Best "Everything Else" Article of October 2014

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Current Entries

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ASP.NET Web Api: Unwrapping HTTP Error Results and Model State Dictionaries Client-Side

3 Oct 2014John Atten

When working with ASP.NET Web Api from a .NET client, one of the more confounding things can be handling the case where errors are returned from the Api. Specifically, unwrapping the various types of errors which may be returned from a specific API action method, and translating the error content in

MVC

ASP.NET

WebAPI

Implementing a Basic REST Based ASP.NET Web API Service with Multiple GET Methods and its Consumption using JQuery Client

22 Oct 2014Mathew Soji

This tip guides through implementing a basic REST based Web API service with multiple GET methods and its consumption using JQuery client

Controlling a Myo Armband with C#

6 Oct 2014Dev Leader

Are you excited to get your Myo armband from Thalmic Labs? If you're a C# developer, then check out this open source library to help you control your Myo! The post appeared first on http://www.DevLeader.ca.

C# LINQ: Ordered Joining and Grouping Lazy Operators

18 May 2017Yuriy Magurdumov

Lazy Joining and Grouping IEnumerable extensions for ordered sequences

HTML

VS2013

LINQ

Using MemoryStream to Wrap Existing Buffers: Gotchas and Tips

23 Oct 2014Ben M Watson

Using MemoryStream to wrap existing buffers: Gotchas and tips

C++

Windows

EpForceDirectedGraph.cs- A 2D/3D force directed graph algorithm in C#

26 Oct 2014Chris La

A 2D/3D force directed graph algorithm in C#

.NET Web API 2.0 Service with a Java Client

9 Oct 2014Louie Bacaj

Web API was introduced and was recently streamlined into Web API 2.0. This framework is heaven for C#/.NET services developers. It allows you to get a RESTful API in .NET up and running in less than an hour. As you'll see it's also just as easy to consume that API in another programming language.

CRUD Operations with ASP.NET Web API using FluentNHibernate, Repository Pattern

16 Oct 2014Gaurav Aroraa

In this step-by-step article, we will discuss all about CRUD (Create Read Update Delete) operations with Web API using Repository pattern.

Generate SPA Web App Instantly in Minutes

22 Oct 2014Kalvin Lawrence Ernst

Generate a web app instantly, directly from a database(SQL Server)

Getting all the ip-addresses on subnet and filtering by availability

11 Oct 2014Nosey Parker

How to calculate subnet fast and get active ip-addresses

.NET

Windows

Visual-Studio

How to Automatically Close Un-closed HTML Tags using C# for ASP.NET Web Applications

7 Oct 2014Milad Ashrafi

We need this script for database based ASP.NET websites for using HTML content in post pages.

C# Optional Parameter Visibility

14 Oct 2014Gediminas Geigalas

Optional parameter visibility in C#

PDF Page Counter

24 Oct 2014Yvan Rodrigues

Quickly count the number of pages in a collection of PDF documents

Writing a XAML ribbon application for X11

29 Oct 2014Steffen Ploetz

Currently none of the big Linux/Unix (X11) GUI application frameworks (GTK+, KDE) support XAML based application development. The Moonlight project (including XAML support) was abandoned on May 29, 2012. This article shows 'how to' a XAML based ribbon application with the Roma Widget Set (Xrw) in C#

Article 11 - Beginner's Guide to Android Animation/Graphics

5 Oct 2014Grasshopper.iics

The Simplest Graphics and Animation tutorial you ever wanted

IOT Jukebox

26 Oct 2014Abhishek Nandy

An Overview of IOT

Writing a XAML dialog application for X11

10 Oct 2014Steffen Ploetz

Currently none of the big Linux/Unix (X11) GUI application frameworks (GTK+, KDE) support XAML based application development. The Moonlight project (including XAML support) was abandoned on May 29, 2012. This article shows 'how to' a XAML based dialog application with the Roma Widget Set (Xrw) in C#

Mapping Properties to String Keys

1 Oct 2014Yuriy Magurdumov

PropertyMapper allows mapping object properties to string keys and accessing property values based on those string keys

Virtual Cache

10 Oct 2014Gerardo Recinto

Virtualization of RAM & Disk for high-speed, low-footprint & scalable data caching

Version Control with Subversion: Tortoise SVN – II

27 Oct 2014Prava-MFS

Version control with Subversion: Tortoise SVN - II

All-Topics

A beginners Guide to Social Network Integration in Android Apps: Working with Twitter and Facebook

5 Oct 2014Grasshopper.iics

A Simple Step By Step Guide to Social Network Integration In Android

Android ADB Commands Using Batch File

10 Oct 2014Pavel Durov

This tip will show how to use a batch file for adb commands.

Building User Interfaces for Robotics with VTK - Part 2a

30 Sep 2014AD Colab Group

In the 2nd article in this thread, we start building out the 3D environment for the robots using the Visualization ToolKit (VTK).

Programming the Roma Widget Set (C# X11) - a zero dependency GUI application framework - Widget set

9 Mar 2015Steffen Ploetz

How to get out the maximum from the Roma widget set in C# efficiently without dependencies to GUI frameworks like GTK or KDE. Short introduction of the widgets.

Exclude Type from the Model in Entity Framework Code First

12 Oct 2014Dukhabandhu Sahoo

Know how to exclude types from the Model in Entity Framework Code First

Custom Windows InputBox

24 Oct 2014Syed M Hussain

A custom Windows InputDialog to capture user input

WinForms

VPN Kill Switch

30 Oct 2014Mathew Burnett

A very simple program to kill all network interfaces if your VPN goes down.

C#5.0

VPN

Simple Silverlight MVVM Example using UniformGrid

12 Oct 2014Aldonis55

A simple Silverlight application that shows how to apply Jeff Wilcox's UniformGrid control to a bound collection.

Fancy Busy Handling with IDisposable and IProgress

23 Oct 2014Thomas Mahlberg

This tip describes how to handle BusyIndication and progress report in an MVVM project for several scenarios.

Test Cases and Assertions in soapUI

8 Oct 2014Peri Venkatesh

A closer look on test suites and assertions

All-Topics

Learn Basic “C” Coding Rules From Open Source Projects

19 Oct 2014Issam Lahlali

In this post, you will learn basic "C" coding rules from open source projects

All-Topics

A Small Tip for How to Take Screen Shot Using Selenium WebDriver?

24 Oct 2014Sipra Ray

Here is a small tip for how to take screen shot using Selenium WebDriver

All-Topics

(Wildcard entry)Android Text to speech synthesis with Listview arrays with toast

5 Oct 2014Prilvesh K

(Wildcard entry)Android Text to speech synthesis with Listview arrays with toast

Java

Android

Mobile

Cross Domain RESTful API Calls?

21 Oct 2014MVukoje

Cross domain RESTful API calls?

Mobile

.NETCF

Get Ready to Learn SQL Server: 14. Introduction to Outer Joins

22 Oct 2014essentialSQL

Introduction to Outer Joins in SQL Server

SQL

dbase

SQL-Server

Get Ready to Learn SQL Server: 13. Introduction to Inner Joins

22 Oct 2014essentialSQL

Introduction to Inner Joins in SQL Server

SQL

SQL-Server

DBA

Making a quick rating user control for Windows Phone 8.1

13 Oct 2014S.Prateek

A fast draw to make a rating control for Windows Phone 8.1

Windows-Phone-8

VS2013

Covariance and Contravariance in C# 4.0

16 Oct 2014Gaurav Aroraa

Covariance and contravariance in C# 4.0

Define Func in C#

26 Oct 2014Gaurav Aroraa

How to define Func in C#

Do As I Say, Not As I Do

14 Oct 2014Paul M Watt

Do as I say, not as I do

All-Topics

Using Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt With PowerShell

29 Oct 2014Mohamed Meligy

How to use Visual Studio developer command prompt with Powershell

PowerShell

All-Topics

How To Create Responsive Menu in ASP.NET

17 Oct 2014Nitesh Kejriwal

How to create responsive menu in ASP.NET

ASP.NET

A Little Bit of Fun with Face Detection in Windows Phone 8

22 Oct 2014S.Prateek

This is a fun and short tutorial to try face detection on Windows Phone using FaceDetectionWP8 library.

Windows-Phone-8

VS2013

Learning The S.O.L.I.D Programming Principles: Dependency inversion principle [Part - VI]

16 Oct 2014Gaurav Aroraa

In our previous posts we learned ‘What is S.O.L.I.D. Programming Principles and a detailed explanation with code of Single Responsibility Principle, Open/closed Principle, Liskov Substitution Principle and Interface Segregation Principle.

Get Ready to Learn SQL: 7. Simplified Data Modeling

23 Oct 2014essentialSQL

Simplified Data Modeling in SQL

Get Ready to Learn SQL Server: 6 – Group and Summarize Your Results

29 Oct 2014essentialSQL

Grouping results returned from your queries using the GROUP BY clause

Introduction to Web Services Testing and soapUI

8 Oct 2014Peri Venkatesh

This is an introduction to web services and soapUI.

C++

Windows

Mathos Parser is now an expression compiler

16 Oct 2014Artem Los

The requirement of performing several thousands of calculations (for example, during integration) led to the optimization with pre-scanned expressions. But the aim to make Mathos Parser even faster still remained.

C++

Windows

Caching Using Zend Framework (1st Step Towards Zero To Hero)

26 Oct 2014Biswal Tanmaya

In this blog, we will discuss how to cache your whole project.

C++

Windows

Web Browser Hangs/Freeze Issue VB.NET

30 Oct 2014Jems_007

The tip is for those who getting application hang/freeze issue in web browser control.

Current Participants

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

Abhishek Nandy

Software Developer

India

I am into software Development for less than a year and i have participated in 2 contests here at Codeproject:-Intel App Innovation Contest 2012 and Windows Azure Developer Challenge and been finalist at App Innovation contest App Submission award winner as well won two spot prizes for Azure Developer Challenge.I am also a finalist at Intel Perceptual Challenge Stage 2 with 6 entries nominated.I also won 2nd prize for Ultrabook article contest from CodeProject
Link:-
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/523105/Ultrabook-Development-My-Way

Microsoft MVA Fast Track Challenge Global Winner.
Ocutag App Challenge 2013 Finalist.

My work at Intel AppUp Store:-

UltraSensors:-
http://www.appup.com/app-details/ultrasensors
UltraKnowHow:-
http://www.appup.com/app-details/ultraknowhow

AD Colab Group

United States

AD colab group consists of two developers:
- Sam Claassens (Lead Technical Specialist at GE, based out of Chicago, author of the Semi-Sorted blog)
- Dan Gawryjolek (Software Developer at BNS, based out of Johannesburg, South Africa, contributor to the Semi-Sorted blog)

Please feel free to drop us an email at adcolabgroup@gmail.com

This is a Collaborative Group

2 members

Aldonis55

Software Developer

United States

Developing Silverlight applications and other C# tools. Experience with other high level languages such as VB and Python. 3+ years with C#.

Artem Los

Student

Sweden

My name is Artem, and I am a student at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

Currently working on https://cryptolens.io.

Ben M Watson

Software Developer (Senior) Microsoft

United States

Ben Watson has been a software engineer at Microsoft since 2008. On the Bing platform team, he has built one of the world's leading .NET-based, high-performance server applications, handling high-volume, low-latency requests across thousands of machines for millions of customers. In his spare time, he enjoys geocaching, books of all kinds, classical music, and spending time with his family. He is the author of Writing High-Performance .NET Code and C# 4.0 How-To. He blogs at Philosophical Geek.

Biswal Tanmaya

Software Developer (Senior)

India

I always believe Clean code & Quality code are the key points in Web Development.

Chris La

Software Developer

United States

Woong Gyu La had been working as a software developer for over 8 years.
His personal interests are improving his personal projects,

EpLibrary (Visual C++ Utility Library)
https://github.com/juhgiyo/EpLibrary[^]

EpOraLibrary (Oracle OCI Wrapper Library for Visual C++)
https://github.com/juhgiyo/EpOraLibrary[^]

EpServerEngine (Visual C++ WinSock Server/Client Engine)
https://github.com/juhgiyo/EpServerEngine[^]

And other projects can be found at
https://github.com/juhgiyo?tab=repositories[^]

Finally, my other articles can be found at
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/juhgiyo#articles[^]

You can contact me at juhgiyo@gmail.com[^]

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

Dukhabandhu Sahoo

Software Developer (Senior)

India

I have developed web applications using ASP.NET Web Forms, MVC, Web API, Entity Framework, SQL Server, LINQ, C#, jQuery, BootStrap UI and few other related libraries and tools.

Apart from programming, I love to watch cricket matches.

essentialSQL

Easy Computer Academy, LLC

United States

Hello my name is Kris. I’m here because I am passionate about helping non-techie people to overcome their fear of learning SQL.

I know what it is like to not know where to start or whether the time spent learning is worth the effort. That is why I am here to help you to:
- Get started in an easy to follow step-by-step manner.
- Use your time wisely so you focus on what is important to learn to get the most value from your time.
- Answer your questions. Really! Just post a comment and I’ll respond. I’m here to help.

It wasn’t long ago that I was helping a colleague with some reporting. She didn’t know where to start and soon got overwhelmed and lost as she didn’t know SQL.

I felt really bad, as she was under pressure to get some summary information to her boss, the built-in reports were falling short, and to make them better would require her to know SQL. At that time that seemed impossible! It in dawned on me, it doesn’t have to be that way.

Then I discovered a way for anyone with the desire to easily learn SQL. I worked with my co-worker, started to teach her what I learned and soon she was able to write reports and answer her boss’ questions without getting stressed or ploughing hours into manipulating data in Excel.

It hasn’t always been easy. Sometimes the information seems abstract or too conceptual. In this case I’ve found out that a visual explanation is best. I really like to use diagrams or videos to explain hard-to-grasp ideas.

Having video, pictures, and text really help to reinforce the point and enable learning.

And now I want to help you get the same results.

The first step is simple, click here http://www.essentialsql.com/get-started-with-sql-server/

Gaurav Aroraa

Chief Technology Officer

India

Learning never ends.

Gediminas Geigalas

Software Developer (Senior)

Lithuania

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

Gerardo Recinto

United States

Ex Google, ex Microsoft
I'm just fresh off from a software eng'g gig & is looking forward to my next.
Pls. do drop me a line @gerardorecinto@yahoo.com if interested or having any question/feedback on these Open Source projects.

I'm excited to help/volunteer my services.
Have a great day!

Grasshopper.iics

CEO Integrated Ideas

India

gasshopper.iics is a group of like minded programmers and learners in codeproject. The basic objective is to keep in touch and be notified while a member contributes an article, to check out with technology and share what we know. We are the "students" of codeproject.

This group is managed by Rupam Das, an active author here. Other Notable members include Ranjan who extends his helping hands to invaluable number of authors in their articles and writes some great articles himself.

Rupam Das is mentor of Grasshopper Network,founder and CEO of Integrated Ideas Consultancy Services, a research consultancy firm in India. He has been part of projects in several technologies including Matlab, C#, Android, OpenCV, Drupal, Omnet++, legacy C, vb, gcc, NS-2, Arduino, Raspberry-PI. Off late he has made peace with the fact that he loves C# more than anything else but is still struck in legacy style of coding.
Rupam loves algorithm and prefers Image processing, Artificial Intelligence and Bio-medical Engineering over other technologies.

He is frustrated with his poor writing and "grammer" skills but happy that coding polishes these frustrations.

This is a Organisation

115 members

Issam Lahlali

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

CppDepend lead developer.

Jems_007

Software Developer (Senior)

India

- I am in web development now.
- I've been programming Windows and Web apps since 2011.
- I have developed PLC,Scada Application also.
- I have done machine interface with windows application.
- I have created more than 5 windows application who works like scada for pharmacy & production industries.
- I have created More than 5 websites for civil hospital, Ahmedabad.

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!)

Kalvin Lawrence Ernst

Software Developer (Senior) KalFabriq

Australia

Blazor wasm expert.

Many years experience in developing software for Government, Health, Biotech enterprises.
Early adopter of .NET platform, with over 10 years hands-on experience in ASP.NET.
Solid track record of successful project management and technology implementation.
Highly skilled in SQL Server and Oracle, design, installation and management.
Proficient in gathering user’s requirements and writing technical specifications.
Conducted training in various technologies and acted as a mentor.

Have recently developed an ASP.NET MVC code generator tool to fast track the development of
common application functions.

Louie Bacaj

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

Louie Bacaj is a Senior Software Engineer with an M.S. in computer science; experienced scaling multi-million dollar software projects to several tier 1 financial institutions. Passionate about technology, fitness, and an active blogger over at http://louiebacaj.com

Mathew Burnett

United States

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

Mathew Soji

Software Developer

India

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

Milad Ashrafi

Software Developer (Senior)

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

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

Mohamed Meligy

Senior Consultant at Readify

Australia

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

MVukoje

Software Developer (Senior) CallidusCloud

Serbia

I am a software developer at CallidusCloud currently working on software for Quoting and Product Configuration.

In past few years I have been working on development of multi-portal CMS and I was responsible for defining Coding standard and Code Review process. For three years, I have lead team of programmers that developed Soprex framework for enterprise applications development and I have also built Soprex Quotation Tool on that framework. My main points of interests are enterprise app architecture, Scrum and TDD.

I blogs about software development at www.Vukoje.NET.

Nitesh Kejriwal

Founder Rebin Infotech

India

A passionate developer with over 10 years of experience and building my software company code by code. Experience withMS Technologies like .Net | MVC | Xamarin | Sharepoint | MS Project Server and PhP along with open source CMS Systems like Wordpress/DotNetNuke etc.

Love to debug problems and solve them. I love writing articles on my website in my spare time. Please visit my Website for more details and subscribe to get technology related tips/tricks. #SOreadytohelp

Nosey Parker

Software Developer

Russian Federation

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

Paul M Watt

Engineer

United States

I am a software architect and I have been developing software for nearly two decades. Over the years I have learned to value maintainable solutions first. This has allowed me to adapt my projects to meet the challenges that inevitably appear during development. I use the most beneficial short-term achievements to drive the software I develop towards a long-term vision.

C++ is my strongest language. However, I have also used x86 ASM, ARM ASM, C, C#, JAVA, Python, and JavaScript to solve programming problems. I have worked in a variety of industries throughout my career, which include:
• Manufacturing
• Consumer Products
• Virtualization
• Computer Infrastructure Management
• DoD Contracting

My experience spans these hardware types and operating systems:
• Desktop
o Windows (Full-stack: GUI, Application, Service, Kernel Driver)
o Linux (Application, Daemon)
• Mobile Devices
o Windows CE / Windows Phone
o Linux
• Embedded Devices
o VxWorks (RTOS)
o Greenhills Linux
o Embedded Windows XP

I am a Mentor and frequent contributor to CodeProject.com with tutorial articles that teach others about the inner workings of the Windows APIs.

I am the creator of an open source project on GitHub called Alchemy[^], which is an open-source compile-time data serialization library.

I maintain my own repository and blog at CodeOfTheDamned.com/[^], because code maintenance does not have to be a living hell.

Pavel Durov

Software Developer

Israel

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

Peri Venkatesh

Tester / Quality Assurance

India

Currently working as a software engineer, I am passionate about how things work, technology and science.

Prava-MFS

Software Developer (Senior)

India

Software engineer with around 6 years of web application development experience in open source technologies like PHP, MySQL, HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3, Javascript, jQuery etc.

I love to learn and share my knowledge in which manner I can and like to solve the issues as in the coding perspective. I am an active contributor in community forums like StackOverflow, CodeProject etc. Besides that, I write blogs in free time and speak in various technical community events.

Prilvesh K

Software Developer

Fiji

Prilvesh is a Front end and Back end developer who holds certificates from Google , Microsoft and Oracle who Specializes in Web development and automation using Python and PHP.
He has experience designing developing and building Api's and secure platforms that can handle enterprise level transactions with encryption.

He often simplifies complex problems and solves them through processes and procedures that are efficient and easily understandable even by non programmers including management.

S.Prateek

Software Developer Vizrt Bangladesh

Bangladesh

Microsoft MVP, Ex Microsoft Student Partner, Windows Phone Enthusiast, Creepy Follower of .net resources.

Sipra Ray

Tester / Quality Assurance

India

I am Sipra Ray, ISTQB certified - Quality Analyst at Mindfire Solutions.
An extrovert by nature ,I like to interact with people and share with all what I learn.
I would love to share and answer queries and gain knowledge from forums like Code Project
Follow up with my blogs at:- siprabugtracker.wordpress.com

Steffen Ploetz

Team Leader Celonis SA

Germany

I am currently the CEO of Symbioworld GmbH and as such responsible for personnel management, information security, data protection and certifications. Furthermore, as a senior programmer, I am responsible for the automatic layout engine, the simulation (Activity Based Costing), the automatic creation of Word/RTF reports and the data transformation in complex migration projects.

The main focus of my work as a programmer is the development of Microsoft Azure Services using C# and Visual Studio.

Privately, I am interested in C++ and Linux in addition to C#. I like the approach of open source software and like to support OSS with own contributions.

Syed M Hussain

Web Developer

United Kingdom

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

Thomas Mahlberg

Software Developer

Germany

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

Yuriy Magurdumov

United States

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

Yvan Rodrigues

Engineer Robotic Assistance Devices / AITX

Canada

Yvan Rodrigues has 30 years of experience in information systems and software development for the industry. He is Senior Concept Designer at Robotic Assistance Devices

He is a Certified Technician (C.Tech.), a professional designation granted by the Institute of Engineering Technology of Ontario (IETO).

Yvan draws on experience as owner of Red Cell Innovation Inc., Mabel's Labels Inc. as Manager of Systems and Development, the University of Waterloo as Information Systems Manager, and OTTO Motors as Senior Systems Engineer and Senior Concept Designer.

Yvan is currently focused on design of embedded systems.

First Prize	SergeiR[MCTS] - Smart Monitor for Automotive Battery
Prize pool	CodeProject T-Shirt - CodeProject


Second Prize	Chris Boss - Keep it simple. Keep it fast. Code it so you can read it.
Prize pool	Bob Sticker - CodeProject

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Lost, late, misdirected, or illegible entries will be disqualified. Any entry containing content that CodeProject deems objectionable for any reason will be disqualified. All decisions of CodeProject with respect to any aspect of the competition, including, without limitation, the eligibility of entries, are final and binding on all entrants in all matters as they relate to this competition. CodeProject reserves its right to modify the Rules.

CodeProject assumes no responsibility for lost, late, delayed, destroyed or misdirected mail, voice messages, email or any computer errors or malfunctions. No correspondence will be entered into with entrants.

CodeProject does not assume any responsibility for incorrect or inaccurate capture of entry information, technical malfunctions, human or technical error, lost, delayed or garbled data or transmissions, omission, interruption, deletion, defect or failures of any telephone or computer line or network, computer equipment, software or any combination thereof. Entry materials/data that have been tampered with or altered are void. If for any reason, in the opinion of CodeProject in its sole discretion, the competition is not capable of running as originally planned, or if the administration, security, fairness, integrity or the proper conduct of the competition is corrupted or adversely affected, including by reason of infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other causes beyond its control, CodeProject reserves its right to cancel, terminate, modify, amend, extend or suspend the competition including cancelling any method of entry, and select a winner from previously received eligible entries. CodeProject reserves its right in its sole discretion to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the competition or to be acting in violation of the Rules or otherwise in a disruptive manner. CodeProject reserves its right to seek remedies and damages to the fullest extent of the law for any attempts to deliberately damage the competition web site or to undermine the legitimate operation of this competition. CodeProject shall not be held responsible for any errors or negligence that may arise or occur in connection with the competition including any damage to an entrant's computer equipment, system, software or any combination thereof, as a result of their participation in this competition or from downloading any material from the competition website where applicable.