CodeProject | Newsletter (23 Sep 2013) part 8

New Technical Blogs added

Applications & Tools

• How to build a specific project from a solution with MSBuild - Vasil Trifonov
  How to build a specific project from a solution with MSBuild.
  
  

ASP.NET

• ASP.NET Application Development and Deployment Configuration Best Practices - JIN Weijie
  Application development and deployment configuration best practices in ASP.NET
  
  

Book Reviews

• Augmented Reality with Kinect – A Review - Simon Jackson
  Book review season is back again, this time with a title that opens up your eyes to Microsoft's wondrous sensor, the Kinect.   Augmented Reality with Kinect Definitely a Kinect for beginner's book, here we have an Author who really knows how to lay out complex information is to short …
  
  

C / C++ Language

• Color Constancy: Gray World Algorithm - pi19404
  Color constancy is a mechanism of detection of color independent of light source. The light source many introduce color casts in captured digital images To solve the color constancy problem a standard method is to estimate the color of the prevailing light
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Agile Meetings - Frédéric Rivain [Betclic]
  Finding the proper level of meetings is always a bit tricky.
  
  

Desktop Gadgets

• Migrate/Move Albums of Picasa Desktop Application - JIN Weijie
  How to migrate/move albums of Picasa desktop application
  
  

NoSQL

• Redis-Sentinel TwemProxy Agent - Karl Stoney
  A nodejs agent to connect to Redis-Sentinel and update TwemProxy on master node changes
  
  

Reviews on Third Party Products and Tools

• Focusing on Commitment Over Deadlines - Zac Gery
  This post discusses about focusing on commitment over deadlines.
  
  

SharePoint Server

• Advanced navigation for SharePoint organizational chart - Anton Khritonenkov
  In this article I will demonstrate advanced navigation features of the Plumsail Org Chart.
  
  

Shell and IE programming

• Format Text Out as a Table (Format-Table) in PowerShell - Melick
  Format text out as a table (format-table) in PowerShell
  
  

Site & Server Management

• Prefetching DNS lookups - Gilly Barr
  You can direct the browser to prefetch the DNS lookup at the beginning of the request, so that when the browser runs into the new domain it won't have to lookup up the DNS again.
  
  
• Optimize WordPress Speed Hosted on IIS - JIN Weijie
  How to optimize WordPress speed hosted on IIS
  
  

Uncategorised Technical Blogs

• Modify Nextgen Gallery to Extract Picasa's Caption - JIN Weijie
  How to modify Nextgen gallery to extract Picasa's caption
  
  

Windows API

• IE11 Now Available on Windows 7 - Garry Pilkington
  Microsoft have released IE 11 for Windows 7.
  
  

Technical Blogs updated

.NET Framework

• Visual Studio: Use Conditional Compilation to Control Runtime Settings for Different Deployment Scenarios - John Atten
  Use conditional compilation to control runtime settings for different deployment scenarios.
  
  

Applications & Tools

• TortoiseSVN pre-commit hook in C# - Save yourself some troubles! - morzel
  Have you ever committed code that was meant to stay on your machine? We all add temporary hacks to make development or debugging easier... And it's so easy to forget about them!
  
  
• Git: Combine and Organize Messy Commits Using Interactive Rebase - John Atten
  This post describes a rather specific use of Git's rebase command.
  
  

Book Reviews

• HLSL Development Cookbook–A Review - Simon Jackson
  HLSL Development Cookbook Review
  
  

C#

• Example: Getting Data Back from an EventHandler - Nick Cosentino
  Getting data back from an EventHandler.
  
  

Collections

• Immutable collections should not implement mutable interfaces - jgauffin
  I just read the new blog post about .NETs new mutable collections. It mostly looks really nice, but there is a major problem: They implement mutable interfaces like IList which has an Add() method. The blog post states this: Implementing … Continue reading →
  
  

Game Development

• Monster set of FREE resources for game design - Simon Jackson
  Free resources for game design.
  
  

LINQ

• Compare LINQ Queries for Single Items - Garry Pilkington
  Four LINQ queries for returning single values using LINQ queries.
  
  

Reviews on Third Party Products and Tools

• Agile on the Beach 2013 - photoblog - Anna-Jayne Metcalfe
  The third Agile on the Beach conference was held on Tremough Campus, Penryn (near Falmouth in Cornwall) on 5th and 6th September 2013. As last year, the event attracted not only tech businesses, but also non-tech organisations (e.g. a legal practice and a university department) who are applyin
  
  

String handling

• Handling Casing Issues though Extension Methods in C# and Visual Basic - Rion Williams
  Handling casing issues though Extension Methods in C# and Visual Basic.
  
  

Tools and IDE

• Git Quick Reference: Interactive Patch Staging with git add -p - John Atten
  Interactive patch staging with Git add -p.

CodeProject | Newsletter (23 Sep 2013) part 7

New Tips and Tricks added

.NET Framework

• Create property from field by right click - khanqamarali
  Get/set property by right clicking on .NET IDE.
  
  

Ajax

• How to enable partial rendering with the AJAX UpdatePanel - Amey K Bhatkar
  UpdatePanel tutorial.
  
  

Algorithms & Recipes

• Bag-of-Features Descriptor on SURF and ORB Features (BoF-SURF and BoF-ORB) - Ravimal Bandara
  An implementation of Bag-Of-Feature descriptor based on SURF and ORB features using OpenCV and C++.
  
  

Applications & Tools

• Spring MVC, Maven, Twitter Bootstrap example - jan.mach71
  Spring MVC, Maven, Twitter Bootstrap example.
  
  

ASP.NET

• Creating Reusable Page template - .codeSpy
  Here we'll learn how to create a page template of our own that is reusable.
  
  
• Caching - Improve ASP.NET Web Application's Performance - Member 10221604
  Ways to improve ASP.NET web application's performance
  
  
• Good Universal Paramerter and Stored Procedure Execution - Robert Bettinelli
  Check this for a good universal way of running stored procedures..
  
  

C / C++ Language

• The Rapid Development of the Game Server - gxm_ddsr
  Use XML to configure a database server
  
  

C#

• XmlObject - Er.aruntyagi
  Creating XML from Object & populating your Object from XML using one line of code
  
  

Charts, Graphs and Images

• Chart in HTML in 1 minute - Member 10277780
  Chart in HTML in 1 minute.
  
  

Combo & List Boxes

• Moving listbox items up and down - MaxMax14
  For single or multiple selection CListBox.
  
  

Database

• How to Use Cross Apply Instead of Cursors in SQL Server - Krishna Turlapati
  How to use cross apply along with a table valued function as an alternative to cursors
  
  
• Checking convertability in SQL Server - Saral S Stalin
  Avoiding conversion errors in scripts using TRY_CONVERT.
  
  
• Store image to local folder after resizing and naming in SQL Server database in C# - GhalibMirza
  Image Handeling in C#
  
  
• Setting deadlock priority in SQL Server - Saral S Stalin
  Explains how to run a script with higher priority to avoid it getting terminated in a deadlock situation.
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Software Design Principles - Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi
  An intro to some software design principles.
  
  

GDI

• Hypotrochoid / Spirograph - arussell
  A simple program to draw hypotrochoids with C#
  
  

Java

• Using JavaServer Faces with Oracle - Azim Zahir
  This article explains creating a JSF application using NetBeans 7.2.1 and Oracle 11G.
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Dynamically Displaying Large Text on Mouse Hover in WPF Applications - rohini.chiniwal
  This tip defines a way to make a TextBlock trimming and display the whole text on mouse hover with animation effect.
  
  
• Creating wifi HotSpot with the Help of CMD and C# - Zain Ul Abidin
  
  
  

NoSQL

• Load Data in a Distributed Cache using GetCache Robot - Massimo Zerbini
  This tip shows how you can use the GetCache Robot API to populate the cached data in an automatic way.
  
  

Office Development

• Working with Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Workbook - Yachana123
  While working with Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application after publish
  
  

Third Party Products and Tools

• Creating Custom View - HipChat Integration - Veronika Dashkovskaya
  Tutorial about creating custom view using HipChat integration with Webix library
  
  

Uncategorised Tips and Tricks

• How to Change the Display Resolution to a Non standard Resolution in Windows CE 6.0 - Joan Murt
  Changing the display resolution the hard way (in case your device doesn't allow you to select the resolution you need)
  
  

Windows Communication Foundation

• Method Overloading in WCF - Bhim Bahadur Thapa
  Issue of method overloading in WCF and solution.
  
  

Tips and Tricks updated

.NET Framework

• .git and Dropbox Integration within Visual Studio - sumit_kapadia
  Simple and free approach to manage your code on cloud with git-SCN and dropbox
  
  
• Integrating Unity Container with MVVM Light Framework - Houssem_Dellai
  Using Unity container instead of SimpleIoc in MVVM Light
  
  

Ajax

• AJAX Progress Bar for ASP.NET - Hossein Montazeri
  Async Progress Indicator with Messages and OnComplete Event
  
  

ASP.NET

• SEO optimization: Add meta tags to ASP.NET page programmatically - DrABELL
  Adding page-specific meta tags to .aspx web pages referring the same masterpage.
  
  

C#

• Compiler and Anonymous Type - Suvabrata Roy
  How compiler manage anonymous types
  
  
• M1.NET (for CPS1) - shunninghuang
  Decrypt CPS1 audio
  
  

C++ / CLI

• Detect and Recognize Faces using OpenCV for Beginners - Step by Step - DangBao
  How to detect and recognize faces using OpenCV (step by step instructions for beginners)
  
  

Client side scripting

• JavaScript's $(document).ready vs. $(window).load - Canny Brisk
  A most common event
  
  
• JavaScript Performance Tips - Part 2 - Rajesh Udupi
  JavaScript performance tips - Part 2
  
  

Database

• Visual Studio 2005 MFC + mysql Step by Step - AshwinK4
  Visual Studio 2005 + MySQL Steps (MFC)
  
  
• How to Use Office365 Email with SQL Server 2000 - MAW74656
  This is a drop-in solution that mimicks the functionality of xp_sendmail (including query results), without installing Outlook on the server.
  
  

DLLs & Assemblies

• Loading Win32/64 DLLs "manually" without LoadLibrary() - pasztorpisti
  How to load DLLs by allocating memory and loading the DLL from file/memory and then relocating/importing.
  
  

HTML / CSS

• HTML5/CSS3 graphic enhancement: buttons, inputs - DrABELL
  Aesthetic enhancement of HTML5 web elements via pure CSS3; no image files required
  
  

Microsoft BizTalk Server

• Copying a New Build to All Environments - Leo Gan
  A Target for MSBuild, which I use with BizTalk Deployment Framework (BTDF) for the BizTalk Server application deployment
  
  

Windows Phone 7/8

• Update Data in SQL Server via WCF REST Service in Windows 8 XAML Store Application - lizhong huang
  How to update data in SQL Server via WCF REST Service in Windows 8 XAML Store application
  
  

CodeProject | Newsletter (23 Sep 2013) part 5

Articles updated

Algorithms & Recipes

• C# Cubic Spline Interpolation - Ryan Seghers
  This article presents a from-scratch implementation of cubic spline interpolation in C#.
  
  

Android

• Using Text to Speech (TTS) engine in an Android application - gupta.avinash
  In this article I will discuss how to implement text to speech (TTS) engine in an Android application.
  
  

ASP.NET

• Service Based Membership Providers for ASP.NET - Shuqian Ying
  Service based, multi-application ASP.NET custom membership, role and profile providers with a hierarchical role system.
  
  
• Developing, Architecting and Testing Web Applications with MVC 5, Web API 2, KnockoutJS, Ninject and NUnit - Mark J. Caplin
  The latest technology from the Microsoft Stack
  
  
• SOA Interview Questions: Part 1 - Shivprasad koirala
  Software Architecture interview questions (Service Oriented Architecture interview questions: Part 1).
  
  
• Security In ASP.NET MVC - Jameel M
  
  
  
• Top 10 ASP.NET MVC Interview Questions - Imran Abdul Ghani
  This post lists the top 10 ASP.NET MVC interview questions.
  
  
• Capturing client-side mouse events with jQuery and JavaScript - xbadenx
  JavaScript library for capturing client-side mouse events.
  
  
• Example of creating an interactive map in ASP.NET using MapAround and Leaflet. - Malyshev Georgy
  This article will present an example of a WEB application with interactive maps, and includes development of WMS server and features for map display on the client side.
  
  
• Handling authentication-specific issues for AJAX-calls - Sergey Zwezdin
  For modern web-applications has become the usual to use AJAX when you create user interfaces. However, it makes our headache from time to time. And often these difficulties are associated with authentication and processing such requests on the client.
  
  

Audio and Video

• Play or Capture Audio Sound. Send and Receive as Multicast (RTP) - Banjoo
  Play, record and capture Audio sound. Read, write and stream Wav-Files. Send and receive Ulaw RTP-streams. Using the WaveIn WaveOut functions of the WMM API.
  
  

Azure

• Six simple steps to run your first Azure Worker Role program - Shivprasad koirala
  Six simple steps to run your first Azure Worker Role program.
  
  

Button Controls

• Auto-repeat button in 10 minutes - Adam Zgagacz
  Simple WinForms auto-repeat button in a few lines.
  
  

C / C++ Language

• Basic C++ Win32 DLL - yani papi
  Basic steps of creating and consuming a C++ Win32 DLL.
  
  

C#

• Can you explain Lazy Loading? - Shivprasad koirala
  Lazy loading is a concept where we delay the loading of the object until the point where we need it.
  
  
• .NET COM Interop using Postbuild - Florian Rosmann
  COM Interop using a little post compiler. As a result, it is possible to use multithreading in combination with COM interfaces.
  
  
• HiUpdate tools - Automatic application updates - Josef Andrys
  HiUpdateTools is a easy tools to use publish new version of your application
  
  
• Learning LINQ and Introduction to Important C# Features (All in One) - Akhil_Mittal
  LINQ and an introduction to important C# features (all in one)
  
  
• Key Object-Oriented Concepts and how to use them in Visual C# - Enayat Ashkian
  Overview of Key Object-Oriented Concepts in Visual C# (Quick Guide)
  
  
• GestSpace : A case for Rx Framework and Leap Motion - Nicolas Dorier
  A story about how Rx Framework saved my life for high frequency event processing
  
  
• Integer Base Converter - Adam Zgagacz
  Encode numbers in different positional numeral systems.
  
  
• Upgrading your car with .NET Micro Framework - Nicolas Dorier
  Leaking the digital on our physical world for .NET Developers
  
  
• Monad like programming with C# - Muraad Nofal
  A haskell monad/(applicative)functor like interface in C# that extends IEnumerable.
  
  

COM / COM+

• Authoring and consuming classic COM components with WRL - Marius Bancila
  Provides an overview for creating an consuming classic COM components for desktop applications with the Windows Runtime C++ Template Library
  
  

Content Management Server

• Step by Step Setup Git Server on Windows with CopSSH + msysGit and Integrate Git with Visual Studio - JIN Weijie
  Setup Git Server on Windows with CopSSH + msysGit and integrate Git with Visual Studio.
  
  

Cryptography & Security

• Off-The-Record (OTR) Security Protocol - Don Fizachi
  A C# implementation of the OTR protocol.
  
  

Custom Controls

• DayPilot - Building an Outlook-Like Calendar Component for ASP.NET - Dan Letecky
  A good-looking ASP.NET control that shows events visually arranged in a day calendar. Includes design-time support and data binding.
  
  
• A More Efficient AJAX Progress Bar for ASP.NET - wells cheung
  AJAX Progress Bar for ASP.NET.
  
  

Debug Tips

• ActivityTracerScope - Easy activity tracing with SvcTraceViewer.exe and System.Diagnostics - Bruno Tagliapietra
  An easy way to obtain effective activity tracing, leveraging the built-in System.Diagnostics and the standard tool SvcTraceViewer.exe (not just for WCF).
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Presentation Patterns for XAML based Applications - Jani Giannoudis
  Design patterns on the presentation layer for WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone applications.
  
  
• Principles of API Design: The One, The Many, The Null, and The Nothing - Josh Fischer
  How to create an API that will scale as a system grows over time.
  
  

Dialogs and Windows

• Winforms SkinFramework - Danielku15
  Give your WinForms Windows a unique look using a unique design
  
  
• Programming Xlib with Mono Develop - Part 3: Motif widgets (proof of concept) - Steffen Ploetz
  How to call native Xm API from Mono Develop C# ending up in a very little Motif widget application.
  
  

Edit Controls

• Universal Numeric Edit Control - Adam Zgagacz
  User control for editing numbers writtem using different numeral base.
  
  

Game Development

• Sudoku project in VS 2010 - rui_carvalho
  Sudoku game solver with a "SudokuControl"
  
  

General Graphics

• Fractals in theory and practice - Kenneth Haugland
  Describes the theory behind fractals and how to draw fractal images, using L-system, IFS, Mandelbrot, Newton, Burning ship, Nova and Julia set, Kronecker products, DLA algorithm and the Sunflower spiral..
  
  

GPU Programming

• GPU Computing Using CUDA, Eclipse, and Java with JCuda - Max Bishop
  Tutorial: GPU computing with JCuda and Nsight (Eclipse)
  
  

HTML / CSS

• Canvas Control Library and New Forms Based System for building Web Pages and Websites - Akshay Srinivasan2
  Canvas Control Library provides highly customizable controls using the HTML5 Canvas element. Also includes a new Forms based system which is a new way to build your web pages and websites.
  
  

Internet / Network

• fastJSON - Mehdi Gholam
  Smallest, fastest polymorphic JSON serializer (with Silverlight4 and MonoDroid support)
  
  
• Remote Control PCs - Andy Bantly
  Two projects that work together to remote control PCs across a LAN.
  
  
• GDrive Explorer - For Google Drive - tumbledDown2earth
  Browse your Google Drive and integrate your windows explorer with a Google's storage Cloud
  
  

Libraries

• Ella publish/subscribe middleware - BernhardDieber
  Ella is a fully distributed publish/subscribe middleware written in pure C# and compatible with Mono, enabling scalability and flexibility for your application.
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Enhanced Scrollbar - Adam Zgagacz
  WinForms Scrollbar with enhanced properties, graphical bookmarks and value tooltips.
  
  

Office Development

• Outlook add-in integrating Skype - Cristian Amarie
  Outlook add-in integration for Skype IM: Skype events, Outlook Skype ribbon, and more.
  
  

Parallel Programming

• High Performance Queries: GPU vs. PLINQ vs. LINQ - Nick Kopp
  How to get 30x performance increase for queries by using your Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) instead of LINQ and PLINQ.
  
  
• Using Cudafy for GPGPU Programming in .NET - Nick Kopp
  An introduction to using Cudafy.NET to perform processing on a GPU
  
  
• CUDA Programming Model on AMD GPUs and Intel CPUs - Nick Kopp
  This article builds upon the earlier High Performance Queries: GPU vs. PLINQ vs. LINQ and ports this to also support OpenCL devices and adds benchmarking so you can easily compare performance.
  
  
• Base64 Encoding on a GPU - Nick Kopp
  Performing base64 encoding on a graphics processing unit using CUDAfy.NET (CUDA in .NET).
  
  

PHP

• PHP Web Apps on Google Cloud - bhavik1st
  Demonstrates Google Cloud's experimental support for PHP
  
  

Shell and IE programming

• .NET Shell Extensions - Shell Context Menus - Dave Kerr
  Rapidly create Shell Context Menu Extensions using .NET.
  
  

Tablets and All-in-Ones

• ManicPong - Pete O'Hanlon
  
  
  
• Carrom+ AIO - Talha Naqvi
  The best and most unconventional virtual carrom application optimized for AIO!
  
  
• GSpeak(Gesture Speak) - Reddy Manohar
  Code generation through speech & gesture.
  
  
• Tetris Push (working title) - Cappa Games
  A Tetris-style game that pits friends in a face to face battle with one another, on a single touch screen device.
  
  
• Property Magic - Nitin Sawant
  Geo-location enabled property search application
  
  
• AIshares - Martin Wojtczyk
  AIshares - an artificial intelligence trading shares and sharing trades
  
  
• Real-Time Communications - Milt Morgan
  Provides real time system environment for medical professionals
  
  

Windows Communication Foundation

• Peer to Peer File Sharing Through WCF - Amir Jalilifard
  In this article, you are going to learn about P2P Network and Windows Communication Foundation to share your files between peers through a P2P network.
  
  
• WCF for the Real World, Not Hello World - Zijian
  WCF development for real RAD in enterprise
  
  

Windows Phone 7/8

• Windows Phone 8 Background Agent (Part 1: Periodic Task) - Abdullah Jubair
  This article gives you a brief overview on Windows Phone 8 Background Agent and focuses on Periodic Task
  
  

Windows Powershell

• Installing multiple SQL scripts using a single PowerShell script - Arjan Douwes
  Installing multiple SQL scripts using a single PowerShell script.
  
  
• Automate MSI Installer - Durgesh Nakkani
  This tool copies MSI installers from a distributed server and installs it on a VM Wrokstation
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• Contextfilter for DataGrid - Torsten Tiedt
  Enables filtering in standard DataGrid control.
  
  

CodeProject | Newsletter (23 Sep 2013) part 4

New articles added

.NET Framework

• DotNet Application Framework (Spring.net + ibatis.net) - Changqin Liu
  C# framework integrated with spring.net and ibatis.net
  
  

ASP.NET

• Challenges & solutions - Architecture of a Modern Web Application - Part 1 - Syed Rafey Husain
  Challenges and solutions to architect device independent maintainable web applications using latest web technologies
  
  
• Connecting MongoDB with ASP.NET - gypsyCoder
  A startup ASP.NET application using MongoDB
  
  
• A Book Store Application Using AngularJS and Asp.Net Web Api - Nitij Kumar
  A Book Store Application Using AngularJS and Asp.Net Web Api.
  
  
• Couple of (not so) different approaches to paging in ASP.Net MVC Applictions (Pure MVC & Mustache) - Karthik. A
  Instead of the traditional way of paging like a numbered / text pager, this approach uses a single button to load more data within the same page
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• ASP.NET PDF Viewer User Control Without Acrobat Reader Installed on Client or Server - Ron Schuler
  ASP.NET PDF document viewer control that does not require any Acrobat product to be installed
  
  

Audio and Video

• The LAME wrapper (An audio converter) - Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer
  A c++ wrapper for the LAME library that reduces conversion of PCM (*.wav) to mp3 and vice versa to just two lines of codes
  
  

Azure

• Performance Counters-MultiInstance/MultiCategory - Anand_Joshi
  Performance counters: MultiInstance/MultiCategory.
  
  

Client side scripting

• Challenges & solutions - Architecture of a Modern Web Application - JavaScript - Part 2 - Syed Rafey Husain
  JavaScript is a vital part of modern web applications. This article skim over some of JavaScript features.
  
  
• User-friendly object model in JavaScript - Member 10277780
  User-friendly object model in JavaScript.
  
  

HTML / CSS

• 20 Interesting HTML5 Enhancements - Rahul Bandopadhyaya
  20 interesting HTML5 enhancements
  
  

Internet / Network

• Simple lightweight SSL IOCP Sockets - Kosta Cherry
  Easy to use (and reuse!), lightweight SSL IOCP Sockets implementation
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Facade to disparate databases - G3Coder
  Details using an ORM model to provide a common facade to multiple disparate databases.
  
  

Parallel Programming

• Ultra High Quality Image Rotation on a GPU - Nick Kopp
  Ultra high quality frequency domain image rotation on a GPU.
  
  

Product Showcase

• Dictating Text Messages with Plantronics and Twilio - Jeffrey T. Fritz
  Why you don't need a cell phone to send text messages
  
  

Reviews on Third Party Products and Tools

• How to Run Grid-based Web Applications and Databases at Scale in the Cloud - Bruno Terkaly
  This post will cover the whole spectrum of downloading data from a government site, loading it into an on premise SQL Server database, migrating this on premise SQL Server database to SQL database in Windows Azure.
  
  
• Rich HTML5 Charts everywhere with DevExtreme - James Newton-King
  In this post I will look at DevExtreme, a cross-platform HTML JS framework for Visual Studio, and in particular DevExtreme's rich JavaScript charting widgets.
  
  
• DevExpress WinForms Controls - A comprehensive analysis - Tony DotNetSpider John
  DevExpress WinForms Controls - A comprehensive analysis
  
  

Tools and IDE

• An Introduction to Ignite UI and Combo with Load On Demand, Auto Complete, Remote Filtering, Auto Suggestion and Picture in Combo Item - maftahur
  See the power of Infragistics Ignite UI, how easy it is to configure controls for lots of functionality with very few lines of code.
  
  

Ultrabooks

• Intel Haswell Battery Life - John_Papa
  Intel Haswell Battery Life
  
  
• Haswell/Harris Beach Intel SDS Ultrabook Review - Part 2 - Greg Duncan
  Haswell/Harris Beach Intel SDS Ultrabook Review - Part 2
  
  

Windows API

• WinRT : Simple ScheduleControl - Sacha Barber
  
  
  
• Generating x86 Function Calls Dynamically - Simbey
  The CNativeInvoke class generates x86 function calling code at runtime and executes it.
  
  

Windows Communication Foundation

• WCF Hosting with Windows Service - Praveen Kumar Katiyar
  This article explains how to host a WCF library in a Windows Service.
  
  

Windows Phone 7/8

• Windows Phone Camera Application - Rahat Yasir
  This article describes the development of a Windows Phone 8 Camera application and talk about Windows Phone Camera features.
  
  

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Best Database article of August 2013
AYDIN EBRAHIMI HOMAY - Build Your Own Generic Data Access Layer
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Michael Haephrati - Target Eye Revealed part 4 - Keyboard Capturing
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Amir Jalilifard - Peer to Peer File Sharing Through WCF
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How to Recover your Deleted WhatsApp Messages

How to Recover your Deleted WhatsApp Messages

How to Recover your Deleted WhatsApp Messages

If you have an Android phone than WhatsApp makes backups every day at 4am and stores the messages on the micro SD memory card of your Android phone. To restore the recent back up you have to uninstall and reinstall the WhatsApp

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To restore from a backup, follow these steps:

1. Uninstall WhatsApp.
2. Decide which backup file you want to restore.
3. Rename that file from "msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.1.db.crypt" to "msgstore.db.crypt"
4. Install WhatsApp
5. When asked to restore, tap [Restore]

You will now be able to see your restored messages. If you want to revert the restoration, simply change the backup filename back to what it was, rename "msgstore.db.crypt.current" to "msgstore.db.crypt", and follow these steps again.

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CodeProject | Daily News - Tim Cook slams Android, citing low usage

Friday, September 20, 2013 View online Tips? Send 'em to Insider@codeproject.com   View online 20 September 2013 Advertisements Automate your release process Get fast, repeatable deployments at your fingertips with Red Gate Deployment Manager. Ship your .NET apps, services, and databases in a single process, see the status of your environments and manage all your deployments from the central dashboard. Get started now DevExpress WinForms Controls The newest Winforms Controls from DevExpress significantly increase productivity through a wide range of turnkey features available and ready right out of the box. Tony John dives deep into the product to give you this review. Read now! Industry News Tim Cook slams Android, citing low usage Has he been taking math lessons from Ballmer? Source: Mashable Hackers crowdfund bounty to hack iPhone 5S fingerprint scanner Give a finger, take a finger Source: ZDNet Microsoft aims to reintroduce itself to Wall Street Ignore those two parts of the company that make all the money, we'd like to sell you a Surface and SharePoint subscription. Source: All Things D Google makes QuickOffice free, gives away 10 GB in Drive storage Be prepared for adverts in your presentations Source: The Verge iOS 7 loophole bypasses the lockscreen for access to photos, email, and Twitter Think different bugs Source: The Verge SpreadsheetGear 2012 Now for Silverlight! Take your browser based applications beyond the limits of HTML and JavaScript with high performance Excel compatible spreadsheet controls from the leader in .NET spreadsheets. Download your fully functional SpreadsheetGear trial Today! Developer News 10 Reasons Web developers should learn AngularJS Can I say it's a cute tool without being obtuse? Source: Wintellect Good content is too valuable to die "Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away." Source: Smashing Magazine How I failed Creating a world-class publishing company, with instantly recognizable books just isn't good enough for some people. Source: Tim O'Reilly Advice to iOS 7 developers: Push your app further with new UI Flat doesn't mean you can't be funky Source: Infoworld Alien life found living in Earth's atmosphere, claims scientist Hopefully there were no probes involved in his research Source: Telegraph So you want to use jQuery UI widgets in your website? Do you want to use tabs, accordions and all those spiffy features? This tutorial will help you. Get started today. Code Project Discussions - Your say! Mobile Accelerometer Programming with Javascript and PhoneGap 3.0.0 Mind the gap Source: CodeProject What to call array indexing starting at 0 vs. 1 ? "Dennis" and "Niklaus" Source: CodeProject

CodeProject | Daily News - Bitbucket vs. GitHub: Which project host has the most?

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