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New articles Applications & Tools The OX Boot Loader - RogerGDoss The OX kernel features its own custom boot loader designed to boot a 32 bit protected mode kernel. ASP.NET Routing in MVC - Sandeep Singh Shekhawat This article explains routing in MVC. How a route is executed by the routing engine and how to define a route for a URL. A Simple Action Filter Overview for Authorization and Exception Handling in ASP.NET MVC - Amir Hamza Md. Kayes A simple action filter overview for authorization and exception handling in ASP.NET MVC Audio and Video Mplayer control by VB.NET used in Veron Media Player - S.M.A.Faisal Code describing that how we can easily control mplayer in VB.NET Winform application C# Extending LINQ to XML - Anton Minko Set of extension methods to LINQ to XML Create Tic Tac Toe Game - Anoop Kr Sharma Create Tic Tac Toe Game - Step by Step Client side scripting Simple object inspector/visualizer for JavaScript - Fulvio Dominici A very simple and most efficient object visualizer for JavaScript. Database Create and Populate Date Dimension for Data Warehouse - Mubin M. Shaikh This article shows how to create and populate date dimension for data warehouse. HTML / CSS Create an HTML5 (and JavaScript) Maze Game with a timer - ProgramFOX This article explains how to create a maze with a digital timer using HTML5 and JavaScript, without the use of Flash. Interviews A Coder Interview With Peteris Krumins - CodeProject, Peteris Krumins Welcome to our continuing series of CodeProject interviews in which we talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves. In this installment we talk to Peteris Krumins, co-founder of Browserling and Testling. Libraries eHealthCareFramework - Framework for HealthCare Apps - Ranjan.D Reusable framework for HealthCare Domain Based Applications Macros and Add-ins Visual Studio Add Ins - In Depth - Shining Dragon A more in depth look at Visual Studio Add Ins with a fully worked example. PHP PHP Web Apps on Google Cloud - bhavik1st Demonstrates Google Cloud's experimental support for PHP String handling More implementations of extended string.Format() - Ivan Yakimov Here I describe several implementations of extended string.Format() methods. Tablets and All-in-Ones ConCPhotoEdit - Jack V. Vo Concurrent Photo Editing for high end photography business. Eduheap - Talha Naqvi The most innovative e-learning possible! Picture Puzzle - MrMangukiya A multi-player picture puzzle game for AIO PrograDrone - V. Jirovský App for controlling Parrot AR Drone 2.0 The Body Trainer - Sudhanshu SP Gupta Complete Body training app with consultancy to nearby firms !! Omni Competent - vvtrish Ever wanted to do multiple tasks at once without using more of ALT-Tab. Here is your answer, use "Omni Competent". NumHunter - Hibrise Animated story sequence & Multi-Touch based arithmetic game for AIO platform Knowledge Booster - SubratMishra Where Question is Everything Touch Bank - SubratMishra a Paperless Banking Health Manager - SubratMishra One's Health Diary Guess the Name - Rajul Paharia Improve your guessing to next Level Catch it - Prerit Kapadia A fun game where user has to catch falling fruits Treezure - Hibrise Real Trees on Azure! Easy Holograms 4D - Omar Barlas Augmented Realty app that can make 4 dimensional holograms from your photos using LCD screen, transparent holographic pyramid & gesture camera Personal Assistant based on Skynet-AI - Skynet-AI Intelligent Agent built using JAIL (JavaScript Artificial Intelligence Language) DIY Home Projects - 2D Visual CAD - Gilles de Bordeaux Quickly create DIY home projects, using the power of pictures and easy Computer-Assisted Drawing Space Explorer: "All-In-One" Collection - Sean Regan A collection of space based party games Ball down - klpshsharmaa Ball down game Labyrintus - cooperative family game for Table PCs and mobile phones - Tomas Slavicek Original new family game designed for touch screen Table PCs and mobile phones. Recipe Book - Rajul Paharia Your Cooking Guide Carebile - Xu Cheng Carebile is personal healthcare software running on Windows 8 tablet device. The software for needs at home keep in touch with the doctor to prevent them from deteriorating health in the event of timely access to medical help in case of emergency. eTrader - Member 10253280 eTrader - The stock trader's sidekick Flexible Video Player - H2Fusion Watch multiple YouTube video clips at the same time Mood Swing - App In Therapy - gotechark Track your feelings and emotions Third Party Products and Tools Mobile Accelerometer Programming with Javascript and PhoneGap 3.0.0 - Mark Lassoff In this tutorial, we'll build a hardware-aware application that uses Javascript to work with the device accelerometer. Ultrabooks Intel Haswell Ultrabook Preview Unit Experience - Steve Smith Intel Haswell Ultrabook Preview Unit Experience Articles updated .NET Framework User Settings Applied - Jani Giannoudis Simplifying the .NET User Configuration for Windows Forms and WPF Code First Approach using Entity Framework 4.1, Inversion of Control, Unity Framework, Repository & Unit of Work Pattern and MVC3 Razor View - Akhil_Mittal My effort in this article was to put some light on building a generic multilayered architecture using Entity Framework 4.1 and MVC3 razor view engine. Learning MVC - Part 5 Repository Pattern in MVC3 Application with Entity Framework - Akhil_Mittal Repository pattern in MVC3 application with entity framework Algorithms & Recipes EfTidy: The Tidy Library Wrapper - ThatsAlok A free component for HTML parsing and cleaning A complex Mathematics expression evaluation module in Visual Basic - Mr. Xie.G.Gang Object-oriented evaluator of the mathmatics expression Android MonoAndroid: Using GridView in your mobile application - ThatsAlok Demonstration of Android::GridView MonoAndroid: Writing custom generic BaseAdapter in C# - ThatsAlok Using generic BaseAdapter to generate ListView MonoAndroid: Using Started Service - ThatsAlok Demonstration of started service. MonoAndroid: Using TabHost in your mobile applications - ThatsAlok TabHost control in MonoAndroid MonoAndroid: Using Fragments in mobile app - ThatsAlok Using Fragments in your mobile application. MonoAndroid: Using dotnet webservice (ASMX) - ThatsAlok Using ASMX webservices in your mobile application. ListView auto scroll horizontally - huyletran Develop a list view which auto scrolled horizontally. Android SQLite annotation - huyletran Coding SQLite in Android following ORM (object-relational mapping). ASP.NET Learning MVC - Part 1: Introduction to MVC Architecture and Separation of Concerns - Akhil_Mittal Introduction to MVC architecture and Separation of Concerns. Learning MVC - Part 2: Creating MVC Application and Perform CRUD Operations Using LINQ to SQL - Akhil_Mittal Creating MVC Application & Perform CRUD operations using LINQ to SQL Learning MVC Part 4 - Creating MVC Application with EntityFramework Code First Approach - Akhil_Mittal MVC Application using EntityFramework Code-First approach Learning MVC - Part 3: Creating MVC Application & Perform CRUD Operations Using EntityFramework - Akhil_Mittal How to create MVC application and perform CRUD operations using EntityFramework CRUD Opearations using AutoMapper in an MVC Application - Akhil_Mittal How to do custom mapping and entity to entity mapping with the help of AutoMapper. 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. Learning MVC Part 6: Generic Repository Pattern in MVC3 Application with Entity Framework - Akhil_Mittal Unit of Work Pattern and Repository Pattern, and how to perform CRUD operations in an MVC application. ASP.NET Controls MVC Schedule controls - Jos Branders MVC Schedule controls C / C++ Language How to replace recursive functions using stack and while-loop to avoid the stack-overflow - Woong Gyu La This article explains 10 rules (steps) for replacing the recursive functions using stack and while-loop to avoid the stack-overflow. Open Multi-Methods for C++11 - Part 1 - Jean-Louis Leroy This is part 1 of a series of articles about open multi-methods for C++11. 4350% Performance Improvement with the StringBuilder for C++! - Pablo Aliskevicius Memory reallocation generated by string concatenations can create performance bottlenecks. .NET has System.Text.StringBuilder, Javascript has Array.join, and we have string::reserve. C# .NET COM Interop using Postbuild - Florian Rosmann COM Interop using a little postcompiler. As a result, it is possible to use multithreading in combination with COM interfaces. 100 % code coverage - Shivprasad koirala I am a big fan of unit testing and I am big opponent of over unit testing. .NET Asynchronous Patterns - Assil This article describes asynchronous patterns in .NET and how to do them. Adding JavaScript scripting support to one application: One easy way - V.Lorz One simple approach for adding JavaScript scripting support to your .Net application is described. Solving the .resx Merge Problem in TFS - Magnus_ This is an alternative for "Solving the .resx Merge Problem " C++ / CLI EfTidyNet: .NET Wrapper for Tidy library - ThatsAlok Free component for parsing HTML, .NET version of EfTidyCom Client side scripting Angular.js example application - Sacha Barber An example application using angular/Rx for JavaScript/Web Sockets/jQuery JavaScript Design Patterns - NitinSingh JavaScript has now emerged as the obvious language of client side web development. Right from start, browsers have introduced various features of support for accessing and modifying Document Object Model components. jQuery has abstracted most of native functionality into newer constructs and now pro ASP.NET/MVC3 Limit/Count number of characters in TextArea/Textbox - Bryian Tan An article demonstrates on how to create/use jQuery to limit/count the number of Characters in a TextArea or Text Field. Collections The List Trifecta, Part 1 - Qwertie The A-list is an all-purpose list, a data structure that can support most standard list operation in O(log n) time and does lots of other stuff, too The List Trifecta, Part 2 - Qwertie The BDictionary is like a Dictionary mashed up with List. BList and BMultiMap also say hello. Cross Platform A Cross-platform C# Class for Using INI Files to Store Application Settings - Moreno Airoldi The class runs under Mono or .NET and allows the use of Windows style "INI" files to store and retrieve application settings Cryptography & Security .NET Code Protection Solutions Review - michaelas The article discusses .NET code protection methods. Encrypted TCP Tunneling - Graeme Douglas Program for providing an encrypted TCP tunnel. Design and Architecture NHunspell Component for Visual Studio - DmytroSokhach NHunspell component example for WindowsForms Principals 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. GDI+ GDI+ Plot ActiveX Control - Leslie Zhai GDI+ 2D plot ActiveX control Hardware & System An introduction to IPv6 - Vince Yonemitsu A very quick synopsis of IPv6, what it is and how to set it up, and what CodeProject is doing to prepare itself. Internet / Network Multi Threaded WebScraping in CSharpDotNetTech - dot net tech Beginner to Advance - Multithreaded Web Scraping with Examples of WebBrowser, WebClient, HttpWebRequest/HttpWebResponse, Regex, BackgroundWorker. GDrive Explorer - for Google Drive - tumbledDown2earth Browse your Google Drive and integrate your windows explorer with a Google's storage Cloud iPhone Collapsable Table View for iOS - Bernhard Häussermann A set of source files that extends the UITableView so that it has sections that can be collapsed and expanded. Java Java Thread Example - Arash M. Dehghani 5 simple cool Java Thread Example that you should see, ones that don't have any synchronization between themselves. List Controls Resize columns to avoid horizontal scroll - Nikolay Ananenko Avoid horizontal scroll and effectivelly use whole horizontal control width: resize all columns except one to their content and this one to all remaining space. Miscellaneous Embedding a Console in a C# Application - Dave Kerr Embed a functional console window in a C# application. Bernie's Trackviewer - Bernhard Hiller View and edit your GPS track records on a nice GUI with online maps and aerial views. Smart Watcher - Tammam Koujan Easy to use directory watching tool. SmartJob - Hamed Mosavi Automate tailored cover letter creation and job application. Databind XML Feed in Windows 8 - JayJanarthanan View a twitter feed in the Windows 8 UI grid - the fast way Office Development Show Word file in WPF - JosipK Small WPF application that loads DOCX file, reads DOCX file and displays its content in WPF. Parallel Programming Primel: C++ Infinite List Library in Policy-based Design - T. Ogawa 2012 An infinite list seen in Haskell. Moreover, you can choose its concurrent behavior through the policy. PHP Chat Application in PHP - Sunil Kumar P Chat Application in PHP Printing Printing the .NET TreeView Control - Mark Pitman A class to handle printing a .NET TreeView control. Progress Controls Win8ProgressRing Control - gggustafson This article presents a user-drawn control, named Win8ProgressRing that mimics the Windows 8 Progress Ring. Tablets and All-in-Ones The First Step towards Literacy - Aditya Rajendra Patil KidsZone - The First Step towards Literacy Hoppy; Next Generation Bartending - Joe Brock Modernising Bar Point-of-Sale & Online Presence NetExpresso - sunder.tinwar A browser which let you express yourself Blocked Out - Aditya Rajendra Patil The game in which have to remove stucked up block outside the board Virtual Try On Jewellery and Place order - Aditya Rajendra Patil With the help of Face recognition concept added in the app Customer can try the Jewellaries like products virtually and according to their like they will place order. PaydayUSA™ Employment Tax Calculator and Payroll Organizer - DrABELL Employment Tax computation and Payroll management app for Windows 8: contest entry My First Train Set - Yvan Rodrigues A (virtual) wooden train set for kids of all ages ManicPong - Pete O'Hanlon FunCam - vinod_minhas87 Enjoy creating fun images of yours Companion - Social Aggregation - Joe Brock Efficiency in digesting every insignificant nugget of information. Sagen - Saif Al Falah Changing the world, one word at a time! Dice & Boards - Nirmit Kavaiya A collection of Board games for family Rural First - Kshitij Marwah 1 An App for Changing the Rural India's Health RUXX - Saif Al Falah A very novel, fun and fast paced game optimized for AIO! Every Note - sunder.tinwar Stay organized, save your ideas and improve productivity Ninja Dash - Jack V. Vo Ninja Dash and Avoid Obstacle Hospital Management Portal - Touseef Kariyania Detailed records of patient BreaknBounce - Abhishek Nandy Touch break and move the game objects Semaphon™ number-to-text converter and sweepstakes engine - DrABELL App implements bi-directional semantic phone number-to-text converter, extended with novel Lottery+Quiz engine Child Tutor - Anup Kumar Verma Child tutor for kids... Afterglow - Adam David Hill A cross between Geometry Wars, Asteroids and Micromachines Math Wizard - yash_agarwal Math wizard is a game for math lovers of all ages to show their skills and speed in solving basic arithmetic. Smart Book Reader - Dev_Ish User friendly book reader Inflatimeter™ : Inflation Calculator - DrABELL Adapted for Tablet PC application allowing inflation calculation on individual/aggregated products and services Keys to Gesture Mapper - Anup Kumar Verma Control Windows with gestures... Virtual Blood Bank - Ishankashyap A blood bank to save life of people in need. MediTracker - A health and medication tracking app - Tim Corey Keeps track of when to take your pills, what your blood sugar levels have been, and so much more. Her Most Significant Bit™ (New York Digital), 2013 edition - DrABELL Bell of New York™ presents novel edutaining app Hemosibi (NYD)© intended for Ladies in NY City Barx - Never ending fun - Ashwin Singh IND A casual arcade game Musical Drum - pawan kumar verma Enjoy and fun with your personal Musical Drum Memory Rise (memorize) - Sanjay K. Gupta An educational fun app for small kids GestureUp Media Player - Bishal Goswami It is a Media Player which offers rich user experience by imbibing the likes of touch, multitouch gestures and voice command operation, such user interaction features makes it a must app for all touch based desktop devices. Rangoli - Moumita Das Draw Rangoli in All in One Exam Hall Seating Arrangement - vinodhphoenix To arrange the students in the exam hall with different seating arrangements which minimize malfunction in the exam hall. MyHomeTheatre - JEROM JOY Watch movies with favorite celebrities from your collection Towers - singhaxn Towers is a two-player tower defense game Space3D - Abhishek Nandy an app that provides 3D models of Human SpaceFlights Pay Ontime - Govindk-22 Pay Ontime organizes all the payments in one place and keep tracks of paid history. This app can be useful to avoid late payments and fees Opportunity Tracker - ambilykk Opportunity Tracker is a desktop application, which will be available in the Tablet of the Sales person, who will be travelling and meeting various clients. The New Businessman – A Multi-board business game - ThPratik "The New Businessman" will be the latest and collaborative version of traditional business game. SmartAlekOrganizer - BigWCat Get organized and take control of your busy family life. Pantry Keeper - blynn17 Take pictures from your phone and upload them to your virtual pantry. FIND ME - Member 10020552 Find yourself in a group. Water Dance - ZHENG.YANG.POINTER Let the water dance with music Virtual Monopolium - KillBot Project A make-over of one of the most popular family games, Monopoly. Service Bill Plus - OjasSinha My Article is for the very commercially useful application in Retail Section for Tablet Volley Fun - Amirul Hakim Volley Fun is interactive sport game to train left and right brain by using gestures stroke technology. The style are combine of Volley Game and martial art. Muti-Touch Multi-Cuisine for Windows 8 - tinydevices For Women on Windows 8 Chinese Checkers for AIO - Colin McConnell Multi-player Chinese Checkers game, designed to show off the table mode of the AIO device. Board Game Maker for All-In-One (Drag-And-Drop Virtual Board Game Editor) - James Fitzgerald (OH) Reactor++ - Member 10250686 A multiplayer game for table PC. 4 Corners - play3577 4 Corners is a game where 4 players work together to reach a single goal and pass levels. Potnounce - Saurabhratan Potnounce is an application for helping to reduce number of deaths on roads due to pot holes by giving the driver warning before he faces one. Rainmaker - turn based artillery game - alstroemeris Rainmaker - A turn based artillery game Scholar - Education Tablet App - alstroemeris Scholar App can help students achieve academic success Tabs & Property Pages MBTab Control With Custom Visual Styles - Manoj K Bhoir MBTab Control With Custom Visual Styles using VB.NET VB.NET Advantage of using Interface and Inheritance in VB.NET (OOP) - Babak Jahangiri This article will explain you tangible and functional example of using Interface with inheritance in VB.NET for Object Oriented Programming Windows Communication Foundation Message based web service in WCF - GSerjo How to create a message based web service in WCF. WCF - A Quick Review - Bhupendra Chauhan This article is for those who want to revise WCF in a single go. Handling SOAP Exceptions in WCF Based Applications - Nandha V Using a custom exception handler component Windows Presentation Foundation Customizing WPF Expander with ControlTemplate - XiaoChuan Yu Talks about how to customize the look and behaviour of WPF Expander by templating it. ItemsContainer: Simple ObservableCollection thread safety - Ron Waller ItemsContainer allows easy sorting and updating of ObservableCollections from async or parallel threads. New Tips and Tricks added ASP.NET Creating Real-Time System Notifications with SignalR - Joel Cogley How to create a real-time notifications system using ASP.NET and SignalR ASP.NET Application Giving JavaScript Error "_doPostBack is undefined" in Internet Explorer 10 - Hrushikesh Patel ASP.NET application giving JavaScript error "_doPostBack is undefined". Calling ASP.NET Webservice using JavaScript on Regular Interval of Time - Praveen Chandran This tip describes how to call a webservice using JavaScript and also calling that webservice in a regular interval of time without doing a postback in the page. Upload file to server using FTP - Tiwari Shailendra This is an alternative for "Upload file to server using FTP" Finding Co-ordinates of an Address in ASP.NET C# - Saqib Mobeen It's a GeoCoding technique Database Session Killer for SQL Server - mparvez Session killing from a SQL Server database. Visual Studio 2005 + mysql Step by Step - AshwinK4 Visual Studio 2005 + MySQL Steps Edit Controls GenericUpDown Control - Adam Zgagacz WinForms extension of NumericUpDown control to allow user provided edit control Files and Folders C# FileSearch - arussell Search for file using regualar expression or classic *.* HTML / CSS Web Modal Window Using iframe - Amir Hamza Md. Kayes Web modal window using iframe Java Garbage Collections in Java - Ramiz Raza This tip talks about how garbage collection works in Java Virtual Machine. Miscellaneous Embedding Chrome in a WPF VB.Net application using CEFSharp - Member 3792090 Embedding Chrome in a WPF VB.Net application using CEFSharp String handling Decode and encode text files using Qt 5 - Stian André Olsen EncodeText is a small program that can decode and encode text files using any of the codecs supported by Qt Uncategorised Tips and Tricks Web Page to PDF or Image - me.ajaykumar How to convert a web page to PDF or image Windows Presentation Foundation Error Resolved: IOException - Cannot locate resource - Shweta Lodha Issue with WPF app while performing localization Tips and Tricks updated Android Android: Activity Life Cycle - Satyam A. Here we see how Android Activity LifeCycle works. MonoAndroid: Android Notification service - ThatsAlok Code for providing notification using Android notification service. MonoAndroid: Using bound Services - ThatsAlok Demonstration of Bound Service! C / C++ Language Fast Binary Search Trees (BST) using arrays - Deepak Kumar Gupta This article explains the usage of arrays for creating binary search trees C# TextBox with Placeholder - AndyFTW Extended TextBox with placeholder Avoiding Whitespace Clicking in CheckedListBox - James IV Prevent a checkedListBox from toggling check state when clicking whitespace Conditional formatting for positive, negative, and zero numbers - Ahmed_Mostafa This is a useful tip for formatting numbers in C#. Anonymous Types with var and Compiler - Suvabrata Roy Basic concept of how compiler creates an anonymous type. The Code Digger - Shivprasad koirala Code digger analyzes all the possible execution paths of your code and defines the behavior in terms of inputs and outputs. Client side scripting JavaScript's $(document).ready vs. $(window).load - Canny Brisk A most common event DLLs & Assemblies Loading Win32/64 DLLs "manually" without LoadLibrary() - pasztorpisti How to load DLLs by allocating memory and loading the DLL file and then relocating/importing. Files and Folders Read and write text files in Unicode through CStdioFile - Vijay Bisht (India) How to read and write text files in Unicode through CStdioFile in MFC. Hardware & System C# USB HID Interface - Szymon Roslowski Just another approach to understanding communication between HID devices and C#. HTML / CSS HTML5/CSS3 graphic enhancement: buttons, inputs - DrABELL Aesthetic enhancement of HTML5 web elements via pure CSS3; no image files required List Controls ListView Watermark in VB.NET - clwprogrammer Code to add a watermark to a ListView using the LVBKIF_TYPE_WATERMARK flag Programming Tips MessageBox wrappers under My Namespace - kevininstructor Use less code in your business logic for messages to the UI Progress Controls C# Alternative ProgressBar - blitzkrieged An alternative ProgressBar for C# with extra functionality SharePoint Server Completely Empty the SharePoint Recycle Bin - StevenLJackson1 A quick way to empty all entries in the SharePoint 2007 recycle bin without having to empty one page at a time. SQL Reporting Services Run All Subscription Reports At Once in SSRS Manually - Mubin M. Shaikh Manually Run SSRS Scheduled Reports Windows Phone 7/8 SQLite for Windows Phone 8 - Ranjan.D Using SQLite in Windows Phone. We will see the DLL references and Visual Studio extension for the same. New Technical Blogs added Site & Server Management All about http chunked responses - Gilly Barr A short background on HTTP and the 'Content-Length' header :When sending requests over HTTP (hence, 'the web'), we send an HTTP request which consists of two main parts - the header of the request and the body. The header defines various details of the request body (e.g.: encoding type, c Web Security 7 jQuery Code Snippets every web developer must have - Imran Abdul Ghani jQuery extensively simplified web developer's life and has become a leader in javascript available libraries. There are a lot of useful jQuery snippets available but here in this post I am going to share 7 basic and widely used code snippets that every front-end web developer must have. Even for tho Technical Blogs updated .NET Framework What are portable class libraries? - Shivprasad koirala In this section we will discuss importance of portable class libraries. HTML / CSS Common Approaches to Responsive Design - Rion Williams Common approaches to responsive design Java Java: Checked Exceptions, Revisited (or, a closer examination of a flawed mechanism) - John Atten This post is a re-examination of some topics I discuss in an older post. Mobile Development Writing your first jQuery Mobile app - Part 1 - jQuery By Example In this post, You will learn a guide to start with jQuery Mobile and making your first application using jQuery Mobile. This post mainly focus on basics of jQuery mobile and provide a path to start with jQuery Mobile.Before we begin, its important to know "What is jQuery Mobile"? Well, jQuery mobile