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Computer Vision Sandbox

by Andrew Kirillov

An open source application to acquire and process video from cameras

Easy to Use Parallel foreach, that can be Magnitudes Faster than the .NET Version

by Viktor Kovács

Parallel foreach loop implementation for nested loops

Raspberry Pi 2, 2 of n - The Pi as an IoT message broker

by Mike Hankey

Configuring the Raspberry Pi as an MQTT message broker using Mosquitto.

Building a DevOps CI/CD Pipeline for ASP.NET Core with VSTS

by Habibur Rony

This article mainly covers how to create new build and release definition using VSTS. There are short descriptions of DevOps, continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous deployment.

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Using Mermaid in Azure DevOps

by Wessel Beulink

As someone who frequently employs Logic Apps – Azure’s fantastic low-code solution – I’ve come to appreciate its wide range of actions and connectors. One of the keys to this balance? Solid documentation!

IoT System for Data Acquisition with REDIS and GO Language

by José Cintra

IoT architecture proposal for sensor data acquisition modules using the REDIS database and the GO language

Organise QEMU Images Infrastructure Efficiently with Packer

by Evgenii Zaiats

Exploring a painless approach to building and organizing QEMU images

Git – Problem with “skip-worktree” and Pull

by Mark Pelf

Using Git “skip-worktree” option can create problems with Git Pull

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Using Mermaid in Azure DevOps

1 Mar 2024 by Wessel Beulink

As someone who frequently employs Logic Apps – Azure’s fantastic low-code solution – I’ve come to appreciate its wide range of actions and connectors. One of the keys to this balance? Solid documentation!

Outlook AddOn With User Control (Task Pane / Custom Form)

7 Oct 2020 by Leo Chapiro

Outlook AddOn to store the attachments in the file system

Build, Publish and Deploy NuGet Package using Github Actions

29 Jun 2020 by Harsh Deep Gupta

No need to build and publish packages manually, automate it using GitHub Action

.NET Core Versioning Demystified

19 Mar 2020 by RickZeeland

Version all your .NET Core projects in one swoop fell!

A Generic OrderedDictionary in C#

20 Nov 2019 by honey the codewitch

A fully generic ordered dictionary class in C#

Bee: A Suite of Self-Balancing Binary Tree Based Dictionaries

13 Sep 2019 by honey the codewitch

A B-tree, an AVL tree, and a Splay tree in C#

Combine Multiple git commits into a Single commit in GIT using Squash

3 Aug 2019 by Benktesh Sharma

How to combine multiple git commits into a single commit in GIT using Squash

Excel Macro to Generate Database Insert Script

19 Jul 2019 by Anurag Gandhi

An Excel macro that generates SQL insert script that can be executed against database directly

AWS Analyze Big Data with Terraform

5 Jun 2019 by YegorDovganich

Following 'Infrastructure as Code' rules we get a real project sample from the scratch which describes EMR cluster deploying and running Hive script there. It describes Analyze Big Data with Hadoop project from AWS 'Learn to Build' section.

Resolve version error (CS1705) through Package Manager Console

22 Mar 2019 by Benktesh Sharma

How to handle 'Which has higher version than referenced assembly' error (Error CS1705) through Package Manager Console

4-bit Encoder/Decoder

12 Feb 2019 by D4rkTrick

Code for a 4-bit encoder to store 15 different symbols with higher efficiency

Continuous Integration and Delivery for Beginners (DevOps)

3 Feb 2019 by Thinira

Continuous Integration and Delivery with VSTS (Visual Studio Team Services)

Integration of Cake Build Script with TeamCity

10 Dec 2018 by Ivan Yakimov

Here, I'll explain how to integrate Cake script with TeamCity.

Share Pay-As-You-Go Subscription from One User to Group

8 Oct 2018 by Sergey Kizyan

Share the one subscription between group of users and control it from one account

2 Options to Remove a Windows Service (and a Dummy do-nothing Windows Service for You to Play With)

24 Aug 2018 by simonp_ca

How to remove Windows service from Service List (not just stop/disable it, but to delete it from the list totally)

Save WinForm Snapshot Images

2 Aug 2018 by asiwel

Simple C# methods for saving snapshot images of a WinForm to the desktop

data-visualization

Easy to Use Parallel foreach, that can be Magnitudes Faster than the .NET Version

10 Jul 2018 by Viktor Kovács

Parallel foreach loop implementation for nested loops

parallelization

Java & Struct/Value Type Benefits & How to Obtain Them

27 Apr 2018 by Member 13797506

Introduction to structs (value types) in Java

Connecting a Serverless Function to an Event Grid Custom Topic

30 Mar 2018 by Duncan Edwards Jones

How to trigger an Azure serverless function from an event grid custom topic

Visual Clues to Website Environment Under IIS

27 Mar 2018 by DerekT-P

Detection and reporting of website environment under IIS

Fiddling around with the TeamCity REST API

6 Mar 2018 by RickZeeland

Automating package downloads with a PowerShell script and the TeamCity REST API

continuous-build

Push Notification (PubSubHubBub) from Youtube to C# Web Service

13 Feb 2018 by Gaurav Amatya

Youtube push notification

Send Email from Azure SQL using Logic App

24 Jan 2018 by Hemang Maradia

How to send email from SQL Azure database through Azure PaaS services Logic Apps and SendGrid

Get .NET Core Web API Hosted in IIS

23 Nov 2017 by hong_wei_li@yahoo.com

Get .NET Core Web API hosted in IIS successfully at your local work station

WordPress on Heroku

5 Nov 2017 by Brady Kelly

How I got WordPress running on Heroku

Exploring Further - Date and Time Data Types (SQL Server)

27 Sep 2017 by Haroon Ashraf

Things worth considering when using SQL Date and Time data types

Computing First and Last Day of Current and Previous Month (SQL Server)

26 Sep 2017 by Haroon Ashraf

A quick way to calculate first and last day of curent month and previous month

Bind PartialView / RenderPartialView to Model Child Objects Automatically

23 Aug 2017 by Vertical AIT

Automatically bind MVC HTML RenderPartial and Partial view pages to your model's child objects without having to use HTMLFieldPrefix.

Check Not Implemented Members at Runtime

15 Jun 2017 by Ordiales

Create default interface implementation or whatever you want with runtime checking not implemented members

GMapsTable: Usage

11 Jun 2017 by AivanF

Read how to add a dynamic table on Google map for your webpage

data-visualization

SQL CASE WHEN condition THEN NumericColumn ELSE 0 END

7 Jun 2017 by Niemand25

Be careful with CASE WHEN when dealing with numeric columns and using zero literal

Software Testing!! Naming Convention of Test Method for Unit Testing

13 Apr 2017 by Habibur Rony

Naming Convention of Test Method for Unit Testing using Behavior Driven Development (BDD)

Inno Setup Script to Change a C# Forms Configuration

25 Feb 2017 by RickZeeland

Create an Installer which allows to change the Forms application settings in a custom Inno Setup page

noTiFS - TFS Commits Notifications

17 Feb 2017 by Blondy314

An application which communicates with your TFS server - notifies about changes and shows a quick history

Validate Anti-Forgery in ASP.NET MVC- The Automated Way

13 Feb 2017 by Muhammad Albedewy

Validate Anti-Forgery in 6 easy steps

Enabling Gated Check-in using Visual Studio Team Services

4 Feb 2017 by UmaRani T

This article is intended for those who are working with Visual Studio Team services and have basic understanding of build definition.

appSettings Gone Wild

18 Jan 2017 by DotNetSteve

Manage an overgrown appSettings section

GCC Cross Compiler Setup in Windows

17 Jan 2017 by Arun Maiya

How to setup GCC cross compiler in Windows to generate Linux binaries

Automating SSL Encryption for Your Servers with LetsEncrypt and Ansible

2 Jan 2017 by Vyacheslav Voronenko

How letsencrypt can be introduced as part of the deployment play for your project using Ansible tool

Adding Transformation Files in the .NET Windows Service

9 Dec 2016 by Shesh Lamichhane

Step by step to add the transformation files of app.config in your .NET Windows service

Windows-service

Easy Way to Lose Your Customers or Why You Should Not Use Google CDN

7 Oct 2016 by Yury Dymov

Using Google CDN might break your site in China

Counting Lines of Code

4 Oct 2016 by Zebedee Mason

What is the average number of lines of code in your projects files? Yes, but which average?

Finding Missing Unit Tests from Builds and Test Runs

3 Oct 2016 by Metaphysico

Find Unit Tests that do not show up in test results.

Face Alignment According to Eye Position in Emgu CV

17 Sep 2016 by Rajesh Londhe

Face alignment rotation to improve face recognization

image-recognition

Rest API/Web API Automated test Using Frisby

12 Sep 2016 by Kunwar Bahadur Singh

Rest API/Web API Automated test Using Frisby

Setup for Test Servers to Run Coded UI Tests from VSO/TFS 2015

11 Aug 2016 by Metaphysico

Setup required for Test Servers to run Coded UI Tests

How to Select XML Node by Name in C#

3 Aug 2016 by Khunt Suchit

How to Select XML Node by name in C#

TFS/VSO vNext Build Status Overview Widget

27 Jul 2016 by Metaphysico

Quickly see the status of all of your builds in one widget on your dashboard

Manage Data Source Screen Is Not Working for SSRS Report in SharePoint 2013 - Chrome Browser

2 Jul 2016 by senthill

Manage Data Source Screen Is Not Working for SSRS Report in SharePoint 2013 - Chrome Browser

How to Send an SMS with TP-LINK TL-MR6400 from .NET

11 Jun 2016 by Daniel Padevet

Short code showing how to send an SMS from C# via TP-LINK TL-MR6400 LTE Router

Convert Microsoft Word to PDF - using Java and LibreOffice (UNO API)

24 May 2016 by jowettp

How to use the programmatic interface of LibreOffice (called the UNO API) to load, manipulate and save documents

Dependency for make Files Generation

5 May 2016 by Alexey Shtykov

To write a perfect and fast make files

C#.NET Application to Speed Up Computer

4 May 2016 by Sanjaykumar Patel

Speed up your computer by deleting temporary data

.NET-Compiler-Platform

Remove Default Background Color of ListBox Item on Selection in Windows Universal App

26 Mar 2016 by Sumit Samediya

Here we will learn how to remove default background color of ListBox item on selection in Windows Universal App

Find total weeks in a given month

26 Feb 2016 by Rajesh Londhe

Its needed to work with different factors of date. To find out total number of weeks in months is one of important task in it.

The (Probably) Simplest Intro to Visual Studio Unit Testing Ever Written

25 Feb 2016 by B. Clay Shannon

This is a bare-bones, step-by-step tutorial into getting your first test project set up in a Visual Studio solution that already has a project that you want to test

CRUD in ASP.NET MVC 5 using WebAPI 2 with AngularJS

22 Feb 2016 by Indresh_Prajapati

This tip will help beginners to implement CRUD operations in ASP.NET MVC 5 using WebAPI 2 with scripting language as AngularJS and Database as MS SQL 2008R2.

The JavaScript Module Pattern With jQuery

10 Feb 2016 by Troy W. Locke

The JavaScript Module Pattern used with jQuery

Who Logged In Using SA Credentials?

1 Feb 2016 by Deepak A S

An ALL SERVER trigger to know who it is!

CRUD in ASP.NET MVC 4 with KnockOut.JS

20 Jan 2016 by Indresh_Prajapati

This tip will help beginners to implement CRUD operations in ASP.NET MVC 4 with scripting language as KnockOut and Database as MS SQL 2008R2.

What’s New in .NET Stack for Developing Fully RESTful Web Services

11 Jan 2016 by MadhureshK

This post is part one of three which explains what and why you should use WebApi.

web_development

Git: How to Create Repository From Scratch

26 Dec 2015 by Dmitry Handin

This tip describes steps for creating git repository without git init command.

ProcessWatcher: Leverage ManagementEventWatcher to Always Know What Is Running on Your System

21 Dec 2015 by raddevus

This little desktop app gives you an easy way to track processes which start and stop even when your computer is locked. Also, easily save data and view in Excel.

Create the Friendly Name of Any Type

19 Dec 2015 by WuffProjects

This tip provides you with a solution to get the friendly name of any Type without namespaces.

Super Message Box

18 Dec 2015 by Redgum

A customizable MessageBox() DLL and test application with dozens of built-in icons and color schemes

Using Mininet-wifi to Simulate Software-Defined-Wireless-Network

16 Dec 2015 by JinWenQiang

Just a brief introduction of a simulator to build wireless environment

Build Your Own SDN Network

10 Dec 2015 by JinWenQiang

Get started with your own SDN (Software Defined Network) simulation network

Access Genymotion Folders in Windows Explorer/Finder using Smart Disk Pro

2 Dec 2015 by Anele 'Mashy' Mbanga

Explore your Genymotion Device folders

Cajoling Multi-Platform Solutions in Visual Studio

24 Nov 2015 by ergohack

Here is a trick to create a Visual Studio solution that simultaneously builds multiple platforms for targeted projects.

How to Count All Tables, Rows, and Rows Per Table

22 Nov 2015 by Daniel Miller

This code snippet shows how to count all the tables and rows in a SQL Server database

Unzip Multiple Zip Files on File Name's Alpha-numeric Sequence

17 Nov 2015 by Shangwu Qi

A utility application that uses .NET 4.5 ZipFile class to unzip multiple files on file name sequence and save unzipped files to a same root directory.

Prepare Your ubuntu Box for Automated Deployment

13 Nov 2015 by Vyacheslav Voronenko

Perform initial securing of the remote box with ansible provisioner

Work with Fax [Using FAXCOMEXLib]

27 Oct 2015 by Hassan Faghihi

This article is about how to receive fax in windows

How to Create Version Numbers that are Actually Semantic

21 Oct 2015 by Olivia Glenn

Create meaningful version numbers that everyone - developers, testers, operations, managers, and even end-users - will find helpful

How to Install gacutil.exe on a Windows Server

21 Oct 2015 by Daniel Miller

This article outlines the steps for installing the Global Assembly Cache Tool on Windows Server 2008.

Encrypting Applications web.config Using .NET Framework Utility

21 Oct 2015 by Umarfarukh7

This tip is about encrypting web.cofig file using aspnet_regiis utility of .NET Framework.

Managing Multiple AWS EC2 accounts from a PC

8 Jun 2015 by Stiv Ostenberg

Introducing a tool to manage multiple AWS accounts from a PC.