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Congratulations to our April article competition winners!
| Best VB.NET article of March 2011 | |
| Meshack Musundi - WPF 2D Image Carousel | |
| Prizes: | 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; |
| Best C# article of March 2011 | |
| Jani Giannoudis - Time Period Library for .NET | |
| Prizes: | 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 C++/MFC article of March 2011 | |
| darkoman - 3D Software Rendering Engine - Part I | |
| Prizes: | Codejock Xtreme ToolkitPro; The latest C++ books from Apress; CryptoLicensing For MFC - Enterprise Edition; DragonFireSDK - Windows iPhone Development; CppDepend; |
| Best ASP.NET article of March 2011 | |
| Abhijit Jana - Run ASP.NET Web Application from Command Prompt | |
| Prizes: | Nevron Chart for .NET (Lite edition); The latest ASP.NET books from Apress; Reuxables Ultimate Subscription for WPF + Silverlight + Windows Phone 7; |
| Best overall article of March 2011 | |
| Jani Giannoudis - Time Period Library for .NET | |
| Prizes: | DevForce Silverlight; FPS Maps for WPF; Code Project Mug; Mindscape WPF Elements 4.0; |
Well done, guys!
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Weekly Poll Results
How many hours a week do you work?
Survey period: 25 Apr 2011 to 2 May 2011
Count each hour that you're doing work (including from home), or that you are in the office or usual place of work. When you're done compare the results with our March 2003 survey.
| Option | Votes | % | |
| I don't work | 54 | 4.27 |  |
| less than 20 hrs a week. | 30 | 2.37 | |
| 20 - 40 hrs a week. No problem. | 291 | 22.99 | |
| 40 - 60 hrs a week. Busy. | 673 | 53.16 | |
| 60 - 80 hrs a week. Hectic. | 126 | 9.95 | |
| 80 - 100 hrs a week. I have no life. | 58 | 4.58 | |
| more than 100 hrs. I have been assimilated. | 34 | 2.69 | |
| Total | 1266 | 100% | |
This week's survey: Are you using the .NET Dynamic Language Runtime?
Most popular new articles
25 Apr 2011 - 2 May 2011
- Password Storage: How to do it. - OriginalGriff
- Push Messages in RESTful WCF Web Application with Comet Approach - Igor Ladnik
- What not to do: Anti-Patterns and the Solutions - Naerling
- Comparison of MVC implementation between J2EE Struts 2 & ASP.NET MVC 2, who is the best? Part 2 - Shivprasad koirala, Vishwanath Narayanan
- Androng, a Pong clone for Android - Patrick Kalkman
Latest Additions
161 articles overall 108 new, 97 updated, 0 moved. 44 were edited, 117 unedited
Article topics listed: C++
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New articles added
Combo & List Boxes
- Extended CComboBox - Flaviu 2
A combobox control which shows a drop down window to assist user
VC6, Windows, MFC
Dialogs and Windows
- 2D Water Effect in WTL - Tom Gee
A WTL control class to add water effect to an image, like what's done in the TortoiseSVN About dialog
C++, Windows, ATL
OpenGL
- OpenGL Programming with MinGW - _beauw_
Presents the essentials of building a basic OpenGL 3D project using MinGW
C++, Win32, OpenGL, Dev
Vista API
- The Windows Native Ribbon Part 1.5: Laying out Controls and Groups - Michael Dunn
This article describes how to lay out controls in the Windows native Ribbon
C++ (VC9.0), Windows (Vista, Win2008, Win7, Win2008-R2), Win32, Win64, ATL, WTL, COM, Dev
Algorithms & Recipes
- A Simple Wildcard Matching Function - Martin Richter [MVP C++]
A Simple Wildcard Matching Function
C++, Windows, Dev
DLLs & Assemblies
- Your Desktop and Microsoft's SetWindowsHookEx() - Jörg Anslik
How to detect Desktop mouse (double) clicks using MH_MOUSE_LL.
C++ (VC10.0), Windows, Win32, Win64, Dev, system, threads, tips
Threads, Processes & IPC
- A Generic Task/Worker Implementation - Vinith B Raj
A generic task/worker implementation to provide asynchronous 'fire & forget' mechanism for your object
C++, Windows, TR1
Uncategorised Tips and Tricks
- Tree ComboBox Control - Flaviu 2
Tree ComboBox Control
VC6, Windows, MFC
Debug Tips
- .NET Windbg Extension Development in Visual Studio - Mattias Högström
Develop Windbg extensions in Visual Studio and call .NET libraries
C++, C++/CLI, Windows, .NET, 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.b5 Beta Release (RC2) - 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
- Enhanced Transparent Flash Control in C++ - Fred van Lieshout
OLE container implementation for hosting a Flash Player control using C++, with support for calls and callbacks between C++ and Flash ActionScript.
C++, Windows, COM, COM+, Flash, Dev, ActiveX, UI
Win32/64 SDK & OS
- A simple wrapper for asynchronous file I/O (ReadFileEx,WriteFileEx) - Sudheesh.P.S
AsyncFile is a small wrapper class for simplifying the usage of asynchronous file APIs. (Unedited)
VC6, VC10.0, WinXP, Win7, Win32, Dev, Application, General
Threads, Processes & IPC
- Yet another implementation of a lock-free circular array queue - Faustino Frechilla
A circular array based lock-free queue with no memory allocation on the heap and no ABA problem (Unedited)
C++, Windows, .NET, Linux, Architect, Dev, Threading, Scheduler, coding, Algorithms - Spin Lock in C++ - sameer_87
A Spin Lock implementation which can be used for general purpose locking (Unedited)
C++, Windows, Win32, Threading, Development
Debug Tips
- Extending windbg with Page Fault Breakpoints - Mattias Högström
Take advantage of the memory page access flag, and set a new kind of breakpoint
C++, Windows, Dev
Installation
- InstallScript Advanced Pointers - Mark Babayev
This article shows how to overcome the InstallScript limitations and to add to it new capabilities inherent in the C/C++ code.
C++, C, Windows, installer
Tips and Tricks added
GPU Programming
- CUDA 3.2 on VS2010 in 9 steps - Kerem Kat
Compile and run CUDA 3.2 projects from VS2010 in 9 easy steps (Unedited)
C++, C, VS2010, GPGPU
Technical blogs added
Web Security
- Various Clients and Forms Authentication - Karl Shifflett
Using Forms Authentication to secure access to ASP.NET MVC endpoints and WCF services. (Unedited)
C++, Windows
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