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Write a C# book with source code and examples from CodeProject
jhaga
CodeProject House, Paul Watson wrote:
...and the roar of John Simmons own personal Nascar in the garage. Meg flitting about taking photos.Chris having an heated arguement with Colin Davies and .S.Rod. over egian values. Nish manically typing *censur*. Duncan racing around after his pet *c.* Michael Martin and Bryce loudly yelling *c.* C.G. having a fit as Roger Wright loads up *c.* . Anna waving her *c.* and Deb scoffing chocolates in the corner.
...Good heavens!
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How about writing a CodeProject book about programming desktop applications in .NET? The book would give you a good foundational understanding of how to use the main features/technologies of .NET & its BCL.
Books that use the step-by-step approach sometimes just give you the steps, but don't tell you enough about why the steps should be taken and what they do, etc. Then there are the books that give you facts, put don't give you an example of applying them in a practical way. What I'd like to do is use a step-by-step approach, but explain the why's and how's along the way.
Here's a sampling of topics. If enough people want this, we can make a more final list in an article.
[asterisks denote topics I'd be willing to write for]
BEGINNER:
Console Apps *
Clipboard Handling
Printing **
Using the standard .NET controls
Delegates & Events **
XML ***
Resources**
Fonts and Text ***
File IO
INTERMEDIATE:
Sorting in .NET
Registry
Serialization *
Graphics/Drawing ***
COM Interop **
Shell Extensions *
Data access
Collections ***
Threading *
Remoting
Attributes
SubClassing ***
Globalization/Localization
Reflection **
The list above leaves some topics out. If there is a topic not listed that you'd really like to write for, go ahead and mention it.
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." - Jesus
"An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi
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Molecular graphics program for visualising molecule structures
CodeProject House, Paul Watson wrote:
...and the roar of John Simmons own personal Nascar in the garage. Meg flitting about taking photos.Chris having an heated arguement with Colin Davies and .S.Rod. over egian values. Nish manically typing *censur*. Duncan racing around after his pet *c.* Michael Martin and Bryce loudly yelling *c.* C.G. having a fit as Roger Wright loads up *c.* . Anna waving her *c.* and Deb scoffing chocolates in the corner.
...Good heavens!
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Odd that I should find a posting for this here. I'd be willing to work
on this one. I already have code for this (well a start anyways). I benched
it some time ago, however.
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Designing intelligence requires the designers to have some of their own. 
"I have a strange ginger man living on my roof!"
"One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no ‘them’ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‘us’."
-Douglas Adams
Jonathan 'nonny' Newman
Homepage [www.nonny.com] [^]
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My point exactly 
"I have a strange ginger man living on my roof!"
"One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no ‘them’ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‘us’."
-Douglas Adams
Jonathan 'nonny' Newman
Homepage [www.nonny.com] [^]
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Yeah an AI project is the way to go.
I don't want to appear rude to other devs.
But nobody in the real world really knows what GDI is about.
AI is well respected by the common folk.
Regardz
Colin J Davies
* WARNING *
This could be addictive
The minion's version of "Catch ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) "
It's a real shame that people as stupid as you can work out how to use a computer. said by Christian Graus in the Soapbox
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Or C&C, AOM, or UO? The key to a game is a good story! Any writers in the house willing to write a story? The story is what glues everything together.
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Since this is a CodeProject project, why not make it something directly related to CodeProject? (utilities for better communication between CPians, developer utilities/plugins for directly grabbing content from CodeProject, code/tools to enhance the usability of the site itself (per Chris' approval)).
Idea
A client program that monitors all new/updated posts, articles, etc. then lets you browse them at your leasure (without depending upon the cookie that gets confused as to whether you actually read something or not).
This same program would also have a CodeProject-specific chat client built-in.
It could also use a sophisticated article submission handler to ensure good formatting, and prevent some of the potential problems where web browsers lose data in the event of an error.
Etc.
John
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John Fisher wrote:
A client program that monitors all new/updated posts, articles, etc. then lets you browse them at your leasure (without depending upon the cookie that gets confused as to whether you actually read something or not).
Well, there's the new RSS feed plus some existing (OK, using cookies I guess), message monitors.
John Fisher wrote:
This same program would also have a CodeProject-specific chat client built-in.
On the humorous side, I already spend too much time reading the messages and replying to them. I'd NEVER get anything done with a live chat system. Plus I guess a lot of people already use existing chat technologies.
John Fisher wrote:
It could also use a sophisticated article submission handler to ensure good formatting
I typically write everything in FrontPage and do the final touch up in the editor that CP already has, which is really cool. That way, I don't mind if the browser crashes.
Hope you don't mind the feedback--it would be interesting to further develop these ideas so we're not duplicating existing work.
Marc
Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus
Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka
Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files"
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Thanks for the comments. I was basically throwing out ideas to spur thought, with the goal of a single app (or very closely related group of apps) that would be CP specific. Right now, we can do most of these things, but they're disjointed and not all of them are as powerful as they could be with an locally hosted application (client).
If anyone has other ideas for adding to this "suite" concept, just think along the lines of what everyone likes to already do at CP, but make it easier.
John
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What about a defect-tracker that have both a web-frontend and a winforms frontend.
Or........
With all that talk about source-version-systems (SourceSafe vs. CVS) what about writing one, that is easy to use, easy integration into VS...
Basically SourceSafe without the bugs in that product...
- Anders
Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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I am all for this one.
Paul Watson wrote:
"At the end of the day it is what you produce that counts, not how many doctorates you have on the wall."
George Carlin wrote:
"Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things."
Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:
If the physicists find a universal theory describing the laws of universe, I'm sure the a**hole constant will be an integral part of that theory.
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I don't know about YOUR software, but MY software doesn't have defects!
Just kidding.
I was perusing the web a few months ago and found some online defect tracking software, some of it was free, some of it had a trial period, etc. Some of them looked pretty cool.
Marc
Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus
Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka
Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files"
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Marc Clifton wrote:
I don't know about YOUR software, but MY software doesn't have defects!
Same here, but I have heard that some people actually need a system like that 
Marc Clifton wrote:
was perusing the web a few months ago and found some online defect tracking software
I have tried to find something that I can run on my own server, using ASP/ASP.NET and an Access DB or a SQL-Server, but those I found costs a LOT more than I can afford for my free-time projects...
- Anders
Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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Ok... 1 think I always find myself doing when I'm talking to fellow CPians [via IM] is using things like :<d>zzz<d>: and :<d>rolleyes<d>:.
Why not make an Instant Messenging system... we could use the SIP and/or Jabber protocols so it could interoperate with MSN, AIM, ICQ and so on. It's not a massive project and not too difficult, it'll be good to get to know the others in the group and it's something we could all use on future projects to aid in our communication and so on.
As well as being able to communicate with MSN and so on [SIP is great  ] and having all the CP emoticons [very important] it could conenct to the CP rss feed and pull information from the web services here on CP [along with other webservices/rss feeds]. Integrated colloberation tools for CPP and so on
Just a thought.
Regards,
Brian Dela 
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But there's already hundreds (almost  ) of those out there.
Why not make something we need and could use to make our day_to_day life easier?
- Anders
Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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Let's make an effort to take those wonderful ideas and tutorials posted on CodeProject and make Universal Gui LibrarY (UGLY) . Take those owner-drawn buttons and transparent labels and custom scroll-bars and sliders and make a whole suite of tools for windows programming.
We would want to provide:
Consistent interface across controls (function calls, data types, iterators)
Maximum flexibility (skinning, derivable classes)
Maximum efficiency (speedy, powerful, easy to use)
Cross platform availability (.NET, MFC, Win32)
please add more.
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WE need to do this simply in order to use the acronym. I love it
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Good idea! My second favorite besides a book. But I wouldn't be the one do the MFC controls.
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." - Jesus
"An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi
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