Best C# Article of November 2017

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Current Entries

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Flexible WPF ToggleSwitch Lookless Control in C# & VB

15 Nov 2017Graeme_Grant

A Modern Toggle Switch - From mock concept to a full custom WPF control that you can plug into your own apps

.NET

WPF

Visual-Studio

controls

Using Roslyn for Compiling Code into Separate Net Modules and Assembling them into a Dynamic Library

16 Jun 2021Nick Polyak

Dynamically compile and assemble code snippets into a dynamic assembly

C# Poisson Cumulative Distribution for large Lambdas

8 Apr 2020Gunnar S

Implementation of the Poisson Cumulative Distribution function for large Lambdas

Scaffolding Dapper with CatFactory

8 Dec 2019HHerzl

Scaffolding Dapper with CatFactory

.NET-Core

.NET

Architect

The astounding Pickover's biomorphs

27 Nov 2017Miguel Diaz Kusztrich

An infinite set of biological shape fractals in the complex plain

How to Detect if Client has JavaScript Enabled/Disabled in Backend Server

29 Nov 2017Danny Chu

Learn how to detect if client has JavaScript enabled or disabled at your backend webserver

Implementing Custom XAML Intellisense VS2017 Extension

22 Nov 2017Nick Polyak

Describes creating a XAML Intellisense Visual Studio 2017 extension

.NET

Dev

Architect

A Highlightable WPF/MVVM TextBlock in C#/VB.Net

22 Jan 2018Dirk Bahle

Implementing text highlighting in a WPF TextBlock control with MVVM

Advanced WPF TreeViews in C#/VB.Net Part 3 of n

8 Dec 2017Dirk Bahle, Alaa Ben Fatma

Tips & tricks on visting and searching nodes in WPF TreeViews

Writing MATLAB to C converter: Parser and Code Generator created with Bison/Flex

21 Nov 2017Shmuel Safonov

Using Bison/Flex for creation of the code convertor from subset of MATLAB language to C code. The converter is used for building native applications and libraries from MATLAB code.

WPF TreeGrid using a DataGrid

3 Nov 2017LostTime76

Presenting the concept of a TreeGrid control that utilizes the DataGrid

Simplest WPF Dependency Property For Beginners On 'ValidState'

22 Nov 2017Graeme_Grant

This is an alternative for "Simplest WPF Dependency Property For Beginners On Background Color"

ASP.NET MVC - Generate Excel Spreadsheet from DataSet with Auto Size Columns, Auto-filter and Alternating Background Color

25 Nov 2017Daniel Carvalho Liedke

Project to generate Excel Spreadsheet from DataSet with auto size (AutoFit) columns, auto-filter, alternating light blue background color with Open XML using ASP.NET MVC

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (7 of N)

29 Nov 2017raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 7 Saving journal entries in the file system

Win10

VS2013

UWP

Using Swagger in .NET Core MVC Web Services with Token Authentication

2 Nov 2017Silvia Campo

How to configure Swagger for web services using token authentication

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (4 of N)

27 Nov 2017raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 4 Adding Windows Controls (Building the DailyJournal app)

Win10

UWP

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (6 of N)

28 Nov 2017raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 6 Programmatically Adding Tabs (Pivot) for Multiple entries in DailyJournal (includes CommandBar and Menu concepts)

Win10

UWP

Day 35 of 100 Days of VR: How to Run Google Cardboard on an Android Device in Unity

7 Nov 2017IAmJoshChang

How to run Google Cardboard on an Android Device in Unity

Unity

MongoDb and LINQ: How to Aggregate and Join Collections

15 Nov 2017Petru Faurescu

Insights in data aggregations and joining collections with MongoDB and .NET Driver

.NET

Windows

Testing and Validation CNTK Models using C#

15 Nov 2017Bahrudin Hrnjica

Once the model is built and Loss and Validation functions satisfy our expectation, we need to validate and test the model using the data which was not part of the training data set (unseen data).

.NET

Windows

CNTK

Entity Framework and Views, if a PK Not Available

18 Nov 2017Norman Paterson

Performance issue using ROW_NUMBER() OVER in a database view for the PK

.NET

entity-framework

Dev

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (5 of N)

28 Nov 2017raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 5 Adding Tabs (Pivot) For Multiple Journal Entries

Win10

UWP

NumberParser

2 Dec 2017User 6679439

Library extending the .NET numeric support

Day 34 of 100 Days of VR: Setting Up the Google Cardboard In Unity

2 Nov 2017IAmJoshChang

How to set up the Google Cardboard in Unity

Unity

Day 39 of 100 Days of VR: Creating a VR First Person Shooter II

17 Nov 2017IAmJoshChang

How to create a VR first person shooter II

Unity

Day 40 of 100 Days of VR: Creating a VR First Person Shooter III – UI

19 Nov 2017IAmJoshChang

How to create a VR first person shooter - III

Unity

How to Save CNTK Model to File in C#

26 Nov 2017Bahrudin Hrnjica

How to save CNTK model to file in C#

Day 36 of 100 Days of VR: Getting Our FPS Game Running in VR

7 Nov 2017IAmJoshChang

How to get our FPS game running in VR

Unity

Easing Non-standard EntityFramework Migrations

5 Jan 2018#realJSOP

When you have a customized DbContext constructor.

Day 38 of 100 Days of VR: Creating a VR First Person Shooter I

15 Nov 2017IAmJoshChang

Creating a VR first person shooter I

Unity

How to Setup Learning Rate Per Iteration in CTNK using C#

22 Nov 2017Bahrudin Hrnjica

How to setup learning rate per iteration in CTNK using C#

artificial-intelligence

machine-learning

neural-network

Deploy CNTK Model to Excel using C#

28 Nov 2017Bahrudin Hrnjica

How to deploy CNTK model to Excel using C#

Convert Outlook Table Content into Datatable using C# EWS and HtmlAgilitypack

1 Nov 2017Saurav J

Convert table from outlook email body into datatable or list using .NET C# EWS Managed API and HtmlAgilitypack

Organizing Service Mocks in Unit Tests

6 Nov 2017Bob Crowley

Minimize mocking code while still providing all necessary scenarios to exercise your business logic unit tests

.NET

All-Topics

testing

Crosstabs/Confusion Matrix for AI Classification Projects

18 Nov 2017asiwel

Construct a confusion matrix or crosstab for binary or multi-level classifier training or validation data in C#

Windows

artificial-intelligence

neural-network

DataGridView

Break the habit of logfiles by using automated error handling in ASP.NET MVC5

14 Nov 2017jgauffin

Save time and effort with the help of codeRR, which finds and analyses errors for you, improving code quality along the way.

Train Iris Data by Batch using CNTK and C#

14 Nov 2017Bahrudin Hrnjica

How to train Iris data by batch using CNTK and C#

.NET

CNTK

machine-learning

BIN Packing 3D Item Most Efficiently Given Pack Quantity

10 Nov 2017be05x5

Posting this solution because I found all other options out there except this one. In this particular case, I have 1 item that can be packed a # of times and the goal is to pack it in the most efficient manner not to exceed UPS/FedEX LxWxH limitations, not providing box dimensions to fit the item in

Computing the Date of the Last Day of a Reporting Week

17 Nov 2017David A. Gray

Calculating the day on which a reporting period that ends on a specific day of the week is not as easy as it looks.

.NET

VS2013

Design

MVC - Rendering DropDownList of Enumerators

18 Nov 2017#realJSOP

One less pesky nuance to worry about

Windows

MVC

Dev

Yahoo Currency .NET CORE API - C#

18 Nov 2017Herbert Lausmann

Convert between over 100 different currencies in .NET using Yahoo's APIs

Master Detail Datagridview in C#

18 May 2020kevinuni

This is an alternative for "Master Detail Datagridview"

DataGridView

A DoS Attack against the C# Compiler

9 Nov 2017matt warren

Generics in C# are certainly very useful and I find it amazing that we almost didn’t get them: What would the cost of inaction have been? What would the cost of failure have been? No generics in C# 2.0? No LINQ in C# 3.0? No TPL in C# 4.0? No Async in C# 5.0?

TCPIP Server and Client example

5 Dec 2023Patrick Eckler

Example of a TCPIP server that listens and can serve multiple client connections

TypeScript for Object Oriented Developers in Easy Samples Part 1

2 Dec 2017Nick Polyak

TypeScript tutorial for object oriented programmers

Programming Windows 10: UWP Focus (3 of N)

26 Nov 2017raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 3: The Challenges of Making Our Apps Look Good

Win10

VS2013

UWP

Collection Behaviors

26 Nov 2017Nick Polyak

I describe reusable implementation of the collection behaviors that make items behave in a certain way as long as the items belong to a collection.

VS2013

Dev

Architect

How to Implement CRUD forms with React and ASP.NET Core

7 Nov 2017alex_brambila

In this tutorial, I'll be building a high performance ASP.NET Core 2.0 React.js Single Page Application that implements CRUD forms with validation without using Redux or JQuery.

Javascript Flow Chart and Workflow with C# ASP.NET MVC

8 Nov 2017DataBytzAI

Using JSPlumb with ASP MVC to create flow-chart and work-flow applications

Using Style instead of UserControl in WPF

3 Nov 2017Clifford Nelson

This tip shows how easy it is to create a Style with DependencyProperty definitions and avoid the much heavier UserControl

Current Participants

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

#realJSOP

Software Developer (Senior) Paddedwall Software

United States

I've been paid as a programmer since 1982 with experience in Pascal, and C++ (both self-taught), and began writing Windows programs in 1991 using Visual C++ and MFC. In the 2nd half of 2007, I started writing C# Windows Forms and ASP.Net applications, and have since done WPF, Silverlight, WCF, web services, and Windows services.

My weakest point is that my moments of clarity are too brief to hold a meaningful conversation that requires more than 30 seconds to complete. Thankfully, grunts of agreement are all that is required to conduct most discussions without committing to any particular belief system.

DataBytzAI

Chief Technology Officer SocialVoice.AI

Ireland

Allen is CTO of SocialVoice (https://www.socialvoice.ai), where his company analyses video data at scale and gives Global Brands Knowledge, Insights and Actions never seen before! Allen is a chartered engineer, a Fellow of the British Computing Society, a Microsoft mvp and Regional Director, and C-Sharp Corner Community Adviser and MVP. His core technology interests are BigData, IoT and Machine Learning.

When not chained to his desk he can be found fixing broken things, playing music very badly or trying to shape things out of wood. He currently completing a PhD in AI and is also a ball throwing slave for his dogs.

alex_brambila

Software Developer (Senior) Better Software Solutions, LLC

United States

Alex Brambila is a seasoned Software Developer with over 25 years experience with Microsoft technologies ,as well as many others, such as: .NET Core, React, ASP.Net, Visual Studio, MVC, SQL Server, C#, VB, Javascript, Oracle, Android, Java, and many more. He has spent decades working in Information Technology for various government and private organizations. Currently he runs his own business: Better Software Solutions, LLC headquartered in California.

asiwel

CEO Academic Software, Inc.

United States

My public profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/warrenlacefield
My research profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Warren-Lacefield
My company homepage: http://www.acsw.com

Bahrudin Hrnjica

Software Developer (Senior)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bahrudin Hrnjica holds a Ph.D. degree in Technical Science/Engineering from University in Bihać.
Besides teaching at University, he is in the software industry for more than two decades, focusing on development technologies e.g. .NET, Visual Studio, Desktop/Web/Cloud solutions.

He works on the development and application of different ML algorithms. In the development of ML-oriented solutions and modeling, he has more than 10 years of experience. His field of interest is also the development of predictive models with the ML.NET and Keras, but also actively develop two ML-based .NET open source projects: GPdotNET-genetic programming tool and ANNdotNET - deep learning tool on .NET platform. He works in multidisciplinary teams with the mission of optimizing and selecting the ML algorithms to build ML models.

He is the author of several books, and many online articles, writes a blog at http://bhrnjica.net, regularly holds lectures at local and regional conferences, User groups and Code Camp gatherings, and is also the founder of the Bihac Developer Meetup Group. Microsoft recognizes his work and awarded him with the prestigious Microsoft MVP title for the first time in 2011, which he still holds today.

be05x5

United States

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

Bob Crowley

Software Developer (Senior) EVO Payments International

United States

Full stack developer on .Net and related technologies with heavy emphasis on back-end API development and integrations.

Clifford Nelson

Software Developer (Senior) Clifford Nelson Consulting

United States

Has been working as a C# developer on contract for the last several years, including 3 years at Microsoft. Previously worked with Visual Basic and Microsoft Access VBA, and have developed code for Word, Excel and Outlook. Started working with WPF in 2007 when part of the Microsoft WPF team. For the last eight years has been working primarily as a senior WPF/C# and Silverlight/C# developer. Currently working as WPF developer with BioNano Genomics in San Diego, CA redesigning their UI for their camera system. he can be reached at qck1@hotmail.com.

Daniel Liedke

Architect

Brazil

I started development 37 years from now, since MSX basic. Started Windows programming with VB 2.0 and Web programming with ASP 3.0. Then I built Windows Forms, Web Applications, NT services and WPF applications using Microsoft.NET. I am MCP in Visual Basic 6.0, MCAD and MCSD.NET in Framework 1.1, MCPD Web in Framework 2.0, MCTS in .NET 3.5 workflow, MCTS in .NET 3.5 communication foundation, windows presentation foundation and MVC applications. Built MVC Web Application and WCF services using Micro Services architecture proposed by me. Working with AI projects to improve the business performance and customer experience. Besides programming I love running, swimming, reading and movies.

Danny Chu

Denmark

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

David A. Gray

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

I deliver robust, clean, adaptable, future-ready applications that are properly documented for users and maintainers. I have deep knowledge in multiple technologies and broad familiarity with computer and software technologies of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

While it isn't perceived as sexy, my focus has always been the back end of the application stack, where data arrives from a multitude of sources, and is converted into reports that express my interpretation of The Fundamental Principle of Tabular Reporting, and are the most visible aspect of the system to senior executives who approve the projects and sign the checks.

While I can design a front end, I prefer to work at the back end, getting data into the system from outside sources, such as other computers, electronic sensors, and so forth, and getting it out of the system, as reports to IDENTIFY and SOLVE problems.

When presented with a problem, I focus on identifying and solving the root problem for the long term.

Specialties: Design: Relational data base design, focusing on reporting; organization and presentation of large document collections such as MSDS libraries

Development: Powerful, imaginative utility programs and scripts for automated systems management and maintenance

Industries: Property management, Employee Health and Safety, Services

Languages: C#, C++, C, Python, VBA, Visual Basic, Perl, WinBatch, SQL, XML, HTML, Javascript

Outside Interests: Great music (mostly, but by no means limited to, classical), viewing and photographing sunsets and clouds, traveling by car on small country roads, attending museum exhibits (fine art, history, science, technology), long walks, especially where there is little or no motor traffic, reading, especially nonfiction and thoughtfully written, thought provoking science fiction

Dirk Bahle

Germany

The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and C# are among my favorites and so I developed Edi

and a few other projects on GitHub. I am normally an algorithms and structure type but WPF has such interesting UI sides that I cannot help myself but get into it.

https://de.linkedin.com/in/dirkbahle

Graeme_Grant

Technical Lead

Australia

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

Gunnar S

Software Developer (Senior)

Sweden

I work as Senior Developer mainly in Microsoft environment and my strenghts are SQL, C#, Vue.js, Angular and ReactJS.

Herbert Lausmann

Student

Brazil

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

HHerzl

Software Developer

El Salvador

CatFactory Creator.

Full Stack Developer with Experience in C#, Entity Framework Core, ASP.NET Core and Angular.

IAmJoshChang

United States

Joshua is a passionate software developer working in the Seattle area. He also has experience with developing web and mobile applications, having spent years working with them.

Joshua now finds his spare coding time spent deep in the trenches of VR, working with the newest hardware and technologies. He posts about what he learns on his personal site, where he talks mostly about Unity Development, though he also talks about other programming topic that he finds interesting.

When not working with technology, Joshua also enjoys learning about real estate investment, doing physical activities like running, tennis, and kendo, and having a blast with his buddies playing video games.

jgauffin

Founder 1TCompany AB

Sweden

Github | Blog | Twitter | StackOverflow

kevinuni

Software Developer

Peru

Kevin Diaz is an electrical engineer by UNI in Lima, Peru.

He work developing projects for electrical industry.

LostTime76

United States

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

matt warren

Software Developer

United Kingdom

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

Miguel Diaz Kusztrich

Software Developer (Senior) Free lance

Spain

I'm working with computers since the 80's of the past century, when I received as a present a 48K Spectrum which changed all my life plans, from a scientific career to a technical one. I started working in assembler language, in low lewel systems, mainly in the electromedical field. Today I work as a freelance, mainly in .NET Framework / database solutions, using the C# language.

I'm interested in scientific computer applications, and I,m learning AI and data analytics technics. I also own a technical blog, http://software-tecnico-libre.es/en/stl-index, where I publish some of the practice works of this learning process.

Nick Polyak

Architect AWebPros

United States

I am a software architect and a developer with great passion for new engineering solutions and finding and applying design patterns.

I am passionate about learning new ways of building software and sharing my knowledge with others.

I worked with many various languages including C#, Java and C++.

I fell in love with WPF (and later Silverlight) at first sight. After Microsoft killed Silverlight, I was distraught until I found Avalonia - a great multiplatform package for building UI on Windows, Linux, Mac as well as within browsers (using WASM) and for mobile platforms.

I have my Ph.D. from RPI.

here is my linkedin profile

Norman Paterson

United States

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

Patrick Eckler

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

Born and raised in the city of Detroit...

C, C++, C# application and web developer.

https://PESystemsllc.com/

Email: EcklerPa@yPESystemsllc.com

Petru Faurescu

Architect

Denmark

My name is Petru Faurescu and I am a solution architect and technical leader. Technical blog: QAppDesign.com

raddevus

Software Developer (Senior) RADDev Publishing

United States

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

Saurav J

Technical Lead

India

I am saurav J working as senior technical consultant, Bangalore India.
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner-(ACP).

Shmuel Safonov

Engineer

Israel

Software Engineer and Control Systems Expert at Digital Feedback Technologies Ltd.
PhD, Tel-Aviv University, 2009
M.S. , Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Lomonosov Moscow State University,1994
Blog page: http://csafonov.blogspot.co.il/
Personal Open-source project: TMC Compiler, MATLAB to C code converter (https://sourceforge.net/projects/tmc-m-files-to-c-compiler)

Silvia Campo

Canada

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

User 6679439

Software Developer (Senior) Self-employed

Spain

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

First Prize	Radosław Sadowski - C# BAD PRACTICES: Learn How to Make a Good Code by Bad Example – Part 5
Prize pool	CodeProject Mug - CodeProject


Second Prize	Patrick Eckler - TCPIP Server and Client example
Prize pool	Bob Sticker - CodeProject

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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.
Entries must be an article, or blog entry.
With the exception of the Everything Else category, the article must be tagged with at least one of the tags corresponding to that competition's category (for example, to enter the C# Competition you would need to tag your article with a C# tag).
Articles entries must follow the CodeProject submission guidelines.
No cheating, lying, plagiarizing articles, chicanery, or kicking.
Articles may only be considered for a single category. If an article is eligible for multiple categories (for example, it pertains to both the C# and Web Dev categories), CodeProject editors and judges will decide which category the article shall be entered in.
No author can be nominated twice in the same category.
If an author writes has two separate articles, each article may be considered in their respective categories provided none of the aforementioned rules are broken. For example, if an author wrote two separate articles, one related to C# and one related to VB.NET, the author and articles could be nominated in the C# and VB.NET competitions, respectively.
In the event an author wins multiple competitions, and repeat, identical prizes, the number of prizes issued is solely at the discretion of the prize issuer.
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