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The winners of the November article competition have been decided:
| Best C# article of November 2010 | |
| Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira - WPF Grand Prix | |
| Prizes: | iGrid.NET; The latest C# books from Apress; SmartOutline 2010; Report Sharp-Shooter for Silverlight; Crypto Obfuscator For .Net - Enterprise Edition; FPS Maps for WPF; Reuxables Ultimate Subscription for WPF + Silverlight + Windows Phone 7; |
| Best ASP.NET article of November 2010 | |
| Brij - Client Templating with jQuery | |
| Prizes: | Nevron Chart for .NET (Lite edition); The latest ASP.NET books from Apress; SmartOutline 2010; Reuxables Ultimate Subscription for WPF + Silverlight + Windows Phone 7; |
| Best C++/MFC article of November 2010 | |
| Mizan Rahman - MFC/C++ Helper Class for Window Resizing | |
| Prizes: | iGrid.NET; Codejock Xtreme ToolkitPro; The latest C++ books from Apress; SmartOutline 2010; CryptoLicensing For MFC - Enterprise Edition; CppDepend; |
| Best VB.NET article of November 2010 | |
| Meshack Musundi - WPF Weather App | |
| Prizes: | iGrid.NET; The latest VB books from Apress; SmartOutline 2010; FPS Maps for WPF; VBDepend; Reuxables Ultimate Subscription for WPF + Silverlight + Windows Phone 7; Crypto Logger For .Net; |
| Best overall article of November 2010 | |
| Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira - WPF Grand Prix | |
| Prizes: | DevForce Silverlight; FPS Maps for WPF; Code Project Mug; |
Well done everyone! Voting forms for December's articles are on the homepage. Please take a moment to vote for those who helped you.
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Chris Maunder
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Weekly Poll Results
Which will be the biggest areas of software development in 2011?
Survey period: 3 Jan 2011 to 10 Jan 2011
Break out the crystal balls.
| Option | Votes | % | ||
| Smartphone development | 385 | 63.53 |  | |
| Tablet and related development | 211 | 34.82 | | |
| Cloud development | 243 | 40.10 | | |
| Parallelism / multi-core programming / GPU programming | 172 | 28.38 | | |
| Games | 79 | 13.04 | | |
| Eco-friendly and power conserving software | 55 | 9.08 | | |
| Alternatives to relational databases | 43 | 7.10 | | |
| Consumer electronics (GPS, TVs, your fridge...) | 55 | 9.08 | | |
| Suing each other over software patent infringements | 82 | 13.53 | | |
| Other | 20 | 3.30 | | |
| Responses | 600 | | ||
| Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100% | ||||
View optional text answers (27 answers)
Most popular new articles
3 Jan 2011 - 10 Jan 2011
- Xaml Man - Meshack Musundi
- Neural Network for Recognition of Handwritten Digits in C# - Vietdungiitb
- Switching on Boolean Conditions and Flags - Michael E. Gibson
- Create PDFs for Free - Tim Corey
- There is something about "Paths" for Asp.net beginners - Al-Farooque Shubho
Latest Additions
160 articles overall 104 new, 107 updated, 1 moved. 25 were edited, 135 unedited
Article topics listed: C++
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New articles added
C / C++ Language
- Getting System Local Time,Calculating UpTime ,Setting an Alarm,threading,etc - PE32_64
Getting System Local Time,Calculating UpTime ,Setting an Alarm,threading,etc (Unedited)
C++, Windows - Switching on Boolean Conditions and Flags - Michael E. Gibson
Presents a technique and code for writing switch-like syntax for dealing with multiple conditions or flags. (Unedited)
C++, C, Dev
ATL
- Integrating ACE and ATL - Espen Harlinn
Shows one way to combine ACE and ATL
C++, Windows, ATL, Dev
GPU Programming
- Extended GMM for Background Subtraction on GPU - phoaivu
GPU Implementation of Extended Gaussian mixture model for Background Subtraction (Unedited)
C++ (VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, VC9.0, VC10.0), Windows, Linux, Dev, GPGPU, heterogeneous
Libraries
- Time format conversion made easy - peterchen
Conversion of and musing about common Windows time formats (Unedited)
C++, Windows, library, time
Product Showcase
- Part 3: Work-Groups and Synchronization - manythreads
In his third tutorial, GPGPU expert Rob Farber will introduce the OpenCL™ execution model and discuss how to coordinate computations among the work items in a work group
C++, C, Dev, OpenCL
Articles updated
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
Menus
- How to Support the Ribbon And a Menu in the Same Executable - Paul M. Parks
You can provide a Ribbon in Windows 7, but still support older versions of Windows, while only releasing one executable. (Unedited)
C++, Windows (WinXP, Win2003, Vista, Win2008, Win7, Win2008-R2), Win32, Visual-Studio (VS2010), COM, Dev, menu, UI, Windows7, software, VisualStudio
Office Development
- ExcelFormat Library - Martin Fuchs
ExcelFormat allows reading, writing, and editing of XLS (BIFF8 format) files using C++.
VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, VC9.0, Windows, Dev
MFC
- VCOMBOBX in MFC - a virtual combo box control - yonken
A MFC based virtual combo box (Unedited)
C++, MFC, combobox, virtual
Algorithms & Recipes
- Building a Programing Language – Part I (Creating BrainLess) - Shakti Misra
This is the first of a series of articles where we will explore about writing compilers. (Unedited)
C++ - Building a Programing Language: Part II (Adding Conditions, Loop and Blocks to BrainLess) - Shakti Misra
In this article, we will discuss implementing conditional statements, loops and blocks. (Unedited)
C, VC9.0, Dev - XML: Include a Flexible Parser in Your C++ Applications - Michael Chourdakis
Free, portable, compiler-independent XML library in C++
C++, XML, Java, Windows, Visual-Studio, Dev
Internet / Network
- Using C and an embedded web-server to provide browser based source editing - Walter Capers
Using C to write a browser source editor.
C++ (VC8.0), C, Windows, Linux, Architect, Dev - The Quick and Easy Way to Add Web Interfaces to C/C++ Applications - Walter Capers
The webonization of the netstat command, netstat in a browser
C++, C, Windows, Linux, Win32, Architect, Dev
Hardware & System
- Set Audio Endpoints System Wide in Vista/Windows 7 - Snoepie
An article on how to set system wide audio endpoints programmatically.
C++, Windows, .NET3.5, Dev - Writing Windows Debugger - Part 2 - Ajay Vijayvargiya
Let's enhance our Debugger! (Unedited)
C++, Windows, Win32, Visual-Studio, MFC, STL, Dev, Threading, Exception
Tips and Tricks added
GDI+
- Converting between different image formats (using GDI+) - Arman S.
Shows how to convert between different image formats by using GDI+ (Unedited)
C++, GDI+, COM, image
Programming Tips
- Write a bitmap to File - Mukit, Ataul
Nice source found in the internet to copy a bitmap (DIB) to file (Unedited)
C++, MFC - Create a cursor from an ICON - Mukit, Ataul
This tip is about creating a cursor from an icon (Unedited)
C++, MFC - A String & Number Compatible ID Class in Native C++ - Tony's Toy
A String & Number Compatible ID Class in Native C++ (Unedited)
C++
Technical blogs added
Grid & Data Controls
- SQLite for C# – Part 9 – Creating native extension library for data quality testing - GarethI
Creating native extension library for data quality testing (Unedited)
C++ - Retrieve Exchangeable Image File Format data using Apache Sanselan - Bikash Shaw
Exchangeable image file format (Exif) is a specification for the image file format used by digital cameras. The specification uses the existing JPEG, TIFF Rev. 6.0, and RIFF WAV file formats, with the addition of specific metadata tags. As we are now aware of what these things are, why not write a S (Unedited) - AutoCompleteExtender with data from ASPX code behind - markFaction
The auto complete functionality is a useful aid where suggestions are displayed when you type into a textbox. You would have come across this in many sites. Looking at how to implement this in an ASP.Net application using the AJAX control toolkit, it was not a complex task, as the great video tutori (Unedited)
Silverlight
- Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #40 - mrjvdveen
As we are close to releasing our first version and we will have some time on our hands to do clean up on our sources, today we want to look at some of the things we would like to do in order to improve our codebase. Well, I never thought this series of posts would last this long and have this many (Unedited)
Web Security
- Test your web application's UI with JUnit and Selenium - Bikash Shaw
Test your web application's UI with JUnit and Selenium (Unedited)
C++, Windows
XML
- Revisiting XML Configurations In Unity - Gil Fink
Revisiting XML Configurations In Unity In the past I wrote a few tutorials about Unity application block. One of the things I wrote about was how to configure a Unity container using design time configuration. In this post I'm going to revisit that post and show you how the configurations changed ( (Unedited)
C++, SQL, Windows, SQL-Server, DBA
Uncategorised Tips and Tricks
- Exception Occurred ? – Get Troubleshooting tips from your favorite blogs - Abhijit Jana
In this blog post, I am going to share a quite interesting tips, where you can customize the "Exception Assistant" in visual studio. As an example, I have shown how we can set some favorite blogs urls in troubleshooting tips section. Well, Let's start with bit background to get an clear idea. We all (Unedited)
Work Issues
- Making the Compiler do the Work - sashan govender
This was a program I wrote a while ago (2003) to demonstrate what can be done with template metaprogramming in C++. (Unedited)
C++, Windows, MFC
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