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Current Entries

Articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered.

Interoping .NET and C++ through Registration-free COM

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2 Aug 2017Marius Bancila

Using managed COM objects in C++ without registering the server in Windows Registry

VisualC++

C++

.NET

COM

Using Stored Procedure, User Defined Function and Views in a Custom Repository with ASP.NET Boilerplate

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21 Feb 2018Yunus Emre Kalkan

How to create custom repostories in ASP.NET Boilerplate and use stored procedure, view, user defined functions inside your repository

C#

entity-framework

ASP.NET-Core

ADO.NET

Mission Impossible: Migrating .NET Core 1.x to 2.0

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19 Aug 2017Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

.NET Core 2.0 brings a lot of improvements to the system, and it brings a lot of pain to the developers as well. I had a lot of problems upgrading .NET Core 1.x apps to .NET Core 2.0; I yet have to feel the promise it makes about performance and so, but let us see how to upgrade our existing applica

T-SQL

C#7.0

SQL

.NET-Core

ASP.NET-Core

entity-framework

Dev

Remove Duplicate Rows with CTE

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14 Aug 2017Ehtesam Ahmed

This article gives you quick tip about how you can remove duplicate rows easily using common table expression in SQL

SQL

Anoncrypt-Text Encryption and Decryption Website in Java (Struts2)

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5 Aug 2017Rishabh Upadhyay

Anoncrypt by HTCoders is a web-based Text Encryption and Decryption Project developed using Java Technology following Struts2 Framework

Java

J2EE

Oracle

MEAN Stack with Angular 4, Auth0 Auth & JWT Authorization - Part 2

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28 Aug 2017Yaseer Mumtaz

Angular 4 Client Development

CSS

MongoDB

bootstrap

Node.js

AngularJs

Visual-Studio

FloatingBridge

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22 Aug 2017JUST_Neeraj 1 alternative  

A Simple Messaging\ Workflow \ETL system on MySQL and .NET

C#

.NET4.5

.NET

MySQL

Dev

Azure SQL vs AWS RDS: Performance and Cost

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11 Aug 2017Jeremy Hutchinson

Azure SQL vs AWS RDS - performance and cost

SQL

WCF

NoSQL - Second Generation Database

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16 Aug 2017adriancs

An introduction of Unstructured Data or Document Database

NoSQL

Dev's User Guide To SqlLocalDb (Sql Express)

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14 Aug 2017raddevus

Learn the basics (and challenges) of using LocalDb to make your SQL dev easier and localized using tools like SqlLocalDb, sqlcmd and built-in Visual Studio server explorer. Now, also includes SqlCmd scripting.

SQL

.NET

database

Table-Valued Functions in SQL Server

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17 Aug 2017Ben Richardson

In this article we’re going to take a look at the functions that return table type data - Inline Table-Valued functions and Multi-statement Table-Valued Functions (MSTVF).

SQL

Dependency Injection using Unity Framework with ASP.NET MVC

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1 Aug 2017 Saineshwar Bageri

In this article, we are going to have a look on how touse Unity framework with MVC to remove hard code dependencies from Application.

SQL

C#

MVC

Unity

ASP.NET

Enabling SQL Express User

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22 Aug 2017ambilykk

How to enable SQL Express user

SQLEXPRESS

SqlDataSource

Dev

SQL. Fast GUID List Generator

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30 Aug 2017Anton Burtsev

If you want your database to be fast with a huge amount of data, you should test it with large test database.

SQL

Current Participants

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

Saineshwar Bageri

Technical Lead

 India

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional
Code Project Most Valuable Author
C# Corner Most Valuable Professional

I am Senior Technical lead Working on.Net Web Technology
ASP.NET MVC,.Net Core,ASP.NET CORE, C#, SQL Server, MYSQL, MongoDB, Windows

adriancs

Software Developer

 Other

Programming is an art.

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

Software Developer

 Pakistan

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan is a computer programmer from Rabwah, Pakistan, currently living in The Netherlands, likes .NET Core and Node.js for regular everyday development. Afzaal Ahmad works at Adyen as a Developer Advocate.

He is an expert with Cloud, Mobile, and API development. Afzaal has experience with the Azure platform and likes to build cross-platform libraries/software with .NET Core. Afzaal is an Alibaba Cloud MVP, twice he has been awarded Microsoft MVP status for his community leadership in software development, four times CodeProject MVP status for technical writing and mentoring, and 4 times C# Corner MVP status in the same field.

ambilykk

Architect TCS

 India

I have over 10 years of experience working on Microsoft Technologies. I am carrying the passion on Microsoft technologies specifically on web technologies such as ASP.Net, HTML5, jQuery and Ajax. My interests also include TFS, Azure, Windows 8, Visual Studio 2010. Technology adoption and learning is my key strength and technology sharing is my passion.

Microsoft MVP: Connected Service Developer

Anton Burtsev

Web Developer

 Russian Federation

I have started as a C++ developer in far 2000. I'd been developing banking and treasury software for 3 years using C++. In 2003 I switched to .NET at DELL. After that I worked as a project manager on different projects (internal audit, treasury automation, publishing house automation, etc.). Since 2009 I own a small software company specialized in SaaS services and develop a DotNetNuke modules.

Ben Richardson

 Canada

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

Ehtesam Ahmed

Software Developer CIMSOLUTIONS

 Netherlands

I am working in the software development industry for more than 6 years. I have had the opportunity to work with clients mostly in UK, Ireland and Netherland. Have worked for several sports clients on their membership solution and also other clients with administrative solution. I have strong knowledge on Microsoft .Net technologies. Love to work with Javascript and have strong knowledge on it. Been working with several javascript libraries like jQuery, knockout.js, Angular, React, backbone.js etc. I was heavily involved with the development of GoMembership, one of the most promising membership solution in UK and expanding in other countries.
Always willing to learn and looking for new challenges. Most importantly I am a simple guy who believes in hard work.

Jeremy Hutchinson

Software Developer

 United States

I’m a Software Engineer at Microsoft working on the Azure Portal. Before that I spent about 20 years developed various business applications at a number of different companies. I have a passion for writing clean, scalable code and sharing what I’ve learned with others.

I also help run the Casco Bay .Net User Group

JUST_Neeraj

Architect

 Norway

I have 14 years of IT experience on the .NET Stack. I am back-end\middleware expert focussing on databases, APIs and integration systems. I have been focussing a lot on AWS in the last 2 years.
https://github.com/WorkMaze

Marius Bancila

Architect Visma Software

 Romania

Marius Bancila is the author of Modern C++ Programming Cookbook and The Modern C++ Challenge. He has been a Microsoft MVP since 2006, initially for VC++ and nowadays for Development technologies. He works as a system architect for Visma, a Norwegian-based company. He works with various technologies, both managed and unmanaged, for desktop, cloud, and mobile, mainly developing with VC++ and VC#. He keeps a blog at http://www.mariusbancila.ro/blog, focused on Windows programming. You can follow Marius on Twitter at @mariusbancila.

raddevus

Software Developer (Senior) RADDev Publishing

 United States

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

Rishabh Upadhyay

Student University of Allahabad

 India

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

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

Yunus Emre Kalkan

 Turkey

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

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