Best C++ Article of August 2014

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Each month at CodeProject we gather together the best of the articles submitted the previous month and ask our readers to choose the best of the best. Entry is automatic - just submit you articke and we'll do the rest.

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Current Entries

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

Algorithmic approaches to solving the Pascal's Triangle and the Newton's Binomial

18 Aug 2014José Cintra

Some suggestions of algorithms for solving the Pascal Triangle, addressing iterative, recursive and functional paradigms

Python

Pascal

C++

Dev

mathematics

algorithm

A Tiny Custom List Control

25 Aug 2014HateCoding

A tiny custom list control

Understand std::atomic::compare_exchange_weak() in C++11

16 Aug 2014Eric Z (Jing)

Understand std::atomic::compare_exchange_weak() in C++11

C++

Algorithmic approaches for computing the Fibonacci Numbers

24 Aug 2014José Cintra

Some suggestions of algorithms for computing the Fibonacci numbers addressing iterative, recursive and functional paradigms

ASP.NET Web Services – How to Overload a Web Method?

24 Aug 2014Arun Ramachandran India

WebMethod overloading in ASP.NET web services

C++

Windows

How to Set Up an NDK Project to Compile for Multiple Target Platforms

14 Aug 2014Android on Intel

Golden Hammer Software took a trip earlier this year to New York to attend the Intel Android CodeFest. We updated Big Mountain Snowboarding, Trick Shot Bowling, and Scribble Worm to run natively on Intel Android devices during that weekend. All three of these games use C++ through the NDK.

C++

Android

Mobile

How to Optimize Your Android Apps (NDK) in Two Minutes on Intel® Architecture

14 Aug 2014Android on Intel

During an Intel CodeFest I optimized all my games for Intel Architecture and it was dead simple. I’ll describe my experience with the process and hopefully will get you interested to do the same.

Security Design Patterns – Secure Process Creation

2 Aug 2014CdnSecurityEngineer

Intro – Secure Process Creation I chose the Secure Process Creation pattern as the first pattern to kick of the series on security design patterns because process creation is everywhere in the software world today. Ensuring that the way processes…Read more ›

C++

Windows

security

Markov chain implementation in C++ using Eigen

17 Aug 2014pi19404

In this article we will look at markov models and its application in classification of discrete sequential data.

C++

Compiling Native C/C++ library for Android

20 Aug 2014pi19404

This article describes the method to cross compile C/C++ library for Android OS

Flexible particle system - How to start with Software Optimization

2 Aug 2014Bartlomiej Filipek

How to start optimizing the particle system code.

What is a Security Engineer?

4 Aug 2014CdnSecurityEngineer

Intro This is an interesting topic, my reasoning for writing this will become clear in the not too distant future, however not many organizations that are actively writing code have many folks focused or dedicated exclusively to security, if you…Read more ›

C++

Windows

security

Capturing Unhandled Exceptions in a Mixed Native/CLR Environment

26 Aug 2014Ivan Krivyakov

Capturing unhandled exceptions in a mixed native CLR environment

C++

.NET

VS2013

Work around for consistent stack corruption resulting from the same thread

26 Aug 2014Andrey Grodzovsky

Stack corruptions are usually tricky to solve, they can be random or consistent in nature, random are usually due to some rogue pointer writing to a random location wrecking havoc along the process address space and the consistent are due to overrunning allocated write buffer with more bytes that it

C++

Linux

Roger’s Clock - your first application with MoSync

2 Aug 2014K Stock

Article #3: Getting started with MoSync for Android (and other mobile platforms)

NDK Android* Application Porting Methodologies

14 Aug 2014Android on Intel

This guide is intended to help developers port existing ARM*-based NDK applications to x86.

Fast 2D Separable Symmetric/Anti-Symmmetric Convolution

17 Aug 2014pi19404

In the article we will look at algorithm for Fast 2D Convolution.

C++

WP dev user review responses: good, bad, or ugly?

18 Aug 2014BC3Tech

All over the news lately is the new release of the ability for Windows Phone developers to respond to user reviews via the dev center, something of which any developer can immediately see the value.

C++

Windows

Introduction to B-trees: Concepts and Applications

20 Jan 2024Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

How to solve real-life problems using B-trees

A Simple C++ Profiler on x64

5 Aug 2014Babu_Abdulsalam

A Simple Profiler for C++ apps on x64 platform

Windows 8 Directly Driving Stepper Motor

20 Mar 2015SergeiR[MCTS]

Demonstrates Windows 8 capability to directly control stepper motor

C++

Compiler and language

3 Aug 2014Asif Bahrainwala

Design your own language and write a compiler/ interpreter for it

ZetJsonCpp - Deserialize/Serialize from/to JSON Strings or Files

6 Apr 2021jespa007

A library to parse and bind Json string or files to C structure

C++

text

JSON

Introduction to wxWidgets GUI programming with wxSmith

11 Aug 2014Andres Cassagnes

A basic guideline to start with GUI designing with wxWidgets

C++

artificial-intelligence

Dev

wxWidgets

GUI

Writing Games with C++ for Android on a PC - Setting Up

16 Sep 2014_Maxxx_

A step-by-step beginners guide to setting up a development environment to write games using Cocos2d-X 3.2 on a PC

Global Interceptable Program and System Hooks in .NET

7 Aug 2014D. Infuehr

An introduction on how to implement global interceptable hooks in .NET

C++

Windows

Win32

XML Sitemap

14 Mar 2024Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

An alternative Windows version to XML Sitemap online generators

Precise and safe calculation method for the average of large integer arrays

13 Aug 2014Stefan_Lang

How to avoid overflow and still retain precision on large integer calculations

Installing MoSync for Android (and other mobile platforms)

2 Aug 2014K Stock

Article #2: How to install the multi-mobile-platform MoSync development environment

How to Read in Memory Code of .NET Application Protected with Anti-Reflector

5 Aug 2014Igor Ladnik

Technique to obtain in memory code of running .NET application (even wrapped into unmanaged code for binary files anti-reflection) is presented and implemented with workable sample

Merge Sort

9 Aug 2014Pritam007

Simple description of Merge Sort

Microsoft Office 2011 - VBA to the Macs

22 Aug 2014Thomas Roll

Developing custom functionality for Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac in C and VBA

HTML

VBA

C# / VB.NET / C++ CLI: Create, read and write MS Access (mdb, accdb), MySQL, SQL Server, SQL Server Compact and SQLite databases

13 Nov 2014Emiliarge

Both MS Access formats (mdb and new - accdb), MSSQL 2008 R2, MSSQL CE, SQLite, MySQL

G3log, asynchronous logging the easy way

20 Aug 2014KjellKod.cc

Asynchronous, "crash safe" logging with dynamic logging sinks

Simple Serial Communication Utilities

29 Aug 2014Andres Cassagnes

A simple serial communication library, with a serial ports enumerator

Using auto-layout to Span the Entire Width of the Underlying View

6 Aug 2014Sei Flavius

Using auto-layout to position two buttons that span the entire width of the underlying view

Objective-C

iOS

Fast Multi-Reader Lock

20 Aug 2014Evgeny Zavalkovsky

Multi-reader lock that provides real readers' lock-free and wait-free concurency on multi core systems.

Fast base64 functions for encode/decode

29 Aug 2014Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

A quick solution to transform binary data to plain text

Disable APM for Hard Drive in Windows

20 Aug 2014slaon77

Setting APM level for SATA hard drive

Adaptive Skin Color Detection

18 Aug 2014pi19404

In this article we will look at Adaptive Skin Color Detection technique described in the paper "An Adaptive Real-time Skin Detector Based on Hue Thresholding"

Android Touch Gestures Capturing Interface

2 Sep 2014pi19404

In this article, we will look at unistrore gesture recognition for Android devices

C# / VB.NET / C++ CLI: Read and write MS Access (mdb) database without ADO and SQL via Microsoft DAO

18 Aug 2014Emiliarge

Read and write data to Access databases without limitations caused by the use of the SQL.

PiChat: A GPIO (Raspberry) Pi2Pi Chat Protocol

22 Aug 2014Joren Heit

Designing and implementing a Pi2Pi chat-protocol in C++

Introduction to Swift

7 Aug 2014Madhur Kapoor

Introduction to Swift

ASP.Net Web Services – How to use session state in a web service?

14 Aug 2014Arun Ramachandran India

CodeProject In the last blog post, we have discussed about consuming web services from the client application. In this article we will go over how to use session state in a web service. This is continuation of the previous article.

C++

Windows

How to export a blogspot blog to HTML/GitHub with C#

25 Aug 2014Qwertie

A LINQ-to-XML example

C++ unit test start guide, how to set up Google Test (gtest) in Eclipse?

26 Aug 2014Yu222

Running Google Test in Eclipse

C++

Eclipse

A Simpler MRU for GTKMM C++

28 Mar 2018Tim ONeil

Sometimes you need a hammer for a job, not a bazooka

C++

Linux

Dev

Windows: Getting Callback on Child Process Exit in C++

7 Aug 2014Ivan Krivyakov

Getting callback on child process exit in C++

C++

VS2013

API

Anatomy of the Android operating System

3 Aug 2014henry sentio kauta

The Android operating System in action

Current Participants

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

_Maxxx_

Software Developer (Senior) Devo

Australia

Software developer par excellence,sometime artist, teacher, musician, husband, father and half-life 2 player (in no particular order either of preference or ability)
Started programming aged about 16 on a Commodore Pet.
Self-taught 6500 assembler - wrote Missile Command on the Pet (impressive, if I say so myself, on a text-only screen!)
Progressed to BBC Micro - wrote a number of prize-winning programs - including the best graphics application in one line of basic (it drew 6 multicoloured spheres viewed in perspective)
Trained with the MET Police as a COBOL programmer
Wrote platform game PooperPig which was top of the Ceefax Charts for a while in the UK
Did a number of software dev roles in COBOL
Progressed to Atari ST - learned 68000 assembler & write masked sprite engine.
Worked at Atari ST User magazine as Technical Editor - and was editor of Atari ST World for a while.
Moved on to IBM Mid range for work - working as team leader then project manager
Emigrated to Aus.
Learned RPG programming on the job (by having frequent coffee breaks with the wife!!)
Moved around a few RPG sites
Wrote for PC User magazine - was Shareware Magazine editor for a while.
Organised the first large-scale usage of the Internet in Australia through PC User magazine.
Moved from RPG to Delphi 1
Developed large applications in Delphi before moving on to VB .Net and C#
Became I.T. Manager - realised how boring paper pushing can be
And now I pretty much do .Net development in the daytime, while redeveloping PooperPig for the mobile market at night.

Andres Cassagnes

Engineer

Argentina

As an Electronic Engineer I've worked with many languages and for some diferents plattforms including desktop and embedded systems.
My natural envirovment is C/C++, but I've worked with Java, C# and hardware oriented languages (VHDL, Verilog).
I really like programing and always I'm looking for some ideas to development.
I add to the opensource philosophy do I try to share my knowledge with other people.

Now I am developing embedded systems for nuclear industries in the Argentina most important technology Company.

Andrey Grodzovsky

Software Developer (Senior) spielo

Canada

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

Android on Intel

United States

Intel is inside more and more Android devices, and we have tools and resources to make your app development faster and easier.

Arun Ramachandran India

Software Developer

India

Arun Ramachandran is a Software Engineer having hands on experience in different Microsoft Technologies who is presently working in Experion Technologies, India. He has written over 95 articles on the subject on his blog at http://BestTEchnologyBlog.com. Along with 3 years of hands on experience he holds a Master of Computer Applications degree from Cochin University of Science & Technology (CUSAT).

Asif Bahrainwala

Instructor / Trainer

India

Hi,
I have been working with computers since my eight grade, programming the ZX Spectrum. I have always had an interest in assembly language and computer theory (and is still the reason for taking tons of online courses), actively code using C/C++ on Windows (using VS) and Linux (using QT).

I also provide training on data structures, algorithms, parallel patterns library , Graphics (DX11), GPGPUs (DX11-CS,AMP) and programming for performance on x86.
Feel free to call me at 0091-9823018914 (UTC +5:30)

(All views expressed here do not reflect the views of my employer).

Babu_Abdulsalam

Software Developer (Senior)

India

I'm working as Senior software Engineer since 7 years and interested in MFC and COM programming.

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

CdnSecurityEngineer

Engineer

Canada

I am a Sr Engineer for a major security firm; I have been developing software professionally for 8 years now; I've worked for start ups, small companies, large companies, myself, education. Currently the company I work for has 7,000+ employees worldwide. I am responsible for our platform security, I write code, implement features, educate other engineers about security, I perform security reviews, threat modeling, continue to educate myself on the latest software. By night, I actively work to educate other developers about security and security issues. I also founded a local chapter of OWASP which I organize and run.

I cut my teeth developing in C++ and it's still where my heart is with development, lately I've been writing a lot of C# code & some java, but I do have a project or two coming out in C++ /DiectX 11 whenever I get the time.

When I am not developing code I am spending my time with my wife and daughter or I am lost deep in the woods some where on a camping trip with friends. If you can't find me with a GPS and a SPOT device then chances are I am on the Rugby pitch playing Rugby and having a great time doing so.

You can find more about me and My thoughts on security

D. Infuehr

Student

Austria

I use my spare time to make C# and C++ applications.

Emiliarge

Software Developer

Russian Federation

Want to contribute my CodeProject articles and tips? Write my e-mail: emiliarge@mail.ru

Eric Z (Jing)

Technical Lead National Instruments

China

Senior software engineer at National Instruments, to implement various Ethernet-based industrial protocols, e.g., EtherCAT. Favorite languages are C/C++ and Python. For fun, I like watching films (sci-fi, motion), walking, and various reading.

Evgeny Zavalkovsky

Software Developer Box

United States

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

HateCoding

Software Developer China Telecom Guangdong

China

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

henry sentio kauta

Uganda

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

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

Ivan Krivyakov

Technical Lead Thomson Reuters

United States

Ivan is a hands-on software architect/technical lead working for Thomson Reuters in the New York City area. At present I am mostly building complex multi-threaded WPF application for the financial sector, but I am also interested in cloud computing, web development, mobile development, etc.

Please visit my web site: www.ikriv.com.

jespa007

Software Developer (Senior)

Spain

I'm a happy person who likes programming. It has been a passion since my nineteen's Smile | :)

Joren Heit

Netherlands

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

José Cintra

Software Developer

Brazil

I am a software developer focused on Mathematics, IoT and Games.
Homepage: HTML Apps
Blog: www.josecintra.com/blog

K Stock

France

Kevin's introduction to computing was when studying O Level Maths in Belfast, NI.
His first computer was a Science of Cambridge (Sinclair) MK14 with 512 bytes of RAM and a hexadecimal keyboard. He is the creator of Oraperl, the first database-enabled version of Perl, which eventually led to the better-known DBI module.

KjellKod.cc

Software Developer (Senior) LogRhythm

United States

Enjoying Colorado! Family and intense software development.

Kjell is a driven developer with a passion for software development. His focus is on coding, boosting software development, improving development efficiency and turning bad projects into good projects.

Kjell was twice national champion in WUKO and semi-contact Karate and now he focuses his kime towards software engineering, everyday challenges and moose hunting while not being (almost constantly) amazed by his daughter and sons.

Madhur Kapoor

Technical Lead Infosys

India

Madhur is Technology Lead by profession having around 9+ yrs of experience in IT industry working on Microsoft Technologies. Apart from Microsoft Technologies, he also likes to work on Mobile Development in Android.

His Technical expertise include .Net technologies including MVC, WebAPI, Azure.

Apart from coding, he like to play Xbox Games, strum guitar or read books.

My Blog : http://www.codingparadox.com

pi19404

Student IIT Bombay

India

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

Pritam007

Student

India

I am a student, I write codes and develop desktop based applications in my free time. I have developed many codes in C,Java,C++.I have designed applications in .net,VB using SQL database.

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.

Sei Flavius

Engineer @ Curbsidr

United States

Check our technical blog for more tips and articles @ https://curbsidr.com/blog/

SergeiR[MCTS]

United States

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

slaon77

Russian Federation

I'm not a professional programmer, but I'm an engineer and have been ill with programming
since school and now I'm actually writing programs, but... for PLCs.

Stefan_Lang

Software Developer (Senior)

Switzerland

Graduated at TU Darmstadt in Math & CS, with a heavy focus on CAD/CAM

Programming and designing applications in C++ in the areas AI, real-time programming, client-server applications and CAD/CAM since 1985.

Personal interests: AI, computer graphics, games, reading

Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

Software Developer NXP Semiconductors

Romania

My professional background includes knowledge of analyst programmer for Microsoft Visual C++, Microsoft Visual C#, Microsoft Visual Basic, Sun Java, assembly for Intel 80x86 microprocessors, assembly for PIC microcontrollers (produced by Microchip Inc.), relational databases (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server), concurrent version systems, bug tracking systems, web design (HTML5, CSS3, XML, PHP/MySQL, JavaScript).

Thomas Roll

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.

Tim ONeil

Architect MatterFab

United States

Lead architect for software development, MatterFab, Inc.

Yu222

United States

Software Developer in Java, C/C++.

First Prize	Igor Ladnik - How to Read in Memory Code of .NET Application Protected with Anti-Reflector
Prize pool	CodeProject T-Shirt - CodeProject


Second Prize	Babu_Abdulsalam - A Simple C++ Profiler on x64
Prize pool	Bob Sticker - CodeProject


Second Prize	_Maxxx_ - Writing Games with C++ for Android on a PC - Setting Up
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.
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