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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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Reversing PE files statically modified by Microsoft Detours

by Andreas "PAX" Lück

Investigation of PE file modifications performed by Microsoft Detours

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

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Simulator 6 Axis Articulated Robots

7 Apr 2014 by jurhas

A small simulator for a 6 axis articulated robot

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Developing Software for Internal use : Emphasis on short turnaround

7 Jul 2015 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

Dev

programming

Implementing Auto-tiling Functionality in a Tile Map Editor

7 Sep 2010 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.

Building a framework - Part II (Utilities)

1 Apr 2014 by V.

Second article on creating a reusable framework

Augmented reality - XNA Models

23 Aug 2012 by Harald Heide Gundersen

Geocoordinate positioned Xna model viewable thru Photocamera

CCXML/VXML : The smart world of IVR

22 Jun 2014 by _Asif_

Welcome to the wonderful word of CCXML/VXML

Integrate dynamic HTML pages in your Silverlight app

12 Apr 2013 by NightWizzard

...for example a WYSIWYG HTML editor to edit or display emails...

Basic WPF Way to Implement and Include Animation in XAML

5 May 2014 by Gerald Gomes

This article will make an attempt to describe a basic way to start implementing animation in WPF.

The Time Machine and the PWCT Visual Programming Language

17 Mar 2013 by Mahmoud Samir Fayed

The idea behind using the Time Machine inside Programming Without Coding Technology

Win7

Windows

programming

Practical Implementation of Interval Arithmetic

16 Mar 2024 by Henrik Vestermark

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

C++

algorithm

programming

IDTP, An Innovative Communication Protocol

18 Oct 2013 by Huang Geng Geng

If you are looking for a tool

How to Spring Clean Your Static Analysis: 10 Tips

7 May 2013 by c_a_dunlop

Get 10 tips for revitalizing your existing static analysis implementation—no matter what static analysis tool you're using.

Windows Workflow Foundation

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

Windows Workflow FoundationWindows Workflow Foundation is the programming model, engine and tools for quickly building workflow enabled

Books and Help Resources on Entity Framework

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

Programming theMicrosoft® ADO.NET Entity Framework by David SceppaPublisher : MicrosoftProgramming EntityFrameworkBuilding Data Centric

Upgrading projects to PHP namespaces: An easy solution

26 Aug 2013 by Christoph Buenger, DaSpors

How to add optional PHP namespaces to your project

Generating SQL Server CLR Assemblies report

10 Jun 2012 by Manar Ezzadeen

PowerShell script that generates an HTML report displaying different information about the SQL Server databases, their CLR assemblies and owners.

Visual Basic Using Reflection to Map DataTable in MySQL Database

5 Sep 2013 by Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

Easy way to map the table in the mysql database.

BetterMembership.Net v1.0

3 Oct 2013 by TheCodeKing

A better implementation of ExtendedMembershipProvider with support for legacy MembershipProvider APIs.

Namespacing Your JavaScript

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

JavaScript is an object oriented programming language, but it's a functional programming language which is different than some of the more familiar

Javascript

programming

DLR : Expressions and a ‘Hello World’ application

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

DLR Expression is the backbone of the DLR. It is a separate feature that you can use without involving the rest of the DLR.Let’s take a look at

Reversing PE files statically modified by Microsoft Detours

U 14 Jul 2024 by Andreas "PAX" Lück

Investigation of PE file modifications performed by Microsoft Detours

Enhanced Scrollbar

2 Oct 2014 by Adam Zgagacz

WinForms Scrollbar with enhanced properties, graphical bookmarks and value tooltips.

CQRS Event Sourcing pattern with NServiceBus, ASP.NET MVC and SignalR

12 Jan 2014 by Michael Trembovler

The current article might be useful for users attempting to use NServiceBus. It contains detailed instruction for creating pairs: publisher-subscriber through ServiceMatrix. Solution architects may find this technique useful in many CQRS scenarios as a good alternative to WCF.

Writing a boot loader in Assembly and C - Part 2

16 Oct 2013 by AshakiranBhatter

Reading the contents of a floppy disk using BIOS interrupts and Services.

WebSite Scraping

1 Jun 2013 by shah vatsal

Website scraping using Watin

Beginners - Starting a 2D Game with GDI+

25 Jun 2012 by codiemorgan

Basics for setting up a 2D Game using GDI+, Renderloop, and Threading. And a few tips.

In Project Deep Hole: What Can I Do?

13 Jul 2015 by super

What can a developer do when he finds himself in the Project Deep hole?

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Math Equation Parsing using Call Stacks

3 Apr 2014 by Chris Copeland

Using call stacks, rather than Regular Expression, to deconstruct mathematical formulae and calculate values.

Combining Raw Input and keyboard Hook to selectively block input from multiple keyboards

27 Jan 2014 by Vít Blecha

How to combine the Raw Input and keyboard Hook APIs, and use them to selectively block input from only some keyboards.

A very simple magnifying glass

23 Jan 2012 by Stef Cas

A VB.NET project showing how to build a simple magnifying glass.

Why is the digital I/O in Arduino slow and what can be done about it?

16 May 2014 by Jan Dolinay

This article explains why the Arduino digital I/O functions are slow and compares them with faster implementation used in Wiring framework.

A Study on Corruption

30 Jan 2012 by Pablo Aliskevicius

Do you believe that memory corruption will generate an immediate, repeatable crash? Some programmers actually do...

Jazz Up Your C# Code

3 Jul 2012 by Charles Wiebe and John Hansen

Maintaining code with complex permissions tends to be difficult, because the code can be distributed across multiple classes. By embedding permissions directly on methods and properties within a class, code is reduced and maintainability is simplified.

Constructing the Factory Method Pattern

7 May 2013 by Keith Barrow

A Basic Implementation of the GoF Factory Method Pattern

Dev

programming

How to replace recursive functions using stack and while-loop to avoid the stack-overflow

1 Jul 2015 by Chris La

This article explains 10 rules (steps) for replacing the recursive functions using stack and while-loop to avoid the stack-overflow.

Yet Another Universal Event Handler

2 Jan 2012 by Simon Bridge

A universal Event Handler with a difference: No MSIL required.

An Introduction to Functional Programming with Java 8

14 Aug 2014 by TheCannyCoder

Java 8 is perhaps one of the most exciting editions of the Java language in recent times. One of the headline features is support for functional programming which is the focus of this blog. The support comes mostly in three features: Support for [work pipeline] streams. Streams allow us to process d

Benchmark start-up and system performance for .Net, Mono, Java, C++ and their respective UI

2 Sep 2010 by dmihailescu

What is the start-up and system performance overhead for .Net, Mono, Java versus C++ and Forms, WPF, Swing versus MFC

Fun with Rx

8 Sep 2010 by Sacha Barber

A brief look into the DevLabs Reactive Framework.

Internet of Things: Programming IoT Devices, Web Services and IoT Clients

13 Jan 2015 by Naren Neelamegam

A complete walk through on IoT Device programming, Web Service programming and IoT Client programming.

Connecting MongoDB with ASP.NET

23 Oct 2013 by Paul Shovan

A startup ASP.NET application using MongoDB

ASP.NET

Dev

programming

XmlToXsd - A Better Schema Generator

7 Dec 2010 by CodingBruce

Build better schema for rapid data model prototyping.

Single Sign On (SSO) for cross-domain ASP.NET applications: Part-II - The implementation

4 Oct 2010 by Al-Farooque Shubho

Implementation approach of a domain independent Single Sign On (SSO) for ASP.NET applications.

QS Part 1 - A New Approach to Unit and Integration Testing

9 Nov 2010 by Simeon Sheye

Quality Gate One Studio is a testing framework that suggests a new approach to unit and integration testing.

The Companion App- Search Engine, GeoLocation Browser and Language Translator at one Place

10 Jul 2013 by Bishal Goswami

The Companion App: Its basically a utility app proposed for ultrabook which consists of the likes of a search tool, a geo location browsing tool and a language translator tool.

AVRILOS: A simple OS for AVR microcontrollers

11 Jun 2011 by grilialex

A Round-Robin OS (without pre-emptive multitasking) allowing rapid application development

Asynchronous Tasks using AsyncTask

7 Jul 2014 by Eduardo Antonio Cecilio Fernandes

How to handle asynchronous tasks in Android Activities

Abstract Nonsense in Software Development Outlook

10 Dec 2013 by Petr Ivankov

Multidisciplinary paradigm of software development

ASP.NET HTML Editor Control

30 May 2013 by Amir Jalilifard

Creating a useful ASP.NET HTML Editor custom control.

FUSE(file system in userspace) for Microsoft-SQL using C#

19 Aug 2010 by martin.nedopil

Map your database table as network disk

Do You Really Want To Be Agile?

29 Dec 2011 by Marc Clifton

A walk on the wild side using Relationship Oriented Programming.

A framework for building of WP7 application

11 Feb 2012 by Ilya Builuk

This article describes the key principles of PhoneCore Framework implementation and how to use it for building Windows Phone 7 application.

How to Create a Custom Jumplist with Custom Events in Windows Forms

23 Oct 2010 by Ahmed_Said

Creating a custom Jumplist with custom events and examining all of its features in Windows Forms 3.5

SRDF - Write your Own Debugger

27 Oct 2013 by AmrThabet

In this article, I’m going to teach you how to write a full functional debugger using the Security Research and Development Framework (SRDF) … how to disassemble instructions, gather Process Information and work with PE Files … and how to set breakpoints and work with your debugger

NHibernate Setup for ASP.NET

7 Jul 2014 by Eduardo Antonio Cecilio Fernandes

Learn how to configure NHibernate on your ASP.NET application

Web Scraping (Problems & Solutions)

5 Nov 2013 by dpalash

From this article, you will be able to get the basic idea about web scraping and a few problems and their solutions while working.

ASP.NET Popup Control Displaying as multiple nested modal popups

26 Apr 2013 by Girish Nama

This article describes using web modelpop extender as Windows model popup dialogbox.

Impulse noises detection and cancelation in music records

6 Nov 2014 by Jakub Szymanowski

Article presents the problem of the detection and cancelation of impulse noise in acoustic signals using an Exponentially Weighted Least Squares (EWLS) and next step error prediction analysis.

Scientific Data Visualizer

7 Nov 2013 by Alexander Chernosvitov

ActiveX component for 3D visualization, embedded in different client applications.

How to use the Token Manager plugin for Wordpress

27 Aug 2012 by M@dHatter

An article with detailed code examples of creating tokens and assigning them to pages for display thoughout Wordpress using the Token Manager plugin.

Twitter API v1.1 with OAuth

2 Apr 2015 by Rajan Patekar

Twitter API v1.1 with OAuth.

Fast and Less Fast Loops in C#

17 Jan 2011 by Simeon Sheye

How fast can a loop reading from memory be made to run and how does loop constructs, data types, interfaces, unrolling and hoisting affect performance?

Composite Application Reloaded

11 May 2011 by Super Lloyd

A much simpler composite application library.

Factory Pattern in C++

15 Sep 2012 by Cale Dunlap

Using the Factory pattern in C++ to expose only an object's abstract type--hiding the implementation class detail.

Writing a boot loader in Assembly and C - Part 1

20 Apr 2015 by AshakiranBhatter

How to boot a floppy image with your own hand written code in C and Assembly

Parallel programming in .NET - Internals

21 Jul 2010 by Manabendra Roy (Manab)

.NET 4 brings a powerful Task library to support a piece of code to run in parallel processors. What it does just simply spawns threads into multiple processes using the newly written task libraries (System.Threading.Tasks) in mscorlib 4.0. Task libraries contain methods like For, ForEach and Invok

Write C# and Java Code using Code

29 Jun 2010 by ShlomiAtia

The code writer allows to transparently write code for C# and Java, for applications like serialization, equality, etc.

Toolbar Editor for Visual Studio

31 Oct 2012 by Francesco Aruta

A toolbar editor for Visual Studio. It can modify, add and create buttons, images and all that is needed for a toolbar.

Unit testing with Mock objects (Rhino Mocks)

25 Nov 2013 by Livio Francescucci

A basic introduction about how to write unit tests using mock objects (Rhino Mocks).

Advanced Classes in C

29 Jun 2013 by Ghosuwa Wogomon

An example of a clean way to implement classes in C

SimpleMembershipProvider vs MembershipProvider

31 Aug 2013 by TheCodeKing

Everything you ever wanted to know about why SimpleMembershipProvider does not work as a MembershipProvider.

Creating a simple jQuery plug-in

26 Sep 2010 by After2050

This article demonstrates the steps in creating a simple jQuery plug-in with a sample called Map Scroller.

Simplify Database Operations with Generic Fluent NHibernate

30 May 2012 by Kieran Maltz, Cayen Systems

This article describes database communication using a generic Fluent NHibernate implementation.

Simple Mplayer Front End in C#

3 Apr 2011 by Umair Amin

Code describing how you can simply use Mplayer to display media files inside your winform application

Screenshot using the Magnification library

14 Aug 2013 by thanh_bkhn

A simple way to take a screenshot using the Magnification library

ASP.NET MVC Documents sample Part 2

1 May 2014 by Eric Goedhart

Part two of the ASP.NET MVC Documents Sample

Encapsulation in JavaScript

1 Oct 2010 by After2050

This article demonstrates how to create public and private members in JavaScript through a sample.

Minimal Key Logger Using RAWINPUT

1 Jan 2012 by Mike G. P.Mee

An alternative to hooked key logging.

Internals of Windows Thread

6 Feb 2014 by Mahesh Bailwal

Basics about Windows thread which may help you in understanding how operating system implements threads.

Binary Serialization to Isolated Storage in Silverlight - BinaryFormatter vs. sharpSerializer

6 Oct 2010 by Pawel idzikowski

How to serialize binary data to IsolatedStorage in a Silverlight client when there is no BinaryFormatter in Silverlight? Why not with sharpSerializer? - An open source XML and binary serializer for .NET and Silverlight

Keypad Scanning Hardware/Firmware

14 Jan 2011 by Mike Hankey

Scan any size switch matrix using 5 general purpose I/O ports.

Fundamental Pragmatics for Successful Programmers - Part 2

12 Apr 2018 by ChristianNeumanns

A list of useful pragmatics for all programmers

programming

Simple client-server network using C++ and Windows Winsock

21 Apr 2013 by bshokati

How to create a client-server network for multiplayer game programming using C++ and Windows Winsock

Progress Indicator - Customizable

31 May 2011 by VallarasuS

This article demonstrates a customizable busy progress indicator for Windows Forms applications.

Smart observers to use with unique_ptr

18 Sep 2015 by john morrison leon

observer_ptr, a smart observer guaranteed to always be either valid or test as null. Transparently harnessing unique_ptr's custom deleter feature to detect object destruction.

Reusable Chain of responsibility in C#

3 Apr 2014 by Govindaraj Rangaraj

This article explains how to make chain of responsiblity pattern reusable with the help of specification pattern.

CPForAndroid and an Android Project Template

6 Nov 2014 by JoeSox

MyDroidTemplate Eclipse Project template and a Droid App for Interacting with CodeProject

Truncating a text string in ASP.NET to fit within a given pixel width

8 Sep 2010 by Waleed Eissa

How to truncate a text string in ASP.NET to make it fit within a given width specified in pixels.

Extract a Sharepoint Page Manifest/XML

21 May 2014 by Soptik Dutta

Extract your Sharepoint Page's Manifest as XML. Use this XML to Deploy this Page as a Module Element in a WSP Package.

SW Message Bus

10 Jun 2014 by Evgeny Zavalkovsky

SW Message Bus represents message flow abstraction mechanism in a complex, multithreaded SW system.

An implementation of Command pattern in C#

3 Nov 2010 by Dave Midgley

.NET delegates and Generics allow for an elegant implementation of the Command pattern.

Let your code speak for itself

27 Oct 2014 by Thorsten Bruning

How to combine a bunch of techniques to improve code readability.

C++/CLI for Beginners

13 Feb 2015 by Vladimir Svyatski

I'm going to show you some not quite evident things if you're about to write a C++/CLI application.

nBaclava

5 Jun 2013 by Thorsten Bruning

Base classes for value objects.

Skype4COM Event Handler Example for ALL Skype API Messages

26 Sep 2010 by TheUberOverLord

Monitors All Skype4COM and API Messages for Skype Includes Command Input. Shows What Goes On Behind The Scenes with Skype Message Processing using the API and Skype4COM Library. Includes Microsoft ClickOnce Deployment Technology As Well As ClickOnce Automatic Updates Examples. A Must Have Tool!

Minimal Key Logger Using RAWINPUT

8 Mar 2013 by joejames111

This is a VB.NET and C# version of "Minimal Key Logger Using RAWINPUT".

Enterprise Application Architecture: Designing Applications and Services in .NET - Part I

27 Sep 2010 by venugopalm

A guided tour of the distributed enterprise application design in .NET

Custom paging with ASP.NET GridView

26 Jun 2012 by tanweer

Easy way to implement ASP.NET GridView paging .

Minimalist Coding Guidelines

20 Mar 2014 by gggustafson

This article presents a set of language agnostic coding guidelines; code produced using these guidelines will be more maintainable than code written without using these guidelines.

How to avoid memory leaks in iPhone applications

7 Sep 2010 by r_adem

Some tips to avoid leaking memory in your iPhone apps.