[CodeProject] Newsletter (12 May 2008)

Dialogs and Windows

• CWindow (wrapper class for the window API functions) + IuSpy - Maxim Berezov
  CWindow (wrapper class for the window API functions) + IuSpy(Spy++ analog) (Unedited)
  C# 2.0.NET 2.0, Win32, WinForms, Intermediate
  
  

Grid & Data Controls

• GridView Custom Paging with PageSize Change Dropdown - Saifi Hasan
  A GridView control with custom paging.
  C# (C# 2.0, C#), WinCE, .NET (.NET, .NET 2.0), ASP.NET, WebForms, Arch, Intermediate
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Create a simple time tracking tool with System.Windows.Forms.Timer. - hawkesed
  Article shows readers how to use basic C# 2.0 WinForms to make a working application. (Unedited)
  C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C#), .NET, WinForms, Dev, Beginner
  
  
• XIcon - an MFC control to display text and icon - Hans Dietrich
  XIcon is an MFC control that displays text and/or icon with auto-sizing. (Unedited)
  C++ (VC6, VC8.0, C++), Windows, Visual Studio (VS2005, VS6, VS), MFC, Dev, Intermediate
  
  

Shell and IE programming

• Notifying Windows Explorer about files in use - Lukasz Swiatkowski
  How to notify Windows Explorer about which files are used and locked by your application. (Unedited)
  C# (C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C#), Windows (Windows, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, TabletPC, Embedded), .NET (.NET, .NET 3.5, .NET 3.0, .NET 2.0), Win32, COM, Dev, Intermediate
  
  

Toolbars & Docking windows

• A Professional Ribbon you will use - Jose M. Menendez Poó
  A serious project on an Office-like Ribbon control (Unedited)
  C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C#), Windows (Windows, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista), WinForms, Advanced
  
  

Ajax and Atlas

• Agochar Keypad - A Virtual Keyboard in Hindi - Mohit Soam
  A compact virtual In-Script keyboard to input hindi (official language of India) characters in text box . (Unedited)
  C# (C# 2.0, C#), JScript, JScript .NET, WebForms, Beginner
  
  

Applications & Tools

• Simple Component Inheritance In ExtJS - Paul Coldrey
  How to create an ExtJS component to render arbitrary HTML (Unedited)
  JScript, CSS, HTML, XHTML, WebForms, Ajax, ASP, ASP.NET, Dev, Intermediate, Advanced
  
  

ASP.NET

• Building ASP.NET Web Pages Dynamically in the Code-Behind - Part 2: A Form Example - Robert Pittenger
  This article shows a technique for building ASP.NET Web pages where the entire page contents are created dynamically in code-behind
  C#.NET 2.0, ASP.NET, Dev, Intermediate
  
  
• ASP.NET Zip Entry Handler - Jake Morgan
  Deploy zip files to your web application and serve compressed files directly out of the zip file. (Unedited)
  C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C#), HTML, .NET (.NET, .NET 3.5, .NET 3.0, .NET 2.0), IIS (IIS 5, IIS 5.1, IIS 6, IIS 7, IIS), ASP.NET, Dev, Design, Intermediate, Advanced
  
  
• Add Custom Configuration Sections into a Separate web.config - Ricky Wang
  This article introduces a tip of how to add your custom configuration sections in "another" web.config
  C# 2.0, Windows, .NET 2.0, ASP.NET, Dev, Intermediate
  
  
• Fast ASP.NET web page loading by downloading multiple javascripts after visible content and in batch - Omar Al Zabir
  Download all external scripts on your web page after the visible content is loaded for faster perceived speed and donwload multiple javascript in batch for better actual speed (Unedited)
  JScript, CSS, HTML, XHTML, WebForms, Ajax, ASP, ASP.NET, Dev, Intermediate
  
  
• A Simple Image Handler - jrhea
  An ASP.NET Handler for resizing and rotating/flipping images dynamically (Unedited)
  C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C#), VB (VB 7.x, VB 8.0, VB), .NET (.NET, .NET 2.0), GDI+, ASP.NET, Dev, Design, Intermediate
  
  
• Web Services in C++/CLI - Nadeem Afana
  An article on Web service implementation in C++/CLI
  C++/CLI, Windows, .NET, ASP.NET, Dev, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
  
  
• Navigating Away from a Page that has Changes, in ASP.NET - nickyt
  Notifying a user when leaving a Web page that has modifications
  JScript, C#, Windows, .NET (.NET 2.0, .NET), WebForms, ASP.NET
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• Expanding / Collapsing GridView Rows - Samir Nigam
  This article describes how to expand and collapse rows of a GridView using JavaScript. (Unedited)
  C# (C# 2.0, C#), JScript, CSS, XHTML, HTML, .NET (.NET, .NET 2.0), ASP.NET, ADO.NET, WebForms, Ajax, Dev, Intermediate
  
  

General Graphics

• A C++ Blob Editor in less than 128 lines of code - Ronounours
  A very simple C++ source code showing how to create an interactive 2D graphical blobs editor, using the CImg Library (Unedited)
  C++ (VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, C++), C, Windows (Windows, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista), Win32, Dev, Beginner
  
  

Database

• VBScript to back up SQL Server data to pure SQL - alex turner
  A VBScript which creates delete and insert statements to backup data from SQL Server (Unedited)
  VBScript, Windows, ADO, SysAdmin, Arch, DBA, Intermediate
  
  

.NET Framework

• AddIn Enabled Applications - Sacha Barber
  Using the AddIn model pipeline (Unedited)
  C# (C# 3.0, C#), .NET (.NET, .NET 3.5), WPF, WinForms, Design, Arch, Dev, SysAdmin, Advanced
  
  
• Reading Unmanaged Data Into Structures - Sasha Goldshtein
  In this article, we will look into reading data from an unmanaged array of bytes into a managed data structure. We will use multiple approaches to optimize the process.
  C++/CLI, C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C#), Windows, .NET, Dev, Advanced
  
  

Game Development

• Game Programming - One - SK Genius
  Introduction to the methods used to create a simple game (Unedited)
  C#, .NET (.NET 2.0, .NET), Beginner
  
  
• Game Programming - Two - SK Genius
  Introduction to the methods used to create a simple game (Unedited)
  C#, Windows, .NET, Beginner
  
  

LINQ

• LINQ TO SQL All Common Operations (Insert,Update,Delete,Get) in ONE BASE Class - Yazeed Hamdan
  Base Class to perform all Common LINQ To SQL Operations (Unedited)
  C# (C# 3.0, C#), Windows (Windows, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista), .NET (.NET, .NET 3.5), Arch, Dev, Intermediate, Advanced
  
  

Win32/64 SDK & OS

• How to get the Client IP address or hostname of a Citrix session or Terminal Services Session? - Vishal Ganeriwala
  How to get the Client IP address or hostname of a Citrix session or Terminal Services Session? (Unedited)
  Windows (NT4, Win2K, Win2003, Windows), Win32, Win64, Dev, SysAdmin, Beginner, Intermediate
  
  

Windows Communication Foundation

• Simple WCF - Cardspace - meetsenthilbtech
  Windows cardspace implementation in Windows communication foundation (WCF) application (Unedited)
  .NET (.NET 3.0, .NET), WCF, Intermediate
  
  

Windows Presentation Foundation

• A more generic way of sorting a WPF ListView with IComparer - wpfdevelopment.com
  Easy way of sorting the WPF ListView with a more generic method (Unedited)
  C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C#), XAML, WPF, Arch, Dev, Beginner, Intermediate
  
  

WTL

• Change File Extension Context Menu - T800G
  An easy and flexible way to change file extensions.
  C++, Windows (WinXP, Windows), COM, Dev, Intermediate
  
  

C#

• The R Statistical Language and C#.NET: Foundations - Jeff B. Cromwell
  Use the R Language in C#.NET applications (Unedited)
  C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C#)
  
  
• List Comprehensions for C# 2.0 - Frohwalt Egerer
  Writing nice list comprehensions for C# 2.0 (Unedited)
  C# (C# 2.0, C#), .NET, Dev, Intermediate
  
  
• TLS: An exercise in concurrent programming - Nick Butler
  A walkthough about multi-threading an app and a useful helper class (Unedited)
  C# 3.0.NET 3.5, WPF, Arch, Dev, Intermediate
  
  
• Visual Studio Project MRU List Editor III - peterchen, Josh Beach, Nelviticus
  An update to a stand-alone tool for editing Visual Studio's MRU list. (Unedited)
  C# (C# 2.0, C#), .NET (.NET, .NET 2.0), Visual Studio, WinForms, Dev, Beginner
  
  
• Sending/Recieving PictureBox Image in C# To/From Microsoft SQL SERVER - Morteza Naeiamabadi
  this article is written for those stucking in such a hell problem (Unedited)
  C# (C# 2.0, C#), .NET (.NET, .NET 2.0), WinForms, Design, SysAdmin, CEO, Arch, DBA, Dev, QA, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
  
  

XML

• Introduction to using XPathDocument, XPathNodeIterator, XPathNavigator and XPathExpression Objects - Usman M Khan
  Introduction to using XPathDocument, XPathNodeIterator, XPathNavigator and XPathExpression Objects (Unedited)
  C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C#)
  
  
• Getting started with Schematron - ToniMaroni
  The fastest way to get started with Schematron and Altova's XMLSpy® (Unedited)
  XML, Windows (WinXP, Vista, Windows), Arch, DBA, Dev, QA, Design, Beginner
  
  

Bugs & Workarounds

• The Year 2038 Bug - Y2K38 Problem - Many of your applications will crash - Ruchit Surati
  The Year 2038 Bug - Y2K38 Problem. (Unedited)
  C++, Windows, Win32, CEO, Arch, DBA, Dev, Design, SysAdmin, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
  
  

Programming Tips

• Referenced Description Attribute - J.Thomas
  An article on how to call an existing description in the designer
  C#.NET 1.1, .NET 2.0, WinXP, Dev, Beginner
  
  

Product Showcase

• Scan an Image, Clean It, OCR It and Save It - Travis Montgomery
  Create an application that allows the user to choose a scanner, adjust the scanner's settings to produce images optimal for OCR, scan from the device, OCR the documents, and save recognized text out to disk as a searchable PDF.
  C#, Visual Studio (VS2005, VS), Dev, Intermediate
  
  
• Why You Should Own a Code Profiling Tool - Red Gate Software
  Find out why you should invest in a code profiling tool and what difference it can make to your applications.
  .NET, Visual Studio (VS.NET2003, VS2005, VS), Dev, Intermediate
  
  
• Building a Visual Studio DebuggerVisualizer with a Custom Serializer - Richard Minerich
  For most any Serializeable object, making a DebuggerVisualizer is exceeding simple and examples abound. However, if you are trying to build a DebuggerVisualizer for an object which is not Serializable or takes too long to Serialize and Deserialize, things are not quite so simple.
  C#, Visual Studio (VS2005, VS2008, VS), Dev, Intermediate
  
  
• Version Control: Friend or Foe? - Kenji Sulzberger
  Learn how to turn the latter into the former, and how a pragmatic approach to software configuration management can significantly improve your development efforts.
  Arch, Dev, QA, Design, Intermediate
  
  

Articles updated added Last week

List Controls

• A Much Easier to Use ListView - Phillip Piper
  This article describes a much easier to use ListView that supports sorting and grouping.
  C# 2.0, Windows, .NET 2.0VS.NET2003, VS2005, Dev, Intermediate
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Simple Pop-up Control - Lukasz Swiatkowski
  How to create a custom pop-up control in C#
  C# 2.0, Windows, .NET 2.0VS2005, Dev, Design, Intermediate
  
  

Printing

• Printing documents from C# using OpenOffice writer - psonek
  Simple printing solution based on OpenOffice suite (Unedited)
  C#, Windows, Office, Dev, Beginner
  
  

Ajax and Atlas

• Faster JavaScript StringBuilder - Ferreri Gabriele (Megasoft78)
  A faster JavaScript StringBuilder
  C#, JScript, ASP.NET, Ajax, Dev, Beginner, Intermediate
  
  

Applications & Tools

• ToDoList 5.5.2 - 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, VC8.0Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, MFC, VS6, CEO, Arch, DBA, Dev, QA, Intermediate
  
  

ASP.NET

• Event Calendar [ ASP.NET 2.0 / C# ] - Neeraj Saluja
  Basic Calendar Control of ASP.NET 2.0 can be extended to cater one of most frequent requirement of tracking events, project milestones, history, schedule etc. (Unedited)
  C# 2.0.NET 2.0, ASP.NET, VS2005, Dev, Intermediate
  
  

ASP.NET Controls

• GridView Rows Navigation Using The Arrow (Up/Down) Keys. - Samir Nigam
  This article describes how to navigate GridView rows with the help of the arrow (up/down) keys using JavaScript. (Unedited)
  C# (C# 2.0, C#), JScript, CSS, HTML, .NET (.NET, .NET 2.0), ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Ajax, Dev, Intermediate, Advanced
  
  
• Multiple File Upload User Control - Samir Nigam
  This article describes how to create an user control with event & properties. (Unedited)
  C# (C# 2.0, C#), JScript, CSS, HTML, .NET (.NET, .NET 2.0), ASP.NET, Dev, Intermediate
  
  
• Selecting / Deselecting All The CheckBoxes Inside The GridView - Samir Nigam
  This article describes how to select & unselect all the CheckBoxes inside the GridView control (Unedited)
  C# (C# 2.0, C#), JScript, CSS, HTML, .NET (.NET, .NET 2.0), ASP.NET, Dev, Intermediate
  
  
• Client Side Validation For The CheckBoxes Inside The GridView - Samir Nigam
  This article describes how to count selected CheckBoxes inside a GridView control (Unedited)
  C# (C# 2.0, C#), JScript, HTML, .NET (.NET, .NET 2.0), ASP.NET, Dev, Intermediate
  
  
• Explicitly binding data to ListView web control - Gola
  Binding data without SqlDataSource and Eval / Bind methods (Unedited)
  C# 3.0.NET 3.5, WebForms, Dev, Intermediate
  
  

Charts, Graphs and Images

• Gallery Server Pro - An ASP.NET Gallery for Sharing Photos, Video, Audio and Other Media - Roger Martin
  Gallery Server Pro is a complete, stable ASP.NET gallery for sharing photos, video, audio and other media. This article presents the overall architecture and major features.
  JScript, XML, CSS, SQL, HTML, XHTML, C# 2.0, VB 8.0.NET 3.0, .NET 2.0, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, ASP.NET, GDI+, SQL, ADO.NET, WPF, WebForms, Ajax, VS2005, CEO, Arch, DBA, Dev, Intermediate
  
  

Internet / Network

• PrismServer: A Chat Client and Server Solution for .NET 2.0 - Dion Kurczek
  PrismServer is a complete solution for adding chat and other general purpose multi-user messaging to your .NET applications. Concepts like creating and entering chat rooms, and management of user profiles, are abstracted and exposed as simple properties, methods and events.
  C# 2.0, Windows, .NET 2.0VS2005, Dev, Intermediate
  
  

Session State

• ASP.NET Session Helper (Scope, Categories) - Florian DREVET
  Use scopes and categories to avoid collision and confusion between your session values.
  C# (C# 2.0, C#), Windows, ASP.NET, Arch, Dev, Intermediate
  
  

Web Security

• Query string encryption for ASP.NET - Michael Ulmann
  Clear text query strings are a potential security threat for your web application. Thus, query strings should always be encrypted.
  JScript, CSS, HTML, C#, ASP, ASP.NET, WebForms, Ajax, Dev, Intermediate
  
  

Audio and Video

• Low Latency Audio using ASIO Drivers in .NET - Rob Philpott
  Demonstrates access to your sound hardware with ASIO drivers
  C++/CLI, C# (C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C#), VC7, .NET (.NET, .NET 3.5, .NET 3.0, .NET 2.0), COM, Dev, Advanced
  
  

Database

• Using Data Access Objects (DAO) with WTL - CodeWizard1951
  DAO is old, obsolete, yet it is still very versatile and developer friendly.
  C++ (VC8.0), Windows (WinXP), WTL, Dev, Intermediate
  
  
• SQL Agent: A Job Scheduler Framework - Danilo Corallo
  An easy-to-use .NET solution for Job Scheduling with pluggable actions that runs on a Windows Service. Back up your SQL Server Express and much more!
  VB, XML, Windows, .NET 2.0SQL 2005, VS2005, DBA, Dev, Intermediate
  
  
• An introduction to LINQ for db4o - edwin_vermeer
  A demo web application for demonstrating the power of LINQ for db4o. (Unedited)
  C# (C# 3.0, C#), LINQ, .NET, ASP.NET, Dev, Beginner
  
  
• SQL Server to SQL Server Compact Edition Database Copy Utility - johnnycantcode
  Create and manage your mobiles database using SQL Management Studio and export them to SQL Compact Edition databases (Unedited)
  C#, SQL, Windows, SQL (SQL 2000, SQL 2005, SQL CE, SQL), WinForms, Beginner, Intermediate
  
  

SQL Reporting Services

• Adding DOC, RTF and OOXML Export Formats to the Microsoft Report Viewer Control - Anton Ponomarev
  By following steps outlined in this article, you will be able to get Report Viewer to generate reports in Microsoft Word formats (DOC, RTF, WordprocessingML and OOXML) when working in the local mode. (Unedited)
  C#, SQL, Windows, Office, SQL, DBA, Dev, Intermediate, Advanced
  
  

.NET Framework

• Create Item Templates which have nested items - Sarafian
  A template creation method, implementing IWizard in order to add nested items in the solution (Unedited)
  C# (C# 2.0, C#), .NET, Visual Studio (VS, VS2005), Advanced
  
  
• ADO.NET Connection Pooling at a Glance - Neeraj Saluja
  Connection pooling can increase the performance of any application by using active connections of the pool for consecutive requests, rather than creating a new connection each time.And at the same time, the developer who is the best judge of his/her application, can configure the connection pooling. (Unedited)
  C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C#), .NET, ADO.NET, Design, Arch, Dev, Intermediate
  
  

Windows Workflow Foundation

• Navigational Workflows Unleashed In WWF/ASP.NET 3.5 - Pero Matić
  Case-study on the internals of a Navigational Workflow engine for a fictional dating website called "World Wide Dating." (Unedited)
  C# (C# 3.0, C#), LINQ, .NET (.NET, .NET 3.5), ASP.NET, Arch, Dev, Intermediate
  
  
• Using Workflow Foundation and Visual Studio 2008 for Testing Automation - Sergei Arhipenko
  How to employ Windows Workflow Foundation for testing process? Let's design tests on visual diagram and automate its execution! (Unedited)
  C# (C# 3.0, C#), Windows (Windows, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, TabletPC), .NET (.NET, .NET 3.5, .NET 3.0), Visual Studio (VS2008, VS), WinForms, ASP.NET, Design, Arch, Dev, QA, Intermediate, Advanced
  
  

C#

• VTD-XML: XML Processing for the Future (Part II) - Jimmy Zhang
  Reveal XML processing issue #1 and explain why document-centric XML Processing is the future (Unedited)
  C#, XML, .NET (DotGNU, .NET), Dev
  
  
• United States Postal Service (USPS) Web Tools Wrapper - johnnycantcode
  United States Postal Service (USPS) Web Tools Wrapper is a .NET library you can use for address validation, retrieving rates and YES even printing label. (Unedited)
  C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, ASP.NET, Dev, Intermediate
  
  
• Schemaless C#-XML data binding with VTD-XML - Jimmy Zhang
  Agile, efficient XML data binding without schema (Unedited)
  C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C#), XML, .NET CF, .NET (.NET, .NET 3.5, .NET 3.0, .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0), ASP, Win32, Win64, WCF, Ajax, Design, CEO, Arch, DBA, Dev, QA, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
  
  
• A Cool Vista Sidebar Gadget Style CPUInfo Animate Control! (Fixed) - Davidwu
  A Cool Vista Sidebar Gadget Style CPUInfo Animate Control! (Fixed) (Unedited)
  C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C#), VB, Windows, WinCE, .NET, Win32, Win64, Visual Studio, GDI, GDI+, OpenGL, DirectX, COM, COM+, WPF, WinForms, Design, Dev, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
  
  

C++ / CLI

• get Physical HDD serial number without WMI - dmihailescu
  Retrieve the physical Hard drive ID and other info using low level APIs like DeviceIOControl (Unedited)
  C++/CLI, C# 2.0, VC8.0, Windows, .NET 2.0VS2005, Dev, Intermediate
  
  

VB.NET

• Weather Forecast with Yahoo! Weather RSS Feed - Farhad Siasar
  A class based on the Yahoo! Weather RSS feed
  VB, Windows, .NET 2.0, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate
  
  
• Form Print Control - Duncan Edwards Jones
  An extender control to make printing a form quick, easy and flexible (Unedited)
  VB 8.0, VB 9.0.NET 2.0, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, WinForms, VS2005, Dev, Intermediate
  
  

Localisation

• Developing an ASP.NET page with MasterPage and Localization - Michael Ulmann
  The MasterPage is derived from UserControl and thus, does not support the method 'InitializeCulture()'; a bit more coding is required in order to make the ASP.NET MasterPage localizable.
  C# 2.0, C# 3.0, Windows, .NET 3.0, .NET 2.0, ASP.NET, VS2005, Dev, Design, Intermediate
  
  

Macros and Add-ins

• Barcode Image Generation Library - Brad Barnhill
  This library was designed to give an easy class for developers to use when they need to generate barcode images from a string of data
  C# (C# 2.0), Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003), .NET (.NET 2.0), Visual Studio (VS2005), WinForms, Dev, Intermediate
  
  
• Source code generator for any data type - Guillaume Hanique
  How to extend Visual Studio so it can generate code for any data type (Unedited)
  C# (C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C#), VB (VB 8.0, VB 9.0, VB), .NET, Visual Studio (VS2008, VS, VS2005), COM, Dev, Intermediate
  
  

String handling

• A Naive String Comparer - Pete O'Hanlon
  A class to perform a "naive" comparison of two chunks of text to see if they look to be the same. (Unedited)
  C# (C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C#), ASP.NET, Beginner