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The winners of last month's Article competition have been voted by you:
| Best VB.NET article of August 2010 | |
| red_moon - A ToolTip with title, multiline contents, and image. | |
| Prizes: | iGrid.NET; Shell MegaPack.Net 2010; The latest VB books from Apress; SmartOutline 2010; FPS Maps for WPF; CodeRush; iGrid.NET; VBDepend; |
| Best C++/MFC article of August 2010 | |
| Zuoliu Ding - Something You May Not Know About the Switch Statement in C/C++ | |
| Prizes: | iGrid.NET; Codejock Xtreme ToolkitPro; The latest C++ books from Apress; SmartOutline 2010; CryptoLicensing For MFC - Enterprise Edition; CppDepend; |
| Best ASP.NET article of August 2010 | |
| Shivprasad koirala - ASP.NET authentication and authorization | |
| Prizes: | Nevron Chart for .NET (Professional edition); DXperience™ ASP.NET Subscription ; The latest ASP.NET books from Apress; SmartOutline 2010; |
| Best C# article of August 2010 | |
| Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu - Develop your own Operating System in C# or VB.NET | |
| Prizes: | iGrid.NET; Shell MegaPack.Net 2010; The latest C# books from Apress; SmartOutline 2010; Report Sharp-Shooter for Silverlight; Crypto Obfuscator For .Net - Enterprise Edition; FPS Maps for WPF; |
| Best overall article of August 2010 | |
| Sacha Barber - Experimenting with enterprise level bus messaging | |
| Prizes: | A Code Project T-shirt; DevForce Silverlight; FPS Maps for WPF; DXperience™ Enterprise Subscription; |
Well done!
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Weekly Poll Results
What sort of office environment do you work in?
Survey period: 20 Sep 2010 to 27 Sep 2010
Do you get an office to yourself, or are you a battery coder?
| Option | Votes | % | |
| Private office | 151 | 16.40 |  |
| Private cubicle | 90 | 9.77 | |
| Open cubes | 152 | 16.50 | |
| Separate desks, open area | 176 | 19.11 | |
| Joined desks, open area | 179 | 19.44 | |
| Pair programming | 13 | 1.41 | |
| I work from home | 120 | 13.03 | |
| No fixed workplace | 12 | 1.30 | |
| Other | 26 | 2.82 | |
| Total | 919 | 100% | |
View optional text answers (35 answers)
This week's survey: Do you engage in Pair Programming
Most popular new articles 20 Sep 2010 - 27 Sep 2010
- Code Project Forums : New Posts Monitor - Nishant Sivakumar
- My First Andriod Application - hussain.attiya
- Solve Rubik Cube puzzle - ATUL_LOONA
- Silverlight Menu - Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira
- A guide to cleaner XAML with custom namespaces and prefixes (WPF/Silverlight) - Sandrino Di Mattia
Latest Additions
200 articles overall 142 new, 89 updated, 1 moved. 31 were edited, 169 unedited
Article topics listed: C++
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New articles added Last week
Printing
- Print to TIFF - Pascal Damman
Convert any document to TIFF using a printer driver
C++, Windows, GDI+, Dev
Algorithms & Recipes
- Simple C++ XML parser - BratilaRazvan
A Simple C++ XML parser with only the basic functionality. (Unedited)
C++, XML, Windows, Win32, MFC, STL, Dev
Programming Tips
- Leveraging your existing C++ code for use in .NET environment - Junlin Xu
This article shows how you can make your existing C++ code available to .NET environment (Unedited)
C++, C++/CLI, C#
Articles updated added Last week
STL
- Standard C++ Library changes in Visual C++ 2010 - Ajay Vijayvargiya
Reveals the important changes in STL (Unedited)
C++, Visual-Studio (VS2010), STL, Dev
Algorithms & Recipes
- Computational Geometry, C++ and Wykobi - Arash Partow
A brief introduction in computational geometry algorithms using Wykobi and C++ (Unedited)
C++ (VC7.1, VC8.0, VC9.0), C++/CLI, Windows, Linux, Win32, Win64, STL, GDI, GDI+, Architect, Dev
Cryptography & Security
- SpaceCrypto: A Simple Crypto++ Wrapper - SpaceSoft
To simply encrypt\decrypt your data...
C++, Windows, Linux, Dev
Internet / Network
- A Fully Featured Windows HTTP Wrapper in C++ - shicheng
A fully featured and easy-to-use Windows HTTP wrapper in C++
C++, Windows, ATL, Dev
Technical blogs added Last week
Shell and IE programming
- Window 7: Setting custom Thumbnail clip - Sarath.
Window 7: Setting custom Thumbnail clip (Unedited)
C++, Windows
Toolbars & Docking windows
- Windows 7 Ribbon – Part 1 – How to Integrate a Simple Ribbon to your MFC Application? - Sarath.
How to integrate a native Windows 7 Ribbon to your application (Unedited)
C++ (VC8.0, VC9.0), Windows (Win7), Win32, MFC, COM-Topics, Dev - Windows 7 Ribbon – Part 2 – How to handle ribbon control events? - Sarath.
In this installment, let's see how to handle the events of Windows 7 native ribbon control. (Unedited)
C++ (VC8.0, VC9.0), Windows (Win7), Win32, MFC, COM, Dev
DirectX
- Programming Direct2D – Part 2 – Basic Geometry - Sarath.
In this installment, let's cover basic primitives. The basic primitives are the mostly used shapes like lines, rectangle, rounded rectangle, circle etc. (Unedited)
C++, Windows, Visual-Studio, MFC, DirectX, Direct2D
Threads, Processes & IPC
- A Critical Section is not 100% user mode synchronization object - Sarath.
Talking about Critical Section's internal use of kernel objects (Unedited)
C++, Windows
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Chris Maunder
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