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| Best VB.NET article of September 2010 | |
| shynet - C# \ VB .net Camera communication libraries | |
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| Best C++/MFC article of September 2010 | |
| Ajay Vijayvargiya - Standard C++ Library Changes in Visual C++ 2010 | |
| Prizes: | iGrid.NET; Codejock Xtreme ToolkitPro; The latest C++ books from Apress; CryptoLicensing For MFC - Enterprise Edition; CppDepend; |
| Best ASP.NET article of September 2010 | |
| Al-Farooque Shubho - Single Sign On (SSO) for cross-domain Asp.net applications, Part-I - The design blue print | |
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| Best C# article of September 2010 | |
| Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira - Stick Figure Animation Using C# and WPF | |
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| Best overall article of September 2010 | |
| Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira - Stick Figure Animation Using C# and WPF | |
| Prizes: | A Code Project T-shirt; DevForce Silverlight; FPS Maps for WPF; DXperience™ Enterprise Subscription; |
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Weekly Poll Results
Do you code using SOLID principles?
Survey period: 18 Oct 2010 to 25 Oct 2010
If you don't know about SOLID principles then go here. Now.
| Option | Votes | % | |
| Yes | 136 | 19.88 |  |
| No, but we're moving that way | 92 | 13.45 | |
| No | 110 | 16.08 | |
| I don't know what SOLID principles are. | 346 | 50.58 | |
| Total | 684 | 100% | |
This week's survey: Do you open up laptops and other gadgets to see what's inside?
Most popular new articles 18 Oct 2010 - 25 Oct 2010
- Beginners Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch (Part - 01) - KunalChowdhury
- Windows Ribbon Framework in Win32 C Application - wiria
- Lambda Simplified - GuruprasadV
- How to track an object which is Out of Scope while Debugging ? - Abhijit Jana
- Hardware change detection - Eugene Kordin, Apriorit Inc
Latest Additions
200 articles overall 148 new, 97 updated, 0 moved. 17 were edited, 183 unedited
Article topics listed: C++
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New articles added
C / C++ Language
- Play XM in C++ - from file and memory - Mustafa Chelik
Play XM music files in pure C++ using unpacked BASSMOD.dll from file and memory (Unedited)
C++ (VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, VC9.0, VC10.0), C, Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, Win2008, Win7), Win32, Visual-Studio (VS.NET2003, VS2005, VS2008, VS2010), MFC-Topics, MVC - QxOrm - C++ ORM (Object Relational Mapping) library - QxOrm
QxOrm C++ library : persistence (based on QtSql Qt library) - serialization (based on boost::serialization library) - reflection (introspection) (Unedited)
C++, XML, SQL, Windows, Linux, collections, cross-platform, database, library, clone - Building decorator chains - headmyshoulder
The article explains a method, how flexible and extendible decorator chains can be build in a generic way. Its power is best seen if it is used with boost::factory and boost::bind. (Unedited)
C++, STL
Algorithms & Recipes
- Hardware change detection - Eugene Kordin, Apriorit Inc
How to detect device changes in the user-mode applications for Windows (Unedited)
C++, Windows, Dev
Internet / Network
- 3G Modem Internet Dialer - Amro Fawzy
3G Modem Internet Dialer (Unedited)
C++, Hardware
Articles updated added
Files and Folders
- XLineCounter , count number of source code lines - fu yuans
XLineCounter , count number of source code lines ,support VB,C#,C++ and Delphi (Unedited)
C++, C#, VB, .NET
Shell and IE programming
- Windows 7 file-properties "Version" tab Shell Extension - "Fish" (David B. Trout)
Simple parsing of VS_VERSIONINFO version information strings displayed in an XP-style file-properties "Version" tab (Unedited)
C++ (VC8.0, VC9.0, VC10.0), Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, Win2008, Win7, Win2008-R2), Win32, Win64, Visual-Studio (VS2005, VS2008, VS2010), ATL, COM, COM+, Dev, SysAdmin, Shell, plugin, UI, dialog, DLL, string, tabs, 64-bit, Windows7, ListBox, Algorithms, Unicode, Extension, AddIn
Audio and Video
- nVLC - Roman Ginzburg
A .NET API for the libVLC interface so the vast majority of VLC functionality could be utilized in managed applications.
C++, C#, XML, Windows, .NET, Dev
OpenGL
- OAG Library (OpenGL) Part 2.1 - Drawing Objects 2D using the Mouse and Programatically - Eduardo Tucci
This tutorial shows Library Code for Geometries 2D how to draw them programatically and how draw to objects using the mouse in an application MFC.
C++ (VC9.0), Windows (WinXP, Vista, Win7), MFC, OpenGL
C / C++ Language
- C++ Properties - ccoale427
C#-Style Properties in C++ (Unedited)
C++, C# - Avoid Multiple Instances of Windows Application with SingleInstanceGuard - bleedingfingers
A simple utility class that helps maintain one instance of your application and allows other instances to transfer the data processing to it before they close
C++, Windows, Dev
.NET Framework
- Embedding PowerPoint presentation player into a WPF application - Vsevolod Belousov
In this article I explain how to embed presentation player into a WPF application and describe the way this solution was found (Unedited)
C++, C#, Windows, .NET, MFC, COM, WPF
Algorithms & Recipes
- Fast Mathematical Expressions Parser - iberg
Code for a fast math parser library
C++ (VC7, VC7.1), Windows, Visual-Studio (VS.NET2003), Dev
Threads, Processes & IPC
- A Standard Multithreaded Dynamic Queue - federico.strati
This is a standard Windows / C++ implementation of a Multi Threaded Queue (Unedited)
C++, Windows-Topics, Dev, Threading
Tips and Tricks added
MFC
- Formatted MessageBox/AfxMessageBox - Ajay Vijayvargiya
Need to Format/sprintf a string before displaying a messagebox? Here is solution! (Unedited)
C++, Windows, Win32, MFC - Formatted MessageBox/AfxMessageBox - Aescleal
printf is so 1980s. If you don't want to dig out your shoulder pads and big hair why not go for a more modern C++ approach?Instead of a function try a stream buffer:class message_box_stream_buf : public std::basic_streambuf{ public: message_box_stream_buf( const... (Unedited)
C++, Windows, Win32, MFC
Programming Tips
- [C++/MFC] : Use a Thread Delegator for your threads - federico.strati
I always use a somewhat different approach, here is a class"consumer" that has embedded the thread call in a member function,the member function runs a virtual call, hence the derived classesmay implement functionality as well as passing arguments asmember data of the class. Maybe you're... (Unedited)
C++
Technical blogs added
Database
- Parameterized View in Oracle - Sabarinathan Arthanari
The primary purpose of a Parameterized View lets you retrieve PL/SQL record collection structures in a SQL context. As there is nothing like parameterized view in Oracle, but you can use parameterize view in oracle following ways You can use the User Environment variable to manage a session variable (Unedited)
C++, Windows, COM
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Chris Maunder
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