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In an effort to save typing, and to reserve your memory for more important things, we've added a new feature this week that allows you to save your favourite searches on our search page. In the left hand filter bar you will find the Save Search area: just type the name under which you'd like to save the search and hit save. Easy as that.
We're also giggly with excitement that our new database server is up and running, connected to our SAN, and with a backup server on standby as a hot failover. I know - totally boring and unexciting to most, but I challenge any red-blooded gadget freak not to gaze upon our rack with wonder.
We're also pleased to announce the final set of winners in our Windows Phone 7 Competition. Member vankaandreev for his article 3D Graphics for Windows Phone 7 Using the XNA Framework, and Chevon Christie for his demo video NYC Transit App for the Windows Phone 7 - WP7 App. There was a plethora of quality submissions in all categories. Please take a moment to check out some of their hard work. Thanks again to all submissions throughout the competition.
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cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Weekly Poll Results
How many monitors do you use?
Survey period: 11 Apr 2011 to 18 Apr 2011
A repeat of our 2004 Survey. Have we all gone bigger and better?
| Option | Votes | % | |
| 1 Monitor | 559 | 35.11 |  |
| 2 Monitors | 866 | 54.40 | |
| 3 Monitors | 102 | 6.41 | |
| 4 Monitors | 31 | 1.95 | |
| 5 Monitors | 4 | 0.25 | |
| 6 Monitors | 8 | 0.50 | |
| 7 or more Monitors | 18 | 1.13 | |
| None. (Braille embosser, screen reader, neural shunt etc) | 4 | 0.25 | |
| Total | 1592 | 100% | |
Most popular new articles
11 Apr 2011 - 18 Apr 2011
- NetworkView: A WPF custom control for visualizing and editing networks, graphs and flow-charts - Ashley Davis
- A Collection of JavaScript Gotchas - Jonathan Cardy
- The Amazing ProgressBar Control - Graham Wilson
- State Management and ways to handle Cache in Web Farm/Web Garden scenario - Brij
- Accessing Wpf apps over a Web browser via Websockets & HTML5 Canvas - Anoop Madhusudanan
Latest Additions
135 articles overall 106 new, 64 updated, 0 moved. 39 were edited, 96 unedited
Article topics listed: C++
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New articles added
Miscellaneous
- SliderGdiCtrl: Yet Another Slider Control - Accepts (Almost) All POD Types and Uses GDI+ - geoyar
An MFC slider control that accepts and works with most POD types and has enhanced appearance.
VC9.0, Win32, MFC, GDI+, VS2008, Dev
OpenGL
- Setting up OpenGL development environment in Ubuntu Linux - markFaction
How to set up OpenGL and freeglut libraries for development in Ubuntu (Unedited)
C++, Linux, OpenGL, Dev, Ubuntu
Cryptography & Security
- Secure String Handling in Windows Applications - R.selvam
This article explains about Strsafe, Secured C run time library (CRT) and safe STL functions.
C++, Windows (WinXP, Vista, Win7), Win32, STL, Dev
Articles updated
Tree Controls
- Win32 Editable TreeView and ListView Merged as One - Eitan Michaelson
A custom tree control for Win32.
C++, Windows, Win32, Dev, UI
Applications & Tools
- ToDoList 6.2.b2 Beta 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
XML
- Parsing an XML file in a C/C++ program - Sergey Chepurin
A DOM based XML parser with C/C++.
C++, XML, Dev
Algorithms & Recipes
- Man, Marriage and Machine – Adventures in Artificial Advice, part 1 - asheesh goja
'Expert Systems' is one of the most commercially successful application of Artificial Intelligence. This three part series describes how to develop an expert system based artificial advisor, using a backward reasoning algorithm. (Unedited)
C++, C#, Java, Architect, Dev, AI - Man, Marriage and Machine – Adventures in Artificial Advice, part 2 - asheesh goja
'Expert Systems' is one of the most commercially successful application of Artificial Intelligence. This three part series describes how to develop an expert system based artificial advisor, using a backward reasoning algorithm. (Unedited)
C++, C#, Java, Architect, Dev, AI - Man, Marriage and Machine – Adventures in Artificial Advice, part 3 - asheesh goja
'Expert Systems' is one of the most commercially successful application of Artificial Intelligence. This three part series describes how to develop an expert system based artificial advisor, using a backward reasoning algorithm. (Unedited)
C++, C#, Java, Architect, Dev, AI
Macros and Add-ins
- VSDebugHelper - Capture memory snapshot of a debugged process to a file - Igor Okulist
The VsDebugHelper add-in allows to capture a buffer from the program being debugged into a data file and back.
C++, Visual-Studio, Dev
Tips and Tricks added
Programming Tips
- Including stdafx.h in a non-default location - Albert Holguin
The vc compiler and intellisense don't look for pre-compiled header in a similar manner, this is a summary of the issue along with workarounds (Unedited)
C++, Visual-Studio (VS2008), MFC
Programming Tips
- A very basic alpha blend algorithm - Mukit, Ataul
SledgeHammer didn't help, so I had to do it myself... here it is again - a super fast improved algorithm compared to the previous one and with no setpixel and getpixel :)void AlphaBlend(CDC* pDC, int xDest, int yDest, int nDestWidth, int nDestHeight, CDC* pSrcDC, int xSrc, int ySrc, BYTE... (Unedited)
C++
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