CodeProject Newsletter

VB.NET

• Working With Paneled Forms (Paneled User Controls) in Windows Applications - msalmank
  Describes how-to of using User Controls with Panels on Windows Forms. (Unedited)
  
  

.NET

• License Key Generation - Donsw
  An article on license key generation.
  
  
• FreeCal - GPIB Instrument Automation for Metrology Test and Measurement - R. Scott Page
  FreeCal is a free 100% .NET suite of utilities and instrument drivers for controlling multiple instruments in a Test and Measurement environment.
  
  
• Posting newsgroup messages with NNTP - Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
  In this article I will demonstrate how to quickly and easily post a message to a newsgroup, including an attachment. (Unedited)
  
  

ASP.NET

• Exporting DataGrid to Excel, Word and Text Files - azamsharp
  How to export DataGrid to Excel, Word and Text files.
  
  
• Hide DataGrid Columns via HeaderText - Kenny Young
  Shows a developer how to dynamically hide or show DataGrid columns.
  
  
• Accessing the data of ASP.NET templated controls from client-side script - John Wadie
  The article demonstrates an easy method to access the data of templated controls (Repeater, DataList, DataGrid) from client-side scripts.
  
  
• Satellite Assembly - Multi Languages - Thang Q. Tran
  Creating a multi language ASP.NET site using Satellite Assemblies.
  
  
• Working with more than one Web.config file - Palanisamy Veerasingam
  We can have more than one Web.config file in ASP.NET applications, by adding separate Web.config files for subfolders.
  
  
• A useful UrlBuilder class - lotuspro
  A simple way to generate and manipulate URLs.
  
  
• SQL injection attacks - Invincible Poison
  An article on SQL injection attacks.
  
  
• Improve performace with Sessions using Cache - Albert Pascual
  I wrote this short article to improve your ASP.NET application Sessions using Cache.
  
  
• Convert .net Class to a Data Grid - Tittle Joseph
  Create a Datagrid from a arraylist which is a collection of a specific class type. Read all attributes of a class in any nested heirachy and create datacolumns from that or just select few attributes as datacolumns and ignore others. Have unique readable datacolumn names finally in the datatable. (Unedited)
  
  
• Keep ASP.NET ViewState out of ASPX Page for Performance Improvement - Régis Daniel de Oliveira
  How you could improve performance of your ASP.NET projects, keeping ViewState on the server instead of on the ASPX page.
  
  

C# WebServices

• WS-Transfer for Indigo - Roman Kiss
  The article describes design, implementation and usage of the WS-Transfer for Indigo driven applications. (Unedited)
  
  

Smart Client

• RSS Feed Aggregator and Blogging Smart Client - Omar Al Zabir
  RSS Feed aggregator and Blogging Smart Client which uses Enterprise Library, Updater Application Block, lots of XML hacks and desktop tricks. A comprehensive guide to real life hurdles of Smart Client development (Unedited)
  
  

SOAP and XML

• Parsing XML using a C++ wrapper for SAX2 - nschan
  A basic C++ wrapper framework for the MSXML SAX2 API is presented. (Unedited)
  
  
• XSD – Using the include element for schematic reuse - Jónas Antonsson
  How to use the "include" element to introduce schematic reuse. (Unedited)
  
  

Combo & Listboxes

• NullableComboBox - Cepheus77
  A combobox which can show null for business objects.
  
  

JavaScript

• JSBalloonn: non modal feedback mechanism for DHTML applications - Arkady Lesniara
  A flexible, encapsulated way to implement a passive feedback mechanism.
  
  

C# Programming

• Numeric String Sort in C# - Vasian Cepa
  An article on sorting strings in C# the way Windows Explorer does with file names.
  
  
• How to route events in a Windows Forms application - Wytek Szymanski
  An article about routing events in a Windows Forms application.
  
  
• Borg Knowledge Assimilator - Sean Michael Murphy
  A simple game that accumulates facts and appears to learn by conversing with players asking yes and no questions.
  
  
• Display an Internet Connection status icon using .NET Framework 2.0 - Juan Roman
  This article explains how to use a BackgroundWorker and a StatusStrip to display an Internet connection status icon on a StatusStrip using .NET Framework 2.0.
  
  
• Maximum Entropy Modeling Using SharpEntropy - Richard Northedge
  Presents a Maximum Entropy modeling library and discusses its usage, with the aid of two examples: a simple example of predicting outcomes, and an English language tokenizer.
  
  
• Calculating Christian Holidays - Jan Schreuder
  Calculate dates for christian holidays such as Easter, Ascension day etc.
  
  
• C# and XML Source Code Documentation - Mike Elliott
  Demonstrates how to use C#.NET's XML source documentation to produce professional, indexed and searchable source documentation. (Unedited)
  
  
• Mini Event Viewer in C# - Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
  A Small and Easy-To-Use EventViewer in C# (Unedited)
  
  
• NetCalculator - Micu Radu
  A simple net calculator for use in networking math calculations. (Unedited)
  
  
• Drag and Drop Internet Shortcuts from Windows Forms to the Desktop - jisikoff
  Short article on how to drag URL links from a Windows Forms app to the desktop.
  
  
• A simple framework for adding undo/redo support - nschan
  A framework for adding undo/redo support to a Windows Forms application is presented.
  
  
• A Single Instance Application which Minimizes to the System Tray when Closed - sindhumn
  Creating a single instance application that stays in the system tray.
  
  

Multimedia

• .NET Implementation of an Ogg Vorbis Player - perry_marchant
  An article on decoding Ogg Vorbis audio files in .NET.
  
  

Design and Strategy

• Mobile Agents - Software on the move - Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
  What if objects could move from machine to machine? Not just automated downloads, or remotely controlling objects as in remoting, but a system in which the object actually moves about. Mobile software agents do exactly that. In this article I will provide an introduction to this fascinating concept.
  
  

Product Showcase

• Port Microsoft's Commerce Starter Kit to Apache Tomcat - Laurence Moroney
  Using Mainsoft's Grasshopper, you can take this reference application from Microsoft® and, in just a few minutes run it on a J2EE™ application server such as Apache Tomcat under Linux®.
  
  

Updated Articles

.NET

• The coding gentleman's guide to detecting the .NET Framework - Nishant Sivakumar
  A C++ class that will detect and enumerate the active CLR versions on a machine
  
  
• Visual Studio .NET 2003 add-in that adds diff tools, an explore command, Subversion support and web project reporting. Version 2.0 - Matthias Hertel
  With this add-in, you get new tools and commands that boost your productivity while developing, and some helpful reports specially for web projects. Version 2.0.
  
  

.NET Compact Framework

• Smart Alarm using OpenNetCF and C# for SmartPhone (Windows Mobile 2003) - Hermit Dave
  Application for SmartPhone to create multiple Alarms.
  
  

ASP.NET

• DataGridHelper tool - Jakob Lund Krarup
  A utility class to ease adding CSS classes and confirmation dialogs to the ASP.NET DataGrid component.
  
  
• Localized Breadcrumbs in ASP.NET with UrlRewriting support - Daniel Fisher (lennybacon)
  This article describes how to create localized breadcrumb navigation with ASP.NET, based on its directory structure with UrlRewriting support.
  
  
• ASP.NET Tree View Control & the Client's Browser - Mike Elliott
  Demonstrates how to use the Microsoft ASP.NET TreeView control from client-side script (Unedited)
  
  

C# Controls

• Another Month Calendar - Patrik Bohman
  A customizable month calendar with support for date formatting.
  
  

VB / VBScript

• Find out what your friends/co-workers have been doing on the Internet! - cyber_flash
  Internet Explorer: INDEX.DAT files keep a list of websites you have visited, cookies received and files opened/downloaded. As a result anyone can find out what you have been doing on the Internet! (Unedited)
  
  

C# Programming

• C# Script (missing puzzle piece) - Oleg Shilo
  An article on a "scripting engine" for the C# language.
  
  
• Locus Effects - Yuval Naveh
  .NET/C# Visual Effects Framework, for changing the user's locus of attention to an area on the screen (Unedited)
  
  

Design and Strategy

• Billing System: Introduction - HatemMostafa
  Introduction to telecommunication billing systems (Unedited)