Best C# Article of April 2017

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A Case Study of Taking a Simple Algorithm from Prototype to "Production" Quality Code

5 Apr 2017Marc Clifton

A somewhat lightweight article, that covers some issues that we should all be conscious of when reworking prototype code (and deciding whether to rework prototype code!) with a case study.

.NET

Dev

Adventures in Debugging: Hosting Processes, Windows Subsystems, and Other Magical Things

1 Aug 2021David A. Gray

Though useful and mostly harmless, pitfalls can lead unwary developers astray.

Easy OpenCL Multiple Device Load Balancing and Pipelining For C#: Cekirdekler API

5 Oct 2017tugrulGtx

Multi-device OpenCL load balancer and pipeliner for C# in few lines of code.

WPF Arc!

14 Apr 2017Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Filling one of the ugliest WPF gaps: Animatable EllipticalArcGeometry and EllipticalArcShape

WPF

VS2008

C# 7.0 – Tuples Re-Engineered

23 Apr 2017Kamran Bilgrami

C# 7.0 – Tuples Re-Engineered

C#7.0

SPA^2 using ASP.Net Core 1.1 + Angular 4.0 - part 8

10 Apr 2017Robert_Dyball

Covering conversion from Angular 2.40 to Angular 4.0 + Publishing the ASP.Net Core / Angular 4 SPA to IIS using VS2017

SPA^2 using ASP.Net Core 1.1 + Angular 4.0 - part 9

19 Apr 2017Robert_Dyball

Publishing the ASP.Net Core 1.1 / Angular 4 SPA to Azure and external IIS hosts. Also covering code cleanup, optimization, bundling and minification. Gulp, Grunt, Webpack and some architecture and development philosophy.

SPA Using Angular 2, ASP.NET Core 1.1 and Entity Framework Core (Part 2)

19 Apr 2017Pankaj Kumar Choudhary

Part 2 of how to set up Angular2 with .NET Core

Undo/Redo Redirection for WPF

6 Apr 2017Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Focused TextBox blocks Undo/Redo invocation of other components, but the problem can be solved comprehensively

XAML

WPF

VS2008

Create Hybrid Test Framework – Work with Config Files

2 Apr 2017Anton Angelov

Improve your test framework so that your tests don't depend on hard-coded numbers. Use configuration files and change the values without compilation.

.NET

MSTest

Geeks Gifts: Surprise a Girl with ASCII Art Flowers Program

29 Apr 2017Anton Angelov

Learn how to create original geek gifts for the most valuable people in your life. I will show you how to create a flowers surprise wrapped in a console application.

.NET

All-Topics

Resource Allocation Problem using ILP (GLOP)

3 Apr 2017ATUL_LOONA

ILP using Google linear optimizations

VS2013

Architect

Using Painless Scripting to Calculate Dates and Produce Buckets in Elasticsearch

3 Apr 2017Paulo Henrique S.S.

Processing data with Painless Scripting

Importing transactions into Mint.com using C# and Selenium

30 Dec 2017MMaley

Using Selenium to automate the mint.com transaction page.

selenium

Using the AWS InstanceType Properties in a C# DropDownCombo

23 Apr 2017netfed

To read out the static properties from the AWS SDK InstanceType class in order to get the AWS instance type names

.NET

AWS

Dev

Azure Local Network Gateway Dynamic IP Update

9 Apr 2017Kyriakos Akriotis

Seamsless S2S VPN without static IP and expensive VPN devices.

Artisan Way of Data Reply

10 Jun 2021Vadim Loboda

A way to deliver more details about an error or exception from an SQL Server database through an ASP.NET web application to a web client.

.NET

ADO.NET

SQL-Server

Enhanced Selenium WebDriver Page Objects through Partial Classes

16 Apr 2017Anton Angelov

Find how to create more refined and more maintainable page objects in WebDriver. These page objects will follow more closely the Single Responsibility Principle.

2. HoloToolkit Unity - Gaze and Airtap

1 Apr 2017Harald Heide Gundersen

Augmented Reality and Hololens is finally a reality and demand for skilled developers will soon emerge.

Augmented-Reality

Deploying Multiple Web Apps to Elastic Beanstalk

20 Apr 2017Kurt Swendson

Deploy an ASP.NET Core and MVC app to same beanstalk server

How To Effectively Unit Test Validation Logic

20 Apr 2017levelnis

How to effectively unit test validation logic

testing

Unicode Art

20 Feb 2021Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Similar to ASCII Art, Unicode Art offers better tonal range, impressive look, and some fun on this sunny April day

The Comma of Didymus

26 Apr 2017Wolfgang Foerster

Or why my guitar is always out of tune

WPF

3D Face Viewer and Matcher

19 Mar 2022Yang Kok Wah

A tool to generate face images and animated gif files for different angles and lighting using only a single face image. Also includes Face Matcher using Microsoft Face API.

Master Chef (Part 4) - ASP.NET Core and Angular 2 CRUD SPA

10 May 2017Fred Song (Melbourne)

Inthis article, I talk about how to use ASP.NET Core MVC, Entity Framework Coreand Angular 2 to implement a CRUD SPA (Single Page Application).

ASP.NET MVC Warning Banner using Bootstrap and AngularUI Bootstrap

27 Apr 2017Bryian Tan

The author is sharing an article on how to create a warning banner and reusable Modal using ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, Bootstrap, AngularJS and AngularUI Bootstrap.

How to Implement OpenWeatherMap API in ASP.NET MVC

19 Oct 2018Yogi S.

Tutorial on implementing OpenWeatherMap API in ASP.NET MVC. It will teach how to get real time weather data of any city of the world.

SPA^2 using ASP.Net Core 1.1 + Angular 4.0 - Part 7

4 Apr 2017Robert_Dyball

Covering conversion from Angular 2.40 to Angular 4.0 + Publishing the ASP.Net Core / Angular 4 SPA to IIS using VS2015.

Solving optimization problems with Microsoft Solver Foundation

22 Apr 2017Juri Krivoruchko

This article shows real-world example of solving LP and NP optimization problems with Microsoft Solver Foundation

.NET

VS2013

SOLID Poker - Part 3 - Battle of the Engines

4 Apr 2017Marco-Hans Van Der Willik

Versatile engine to generate Spec Based Poker Hands, which allows for extensive algorithm based testing

What You See Is What You Update

2 Apr 2017Wendelius

This is an alternative for "What You See Is What You Update"

Chain of Responsibility and Strategy pattern using Task C#

28 Apr 2017Ganesh Prabu

Simple design idea to use Task class and implement batch processing of requests

Angular2 in ASP.NET MVC & Web API - Part 1

11 Jul 2017Yaseer Mumtaz

This article will help beginners to step-up Angular2 in ASP.NET MVC, create the RESTful APIs in ASP.NET MVC Web API and front end in Angular2.

Using Autocomplete in Windows Console Applications

11 Jun 2017Jasper Lammers

Using Autocomplete in Windows Console Applications without losing key functions when using Console.Readkey().

Consumer Driven Contract Testing with PactNet C#

2 Apr 2017Adi_Mag

Consumer driven contract testing with pact

.NET

SignalChat: WPF & SignalR Chat Application

19 Apr 2018Meshack Musundi

A WPF-MVVM chat application that uses SignalR for real-time communication

WPF

SignalR

MVVM

Real-Time React Chart with ReactiveX.Net in Minutes

12 Apr 2017dsuryd

How to add asynchronous, real-time data stream from a cross-platform .NET back-end to your React web app without much effort

Learning C#: Custom Collection Classes in C#

4 Apr 2017Akhil Mittal

This article will explain how one can create their own custom collection class that can be iterated through.

Windows

VS2013

VS2010

Control for Linking Items Between Two ListViews

4 Apr 2017PP RhuM

Sharing code of a control used to links items of two listviews

.NET

VS2013

SimpleRules.Net - Easy to use Rules Engine

13 Apr 2017Karthik. A

SimpleRules.Net is a rules engine that works based on attributes decorated on the properties of a class

HTML

.NET

VS2013

DataAnnotations in Depth

26 Apr 2017Juan Francisco Morales Larios

The best and more complete way to validate our objects in .NET Framework

.NET

Getting Started with Codon - Part 1

4 Apr 2017Daniel Vaughan

Codon is a zero-dependency cross-platform MVVM framework for creating UWP, WPF, and Xamarin based applications.

Visual Studio Collection Visualizers

11 Apr 2017Juan Francisco Morales Larios

Collection Visualizer for Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2017. Preview your collections in debug mode.

VS2015

VS2017

Visual-Studio

C#/.NET Console Argument Parser and Validation with ConsoleCommon

10 Nov 2020Yisrael Lax

.NET Library for automatically validating and casting console input parameters

Application Architecture - First Know Dependency before Dependency Injection

23 Apr 2017Habibur Rony

This article is about dependency, type of Dependency, its use, advantages and disadvantages; as well as it will cover Dependency Inversion, Inverse of Control, and IOC Framework.

Simple OAuth2 Authorization Server with Identity Server and .NET Core

7 May 2017Livio Francescucci

A guided walk-through to build a simple Authorization Server and enable a Client Credentials workflow using Identity Server and .NET Core

Boolean parameters and code readability

25 Apr 2017JamesHurburgh

Annotating parameters vs Rewriting methods for code readability

C#6.0

Dev

code-quality

NHibernate – Introduction, configuration & CRUD with MVC

2 Apr 2017Swinkaran

This practice demonstrates the basics of NHibernate and shows how to integrate NHibernate into .Net & MVC environment with an example CRUD application

Get Target Screen Size of the Hosting Window in WPF

27 Apr 2017Ramachandraiah Pandula

Retrieves height and width of the screen/monitor which is hosting the WPF window or windows control.

Localization for Common Dialogs in Winform

3 Apr 2017Simon M Li

Show different languages of Windows common dialogs, like file open dialog, color palette and font picker

.NET

Current Participants

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

Adi_Mag

India

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

Akhil Mittal

Architect https://codeteddy.com/

India

Akhil Mittal is two times Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) firstly awarded in 2016 and continued in 2017 in Visual Studio and Technologies category, C# Corner MVP since 2013, Code Project MVP since 2014, a blogger, author and likes to write/read technical articles, blogs, and books. Akhil is a technical architect and loves to work on complex business problems and cutting-edge technologies. He has an experience of around 15 years in developing, designing, and architecting enterprises level applications primarily in Microsoft Technologies. He has diverse experience in working on cutting-edge technologies that include Microsoft Stack, AI, Machine Learning, and Cloud computing. Akhil is an MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) in Web Applications and Dot Net Framework.
Visit Akhil Mittal’s personal blog CodeTeddy (CodeTeddy ) for some good and informative articles. Following are some tech certifications that Akhil cleared,
• AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design.
• AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies.
• AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals.
• Microsoft MCTS (70-528) Certified Programmer.
• Microsoft MCTS (70-536) Certified Programmer.
• Microsoft MCTS (70-515) Certified Programmer.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akhilmittal/

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780 members

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.

ATUL_LOONA

India

"It's impossible," said pride. "It's risky," said experience . "It's pointless," said reason "Give it a try." whispered the heart

Another piece of work here are links.

1) http://monk.parseapp.com/index.htm

2) http://picassa.parseapp.com/index.htm

3) http://circles.parseapp.com/

4) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.complex

5) https://www.facebook.com/pages/MagForce/1406500216306629

Bryian Tan

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

I have over 10 years of experience working with Microsoft technologies. I have earned my Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) certification. I'm a highly motivated self-starter with an aptitude for learning new skills quickly.

Daniel Vaughan

Engineer

Switzerland

Daniel is a former senior engineer in Technology and Research at the Office of the CTO at Microsoft, working on next generation systems.

Previously Daniel was a nine-time Microsoft MVP and co-founder of Outcoder, a Swiss software and consulting company.

Daniel is the author of Windows Phone 8 Unleashed and Windows Phone 7.5 Unleashed, both published by SAMS.

Daniel is the developer behind several acclaimed mobile apps including Surfy Browser for Android and Windows Phone. Daniel is the creator of a number of popular open-source projects, most notably Codon.

Would you like Daniel to bring value to your organisation? Please contact

Blog | Twitter

Xamarin Experts
Windows 10 Experts

David A. Gray

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

I deliver robust, clean, adaptable, future-ready applications that are properly documented for users and maintainers. I have deep knowledge in multiple technologies and broad familiarity with computer and software technologies of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

While it isn't perceived as sexy, my focus has always been the back end of the application stack, where data arrives from a multitude of sources, and is converted into reports that express my interpretation of The Fundamental Principle of Tabular Reporting, and are the most visible aspect of the system to senior executives who approve the projects and sign the checks.

While I can design a front end, I prefer to work at the back end, getting data into the system from outside sources, such as other computers, electronic sensors, and so forth, and getting it out of the system, as reports to IDENTIFY and SOLVE problems.

When presented with a problem, I focus on identifying and solving the root problem for the long term.

Specialties: Design: Relational data base design, focusing on reporting; organization and presentation of large document collections such as MSDS libraries

Development: Powerful, imaginative utility programs and scripts for automated systems management and maintenance

Industries: Property management, Employee Health and Safety, Services

Languages: C#, C++, C, Python, VBA, Visual Basic, Perl, WinBatch, SQL, XML, HTML, Javascript

Outside Interests: Great music (mostly, but by no means limited to, classical), viewing and photographing sunsets and clouds, traveling by car on small country roads, attending museum exhibits (fine art, history, science, technology), long walks, especially where there is little or no motor traffic, reading, especially nonfiction and thoughtfully written, thought provoking science fiction

dsuryd

United States

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

Fred Song (Melbourne)

Software Developer (Senior)

Australia

Fred is a senior software developer who lives in Melbourne, Australia. In 1993, he started Programming using Visual C++, Visual Basic, Java, and Oracle Developer Tools. From 2003, He started with .Net using C#, and then expertise .Net development.

Fred is often working with software projects in different business domains based on different Microsoft Technologies like SQL-Server, C#, VC++, ASP.NET, ASP.Net MVC, WCF,WPF, Silverlight, .Net Core and Angular, although he also did some development works on IBM AS400.

Ganesh Prabu

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.

Habibur Rony

Engineer

United States

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

Harald Heide Gundersen

Software Developer (Senior) EVRY

Norway

Knowledgeable of:

Visual Studio 2017
C#, VB, Java
MS SQL Server
Unity3D
Blender 3D
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator Gimp etz.
Virtual- / Augmented- / Mixed- Reality
Developing for HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, Google Cardboard, Hololens

JamesHurburgh

Software Developer (Senior)

Australia

I have been developing software for 22 years, 10 of those professionally. I'm interested in a wide range of topics but tend to focus on things such as efficiency and code readability.

Jasper Lammers

Software Developer (Senior)

Netherlands

Enthusiastic Senior Software Engineer.

Experience working in a multinational and multidisciplinary environment with involvement in all stages of the software development process. Supportive and reliable team player with a strong aim towards software quality and customer satisfaction. Fast and eager learner.

His passion for programming can be traced back to his pre-professional days. Where, even as an elementary school student he could be found on the computer creating computer games. The reason? There is just no feeling like being able to think something up, create it, and then see others enjoy it.

Outside the office, he's a contributor to the Code Project and there is always a project he's working on. When he's not coding he likes to make and edit video’s, can discuss theoretical physics for hours and if you challenge him to a board game, he won’t say no. He can also frequently be found in the gym and travels when he can.

Juan Francisco Morales Larios

Software Developer (Senior) Cecabank

Spain

MVP C# Corner 2017

MAP Microsoft Active Professional 2014

MCPD - Designing and Developing Windows Applications .NET Framework 4
MCTS - Windows Applications Development .NET Framework 4
MCTS - Accessing Data Development .NET Framework 4
MCTS - WCF Development .NET Framework 4

Juri Krivoruchko

Software Developer (Senior)

Ukraine

I make software of the third layer of MOM for manufacturing companies (mainly in the food industry).
In spare time I manage the largest group of .NET developers in LinkedIn.

Kamran Bilgrami

Architect

Canada

Kamran Bilgrami is a seasoned software developer with background in designing mission critical applications for carrier grade telecom networks. More recently he is involved in design & development of real-time biometric based security solutions. His areas of interest include .NET, software security, mathematical modeling and patterns.

He blogs regularly at http://WindowsDebugging.Wordpress.com

Karthik. A

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

Just another passionate software developer!

Some of the contributions to the open source world - a blog engine written in MVC 4 - sBlog.Net. Check it out here. For the codeproject article regarding sBlog.Net click here!

(Figuring out this section!)

Kurt Swendson

Software Developer (Senior) Ellie Mae

United States

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

Kyriakos Akriotis

Architect

Germany

I am a Microsoft Azure Architect living and working in Hamburg Germany. I have almost 20 years of experience in the Microsoft ecosystem. These days I mainly focus on Azure and cloud computing in general.

levelnis

Technical Lead Levelnis Ltd

United Kingdom

Follow along my journey as I create a newsletter about launching websites. Just message me with "I'm in" and I'll add you

Livio Francescucci

Architect

Switzerland

I'm a software engineer, passionate about software development since I was 8yrs old.
I (almost) always worked with Microsoft technologies: from C++, VB and classic ASP, in the early 2thousands I moved to .NET Technologies...
My best expertise is about C# development on Web & Windows platforms, software architectures and design / testing patterns.

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.

Marco-Hans Van Der Willik

Architect

South Africa

Marco-Hans architected and developed Business Integration Software that integrates South Africa's entire food retail industry with Rhodes Food Group. His software integrates 5 JSE Listed, Blue Chip Companies: Rhodes Food Group, Shoprite Holdings, Pic n Pay, Woolworths, The Spar Group.

No business challenge is beyond understanding; no solution is out of reach. Perfect engineering at every level is priority. Marco-Hans has architected and developed large scale solutions for local and international blue chip companies in industries ranging from banking through retail and manufacturing to distribution.

Meshack Musundi

Software Developer

Kenya

Experienced C# software developer with a passion for WPF.

Awards,

CodeProject MVP 2013
CodeProject MVP 2012
CodeProject MVP 2021

MMaley

United States

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

netfed

Software Developer (Senior)

Norway

Like programming in C#. Systems integration as a speciality. Love electronics and the lates rave, iot.

Pankaj Kumar Choudhary

Student

India

Pankaj Kumar Choudhary loves Microsoft and Database technologies. He has experience on several database technology like SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, PostgreSQL . He has knowledge of several technology like Asp.Net MVC, Entity Framework , Android, Php, AngularJS, Node.js, Angular2, React, Ionic and Android.

Paulo Henrique S.S.

Software Developer (Senior)

Australia

Software developer. I've been working with the design and coding of several .NET solutions over the past 12 years.

Brazilian, living in Australia currently working with non-relational searching engine and BI.

PP RhuM

France

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

Ramachandraiah Pandula

United States

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

Robert_Dyball

Software Developer (Senior)

Australia

Robert works as a full stack developer in the financial services industry. He's passionate about sustainable software development, building solid software and helping to grow teams. He's had 20+ years of development experience across many areas that include scheduling, logistics, telecommunications, manufacturing, health, insurance and government regulatory and licensing sectors. Outside work he also enjoys electronics, IOT and helping a number of non-profit groups.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Architect

United States

Physics, physical and quantum optics, mathematics, computer science, control systems for manufacturing, diagnostics, testing, and research, theory of music, musical instruments… Contact me: https://www.SAKryukov.org

Simon M Li

China

I am C++ developer with 14 years experience. I am good at native programming and debugging. I am studying .net now.

Swinkaran

Software Developer (Senior) Risk Wizard

Australia

Swinkaran Alias Srikaran N Sarma

tugrulGtx

Turkey

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

Vadim Loboda

Russian Federation

"It is best to erase all personal history, because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people."

Journey to Ixtlan by Carlos Castaneda

Wendelius

Architect

Europe

Biography provided

Wolfgang Foerster

Software Developer (Senior)

Germany

I started programming in Basic, Pascal, Fortran and C in the late 1980s during my last semesters at the University of Bonn, Germany, where I studied Physics. As a professional software engineer I moved on to C++ and C# in the field of scientific data acquisition, data analysis and - my favourite - data visualization.

From the very start of my life as developer I have been a fan of graphics, especially 3D graphics. I have been working with OpenGL, XNA and WPF 3D. Planning to start with SharpDX in the near future.

Besides programming I love making music (guitar and violin), doing sports (rock climbing and volleyball) and spending time with my beloved family.

Yang Kok Wah

Software Developer (Senior)

Singapore

Coder. Hacker. Fixer.

Yaseer Mumtaz

Architect

United States

A Solutions Architect with more than fourteen years of experience in application development. I mostly work in .NET, Angular, MEAN stack technologies and love to share what I do and learn during my day to day job. Please check my tutorials and blog:
https://fullstackhub.io
https://fullstackhubblog.com

Yisrael Lax

United States

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

Yogi S.

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

Programming is Fun.
I am a Senior Software Developer working in ASP.NET, MVC, C#, jQuery, HTML, Razor and more. I also write programming based tutorials in my own website, codeproject, dzone and few more. Please connect with my social accounts.

My favorite area is jQuery. Visit my website for jQuery Tutorials in basically every topics (beginners to advanced programmers)
Thanks !

First Prize	Yang Kok Wah - 3D Face Viewer and Matcher
Prize pool	CodeProject Mug - CodeProject


Second Prize	Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov - Unicode Art
Prize pool	Bob Sticker - CodeProject

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