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After some astonishing submissions our Hardware Competition has ended. It went so well, we're doing a second competition where we will focus on beginners articles on hardware and device programming. Here are the proud winners of robots:
| First Prize | IanJ1965 - Radio Control Transmitter - Joystick |
| Prize pool | Bioloid Robot Kit |
| Second Prize | Amro Fawzy - 3G Modem Internet Dialer |
| Prize pool | The RoboTurret Vision Tracking Kit |
| Third Prize | grilialex - AVRILOS: A simple OS for AVR microcontrollers |
| Prize pool | RFID Reader |
We also have some winners to announce in our ongoing Windows Azure App Competition. Some great submissions so far but we can't wait to see more.
- Credenza Software Inc. - http://www.credenzasoft.com/
- JUSTPROUD - http://justproud-cl2.cloudapp.net/
And don't forget, all you have to do for our Windows Phone 7 competition is to write a WP7 article or share a WP7 app, and you could win a Windows Phone 7 phone or ultra light laptop.
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Weekly Poll Results
Should developers ensure their applications allow exchange of data with other applications of the same type?
Survey period: 29 Nov 2010 to 6 Dec 2010
Should we be required to provide the means to import and export data from our applications to ensure uses aren't locked into a single application?
| Option | Votes | % | |
| Yes, we should provide as rich an import and export experience as possible | 129 | 21.18 |  |
| Yes, if there are open standards for the data we should provide import and export of that standard format | 296 | 48.60 | |
| Yes, but we should only be required to export data that has been input or imported, and not export any extra data our application has added | 41 | 6.73 | |
| No | 119 | 19.54 | |
| Total | 585 | 100% | |
View optional text answers (38 answers)
This week's survey: Do you have a computer science desgree?
Most popular new articles 29 Nov 2010 - 6 Dec 2010
- Visualization and Comparison of sorting algorithms in C# - Kanasz Robert
- WPF Grand Prix - Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira
- RESTful WCF + Azure AppFabric Service Bus = Access to Remote Desktop from Browser - Igor Ladnik
- Silverlight Simple Drag And Drop / Or Browse View Model / MVVM File Upload Control - defwebserver
- Data linking with jQuery - Brij
Latest Additions
200 articles overall 166 new, 78 updated, 1 moved. 18 were edited, 182 unedited
Article topics listed: C++
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New articles added
Printing
- Configuring printer settings programmatically - Apriorit Inc, Alexandr Sirenko
In this article, I will describe the method of setting the printer settings and the problems I faced on different OS versions. (Unedited)
C++, Windows, Dev, QA
C / C++ Language
- Single point construction of hierarchical objects in C++ - Gregory Shpitalnik
Prohibit construction of hierarchical objects both on the heap and on the stack, allow construction from a single construction point in the base class. (Unedited)
C++, Design
MFC
- MFC GDI drawing using Pen and Brush - sirama2004
This beginners article shows the usage of Pen and Brush GDI objects and How do we use it. (Unedited)
C++ (VC6, VC7), Windows, MFC
Internet / Network
- Asynchronous (nonblocking) client socket wrapper class without MFC - h_seldon
Win32 API nonblocking sockets implementation, client side. (Unedited)
C++ (VC9.0), Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, Win2008, Win7, Win2008-R2), Architect, Dev, Networking
Macros and Add-ins
- Visual C++ (version 7-9) .vcproj project file formatter and normalizer - pasztorpisti
A vcproj formatter that makes vcproj diffing/merging a breeze even with simple text-based mergers. Controllable text encoding. (Unedited)
C++ (VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, VC9.0), Dev
Programming Tips
- A simple way to create word documents by template in java under windows platform - jacky_zz
using JNI and COM technology generate word documents in java under windows platform (Unedited)
C++, Java, Win32, COM, JNI
Threads, Processes & IPC
- Monitoring of logon/logout in terminal and client sessions - Apriorit Inc, Elizaveta Golub
This article includes a description of the monitoring process for the session logon/logout, connect/disconnect (regarding terminal and client sessions). Obtained results will be then used in the next article "Creating process in the session". (Unedited)
C++, Windows, Architect, Dev, Threading, Process, multithreading, Boost - Starting process in the logged session under the local system account - Apriorit Inc, Elizaveta Golub
This article contains the description of how to start a process in the current active session on session logon notification event with permissions of system process running in the current session. (Unedited)
C++, Windows, Architect, Dev, Threading, Process, multithreading, Boost
Articles updated added
Dialogs and Windows
- MFC/C++ Helper Class for Window Resizing - Mizan Rahman
Gives you total control when it comes to resizing windows
C++, Windows, Win32, MFC
C / C++ Language
- Elucidating all about Code Analysis in Visual C++ - Ajay Vijayvargiya
Static Code Analysis: The Purpose, How to Analyze and Make your code Analyzable! (Unedited)
C++, VS2005, VS2008, VS2010
STL
- Reading UTF-8 with C++ streams - Emilio Garavaglia
A locale codecvt facet from char to wchar_t (Unedited)
C++ (VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0), Windows, STL, Dev, Design
Tips and Tricks added
DLLs & Assemblies
- Checking for exported symbols/functions in a DLL without loading it - pasztorpisti
You can find out if a DLL exports some symbols/functions without calling LoadLibrary() on it (Unedited)
C++, plugin, DLL
Programming Tips
- C++ Syntax Uncovered - Mohammad Nasim
Answers many whys in beginners head about C-Family languages syntax (Unedited)
C++, C++/CLI, C, C#, Java - How to get Present Logical Drives (the bitwise way) - PE32_64
How to get Present Logical Drives by function GetLogicalDrives (Unedited)
C++ - Mobile processor usage - Lloyd Atkinson
Very useful :) Perhaps a slight improvement would be for it to take the retrieved value (in this case 97) and take it away from 100? (Unedited)
C++, Windows, Mobile - Mobile processor usage - Paul Heil
(Unedited)
C++, Windows, Mobile - Implement Delphi TMethod in C++ - Member 2398479
How to dispatch event messages in C++ like a Delphi TMethod (Unedited)
C++, Delphi
String handling
- Remove Diacritical Marks in a Unicode String - Alain Rist
With a helper CharMap class using VC2010 C++0x implementation (Unedited)
C++ (VC10.0), Unicode, C++0x
Technical blogs added
Windows Communication Foundation
- TFS vs. Subversion fact check - Martin Hinshelwood
I spotted a good comparison of TFS vs. Subversion by Jarosław Dobrzański on DZone (you can also read the original post) but I feel that a couple of the points were either out of date, or borne out of a lack of knowledge of the product, or even more likely I just missed the point. This article was ta (Unedited)
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