Best C# Article of August 2015

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Current Entries

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Back to the Future – Decapsulation

28 Aug 2015Dmitriy Gakh

Development in C# without care of resource consumption can lead to overloading the system. This article describes a case with large waste of memory and CPU time and how to avoid it.

Dev

Design

Architect

memory

algorithm

Evaluation of .NET Testing

19 Aug 2015Ganesan Senthilvel

Stimulating journey on evaluation of .NET Testing over the years

Make Buzzer (Internal Speaker) Sound in Windows 7/8/10 32bit / 64bit

14 Jan 2022Andreoli Carlo

In our company, we find ourselves in need of using the internal PC (buzzer) on Windows7 64bit. At the end, we figured out how to do it.

Strategy Design Pattern in Automation Testing

4 Jan 2016Anton Angelov

A detailed overview with examples how to utilize the Strategy Design Pattern in automated tests to create an extendable and decoupled Validators.

Microsoft Edge WebDriver- What Everybody Ought to Know About

4 Aug 2015Anton Angelov

Examples how to use the Microsoft Edge WebDriver to create UI automated tests executed against the new Microsoft browser- Edge.

.NET

Windows

Ambiguous Classes in C#

25 Aug 2015bconlon

Ambiguous Classes in C#

Yes, You Can Move TFS 2013 WorkItems Between Projects! But, your TFS Warehousing will Break, and Microsoft Support will No Longer Talk to You.

19 Jan 2018ergohack

This roguish way of moving a WorkItem, directly 'in-place', through SQL leaves all of the previous data associations intact, but portends issues with future major updates and current TFS Data Warehousing.

ServicePredicateBuilder for creating Serializable Expressions

30 Nov 2015Mohammad Dayyan, VahidJafari

A library for creating .Net Serializable Expressions to send via WCF services

Facade Design Pattern in Automation Testing

3 Aug 2015Anton Angelov

Explains in details how to implement Facade Design Pattern. Use it to follow all SOLID principles and best programming practices.

.NET

String Format ValueConverter

9 Aug 2015Clifford Nelson

This tip provides an alternate way to combine data with text in a WPF control using a ValueConverter that could be considered easier.

Lotus Notes to Team Foundation Server

3 Aug 2015ambilykk

Emails to Work Items

Workflow (SharePoint 2013, 2010) custom action using Sandboxed Solution

13 Sep 2016Atish Dipongkor

How to create a Sandboxed Workflow Action for SharePoint On-Premise (2013 or 2010)

Avoid Form Resubmit on Refresh

18 Aug 2015MRBULL93

In this tip, I am presenting a simple way to avoid refresh resubmit

Storing Time Series in Redis

28 Aug 2015Cybermaxs

Last time, I explored how to store time series in Microsoft Azure Table Service. This time I’ll do the same but in Redis. It’s is a very popular key-value store (but not only) and I highly encourage you to review it if you still don’t know it.

XNA Basics (Windows 10 and MonoGame)

4 Aug 2015Patchrick

Learn the basics of game development in C# and MonoGame

VS2013

Monogame

XNA

Factory Pattern for Derived Classes

19 Aug 2015AndyLock

A flexible pattern to manage factory classes for derived objects without explicit logic

Windows

Dev

Simple PSD Parser

13 Aug 2015Artur Khondkaryan

Upload Photoshop PSD files, extract layer bitmaps, extract info into xml.

Export GridView Using OpenXML Part 2

28 Aug 2015Mohammed Ibrahim.L

XML

C#5.0

.NET

C# Bluetooth Monitor for Lego Mindstorms NXT

19 Aug 2015charles922

Program that continuously monitors the NXT via Bluetooth

Custom Validation Attribute – Contains

3 Aug 2015xszaboj

Custom validation attribute - contains

Variable Jump Height in Unity

4 Aug 2015Michael Adaixo

Variable jump height in Unity

C#5.0

Unity

Unit of Work for Dynamics CRM 2015

10 Aug 2015Michal Sobieraj

Implementation of Unit of Work pattern together with simple Repository for MS Dynamics CRM 2015.

C#5.0

.NET

Design

How to Load Data Dynamically to Html Dropdownlist

14 Aug 2015Member 11884108

In this tip, we will learn how to load data dynamically to html dropdownlist using Ajax call.

Template Messaging Framework

5 Aug 2015_Asif_

Framework helps resolve Template Codes present in any text at Runtime

Hosting WCF Service II

5 Aug 2015Math08avan

Hosting WCF Service - Windows Hosting

Start developing Windows 10 apps to target billions of devices

16 Aug 2015Houssem_Dellai

Get the resources you need to start developing Windows 10 apps.

Win10

XAML

Blend

Copy document with versions from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 Online site using .Net Managed Client Object Model

4 Aug 2015ShrutiASharma

Utilizing SharePoint Client Object model to copy files with versions from SharePoint 2010 site to SharePoint 2013 online site.

DataTable to List<> using Generics

4 Aug 2015Abdul Ahad Monty

Convert DataTable to List using Generics.

Hosting WCF Service III

6 Aug 2015Math08avan

Hosting WCF Service - IIS Hosting

Design Patterns Simplified: Part 1

9 Aug 2015Prakash Tripathi

This tip talks about the queries developers get when using design patterns in software development.

.NET

Design

MVC Attribute to Restrict Users to Enter Any Kind of HTML Tags in the Input Fields

18 Aug 2015nirman b doshi

MVC attribute to restrict users to enter any kind of HTML tags in the input fields

Dynamically positioning a form/dialog, whilst also keeping it all on one monitor/screen

25 Aug 2015CharlieFoolsTheComputer

Constraining a form/dialog to a single monitor

Building AngularJS application with TypeScript and Visual Studio Code

18 Aug 2015Alex Kolesnichenko

This article provides a guidance on building feature-rich web applications using AngularJS framework with Visual Studio Code and TypeScript. Step-by-step instructions from getting basics right to build and test automation.

Efficient Algorithms to Trim In-String White Spaces

14 Aug 2015DrABELL

This is an alternative for "Fastest method to trim all whitespace from Strings in .NET"

Generic (Non-WPF) Tree to LINQ and Event Propagation on Trees

26 Aug 2015Nick Polyak

Navigation and event propagation on generic trees

Submitting Forms with AngleSharp

11 Aug 2015Florian Rappl

Login, get the data, logout. AngleSharp has everything we need to submit forms and transmit everything we need to get the desired data.

File Compare And Hash extension for Windows explorer

4 Aug 2015dmihailescu

A windows explorer extension for easy binary/text file comparisons and calculating the MD5, SHA1, SHA256 hashes.

.NET Application Continuous Integration ( CI ) using Jenkins

19 Aug 2015Ashwin. Shetty

Continuous Integration of .NET project using Jenkins & Gradle Script

Take screenshots of websites for different screen sizes

22 Aug 2015Alex Sanséau

How to take screenshots of websites and emulate different devices and screen sizes in C#.

.NET

Windows

Building camera app with library in Windows 10

25 Aug 2015Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this article I will explain Windows.Media.Capture namespace's MediaCapture element and how it can be used in Windows Runtime to create applications that make use of camera, for capturing photos and videos. Plus, the article shows how to capture the list of photos or videos that are recorded for p

Singleton Design Pattern in Automation Testing

24 Sep 2015Anton Angelov

Explains in detail how to implement Singleton Design Pattern. Practical examples how to use it in automation tests, following all SOLID principles.

.NET

singleton

SQL Like Functionality in LINQ?

12 Aug 2015Gaurav Aroraa

SQL Like Functionality in LINQ?

SQL

LINQ

WCF

Unity 3D Game Creation using C# Script

11 Sep 2015syed shanu

In this article, we can see how to create a simple Unity 3D game using C# Script.

Strategy Design Pattern - Explained With A Real World Example (C#)

14 Aug 2015nirman b doshi

Strategy Design Pattern - Explained with a real world example (C#)

Upload File Using Ajax And HTML5 in MVC

23 Dec 2016Muhammad Magdi

Simple native file Uploader with a progress bar without using flash player or any external file Upload plugins

LINQ to Regex

12 Aug 2015Josef Pihrt

LINQ to Regex library provides language integrated access to the .NET regular expressions.

.NET

LINQ

regular-expression

FETCH! Retrieve data from a remote web server with one line of code (with MVC reCAPTCHA example)

20 Aug 2015Yvan Rodrigues

Often an application needs data from an HTTP server, such as web services, or to scrape content. .NET provides HttpWebRequest, but it requires a lot of code to perform trivial operations. This class simplifies the task dramatically by abstracting the HTTP protocol, streams, and exceptions.

Build a website with Kaliko CMS using ASP.NET MVC

23 Jan 2016Fredrik Schultz

Introduction to Kaliko CMS - an open source content management system for ASP.NET MVC

Localdb.js

24 Aug 2015Abhishek Kumar Goswami

Here you will learn about localDB.js library which maps the structure of databases in objects using localStorage API provided by HTML5.

ASP.NET

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.

Current Participants

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

_Asif_

Product Manager Avanza Solutions

Pakistan

Asif embarked on his programming journey back in 1991 when he first encountered 80286 8-16 MHz systems. His programming repertoire began with dBase III+, FoxPro, C, and assembly language, where he honed exceptional skills that have been a cornerstone of his development career.

Over the years, Asif's programming saga has seen him delve into a wide array of technologies and languages, ranging from C++, VC++, Java, Delphi, RPG400, SQL Server, and Oracle, to name just a few. His insatiable curiosity continues to lead him towards newer horizons, such as DOT Net Technologies, SOA architectures, BI, DSL, and beyond. These learning experiences are underscored by a robust theoretical foundation, with a penchant for research.

Beyond the realm of technology, Asif's interests include delving into the pages of fiction, exploring biotechnology, and gazing at the wonders of Astronomy. He finds joy in watching movies, and during his free time, he delights in quality moments spent with his children.

Abdul Ahad Monty

Software Developer (Senior) Orion Informatics Ltd.

Bangladesh

Hi,
I am Abdul Ahad. I have been working on Windows technologies since 2007. Most of the time I've worked with C#, ASP.NET, WCF, MSSQL 2008. Also worked with Android, iOS, Angular js, knockout js, Action Script 3. Currently working as a Software Engineer at Orion Informatics Ltd.

Abhishek Kumar Goswami

Software Developer

India

I like to code and I really enjoy to share my knowledge with all, Its my passion.

http://abhishekgoswami.com/

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

Software Developer

Pakistan

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan is a computer programmer from Rabwah, Pakistan, currently living in The Netherlands, likes .NET Core and Node.js for regular everyday development. Afzaal Ahmad works at Adyen as a Developer Advocate.

He is an expert with Cloud, Mobile, and API development. Afzaal has experience with the Azure platform and likes to build cross-platform libraries/software with .NET Core. Afzaal is an Alibaba Cloud MVP, twice he has been awarded Microsoft MVP status for his community leadership in software development, four times CodeProject MVP status for technical writing and mentoring, and 4 times C# Corner MVP status in the same field.

Alex Kolesnichenko

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

Started professional career in software development back in 2000, in Ukraine. Founder and owner of a boutique software company called ByteGems.com Software. Worked for 6 years at w2bi, Inc in New Jersey USA, currently work in a large multinational company based in Redmond, WA.

My buzzwords at the moment: .NET, C#, ASP.NET, MVC, LINQ, TypeScript, JavaScript, AngularJS, HTML, JSON, services.

Still buzzing: C++, Win32, ATL, MFC, SQL, WinForms, WebForms, EF, Sockets, TCP/IP, Remoting.

Alex Sanséau

Technical Lead

United Kingdom

Alex is an experienced .NET professional with strong technical skills and management
experience. Alex is specialised in Microsoft stack and web technology (C#, MVC, Azure, T-SQL, CSS, jQuery...) and he's passionate about software development best practices.

ambilykk

Architect TCS

India

I have over 10 years of experience working on Microsoft Technologies. I am carrying the passion on Microsoft technologies specifically on web technologies such as ASP.Net, HTML5, jQuery and Ajax. My interests also include TFS, Azure, Windows 8, Visual Studio 2010. Technology adoption and learning is my key strength and technology sharing is my passion.

Microsoft MVP: Connected Service Developer

Andreoli Carlo

Team Leader ATS med

Italy

I started programming at Teinos, in a 5 person software working team in march 2004. I got some experience interfacing our main program to various external applications. All of these experiences allowed me to get in touch with many people: end-user, technician and commercial one; learning how to interface myself with these people. After some period I was moved to 'single' software application development. This led me to learn the whole process of software development. From the definition of the specifications to the software release and many times also the installation of the product to the end-user.

In 2009, I moved to ATS. I was charged as Lead Software Developer in a team for a long term new project: Primo (released for the first time in 2010-Q3). The software part for this project was completely written from scratch. These experience led me to understand how to organize the work of a team and take critical decision.

In 2014, in collaboration with a multinational corporation, we started the development of a completely new machine: ARCO FP (released for the first time in 2015-Q3). The software part for this project was completely written from scratch. This experience teaches me how to integrate our company with the needs and rules of other company and how to mitigate different approaches to the production phases.

AndyLock

United States

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

Anton Angelov

CEO Automate The Planet

Bulgaria

CTO and Co-founder of Automate The Planet Ltd, inventor of BELLATRIX Test Automation Framework, author of "Design Patterns for High-Quality Automated Tests: High-Quality Test Attributes and Best Practices" in C# and Java. Nowadays, he leads a team of passionate engineers helping companies succeed with their test automation. Additionally, he consults companies and leads automated testing trainings, writes books, and gives conference talks. You can find him on LinkedIn every day.

Artur Khondkaryan

Armenia

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

Ashwin. Shetty

Architect

India

I have 17 years of experience working in Microsoft Technology & Open source. Now a days I enjoy playing with Nodejs, Angular, docker, Gcloud & Kubernetes. My complete profile is available at https://in.linkedin.com/in/ashwinshetty and you can mail me at ashwin@shettygroup.com

Atish Dipongkor

Instructor / Trainer Jashore University of Science and Technology

Bangladesh

2016 Microsoft MVP

Currently, I am devoted to provide technical and development support to the SharePoint clients and also I am working on angularjs. I am experienced with C#, ASP.NET, SharePoint, SignalR, angularjs, MS SQL, Oracle 11g R2, Windows Phone, Firefox OS and so on. I have fallen in love with many technologies but never got married to any of them. I am evolving myself as full stack developer. I always like to share knowledge as much as to gather from you.

bconlon

Software Developer

United Kingdom

Software developer and geek with 20 years coding experience mainly C++, C#, XML.
Please visit my developer blog: http://geekswithblogs.net/bconlon/Default.aspx

charles922

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

Chuck Peasley is a developer in Orange County, CA

CharlieFoolsTheComputer

CEO Noble Software Systems Ltd

United Kingdom

I've been programming in various languages since 1980. I started in Basic at college and moved swiftly to Z80 assembler. After that I was an operator on a Burroughs mini for a time, then after a little Burroughs COBOL I moved to UNIVAC COBOL for many years. (During which time I became an IT contractor). During that time I touched UNIVAC assembler a bit, as well as the usual SSG etc. I did a bit of RPG, though I never really liked that. After COBOL I went to Gupta SQLWindows for a few years (which I still maintain was a good OO language). Then a move to Oracle PL/SQL and a few years as senior programmer for a large American company, also some years in the DBA team at then end of my time there. Somewhere in the middle of that I spent a year working in PIC assembler and C on a Palm PDA. After Oracle I moved to the other end of things in an IT sense, and discovered FPGAs and VHDL programming. Oh my, that's a brain-bender coming from computer programming. Anyhow, I am also interfacing FPGAs to a PC, and that's where C# comes in.

Clifford Nelson

Software Developer (Senior) Clifford Nelson Consulting

United States

Has been working as a C# developer on contract for the last several years, including 3 years at Microsoft. Previously worked with Visual Basic and Microsoft Access VBA, and have developed code for Word, Excel and Outlook. Started working with WPF in 2007 when part of the Microsoft WPF team. For the last eight years has been working primarily as a senior WPF/C# and Silverlight/C# developer. Currently working as WPF developer with BioNano Genomics in San Diego, CA redesigning their UI for their camera system. he can be reached at qck1@hotmail.com.

Cybermaxs

Technical Lead

France

Yet another proof of concept

dmihailescu

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

Decebal Mihailescu is a software engineer with interest in .Net, C# and C++.

Dmitriy Gakh

Software Developer (Senior)

Azerbaijan

Software Developer/Analyst/Architect/Researcher, IT Application Expert, Trainer-Instructor

Current project:
www.GoMap.Az[^]

DrABELL

Engineer

United States

Dr. Alexander Bell (aka DrABell), a seasoned full-stack Software (Win/Web/Mobile) and Data Engineer holds PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, authored 37 inventions and published 100+ technical articles and developed multiple award-winning apps (App Innovation Contests AIC 2012/2013 submissions) Alexander is currently focused on Microsoft Azure Cloud and .NET 6/8 development projects.

ergohack

United States

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

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.

Florian Rappl

Chief Technology Officer

Germany

Florian lives in Munich, Germany. He started his programming career with Perl. After programming C/C++ for some years he discovered his favorite programming language C#. He did work at Siemens as a programmer until he decided to study Physics.

During his studies he worked as an IT consultant for various companies. After graduating with a PhD in theoretical particle Physics he is working as a senior technical consultant in the field of home automation and IoT.

Florian has been giving lectures in C#, HTML5 with CSS3 and JavaScript, software design, and other topics. He is regularly giving talks at user groups, conferences, and companies. He is actively contributing to open-source projects. Florian is the maintainer of AngleSharp, a completely managed browser engine.

Fredrik Schultz

Software Developer (Senior)

Sweden

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

Ganesan Senthilvel

Architect

India

Ganesan Senthilvel is a passionate IT leader with demonstrated 2 decades’ experience in architecture, design and implementing cutting edge solutions to address business opportunities of Enterprise applications. He earned Masters in Computer Science and Master in Business Administration. Now, he is pursing Doctorate program in Big Data. He is consistent technical contributor via COE, Blog, Whitepaper, Summit, Certification, etc. and also highly skilled at providing coaching and mentoring to internal teams and external institutes. Earned Microsoft Certifications like MCP, MCAD and financial domain certification.
He maintains his weekly blog at http://ganesansenthilvel.blogspot.in

Gaurav Aroraa

Chief Technology Officer

India

Learning never ends.

Houssem_Dellai

Software Developer Microsoft

Tunisia

I'm a Software Engineer and MVP (Client Development). I like writing articles and developing open source software in C#, Windows Phone and Windows 8 applications droidcon.tn/speakers.php.
http://houssemdellai.net

Josef Pihrt

Czech Republic

.NET Developer

Math08avan

Software Developer (Senior) iPower Lanka

Sri Lanka

I am Mathavan. I have been programming since 2008. My programming experience includes C/C++, C#, ASP.NET.

Member 11884108

Software Developer (Junior) focussoftnet

India

I am currently working as a .Net Developer.
My Interest areas are Web Technology,Windows Phone apps and Standalone application.

I am always very Much excited to know about new technology and always welcome to new challenges.

Michael Adaixo

Software Developer

United Kingdom

http://mikeadev.net/about-me/

Michal Sobieraj

Software Developer

United Kingdom

CRM Specialist focused on Dynamics CRM and .NET development.

Mohammad Dayyan

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.

Mohammed Ibrahim.L

Software Developer (Senior)

India

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

MRBULL93

Albania

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

Muhammad Magdi

Software Developer (Senior)

Egypt

Senior software engineer with experience in Microsoft .net development stack. Having a good knowledge of team- management, solution architecture, and agile environment. I have a great passion for learning new frameworks, tools, and technologies And I do blogging sharing technical articles.

Nick Polyak

Architect AWebPros

United States

I am a software architect and a developer with great passion for new engineering solutions and finding and applying design patterns.

I am passionate about learning new ways of building software and sharing my knowledge with others.

I worked with many various languages including C#, Java and C++.

I fell in love with WPF (and later Silverlight) at first sight. After Microsoft killed Silverlight, I was distraught until I found Avalonia - a great multiplatform package for building UI on Windows, Linux, Mac as well as within browsers (using WASM) and for mobile platforms.

I have my Ph.D. from RPI.

here is my linkedin profile

nirman b doshi

Unknown

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

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.

Prakash Tripathi

Software Developer (Senior)

India

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

ShrutiASharma

Software Developer (Senior) Aon

India

Microsoft certified technology specialist with over 5 years of experience in analyzing, designing and developing various segments of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), using Microsoft SharePoint 2010/2013.

syed shanu

Team Leader

India

Microsoft MVP | Code Project MVP | CSharp Corner MVP | Author | Blogger and always happy to Share what he knows to others. MyBlog

My Interview on Microsoft TechNet Wiki Ninja Link

xszaboj

United Kingdom

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	Anton Angelov - Top 15 Underutilized Features of .NET
Prize pool	CodeProject T-Shirt - CodeProject


Second Prize	Nick Polyak - Generic (Non-WPF) Tree to LINQ and Event Propagation on Trees
Prize pool	Bob Sticker - CodeProject

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