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Best "Everything Else" Article of August 2017

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Current Entries

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

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7 Jun 2023Andy Allinger
Add features to k-means for missing data, mixed data, and choosing the number of clusters
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29 Aug 2017Andrew Kirillov
The article describes cam2web project - an open source application aimed for streaming cameras as MJPEG streams.
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29 Aug 2017Arthur V. Ratz
How to implement k-means clustering algorithm to perform graphical raster image segmentation
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2 Aug 2017Marius Bancila
Using managed COM objects in C++ without registering the server in Windows Registry
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7 Aug 2017Marc Clifton
Not very classy in C#, but pretty classy in F#.
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27 Aug 2017Daniel Vaughan
Use, and learn how to build, a Markdown Monster add-in that outputs HTML compatible with CodeProject's article submission wizard.
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29 Aug 2017Kamran Bilgrami
Scrollbars re-engineered
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30 Aug 2017simonp_ca
Use Excel worksheet's cells as pixels to render real image (for fun and experiment)
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8 Aug 2017Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan, Iqra Ali
Since I wrote an article previously, I had been asked on various occasions to share the code on Yahoo! or Bing, etc. I wanted to write an article, with the code, which covers all of those vendors as well.
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9 Dec 2018Duncan Edwards Jones
Using Azure Event Grid and Durable Functions as the backbone for a serverless CQRS architecture
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24 Aug 2017Daniel Vaughan
Using steganography to conceal text within a document or watermark a code file, using a whitespace encoder. Hide text in plain sight!
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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
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29 Aug 2017morzel
OpenCV in .NET for beginners (Emgu CV 3.2, Visual Studio 2017)
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16 Aug 2017Clifford Nelson
This is a simple behavior that can be attached to a ContentControl and allows zooming and dragging the Content.
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8 Aug 2017LostTime76
A custom panel which allows elements to be resized using splitters
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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
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18 Aug 2017VisualMonsters
Magic blocks -Simple logical game tutorial
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26 Aug 2017Dirk Bahle
Implementing a WPF/MVVM Control libray (with backend) that manages a Most Recently Used list of files.
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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
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18 Nov 2023Erik Drent
A simple POCO mapper for EPPlus
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8 Aug 2017Wajeeh Ahmed
This article is about launching a secondary process from within a process and verifying the successful launch.
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2 Aug 2017Clifford Nelson
Fairly straight forward way of binding in a HierarchicalDataTemplate or DataTemplate to the parent ViewModel when using the TreeView control.
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28 Aug 2017Ravimal Bandara
A new contrast enhancement algorithm which is fast, simple and powerful by means of boosting and illumination normalization. It was invented accidentally but the performed well in 2 different applications i.e. superficial vein enhancement and blood vessel enhancement in retinal fundus images.
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1 Aug 2017Andy Galluzzi
NAT traversal for Software Developers
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18 Aug 2017David_Wimbley
Scheduling dependent jobs sequentially with Quartz.net
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2 Aug 2017Nikita D. Sinelnikov
Creating a pretty-view XML for web applications (or other needs)
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3 Aug 2017DataBytzAI
How to use Terraform to build out a more complex network
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11 Aug 2017Mahmoud Samir Fayed
Practical introduction to using the Natural Language Programming Library in the Ring programming language version 1.4.1
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6 Jul 2021VisualMonsters
Simple game "table football", you can easily create and play with your friends and family
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7 Aug 2017FiegeU
A worktime tracking solution that reads RFID tags on a Raspberry based terminal that is integrated to Dynamics AX 2009
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8 Aug 2017Rion Williams
How to make a switch as a software developer
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11 Aug 2017Jeremy Hutchinson
Azure SQL vs AWS RDS - performance and cost
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22 Aug 2017JUST_Neeraj 1 alternative  
A Simple Messaging\ Workflow \ETL system on MySQL and .NET
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25 Aug 2017Cédric Bourgeois
How to make it easier to manage StyleSelector and TemplateSelector with AvalonDock, especially when the selection is based on the ViewModel type only.
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8 Jan 2020Tomáš Růt
Explanation of BobX application store management for bobril
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7 Sep 2017Christian Specht
How to delete an SSH key from Git Gui
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7 Aug 2017John Newcombe
Hopfield Neural Network for Character Recognition in .NET and C#
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6 Aug 2017Gordon Beeming
A cool feature of Chrome and how you can be more productive with VSTS search
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17 Aug 2017Intel
Two of our interns in the DPI Community Evangelism group, Isabel Zhang and Milly Xun, have created an interesting IoT/Robotics project over the past two months.
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30 Aug 2017morzel
Detecting a drone - OpenCV in .NET for beginners (Emgu CV 3.2, Visual Studio 2017)
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17 Aug 2017Dennis Wu CA
A demo that generates a simple Excel spreadsheet with subscripts and superscripts
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18 Aug 2017Intel
In this example application, you'll learn how to interact with the Terasic DE10-Nano board's digital I/O
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16 Aug 2017adriancs
An introduction of Unstructured Data or Document Database
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17 Aug 2017Member 13359958
Install Pre-requisites Install hadoop 2.7.3  as detailed in this blog Install Netbeans 8.2, download and install instructions are on netbeans download page - https://netbeans.org/downloads/ Install maven sudo apt-get install maven This post shows how to use netbeans IDE to write hadoop java p
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7 Aug 2017John Newcombe
6502 Cross Assembly for the Apple II using MacOS
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7 Aug 2017John Newcombe
Genetic Algorithm Framework
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22 Aug 2017Rion Williams
NodeServices: Where Javascript and .NET Meet Back on the Other Side
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7 Aug 2017John Newcombe
Genetic Algorithm Framework
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7 Aug 2017John Newcombe
The Genetic Algorithm Framework

Current Participants

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

Chief Technology Officer SocialVoice.AI
Ireland Ireland
Allen is CTO of SocialVoice (https://www.socialvoice.ai), where his company analyses video data at scale and gives Global Brands Knowledge, Insights and Actions never seen before! Allen is a chartered engineer, a Fellow of the British Computing Society, a Microsoft mvp and Regional Director, and C-Sharp Corner Community Adviser and MVP. His core technology interests are BigData, IoT and Machine Learning.

When not chained to his desk he can be found fixing broken things, playing music very badly or trying to shape things out of wood. He currently completing a PhD in AI and is also a ball throwing slave for his dogs.
Software Developer
Other Other
Programming is an art.
Software Developer
Pakistan 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.
Software Developer IBM
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Started software development at about 15 years old and it seems like now it lasts most part of my life. Fortunately did not spend too much time with Z80 and BK0010 and switched to 8086 and further. Similar with programming languages – luckily managed to get away from BASIC and Pascal to things like Assembler, C, C++ and then C#. Apart from daily programming for food, do it also for hobby, where mostly enjoy areas like Computer Vision, Robotics and AI. This led to some open source stuff like AForge.NET, Computer Vision Sandbox, cam2web, ANNT, etc.
Engineer Kruger Optical
United States United States
I work on an assembly line and have been doing amateur programming since 1992. Those rare times away from the computer I spend bicycling, canoeing the Columbia River, or cheering on the Seattle Seahawks.
President Angall Corporation
United States United States
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer (Senior) EpsilonDev
Ukraine Ukraine
I’m software developer, system analyst and network engineer, with over 20 years experience, graduated from L’viv State Polytechnic University and earned my computer science and information technology master’s degree in January 2004. My professional career began as a financial and accounting software developer in EpsilonDev company, located at L’viv, Ukraine. My favorite programming languages - C/C++, C#.NET, Java, ASP.NET, Node.js/JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Python, SQL, HTML5, etc. While developing applications, I basically use various of IDE’s and development tools, including Microsoft Visual Studio/Code, Eclipse IDE for Linux, IntelliJ/IDEA for writing code in Java. My professional interests basically include data processing and analysis algorithms, artificial intelligence and data mining, system analysis, modern high-performance computing (HPC), development of client-server web-applications using various of libraries, frameworks and tools. I’m also interested in cloud-computing, system security audit, IoT, networking architecture design, hardware engineering, technical writing, etc. Besides of software development, I also admire to write and compose technical articles, walkthroughs and reviews about the new IT- technological trends and industrial content. I published my first article at CodeProject in June 2015.
Switzerland Switzerland
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer
Germany Germany
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer (Senior) Clifford Nelson Consulting
United States United States
Has been working as a C# developer on contract for the last several years, including 3 years at Microsoft. Previously worked with Visual Basic and Microsoft Access VBA, and have developed code for Word, Excel and Outlook. Started working with WPF in 2007 when part of the Microsoft WPF team. For the last eight years has been working primarily as a senior WPF/C# and Silverlight/C# developer. Currently working as WPF developer with BioNano Genomics in San Diego, CA redesigning their UI for their camera system. he can be reached at qck1@hotmail.com.
Engineer
Switzerland 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

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Xamarin Experts
Windows 10 Experts
Software Developer
United States United States
I'm a software developer and enjoy .net, angular, mvc, and many other different languages.
United States United States
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Germany Germany
The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and C# are among my favorites and so I developed Edi

and a few other projects on GitHub. I am normally an algorithms and structure type but WPF has such interesting UI sides that I cannot help myself but get into it.

https://de.linkedin.com/in/dirkbahle
Software Developer
Ireland Ireland
C# / SQL Server developer
Microsoft MVP (Azure) 2017
Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic) 2006, 2007
Software Developer (Senior)
Netherlands Netherlands
Freelance Sitecore /.Net developer
Germany Germany
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Architect SSW
South Africa South Africa
United States United States
You may know us for our processors. But we do so much more. Intel invents at the boundaries of technology to make amazing experiences possible for business and society, and for every person on Earth.

Harnessing the capability of the cloud, the ubiquity of the Internet of Things, the latest advances in memory and programmable solutions, and the promise of always-on 5G connectivity, Intel is disrupting industries and solving global challenges. Leading on policy, diversity, inclusion, education and sustainability, we create value for our stockholders, customers and society.
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Software Developer
United States 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
Software Developer
United Kingdom United Kingdom
John is the author of the free Genetic Algorithm Framework for .Net (GAF) and the series of GeoUK NuGet packages. John studied at Leicester De Montfort University and gained a Distinction for the highly regarded Masters Degree in Computational Intelligence and Robotics. John can provide commercial product support for the GAF or GAF based projects and can be contacted via the Code Project, LinkedIn or the usual social channels.
Architect
Norway 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
Architect
Canada 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
United States United States
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Architect Interacx
United States 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.
Architect Visma Software
Romania 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.
India India
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer
Poland Poland
Russian Federation Russian Federation
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Student University of Moratuwa
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
PhD student specializing in video content analysis. Interested in Image processing, HCI and Digital music production. Computer and technology enthusiast. Love coding and sharing my knowledge.
Software Developer (Senior)
United States United States
An experienced Software Developer and Graphic Designer with an extensive knowledge of object-oriented programming, software architecture, design methodologies and database design principles. Specializing in Microsoft Technologies and focused on leveraging a strong technical background and a creative skill-set to create meaningful and successful applications.

Well versed in all aspects of the software development life-cycle and passionate about embracing emerging development technologies and standards, building intuitive interfaces and providing clean, maintainable solutions for even the most complex of problems.
Student University of Allahabad
India India
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer
Canada Canada
Yet another jack-of-all-trades programmer?

Team Leader Quadient
Czech Republic Czech Republic
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Poland Poland
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Student
Pakistan Pakistan
Just a student passionate about Databases, Data Mining, Operating Systems and compiler theory.
Architect
United States 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
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Contest Entries and Requirements

  1. 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.
  2. Entries must be an article, or blog entry.
  3. 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).
  4. Articles entries must follow the CodeProject submission guidelines.
  5. No cheating, lying, plagiarizing articles, chicanery, or kicking.
  6. 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.
  7. No author can be nominated twice in the same category.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. In the event of a tie,  the number of prizes issued is solely at the discretion of the prize issuer.
  12. Multiple votes from the same IP will be automatically disqualified.
  13. The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
  14. Only those who live in jurisdictions in which this contest is legal may enter.
  15. Any breach of the rules and the prize will be awarded to the runner up.
  16. 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.
  17. Entries shall be deemed to be submitted by the authorized account holder of the email address submitted at the time of entry unless clearly indicated otherwise. "Authorized account holder" is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an email address by an internet access provider, on-line service provider, or other organization (e.g. business, educational institution, etc.) that is responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted email address.

Eligibility

This competition is open to software development professionals & enthusiasts who are of the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence; however, residents of Quebec and of the following countries are ineligible to participate due to legal constraints: Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. Employees (or a member of their immediate family) of CodeProject or any of their affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising or promotional agencies are also ineligible to participate. Void where prohibited by law.

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Entry is by the submission process described above. Please read the submission requirements before submitting your entry and ensure the article is tagged with at least one of the tags corresponding to that competition's category.

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1 Aug - 31 Aug 2017