Best Web Dev Article of August 2014

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Current Entries

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Sketcher : Two Of n

14 Aug 2014Sacha Barber

Angular.Js / Azure / ASP MVC / SignalR / Bootstrap demo app

C#4.0

cloud

.NET

Office 2013 Style Splash Screen

5 Aug 2014Magyar András

How to create Office 2013 style splash screen for Windows Forms

Sketcher : Three Of n

14 Aug 2014Sacha Barber

Angular.Js / Azure / ASP MVC / SignalR / Bootstrap demo app

Developing a Secure Website - A Simple Reference on What to Look Out For

13 Aug 2014Dennis Baberich

A simple check list on what to look out for when developing a website

Step by Step Guide to Building a Cross-Platform Application in HTML, CSS & JavaScript

12 Aug 2014Ben Liebert

Here is a step by step guide to building a cross-platform application in HTML, CSS and JavaScript

SharePoint 2013 Client Side Rendering: List Forms

28 Aug 2014Andrei Markeev

Client Side Rendering specifics related to list forms.

Javascript

SharePoint2013

SharePoint

Paging In MVC 5 with Entity Framework

13 Aug 2014raju melveetilpurayil

One more example of how to do Paging in MVC

VB 6.0 BitConverter

18 Aug 2014lorekd

Leveraging the built in LSet statement, along with user-defined types, to implement a class to translate binary data to/from simple data types

HTML

Windows

Create .rdlc Report in Lightswitch Html Client Using Visual Studio 2013

11 Dec 2019kametepe

This article shows how to simply create .rdlc report in Lightswitch Html client without using WCF RIA Services

Automating NuGet Package Creation using AppVeyor

11 Aug 2014Stuart Wheelwright

How to produce and publish a NuGet package using AppVeyor, the free continuous build service

Exploration with Intel XDK

24 Aug 2014Abhishek Nandy

Article 5 for Android Tutorial Contest

HTML

Android

Mobile

SignalR .NET deserialization of objects with private setters / member variables

27 Aug 2014Mark_Shield

If you use deserialize objects with private setters in a .NET SignalR client you may find those member variables are still set to default.

Information Hiding in JavaScript

18 Aug 2014Ronnie Mukherjee

How can information hiding be implemented in JavaScript?

Javascript

ASP MVC5 & Azure Table Storage Scaffolder

23 Aug 2014Stephan Johnson

Scaffold Microsoft Azure Table Storage entities in ASP.NET MVC5

jQuery Typewriter Effect on HTML Text

26 Aug 2014saadixl

jQuery Typewriter effect on HTML text

How To Make Complicated Multi Line Charts using Simple HTML and JavaScript

19 Aug 2014nasir_ml

How to make complicated “multi line charts” using simple HTML and JavaScript

CSS

HTML

Javascript

IE AJAX POST Requests

7 Aug 2014Zachary Gardner

IE waits till the end of the thread to send AJAX POST requests to the server.

Javascript

Ajax

performance

Expose OData Endpoint in Web API/MVC

11 Aug 2014Sourav Kayal

In this tip, we will learn to implement OData endpoint in Web API application.

Cascading Asynchronous Function Execution (CAFÉ)

9 Aug 2014John Bonfardeci

Cascading Asynchronous Function Execution (CAFÉ) is a design pattern for easily managing the execution sequence of asynchronous requests and callbacks within a medium to large JavaScript framework.

Architecting Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

17 Aug 2014Ben Liebert

How to architect CSS

HTML5

CSS3

MFC

Active Directory Services - Email Creation

19 Aug 2014Jinan Kordab

This article and tip describes how to create or delete an Active Directory Services Email using ASP.NET web page, remotely.

ASP.NET

active-directory

ASP

Using Bootstrap Carousel Slider in Servoy 7.4

27 Aug 2014Dhanabati

Using Bootstrap Carousel Slider in Servoy 7.4

Ruby on Rails On Windows Server With Helicon Zoo

8 Aug 2014Corey Fournier

ROR in production Windows

Ruby

Windows

Dev

Dynamic Menu type Control Panel from DataBase

26 Aug 2014Roysb

Creating a menu dynamically from a database, with a style type control panel

SQL

HTML

ASP.NET

Embed responsive Youtube video

21 Aug 2014Magyar András

More and more people are watching the web pages on smartphone and tablet devices, so more web developer create responsive website. I present some methods to embed responsive youtube videos.

HTML5

Consume Service of AngularJS Within Controller

18 Aug 2014Sourav Kayal

In this tip, we will learn to share data from service to controller in AngularJS

Javascript

Windows

Building a Table of Contents in JavaScript

13 Jan 2016Qwertie

Building a table of contents in JavaScript

Javascript

All-Topics

Functional Reactive Programming and JavaScript

20 Aug 2014Keyhole Software

Functional reactive programming and JavaScript

Javascript

JSONP a way to AJAX request across domains

22 Aug 2014Alexander Parra Lorenzo

example to request a JSON data

Nodejs EventEmitter Simplified

26 Aug 2014Siddharth Chandra

nodejs advance topic simplified

Use of Callback Function for Synchronous Execution of Ajax Call from JavaScript in MVC 4.0

6 Aug 2014Mahesh Pachbhai

Use of callback function for synchronous execution of Ajax call from JavaScript in MVC 4.0

Javascript

Windows

MVC

Optional: Java 8’s way to deal with null

4 Aug 2014TheCannyCoder

For those who have been programming Java or C/C++ for any period of time will know one of the most annoying things is trying to debug a crash due accessing a null object.

Java

web

Building XNA flexible animation class

20 Aug 2014valentasm

Silverlight and XNA animation class with automatic animation and flexible sprites loading.

.NET

Silverlight

XNA

Understand SPA using AngularJS

25 Aug 2014Sourav Kayal

In this tip, we will learn to implement SPA using AngularJS

How speedy.js is Your Web Site?

29 Aug 2014Cybermaxs

How speedy.js is your web site?

Creating an Azure Cloud Service

21 Aug 2014Bibhu Dutta

How to create an Azure Cloud Service

cloud

Azure

web

Improve Article Perception - with toc, navigation and footnotes

7 Aug 2014Chris875

Format CodeProject articles: table of contents and less words per line

HTML

AngularJS hack/tip :: Invoking JS Code after DOM is Ready

9 Aug 2014Gilly Barr

How to invoke JS code

Javascript

AngularJs

How to Geocode an Address by Postcode / Zipcode and Streetnumber / Housenumber

15 Aug 2014BackyardHackMechanic

This will explain how to geocode an address only by postalcode / zipcode and streetnumber

Javascript

Combining Liberator and Korma to Build a Web-Service in Clojure

16 Aug 2014Alex Turok

In a recent episode of the Code Speak Loop podcast I mentioned two Clojure projects: Liberator, designed to build REST services, and Korma, allowing to talk to relational databases easily. I’ve been working with these libraries lately and it turns out they play quite nice together.

Javascript

Implement Split A/B pages in your ASP NET project

20 Aug 2014TheCardProject.co.uk

Quickly set up the ability to serve up several pages and record which was served in SQL Server

Sketcher : One Of n

14 Aug 2014Sacha Barber

Angular.Js / Azure / ASP MVC / SignalR / Bootstrap demo app

Multiple File Upload in MVC

7 Aug 2014Rigin VP

Multiple file upload in MVC

HTML

VS2013

MVC

SharePoint 2013 Client Side Rendering: List Views

24 Aug 2014Andrei Markeev

All you need to know to start creating your own CSR customizations in SharePoint 2013.

Javascript

SharePoint2013

SharePoint

Android UI Layouts and Controls

4 Jul 2015Peter Leow

Putting faces on Your Android App.

Performance Improvement in View Engine Setup and Implement Custom View Engine in ASP.NET MVC

6 Aug 2014Sourav Kayal

In this article, we will understand custom view engine and view engine setup in ASP.NET MVC application

Windows

MVC

ASP.NET

Dynamic ASP.NET Web API Controller - Part 1. Dynamic DTO

8 Jun 2016David Lee 145

How to make dynamic DTO with ExpandoObject

How to kill process by process name and user name using C#?

1 Aug 2014yosonwan

Sometimes we need to kill a process programly. This article talk about how to get process array to process name and filter it.

IoC in ASP.NET MVC using Autofac

18 Aug 2014Sul Aga

Using Autofac IoC container in MVC application to resolve dependencies. Scenarios included: controller, custom filter and view dependency injection

ASP.NET Identity 2.0: Implementing Group-Based Permissions Management

16 Sep 2014John Atten

Earlier this year we looked at Implementing Group-Based Permissions Management using the ASP.NET Identity 1.0 framework. The objective of that project was to gain a little more granular control of application authorization, by treating the now-familiar Identity Role as more of a "permission" which c

ASP.NET

Identity

Current Participants

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

Abhishek Nandy

Software Developer

India

I am into software Development for less than a year and i have participated in 2 contests here at Codeproject:-Intel App Innovation Contest 2012 and Windows Azure Developer Challenge and been finalist at App Innovation contest App Submission award winner as well won two spot prizes for Azure Developer Challenge.I am also a finalist at Intel Perceptual Challenge Stage 2 with 6 entries nominated.I also won 2nd prize for Ultrabook article contest from CodeProject
Link:-
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/523105/Ultrabook-Development-My-Way

Microsoft MVA Fast Track Challenge Global Winner.
Ocutag App Challenge 2013 Finalist.

My work at Intel AppUp Store:-

UltraSensors:-
http://www.appup.com/app-details/ultrasensors
UltraKnowHow:-
http://www.appup.com/app-details/ultraknowhow

Alex Turok

Software Developer Acumatica

Russian Federation

I am a full-time .NET programmer and a lover of C#, C++, Clojure and Python at the same time. I do some Windows Phone development on my own and occasionally try myself at web-development. To enhance all these software-related activities I maintain a blog writing there on various topics, most of which actually come back to programming.

Alexander Parra Lorenzo

Software Developer (Senior)

Spain

This member doesn't quite have enough reputation to be able to display their biography and homepage.

Andrei Markeev

Finland

Full stack developer, enterprise web software. Microsoft MVP, open source person, speaker, online expert.

BackyardHackMechanic

Netherlands

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

Ben Liebert

Architect BlackBall Software

New Zealand

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

Bibhu Dutta

Software Developer Mindfire Solutions

India

Software developer, working at Mindfire Solutions, having hands on experience in both Windows and web application using C#, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC.

Chris875

Software Developer

Germany

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

Corey Fournier

Software Developer

United States

Graduate of University of Louisiana at Lafayette in computer science.

Cybermaxs

Technical Lead

France

Yet another proof of concept

David Lee 145

Web Developer Nexon Korea

Korea (Republic of)

I am a web developer in South Korea. I work at Nexon Korea now.

My interest:
- ASP.NET (MVC, Web API)
- C#
- Etc.

GitHub : https://github.com/thinkit-software

Dennis Baberich

CEO baberich.de

Germany

<insert stereotypes="" here="">

Just me, just saying.
Message me if you like.

Dhanabati

India

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

Gilly Barr

Web Developer

Israel

Started programming e-commerce sites with PHP & MySQL at the age of 14. Worked for me well for about 5 years.

Transfered to C# & asp.net, while serving in the IDF.
Worked on the 'Core Performance' Team at ShopYourWay.com (Sears Israel)
Currently working at Logz.io

Check out my blog!
or my twitter

Jinan Kordab

Software Developer

Canada

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

John Atten

Software Developer XIV Solutions

United States

My name is John Atten, and my username on many of my online accounts is xivSolutions. I am Fascinated by all things technology and software development. I work mostly with C#, Javascript/Node.js, Various flavors of databases, and anything else I find interesting. I am always looking for new information, and value your feedback (especially where I got something wrong!)

John Bonfardeci

Software Developer

United States

I'm absolutely addicted to problem solving and I'm fortunate that I can make a living at it by creating original solutions for complex problems in a large health care environment. My areas of focus include design and development on the client, server-side, and database using but not limited to ASP.NET, MVC, C#, SharePoint 2010, SQL, SQL Server 2k-2k8, IIS 6-7.5, JavaScript, jQuery, Knockout JS (MVVM), HTML/5, CSS 2/3, Python, Django, MySQL, SQL Anywhere, and MongoDB. My favorite languages are JavaScript, C#, F#, and Scala - or any language that combines functional and OO paradigms.

kametepe

Web Developer Navie global

Nigeria

That's me. Thank God

Keyhole Software

Keyhole Software

United States

Keyhole is a software development and consulting firm with a tight-knit technical team. We work primarily with Java, .NET, and Mobile technologies, specializing in application development. We love the challenge that comes in consulting and blog often regarding some of the technical situations and technologies we face. Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago.

This is a Organisation

3 members

lorekd

Web Developer

United States

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

Magyar András

Student

Hungary

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

Mahesh Pachbhai

Software Developer

India

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

Mark_Shield

Software Developer (Senior) Argus Media

United Kingdom

Mark Shield is a senior developer at Argus Media. He enjoys coding / tinkering in a variety of languages (C++, C#, Python, F# to name a few) and playing his ever increasing bass guitar collection in his ever decreasing spare time.

nasir_ml

Team Leader

Pakistan

Working in the field of software development from the past 9 years, love to work in databases and writing applications for large enterprises, experienced in medical and financial sectors.

Believes that software development is the most beautiful work in the world.

Peter Leow

Instructor / Trainer

Singapore

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

子曰："三人行，必有我师焉；择其善者而从之，其不善者而改之."

Qwertie

Software Developer None

Canada

Since I started programming when I was 11, I wrote the SNES emulator "SNEqr", the FastNav mapping component, the Enhanced C# programming language (in progress), the parser generator LLLPG, and LES, a syntax to help you start building programming languages, DSLs or build systems.

My overall focus is on the Language of your choice (Loyc) initiative, which is about investigating ways to improve interoperability between programming languages and putting more power in the hands of developers. I'm also seeking employment.

raju melveetilpurayil

Software Developer (Senior)

United Kingdom

Microsoft Certified Professional Developer.

Rigin VP

Software Developer

India

Am a software Developer
Working in mostly MS Platform, interested in scripting languages.

Am from South India - Kerala Smile | :)

Rigin

Ronnie Mukherjee

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.

Roysb

Costa Rica

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

saadixl

Student

Bangladesh

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

Sacha Barber

Software Developer (Senior)

United Kingdom

I currently hold the following qualifications (amongst others, I also studied Music Technology and Electronics, for my sins)

- MSc (Passed with distinctions), in Information Technology for E-Commerce
- BSc Hons (1st class) in Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence

Both of these at Sussex University UK.

Award(s)

I am lucky enough to have won a few awards for Zany Crazy code articles over the years

Microsoft C# MVP 2016
Codeproject MVP 2016
Microsoft C# MVP 2015
Codeproject MVP 2015
Microsoft C# MVP 2014
Codeproject MVP 2014
Microsoft C# MVP 2013
Codeproject MVP 2013
Microsoft C# MVP 2012
Codeproject MVP 2012
Microsoft C# MVP 2011
Codeproject MVP 2011
Microsoft C# MVP 2010
Codeproject MVP 2010
Microsoft C# MVP 2009
Codeproject MVP 2009
Microsoft C# MVP 2008
Codeproject MVP 2008
And numerous codeproject awards which you can see over at my blog

Siddharth Chandra

Architect

India

Hi,

Hope you all are doing great.
i have worked and have hands on exprience various technologies.
But the one i love most are HTML5,AngularJS,Cordova,Bootstrap.
i have 10+ yrs of experience in building Enterprise level applications
based on emerging technologies.
Currently i am mostly dedicated towards nodejs and as a mean stack developer.
I have also worked on embedded software and graphics technologies.

My interest is in simple Human Machine Interface.

Please feel to drop me an email siddmegadeth@gmail.com
please do let me know of your valuable suggestion for improving articles
and feedback.

Sourav Kayal

Software Developer DELL International

India

I am software developer from INDIA. Beside my day to day development work, i like to learn new technologies to update myself. I am passionate blogger and author in various technical community including dotnetfunda.com , c-sharpcorner.com and codeproject. My area of interest is modern web technology in Microsoft stack. Visit to my personal blog here.

http://ctrlcvprogrammer.blogspot.in/

Stephan Johnson

We Fix Code

South Africa

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

Stuart Wheelwright

Architect BlackJet Software Ltd

United Kingdom

Stuart Wheelwright is the Principal Architect and Software Developer at BlackJet Software Ltd.

He has over 16 years commercial experience producing robust, maintainable, web-based solutions and bespoke systems for Microsoft platforms.

His latest project is Shopping UK, an elegantly simple shopping list for iPhone.

Sul Aga

Software Developer (Senior) Advanced Legal

United Kingdom

I am a software engineer specialised in the .NET stack (C#). I hold a Master degree in Internet Engineering from the University of Sunderland. I am very passionate about technology and learning new stuff.

Website: sulhome.com

LinkedIn: Sul Aga

TheCannyCoder

United Kingdom

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

TheCardProject.co.uk

Software Developer (Senior) RichardGreenSoftware Ltd

United Kingdom

I am technical Director of TheCardProject.co.uk in Nottingham, a website giving information, software, services and expertise in the area of ID cards, smart cards.

valentasm

Software Developer

Lithuania

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

yosonwan

Web Developer

Unknown

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

Zachary Gardner

Software Developer Keyhole Software

United States

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

First Prize	Mark J. Caplin - Developing a Large Scale Application with a Single Page Application (SPA) using AngularJS
Prize pool	CodeProject T-Shirt - CodeProject


Second Prize	NitinShrivastava - Part 1: Introduction to AngularJS
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.
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.
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