[CodeProject] Newsletter (30 Aug 2010)

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Site News

Our New Author Competition and here are the winners! It was amazing to look at a month of new authors where nearly every article had a rating of 4 or higher. We did this competition to encourage new members, but our members have that covered. Well done guys.

The Winners

mikeliu88 - Implementing a Basic Hello World WCF Service
Gerardo Recinto - B-Tree Sorted Dictionary
Gianluca Negrelli - ASP.NET and jQuery to the Max
r546 - A Document Outline window for C# files, in WPF
hisowa - Silverlight : Enable Mouse Wheel on Slider with Behaviors

For those looking for more motivation to dig into technologies and article writing, our Android and Azure competitions are still running.

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Weekly Poll Results

How do you backup your data?

Survey period: 23 Aug 2010 to 30 Aug 2010

You do backup your data, right?

OptionVotes% 
Manual copy to an external drive35745.08357 votes, 45.08%
Automated copy to an external drive14918.81149 votes, 18.81%
Manual copy to a network share or network attached storage17922.60179 votes, 22.60%
Automated copy to a network share or network attached storage18022.73180 votes, 22.73%
Manual burn to CD / DVD or tape drive17121.59171 votes, 21.59%
Automated burn to CD / DVD or tape drive425.3042 votes, 5.30%
Manual backup to the cloud (eg MobileMe, Live Sync, Amazon S3)263.2826 votes, 3.28%
Automated backup to the cloud (eg MobileMe, Live Sync, Amazon S3)394.9239 votes, 4.92%
Other556.9455 votes, 6.94%
I don't backup749.3474 votes, 9.34%
Responses783  792 votes
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%

View optional text answers (56 answers)

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Most popular new Job Vacancies 31 Jul 2010 - 30 Aug 2010

Most popular new articles 23 Aug 2010 - 30 Aug 2010

Latest Additions

200 articles overall 166 new, 69 updated, 0 moved. 13 were edited, 187 unedited
Article topics listed: C++

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New articles added Last week

General Graphics

Articles updated added Last week

Dialogs and Windows

  • Add Colors to Batch Files - Thomas Polaert
    An enhanced ECHO command line utility with color support.
    C++, Windows, Visual-Studio, Dev

Edit Controls

Grid & Data Controls

  • Grid Control Re-dux with Smooth Scroll and Composite Cell - Mukit, Ataul
    Chris Maunder's CGridCtrl had been modified to accomodate for merged cells and freezed panes, now it has the cool feature of Horizontal Smooth Scrolling and Composite Cell (to show a minigrid inside a single cell) (Unedited)
    C++, MFC

C / C++ Language

  • Concurrency Runtime in Visual C++ 2010 - Ajay Vijayvargiya
    Learn about parallel algorithms, parallel containers, tasks, task groups, agents library, task scheduler etc in VC10 (Unedited)
    C++, Windows, Win32, Win64, STL, VS2010, Architect, Dev

Win32/64 SDK & OS

Bugs & Workarounds

  • The Case of Evil WinMain - Ladislav Nevery
    Story about how third of all Antivirus programs gone crazy for no obvious reason (Unedited)
    C++

Technical blogs added Last week

Dialogs and Windows

  • Getting to my Isolated Files (Windows Phone 7) - Joel Ivory Johnson
    Download the Code (211 Kilobytes)A frequent question I see in the MSDN forums is how does one copy their files from Isolated Storage in Windows Phone 7 to their desktop computer. The file system on WP7 isn't exposed so unlike WM6.x you can't just connect it to your desktop and get to any and every f (Unedited)


Files and Folders

  • Deploying Visual C++ Runtime Files as Private Assemblies - HelgeKlein
    If you create a C++ project in Visual Studio and configure it to "Use MFC in a Shared DLL" (the default) you need to make sure the C runtime (CRT) and the MFC libraries are installed in the correct versions on the end user's computer. That can be difficult.There are three ways to install the librari (Unedited)
    C++, Windows

Grid & Data Controls

  • Woring with ICollectionViewSource in WPF - Abhishek Sur
    If you are working with WPF for long, you might already have come across with ICollectionView. It is the primary Data object for any WPF list controls (like ComboBox, ListBox, ListView etc) that allows flexibilities like Sorting, Filtering, Grouping, Current Record Management etc. Thus it ensures th (Unedited)


Shell and IE programming

  • Introduction to MEF Programming - kishore Gaddam
    In the previous blog post, we discussed the MEF Architecture in detail. Let us start writing some code using MEF in C#.net. First things first, you need the current version of .NET Framework 4.0 and visual Studio 2010 to write code. Note: For the UML diagrams, i am using the diagrams provided in the (Unedited)
    C++, Windows, MFC

  • Programming as Writing. - satyaq
    I would completely agree with Eric Lippert when he says code is way easier to write than it is to read. In Programming, as in writing, we present text and data. Data without structure is useless. How do I find things? How do I consume information? What is important and what is trivial? When you [... (Unedited)
    C++, Windows, MFC

ATL Server

  • Making the best use out of Mainenance Plans on SQL Server - Raymund Macaalay
    This article is about making the best use of the SQL Server Maintenance Plans, I am saying that becuase if you really want to do best practice manitenance on a SQL Server is that you should do it on a script level and trigger it by job schedule as doing this one you can have [...] (Unedited)
    C++, Windows, ATL

Silverlight

  • OutlookBar for WPF & Silverlight - rudigrobler
    A while ago I wrote a CodeProject article on how to re-style a TabControl to look like the Outlook navigation bar/pane… The article had a good response and loads of people were asking for a Silverlight version. I decided to take the stripped down version of that control (without all the theme (Unedited)


  • Exploring Silverlight 4 - Part I (The Printing API) - mamta_m_d
    One of the major peeves that Silverlight developers had in its earlier versions was the lack of printing support. Printing is an essential feature of many applications and more so in the case of LOB applications. Hence, when Silverlight 4 was released with a full featured Printing API, developers we (Unedited)
    C++, Windows

View State

  • Few Tips on Customizing Debugging Window View in Visual Studio - Abhijit Jana
    In this post I am going to discuss about few tips on customizing debugging debugging windows. This may be very helpful during debugging of application. While debugging, you may want to simplify debug window or you may want to clean up all the unnecessary fields that are not important during debuggin (Unedited)
    C++, Windows

MFC

  • Radio Buttons in MFC (Visual Studio 2008 / C++) - HelgeKlein
    This is a quick and dirty description of how to use radio buttons in MFC, written because I could not find this information in a single place on the web.In the dialog editor:Create a new group with the group box control and set a meaningful captionAdd radio button controls inside the groupThe radio (Unedited)


Windows Presentation Foundation

  • Mahhala – Fluent Ribbon Control Suite - rudigrobler
    Mahhala (isiZulu word for free or without charge) is a new series that showcase some of the cool free WPF/Silverlight controls available…“You can learn a lot by reading other people's source code. That's the idea behind this series, "The Weekly Source Code." You can certainly become a b (Unedited)


  • Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar - Progress - rudigrobler
    Ever noticed the subtle progress overlay while downloading something from the internet? With Windows 7’s new taskbar, applications can visually display their progress on the taskbar!We first need to set the modeTaskbarManager.Instance.SetProgressState(TaskbarProgressBarState.Normal);The Window (Unedited)


  • Eeny, meeny, miny, moe - rudigrobler
    No, this is NOT another Justin Bieber song…In the last couple of projects I have consulted on I have seen VARIOUS implementations of dependency properties… The one thing that I did find interesting is the use of metadata. Some use PropertyMetadata, others use FrameworkPropertyMetadata (Unedited)


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Chris Maunder
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