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Neat Tricks for Effortlessly Formatting Currency in C#

14 Sep 2015Anton Angelov

The article presents how to create a library of generic extension methods to effortlessly formatting currency in C#.

.NET

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Which Works Faster- Null Coalescing Operator or GetValueOrDefault or Conditional Operator

27 Sep 2015Anton Angelov

Benchmark, which works faster for getting the default value for a nullable type, Null Coalescing Operator or GetValueOrDefault or Conditional Operator.

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Beginning Hybrid Mobile App Development with Corona SDK - Display Objects

14 Sep 2015Anele 'Mashy' Mbanga

Display objects and get user input with Corona SDK and Lua

Introduction to KnockoutJS

8 Sep 2015chetanvihite

Introduction Knockout, developed by Steve Sanderson, is free open source JavaScript library available under MIT license. It was first released in 2010 and since its initial release it has caught attention of industry and has been very popular. It is … Continue reading →

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Extension Methods in C# Explained

14 Sep 2015DotNetForAll

Extension methods is a feature which was introduced in C# 3.0. Extension methods in C#

.NET

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Three.JS Neon Lights

6 Sep 2015GhalebBadran

Overview While I was reading the Aug 2015 issue of the MSDN magazine, I've noticed that they wrote an article about the three.js JavaScript 3D library which is been out there for the past 3 years. ThreeJS Overview [1] Three.js allows the creation of GPU-accelerated 3D animations using the Java

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IIS is Dead - Long Live IIS!

9 Sep 2015ZteffDK

IIS is dead - Long live IIS!

Visual-Studio

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IIS

My Internship at Yahoo!

13 Sep 2015Saleh Hamadeh

Interning at Yahoo! was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me. At the time of my internship, Yahoo had a lot of cash from its investments, and it was investing heavily on new products. It was a time of big change for the company.

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Using DeviceFamily specific views with Caliburn.Micro

8 Sep 2015Bogdan Bujdea

I was reading an article about building adaptive layout in Windows 10 with RelativePanel and AdaptiveTrigger, and one of the topics was about device family specific views.

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Building cross platform Mobile Applications using Apache Cordova – Part 1

8 Sep 2015chetanvihite

Building cross platform Mobile Applications using Apache Cordova – Part 1 Apache Cordova is an open source platform for building cross platform mobile applications that runs on several mobile devices including iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows etc. Cordova facilitates writing … Continue r

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A Detailed Walkthrough of ASP.net MVC Request Life Cycle

8 Sep 2015chetanvihite

MVC Request Life Cycle Life cycle of MVC request is a series of steps involved in processing client request. Regardless of technology and platforms almost all the web frameworks have one or other type of Request life cycle … Continue reading →

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phpGrid and Zend Framework Integration

13 Sep 2015Swift coder

phpGrid and Zend Framework Integration

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Custom View Engine in ASP.NET 5

19 Sep 2015Anuraj Parameswaran

This post is about implementing Custom View Engine in ASP.NET 5. Normally ASP.NET MVC looks for view files (*.cshtml), inside Views/Controller folder. If you want to configure it to some other location, you can manage it via custom view engine. Here is the implementation.

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Creating ASP.NET 5 Web Application using Yeoman Generator

20 Sep 2015Anuraj Parameswaran

In this post we will explore the ASP.NET 5 Yeoman generator. What is Yeoman? Yeoman is a set of tools that facilitates building web applications. To use Yeoman, you need to install nodejs and yo package. So here is the installation steps for ASP.NET 5 Yeoman generator.

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Taking Over the Asylum

23 Sep 2015Duncan Edwards Jones

An analysis of what is needed to automate or eliminate the discipline of "project manager"

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Dev

Setup and Deployment of Windows Application with SQL Server Database using Visual Studio 2010

25 Sep 2015Rajneesh Kumar Verma

Deploy a Windows Application with SQL Server Database using Visual Studio 2010

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Performing a REST call from Protractor e2e tests

6 Sep 2015Gjermund Bjaanes

Cleaning up between tests I am currently trying to get some good end-to-end (e2e with protractor, which is a great tool!) tests running for my Angular app ‘Extreme Results’ (wrote a bit about the app here). I very quickly found a big problem.

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A slight enhancement on Developing tvOS Apps with Swift

11 Sep 2015PeteBarber

Apple announced tvOS yesterday. Downloading Xcode 7.1 Beta comes with the SDK and simulator for tvOS apps.

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The Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship: Asia Pacific

13 Sep 2015zoufeiyy

http://www.google.com/anitaborg/apac/ “Her capacity to mix technical expertise and a relentless vision inspired, motivated and moved women to embrace technology instead of avoiding or ignoring it.” Dr.

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Typescript – Classes – Constructors

16 Sep 2015Anooj Nair

Typescript – Classes – Constructors

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How to develop universal apps for IoT device

19 Sep 2015Anuraj Parameswaran

This post is about developing apps for your IoT device. In the last post I mentioned about installing and booting Windows IoT core on Raspberry PI 2. In this post we will look into the application development for IoT devices.

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What is the Symbol Table and What is the Global Offset Table?

21 Sep 2015Grant Curell

Introduction When I first sought to understand the symbol table and the global offset table (GOT) I found bits and pieces of information, but I had trouble getting the whole picture.

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Vitruvius: Developing Kinect apps in minutes

25 Sep 2015Vangos Pterneas

During the past few months, I have been quite inactive. It was for a good reason, though. My team and I have been working on an ambitious project that helps Kinect developers build apps faster. I would like to introduce Vitruvius.

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Url routing in MVC application

27 Sep 2015Passion4Code

Introduction There exists an assumption that there is a direct relationship between the requested URLs and the files stored on the server.

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Create a list item in another site collection

28 Sep 2015Member 12014821

It is much easier to create or update a list item in another site collection using JSOM. We can easily do it as follows: I recommend using this method instead of the REST API to create a list item in another site collection.

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Understanding MeasureOverride and ArrangeOverride

29 Sep 2015DotNetForAll

The article will take you through the layout process in WPF.

Robert’s Rules of Coders: #6 Don’t Use Magic Numbers

8 Sep 2015Rob Kraft

When someone refers to a magic numbers in software, they probably have one of the following three scenarios in mind: A value that is used to determine the behavior of the code, but the value itself provides no meaning A value that has been hard coded in several locations in the program, that is

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Out and REF in C#

28 Sep 2015Shivprasad koirala

This blog explains C# Out and REF parameters in detail.

Passing parameter by value and by reference

31 Aug 2015DotNetForAll

Parameters Introduction As we know that C# is an object oriented programming language and being object oriented means that the users of the objects need to interact with the data members of the objects and this can be achieved by using the member functions of the class.

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Methods Part 1 – Constructors in C#

6 Sep 2015DotNetForAll

Constructors in C# In this series of the articles I want to cover the different type of methods being present in the .NET framework. The first type of the methods which I want to cover is the constructors in C#.

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Check for any unsaved changes in page

29 Sep 2015Sibeesh Passion

In this post we will discuss how we can check for any unsaved changes in the page by using JQuery. Normally this may need to be implemented in an application where we need to give any alert if any user try to reload the page when there any unsaved changes in the page. I hope […]

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ZigZag-Conversion-Problem

4 Sep 2015Mr.PoorEnglish

Usage of Linq and anonymous Methods help keep code briefly

Python

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algorithm

Advanced Strategy Design Pattern in Automation Testing

7 Oct 2015Anton Angelov

Elaborate further on the Advanced Strategy Design Pattern in automation tests. Usages such as combining multiple strategies in one test or test validations.The post Advanced Strategy Design Pattern in Automation Testing appeared first on Automate The Planet.

Top 14 Must Have Free Extensions For Visual Studio 2015

15 Sep 2015Hamid Mosalla

Here is a list of the top 14 must have free extensions for Visual Studio 2015.

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Why I switched to GulpJS

29 Sep 2015Eric Anderson IO

I will start this post off by saying that I like GruntJS and I have nothing against those who continue to use it. Grunt improved my workflow dramatically by providing a way for me to automate various cumbersome tasks like minification, JSLint and unit tests to name a few.

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Developing Universal Windows Apps using Widows 10 & Visual Studio 2015

24 Sep 2015Rajneesh Kumar Verma

This article will let you to start developing Universal Windows App in windows 10 using Visual Studio 2015

Backbone.js – Basic Understanding of Model

29 Sep 2015MDubey1987

In this article we will learn about Model in Backbone.js.

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Use IoC Container to Create Page Object Pattern on Steroids

23 Sep 2015Anton Angelov

Create automation framework based on Page Object Pattern. Detailed overview how to create singleton pages via IoC container.

.NET

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Create Tooltip Without Any Plugins

29 Sep 2015Sibeesh Passion

In this post we will discuss how we can create a tool tip by using JQuery.Here we are not going to use any plugins to create the tool tip. We will use only jquery and html table for this demo. I hope you will like this. Background Recently I was going through a situation to […]

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Using jquery ui autocomplete with ASP.NET 5

19 Sep 2015Anuraj Parameswaran

This post is about how to use jquery ui autocomplete with ASP.NET 5. Long back I wrote a blog post about using JQuery autocomplete with ASP.NET. Here is the sample action methods, which returns an array of strings – programming languages from JQuery UI autocomplete demo.

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Implementing basic Captcha in ASP.NET 5 MVC 6

19 Sep 2015Anuraj Parameswaran

Long back I wrote some posts about implementing captcha in ASP.NET MVC. This post is about implementing captcha in ASP.NET5 MVC 6. How it works – while loading the page, captcha tag helper displays an image, and set a hidden field in the page with an encrypted value.

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Dreaming of Being a JavaScript Expert

11 Sep 2015Bobby Lough

If I only knew JavaScript...

Javascript

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Understanding Cyclomatic Complexity and Its Importance in Code Analysis Metrics

9 Sep 2015chetanvihite

Understanding cyclomatic complexity and its importance in Code Analysis Metrics

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Installing Windows 10 IoT core to RasberryPI 2

19 Sep 2015Anuraj Parameswaran

At //Build 2015, Microsoft demonstrated a version of Windows running on a Raspberry Pi 2 board. Last month Microsoft released Windows 10 officially. This post is about installing and booting Windows 10 IoT core.

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Current Participants

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

Shivprasad koirala

Architect https://www.questpond.com

India

Anele 'Mashy' Mbanga

Software Developer SITHASO HOLDINGS (PTY) LTD

South Africa

I'm a Bachelor of Commerce graduate, fell inlove with ICT years back with VB5. Used Pick & System Builder to create a windows app. Very curious, developed my first web database app called Project.Show using ExtJS. Published on Google Play Store, learned JQuery Mobile, a project manager at best. My first intranet app eFas with MySQL.

Fear closes people to a lot of things and we hold ourselves back being held by it. Thus the sooner you believe you can't do something, the sooner everything will work towards that belief. Believe in yourself at all times because you can do anything you set your mind to it!

I have a very beautiful woman and four kids, the best joys in the world. East London, South Africa is currently home.

Awards:

Best Mobile Article of February 2015 (First Prize)
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/880508/Create-a-CRUD-web-app-using-JQuery-Mobile-and-Loca

Best Mobile Article of May 2015 (Second Prize)
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/991974/Creating-JQuery-Mobile-CRUD-Apps-using-JQM-Show-Ge

Apps
Bible.Show (Android Store App)
https://www.facebook.com/bibleshow
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.b4a.BibleShow

JQM.Show (Android Store App)
https://www.facebook.com/jqmshow
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.b4a.JQMShow

CodeProject.Show (An offline CodeProject Article writer)
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/993453/CodeProject-Show-A-CodeProject-offline-article-wri

Anooj Nair

Software Developer

India

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

Anton Angelov

CEO Automate The Planet

Bulgaria

CTO and Co-founder of Automate The Planet Ltd, inventor of BELLATRIX Test Automation Framework, author of "Design Patterns for High-Quality Automated Tests: High-Quality Test Attributes and Best Practices" in C# and Java. Nowadays, he leads a team of passionate engineers helping companies succeed with their test automation. Additionally, he consults companies and leads automated testing trainings, writes books, and gives conference talks. You can find him on LinkedIn every day.

Anuraj Parameswaran

Technical Lead

India

Working as Tech. Lead

My blog : dotnetthoughts.net.
You can follow me in twitter : @anuraj

Bobby Lough

United States

Full stack Java engineer looking to enhance the quality of the code around me. Find out more about me at http://www.bobbylough.com

Bogdan Bujdea

Software Developer Feel IT

Romania

Hey! I'm Bogdan Bujdea, a software developer from Romania. I started to learn programming since my first year of highschool with C++. During my time in college I tried various languages like Java, C#, Haskell, Javascript, Python, etc. but my favorite remains C#.
I started my career with Thinslices as a Windows 8 developer, but now I work for Feel IT Services as a Windows Phone developer.

chetanvihite

United States

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

DotNetForAll

Software Developer (Senior)

India

I have 8 years of experience of mostly developing the .NET windows as well as web applications. Passionate about learning and sharing.

Visit my personal blog to know more about the .NET technology and increase your knowledge about C# and .NET. You can always follow me on twitter @dotnetforall.

Duncan Edwards Jones

Software Developer

Ireland

C# / SQL Server developer
Microsoft MVP (Azure) 2017
Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic) 2006, 2007

Eric Anderson IO

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

If you liked my post visit my website at http://ericanderson.io

I'm a software engineer, gamer and musician who loves all things .NET.
When I'm not spending time with my family I love learning new things about programming, talking about tech and teaching people how to code.

Currently I'm working with C#, ASP.NET, Angular.js and Node.js.

If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to reach our to me!

Need a developer to help turn your vision into reality?

I'm available for freelance work!
Send all inquiries to: freelance@ericanderson.io

GhalebBadran

Software Developer (Senior)

United Arab Emirates

www.ghalebbadran.com

Gjermund Bjaanes

Software Developer

Norway

My name is Gjermund Bjaanes. I am 25 years old, born and raised in Norway. I am a developer, geek and enthusiast in general. I’m passionate about programming and software engineering in general. Currently I focus on web development and mobile development on my free time.

I am a software engineer and developer by trade and by passion.

I have always had a very enthusiastic interest for computers, dated to when I was little. It became an obsession for programming, IT, gadgets and new technology. I love being a developer, and that is why I do it as much as I can!

Other than that; In my spare time I like to code, read, cook, hang out with friends and to work out.

Grant Curell

United States

Grant is a specialist in computer security and networking. He holds a bachelors degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Ohio State University. Certs: CCNA, CCNP, CCDA, CCDP, Sec+, and GCIH.

Hamid Mosalla

Software Developer

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Programming is my passion, because I find it so intellectually rewarding. I currently work as a back-end web developer, using Microsoft technology stack, I also blog about my experiences and contribute to open source projects on my free time.

MDubey1987

Web Developer HCL Technologies

India

Manish Dubey
Sr.Software Engineer
HCL Technologies

Member 12014821

India

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

Mr.PoorEnglish

Germany

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

Passion4Code

Software Developer (Senior)

India

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

PeteBarber

Team Leader

United Kingdom

My day job is mostly working in C++ with a bit of C#. I write a fair amount of command line based tools and really wish they could have a GUI front-end to them hence why I spend my spare time working with WPF.

I started a blog few years back but didn't do a lot with it. I've started describing some of the interesting programming things I come across on it. Please take a look.

Rajneesh Kumar Verma

Architect

India

Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate - Cloud Platform || MCSD - App Builder || MCSA - Web Applications || Microsoft Community Contributor (MCC)
A fond lover of Microsoft .NET Technologies including ASP.NET MVC, AZURE etc.

Rob Kraft

Software Developer (Senior) Kraft Software LLC

United States

Rob Kraft is an independent software developer for Kraft Software LLC. He has been a software developer since the mid 80s and has a Master's Degree in Project Management. Rob lives near Kansas City, Missouri.

Saleh Hamadeh

Software Developer

United States

First of all, I cannot describe how much I adore math, computer science, and physics. I started coding when I was thirteen. I learned C at that age, and then I moved to learning C++, Java, Python, and, of course, HTML, CSS, Javascript, and PHP. When I was young, my major motivation for learning programming was to create games. I developed around a dozen games for my PC and Wii when I was in high school. At 17, I bricked my Wii by trying to access the system files, but never mind that now.

In last couple of years, I spent most of my time learning the newest technologies. I learned Android programming two years ago, and as of now, I published two apps on Google Play. Then, I completed two Udacity courses and UC Berkley's Artificial Intelligence course on EdX.

My current interests are:
* Managing complexity of large-scale applications.
* Marketing automation and customer engagement using artificial intelligence.

When I am not coding, I will probably be walking around downtown Kennesaw, reading, blogging, or hanging out at Starbucks.

Sibeesh Passion

Software Developer

Germany

I am Sibeesh Venu, an engineer by profession and writer by passion. I’m neither an expert nor a guru. I have been awarded Microsoft MVP 3 times, C# Corner MVP 5 times, DZone MVB. I always love to learn new technologies, and I strongly believe that the one who stops learning is old.

My Blog: Sibeesh Passion
My Website: Sibeesh Venu

Swift coder

Web Developer

United States

He likes programming and iPod.

Vangos Pterneas

CEO LightBuzz

United States

Vangos Pterneas is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in the Kinect technology. He helps companies from all over the world grow their revenue by creating profitable software products. Vangos is the founder of LightBuzz Inc. and author of two technical books.

zoufeiyy

China

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

ZteffDK

Team Leader Hi3g

Denmark

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

First Prize	Hamid Mosalla - Top 14 Must Have Free Extensions For Visual Studio 2015
Prize pool	CodeProject T-Shirt - CodeProject


Second Prize	Rob Kraft - Robert’s Rules of Coders: #6 Don’t Use Magic Numbers
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.
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Articles may only be considered for a single category. If an article is eligible for multiple categories (for example, it pertains to both the C# and Web Dev categories), CodeProject editors and judges will decide which category the article shall be entered in.
No author can be nominated twice in the same category.
If an author writes has two separate articles, each article may be considered in their respective categories provided none of the aforementioned rules are broken. For example, if an author wrote two separate articles, one related to C# and one related to VB.NET, the author and articles could be nominated in the C# and VB.NET competitions, respectively.
In the event an author wins multiple competitions, and repeat, identical prizes, the number of prizes issued is solely at the discretion of the prize issuer.
In the event an article has multiple authors and/or contributors, the number of prizes issued is solely at the discretion of the prize issuer.
In the event of a tie, the number of prizes issued is solely at the discretion of the prize issuer.
Multiple votes from the same IP will be automatically disqualified.
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