Best Article of August 2018

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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.

Eligibility

This competition is open to software development professionals & enthusiasts who are of the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence; however, residents of Quebec and of the following countries are ineligible to participate due to legal constraints: Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. Employees (or a member of their immediate family) of CodeProject or any of their affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising or promotional agencies are also ineligible to participate. Void where prohibited by law.

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Current Entries

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

CppEvent - How to Implement Events using Standard C++

13 Aug 2018Shmuel Zang

This article shows how we can implement a thread-safe events (similar to .NET events) mechanism using the standard C++ library.

XML

Objective-C

C++11

C++

Android Programming By An Example: Creating An Airport Schedule Simulator Application

1 Aug 2018Arthur V. Ratz

In this article, we will discuss about the advanced Android application development based on the example of creating a responsive Airport schedule simulator application.

Rodney - A Long Time Coming Autonomous Robot (Part 2)

16 Jan 2019Phil Hopley

Second part in a series on a ROS (Robot Operating System) House Bot

BASIC, Why? The Answer Might Surprise You ! (Part 1)

23 Aug 2018Chris Boss

Why some prefer the BASIC language over others

Bezier Curve Machine Learning Demonstration

15 Dec 2021asiwel

Bezier Curve Classification Training And Validation Models Using ALGLIB

artificial-intelligence

text

machine-learning

JSON

4K (2160p) resolution for PS1, PS2, PSP games

2 Aug 2020Evgeny Pereguda

Clone of PCSX/PCSX2/PPSSPP emulator for Windows 10 on WPF/C# with "touch" control

How to Create Custom Paging for a Crystal Report Viewer

11 Jan 2019akshay_zz

This article will provide you the alternative way to navigate page in a crystal report viewer, as default paging looks broken

.NET

ASP.NET

Dev

Introducing Server Side Analytics for ASP.NET Core

20 Aug 2018TheQult

Simple middleware to add server side analytics functions to ASP.NET Core

MVVM in Flutter using ScopedModel

10 Oct 2018Meshack Musundi

Implementing the MVVM pattern in Flutter using ScopedModel

Dockerize A Simple Web-Application Created By Using Python, Flask and PostgreSQL

24 Aug 2018Arthur V. Ratz

Create a Python web-app using Flask and PostgreSQL server, and run it in Docker

Creating a .cab Archive from One or More Files

24 Aug 2018Michael Haephrati

The MakeCab tool is built-in in Windows but using it to create a .cab archive is a bit tricky. Why not write a small program that will do that for you?

C++

Windows

compression

Heat The Box - Temperature Control with Arduino Nano

7 Aug 2018CPallini

This article describes one of my experiments: a temperature control system for a cartoon box.

Arduino

Dev

Digital Egg Timer...

1 Aug 2018Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

Maximize your Arduino with some fun...

C++

Arduino

Authentication and Authorization in ASP.NET Core 2.0 using Azure Active Directory and OpenID Connect

1 Aug 2018Habibur Rony

This article mainly covers how to setup and configure Azure AD tenant and integrating Azure AD into ASP.NET Core 2.0 web app for authentication and role based authorization.

Current Participants

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

Zoltán Zörgő

Technical Lead

Hungary

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

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.

akshay_zz

India

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

Arthur V. Ratz

Software Developer (Senior) EpsilonDev

Ukraine

I’m software developer, system analyst and network engineer, with over 20 years experience, graduated from L’viv State Polytechnic University and earned my computer science and information technology master’s degree in January 2004. My professional career began as a financial and accounting software developer in EpsilonDev company, located at L’viv, Ukraine. My favorite programming languages - C/C++, C#.NET, Java, ASP.NET, Node.js/JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Python, SQL, HTML5, etc. While developing applications, I basically use various of IDE’s and development tools, including Microsoft Visual Studio/Code, Eclipse IDE for Linux, IntelliJ/IDEA for writing code in Java. My professional interests basically include data processing and analysis algorithms, artificial intelligence and data mining, system analysis, modern high-performance computing (HPC), development of client-server web-applications using various of libraries, frameworks and tools. I’m also interested in cloud-computing, system security audit, IoT, networking architecture design, hardware engineering, technical writing, etc. Besides of software development, I also admire to write and compose technical articles, walkthroughs and reviews about the new IT- technological trends and industrial content. I published my first article at CodeProject in June 2015.

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

charles922

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

Chuck Peasley is a developer in Orange County, CA

Chris A. Johnson

CEO Kolaberate Software inc.

Canada

Chris is a .NET Architect with over 17 years of experience working with various Microsoft technologies including most recently ASP.NET, SSRS, SSIS, SSAS and Sharepoint. Chris is now C.E.O. of Kolaberate Software, based in Vancouver, B.C.

Chris Boss

Software Developer Computer Workshop

United States

Chris Boss is the owner (and programmer) of a small software development business in rural Virginia, called the Computer Workshop. For the last ten years or so he has been developing tools for use by Powerbasic programmers (see: http://powerbasic.com ). His main product called EZGUI (Easy GUI) is a high level GUI engine with Visual Designer and code generator. It is in its fifth generation now. He is an experienced Windows API programmer (more low level) and has experience in writing GUI engines (forms/controls), drag and drop Visual Designers, Graphics engines (printing and to the screen) and one of his favorites is a Sprite engine (2D animated movable images). His current project is version 5.0 of his main product EZGUI, adding such features as multi-monitor support, component engine, custom control engine, superclass engine and the latest project a 3D OpenGL based custom control. One of the goals he has is to push the limits of Windows software development, while making it easy, fast execution speed, small footprint (size of executables) and code reusability while providing a more graphic experience in user interfaces, while still being able to write software which can fit on a floppy disk (small footprint), use minimal amount of memory and able to run on multiple versions of Windows from 95 to Win8.

CPallini

Software Developer (Senior) Biotecnica Instruments S.p.A.

Italy

Debugging? Klingons do not debug. Our software does not coddle the weak. Bugs are good for building character in the user.
-- The Klingon programmer

Beelzebub for his friends [^].

darkoman

Software Developer (Senior) Elektromehanika d.o.o. Nis

Serbia

He has a master degree in Computer Science at Faculty of Electronics in Nis (Serbia), and works as a C++/C# application developer for Windows platforms since 2001. He likes traveling, reading and meeting new people and cultures.

DaveAuld

Engineer

Scotland

I have been working in the Oil & Gas Industry for over 30 years now.

Core Discipline is Instrumentation and Control Systems.

Completed Bsc Honours Degree (B29 in Computing) with the Open University in 2012.

Currently, Offshore Installation Manager in the Al Shaheen oil field, which is located off the coast of Qatar. Prior to this, 25 years of North Sea Oil & Gas experience.

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

dsuryd

United States

Full-stack s/w engineer, open source author.

Eduardo Mozart de Oliveira

Student

Brazil

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

Evgeny Pereguda

Software Developer

Australia

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

Gene Cole (CFSW)

CF Software Consultants, Inc.

United States

Windows programmer and C# expert.

Habibur Rony

Engineer

United States

Lazy software engineer, don’t believe in hard work.

Jan Dolinay

Employed (other) Tomas Bata University in Zlin

Czech Republic

Works at Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic. Teaches embedded systems programming. Interested in programming in general and especially in programming microcontrollers.

Kewin Rausch

Software Developer

Italy

I'm a Software Engineer with deep and extended knowledge in Computer Networks and low level environments as kernels and drivers. My core competencies are C/C++ and Assembly programming languages, in both user- and kernel-space, together with an problem-solving oriented mindset and huge imagination to develop alternative approach to deal with them.

koqizhao

China

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

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

Software Developer (Senior)

Israel

Born in Hungary, got my first computer at age 12 (C64 with tape and joystick). Also got a book with it about 6502 assembly, that on its back has a motto, said 'Try yourself!'. I believe this is my beginning...

Started to learn - formally - in connection to mathematics an physics, by writing basic and assembly programs demoing theorems and experiments.

After moving to Israel learned two years in college and got a software engineering degree, I still have somewhere...

Since 1997 I do development for living. I used 286 assembly, COBOL, C/C++, Magic, Pascal, Visual Basic, C#, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, C# and some more buzzes.

Since 2005 I have to find spare time after kids go bed, which means can't sleep to much, but much happier this way...

Free tools I've created for you...

Lars Paisley

Architect

Denmark

Architect and integrations engineer Consultant

Maniezzo

Instructor / Trainer

Italy

I teach operational analytics in addition to basic algorithms. I have expertise in heuristic optimization and data series forecasting.

Meshack Musundi

Software Developer

Kenya

Experienced C# software developer with a passion for WPF.

Awards,

CodeProject MVP 2013
CodeProject MVP 2012
CodeProject MVP 2021

Michael Haephrati

CEO Secured Globe, Inc.

United States

Michael Haephrati is a music composer, an inventor and an expert specializes in software development and information security, who has built a unique perspective which combines technology and the end user experience. He is the author of a the book Learning C++ , which teaches C++ 20, and was published in August 2022.

He is the CEO of Secured Globe, Inc., and also active at Stack Overflow.

Read our Corporate blog or read my Personal blog.

Follow @haephrati

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?

Packt Publishing

United Kingdom

Founded in 2004 in Birmingham, UK, Packt's mission is to help the world put software to work in new ways, through the delivery of effective learning and information services to IT professionals.

Working towards that vision, we have published over 5000 books and videos so far, providing IT professionals with the actionable knowledge they need to get the job done - whether that's specific learning on an emerging technology or optimizing key skills in more established tools.

PatrickJNolan

Chief Technology Officer

Australia

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

Phil Hopley

Software Developer (Senior)

United Kingdom

Having spent the last 40 years as an engineer, 19 years as a test and commissioning engineer and 21 years as a software engineer, I have now retired to walk the Cumbrian fells and paddle the coast and lakes. When the weather is inclement I keep my hand in with robotic software and hardware. Over the years I have used Code Project to help me solve some programming issues so now with time on my hands it’s time to put something back into the Code Project.

Proneetkumar Pradeep Ray

Team Leader Nebula Infraspace LLP

India

Having 6+ year experience on Microsoft .Net/Programming

Object oriented programming
.Net Framework Architecture
Console Programming / Dynamic or Runtime Program Execution
Multi Threaded Programming
Windows Application Programming
RegEx
TCP/IP Communication
Http Protocol and REST API Architecture
Socket Programing
SMS, Email, Domain Registration API Integration
PayPal, Authorize.Net Payment Gateway
EntityFramework, Linq & Lamda Expression
JavaScript, Ajax and Jquery
Asp.net Web Applications
MVC Razor View Engine Framework
NopCommerce Customization, InfusionSoft Integration
Azure Web App, Salesforce and Amazon Web Services
Azure Media Services
Media Player Integration and Encryption on Streaming Framegments
Microsoft Sql Server Database

raddevus

Software Developer (Senior) RADDev Publishing

United States

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

RCL_SPD

United States

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

ron85262

Software Developer

Vietnam

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

Sander Rossel

CEO JUUN Software

Netherlands

Sander Rossel is a Microsoft certified professional developer with experience and expertise in .NET and .NET Core (C#, ASP.NET, and Entity Framework), SQL Server, Azure, Azure DevOps, JavaScript, MongoDB, and other technologies.

He is the owner of JUUN Software, a company specializing in custom software. JUUN Software uses modern, but proven technologies, such as .NET Core, Azure and Azure DevOps.

You can't miss his books on Amazon and his free e-books on Syncfusion!

He wrote a JavaScript LINQ library, arrgh.js (works in IE8+, Edge, Firefox, Chrome, and probably everything else).

Check out his prize-winning articles on CodeProject as well!

Sarathlal Saseendran

Technical Lead Orion India Systems P Ltd

India

A passionate human being loves to learn new things always.

Full stack developer interested in .Net, Azure, Scala, Spark, Angular 6 and now Python.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarathlal-saseendran-28478b70

Shao Voon Wong

Software Developer (Senior)

Singapore

Shao Voon is from Singapore. His interest lies primarily in computer graphics, software optimization, concurrency, security, and Agile methodologies.

In recent years, he shifted focus to software safety research. His hobby is writing a free C++ DirectX photo slideshow application which can be viewed here.

Shashangka Shekhar

Software Developer (Senior) s3 Innovate Pte Ltd

Bangladesh

Hi, I am Shashangka Shekhar,

Working with Microsoft Technologies. Since March 2011, it was my first step to working with Microsoft Technologies, achieved bachelor’s degree on Computer Science from State University of Bangladesh(Dhaka). Have 12+ years of professional experience, currently working as Technical Lead at Surbana Jurong Private Limited.

I believe in desire of learning & also love to be a part of .Net Community by sharing knowledge’s.

Shmuel Zang

Software Developer

Israel

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

simonp_ca

Software Developer

Canada

Yet another jack-of-all-trades programmer?

TheQult

Chief Technology Officer Genny Mobility

Italy

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

Toby Steed

CEO Steed Solutions Ltd

United Kingdom

I’ve been in the software industry for over 10 years now. Graduating from university with a 1st in Computer Science, I accidentally found myself in a software testing career instead of the development career I intended. But that was no bad thing… I quickly learned that via test automation, I still got to do all the coding and technical things that I loved. And I’ve loved it since.

My first role was developing test scripts in VB in a QTP framework, and from there, quickly moved in to roles where I was developing frameworks in C# for companies that had no previous automation in place. Fast forward to where I am now and I am freelancing as an automation consultant, going in to companies to build frameworks or provide support and expertise to those who already have automation in place.

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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.