Best "Everything Else" Article of January 2016

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Current Entries

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“Agile Development” – The Software Industry’s New Meme

8 Feb 2016Steve Naidamast

“Agile Development” – The Software Industry’s New Meme

.NET

Mobile

Windows

Highstock + Data-Forge + Yahoo

16 Feb 2017Ashley Davis

A demo of Highstock using Data-Forge with financial data loaded from Yahoo

Simple Multi-Request Web Crawler using U++

4 Jul 2021Miroslav Fidler

Using asynchronous nature of U++ library HttpRequest class to implement parallel web crawler with GUI

An Absolute Beginner's Tutorial on Understanding and Implementing Singleton Pattern in C#

20 Jan 2016Rahul Rajat Singh

This article is yet another explanation and implementation of the singleton pattern.

Design

patterns

Simple Way to Convert HTML Table Data into PHP Array

25 Jan 2016Garbel Nervadof

Convert HTML table data from a website into PHP array

Dynamic Validation with FluentValidation in WPF/MVVM

4 Jan 2016tetsushmz

1 alternative

This article shows how user inputs can be validated dynamically with FluentValidation and INotifyDataErrorInfo in a WPF/MVVM application.

How to Embroid Glyph from True Type Font File

11 Jan 2016Den367

Using System.Windows.Media library to create embroidery design of a glyph from true type font file

Apache Spark/Cassandra 1 of 2

20 Jan 2016Sacha Barber

Looking at Spark/Cassandra working together

Chromium (CefSharp) Tor Browser

28 Jan 2016ahmet_uzun

An alternative Tor Browser built with C# using CefSharp and Tor.NET.

Very Friendly Enum Binding In WPF

11 Jan 2016hesido

A super simple method for listing Enum members in WPF using databinding

A Generic and Advanced PDF Data List Reporting Tool

10 Feb 2020Shenwei Liu

Creating PDF reports for grouped or non-grouped data lists in C# with many custom options and configurations (providing source code with .NET Framework 4.6.1 and .NET Core 3.1)

NTFS LogFile Parser

28 Jan 2016patrik polakovic

A tool for parsing NTFS log file

Python

NTFS

Finding Whales in Ocean Water: Edge Detection, Blob Processing, and RGB Channels in C#

12 Jan 2016Jake Drew

Edge detection, blob processing and RGB channels in C#

VS2013

Incremental Search on the Web with Dynamic LINQ + SignalR

15 Jul 2017dsuryd

Application of "MVVM over SignalR" library described in a previous CodeProject tip, combined with Dynamic LINQ library to do incremental web search by typing the query

Identifying Code Similarities (Duplicate Code) Using Levenshtein Distance

25 Jan 2016Prajnan Das

Levenshtein distance can be an effective tool to identify code similarity (or duplicate code)

VS2013

abstract

A Pure-CSS Menu Supporting Unlimited Levels of Both Horizontal and Vertical Menus

22 Jan 2016Michael D Bray

Use the provided CSS with classed DIVs to build a clean-looking web-based menu that requires no JavaScript, and supports unlimited levels of both horizontal and vertical menus.

Avoid Out-of-memory Troubles with Very Large Lists(Of T)

15 Jan 2016veen_rp

Big lists (>1,000,000 items) can cause out-of-memory errors raised by .NET. Manage them by a List of List(Of T)

A Simple List Class for VBA Projects

16 Jan 2016Glenn Lloyd

This is an alternative for "A Simple List Class for VBA Projects"

How do you properly implement the IDisposable pattern?

21 Jan 2016DaveBlack

This is the first post of a series that I'll be making on memory management in .NET. The subsequent posts will cover guidelines for working with disposable objects, when to implement IDisposable, and maybe a few others.

.NET

Indexing Columns in Redis

16 Jan 2016Najeeb Shaikh

Unlike SQL databases, Redis does not support querying by columns natively, which means that you have to maintain your own indexes. As it turns out, Redis provides a rich set of data types to the programmer to ease this task.

Converting Geographic Coordinates

15 Jan 2016veen_rp

Geographic coordinates from decimal degree to degrees, minutes & seconds. And vice versa.

Point Inside 3D Convex Polygon in C#

12 Jan 2016John Jiyang Hou

An algorithm to determine if a point is inside a 3D convex polygon for a given polygon vertices in C#

How to Install SharePoint 2016 (Single-Server Farm) on VM

17 Jan 2016M Faheem Zafar

How to Install SharePoint 2016 (Single-Server Farm) on VM

SharePoint

enterprise

Microsoft

A Year of Using Git: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

17 Jan 2016Ivan Krivyakov

A year of using Git: the good, the bad and the ugly

All-Topics

Load and Save Handsontable Data From/To Controller in ASP.NET MVC

26 Jan 2016yehia2amer

This method will use jQuery Ajax to POST and GET Handsontable JSON data from/to Controller in ASP.NET MVC.

Coordinate Transformation Using Proj4 in .NET

17 Jan 2016veen_rp

Use and benchmark of coordinate transformation using the C++ proj4 library in VB.NET and C#

Simple HTTP Server in VisualBasic

1 Jan 2016Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

This is an alternative for "Simple HTTP Server in C#"

Programming C# on Mac — One post guide

24 Jan 2016Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This is an introductory post for Mac developers to get started using C# programming language on Mac environments using Mono Project!

How Do You Post to a Web API Controller from an MVC Controller?

4 Jan 2016levelnis

How do you post to a Web API controller from an MVC controller?

Notepad++ Email Plugin

27 Jan 2016Manoj Kumar Chaudhari

Email Plugin for Notepad++ in C#

VS2013

WPF Listbox and Combobox MVVM "Binding" Enum

6 Jan 2016Luis Manuel Prospero Mano Batista

Another simple way to bind one Enumeration to a Combobox or to a Listbox

OpenGL in Python with TKinter

25 Jan 2016Samuel Teixeira

Why simple if we can be complex?

ASP.NET 5 - Connect to SQL Azure Database

3 Jan 2016JoaoSousa23

Using MVC, Entity Framework, ASP.NET5 Scaffolding, and Azure SQLServer you can create a web application that stores your information on an SQL Azure database. This demo shows you how to create a web application with MVC and Entity Framework 7, that communicate with a SQL Azure Database

Business Logic Server as Windows Service (Architectural Prototype)

23 Jan 2016Igor_A

An architectural prototype of a business logic server as Windows Service. Sample service implementation and test utility.

Using Multiple Asynchronous GridView Controls in ASP.NET

25 Jan 2016Nitij

Number of cases where GridView controls can be used effectively in ASP.NET web pages

Calculator Interface Design In Rust Language

15 Dec 2016Farhad Reza

This tip describes how we can design application interface using Win32 API in Rust Programming language.

Google Map, JQuery, AngularJS Address Form autocomplete and geocoder

24 Jan 2016lakhdarr

Control and directives for address form auto completion using Google map V3 and JQuery/AngularJS

Putting WCF to Work

14 Jan 2016Asher Barak, Itiel Beeri

Infrastructure for large scale WCF services layer development

Latest TypeScript Interview Questions for Beginners

12 Jan 2016Talking Dotnet

Latest TypeScript Interview Questions for beginners

Typescript

All-Topics

Not Testing Your Angular Code? Here's How To Start

7 Jan 2016Dave Ceddia

Not testing your Angular code? Here's how to start

All-Topics

UI With DevExpress WinForms Controls

23 Jan 2016Peter Devo

This article presents designing and creating a WinForms User Interface using the DevExpress WinForms controls (version 15.2).

Triangular Color Selector

6 Jan 2016mycenean

Creating a simple color selector dialog

Windows

VS2013

VSTS Widget for GitHub Badges

28 Jan 2016Gordon Beeming

VSTS Widget for GitHub badges

All-Topics

Reducing Controller dependencies with generic factories

5 Jan 2016levelnis

Article examining one approach to reducing controller dependencies in an ASP.NET MVC application by using generic factories.

Adding an Easy-to-use Blog Engine to your Web: Using UnRio.dll Part 3

24 Jan 2016raddevus

This article extends the 2-part article I wrote showing you how to write your own blog engine in ASP.NET MVC.

Quick 7-card Poker Ranking in Java

2 Jan 2016Member 12234041

Open-sourcing Texas-Holdem 7-card hand-ranking software

Java

Dev

Router mass-configuration with Visual Script development

19 Jan 2016Laszlo Frank

Visual Scripting with Pretty Good Temrinal

.NET-Compiler-Platform

English Language Convert to Arabic in Windows Application C#

3 Jan 2016shouvith hydrose Kerala

This tip will explain how to convert English language to Arabic language in Windows Forms C#.

Cloudforge Git for Visual Studio/ Svn to Git Guide

5 Aug 2016Dinand.dotnet

Use Git with cloudforge, and switch from SVN to Git

CommandTree - Improved CommandMap for DelegateCommands

14 Jan 2016Mr.PoorEnglish

Organize your DelegateCommands hierarchical in one Viewmodel-Object - A Style generates a proper Menu from that. You also can set individual CommandBindings, to Buttons or MenuItems.

Current Participants

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

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.

ahmet_uzun

Turkey

I've been working with computers since the glorious times of Commodore 64. My latest beloved programming languages are C# and JavaScript.

Asher Barak

Chief Technology Officer Ziv systems, Israel

Israel

Starting with Apple IIe BASICA, and working my way through Pascal, Power Builder, Visual basic (and the light office VBA) C, C++, I am now a full stack developer and development manager. Mostly with MS technologies on the server side and javascript(typescript) frameworks on the client side.

Ashley Davis

Chief Technology Officer

Australia

Software craftsman | Author | Writing rapidfullstackdevelopment.com - Posting about how to survive and flourish as a software developer

Follow on Twitter for news and updates: https://twitter.com/codecapers

I'm writing a new book: Rapid Fullstack Development. Learn from my years of experience and become a better developer.

My second book, Bootstrapping Microservices, is a practical and project-based guide to building distributed applications with microservices.

My first book Data Wrangling with JavaScript is a comprehensive overview of working with data in JavaScript.

Data-Forge Notebook is my notebook-style application for data transformation, analysis and transformation in JavaScript.

I have a long history in software development with many years in apps, web apps, backends, serious games, simulations and VR. Making technology work for business is what I do: building bespoke software solutions that span multiple platforms.

I have years of experience managing development teams, preparing technical strategies and creation of software products. I can explain complicated technology to senior management. I have delivered cutting-edge products in fast-paced and high-pressure environments. I know how to focus and prioritize to get the important things done.

Author

- Rapid Fullstack Development
- Bootstrapping Microservices
- Data Wrangling with JavaScript

Creator of Market Wizard

- https://www.market-wizard.com.au/

Creator of Data-Forge and Data-Forge Notebook

- http://www.data-forge-js.com
- http://www.data-forge-notebook.com

Web

- www.codecapers.com.au

Open source

- https://github.com/ashleydavis
- https://github.com/data-forge
- https://github.com/data-forge-notebook

Skills

- Quickly building MVPs for startups
- Understanding how to get the most out of technology for business
- Developing technical strategies
- Management and coaching of teams & projects
- Microservices, devops, mobile and fullstack software development

Dave Ceddia

United States

Dave is a Software Engineer in the Boston area and writes about AngularJS and other JavaScript things over at daveceddia.com

DaveBlack

Architect Black Box Solutions, Inc.

United States

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

Den367

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.

Dinand.dotnet

Software Developer

Netherlands

20 years IT, Sinds 2010 development.
C#, asp.net, Blazor, MVC, html, css, VB.net, SQL, javascript, jquery, xml, linq.

dsuryd

United States

Full-stack s/w engineer, open source author.

Farhad Reza

Software Developer

Bangladesh

Hi, I'm Shah Farhad Reza. I'm a desktop and web software developer.

Recently I've developed an web based ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) Software for a manufacturing company. The software is in use and working effectively fulfilling its goal (Alhamdulillah) - [February 10, 2023]

The areas of my expertise are the followings:

- OS Kernel developing.
- Programming language's compiler design and implement.
- Expert in C, C++ and Visual Basic and have basic knowledge on C#, D, Java.
- A few times used the Microsoft's new language F#.
- SQL Database programming.
- I've basic knowledge on lowest level programming language like assembly.
- Learning Mozilla’s Rust & Google’s GO programming language for software development.
- Code optimization for performance.
- Multi-threaded programming in C/C++ and Java.
- Know various advanced computer algorithm and have used them to develop graphics and simulation programs. Also working with Linear Algebra and keen to learn Quadratic Algebra in future.
- Graphics and Game programming (Both 2D and 3D).

Currently, I'm doing research on programming language and its compiler development. I've made various kind of software and now I want to share my experiences with people.

Garbel Nervadof

Engineer

Indonesia

Glenn Lloyd

Canada

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

Gordon Beeming

Architect SSW

South Africa

Father | Husband | SSW Solution Architect | Microsoft MVP (GitHub & Azure DevOps) | Dev⭐Ops

hesido

Web Developer

Turkey

I'm a hobbyist programmer, with considerable experience for HTML, CSS, and Javascript, and only just getting into C# out of necessity to help solve a few problems at work (late 2015)

Igor_A

Technical Lead

Ukraine

Igor Alexeev (axaprj2000@yahoo.com)
.NET Development, Architecture, Tech. Consulting

Ivan Krivyakov

Technical Lead Thomson Reuters

United States

Ivan is a hands-on software architect/technical lead working for Thomson Reuters in the New York City area. At present I am mostly building complex multi-threaded WPF application for the financial sector, but I am also interested in cloud computing, web development, mobile development, etc.

Please visit my web site: www.ikriv.com.

Jake Drew

Student

United States

If you would like to know more about me, please feel free to visit my website at http://www.jakemdrew.com/

Thanks!

Jake Drew

JoaoSousa23

Software Developer (Senior) Devscope

Portugal

I am João Sousa, and since i finish my degree I’m working in software development using Microsoft technologies.

I was awarded

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) 2015 – .Net

My profissional profile:

Azure Developer
.NET Developer

My Certifications:

MCTS - .NET Framework - Application Development Foundation
MCTS - .NET Framework 2.0 - Windows-based Client Development
MCTS - .NET Framework 3.5 ADO.NET Applications
MCTS - .NET Framework 3.5 ASP.NET Applications
MCSD - Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3
MCSD - Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications
MCSD - Developing Windows Azure and Web Services
MCSA Office 365 - Managing Office 365 Identities and Requirements
MCSA Office 365 - Enabling Office 365 Services
MCSD - Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions

John Jiyang Hou

Software Developer

Canada

My name is Jiyang Hou (or John Hou). I was born in HeiLongJiang province in north east of China. I got all my educations in China. My university major is Geophysics, but my main professional role is software developer. My biggest accomplishment so far is quit smoking about 5 years ago after almost 20 years smoking history. I am still interested on programming beside making living with it like many other developers. I immigrated to Canada in 2003 and became a permanent resident till now. I live in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. You can reach me by jyhou69@gmail.com regarding to any questions, comments, advice, etc.

lakhdarr

France

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

Laszlo Frank

Architect British Telecom

Unknown

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

levelnis

Technical Lead Levelnis Ltd

United Kingdom

Follow along my journey as I create a newsletter about launching websites. Just message me with "I'm in" and I'll add you

Luis Manuel Prospero Mano Batista

Software Developer (Senior) Self employed

Portugal

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

M Faheem Zafar

Oakton

Australia

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

Manoj Kumar Chaudhari

Admiral Technologies

India

I love working on new technologies. Mostly I work on Microsoft technologies and Micro-controller programming.

Member 12234041

Netherlands

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

Michael D Bray

Software Developer (Senior) Presidio Network Solutions

United States

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

Miroslav Fidler

Czech Republic

Mirek Fidler is C/C++ programmer for more than 20 years. He is a coauthor of U++ framework.

Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

Technical Lead PANOMIX

China

He is good and loves VisualBasic! Senior data scientist at PANOMIX

github: https://github.com/xieguigang

Mr.PoorEnglish

Germany

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

mycenean

Unknown

Programming in .NET started as a hobby, but has gradually become an essential part of my PC life Smile | :)

Unfortunately most of my programs are specifically tailored to my work and interests, so difficult to share with others!
But there are a few perhaps...

Najeeb Shaikh

Software Developer CodeMinima.com

India

Najeeb is based in the city of Bombay, India, and has been a part of the software industry for nearly a decade and a half now. Najeeb's community developer wiki: CodeMinima.com: <Code Concised>

Nitij

Software Developer (Senior)

India

Just a regular guy interesting in programming, gaming and a lot of other stuff Smile | :)

Please take a moment to visit my YouTube Channel and subscribe to it if you like its contents!
My YouTube Channel

Don't be a stranger! Say Hi!!

Cheers!

patrik polakovic

Slovakia

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

Peter Devo

United States

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

Prajnan Das

Architect Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp.

United States

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

raddevus

Software Developer (Senior) RADDev Publishing

United States

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

Rahul Rajat Singh

Architect

India

I Started my Programming career with C++. Later got a chance to develop Windows Form applications using C#. Currently using C#, ASP.NET & ASP.NET MVC to create Information Systems, e-commerce/e-governance Portals and Data driven websites.

My interests involves Programming, Website development and Learning/Teaching subjects related to Computer Science/Information Systems. IMO, C# is the best programming language and I love working with C# and other Microsoft Technologies.

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): Web Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): Accessing Data with Microsoft .NET Framework 4
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): Windows Communication Foundation Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4

If you like my articles, please visit my website for more: www.rahulrajatsingh.com[^]

Microsoft MVP 2015

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

Samuel Teixeira

Software Developer

Brazil

Develop it, programming it's awesome

Shenwei Liu

United States

Shenwei is a software developer and architect, and has been working on business applications using Microsoft and Oracle technologies since 1996. He obtained Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) in 1998 and Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) in 1999. He has experience in ASP.NET, C#, Visual Basic, Windows and Web Services, Silverlight, WPF, JavaScript/AJAX, HTML, SQL Server, and Oracle.

shouvith hydrose Kerala

Software Developer (Senior) alzonsolutions

India

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

Steve Naidamast

Software Developer (Senior) Black Falcon Software, Inc.

United States

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

Talking Dotnet

Technical Lead

India

I am an experienced Software Developer with 11+ years of hands-on experience working with Microsoft.NET technology (ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core, C#, SQL Server, Angular).

Visit Talking Dotnet
For ASP.NET Core, read ASP.NET Core Articles

tetsushmz

Software Developer (Senior)

Japan

He started his career as a PDP-11 assembly language programmer in downtown Tokyo, learning what "patience" in real life means by punching a 110 baud ASR-33 Teletype frantically. He used to be able to put in the absolute loader sequence through the switch panel without consulting the DEC programming card.

Since then, his computer language experiences include 8051 assembly, FOCAL, BASIC, FORTRAN-IV, Turbo/MS C, VB. VB.NET, and C#.

Now, he lives with his wife, two grown-up kids (get out of my place!), and two cats in Westerville, Ohio.

veen_rp

Engineer VeeTools

Netherlands

A (usually exploring) geologist who sometimes develops software for fun and colleagues... Check out my new website at www.veetools.xyz for online mapping and coordinate conversion.

yehia2amer

Egypt

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

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Prize pool	CodeProject T-Shirt - CodeProject


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