Best C++ Article of August 2015

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Each month at CodeProject we gather together the best of the articles submitted the previous month and ask our readers to choose the best of the best. Entry is automatic - just submit you articke and we'll do the rest.

Check out the submission guidelines for information on posting articles.

Current Entries

Articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered.

Getting Video Stream from USB Web-camera on Arduino Due - Part 8: Streaming

9 Aug 2015Sergiy Bogdancev

Understanding streaming data

Arduino

hardware

Dev

UVC

streaming

From scratch, made a mfc library in Visual Studio 2015

22 Aug 2015Juan AG

Create a dll wich uses MFC statically linked and allow you to call normal methods, static methods and global variables, quick an easy

Arduino: Static EEPROM Memory Management

13 Aug 2015Joren Heit

Easy, compile-time manager of EEPROM variables

C++11

C++

Arduino

Arduino: Static EEPROM Memory Management

13 Aug 2015Joren Heit

Easy, compile-time manager of EEPROM variables

C++11

C++

Arduino

Implementing the Huffman adaptive algorithm to compress 256 colors depth graphics images

22 Aug 2015Arthur V. Ratz

This article demonstrates how to implement the Huffman adaptive compression alogrithm to compress graphics images of 256 colors depth and other multimedia files

A General C++ Reflection Engine Based on C++11 and Meta Programming

28 Jun 2016JohnX2015

This is a cross-platform general C++ engine, including a general runtime and a reflection engine.

CaptureManager SDK - Capturing, Recording and Streaming Video and Audio from Web-Cams

17 Dec 2023Evgeny Pereguda

This article presents my project for capturing of video and audio sources on Windows OS by Microsoft Media Foundation.

Chat / Conversation Balloon Control with datasource

15 Aug 2015IssaharNoam

Simple and customizable Chat Conversation control, with DataTable datasource, inspired by SMS application balloons in OnePlus One Android smartphone.

OpenSSL Tour for Win32 Developer

6 Aug 2015Huzifa Terkawi

This article will aim to give you a brief and to point tutorial about DES modes , hash Functions , AES , RSA algorithms and example of their usage , using OpenSSL.

Number to english text in C++11

17 Aug 2015schollii

Convert integer numbers to english text representation

C++

numbers

string

How Many Zeros in a Product of Numbers

18 Aug 2015schollii

Compute the number of trailing zeros in factorial(N) for any 32-bit integer N > 0

C++

Rendering Shapefile in OpenGL-2

24 Aug 2015Durga Prasad Dhulipudi

Rendering polygon shapefiles and filling them

Programming transparent and gradient output without Cairo (C# X11) - a proof of concept

3 Aug 2015Steffen Ploetz

How to draw transparent and gradient output on a X11 window unsing the (low level API) XRender protocol extension for X11.

The Generic Network Endpoint Class for the Boost's Asio Framework

4 Aug 2015cocaf

The generic network endpoint (IP address and port) class that can be compared with and cast to/from the protocol aware boost::asio::ip::udp::endpoint and boost::asio::ip::tcp::endpoint objects.

HWA: Hardware Abstraction for Microcontrollers

26 Aug 2015Christophe Duparquet

This article introduces a hardware abstraction tool for microcontroller programming.

Export Hierarchical (Multi-Level) HTML Table With Styles Using jQuery

13 Aug 2015Sibeesh Passion

Export Hierarchical (Multi-Level) HTML Table With Styles Using jQuery

Exploring the Internet of Things (IoT) with Lync (& Skype for Business) and .Net Gadgeteer

4 Aug 2015matthewproctor

Today, most people think of Lync and Skype as tools for Unified Communications – Instant Messaging, Audio and Video conferencing, Application Sharing and in some instances telephony solutions.Lync (and soon Skype for Business, the next version of Lync) can also be used as the end-point for receiving

C++

Windows

Layered Software Architecture

13 Aug 2015Reader Man San

I wanted to further read about Plugin Architecture, which I made a list for reading about it, in this article: “C# Plug-In Architecture Articles“, so added more reading for Layered Software Architecture, and found the following very interesting presentations: .

C++

Windows

WTL

Validation for Decimal Number

17 Aug 2015Sweta Mittal

Validate whether value in string is a valid decimal number or not.

Current Participants

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

Arthur V. Ratz

Software Developer (Senior) EpsilonDev

Ukraine

I’m software developer, system analyst and network engineer, with over 20 years experience, graduated from L’viv State Polytechnic University and earned my computer science and information technology master’s degree in January 2004. My professional career began as a financial and accounting software developer in EpsilonDev company, located at L’viv, Ukraine. My favorite programming languages - C/C++, C#.NET, Java, ASP.NET, Node.js/JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Python, SQL, HTML5, etc. While developing applications, I basically use various of IDE’s and development tools, including Microsoft Visual Studio/Code, Eclipse IDE for Linux, IntelliJ/IDEA for writing code in Java. My professional interests basically include data processing and analysis algorithms, artificial intelligence and data mining, system analysis, modern high-performance computing (HPC), development of client-server web-applications using various of libraries, frameworks and tools. I’m also interested in cloud-computing, system security audit, IoT, networking architecture design, hardware engineering, technical writing, etc. Besides of software development, I also admire to write and compose technical articles, walkthroughs and reviews about the new IT- technological trends and industrial content. I published my first article at CodeProject in June 2015.

Christophe Duparquet

France

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

cocaf

Software Developer (Senior)

Canada

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

Durga Prasad Dhulipudi

Software Developer

India

He works in the GIS and allied technologies. His areas of Interest are GIS/CAD ,Defence,Aerospace and Law Enforcement.

Evgeny Pereguda

Software Developer

Australia

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

Huzifa Terkawi

Software Developer (Senior)

Syrian Arab Republic

C++ , MFC , Win32 professional Developer.

IssaharNoam

Software Developer (Senior)

Israel

Software Development freelancer.

JohnX2015

Founder

United States

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

Joren Heit

Netherlands

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

Juan AG

Spain

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

matthewproctor

CEO Kutamo and ErrLog.IO

Australia

Pluralsight Author, .Net Developer, Writer & Blogger

http://www.kutamo.com/
http://www.errlog.io/
http://www.matthewproctor.com/
http://www.pluralsight.com/author/matthew-proctor

I am an Australian IT professional based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

I'm a polyglot programmer, being proficient in a number of languages and frameworks including C#, VB.Net, F#, Javascript, Perl, Powershell and Z80 & 6502 assembly. Smile | :)

Reader Man San

Software Developer (Senior) Dev

United Arab Emirates

Hussain Naji Al-Safafeer

Work: Software Developer (Assistant manager)
Like: Programming, reading.
Technical site: https://readerman1.wordpress.com

schollii

Software Developer (Senior)

Canada

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

Sergiy Bogdancev

Software Developer

Ukraine

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

Sibeesh Passion

Software Developer

Germany

I am Sibeesh Venu, an engineer by profession and writer by passion. I’m neither an expert nor a guru. I have been awarded Microsoft MVP 3 times, C# Corner MVP 5 times, DZone MVB. I always love to learn new technologies, and I strongly believe that the one who stops learning is old.

My Blog: Sibeesh Passion
My Website: Sibeesh Venu

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.

Sweta Mittal

Software Developer

India

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

First Prize	Arthur V. Ratz - Implementing the Huffman adaptive algorithm to compress 256 colors depth graphics images
Prize pool	CodeProject T-Shirt - CodeProject


Second Prize	Mikhail Semenov - C++ Implementations of Quicksort Methods for Sorting Arrays with Lots of Duplicates
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.
With the exception of the Everything Else category, the article must be tagged with at least one of the tags corresponding to that competition's category (for example, to enter the C# Competition you would need to tag your article with a C# tag).
Articles entries must follow the CodeProject submission guidelines.
No cheating, lying, plagiarizing articles, chicanery, or kicking.
Articles may only be considered for a single category. If an article is eligible for multiple categories (for example, it pertains to both the C# and Web Dev categories), CodeProject editors and judges will decide which category the article shall be entered in.
No author can be nominated twice in the same category.
If an author writes has two separate articles, each article may be considered in their respective categories provided none of the aforementioned rules are broken. For example, if an author wrote two separate articles, one related to C# and one related to VB.NET, the author and articles could be nominated in the C# and VB.NET competitions, respectively.
In the event an author wins multiple competitions, and repeat, identical prizes, the number of prizes issued is solely at the discretion of the prize issuer.
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.
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