Best Article of October 2020

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The contest period covers the the first day of the month 12AM US Eastern Standard Time and ends the final day of the month at 11:59:59 PM US Eastern Standard Time. All entries must be submitted during this period in order to qualify.
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Current Entries

Articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered. The top 50 entries are shown.

How to Write Code to Solve a Problem, A Beginner's Guide

6 Oct 2020OriginalGriff

First steps in development: break it, break it again!

Dev

BuilderHMI.Lite - Simple Drag-and-Drop WPF Layout

18 Nov 2020Bruce Greene

.NET Core WPF design as quick and intuitive as WinForms! Hear that MICROSOFT?

.NET

WPF

Visual-Studio

A Z80 Assembler

3 Oct 2020Ben Hanson

Back in 1984, I wanted to write a Z80 assembler. At the time, this would have meant coding it in Z80 machine code, but due to the conveniences of modern technology, I have now done it in C++.

assembler

C++

Microsoft Blazor - Custom Controls for Dynamic Content

17 Oct 2020Ev Uklad

Demonstration of how to create an externally extendable dynamic page, which will support all controls that we can add later in a separate assembly without the recompilation of the dynamic page

MQTT – Message Queue Telemetry Transport Protocol with .NET Core

19 Oct 2020JawadHasan

How to use MQTT Protocol in your .NET Core Applications

.NET-Core

.NET-Standard

.NET

A Tour of the Arduino Mega 2560+WiFi R3

30 Oct 2020honey the codewitch

Using this cheap, powerful little device to make magic

Driving Development of Microservices and REST APIs with Protobuf

6 Oct 2020Ansel Castro

Leveraging Protobuf and code generation tools to drive the development of microservices and REST APIs

.NET DateTime, A Tale About Best Practices and Time Travel

26 Oct 2020Matteo Prosperi

In this article, we investigate how DateTime issues are avoided.

Java

.NET

WPF

CSharpish Properties in Modern C++

25 Oct 2020Tomaž Štih

Simple trick to implement csharpish properties in modern C++

C++

properties

Castle Dynamic Proxy Interceptors to Track Model Changes and Trigger Rules

27 Jun 2023Ev Uklad

Add ability to track changes in a model class; use a proxy interceptor to execute a rule attached to a model property

Dynamic Programming – What, How & When

10 Oct 2020Sandeep Mewara

An optimization programming technique

optimization

algorithm

Concept Requires C++ 20

18 Oct 2020Espen Harlinn

An introduction to C++ 20 concepts

Real-time AI Person Detection on Edge Devices: Getting Started

5 Oct 2020Sergey L. Gladkiy

This is the first in an article series where we’ll show you how to detect people in real time (or near-real time) on Raspberry Pi.

artificial-intelligence

Raspberry-Pi

neural-network

Castle Dynamic Proxy Interceptors to Build Restartable Flows

3 Nov 2020Ev Uklad

Another way of using proxies and interceptors from Castle Dynamic Proxy framework

Real-time AI Person Detection on Edge Devices: Detecting Persons Using Pre-trained SSD Models

7 Oct 2020Sergey L. Gladkiy

In this article, we’ll showcase the Python code for launching these models and detect humans in images.

Python

artificial-intelligence

neural-network

OpenMRUSuite - Flexible Controls for MRU Functionality in .NET Apps

11 Oct 2020Dmitriy Sobeshchanskiy

An overview of logic and GUI controls for MRU functionality

.NET

WinForms

Dev

Circular Progress Bar in Android

19 Oct 2020Roozbeh Abolpour

This article describes the concept of a custom view and implements a circular progress bar.

Java

Mobile

.NET Libraries and the Art of Backward Compatibility – Part 1

26 Oct 2020Matteo Prosperi

How to plan changes that go into the next version of your library in order to safeguard the experience of your existing users

.NET

application

Most Useful Key Missing? There is a Fix!

28 Oct 2020Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Solving the most annoying keyboard problem on Windows and Linux

Linux

Ubuntu

Windows

Robust C++: Operational Aspects

15 Mar 2022Greg Utas

The well-tempered server

Producer/Consumer Queues in C++

4 Oct 2020Mircea Neacsu

A simple implementation for producer/consumer mechanism

C++

Windows

Step by Step Dynamic Programing on Optimal Segment Regression Problem

10 Oct 2020PengHeProfessor

Optimal piecewise regression via DP

.NET

Dev

AI Chatbots With TensorFlow.js: Creating a Movie Dialogue Chatbot

21 Oct 2020Raphael Mun

In this article, we'll create a chatbot we can have a dialogue with.

Javascript

artificial-intelligence

deep-learning

tensorflow

Asynchronous Event-driven Controls Update in Winforms

14 Oct 2020Padanian

Updating controls with a background worker with event-driven trigger

XML

.NET4

.NET Core, PostgreSQL and Document Database

18 Oct 2020JawadHasan

Use NoSQL database functionality from within a Relational database system

AI Queue Length Detection: R-CNN for Custom Object Detection Using Keras

27 Oct 2020MehreenTahir

In this article, we’ll explore some other algorithms used for object detection and will learn to implement them for custom object detection.

Python

artificial-intelligence

neural-network

AI Queue Length Detection: Object Detection in Images Using YOLO

29 Oct 2020MehreenTahir

In this article we will compare training our models from scratch with more advanced and pre-trained approaches like YOLO.

Python

artificial-intelligence

Keras

OpenCV

Training a Humanoid AI Robot to Run Backwards

1 Oct 2020philoxenic

In this article we will try to train our agent to run backwards instead of forwards.

Python

artificial-intelligence

machine-learning

Nested Polymorphic Deserializer using JSON.Net and Generics

5 Oct 2020Robert P. Howard

How to deserialize a JSON string that contains nested polymorphic objects

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

7 Oct 2020Leo Chapiro

Outlook AddOn to store the attachments in the file system

Real-time AI Person Detection on Edge Devices: Selecting Deep Learning Models

6 Oct 2020Sergey L. Gladkiy

In this article, we’ll discuss the pros and cons of the existing DNN approaches and select a pre-trained model for further experimentation.

Python

artificial-intelligence

Raspberry-Pi

Real-time AI Person Detection on Edge Devices: Testing SSD Models on Raspberry Pi

9 Oct 2020Sergey L. Gladkiy

In this article, we’ll test the accuracy and the performance of the MibileNet and SqueezeNet models on the Raspberry Pi device.

Python

artificial-intelligence

Raspberry-Pi

neural-network

How to Fix a Damaged Accordion in C++

5 Oct 2020zcrj

Reassembling the left-hand button mechanism

C++

AI Chatbots With TensorFlow.js: Improved Emotion Detection in Text

19 Oct 2020Raphael Mun

In this article we are going to look at embedding entire sentences, rather than individual words, so that we can get much more accurate results in detecting emotion from the text.

Javascript

artificial-intelligence

deep-learning

tensorflow

Handwriting Recognition with WPF and Microsoft.Ink

20 Oct 2020Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

What works with Microsoft pen computing and what not? How to handle and recognize ink input for any supported language?

.NET

WPF

Easy Command Line Parser

18 Oct 2020Mohssine EL HARFI

ECLP in C#

Linear Time Partition – A Three Way Split

28 Oct 2020Sandeep Mewara

Linear-time partition: A divide & conquer based selection algorithm

Python

algorithm

sorting

AI Queue Length Detection: Counting the Number of People in an Area

28 Oct 2020MehreenTahir

In this article, we will train a deep learning model to detect and count the number of people in a given area.

Python

artificial-intelligence

neural-network

Training a Humanoid AI Robot to Run With a Custom Model

2 Oct 2020philoxenic

In article in this series we will look at even deeper customisation: editing the XML-based model of the figure and then training the result.

Python

artificial-intelligence

machine-learning

Real-time AI Person Detection on Edge Devices: Launching SSD on Raspberry Pi

8 Oct 2020Sergey L. Gladkiy

In this article, we’ll see how you can install Python-OpenCV on the device and run the code.

Python

artificial-intelligence

Raspberry-Pi

neural-network

Real-time AI Person Detection on Edge Devices: Detecting Persons on Video

13 Oct 2020Sergey L. Gladkiy

In this article we’ll develop Python code for person detection in a video stream.

Python

artificial-intelligence

Raspberry-Pi

Real-time AI Person Detection on Edge Devices: Detecting Persons on Video in Real-time Mode

14 Oct 2020Sergey L. Gladkiy

In this article, we’ll modify the code for real-time processing on an edge device.

Python

artificial-intelligence

Raspberry-Pi

neural-network

AI Chatbots With TensorFlow.js: Detecting Emotion in Text

15 Oct 2020Raphael Mun

This is the first in a series of article where we'll explain how to create an AI chatbot using transformers.

Javascript

artificial-intelligence

tensorflow

AI Chatbots With TensorFlow.js: Training a Trivia Expert AI

16 Oct 2020Raphael Mun

In this article, we’ll build a trivia chatbot.

Javascript

artificial-intelligence

deep-learning

tensorflow

Interprocess Communication using Publisher-Subscriber Pattern and Named Pipes as a Transport

15 Oct 2020dzaliznyak

Introduction to MetaPubSub library - a publisher-subscriber pattern implementation with the interprocess communication layer

communication

Data-Driven Model Predictive Controller (MPC) in Simulink Matlab

18 Oct 2020Roozbeh Abolpour

The data-driven MPC is implemented in this project that can be easily exploited

Objective-C

Windows

MatLab

Cheat Code Keystrokes Handler

23 Oct 2020Mohssine EL HARFI

CheatCodeLite to trigger events when a cheat code is caught using keyboard

.NET

game

ListView Implementation in Android

25 Oct 2020Roozbeh Abolpour

This article fully describes how to implement a ListView in Android with sufficient details

Java

Mobile

.NET Libraries and the Art of Backward Compatibility – Part 3

26 Oct 2020Matteo Prosperi

This is the third post in the .NET libraries and the art of backward compatibility series.

.NET Libraries and the Art of Backward Compatibility – Part 2

26 Oct 2020Matteo Prosperi

This is the second post in the .NET libraries and the art of backward compatibility series.

.NET

compatibility

extension

Current Participants

Those with articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered.

Ansel Castro

Software Developer (Senior)

Uruguay

Senior Software Engineer with more than 8 years of experience in the industry. Graduated from Computer Science ,focused on .NET and Java technologies with special interest on Computer Graphics, Compilers , Languages and Machine Learning.

Ben Hanson

Software Developer (Senior)

United Kingdom

I started programming in 1983 using Sinclair BASIC, then moved on to Z80 machine code and assembler. In 1988 I programmed 68000 assembler on the ATARI ST and it was 1990 when I started my degree in Computing Systems where I learnt Pascal, C and C++ as well as various academic programming languages (ML, LISP etc.)

I have been developing commercial software for Windows using C++ since 1994.

Bruce Greene

Software Developer (Senior) Greene & Morehead Engineering, Inc.

United States

Motion Commander Foundation (MCF) is a set of .NET libraries, documentation and examples that enable the rapid creation of sophisticated and professional C# or Visual Basic machine control applications.

MCF provides the infrastructure (data management, plotting, alarms, message logging, user login, internationalization, Modbus, MTConnect, etc) - so that you can focus on the business logic and user interface for your machine!

MCF is designed around Microsoft .NET best practices to be intuitive for experienced developers, and examples are provided that will enable even novice .NET developers to get started easily.

Dmitriy Sobeshchanskiy

Software Developer

Ukraine

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

dzaliznyak

Chief Technology Officer

Ukraine

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Espen Harlinn

Architect Sea Surveillance AS

Norway

Chief Architect - Sea Surveillance AS.

Specializing in integrated operations and high performance computing solutions.

I’ve been fooling around with computers since the early eighties, I’ve even done work on CP/M and MP/M.

Wrote my first “real” program on a BBC micro model B based on a series in a magazine at that time. It was fun and I got hooked on this thing called programming ...

A few Highlights:

High performance application server development
Model Driven Architecture and Code generators
Real-Time Distributed Solutions
C, C++, C#, Java, TSQL, PL/SQL, Delphi, ActionScript, Perl, Rexx
Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle RDBMS, IBM DB2, PostGreSQL
AMQP, Apache qpid, RabbitMQ, Microsoft Message Queuing, IBM WebSphereMQ, Oracle TuxidoMQ
Oracle WebLogic, IBM WebSphere
Corba, COM, DCE, WCF
AspenTech InfoPlus.21(IP21), OsiSoft PI

More information about what I do for a living can be found at: harlinn.com or LinkedIn

You can contact me at espen@harlinn.no

Ev Uklad

Software Developer (Senior) Pro Coders

Australia

Programming enthusiast and the best practices follower

Greg Utas

Architect

United States

Author of Robust Services Core (GitHub) and Robust Communications Software (Wiley). Formerly Chief Software Architect of the core network servers that handle the calls in AT&T's wireless network.

honey the codewitch

United States

Just a shiny lil monster. Casts spells in C++. Mostly harmless.

JawadHasan

Germany

Hi there! I’m Jawad and I’m a software solutions engineer and this is my website. I live in Dusseldorf, Germany, have a great interest in books and movies, and Astrophysics as well.

https://hexquote.com/aboutme/

Leo Chapiro

Software Developer

Germany

I'm a software developer living in Germany with my family (wife & 2 sons).
My hobbies: sport, traveling, books (former reading, now hearing).
Welcome to my homepage: http://leochapiro.de

Matteo Prosperi

Software Developer (Senior) Microsoft

United States

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

MehreenTahir

Student

Ireland

C# Corner MVP, UGRAD alumni, student, programmer and an author.

Mircea Neacsu

Canada

Mircea is the embodiment of OOP: Old, Opinionated Programmer. With more years of experience than he likes to admit, he is always opened to new things, but too bruised to follow any passing fad.

Lately, he hangs around here, hoping that some of the things he learned can be useful to others.

Mohssine EL HARFI

Software Developer (Junior)

Morocco

I am someone fascinated by gaming, new technologies and programming.
My goal is to advance in programming skills.

OriginalGriff

CEO

Wales

Born at an early age, he grew older. At the same time, his hair grew longer, and was tied up behind his head.
Has problems spelling the word "the".
Invented the portable cat-flap.
Currently, has not died yet. Or has he?

Padanian

Italy

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

PengHeProfessor

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

I have been developing low latency high throughput services and platforms in financial trading industry and financial/market risk systems since 2004, mostly in C++ and python, some in C#.net and Java.

philoxenic

Web Developer

United Kingdom

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Raphael Mun

United States

Raphael Mun is a tech entrepreneur and educator who has been developing software professionally for over 20 years. He currently runs Lemmino, Inc and teaches and entertains through his Instafluff livestreams on Twitch building open source projects with his community.

Robert P. Howard

Product Manager

Australia

I started working with Dot Net Framework 1.1 in 2002 and have used every version since that time.
Since 2009, I have been developing against the SharePoint stack as well as dabbling in WebAPI, Javascript frameworks and other things that spike my interest.

Roozbeh Abolpour

Software Developer

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Sandeep Mewara

Architect Intuit India

India

A software professional for more than 17+ years building solutions for Web and Desktop applications.

Currently working at Intuit India.

Website: Learn By Insight
Github: Sandeep Mewara
LinkedIn: Sandeep Mewara

Strongly believe in learning and sharing knowledge.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Architect

United States

Physics, physical and quantum optics, mathematics, computer science, control systems for manufacturing, diagnostics, testing, and research, theory of music, musical instruments… Contact me: https://www.SAKryukov.org

Sergey L. Gladkiy

Team Leader VIPAKS

Russian Federation

EDUCATION:

Master’s degree in Mechanics.

PhD degree in Mathematics and Physics.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

15 years’ experience in developing scientific programs
(C#, C++, Delphi, Java, Fortran).

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS:

Mathematical modeling, symbolic computer algebra, numerical methods, 3D geometry modeling, artificial intelligence, differential equations, boundary value problems.

Tomaž Štih

Founder Wischner Ltd

United Kingdom

Writing code since 1982 and still enjoying it.

zcrj

Student

Portugal

Love Nature, music and programming C++ and assembler

First Prize	OriginalGriff - How to Write Code to Solve a Problem, A Beginner's Guide
Prize pool	CodeProject Mug - CodeProject Bob Sticker - CodeProject


First Prize	Matteo Prosperi - .NET DateTime, A Tale About Best Practices and Time Travel
Prize pool	CodeProject Mug - CodeProject Bob Sticker - CodeProject


Second Prize	Vadim Stadnik - Segmented Linear Regression
Prize pool	Bob Sticker - CodeProject


Second Prize	Ev Uklad - Microsoft Blazor - Dynamic Content
Prize pool	Bob Sticker - CodeProject

Contest Entries and Requirements

The contest period covers the the first day of the month 12AM US Eastern Standard Time and ends the final day of the month at 11:59:59 PM US Eastern Standard Time. All entries must be submitted during this period in order to qualify.
Entries must be an article, or blog entry.
Articles entries must follow the CodeProject submission guidelines.
No cheating, lying, plagiarizing articles, chicanery, or kicking.
No author can be nominated twice.
In the event an article has multiple authors and/or contributors, the number of prizes issued is solely at the discretion of the prize issuer.
In the event of a tie, the number of prizes issued is solely at the discretion of the prize issuer.
Multiple votes from the same IP will be automatically disqualified.
The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
Only those who live in jurisdictions in which this contest is legal may enter.
Any breach of the rules and the prize will be awarded to the runner up.
By entering the contest you agree to the rules, conditions of entry, and agree that your member alias and any submitted material can be used for promotional purposes by CodeProject.
Entries shall be deemed to be submitted by the authorized account holder of the email address submitted at the time of entry unless clearly indicated otherwise. "Authorized account holder" is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an email address by an internet access provider, on-line service provider, or other organization (e.g. business, educational institution, etc.) that is responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted email address.