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Newsletter - 25 May 2020

Weekly Newsletter (25 May 2020)

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Weekly Poll Results

If you're working from home, what do you miss most about the office?

Survey period: 18 May 2020 to 25 May 2020

Maybe that's an oxymoron.

Option	Votes	%
Your coworkers. For better or worse	299	34.21
I miss nothing	251	28.72
An actual desk and actual office chair and actual work space	170	19.45
The understanding that you were "at work" and could actually get work done	159	18.19
The amusing and invigorating office gossip and jokes	154	17.62
The cafeteria or whatever local / office food provider at your work	105	12.01
Not having to Zoom to get work done	75	8.58
I'm still at the office	67	7.67
The relaxing morning and evening commute	60	6.86
I'm not working from home (or not working)	50	5.72
A reason to wear pants	46	5.26
Other (please comment)	41	4.69
Responses	874
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%

This week's survey: Which of these Data Analysis tools have you tried?

Latest Additions

New articles added

APIs

.NET Core Web API: The Least You Need To Know (Part 1 of 2)

(8 votes) by raddevus (updated 4 days ago)

A quick article to walk you through building your .NET Web API and posting to it via AJAX (using JSON)

.NET Core Web API : The Least You Need To Know (part 2 of 2)

(3 votes) by raddevus (updated 4 days ago)

Post to your Web API via the XmlHttpRequest - learn how to set up headers, data for body, etc.

C#

Blockader: and alternate AsyncLock variant with none of the usual limitations.

(0 votes) by mbarbac (updated 6 hours ago)

An alternate AsyncLock version with full lock-alike semantics, minimal CPU consumption, and support for synchronous, asynchronous, and mixed reentrant scenarios.

Wexflow - How to build automation in the cloud

(0 votes) by Akram El Assas (updated 2 days ago)

An easy and fast way to build automation and workflows in the cloud.

Design and Architecture

Developers Professional Practice Guidelines for Project Management & Software Development Lifecycle Process

(5 votes) by HR Rony (updated 2 days ago)

It focuses on project management lifecycle process, software development lifecycle process, methodologies, agile, waterfall, rapid application development; scrum & extreme programming framework.

Libraries

Sound Builder, Web Audio Synthesizer

(7 votes) by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov (updated 5 days ago)

In-browser synthesizer creates instruments to be used in musical applications, offers advanced additive and subtractive synthesis techniques

Cinchoo ETL - JSON Reader

(2 votes) by Cinchoo (updated 2 days ago)

Simple JSON reader for .NET

Miscellaneous

WinFile

(1 votes) by Edwig Huisman (updated 7 hours ago)

Anything :-) you can do with a MS-Windows File

Mobile Development

Guide to Implement Mobile Services from Different Providers in Single Codebase | Build Variants & Product Flavors

(1 votes) by Irene Li (updated 4 days ago)

How to use different build variants by implementing product flavors to your project

PHP

RingCentral SMS and Bitcoin Vault

(1 votes) by BADGROOVY (updated 5 days ago)

A quick article on how to receive an SMS using RingCentral when Bitcoin Vault cryptocurrency changes price

Product Showcase

DotCode Barcode SDK Programming in C++, Java, and C#

(0 votes) by Xiao Ling (updated 5 days ago)

This article demonstrates how to build DotCode webcam scan apps using C++, Java, and C#.

Testing and QA

The Power of SpecFlow

(1 votes) by Alessandro Magistroni (updated 2 days ago)

An introduction to SpecFlow

Articles updated

Algorithms & Recipes

Translating C# Lambda Expressions to General Purpose Filter Descriptors & HTTP Query Strings

(20 votes) by Kamran Saeedi (updated 2 days ago)

An idea on how to use .NET ExpressionVisitor to translate lambda expressions into classes that encapsulate data suitable for filtering data & creating query strings

A Monitored, Memory Mapped std::allocator for Mass Data Storage in STL Container

(6 votes) by stefan stammberger (updated 19 hours ago)

A novel allocator implementation for managing huge sets of data in STL's std:: containers for Windows operating systems

C#

Wexflow - Open Source Workflow Engine

(208 votes) by Akram El Assas (updated 4 days ago)

An easy and fast way to build automation and workflows on Windows, Linux, macOS or the cloud.

The Main Architecture of MAME.NET

(23 votes) by shunninghuang (updated 6 days ago)

C# arcade emulator, ROM hacking

Client side scripting

MovieTracker - HTA for Tracking Movies & TV Shows

(11 votes) by Marijan Nikic (updated 5 days ago)

HTA application written in Javascript and VBscript for tracking and sorting movies list by their release date

HTML / CSS

Canvas Control Library and New Forms Based System for building Web Pages and Websites

(99 votes) by Akshay Srinivasan2 (updated 3 days ago)

Canvas Control Library provides highly customizable controls using the HTML5 Canvas element. Also includes a new Forms based system which is a new way to build your web pages and websites.

Internet / Network

TorpedoSync - LAN Based File Synchronization Between Machines

(35 votes) by Mehdi Gholam (updated yesterday)

TorpedoSync (works on pi and ubuntu) takes a different approach to other file sync applications like resilio and syncthing in that it does not compute a cryptographic hash for each file and consequently is much faster and uses less CPU cycles

Libraries

Cinchoo ETL - CSV Reader

(75 votes) by Cinchoo (updated 2 hours ago)

Simple CSV file reader for .NET

Trace and Logs

A Simple Asynchronous Logger in C#

(18 votes) by Toby Patke (updated yesterday)

Clearcove.Logging is a very simple logging library designed to meet most logging needs with straight-forward licensing terms.

New Tips and Tricks added

.NET Framework

ListDictionary: An Improved OrderedDictionary

(4 votes) by Michael Sydney Balloni (updated 4 days ago)

ListDictionary provided Dictionary-like functionality with ordered enumeration

.NET Standard, What are the Alternatives?

(4 votes) by Daan Acohen (updated 5 days ago)

An explanation of how to support multiple platforms in .NET development

Audio and Video

Updated AForge.NET DLLs to Accommodate .NET 4.6.1

(2 votes) by Patrick Eckler (updated 3 days ago)

Updated AForge.NET Version 2.2.6

CodeProject FAQs

Testing Validation Attributes with xUnit

(1 votes) by Daan Acohen (updated 3 days ago)

An explanation of how to test validation attributes with xUnit

Have Less Production Issues with the Help of xUnit

(0 votes) by Daan Acohen (updated 13 hours ago)

By using xUnit the right way, your logging can be improved and production problems can be solved easily or even prevented

Debug Tips

Advanced GIT Tutorial - How to Debug Your Code with GIT?

(5 votes) by Marcell Lipp (updated 5 days ago)

A proof introduction to Git blame and Git bisect

Uncategorised Tips and Tricks

Connecting to IBM MQ (with SSL)

(1 votes) by Sufyan S Jabr (updated 5 days ago)

All items needed to successfully connect to IBM MQ

Tips and Tricks updated

Algorithms & Recipes

ZigZag Algorithm in a Grid (revised version, 2.1)

(3 votes) by Jonas Vago (updated 7 hours ago)

Application to show how to zigzag order a matrix

VB.NET

Master Detail Datagridview in C#

(21 votes) by kevinuni (updated 6 days ago)

This is an alternative for "Master Detail Datagridview"

New Technical Blogs added

.NET Framework

The Rise of the Null-Object Pattern in C# 8

(7 votes) by Vlad Neculai Vizitiu (updated 3 days ago)

Null-object pattern in C# 8

Internet / Network

Super Lightweight Bookmarks Manager - dmenu Bookmarks with bm

(0 votes) by OwenDavies (updated 3 days ago)

How to store internet bookmarks to disk in a non-proprietary way and make them easily accessible

Blogs updated

Files and Folders

FileSystem Syncher – Part 3

(4 votes) by Vlad Neculai Vizitiu (updated 2 days ago)

FileSystem Syncher

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