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Visual Studio Tasks List

by OriginalGriff

Marking code you need to return to later

Simulator 6 Axis Articulated Robots

by jurhas

A small simulator for a 6 axis articulated robot

Developing Software for Internal use : Emphasis on short turnaround

by super

A rough guide for developers how to approach development of software for Internal use especially in Engineering companies, where shorter turnaround is more important

Implementing Auto-tiling Functionality in a Tile Map Editor

by Colin Vella

This article presents an algorithm and data structures to implement auto-tiling as seen in RPG Maker, the Starcraft level editor, etc.

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Practical Implementation of Interval Arithmetic

by Henrik Vestermark

The steps needed to build an Interval Arithmetic class in C++

Top Tips for Developing a Recordist Function

by Jackson Jiang

Introduction to and development journey of a real-time transcription function

Build the Forest in Python Series: Make the Forest Thread-Safe

by Shun Huang

Use Python to build atomic binary trees

Reversing PE files statically modified by Microsoft Detours

by Andreas "PAX" Lück

Investigation of PE file modifications performed by Microsoft Detours

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General Programming

Visual Studio Tasks List

5 Jul 2010 by OriginalGriff

Marking code you need to return to later

Visual-Studio

programming

Get user input from DOS prompt

13 Nov 2010 by mravikiran

Command Line Inputs

programming

Changing the TargetCPU in Vulcan.net

23 Nov 2011 by Willie Moore

How to use CorFlags to change the target CPU in Vulcan.net

Vulcan.NET

programming

Duplicate Notifier for a List using ObservableCollection

7 Mar 2012 by Sunil_Sebastian

Duplicate Notifier for a List using ObservableCollection.

How to use ASP.NET AJAX Calender Extender

20 Jun 2012 by Lavish Kumar

How to use ASP.NET AJAX Calender Extender

Display images and videos in a FancyBox gallery

18 Feb 2014 by netfed

This article explains how to display images and videos in the very same Fancybox gallery using Json-data and existing html-tags as data

Distinguish between pointers and references in C++

2 Jul 2010 by elitehussar

programming

C++ Tip: Aware of the confusion between delete with delete[]

13 Aug 2011 by BWake

It is a bad idea to treat built-in types differently than programmer defined classes. If you delete a dynamically allocated array of a built-in type without the brackets the memory buffer may go away just fine. This is not guaranteed. The VS2008 runtime throws an exception. There is a...

C++

programming

Using a text listener to log messages

10 Nov 2011 by Willie Moore

How to use the TextWriterTraceListener in Vulcan.net

Vulcan.NET

programming

Test Data in Attribute

28 Jul 2013 by Raja.Krishnasamy

Attached the test data with method for regression testing by declaring ref type in attribute

Sudoku Generator using DataGridView

21 Feb 2014 by Ivan Tsurkan

Sudoku Generator

C++ Tip: Aware of the confusion between delete with delete[]

31 Aug 2010 by MilesAhead

A good exercise to aid in always using delete [] where appropriate is to code your own autoarray_ptr following the pattern of c++ auto_ptr. The destructor calls delete [] when the instance goes out of scope. Saves writing a lot of messy delete [] code in "if chains" and switch blocks....

C++

programming

Reset PLSQL sequence value

24 Dec 2010 by Shahriar Iqbal Chowdhury/Galib

Reset PLSQL sequence value

How To Lock Device Screen For Windows Mobile

7 May 2012 by emranallan

Lock Device Screen ,to prevent an one working on the device

Addin With Useful Macros & Easily Accessible From Custom Ribbon Tab

13 Aug 2012 by Sachin Chandanshive

Addin Containg Useful Macros & Easily Accessible From Ribbon Menu

Intrinsic String.Format in Exception Throwing

22 Apr 2013 by Brady Kelly

A handy way to raise an exception without having to call String.Format for the exception message

Create Groovy Classes Dynamically

29 Apr 2014 by Uros Calakovic

Create Groovy classes at run-time and use them from Groovy or Java

Java

Dev

programming

Fake IT: Roll Your Own Configurable Test Doubles

31 May 2014 by Corey Brand

Roll your own configurable test doubles

Get user input from DOS prompt

16 Nov 2010 by CDMTJX

Below should work without GOTO's...Took me awhile to find this while having to do build scripts.IF "%uname%" == "" ( ECHO Hello %uname%...) ELSE ( ECHO error ...)

programming

Execute later for delayed action

12 Aug 2011 by mll5

Code blocks are executed asyncronously in the UI thread after a given timeout.

programming

Create CSS class programmatically

26 Aug 2011 by scott_liu

Create CSS class programmatically

CSS

Javascript

programming

A simple hashing class

12 Feb 2014 by charles henington

This is an alternative for "Send Mail With Attachment File"

Invoke and Aggregate Multicasts

28 Feb 2013 by zaphoed

A generic approach to aggregate return values of multicast functions.

Calculating hash values in Windows Metro Style applications using C#

4 Mar 2013 by Tyronne Thomas

Calculating hash values in Windows Metro style applications using C# and .NET 4.5.

Random Unique Code Generator

9 May 2013 by Sukant Shekhar

Creation of random and unique code

Does Service Virtualization’s "Shift Left" Burden Developers?

21 May 2013 by cynthia_dunlop

Service virtualization undeniably benefits the development process, but it can be both a blessing & a curse for developers. Learn how to minimize the burden on development to achieve maximum acceleration of delivery cycles.

JavaScript: Replace text of an HTML element without using Id property

22 Aug 2013 by Srinivas Kalabarigi

Replace text of an HTML element without using Id property.

Framework for Performing Aggregation and Plain MongoDB Queries in myBatis Style

12 Sep 2013 by dmgcodevil

Framework for performing aggregation and plain MongoDB queries in myBatis style

State Monad in javascript

28 Jul 2014 by Wieslaw Popielarski

Shows how to start from problem to get state monad

Javascript

Dev

programming

Top Tips for Developing a Recordist Function

7 May 2022 by Jackson Jiang

Introduction to and development journey of a real-time transcription function

Java

audio

programming

Control resize

14 Jul 2010 by Weberto.com

Allow controls to grow or shrink with form changes

programming

Get user input from DOS prompt

8 Jan 2011 by Jeffrey Buxton

Not quite, CDMTJX. There are 2 problems with the alternative you posted.Previous values for uname are not cleared. Running this twice WILL see the previous valueThe logic is backwards.This will work as you intended:@ECHO OFFset uname=SET /P uname="Please enter your name: "IF...

programming

Using enumerators for a better code

16 Jan 2011 by Trollslayer

Look at switch/case, this is much better.Also, if you make the enum public then it can be accessed outside the class.

programming

Show/Hide Control on Radio Button Click Using JavaScript

12 Apr 2013 by Dnyaneshwar Kondbale

Show/hide Label control by radio button selection using JavaScript.

Dynamically Creating User Schema with User Supplied Password using Batch Programming

28 Jun 2013 by _Asif_

This tip helps in creating User schema with fresh password on the fly

Tabbed IE Browser Control

3 Jul 2013 by Emmery Chrisco

Tabbed Browser Control addon

New methods of coding (at least for some)

3 Sep 2013 by karenpayne

Using newer conventions of coding in VS2010 and higher

Self Hosted Web API Wrapper Class

5 Sep 2013 by Craig Baruffol

A wrapper class to simplify the implementation of a Self Hosted Web API Service

Unity3D - Basic Gamepad Setup

9 Jan 2015 by Eduardo Fonseca

Unity3D - Basic Gamepad setup

Unity3D

programming

game

AJAX vs. Non-AJAX Calls All-in-One Page

31 Aug 2015 by Peter Leow

This is a simple web application to illustrate visually the difference between Ajax and non-Ajax calls that take place all in a single web page.

Send/Receive classes through UDP

26 Jul 2012 by Amir Hesami

A library which can get any class you pass to it, convert it to bytes, and send it to the other end.

Dynamically Add File Upload Control and Insert Text File data to Database With jQuery and PHP

9 Dec 2013 by Naga Vinodh Peddi

How to dynamically create file upload control and add text file data to SQL database

Sudoku Project in VS 2010

16 Dec 2013 by Rui Jorge Carvalho

Sudoku game solver with a "SudokuControl"

C++ Tip: Aware of the confusion between delete with delete[]

31 Aug 2010 by elitehussar

C++

programming

Fast, simple Bitmap editor class

1 Oct 2013 by Rui Jorge Carvalho

Fast and simple Bitmap processor...

Simple C# FTP Class

27 Mar 2013 by metastruct

Easy to use class for downloading, uploading, and other FTP commands.

Merge PowerPoint Presentations (PPTX) & save as PDF

5 Feb 2014 by LazyCoder0

This article describes how to merge PowerPoint Presentations (PPTX format) and save as PDF in .NET applications using Office Automation (OpenXML SDK).

C++ Tip: Aware of the confusion between delete with delete[]

1 Oct 2010 by Sauro Viti

The C++ comes with a rich standard library: the STL (Standard Template Library).So, why we should re-invent the wheel while we already have it done, safe and written to be light-weighed and performant?It's too much better to use the vector Class (Standard C++ Library)[^]:#include...

C++

programming

How to Display Web Visitor's Sunrise and Sunset Time by IP Address

10 Apr 2014 by Hexa How

Display visitor's sunrise and sunset time based on their IP address using C#

ASP.NET Ajax AutoCompleteExtender Without Using Web Service

28 Jun 2012 by Ameet Parse

ASP.Net Ajax AutoCompleteExtender without using Web Service

Android Material Design

23 Aug 2015 by Richard Silveira

Android Material Design for old devices with Design Support Library

C++ Tip : How to eliminate Temporary Objects

23 Aug 2010 by elitehussar

programming

Internal Rate of Return (IRR) Calculation

18 Sep 2012 by vivekshankars

Program to calculate the IRR value using C/C++ similar to the one available in Excel

C++

algorithm

programming

Personal Agility - Thinking Outside Your Own Box

22 May 2010 by #realJSOP

Essential programmer skill - the ability to approach a problem from more that one direction.

programming

How to make your code more unit test friendly and better

19 Apr 2010 by mifth

How to make your code more unit test friendly (and better)You just simply split your code into small classes and methods while ensuring you follow the principles of Separation Of Concerns and Single Responsibility.If you have a big method you want to unit test, you should use the...

programming

testing

Use OpenXML to Create a Word Document from an Existing docx File

6 Feb 2014 by Bajirao_

Create a Word document from a docx template

Generic Method to Convert DataReader Result into List of CLR Objects

24 Apr 2014 by Bankey Sharma

Converting DataReader Result into List of Objects Using Generic Type, Property Attribute and Reflection

XML* (or XMLStar), a C++ STL Based XML Serialization Engine

6 May 2013 by trident99

An STL based simple XML serialization and de-serialization engine

Validating Simple Primitive Data Types :TIP (For beginners)

13 Nov 2010 by TweakBird

Validating Simple Primitive Data Types:TIP

programming

Convert XML into Object using XML serialization (Deserialize from XML)

10 May 2012 by Naufel Basheer

XML Serialization

Dev

serialization

programming

Start Visual Studio From "Run" Command Prompt

10 Apr 2010 by Sundeep Ganiga

Many developers face this issue of delay in opening Visual Studio IDE.Here is a small solution to resolve this.Open Run Command Prompt(Start->Programs->Run or Windows Logo + R) and type the text given below.a) devenv : Opens VS IDE With Splash Screen.b) devenv...

.NET

Visual-Studio

programming

Redirecting to a page after login in PHP

21 Dec 2010 by mridul samadder

Redirecting to a page after login in PHP

PHP

programming

How to Integrate Office 365 Active Directory to Azure and Authenticate Your Application Using Office 365 User

4 Dec 2013 by Azure Developer

Authentication ASP application using Office 365 User

PHP with Oracle 11g on Windows 7 64-bit

8 Jan 2013 by Zamshed Farhan

It’s a very common problem for those, using Oracle 11g in Windows 7 (64-bit) with PHP applications.

Data Driven Testing by Excel Named Region

1 Aug 2013 by Raja.Krishnasamy

Data Driven Testing in MSTest by using Excel as data source and Named Region as table name instead of sheet name

Interesting facts about fonts in .NET

8 Oct 2013 by submit@perpetuumsoft.com

In this post, we will talk about the wonderful Font class.

C++ Tip : Treating a Vector as an Array

9 Aug 2010 by elitehussar

C++

programming

LINQ as Declarative Programming

29 Aug 2013 by Ryszard Dżegan

How to take full advantage of declarative paradigm by using LINQ.

.NET

LINQ

programming

Let there be MVC - and it was good

1 May 2012 by thedavejay

What makes MVC great is the way it enforces code separation between the different layers of abstraction.

ObservableLinq

30 Apr 2014 by Csaba Fábián

An open source library of Linq operators on ObservableCollection

Synch Point Commit, Back out and Correlation id

18 Sep 2012 by Ritesh_Singh

Asynchronous communication through messaging using Websphere MQ Synch Point Commit, Back out and correlation id

Dynamic ORDER BY with multiple criteria in T-SQL

28 May 2013 by Bob Crowley

How to use a CASE statement in ORDER BY to avoid dynamic SQL

Demo ASP.NET 4.0 - Free - Prometric

5 Apr 2010 by Rafael Leal da Silva

Hello my friends.Microsoft is providing a test in prometric of NET 4.0, free.It is free!!!!Schedule your exam in prometric.In the link below, you find the code of...

Multithreaded, Customizable SysLog Server - C#

27 Mar 2013 by metastruct

Multithreaded, customizable SysLog server in C#.

Good Universal Paramerter and Stored Procedure Execution

16 Oct 2013 by Robert Bettinelli

Check this for a good universal way of running stored procedures..

Start Visual Studio From "Run" Command Prompt

8 Apr 2010 by T Chandra Prakash

If you want to open Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 .............Open Run Command Prompt(Start->Programs->Run or Windows Logo + R) and type below text.a) msdev : Opens MSVC++ IDE With Splash Screen.

.NET

Visual-Studio

programming

Programming White-Boarding Interviews Suck

31 Jul 2015 by Nikita N

Read why

Validating Simple Primitive Data Types :TIP (for Beginners)

2 Nov 2010 by U.Jagannath Reddy(Janki Rao)

Microsoft.VisualBasic.Information.IsNumeric(value)

programming

Returning a value or throwing an exception

6 May 2010 by Sarang Date

The other day my colleague was probing around whether to return a value or to throw an exception in general scenarios and I initially told him that throwing exceptions almost always incur performance costs as compared to a returned value. We had then left the discussion there itself but...

programming

Using Prefix vs As casts in C#

6 May 2010 by Sarang Date

Yesterday during code review, one suggestion that came up from the reviewer was to always use Prefix-casting instead of As-casting in our code and that brings out the question why? The answer lies in choosing a tradeoff between reliability and performance. The primary difference between...

programming

Choosing amongst timers in different multi-threading scenarios

6 May 2010 by Sarang Date

Introduction My Colleagues Guru and Amit brought an interesting discussion on the use of timers in a multithreaded environment. I have tried below to clarify a few things about different timer classes and their usage scenarios with pros and cons. This info is based on the various blogs I...

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