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Using the Article Editor (without losing your hair in handfuls)

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17 Jun 2014OriginalGriff

The Article editor does work - but sometimes it does do things the hard way, and tries to frustrate you on purpose, I'm sure...

C#

VS2013

Grinding my Gears - Being the coolest server dude/dudette around

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6 Jun 2014Pete O'Hanlon

An introduction into how to be the coolest dev in your block, writing wearable code

Java

HTML

Javascript

Android

Tizen

Mobile

Gears

wearables

Update Multiple Rows of GridView using JSON in ASP.NET

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20 Jun 2014Debabrata_Das

This article will talk about how to update multiple records in a GridView on a single button click using JSON in ASP.NET

SQL

C#

Visual-Studio

VS2010

SQL-Server-2008R2

ASP.NET

Dev

StartsWith comparison for searching in Azure Tables

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27 Jun 2014Sergiy Korzh

How to make search by StartsWith criteria in Azure Tables

C#

cloud

Azure

Dev

Dynamically Creating Excel File from a Generic List for Email Attachment and Data Downloading

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25 Jun 2014Shenwei Liu

Convert a generic list to an Excel byte array using Open XML SDK and dynamically create an Excel file for data distributions from an ASP.NET MVC website

HTML

C#

MVC

MS-Excel

ASP.NET

ASP.NET Identity 2.0 Change Primary Key from String to Integer

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1 Jun 2014S. M. Quamruzzaman Rahmani

ASP.NET team released Identity framework 2.0. The new release contain some new features like generic primary key. This article explain how to change primary key from string to integer & use it with MVC5.

C#5.0

.NET4.5

.NET

EF5.0

ASP.NET

Integrated Color Picker for Visual Studio IDE - VSPackage (AddIn)

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2 Jul 2014Shemeer NS

Color Picker tool for Visual Studio IDE, VSPackage walkthrough

C#

VS2013

Visual-Studio

AddIn

An Absolute Beginner's Tutorial for Understanding ASP.NET MVC Routes

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13 Jun 2014Rahul Rajat Singh

In this article we will try to understand about ASP.NET MVC Routes. We will get to know the details about routes and try to see how we can implement route constraints.

C#

MVC

ASP.NET

Get List of Installed Applications of System in C#

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6 Jun 2014Amir Mohammad Nasrollahi

How to list the installed applications of your system and their setup details in C# language

C#

.NET

Windows

registry

Web.Config is Cached

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11 Jun 2014Steve Wellens

There was a question from a student over on the Asp.Net forums about improving site performance. The concern was that every time an app setting was read from the Web.Config file, the disk would be accessed. With many app settings and many users, it was believed performance would suffer.

C++

Windows

security

APOD Website Scraper, a HOPE demonstration

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2 Jun 2014Marc Clifton

Using the Higher Order Programming Environment, scrape the APOD website's 20 years of photos and explore APOD's.

C#

.NET

.NET4.5

Windows

Dev

Architect

Vector of Objects vs Vector of Pointers

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2 Jun 2014Bartlomiej Filipek

How memory access patterns can influence performance of your code

C++11

C++

STL

performance

CCXML/VXML : The smart world of IVR

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22 Jun 2014_Asif_

Welcome to the wonderful word of CCXML/VXML

XML

HTML

C#

Linux

Windows

ASP.NET

VS2008

Dev

Architect

programming

Enum With Text Value in C#

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7 Jun 2014DiponRoy

Enum with text value in C#

C#

OCD Windows Phone photogs, Beware

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24 Jun 2014BC3Tech

OCD Windows Phone photogs, beware

WinMobile

Mobile

Windows

Metro-design

ASP.NET MVC, Remove IIS Header Bloat

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13 Jun 2014Terrence Sheflin

Optimizing ASP.NET MVC HTTP responses to remove unnecessary and possibly dangerous information when using IIS

MVC

ASP.NET

Business Objects != Data Contracts

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17 Jun 2014Terrence Sheflin

I’ve had to build several enterprise size applications over the years, and one of the biggest mistakes I ever made was to re-use the business objects as my data contracts.

Javascript

C#

WebAPI

REST

Unit testing MVC controllers which are using global resources (App_GlobalResources)

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29 Jun 2014PSK_

Unit testing the MVC controller actions which are using Global or Local resources. As this is not straight forward to Mock the static properties of the resource files.

.NET

MVC

MVC5

ASP.NET

A Simple Library to Generate PowerPoint Presentations

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5 Jun 2014Erik Vullings

Generate a PowerPoint presentation, consisting of slides with a title and an image, without requiring Microsoft Office

XML

C#4.0

C#

Windows

Dev

SiteMapper Tool

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17 Jun 2014gggustafson

This article presents a tool named SiteMapper that creates a Google site map and a user traversable tree

HTML

C#3.5

C#

Windows

Dev

Architect

A Customisable ORM for Multi-tier Applications

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19 Jun 2014Simon Gulliver

How to write your own customised ORM, targeted at multi-tier applications

C#

Windows

WCF

Filtered Paged Sorted Customizable clientside Table

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27 Jun 2014Super Lloyd

A fully featured yet short (only 436 lines) replacement for datatables

Javascript

HTML

Typescript

C#

VS2013

Knockout.js

Dev

client-side

DataGridView

Android Networking Example and Tutorial (with easy retries)

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19 Feb 2015Right Handed Monkey

This post explains how to use the WorxForUs Network framework to have an Android app that works robustly even in areas that have poor network connectivity.

HTML

Java

Android

Mobile

SignalR 2 in Silverlight 5

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17 Jun 2014Mahdi Ataollahi

Implementing Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR 2 and Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR.Client 2 in Silverlight

C#4.0

C#

Silverlight

ASP.NET

Minimal Undo - An Undo/Redo Framework

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26 Jun 2014zdf

A solution for conversion of a non-undoable application to an undoable one.

VisualC++

C++

Windows

VS2010

Visual-Studio

WPF Re-Size your Main Window from your UserControls

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26 Jun 2014George Sefcik

Size-to-content just doesn't give you the window sizes you want for each usercontrol.

VB

.NET

.NET3.5

WPF

Dev

A Snippet that Transforms Spanish Text into Simple American English Phonetics

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5 Jun 2014B. Clay Shannon

A C# snippet that converts Spanish text into a phonetic representation of how to pronounce it (in Mexican Spanish, not Spaniard Spanish) for speakers of American English

C#4.0

C#

Windows

Dev

Custom Seed Serializer for Entity Framework Code First C#

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11 Jun 2014DiponRoy

Custom Seed Serializer for Entity Framework Code First C#

C#

VS2010

EF6.0

Visual-Studio

load-testing

Google BigQuery API Client Sample Code for C#.NET

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12 Jun 2014LM Heah

Google BigQuery API Client Example Code for C#.NET

C#

.NET4

.NET4.5

.NET

Strings To Colours

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17 Jun 2014cjb110

A String To Brush Converter for WPF/Silverlight

C#3.5

C#

.NET

.NET4

.NET3.5

WPF

Silverlight

XAML

Dev

Persistent Client-Server Game of Life with Obelisk.js & Spike Engine

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23 Jun 2015Kel_

A game of life "MMO", with a persistent simulation running on the server.

Javascript

HTML

HTML5

C#

VS2013

Canvas

WebSockets

game

MVVM Taskbar Notifier

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20 Jun 2014NobsterTheLobster

Implements a taskbar notifier using an invisible window and a popup control

C#

Windows

.NET

Win7

.NET4

.NET3.5

Visual-Studio

WPF

VS2008

Dev

Specification and Notification Patterns

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27 Jun 2014Mack Ait-Aoudia

Specification and notification patterns

C#

Android Database Example Project (Thread Safe Version)

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13 Jun 2014Right Handed Monkey

This is a tutorial for accessing sqlite databases in Android in a thread safe manner. If you download the library code, please bookmark, comment on, or rate the article - it helps out tremendously.

HTML

Java

Android

Mobile

SQLite

Dev

Attributed RelayCommand

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4 Jun 2014arpanmukherjee1

RelayCommand.CanExecute in MVVM with attributes not WPF Requery

C#

.NET4

.NET

WPF

Dev

RAE-Tic Tac Toe

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7 Jun 2014Winfried Wille

RAE-Tic Tac To is a simple and straight solution for the Tic Tac To game which is backed by unit tests with nunit 6.2.

C#3.5

C#

.NET

.NET3.5

WPF

Dev

Microsoft Project Server 2013: how to programmatically change resource assignment for specific time period

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20 Jun 2014Pavel Sinkevich

Combine several API for MS Project Server to achieve complicated goals

C#

interop

server

C# CountryInfo LanguageInfo CurrencyInfo Classes

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20 Jun 2014Jochen Scharr

C# CountryInfo class, LanguageInfo class and CurrencyInfo class, derived from CultureInfo respectively RegionInfo for a more intuitive and compile-safe handling of countries, languages and currencies

C#

.NET

VS2010

Visual-Studio

localization

Event Bindings Outside of WPF

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9 Jun 2014Nick Polyak

Event bindings outside of WPF

C#

VS2013

All-Topics

How To Perform Drag-Drop Operations on TreeView Control in Windows Forms

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9 Jun 2014Nitesh Kejriwal

How to perform Drag-Drop Operations on TreeView control in Windows Forms

All-Topics

Unity: Porting Labs – Takeaways

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9 Jun 2014Vidyasagar Machupalli

Unity: Porting labs - takeaways

All-Topics

Do You Use {pretty print} ?

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10 Jun 2014Cybermaxs

Do you use {pretty print}

All-Topics

Alchemy Typelist Operations

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20 Jun 2014Paul M Watt

Alchemy Typelist operations

All-Topics

OWASP Top 10 Risks: #1: Injection

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27 Jun 2014Max R McCarty

We all have probably witnessed (and had a good laugh) when commands have been mixed with data as in the case where the baker literally writes the instructions for the message as the cake message.

All-Topics

Getting Tickets Information from Zendesk API

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5 Jun 2014Chamila Nishantha

Communicating with Zendesk API

C#

ASP.NET

Master the Managed Azure Mobile Services Backend–Part Two

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9 Jun 2014IInjac

CodeProject In the first part of this series you learned about the basic differences between the JavaScript and the managed backend. This part will introduce you to the basics of ASP .NET and OWIN.

C++

Windows

QA

A Complete Sample of Custom Class Collection Serialization and Deserialization

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19 Jun 2014Maciej Los

If you want to know the way you can serialize and deserialize custom class collection, this tip is for you.

VB

Windows

serialization

XmlSerializer

deserialization

collections

A powerful CSV document wrapper library

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19 Jun 2014Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

I need a tool for exchange the data between my .NET program and R program, yeah this powerful library makes things better!

VB

Linux

Windows

Dev

Cross Browser RDLC Printing

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15 Jun 2014Jamal Seyedi

How to create print button for non-IE browsers in RDLC Viewers

Javascript

ASP.NET

RDLC

PDF

Iterative Fast Forward 1D DCT-II on MSIL

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31 May 2014Evgeny Pereguda

This is simple implementation of fast forward 1D DCT-II on MSIL which is generated at runtime.

C#3.0

C#

C#4.0

C#2.0

Windows

Current Participants

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

_Asif_

Product Manager Avanza Solutions

 Pakistan

Asif embarked on his programming journey back in 1991 when he first encountered 80286 8-16 MHz systems. His programming repertoire began with dBase III+, FoxPro, C, and assembly language, where he honed exceptional skills that have been a cornerstone of his development career.

Over the years, Asif's programming saga has seen him delve into a wide array of technologies and languages, ranging from C++, VC++, Java, Delphi, RPG400, SQL Server, and Oracle, to name just a few. His insatiable curiosity continues to lead him towards newer horizons, such as DOT Net Technologies, SOA architectures, BI, DSL, and beyond. These learning experiences are underscored by a robust theoretical foundation, with a penchant for research.

Beyond the realm of technology, Asif's interests include delving into the pages of fiction, exploring biotechnology, and gazing at the wonders of Astronomy. He finds joy in watching movies, and during his free time, he delights in quality moments spent with his children.

Debabrata_Das

Product Manager

 India

I'm Debabrata Das, also known as DD. I started working as a FoxPro 2.6 developer then there is a list of different technologies/languages C, C++, VB 6.0, Classic ASP, COM, DCOM, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, SQL Server, Oracle, No-SQL, Node.Js, ReactJS, etc.

I believe in "the best way to learn is to teach". Passionate about finding a more efficient solution of any given problem.

DiponRoy

 Bangladesh

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

PSK_

Architect

 India

Its me

Amir Mohammad Nasrollahi

 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.

arpanmukherjee1

Team Leader BHARTI Airtel

 United States

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

B. Clay Shannon

Founder Across Time & Space

 United States

I am in the process of morphing from a software developer into a portrayer of Mark Twain. My monologue (or one-man play, entitled "The Adventures of Mark Twain: As Told By Himself" and set in 1896) features Twain giving an overview of his life up till then. The performance includes the relating of interesting experiences and humorous anecdotes from Twain's boyhood and youth, his time as a riverboat pilot, his wild and woolly adventures in the Territory of Nevada and California, and experiences as a writer and world traveler, including recollections of meetings with many of the famous and powerful of the 19th century - royalty, business magnates, fellow authors, as well as intimate glimpses into his home life (his parents, siblings, wife, and children).

Peripatetic and picaresque, I have lived in eight states; specifically, besides my native California (where I was born and where I now again reside) in chronological order: New York, Montana, Alaska, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Idaho, and Missouri.

I am also a writer of both fiction (for which I use a nom de plume, "Blackbird Crow Raven", as a nod to my Native American heritage - I am "½ Cowboy, ½ Indian") and nonfiction, including a two-volume social and cultural history of the U.S. which covers important events from 1620-2006: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/blackbirdcraven

Bartlomiej Filipek

Software Developer

 Poland

Software developer interested in creating great code and passionate about teaching.

Author of C++17 In Detail - a book that will teach you the latest features of C++17!

I have around 11 years of professional experience in C++/Windows/Visual Studio programming. Plus other technologies like: OpenGL, game development, performance optimization.

In 2018 I was awarded by Microsoft as MVP, Developer Technologies.

If you like my articles please subscribe to my weekly C++ blog or just visit www.bfilipek.com.

BC3Tech

Software Developer (Senior)

 United States

I'm a Sr. Software Engineer in the Seattle area primarily focused on serverless technologies in the cloud. In my free time I enjoy hiking & other adventures with my family around the Puget Sound and the country! You can find out more about me at my homepage: http://bc3.tech/brandonh

Chamila Nishantha

Software Developer

 Sri Lanka

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

cjb110

Software Developer Bank Of Ireland

 United Kingdom

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

Cybermaxs

Technical Lead

 France

Yet another proof of concept

Erik Vullings

Architect

 Netherlands

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.

George Sefcik

Software Developer (Senior) GWSoftware

 United States

Independent Software Developer
There are no such things as problems...only opportunities to work harder!

gggustafson

Software Developer (Senior)

 United States

In 1964, I was in the US Coast Guard when I wrote my first program. It was written in RPG (note no suffixing numbers). Programs and data were entered using punched cards. Turnaround was about 3 hours. So much for the "good old days!"

In 1970, when assigned to Washington DC, I started my MS in Mechanical Engineering. I specialized in Transportation. Untold hours in statistical theory and practice were required, forcing me to use the university computer and learn the FORTRAN language, still using punched cards!

In 1973, I was employed by the Norfolk VA Police Department as a crime analyst for the High Intensity Target program. There, I was still using punched cards!

In 1973, I joined Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). There, for the first time, I was introduced to a terminal with the ability to edit, compile, link, and test my programs on-line. CSC also gave me the opportunity to discuss technical issues with some of the brightest minds I've encountered during my career.

In 1975, I moved to San Diego to head up an IR&D project, BIODAB. I returned to school (UCSD) and took up Software Engineering at the graduate level. After BIODAB, I headed up a team that fixed a stalled project. I then headed up one of the two most satisfying projects of my career, the Automated Flight Operations Center at Ft. Irwin, CA.

I left Anteon Corporation (the successor to CSC on a major contract) and moved to Pensacola, FL. For a small company I built their firewall, given free to the company's customers. An opportunity to build an air traffic controller trainer arose. This was the other most satisfying project of my career.

Today, I consider myself capable.

IInjac

Software Developer ExGrip LCC

 Germany

Working as professional freelancer for the last 5 years. Specialized on and addicted to .NET and a huge fan of Windows Azure from the beginning. Socializing people of all areas, from CEO's to co-workers. Consider myself as a social architect.

Now the proud owner of ExGrip LLC - building mobile cloud experiences. Our latest product "Tap-O-Mizer" is shortly in Beta2. It enables you to see what really needs to be changed in your Windows Phone 8 or Windows 8 app (in real-time, if needed), to ensure customer satisfaction.

Started authorship for "Pluralsight - Hardcore Developer Training" and going to publish the first course on Windows Azure soon.

A few years ago I made a major shift from developer to "devsigner".Focusing my creativity also on great user experiences on Windows, Windows 8 and Windows Phone. Utilizing Expression Design, Expression Blend, Photoshop and Illustrator.

I started developing my first programs on a Commodore C64 (basic and assembly) at the age of fourteen years. Later on an Amiga 500 (C++). After that I made the shift to DOS and Windows from version 3.11 and up.

To me the most important part of developing new experiences is to work with creative and outstanding people and to bring new, exciting ideas to life.

I strongly believe that everyone can be a hero if he/she get's pushed and motivated and valued. Therefore, and that under any circumstances: "People first!"

Specialties:Extremely motivated and pushing people to create results.

Jamal Seyedi

 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.

Jochen Scharr

Software Developer (Senior)

 Germany

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

Kel_

Chief Technology Officer Misakai Ltd.

 Ireland

Roman Atachiants, Ph.D. is the architect behind emitter.io service, a real-time, low-latency publish/subscribe service for IoT, Gaming. He is a software engineer and scientist with extensive experience in different computer science domains, programming languages/principles/patterns & frameworks.

His main expertise consists of C# and .NET platform, game technologies, cloud, human-computer interaction, big data and artificial intelligence. He has an extensive programming knowledge and R&D expertise.

• LinkedIn Profile
• Emitter.io Platform
  
• Spike-Engine Project
  
• CodePlex Projects

LM Heah

 Malaysia

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

Maciej Los

Team Leader

 Poland

I'm a lawyer, teacher/trainer and author of VBA programming book (only polish version). Programming is my hobby and the source of extra earnings!

1. C#
2. SQL
3. Linq
4. VB/VBA/VB.NET
5. XML & XSL
6. Python
7. JCL

If you want to contact me... find me on LinkedIn.

Mack Ait-Aoudia

Software Developer (Senior) http://www.m2a.ca

 Canada

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

Mahdi Ataollahi

Engineer

 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.

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.

Max R McCarty

Software Developer

 United States

We all hear about the security breaches that occur regularly. But how much does the everyday developer give thought to software security? With some of the of great voices out there, I hope to help bring clarity and information that the everyday developer can use when it comes to their everyday craft. But at the end of the day, I’m a Husband, father of 2, Christian and a software developer in Pittsburgh Pa.

As I like to say, “Some people work for a living, I get to program.”

Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

Technical Lead PANOMIX

 China

He is good and loves VisualBasic! Senior data scientist at PANOMIX


github: https://github.com/xieguigang

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

Nitesh Kejriwal

Founder Rebin Infotech

 India

A passionate developer with over 10 years of experience and building my software company code by code. Experience withMS Technologies like .Net | MVC | Xamarin | Sharepoint | MS Project Server and PhP along with open source CMS Systems like Wordpress/DotNetNuke etc.

Love to debug problems and solve them. I love writing articles on my website in my spare time. Please visit my Website for more details and subscribe to get technology related tips/tricks. #SOreadytohelp

NobsterTheLobster

 Ireland

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

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?

Paul M Watt

Engineer

 United States

I am a software architect and I have been developing software for nearly two decades. Over the years I have learned to value maintainable solutions first. This has allowed me to adapt my projects to meet the challenges that inevitably appear during development. I use the most beneficial short-term achievements to drive the software I develop towards a long-term vision.

C++ is my strongest language. However, I have also used x86 ASM, ARM ASM, C, C#, JAVA, Python, and JavaScript to solve programming problems. I have worked in a variety of industries throughout my career, which include:
• Manufacturing
• Consumer Products
• Virtualization
• Computer Infrastructure Management
• DoD Contracting

My experience spans these hardware types and operating systems:
• Desktop
o Windows (Full-stack: GUI, Application, Service, Kernel Driver)
o Linux (Application, Daemon)
• Mobile Devices
o Windows CE / Windows Phone
o Linux
• Embedded Devices
o VxWorks (RTOS)
o Greenhills Linux
o Embedded Windows XP

I am a Mentor and frequent contributor to CodeProject.com with tutorial articles that teach others about the inner workings of the Windows APIs.

I am the creator of an open source project on GitHub called Alchemy[^], which is an open-source compile-time data serialization library.

I maintain my own repository and blog at CodeOfTheDamned.com/[^], because code maintenance does not have to be a living hell.

Pavel Sinkevich

 Belarus

T-SQL developer, SSIS developer, C# developer. Have experience in .Net development, minor experience in web development (ASP.NET, Sharepoint).
Microsoft certification in MS SQL Server 2008 development.
Most recent experience with MS SQL Server 2012, SSIS 2012.

Pete O'Hanlon

CEO

 United Kingdom

A developer for over 30 years, I've been lucky enough to write articles and applications for Code Project as well as the Intel Ultimate Coder - Going Perceptual challenge. I live in the North East of England with 2 wonderful daughters and a wonderful wife.

I am not the Stig, but I do wish I had Lotus Tuned Suspension.

Rahul Rajat Singh

Architect

 India

I Started my Programming career with C++. Later got a chance to develop Windows Form applications using C#. Currently using C#, ASP.NET & ASP.NET MVC to create Information Systems, e-commerce/e-governance Portals and Data driven websites.

My interests involves Programming, Website development and Learning/Teaching subjects related to Computer Science/Information Systems. IMO, C# is the best programming language and I love working with C# and other Microsoft Technologies.

• Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): Web Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4
• Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): Accessing Data with Microsoft .NET Framework 4
• Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): Windows Communication Foundation Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4

If you like my articles, please visit my website for more: www.rahulrajatsingh.com[^]

• Microsoft MVP 2015

Right Handed Monkey

Chief Technology Officer WorxForUs

 United States

I am a programmer who posts rambling on about java, Android, PHP, or whatever I am motivated to type on my charcoal colored Kinesis Freestyle2 keyboard. Please send +1's, shared links, warm thoughts of encouragement, or emasculating flames of internet fury to my blog. Thanks for reading!

righthandedmonkey.com

S. M. Quamruzzaman Rahmani

Product Manager OnnoRokom Software Ltd.

 Bangladesh

I am quick in learning new tools and technologies. I am proficient in C#, Asp.net MVC, Entity Framework, NHibernate, SQL Server, IIS, Windows Server.

My personal website: www.byronbd.com

Sergiy Korzh

Founder Korzh.com

 Ukraine

Software developer and entrepreneur.

Main projects:
* EasyQuery - ad-hoc data filtering UI for .NET applications;
* Localizer - localization tool kit for Delphi projects;

Shemeer NS

Architect

 India

Technical Manager/ Software Architect | CodeProject MVP | Visual Studio Marketplace Contributor | Author | Geek | Netizen | Husband | ChessPlayer

Most of my articles are listed on top 5 of the respective 'Best articles of the month' and some of my articles are published on ASP.NET WebSite's Article of the Day section.

Check my contributions in Visual Studio Marketplace and Code Project

Technical Blog: https://shemeerns.wordpress.com/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/shemeernsblog
Twitter : http://twitter.com/shemeerns
Google+ : http://google.com/+Shemeernsblog

Shenwei Liu

 United States

Shenwei is a software developer and architect, and has been working on business applications using Microsoft and Oracle technologies since 1996. He obtained Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) in 1998 and Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) in 1999. He has experience in ASP.NET, C#, Visual Basic, Windows and Web Services, Silverlight, WPF, JavaScript/AJAX, HTML, SQL Server, and Oracle.

Simon Gulliver

Architect

 United Kingdom

Check me out at LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/simon-gulliver/20/303/251

Steve Wellens

EndWell Software, Inc.

 United States

I am an independent contractor/consultant working in the Twin Cities area in Minnesota. I work in .Net, Asp.Net, C#, C++, XML, SQL, Windows Forms, HTML, CSS, etc., etc., etc.

Super Lloyd

Software Developer (Senior) http://www.ansibleww.com.au

 Australia

The Australia born French man who went back to Australia later in life...
Finally got over life long (and mostly hopeless usually, yay!) chronic sicknesses.
Worked in Sydney, Brisbane, Darwin, Billinudgel, Darwin and Melbourne.

Terrence Sheflin

Team Leader

 Canada

I am a Lead Software Architect (UI/UX), focusing mainly on developing with JavaScript, C#, ASP.NET WebApi and MVC.

Vidyasagar Machupalli

Software Developer (Senior)

 India

Developer | Blogger | Mentor | Gamer | Microsoft MVP
Coder by profession | Gamer By Heart
Technical Blog : http://vidyasagarmsc.com
About me: http://about.me/mscvidyasagar

Winfried Wille

Software Developer Winfried Wille Softwareentwicklung

 Germany

I am a .Net programmer working since 25 years as software developer and system engineer. I live in Hamburg, Germany.
My application and blog are here http://w2ww.de .
Currently i work as freelancer.My hourly price is 40€. I gladly accept fixed price projects.

zdf

 Romania

Just a humble programmer.

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