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Best "Everything Else" Article of September 2017

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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.

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Current Entries

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17 Sep 2020kusnaditjung
Web specification and framework
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11 Sep 2017Michael Haephrati
A simple way to provide silent automatic updates with no server side code
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9 Sep 2017Gamil Yassin
Part 1 of a series of articles demonstrating .NET AI library from scratch
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8 Sep 2017Daniele Fontani
.NET Core showcase: learn basics implementing a toy tool
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22 Jul 2021Сергій Ярошко
How to create a .NET user control combining several radio buttons with a border and a caption and provide it with handy support of Visual Studio at design time.
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1 Jan 2021Yuancai (Charlie) Ye
Application of SocketPro onto various databases for continuous inline request/result batching and real-time stream processing with bi-directional asynchronous data transferring
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16 Sep 2017Gamil Yassin
Perceptron, when to use it and sample code
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15 Oct 2020RickZeeland
PostgreSQL notifications Windows Forms application
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17 Sep 2017Gamil Yassin
Part 4 of a series of articles demonstrating .NET AI library from scratch
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4 Apr 2021Yuancai (Charlie) Ye
Continuous SQL-stream Sending and Processing System
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22 Sep 2017Dirk Bahle
A list of advanced tips & tricks on Virtualized WPF TreeViews
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26 Sep 2017Clifford Nelson 1 alternative  
A behavior that allows the developer to bind an IList to SelectedItems of a ListBox or MultiSelector.
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29 Sep 2017Gamil Yassin
ML algorithms based on function or type of problems they solve
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21 Sep 2017Shivprasad koirala
Create your first Angular project and understand various concepts like Components and modules
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21 Sep 2017Michael Haephrati
How to detect the currently used language regardless of the active application
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10 Oct 2017IAmJoshChang
Attacking enemies, health system and death animation in Unity
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4 Sep 2017Chris Boss
BASIC is one of the most misunderstood programming languages! Mention BASIC to a current software developer and one quickly finds out that it is not viewed favorably by most programmers.
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8 Sep 2017CoderGirl42
An extensible procedural generation framework
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11 Mar 2021The Zakies
Build a retrieval based chatbot using TF-IDF
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19 Sep 2017Igor Krupitsky
Application lets you copy tables from Paradox to SQL Server
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10 Oct 2017IAmJoshChang
Going through the Unity Ball tutorial
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2 Sep 2017Clifford Nelson
Presents a very simple control with an IsChecked property that allows definition of two different contents depending of if IsChecked property value is true or false
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24 Sep 2017Hussain Patel
In this article, we will see how to use Breadboard- it's a great way to connect circuits and your Pi together.
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10 Oct 2017IAmJoshChang
How to create a VERY simple first person shooter
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5 Sep 2017dimpant
Learn how to properly use the NotifyDataSetChanged method of the ListViewAdapter to remove items from a ListView
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22 Sep 2017#realJSOP
It doesn't always happen the way you expect.
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10 Oct 2017IAmJoshChang
Survival shooter - tutorial II
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10 Oct 2017IAmJoshChang
Survival Shooter - tutorial I
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10 Oct 2017IAmJoshChang
Going through the Unity Space Shooter
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10 Oct 2017IAmJoshChang
How to create AI movements for enemies in Unity
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28 Sep 2017Sacha Barber
Finishing the 'view rating' page
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10 Oct 2017IAmJoshChang
Going through the Unity space shooter tutorial
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25 Sep 2017IAmJoshChang
Higher quality small font size in Libgdx
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29 Sep 2017Er. Puneet Goel
This is the implementation of Treeview with Multiselect node functionality wide requested by users.
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1 Sep 2017Jeremy Hutchinson
Simple deploy to Azure from Command line
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18 Sep 2017Shmuel Safonov
Creation a numeric library that calculates with quadruple floating-point precision and used from MSVC C/C++ code
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12 Sep 2017Bart-Jan Brouwer
Use bootstrap tables with minimal coding on .Net Core 2.0!
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25 Sep 2017IAmJoshChang
How to center text in Libgdx
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25 Sep 2017IAmJoshChang
How to run your Libgdx game on your desktop
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10 Oct 2017IAmJoshChang
Adding shooting, hit, and more walking sound effects!
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1 Sep 2017Britto selva pandian J
Things to remember while using Rest API calls on SharePoint hosted App for Office 365/SharePoint Online
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10 Oct 2017IAmJoshChang
How to set up a weapon
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10 Oct 2017IAmJoshChang
How to create a character in a first person shooter
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10 Oct 2017IAmJoshChang
Going through the Unity Space Shooter - tutorial II
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6 Sep 2017Kamran Bilgrami
How to watch the value of a variable across multiple threads
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9 Sep 2017Vangos Pterneas
Floor Detection using Kinect
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8 Sep 2017Brady Kelly
How to improve the naming and change the naming and schema of all the Identity tables like AspNetUsers

Current Participants

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

Software Developer (Senior) Paddedwall Software
United States United States
I've been paid as a programmer since 1982 with experience in Pascal, and C++ (both self-taught), and began writing Windows programs in 1991 using Visual C++ and MFC. In the 2nd half of 2007, I started writing C# Windows Forms and ASP.Net applications, and have since done WPF, Silverlight, WCF, web services, and Windows services.

My weakest point is that my moments of clarity are too brief to hold a meaningful conversation that requires more than 30 seconds to complete. Thankfully, grunts of agreement are all that is required to conduct most discussions without committing to any particular belief system.
Architect https://www.questpond.com
India India
Founder Erisia Web Development
South Africa South Africa
I am a software developer in Johannesburg, South Africa. I specialise in C# and ASP.NET MVC, with SQL Server, with special fondness for MVC and jQuery. I have been in this business for about eighteen years, and am currently trying to master Angular 4 and .NET Core, and somehow find a way to strengthen my creative faculties.
- Follow me on Twitter at @bradykelly
Technical Lead
Netherlands Netherlands
I graduated as Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering. Soon I moved from mechanical to software engineering. With more than 20 years of experience in software design, development, and architecture I love building software that users enjoy en suit their needs.
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer Computer Workshop
United States United States
Chris Boss is the owner (and programmer) of a small software development business in rural Virginia, called the Computer Workshop. For the last ten years or so he has been developing tools for use by Powerbasic programmers (see: http://powerbasic.com ). His main product called EZGUI (Easy GUI) is a high level GUI engine with Visual Designer and code generator. It is in its fifth generation now. He is an experienced Windows API programmer (more low level) and has experience in writing GUI engines (forms/controls), drag and drop Visual Designers, Graphics engines (printing and to the screen) and one of his favorites is a Sprite engine (2D animated movable images). His current project is version 5.0 of his main product EZGUI, adding such features as multi-monitor support, component engine, custom control engine, superclass engine and the latest project a 3D OpenGL based custom control. One of the goals he has is to push the limits of Windows software development, while making it easy, fast execution speed, small footprint (size of executables) and code reusability while providing a more graphic experience in user interfaces, while still being able to write software which can fit on a floppy disk (small footprint), use minimal amount of memory and able to run on multiple versions of Windows from 95 to Win8.
Software Developer (Senior) Clifford Nelson Consulting
United States 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.
Software Developer (Senior) Contract Developer
United States United States
I work as a contract developer, specializing in assembly language driver software for specialized hardware. I also focus on identifying and removing performance bottlenecks in any software, using assembly language modifications, as well as locating hard-to-find bugs. I’m a specialist; I prefer to stay away from everyday, mundane development. I can fix problems in high level languages but as a rule I don’t like working with them for general development. There is no shortage of experienced developers in any language besides assembly. I am very much a niche programmer, a troubleshooter; the closer to the hardware I work, the happier I am. I typically take on the tasks others can’t or don’t want to do.
Software Developer GalacticSoft
United States United States
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Chief Technology Officer
Italy Italy
I'm senior developer and architect specialized on portals, intranets, and others business applications. Particularly interested in Agile developing and open source projects, I worked on some of this as project manager and developer.

My programming experience include:

Frameworks \Technlogies: .NET Framework (C# & VB), ASP.NET, Java, php
Client languages:XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, angular.js, jQuery
Platforms:Sharepoint,Liferay, Drupal
Databases: MSSQL, ORACLE, MYSQL, Postgres
Software Developer (Senior)
Greece Greece
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Germany Germany
The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and C# are among my favorites and so I developed Edi

and a few other projects on GitHub. I am normally an algorithms and structure type but WPF has such interesting UI sides that I cannot help myself but get into it.

https://de.linkedin.com/in/dirkbahle
Software Developer
India India
Puneet Goel is an IT Professional with 8+ years. He is specialized in Microsoft Technologies (Asp.NET, SQL Server, Ajax, Jquery, JavaScript, MVC, and Angular). He is an avid member of several development communities and a serial blogger.He loves to learn new technology, do experiments with existing ones, and always happy to help the community.
Engineer
Egypt Egypt
Electrical engineer, programmer on my free time.
Technical Lead
United States United States
Husband, Father, TheWorkingProgrammer
United States United States
Joshua is a passionate software developer working in the Seattle area. He also has experience with developing web and mobile applications, having spent years working with them.

Joshua now finds his spare coding time spent deep in the trenches of VR, working with the newest hardware and technologies. He posts about what he learns on his personal site, where he talks mostly about Unity Development, though he also talks about other programming topic that he finds interesting.

When not working with technology, Joshua also enjoys learning about real estate investment, doing physical activities like running, tennis, and kendo, and having a blast with his buddies playing video games.
Web Developer
United States United States
Igor is a business intelligence consultant working in Tampa, Florida. He has a BS in Finance from University of South Carolina and Masters in Information Management System from University of South Florida. He also has following professional certifications: MCSD, MCDBA, MCAD.
Software Developer
United States United States
I’m a Software Engineer at Microsoft working on the Azure Portal. Before that I spent about 20 years developed various business applications at a number of different companies. I have a passion for writing clean, scalable code and sharing what I’ve learned with others.

I also help run the Casco Bay .Net User Group
Software Developer (Senior)
United States United States
Software engineer dedicated to constantly learning and improving with a focus on self-documenting code and informed design decisions. Interested in most everything. Currently diving down the rabbit-hole of functional programming and category theory.
Architect
Canada Canada
Kamran Bilgrami is a seasoned software developer with background in designing mission critical applications for carrier grade telecom networks. More recently he is involved in design & development of real-time biometric based security solutions. His areas of interest include .NET, software security, mathematical modeling and patterns.

He blogs regularly at http://WindowsDebugging.Wordpress.com
Software Developer (Senior) EMIS
United Kingdom United Kingdom
(You can visit my blog in
CEO Secured Globe, Inc.
United States United States
Michael Haephrati is a music composer, an inventor and an expert specializes in software development and information security, who has built a unique perspective which combines technology and the end user experience. He is the author of a the book Learning C++ , which teaches C++ 20, and was published in August 2022.

He is the CEO of Secured Globe, Inc., and also active at Stack Overflow.

Read our Corporate blog or read my Personal blog.




Software Developer
Netherlands Netherlands
Software developer in the Netherlands, currently working on Video Surveillance applications.
Experience: C#, C++, VB, ASP, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Gitea, TeamCity.
It all started with Black&White, no not the whiskey but the Sinclair ZX81 followed by several Atari's and PC's. The journey continues ...
Software Developer (Senior)
United Kingdom 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
Engineer
Israel Israel
Software Engineer and Control Systems Expert at Digital Feedback Technologies Ltd.
PhD, Tel-Aviv University, 2009
M.S. , Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Lomonosov Moscow State University,1994
Blog page: http://csafonov.blogspot.co.il/
Personal Open-source project: TMC Compiler, MATLAB to C code converter (https://sourceforge.net/projects/tmc-m-files-to-c-compiler)

Software Developer (Junior)
Egypt Egypt
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
CEO LightBuzz
United States United States
Vangos Pterneas is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in the Kinect technology. He helps companies from all over the world grow their revenue by creating profitable software products. Vangos is the founder of LightBuzz Inc. and author of two technical books.
Software Developer (Senior)
United States United States
Yuancai (Charlie) Ye, an experienced C/C++ software engineer, lives in Atlanta, Georgia. He is an expert at continuous inline request/result batching, real-time stream processing, asynchronous data transferring and parallel computation for the best communication throughput and latency. He has been working at SocketPro (https://github.com/udaparts/socketpro) for more than fifteen years.
Instructor / Trainer Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
Ukraine Ukraine
Head of Programming department in Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, UKRAINE

Contest Entries and Requirements

  1. 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.
  2. Entries must be an article, or blog entry.
  3. 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).
  4. Articles entries must follow the CodeProject submission guidelines.
  5. No cheating, lying, plagiarizing articles, chicanery, or kicking.
  6. 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.
  7. No author can be nominated twice in the same category.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. In the event of a tie,  the number of prizes issued is solely at the discretion of the prize issuer.
  12. Multiple votes from the same IP will be automatically disqualified.
  13. The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
  14. Only those who live in jurisdictions in which this contest is legal may enter.
  15. Any breach of the rules and the prize will be awarded to the runner up.
  16. By entering the contest you agree to the rules, conditions of entry, and agree that your member alias and any submitted material can be used for promotional purposes by CodeProject.
  17. Entries shall be deemed to be submitted by the authorized account holder of the email address submitted at the time of entry unless clearly indicated otherwise. "Authorized account holder" is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an email address by an internet access provider, on-line service provider, or other organization (e.g. business, educational institution, etc.) that is responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted email address.

Eligibility

This competition is open to software development professionals & enthusiasts who are of the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence; however, residents of Quebec and of the following countries are ineligible to participate due to legal constraints: Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. Employees (or a member of their immediate family) of CodeProject or any of their affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising or promotional agencies are also ineligible to participate. Void where prohibited by law.

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Entry is by the submission process described above. Please read the submission requirements before submitting your entry and ensure the article is tagged with at least one of the tags corresponding to that competition's category.

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