yat Chun

Framework library for designing RESTful home cloud services using an FSI like interface.

Cloud over IFileSystemInfo extension (Cofe3) - Part II

16 Oct 2013Leung Yat Chun

Framework library for designing RESTful home cloud services using FSI like interface.

Avoiding the Pitfalls of 3rd Party Components in a Large Data Processing Application

4 Oct 2013Redgate Software

How a Software Engineer at an Australian defence contractor tracked down a memory leak and improved performance of a complex application handling high-speed data visualization.

Auto Generating Properties for InfoPath 2007

8 Oct 2013Dragonranger

A way to add automatic properties to the FormCode for InfoPath 2007.

InfoPath

properties

automation

A Summary Review Of Visual Guard

8 Oct 2013Dirk_Strauss

Securing Your .NET Applications – A Summary Review Of Visual Guard

Consume an AX AIF Document Service from .NET

6 Oct 2013Emmanuel Nuyttens

This article is about consuming an AX2012 AIF document service in a .NET client.

Windows

WCF

Porting the Financial Times JavaScript String Compressor

10 Oct 2013Morgan Estes

Compress and encode a string to save loading time in the browser

Table with Imbricated ItemsControl in XAML

10 Oct 2013Ced743

Imbricated ItemsControl (a list into another list) to make a table

WPF

XAML

LINQ

11 Oct 2013ASP.NET Community

From MSDN: "The LINQ Project is a codename for a set of extensions to the .NET Framework that encompass language-integrated query, set, and

SQL

LINQ

video

ObjectDataSource

11 Oct 2013ASP.NET Community

Start with the ObjectDataSource Control Overview at MSDN then move on to Using Parameters with the ObjectDataSourceControl.ObjectDataSource

MSDN

data

MS.NET VERSIONS

11 Oct 2013ASP.NET Community

MS.NET VERSIONSWith the recent release of.NET 4.0 a lot of confusion has crept into .NET versions. Right from the beginning .NET versions numbers

.NET

ASP.NET

release

SharpDOM, a new view engine for ASP.NET MVC

11 Oct 2013ASP.NET Community

IntroductionSharp DOM is a view engine for ASP.NET MVC platform allowing developers to design extendable and maintenable dynamic HTML layouts using

HTML

layout

DOM

Making .NET Applications Scriptable with Aphid, an Embeddable Scripting Language

22 Apr 2018JohnLeitch

This article details how to make .NET applications scriptable with Aphid, an embeddable scripting language.

Invasion Game in MonoGame for Windows Phone 8

5 Feb 2014Dan Colasanti

This article describes my experience porting Invasion from XNA/WP7 to MonoGame/WP8 and includes Invasion's complete source code.

Windows-Phone-7

Mobile

artificial-intelligence

Dev

Monogame

XNA

CakeRobot - A C#, Arduino, Kinect Robot That Follows Your Gestures

22 Oct 2013Anoop Pillai

CakeRobot is a gesture driven robot that moves around based on your hand movement.

Arduino

Kinect

robot

Streaming realtime data to Excel

2 Sep 2014gjvdkamp

This is a minimalistic example of how WCF, Rx and Excel-DNA can be used to stream realtime data to an Excel client.

MS-Excel

WCF

reactive

EBCDIC to ASCII Converter

18 Feb 2018Max Vagner

Converting mainframe EBCDIC to ASCII format

Design of Movable / Resizable Plots and Their Use in Applications

22 Oct 2013SergeyAndreyev

Design of movable / resizable plots and their use in applications.

Dev

Double Buffering a DataGridview

23 Oct 2013Simon_Whale

Two ways to double buffer a DataGridView

Windows

Dev

Generating CSS sprites with T4 tempales

5 Oct 2013Kornel Regius

with some ASP.NET MVC 4 helpers

Hosting EXE Applications in a WPF Window Application

25 Oct 2013Erxin

Introduce a simple way to embed an EXE into a WPF window application.

Model binding, Data Annotation, and Custom HTML Helpers

2 Oct 2013Dnyaneshwar Pawar

How model binding works for various types of models, how to create a custom model binder and calls for it.

ASP.NET

Dev

Current Participants

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

_Noctis_

Software Developer

Australia

Coding since I Remember myself ... went through Basic on Commodore 64 to C# on a 24 cores AMD cpu... In between worked with c, c++, java, assembler, php, pascal, JavaScript, SQL based DB's and a bit of NoSQL as well.

Love software, and I'm usually fidgeting around with technology software and hardware on my free time.

Anoop Pillai

Architect

India

Architect, Developer, Speaker | Wannabe GUT inventor & Data Scientist | Microsoft MVP in C#

Anton Kleshchev

Software Developer One Inc.

Ukraine

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

ASP.NET Community

United States

The ASP.NET Wiki was started by Scott Hanselman in February of 2008. The idea is that folks spend a lot of time trolling the blogs, ~~googling~~live-searching for answers to common "How To" questions. There's piles of fantastic community-created and MSFT-created content out there, but if it's not found by a search engine and the right combination of keywords, it's often lost.

The ASP.NET Wiki articles moved to CodeProject in October 2013 and will live on, loved, protected and updated by the community.

This is a Collaborative Group

754 members

B. Clay Shannon

Founder Across Time & Space

United States

I am in the process of morphing from a software developer into a portrayer of Mark Twain. My monologue (or one-man play, entitled "The Adventures of Mark Twain: As Told By Himself" and set in 1896) features Twain giving an overview of his life up till then. The performance includes the relating of interesting experiences and humorous anecdotes from Twain's boyhood and youth, his time as a riverboat pilot, his wild and woolly adventures in the Territory of Nevada and California, and experiences as a writer and world traveler, including recollections of meetings with many of the famous and powerful of the 19th century - royalty, business magnates, fellow authors, as well as intimate glimpses into his home life (his parents, siblings, wife, and children).

Peripatetic and picaresque, I have lived in eight states; specifically, besides my native California (where I was born and where I now again reside) in chronological order: New York, Montana, Alaska, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Idaho, and Missouri.

I am also a writer of both fiction (for which I use a nom de plume, "Blackbird Crow Raven", as a nod to my Native American heritage - I am "½ Cowboy, ½ Indian") and nonfiction, including a two-volume social and cultural history of the U.S. which covers important events from 1620-2006: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/blackbirdcraven

Bill_Hallahan

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

I'm an electrical engineer who has spend most of my career writing software. My background includes Digital Signal Processing, Multimedia programming, Robotics, Text-To-Speech, and Storage products. Most of the code that I've written is in C, C++ and Python. I know Object Oriented Design and I'm a proponent of Design Patterns.

My hobbies include writing software for fun, amateur radio, chess, and performing magic, mostly for charities.

Caleb McElrath

Software Developer

United States

Caleb is a software development consultant specialized in creating web solutions for critical business problems. He has a passion for front-end development and helping other developers find their role. He enjoys making development easier to do, easier to learn and easier to improve upon. His days are pleasantly filled with TypeScript, HTML5 and C#.

Ced743

Software Developer

Switzerland

After graduating I started working as a Software Developer for a timing and scoring company.

Chris_Green

Architect Avaya Inc.

Ireland

Formerly a C++ client developer, nowadays I'm all about C# and ASP.NET. Over the years I have mastered some and played with many aspects of .NET.

Follow my blog as I catalogue the more arcane problems I encounter and their solutions at CodingLifestyle.com

Dan Colasanti

President ImproviSoft LLC

United States

Dan is the Founder and President of ImproviSoft LLC (mobile software) and AdStreamer, Inc. (mobile advertising) - both Microsoft BizSpark Plus Startups.

Dan holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Clarkson University and M.S. degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from Syracuse University. He is an ASQ Certified Software Quality Engineer (CSQE) and was a 2012 Microsoft XNA/DirectX MVP.

Prior experience includes Software Engineering, Project Management, and Functional Management in the Aerospace & Defense, Medical Devices, Automotive Engineering, and e-Commerce industries.

Dan's dev-blog is The ImproviSoft Blog.

defwebserver

Software Developer (Senior) http://ADefWebserver.com

United States

Michael Washington is a Microsoft MVP. He is a ASP.NET and
C# programmer.
He is the founder of
AiHelpWebsite.com,
LightSwitchHelpWebsite.com, and
HoloLensHelpWebsite.com.

He has a son, Zachary and resides in Los Angeles with his wife Valerie.

He is the Author of:

Demid Korneev

United States

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

Dev Leader

Team Leader Microsoft

United States

I'm a software engineering professional with a decade of hands-on experience creating software and managing engineering teams. I graduated from the University of Waterloo in Honours Computer Engineering in 2012.

I started blogging at http://www.devleader.ca in order to share my experiences about leadership (especially in a startup environment) and development experience. Since then, I have been trying to create content on various platforms to be able to share information about programming and engineering leadership.

My Social:
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@DevLeader
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@devleader
Blog: http://www.devleader.ca/
GitHub: https://github.com/ncosentino/
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/ncosentino
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DevLeaderCa
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DevLeaderCa
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/dev.leader
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickcosentino

Dirk_Strauss

Software Developer (Senior)

South Africa

With over 17 years of experience programming with C# and Visual Studio, I have worked for various companies throughout my career. I have been privileged to work with and learn from some of the most brilliant developers in the industry. I have authored several books on topics ranging from Visual Studio and C# to ASP.NET Core. I am passionate about writing code and love learning new tech and imparting what I know to others.

Dnyaneshwar Pawar

Software Developer

India

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

Dragonranger

Software Developer

United Kingdom

I work for a large shipping companny administering the software used onboard the vessels. During my day to day work I also develop tools for helping to manage resources across the fleet and throughout the shore side of the company.

I mainly C# but I'm also familiar with C++, VBA, and I do dabble with web development.

Emmanuel Nuyttens

Architect REALDOLMEN

Belgium

Working in the IT-Branch for more then 20 years now. Starting as a programmer in WinDev, moved to Progress, shifted to .NET since 2003. At the moment i'm employed as a .NET Application Architect at RealDolmen (Belgium). In my spare time, i'm a die hard mountainbiker and together with my sons Jarne and Lars, we're climbing the hills in the "Flemish Ardens" and the wonderfull "Pays des Collines". I also enjoy "a p'tit Jack" (Jack Daniels Whiskey) or a "Duvel" (beer) for "l'après VTT !".

Erxin

Architect MicroFocus

China

Love programming and have fun!

gjvdkamp

Leaseplan Corporation

Netherlands

Gert-Jan is a Senior Quantitative Risk Manager at Leaseplan Corporation. In that job he doesn't get to code much he does these little projects to keep his skills up and feed the inner geek.

Imran Abdul Ghani

Software Developer (Senior) Emaratech

United Arab Emirates

Imran Abdul Ghani has more than 10 years of experience in designing/developing enterprise level applications. He is Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for .NET(MCSD.NET) since 2005. You can reach his blogging at WCF Tutorials, Web Development, SharePoint for Dummies.

J.Starkl

Software Developer

Austria

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

Javier Tirado Pampín

Engineer Trentia Consulting

Spain

Techical engineer specialized in Microsoft SharePoint technologies, .NET and SQL Server. Experience in team management and project management.

John Atten

Software Developer XIV Solutions

United States

My name is John Atten, and my username on many of my online accounts is xivSolutions. I am Fascinated by all things technology and software development. I work mostly with C#, Javascript/Node.js, Various flavors of databases, and anything else I find interesting. I am always looking for new information, and value your feedback (especially where I got something wrong!)

JohnLeitch

Software Developer AutoSec Tools

United States

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

Kenneth Haugland

Chief Technology Officer

Norway

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

Kornel Regius

Software Developer (Senior)

Hungary

ASP.NET and Windows Forms developer. I have an experience of more than 8 years in C#.Net. MVC fan since 2009.
Author of the book: ASP.NET MVC 4+ (available only in Hungarian).

Koustav Modak

Web Developer

India

Koustav Modak
MCA(Master of Computer Application)
.Net Developer

Leung Yat Chun

Founder

Hong Kong

Long we have all hope and faith we see The Lord Your God.
--
DirectoryInfoEx - [1.0.27]
WPF FileExplorer3 - [3.0.19]
WPF HtmlTextBlock - [Codeplex]
~~WPF ListView MultiSelect - [0.4]~~
WPF UIEventHub MultiSelect/DragDrop w Touch support - [3.0]
~~WPF BreadcrumbFolderTextBox - [2.5]~~
WPF BreadcrumbTree and Breadcrumb
WPF Aero Titlebar - [0.2]

Manoj.Kumar12

Technical Lead Neudesic

India

I have around 9 years of industry experience mostly on Microsoft platform. My expertise include Software Architecture, Designs, OOP/OOD, SOA/SOD, Design patterns, Unit testing, Performance tuning, Security, advanced Java Script, Knockout, ExtJS, ASP.NET MVC, Cloud Computing, Azure, BizTalk and agile methodologies.
In my free times I love exploring technologies, reading, trekking, playing TT and Foosball.....

Max Vagner

Web Developer

Australia

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

Morgan Estes

Web Developer Golf Tailor LLC

United States

I build websites.

I like to build things, especially using WordPress.

I'm happy working in PHP, JS, HTML, CSS, and a bunch of other acronyms, but I'm happiest when I find a way to put the pieces together to create something useful.

You can see more of my work at http://coderbits.com/morganestes.

NitinShrivastava

Software Developer (Senior)

India

Started my career as a Web developer in C#, Asp.Net. Later on worked with MVC, Silverlight, WPF, WCF and Windows Phone 8 development. Also worked on SSRS for the reporting purposes. Keen to learn on latest technologies. Recently worked with backbone.js and AngularJS and Angular. Currently involved in the development using .Net core, Azure and ReactJS with Redux.

http://nitinvshrivastava.com

Patchrick

Software Developer

Philippines

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

Raymund Macaalay

Technical Lead

New Zealand

http://nz.linkedin.com/in/macaalay
http://macaalay.com/

Redgate Software

Red Gate Software Ltd.

United Kingdom

Redgate makes ingeniously simple software used by 804,745 IT professionals and counting, and is the leading Microsoft SQL Server tools vendor. Our philosophy is to design highly usable, reliable tools which elegantly solve the problems developers and DBAs face every day, and help them adopt database DevOps. As a result, more than 100,000 companies use products in the Redgate SQL Toolbelt, including 91% of those in the Fortune 100.

This is a Organisation

1 members

Sacha Barber

Software Developer (Senior)

United Kingdom

I currently hold the following qualifications (amongst others, I also studied Music Technology and Electronics, for my sins)

- MSc (Passed with distinctions), in Information Technology for E-Commerce
- BSc Hons (1st class) in Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence

Both of these at Sussex University UK.

Award(s)

I am lucky enough to have won a few awards for Zany Crazy code articles over the years

Microsoft C# MVP 2016
Codeproject MVP 2016
Microsoft C# MVP 2015
Codeproject MVP 2015
Microsoft C# MVP 2014
Codeproject MVP 2014
Microsoft C# MVP 2013
Codeproject MVP 2013
Microsoft C# MVP 2012
Codeproject MVP 2012
Microsoft C# MVP 2011
Codeproject MVP 2011
Microsoft C# MVP 2010
Codeproject MVP 2010
Microsoft C# MVP 2009
Codeproject MVP 2009
Microsoft C# MVP 2008
Codeproject MVP 2008
And numerous codeproject awards which you can see over at my blog

Sebastien GASPAR

Software Developer (Senior)

France

.NET Software Engineer, interested in clean coding, architecture, code quality improvement.

Serge Desmedt

Software Developer (Senior)

Belgium

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

SergeyAndreyev

United States

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

Simon Jackson

Architect ZenithMoon Studios

United Kingdom

Long-time game developer / IT maniac.
By day I architect, design, build and deliver enriching Mixed Reality solutions to clients, bringing the work of AR/VR to light in new and interesting ways, by night I Masquerade as the Master Chief of ZenithMoon Studios, my own game development studio.

At heart, I am a community developer breaking down lots of fun and curious technologies and bringing them to the masses.

I'm also a contributor to several open-source projects, most notably, the Reality Toolkit and all the services provided by the Reality Collective, The Unity-UI-Extensions project, as well as in the past the AdRotator advertising rotator project for Windows and Windows Phone.

Currently, I spend my time fulfilling contracts in the Mixed Reality space (primarily for an XR experience firm called Ethar), writing books, technically reviewing tons of material and continuing my long tradition of contributing to open-source development, as well as delivering talks, but that goes without saying Big Grin | :-D

Mixed Reality MVP, Xbox Ambassador, MS GameDevelopment Ambassador & Best selling author:

[Accelerating Unity Through Automation](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Accelerating-Unity-Through-Automation-Offloading/dp/1484295072/ref=rvi_sccl_3/262-0817396-1418043)
[Mastering Unity 2D Game Development] (https://www.packtpub.com/game-development/mastering-unity-2d-game-development)
[Unity 3D UI Essentials] (https://www.packtpub.com/game-development/unity-3d-gui-essentials)

Simon_Whale

Software Developer (Senior)

United Kingdom

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

TheCodeKing

Architect

United Kingdom

Mike Carlisle - Technical Architect with over 20 years experience in a wide range of technologies.

@TheCodeKing

yafeya

Software Developer (Senior)

China

I am a new bird of .Net programming. I want to discuss with other engineer, so please teach me.

	Igor Ladnik - Anti-Reflector .NET Code Protection
Prize pool	Shell MegaPack.Net - LogicNP Software SmartOutline 2010 - SmartOutline Crypto Obfuscator For .Net - Enterprise Edition - LogicNP Software The latest C# ebooks from informIT - Andrea Bledsoe ActiveReports 7 - ComponentOne-PA Plantronics Voyager Legend UC - Plantronics

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