Best "Everything Else" Article of May 2018

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Current Entries

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Advanced Excels With EPPlus

23 May 2018yuvalsol

Create professional-looking Excels (Filters, Charts, Pivot Tables) with EPPlus

.NET

MS-Excel

Office

OpenXML

pivot-table

Practical Electronics for Makers (Part 4 of N)

20 May 2018raddevus

Chapter 4 - Resistors and Resistance

Arduino

electronics

TCP Socket Off-the-shelf - Revisited with Async-Await and .NET Core

8 May 2018Igor Ladnik

Handy component for asynchronous TCP connection. With the same code it is available in .NET Core and Desktop versions.

.NET-Core

.NET

VS2013

Plotting a Real-time 3D Toolpath with Helix Toolkit

30 May 2018Bruce Greene

A plot control based on the WPF Helix Toolkit for visualizing a real-time stream of 3D locations

.NET

WPF

Helix

Reflecting Within a Method Body

15 May 2018Eric Lynch

Extends .NET reflection to decode the byte array returned by System.Reflection.MethodBody.GetILByteArray(), discusses the techniques to achieve this, and provides a brief primer on .NET reflection.

Vga Text Mode: To Hell and Back

10 May 2018Member 13737597

This article shows how to enter vga text mode and return from it on Windows 7

C++

Windows

WDM

Generate C# Client API for ASP.NET Core Web API

12 Sep 2023Zijian

Code First approach for generating client APIs for ASP.NET Core Web API, in C# and in TypeScript for jQuery, Aurelia, Axios and Angular 2+.

Introducing IoCy - Simple and Powerful IoC Container

13 May 2018Nick Polyak

New simple but powerful IoC container

Extending Visual Studio to Provide a Colorful Language Editor

20 May 2018Eric Lynch

In this article, we explore the implementation of a Visual Studio editor that allows editing of a fictitious "Colorful" language. The editor minimally implements both syntax classification / coloring and IntelliSense completion.

Basic Deep Learning using Python+Keras

31 May 2018Jesús Utrera

First article of a series of articles introducing deep learning coding in Python and Keras framework

Python

Keras

deep-learning

How to Easily Write a User's Guide for Your Application using Different File Extensions

26 May 2018Vladan.Obradovic

How to easily write a user's guide for your application using different file extensions

Create Cross-Platform Charts with ASP.NET Core MVC

10 May 2018Jack Xu, USA

This article provides a step-by-step tutorial on how to use ASP.NET Core MVC to create charts in web applications with data from either the client or server side.

HTML

.NET-Core

.NET-Compiler-Platform

VS2013

MVC

Teapot: Web Programming Made Easy

12 May 2018Richard Eng

A tip for creating a web application using the easiest programming language and framework you can imagine

Dev

web_application

Internet

VBA Code for Parsing US Address Information

25 May 2018Clifford Nelson

VBA Code that will take a string and attempt to pull out the company name, street address, city, state, zip code, phone number, and web address

Office

Design

Dev

An APOD Slideshow Demonstrating Visual Computing Concepts with Data-Centric Agents

4 May 2018Marc Clifton

Examples in C#, C# with ClearScript + Javascript, and pure Javascript

DIY µ-range

23 May 2018John M. Dlugosz

It is easier than ever to exploit the range-for loop (and make use of std algorithms) for things other than collections.

C++11

C++14

C++

WPF Behavior to Set Control Value to DefaultValue on Visibility Changed

2 May 2018Clifford Nelson

The tip provides a behavior that will set a control to a default value when the Visibility changes

How to use Miyamoto Musashi’s Philosophy to Become Better Software Crafter

27 May 2018Nikola M. Živković

We all have our graveyard of unfinished projects and ideas. That is because it takes hard work to make good software.

All-Topics

Vga Text Mode: To Hell and Back (Part II)

19 May 2018Member 13737597

This article shows how to enter vga text mode and return from it on Windows

C++

Windows

WDM

How to Implement ObjectStatus with EntityWorker.Core and JavaScript

8 Jul 2018Alen Toma

How to implement ObjectStatus with EntityWorker.Core and JavaScript

IEqualityComparer<FileInfo> using MD5 Hash

28 May 2018Marco Bertschi

The presented code snippet compares two given files using the IEqualityComparer.

Solving the Dining Philosophers Problem with the Concurrency Explorer

7 May 2018nchamberlain

The Concurrency Explorer (ConcX) provides the objects, tools and features to make solving the Dining Philosophers problem relatively simple

Java

Linux

Windows

Fusing Web Stacks With COBOL Microservices

1 May 2018Pero Matić

A Dockerized proof of concept application using React, Node, Python, GnuCOBOL, PostgreSQL, and Docker.

Getting Started with PharoJS

12 May 2018Richard Eng

The easier, quicker way to develop front-end web applications

Dev

web_application

Set Up an ASP.NET Core CMS Run Site on Raspberry Pi

6 Jun 2018JamesEJ

How to build a site in ASP.NET Core on Windows using a CMS (Lynicon CMS) then host it on a Raspberry Pi

CMS

WPF: Transform PathGeometry data in mini-language

2 May 2018OrlandoCurioso

Parse, scale and/or translate Path data to create new XAML data

.NET

WPF

Consume Data from a OData WCF Data Service in a .NET Client

14 May 2018NobsterTheLobster

Consume data from a WCF Data service in a .NET client. MSAL OAuth 2.0

.NET

WCF

OData

A Note on CentOS & Miscellaneous

6 May 2018Dr. Song Li

How to install CentOS in a VirtualBox

Linux

Architect

CEO

In MVC Core Passing Custom Attribute from Model Class to HTML Element "e.g.:Input Masking"

9 May 2018N.Younaki

Passing custom attribute from Model Class in MVC ASP NET Core and built HTML atrribute accordingly into HTML element, Best Practice Input Masking

Leveraging Enterlib Android Features

8 Jun 2018Ansel Castro

The article describes some exciting features of Enterlib for Android like its Object Relational Mapper and the Dependency Injection Engine.

The Real Answer to the FizzBuzz Interview Question

20 May 2018John M. Dlugosz

Here is the real answer to the FizzBuzz interview question

How To Push Updates to Raspberry Pi UWP Apps in Prod

27 May 2018Lee P Richardson

How to push updates to Raspberry Pi UWP apps in prod

Raspberry-Pi

UWP

Force Logout in Identity with SignalR

16 May 2018Seenan Khalife

This article demonstrates how to implement force logout in Identity using SingalR.

A Note on CHKCONFIG & SYSTEMD

29 May 2018Dr. Song Li

A discussion of auto-start services and how to manage and manually start/stop the services

Utilizing Errors To Improve High Availability in Parallel API Deployments

25 May 2018gptankit

An approach to making better use of cluster error feedback

A Note on Jenkins

10 May 2018Dr. Song Li

Note on the Jenkins automation server

Bing Visual Search for Image Insights

29 May 2018Michael Dodaro

Use Bing SDK to send a POST request for Image Insights

Day 63 of 100 Days of VR: Rotating a Vector and Moving in the Direction the Player Is Facing In Unity

27 May 2018IAmJoshChang

How to rotate a Vector and move in the direction the player is facing in Unity

Unity

virtual-reality

Software-Defined Sensors and Protocols

14 May 2018Intel

In this webinar on Software Defined Sensors and Protocols, we're going to be talking about the connection between cyber, and physical, which boils downs to sensors, actuators, and protocol. This will include industrial sensors and actuators, and support for MQTT and OPC-UA.

IoT

Fun with Gulp and creating automated project builds - Part 1 of a series

29 May 2018jkirkerx

When building a Web Application in VS 2015+, using NuGet is not always the preferred method of package management because it limits your creativity and hinders learning.

Gulp

CA Service Virtualization Community Edition

8 May 2018Mike Mackrory

In this article, I review Service Virtualization Community Edition by setting it up and using it to work with APIs. Specifically, I’ll be running CA Service Virtualization Community Edition version 1.0.3 on Windows 10.

cloud

AWS

How to Fetch Contacts in Xamarin iOS?

30 May 2018Suchit R. Khunt

In this article, the purpose of the code is to fetch contact details from iOS device.

VS2013

Dev

Xamarin

Deploy Your Site to Azure App Service from Visual Studio

27 May 2018Arkadeep De

How to deploy your site to Azure app service from Visual Studio

Azure

Visual-Studio

Day 71 of 100 Days of VR: How To Create A Menu That Stays In Your Screen In Unity

27 May 2018IAmJoshChang

How to create a menu that stays in your screen in Unity

Unity

virtual-reality

Day 70 of 100 Days of VR: How to Implement Menu Scrolling in Unity

27 May 2018IAmJoshChang

How to implement Menu scrolling in Unity

Unity

virtual-reality

Day 69 of 100 Days of VR: Writing Code To Interact With Menus in Unity

27 May 2018IAmJoshChang

How to write code to interact with Menus in Unity

Unity

virtual-reality

Day 68 of 100 Days of VR: Creating a Menu In Unity

27 May 2018IAmJoshChang

How to create a menu in Unity

Unity

virtual-reality

Day 67 of 100 Days of VR: Picking up and Throwing Objects In Unity - Part 2

27 May 2018IAmJoshChang

Picking up and throwing objects in Unity

Unity

virtual-reality

Day 66 of 100 Days of VR: Picking up and Throwing Objects In Unity - Part 1

27 May 2018IAmJoshChang

We spent the past 2 days looking at how we can create an outline effect on our game object, now it’s time to move on to the fun part. Implementing the ability to throw game objects!

Unity

virtual-reality

Day 65 of 100 Days of VR: Adding the Outline Effect Material on Game Objects In Unity

27 May 2018IAmJoshChang

How to apply the outline effect on our Ball game object

Unity

virtual-reality

Current Participants

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

Alen Toma

Software Developer (Senior)

Sweden

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

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.

Arkadeep De

Software Developer PwC

India

I am a Software developer having an experience of 5 years in application development. To get me you can mail me at arkadeepde@gmail.com or you can visit my blog at ASP With Arka

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.

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.

Dr. Song Li

United States

I have been working in the IT industry for some time. It is still exciting and I am still learning. I am a happy and honest person, and I want to be your friend.

Eric Lynch

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

Eric is a Senior Software Engineer with 30+ years of experience working with enterprise systems, both in the US and internationally. Over the years, he’s worked for a number of Fortune 500 companies (current and past), including Thomson Reuters, Verizon, MCI WorldCom, Unidata Incorporated, Digital Equipment Corporation, and IBM. While working for Northeastern University, he received co-author credit for six papers published in the Journal of Chemical Physics. Currently, he’s enjoying a little time off to work on some of his own software projects, explore new technologies, travel, and write the occasional article for CodeProject or ContentLab.

gptankit

Technical Lead redBus

India

Tech Lead at redBus. Interested in Internet Protocols, Web Services, Golang. Formerly with S&P and Microsoft.

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.

Igor Ladnik

Software Developer (Senior)

Israel

Nov 2010: Code Project Contests - Windows Azure Apps - Winner
Feb 2011: Code Project Contests - Windows Azure Apps - Grand Prize Winner

Intel

United States

You may know us for our processors. But we do so much more. Intel invents at the boundaries of technology to make amazing experiences possible for business and society, and for every person on Earth.

Harnessing the capability of the cloud, the ubiquity of the Internet of Things, the latest advances in memory and programmable solutions, and the promise of always-on 5G connectivity, Intel is disrupting industries and solving global challenges. Leading on policy, diversity, inclusion, education and sustainability, we create value for our stockholders, customers and society.

This is a Organisation

42 members

Jack Xu, USA

https://gincker.com

United States

Jack Xu has a PhD in theoretical physics. He has over 25-year programming experience in Basic, FORTRAN, C, C++, Matlab, C#, WPF, and R, specializing in numerical computation methods, algorithms, physical modeling, computer aided design tools, graphical user interfaces, 3D graphics, and database systems. In recent years, he works as a quant analyst and developer on Wall Street and is responsible for quantitative analysis, trading strategy development, and real-time trading system implementation. He has published 9 books on C#, .NET chart/graphics programming, numerical methods, and quantitative finance. Recently, he developed a new graphics creation and technical analysis platform called Gincker.com, which allows users to create advanced charts and graphics just by typing in a mathematical formula or loading a dataset without the need to write a single line of code or rely on any special software package.

JamesEJ

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.

Jesús Utrera

Software Developer (Senior) AtSistemas

Spain

Work at AtSistemas in Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz)

jkirkerx

Web Developer jkirkerx

United States

I'm a contractor for hire in Orange County CA
and always looking for a good project to work on

Discover my world
View my work

John M. Dlugosz

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

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

Lee P Richardson

Web Developer

United States

Lee is a Microsoft MVP and a prolific writer, speaker, and youtuber on .Net and open source topics. Lee is a Solution Samurai at InfernoRed ( http://infernoredtech.com). When not coding he enjoys running, mountain biking, smoking brisket, electronics, 3D printing, and woodworking. He is active on twitter where you can reach him @lprichar ( https://twitter.com/lprichar).

Marc Clifton

Architect Interacx

United States

Blog: https://marcclifton.wordpress.com/
Home Page: http://www.marcclifton.com
Research: http://www.higherorderprogramming.com/
GitHub: https://github.com/cliftonm

All my life I have been passionate about architecture / software design, as this is the cornerstone to a maintainable and extensible application. As such, I have enjoyed exploring some crazy ideas and discovering that they are not so crazy after all. I also love writing about my ideas and seeing the community response. As a consultant, I've enjoyed working in a wide range of industries such as aerospace, boatyard management, remote sensing, emergency services / data management, and casino operations. I've done a variety of pro-bono work non-profit organizations related to nature conservancy, drug recovery and women's health.

Marco Bertschi

Switzerland

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

Member 13737597

Ukraine

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

Michael Dodaro

Technical Writer Steyer Associates

United States

http://mikedodaro.net

Mike Mackrory

United States

Mike Mackrory is a Global citizen who has settled down in the Pacific Northwest - for now. By day he works as a Senior Engineer on a Quality Engineering team and by night he writes, consults on several web based projects and runs a marginally successful eBay sticker business. When he’s not tapping on the keys, he can be found hiking, fishing and exploring both the urban and the rural landscape with his kids. Always happy to help out another developer, he has a definite preference for helping those who bring gifts of gourmet donuts, craft beer and/or Single-malt Scotch.

N.Younaki

Canada

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

nchamberlain

Retired

United States

I am a writer and developer interested in technical, financial, and social issues. I am way too curious about way too many things.

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

Nikola M. Živković

Software Developer (Senior) Vega IT Sourcing

Serbia

Read more at my blog: https://rubikscode.net

NobsterTheLobster

Ireland

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

OrlandoCurioso

Germany

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

Pero Matić

Founder Turing Inc.

United States

Homepage: https://turinginc.io

raddevus

Software Developer (Senior) RADDev Publishing

United States

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

Richard Eng

Canada

Retired software engineer with 20+ years of experience. Former Project Team Leader of the Windows NT Driver Group at ATI Technologies (now AMD). Currently, a technology blogger and writer.

Seenan Khalife

Technical Lead

United Arab Emirates

Full Stack Developer, Technology Enthusiast and Passionate programmer with zeal to learn new technology and excel in existing. Expertise in enterprise applications across multiple domains and industries.

Suchit R. Khunt

Software Developer (Senior) Riowebs

India

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

Vladan.Obradovic

Retired Serbia BroadBand

Serbia

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

yuvalsol

Web Developer

Israel

https://github.com/yuvalsol

Zijian

Software Developer

Australia

I started my IT career in programming on different embedded devices since 1992, such as credit card readers, smart card readers and Palm Pilot.

Since 2000, I have mostly been developing business applications on Windows platforms while also developing some tools for myself and developers around the world, so we developers could focus more on delivering business values rather than repetitive tasks of handling technical details.

Beside technical works, I enjoy reading literatures, playing balls, cooking and gardening.

First Prize	raddevus - Practical Electronics for Makers (Part 4 of N)
Prize pool	CodeProject Mug - CodeProject Bob Sticker - CodeProject


Second Prize	Stefan Timovski - Create Your Own SQL Server Management Studio 17 (SSMS) Extension
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.
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.
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.
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