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The voting for the best articles of February is over and the winners chosen by you:
| Best C# article of January 2011 | |
| 69Icaro - A "little snake" leads us through the most important features of the Windows Phone 7 | |
| Prizes: | iGrid.NET; Shell MegaPack.Net 2010; The latest C# books from Apress; 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 January 2011 | |
| Bryian Tan - ASP.NET - Password Strength Indicator using jQuery and XML | |
| Prizes: | Nevron Chart for .NET (Lite edition); The latest ASP.NET books from Apress; Reuxables Ultimate Subscription for WPF + Silverlight + Windows Phone 7; |
| Best C++/MFC article of January 2011 | |
| Frédéric Pailloux - A MFC/GDI+ LCD Control | |
| Prizes: | iGrid.NET; Codejock Xtreme ToolkitPro; The latest C++ books from Apress; CryptoLicensing For MFC - Enterprise Edition; CppDepend; |
| Best overall article of January 2011 | |
| 69Icaro - A "little snake" leads us through the most important features of the Windows Phone 7 | |
| Prizes: | DevForce Silverlight; FPS Maps for WPF; Code Project Mug; |
| Best VB.NET article of January 2011 | |
| Meshack Musundi - XAML Man | |
| Prizes: | iGrid.NET; Shell MegaPack.Net 2010; The latest VB books from Apress; FPS Maps for WPF; VBDepend; Reuxables Ultimate Subscription for WPF + Silverlight + Windows Phone 7; Crypto Logger For .Net; |
Congratulations to all our winners!
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Chris Maunder
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Weekly Poll Results
Which of the following programming/scripting languages do you use?
Survey period: 28 Feb 2011 to 7 Mar 2011
Compiling and linking can be so last decade. Which of the following do you use in your work or play? (Suggested by Nitin)
| Option | Votes | % | ||
| ActionScript | 59 | 6.30 |  | |
| Boo | 11 | 1.18 | | |
| ColdFusion | 12 | 1.28 | | |
| ECMAScript | 58 | 6.20 | | |
| Groovy | 4 | 0.43 | | |
| IronPython | 14 | 1.50 | | |
| JavaScript | 550 | 58.76 | | |
| Perl | 82 | 8.76 | | |
| PHP | 239 | 25.53 | | |
| Python | 107 | 11.43 | | |
| Ruby | 41 | 4.38 | | |
| Windows Powershell | 117 | 12.50 | | |
| VBScript | 199 | 21.26 | | |
| Other | 170 | 18.16 | | |
| Responses | 883 | | ||
| Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100% | ||||
View optional text answers (219 answers)
This week's survey: Should array indexing start at 0 or 1?
Most popular new articles
28 Feb 2011 - 7 Mar 2011
- HTML5 Web Storage in Essence - Wayne Ye
- Observing changes to an underlying array - George Tryfonas
- How to create scalable services with WCF 4.0 Router and Disvoery services - mikeperetz
- Sending an Email in C# with or without attachments: generic routine. - OriginalGriff
- Approaches for User Control Event Handling - Prakash Kalakoti
Latest Additions
115 articles overall 73 new, 69 updated, 0 moved. 28 were edited, 87 unedited
Article topics listed: C++
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New articles added
Shell and IE programming
- Http Monitor for Webbrowser Control - abhinav_soni
The ATL COM Dll that captures requests from individual Webbrowser Control (Unedited)
C++ (VC8.0), C# (C#3.0), Windows (WinXP), Win32, COM, Dev, DLL, Development
C#
- Integrating an unmanaged C++ .lib with C# - DLChambers
Demonstrates integrating Port95NT's unmanaged DLPortIO.lib with C#.
C++, C#, .NET, Dev
Articles updated
List Controls
- Suppress Flickering Scrollbars in Autosizing CListCtrl - Julijan Sribar
How to avoid flickering scrollbars that appear when resizing CListCtrl which has a last column with the LVSCW_AUTOSIZE_USEHEADER value set.
C++, Windows, MFC, Dev
Applications & Tools
- ToDoList 6.1.9 Feature Release - A simple but effective way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g.
A hierarchical task manager with native XML support for custom reporting.
VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, MFC, CEO, Architect, DBA, Dev, QA
C / C++ Language
- A Type-safe Generic Pointer - FrancisXavier
A safer alternative to void*, any_ptr can point to any type of object and provide type-safe, const-correct access to it. (Unedited)
C++, Dev
.NET Framework
- XFxDetect - A utility to detect which versions of .Net are installed - Hans Dietrich
XFxDetect inspects registry and file system of local or remote computer to determine which versions of .Net Framework are installed. (Unedited)
C++, Windows, .NET (.NET3.5), MFC, VS2008, Dev
Algorithms & Recipes
- C++ String Toolkit (StrTk) Tokenizer - Arash Partow
A brief introduction to a C++ String Tokenizer implementation (Unedited)
C++ (VC7.1, VC8.0, VC9.0), C++/CLI, C, Win32, Win64, STL, Architect, Dev, Design, recipes, string, Algorithms - Polyline Simplification - Elmar de Koning
A generic C++ implementation for n-dimensional Douglas-Peucker Approximation.
C++, Windows, Linux, MacOS, VS2008, Dev
Tips and Tricks added
Programming Tips
- The goto-less goto! - Member 4694807
My favorite is a variant of alternative 2.{ ... DoInit(); status=DoAllActions(); DoCleanup(status); ...}int DoAllActions(){ if (condition1_fails) return status1; ... if (condition2_fails) return status2; ... if(conditionN_fails) ... (Unedited)
C++, C#
Debug Tips
- Windows Memory leak detection (update to existing article) - Tim Stevens
An updated version of the code in David A Jones' article "Memory Leak Detection" (Unedited)
C++, Win32
Technical blogs added
.NET Framework
- Installing a Production Server for ASP.NET MVC 2 – Part 2 - Gil Fink
Installing a Production Server for ASP.NET MVC 2 – Part 2 A few days ago I helped a client to solve a problem they had when they deployed an ASP.NET MVC 2 application. In a previous post I wrote about how you can install a production server in order to run ASP.NET MVC 2 application. The client team (Unedited)
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