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Using Roslyn for Compiling Code into Separate Net Modules and Assembling them into a Dynamic Library

by Nick Polyak

Dynamically compile and assemble code snippets into a dynamic assembly

Deep Dive into OWIN Katana

by kusnaditjung

Web specification and framework

Slack Chatting with your rPi

by Marc Clifton

Talk to your rPi over a Slack channel, getting status, controlling devices, and running shell (bash) commands and viewing the console output posted back to your Slack channel

Build My Own 3D Graphics Engine Step By Step

by Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

How to build my own 3D graphics engine from ZERO step by step

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VSLauncherX - Better Recent List (and More) for Visual Studio

by Andreas Saurwein

Better recentlist, solutions and projects management for Visual Studio, not replacing the start window

Resize and Rotate Shapes in GDI+

by Andy De Filippo

Draw a shape-like editor implementing the use of anchors to resize and rotate a selection rectangle

Using Roslyn for Compiling Code into Separate Net Modules and Assembling them into a Dynamic Library

by Nick Polyak

Dynamically compile and assemble code snippets into a dynamic assembly

A Database Initialiser for SQLite and NPoco

by Private Dobbs

How to initialise a database and then automatically keep it up to date with version releases

All Articles

Visual Studio 2017

Universal SMTP Code to Send Emails in .NET Apps

8 Aug 2017 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan, Iqra Ali

Since I wrote an article previously, I had been asked on various occasions to share the code on Yahoo! or Bing, etc. I wanted to write an article, with the code, which covers all of those vendors as well.

Learning Entity Framework (Day 4): Understanding Entity Framework Core and Code First Migrations in EF Core

9 Oct 2018 by Akhil Mittal

Entity framework core, code first migrations and data annotations in EF Core

entity-framework

Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) of ASP.NET Core Application on Azure Web App using Jenkins – Day 4

28 Nov 2019 by Akhil Mittal

In this article, we’ll learn the CI/CD of ASP.NET Core application on Azure using Jenkins Azure Pipeline.

Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) of ASP.NET Core Application on Azure Web App using Jenkins – Day 3

28 Nov 2019 by Akhil Mittal

In this article, we’ll focus on Azure Active Directory and Service Principal and integrate Jenkins with Azure Service Principal before we move on to CI/CD of ASP.NET Core application on Azure using Jenkins Azure Pipeline.

Fast Binary Serializer with Compile-Time Members and Version Check

29 Oct 2019 by Alexander Lednev

This is a fast binary serializer with compile-time members and version check

Sprache.Calc: Building Yet Another Expression Evaluator

9 Mar 2019 by AlexeyYakovlev

This paper demonstrates a technique of building Sprache parsers using grammar inheritance.

VSLauncherX - Better Recent List (and More) for Visual Studio

27 Sep 2023 by Andreas Saurwein

Better recentlist, solutions and projects management for Visual Studio, not replacing the start window

Data Visualizations And Bezier Curves

8 Aug 2018 by asiwel

Data modelling and visualization using longitudinal Bezier curves

machine-learning

data-visualization

CNTK Model Concurrency Demonstration

1 Oct 2018 by asiwel

How to Deploy Trained Models Concurrently

artificial-intelligence

machine-learning

C# Debug vs. Release Builds and Debugging in Visual Studio – from Novice to Expert in One Blog Article

19 Apr 2018 by Ben Hall (failingfast.io)

Most articles and documentation about the 'out of the box' C# Debug and Release build configurations were written prior to Roslyn. I take a fresh look at what you now get under the covers in 2018.

.NET-Compiler-Platform

Adding EntityFrameworkCore Support to .NET Core Project

13 Aug 2019 by Benktesh Sharma

Demonstrate how to add EF support in .NET Core project

entity-framework

C++ Object Relational Mapping (ORM)- Eating the Bun - Part 1 of N

20 Apr 2019 by BrainlessLabs.com, sibani.p

Creating a simple ORM for C++ on-top of SQL database

C++ audio mixing and WAV file & AudioFile classes

8 Dec 2018 by CalicoSkies

Mixing audio from multiple WAV files to a single WAV file. Includes a C++ class for reading and writing WAV audio files, derived from an AudioFile class for future support of other audio file formats.

TicTacToe - MiniMax Without Recursion

12 Dec 2018 by Christ Kennedy

An exhaustive search of all game-states used to trace Mini-Max decisions from End game up through to Start game

artificial-intelligence

Sprite Editor 2019: My Little Gymnast

24 Jan 2019 by Christ Kennedy

Draw multiple sprites of different appearances with a single instance of classSprite

WPF IValueConverter/IMultiValueConverter Helper Class

2 Apr 2018 by Clifford Nelson

Presents a class to help create flexible value and multi-value converters that use the ConverterParameter to specify return values for true and false results using the ?: operator

Build an ASP.NET Wiki to Explain TDD

17 Nov 2018 by Daniele Fontani

TDD & BDD explained with examples

Asynchronous Multicast Callbacks in C

29 Jan 2019 by David Lafreniere

Simplify passing data between threads with this portable C language callback library.

A Fixed Block Memory Allocator in C

24 Dec 2018 by David Lafreniere

Unique allocator features improve performance and protect against heap fragmentation faults on any C or C++ project.

Month-Name Ordering

18 Sep 2017 by David Wincelberg

Sort by month name in database tables, filenames or strings

My Favorite Filter Queries SQL, C#, Entity Framework, Lambda Expression

15 Jul 2019 by DiponRoy

Conditinal filter query example in SQL, Lambda Expression, C#

entity-framework

Visual Studio Design Patterns Add-in/Extension

3 May 2017 by dmihailescu

A Visual Studio add-in that inserts some commonly known OO patterns into your working project and searches your highlights online.

The "SMAT" Subsystem for C++

6 Apr 2020 by Doctor Autonomy

A surprisingly easy way to avoid memory leaks with new/delete allocations in C++

CQRS - Hosting an Event Sourcing System on Microsoft Orleans

20 May 2017 by Duncan Edwards Jones

How Microsoft Orleans can facilitate a very highly scalable CQRS and event sourcing based system

Simple Event Sourcing Demo in C#

24 Oct 2017 by Emmanuel Nuyttens

Example on how to use Event Sourcing in C#

Flexible C# Command Line Parsing via Attributes

4 Apr 2018 by Eric Lynch

A flexible command line parsing class that uses C# attributes and reflection to discover syntax

Fast and Practically ‘perfect’ Partition Problem Solution

1 Nov 2018 by Fedor Naumenko

A combined solution of the generalized partition problem, which allows to quickly get the good quality result

Angular Fundamentals - Building an Angular 7 Application with .NET Core 2.2 (Global Weather) - Part 1

5 Feb 2020 by Fred Song (Melbourne)

Demonstrating a series of Angular fundamentals through an Angular 7 application.

Angular 7 with .NET Core 2.2 - Global Weather (Part 2)

10 Mar 2019 by Fred Song (Melbourne)

Angular 7 with .NET Core 2.2 - Global Weather (Part 2)

Tic Tac Toe Using AI –The Easy Way

27 Jan 2019 by George Swan

A simple invincible implementation of Tic Tac Toe

artificial-intelligence

Python for .NET developer

13 Feb 2018 by Himanshu Thawait

Python from the .NET developer point of view

Easier Hand Rolled Parsers

18 Mar 2019 by honey the codewitch

Easier Hand Rolled Parsers

How to Make an LL(1) Parser: Lesson 1

14 Nov 2019 by honey the codewitch

Creating a simple parser in 3 easy lessons

Pck: The Parser Construction Kit

6 Aug 2019 by honey the codewitch

A parser generator and unification system for different parsing tools

Pck/Edit: A GUI for Building Parsers

16 Aug 2019 by honey the codewitch

Quickly and easily build parsers and tokenizers using Pck's editor

Pck: Code Roundup and Quick Start Guide

20 Aug 2019 by honey the codewitch

Using PCK to create grammars, parsers and tokenizers for C# and other .NET languages

Simple SignalR Data Streaming Infrastructure Out-of-the-Box

22 Jan 2019 by Igor Ladnik

The article presents infrastructure components for data streaming from server to clients and bidirectional communication with SignalR .NET Core.

Guidance for the Implementation of Repository Pattern and Unit of Work with ASP.NET Core Application

25 Jan 2019 by Jeevanandan J

Guidance for the Implementation of repository pattern and unit of work with ASP.NET Core application

IP Address Control using Pure MVVM Pattern with Events

29 May 2019 by Jitendra_Shri

IP Address control using MVVM pattern with auto focus change, various validation and full customization

General Purpose MultiSlider

26 May 2017 by John Trinder

Comprehensive Multi-Slider(-Range) that can add, delete and move arrows (thumbs)

ASP.NET CORE Token Authentication and Authorization using JWT (No Cookies) – Part 1

5 Jul 2019 by Joseph Rozario

This article explains how to implement Token Authentication and Authorization using JWT in ASP.NET CORE.

ASP.NET CORE Token Authentication and Authorization using JWT (No Cookies) – Part 2

10 Oct 2019 by Joseph Rozario

This article explains how to implement Token Authentication and Authorization using JWT in ASP.NET CORE.

Visual Studio Collection Visualizers

11 Apr 2017 by Juan Francisco Morales Larios

Collection Visualizer for Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2017. Preview your collections in debug mode.

Require Confirmed Email in ASP.NET Core 2.2 - Part 1

22 Dec 2018 by Ken Haggerty

Scaffold and modify Identity in the new ASP.NET Core 2.2 Razor pages template

Require Confirmed Email in ASP.NET Core 2.2 - Part 2

22 Dec 2018 by Ken Haggerty

Scaffold and modify Identity in the new ASP.NET Core 2.2 Razor pages template

Debug multiple .NET Core projects concurrently running on different docker containers in VS 17

11 Jun 2017 by Khairul Islam Sujon

Debugging multiple .NET core projects running on docker containers.

Handwritten Digits Reader UI

8 Jan 2019 by KristianEkman

A C# object oriented Neural Network, trainer, and Windows Forms user interface for recognitions of hand-written digits.

Deep Dive into OWIN Katana

17 Sep 2020 by kusnaditjung

Web specification and framework

Clean Factory Design Pattern with IoC Container

15 Dec 2017 by kusnaditjung

Coding principles

Lightweight Domain Services Library

23 Feb 2019 by L. Michael

This article provides a concrete example of a very simple and lightweight – yet useful – domain services library.

A WPF Rotary Control

23 Aug 2019 by Leif Simon Goodwin

This article presents a highly configurable rotary dial control.

ASP.NET Core Razor Pages Using EntityFramework Core with Enums as Strings - Part I

30 Oct 2018 by Leonard E. James

Create initial object model and database and display first Razor Page

ASP.NET Core Razor Pages Using EntityFramework Core with Enums as Strings - Part II

2 Dec 2018 by Leonard E. James

Complete Initial CRUD Pages

ASP.NET Core Razor Pages Using EntityFramework Core with Enums as Strings - Part III

2 Dec 2018 by Leonard E. James

Add Project and Project State Processing

Slack Chatting with your rPi

27 Jan 2019 by Marc Clifton

Talk to your rPi over a Slack channel, getting status, controlling devices, and running shell (bash) commands and viewing the console output posted back to your Slack channel

Choose Your Poison on the rPi: Entity Framework, Linq2DB, or ADO.NET

17 Oct 2019 by Marc Clifton

Performance differences on the rPi

RaptorDB - The Document Store

24 Jul 2019 by Mehdi Gholam

NoSql, JSON based, Document store database with compiled .net map functions and automatic hybrid bitmap indexing and LINQ query filters (now with standalone Server mode, Backup and Active Restore, Transactions, Server side queries, MonoDroid support, HQ-Branch Replication, working in Linux, .net

WPF: OpenWeather

15 Sep 2017 by Meshack Musundi

WPF-MVVM weather forecast application that displays weather data using the OpenWeatherMap API

HotPatching: (VERY) Deep Inside

4 Nov 2018 by Michael Chourdakis

A ready to be used hotpatching library with five methods!

Getting Started with the Bing Search APIs

8 Feb 2018 by Michael Dodaro

Basic code scenarios using Bing Search API endpoints to search the Web

Sending WhatsApp Messages from a Win32 C++ Program - Part 2

13 Dec 2018 by Michael Haephrati

A simple way for sending WhatsApp documents and images to an individual or to a group in C++

How to Find User's Email Address

19 Aug 2018 by Michael Haephrati

Here is a way to find what is the email address / addresses used by the user running a program

How to Embed Resources in a Static Library

22 Jan 2019 by Michael Haephrati

How can a Static Library embed resources and other data so any application (even a Console based one) can use them.

A WPF ListView Custom Control with Search Filter Tutorial

30 Nov 2018 by Michael Shpilt

A WPF tutorial on how to create FilteredListView: A ListView custom control with search filter that uses Throttling.

A Wizard Application in WPF with MVVMC Navigation

21 Dec 2018 by Michael Shpilt

Shows how to create two Wizard-type applications using Model-View-ViewModel-Controller navigation framework

C# Source for SQL Formatting

27 Jan 2019 by Mitchell Vines

Source code for SQL formatting (now with formatting options)--as opposed to a utility, web service or plug-in/add-on...

Getting Started with Selenium 3.7 using Visual Studio 2017/C#

2 Jun 2021 by Mohammed Faci

This article provides detailed steps for writing test cases using Selenium 3.7.0 and Visual Studio 2017/C#.

Build My Own 3D Graphics Engine Step By Step

1 Feb 2017 by Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

How to build my own 3D graphics engine from ZERO step by step

Export HTML Table Content to Excel - Server Side

9 May 2017 by Muhammad_Faraz

Take HTML structure of a table & export to a genuine Excel file - Sever side processing

Setup and Test Python Environment in Existing Visual Studio 2017

6 Jan 2019 by MukeshKumarTech

This article will help you to understand how to setup Python environment in existing Visual Studio 2017. If you don’t have Visual Studio 2017 installed and you would like to install it, then you can refer to the below article for step by step information.

Implementing Enumeration Inheritance using Roslyn based VS Extension

14 Nov 2017 by Nick Polyak

Describe VS2015 extension for generating sub-enumerations (akin to sub-classes)

Using Roslyn for Compiling Code into Separate Net Modules and Assembling them into a Dynamic Library

16 Jun 2021 by Nick Polyak

Dynamically compile and assemble code snippets into a dynamic assembly

TypeScript for Object Oriented Developers in Easy Samples Part 1

2 Dec 2017 by Nick Polyak

TypeScript tutorial for object oriented programmers

Introducing IoCy - Simple and Powerful IoC Container

13 May 2018 by Nick Polyak

New simple but powerful IoC container

Programming on Trees

22 Nov 2018 by Nick Polyak

Proposal for a generic framework for programming on trees

ASP.NET Multiple Selection DropDownList Using .NET C#

17 Mar 2019 by Nitin_Rajurkar

ASP.NET Multiple Selection Drop Down List using C# and ASP.NET

Getting Started with PouchDB - Part 1

15 Jan 2019 by Paul D. Sheriff

As more and more users interact with web applications on their mobile devices, it is becoming increasingly important for software developers to allow them to work offline; PouchDB can help.

Case Insensitive Search Filter in OData ASP.NET Core 2.0 Web API as an OWIN Middleware

31 Jan 2018 by Pawel idzikowski

How to replace the web API request query string to provide case insensitive OData search

Using MongoDB .NET Driver with .NET Core WebAPI

28 Nov 2017 by Petru Faurescu

How to build step by step an ASP.NET Core WebAPI (.NET Core 2.0) with latest MongoDB driver. The project supports all requests to MongoDB asynchronously.

Sponge Constructions and SHA-3 Hashing Functions: A C# Implementation

29 Jan 2018 by phil.o

C# implementation of sponge construction and SHA-3 hashing operations

A Database Initialiser for SQLite and NPoco

5 Jun 2021 by Private Dobbs

How to initialise a database and then automatically keep it up to date with version releases

Using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Git with VS 2017

22 Jan 2018 by RahulMittal2018

How to use Visual Studio Team Services and Git with VS 2017

DSGraphEdit: A Reasonable Facsimile of Microsoft's GraphEdit in .NET

28 Jan 2018 by Rich Insley

A library for adding DirectShow GraphEdit-like abilities to .NET applications

RoundedButton Control - Demystifying DrawArc

21 Jan 2018 by RickZeeland

This is an alternative for "RoundedButton Control - Demystifying DrawArc"

A Simple Pathfinding Laboratory

7 Sep 2018 by Robert Vandenberg Huang

Experiment, run and compare different pathfinding algorithms and heuristic functions

Invoking Workflows from Azure Functions

21 Jul 2017 by Roman Kiss

Design, implementation and usage of invoking WF4 from Azure Function

Securing ASP.NET CORE Web API using Custom API Key based Authentication

6 Feb 2018 by Saineshwar Bageri

In this article, we are going to learn how to create a secure Web API in ASP.NET Core MVC.

CoreObjects/GoliahCore17: Effective OOP for plain C || 2

29 Dec 2018 by Sauro Abbondanzieri

Implementing a Canvas concept with OOP, in a fresh, polished and effective, pure and plain ANSI C

CoreObjects/GoliahCore17: *.* for plain C

3 Jan 2019 by Sauro Abbondanzieri

UWP, COM, C++/WinRT, OOP in plain C. What else?

Performance of a Circular Buffer vs. Vector, Deque, and List

12 May 2017 by SeattleC++

Reports performance of C++ container classes on a variety of operations

Drawing and Evaluating Math Formulae in WPF Applications

10 Mar 2019 by Sergey L. Gladkiy

The article describes a simple way of realizing math formula evaluation and drawing in WPF applications.

Visual C++ 11 Beta Benchmark of Parallel Loops

25 Apr 2020 by Shao Voon Wong

Benchmark between OpenMP, Parallel Patterns Library, Auto-Parallelizer and C++17 Parallel for_each

UWP Storage Wrapper

25 Dec 2018 by Shao Voon Wong

UWP Storage Wrapper

MEAN Stack

20 Feb 2018 by Shashangka Shekhar

MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, Node.js abbreviated as MEAN - these development tools all use Javascript. In this sample, we are going to use MSSQL Server instead of MongoDb.

Client and Server-Side Data Filtering, Sorting, and Pagination with Angular NgExTable

20 Dec 2020 by Shenwei Liu

A custom and configurable Angular data grid tool and demo application presenting both client and server-side data filtering, sorting, and pagination (updated to Angular 11)

PDF Document Display and File Downloads with Angular, AngularJS, and Web API

22 Feb 2020 by Shenwei Liu

A sample web application and discussions on creating, displaying, and downloading PDF documents with Web API data sources (including ASP.NET Core), client Angular CLI or AngularJS Components, and resolutions for web browser compatibility to handle PDF documents.

Creating ASP.NET Core 2.2 Application Step-by-Step

11 Jun 2019 by Shweta Lodha

This article will walk you through the creation of ASP.NET Core application using ASP.NET Core 2.2 from scratch, by utilizing the capabilities of package manager, EF Core, Identity API, Razor Class Library, etc.

How to Create SQL Server Management Studio 18 (SSMS) Extension

9 Jun 2019 by Stefan Timovski

Tutorial on how to start developing SSMS extensions

Getting Started with ASP.NET Core and Angular4 using WEB API

12 Sep 2017 by syed shanu

In this article, let’s see how to get started with ASP.NET Core and using Web API.

Dependency Injection in ASP.NET Core 2.0

19 Feb 2018 by syed shanu

How to use Dependency Injection in ASP.NET Core 2.0 and use the result to bind in our View page