Technical Interview Questions & Answers: CodeProject Newsletter

VB.NET

Utility to backup your folders fast - pascal ganaye
I use a procedure based on batch files to copy various versions of my project. I was a bit fed up to wait for the batch file to copy hundreads of files and wrote this small utility to speed up the process. I hope some of you will find it useful.
DirectoryWatcher - Winfried Wille
DirectoryWatcher watches a chosen directory and its subdirectory for changes.
DataGrid Copy Helper Component - patgrape
A component providing Copy functionality to a Windows Forms DataGrid. Copied data can then be pasted in Excel or a text editor. (Unedited)

.NET

Don't touch my log, how to protect your xml data with Xml-DSig - ediazc
Shows a simple class for digital signature generation and verificacion (Unedited)
Web Extraction and Submission toolkit (Library and tool) - inuka_g
A tool and an extensible library that allows the user to interact with web based forms (Unedited)
User Interface Process Application Block ( Part 2) - Nishith Pathak
User Interface Process Application Block (Unedited)

.NET Compact Framework

Increment Build No in VS.Net - Ariadne
Little quick and dirty programm (60 lines), which updates the version build no each time a release is build (Unedited)

ASP.NET

Requirements for Developing WebApplications & ASP .NET Problems - Star_Friend
Web Applications & ASP .NET (Unedited)
Creating a Composite Server Control used for Dynamic Page Rendering - Wim Van den Broeck
The first of two articles where a custom composite server control, with five different field type's included, can be used to render dynamic pages on-the-fly. (Unedited)

Managed C++

A rational attempt to substantiate C++/CLI as a first class CLI language - Nishant Sivakumar
Why the author thinks that C++/CLI has its own unique role to play as a first-class .NET programming language

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.
Display the current time across any time zone via custom clocks on your desktop - Acoustic
A simple Smart Client application exploring local resources and UI development with the 2.0 framework.
Sudoku and Smart Client techniques - arikp
This article will develop a Sudoku game base on a web service, while presenting useful development techniques of smart client applications. (Unedited)

SOAP and XML

XPathEditor : A tool for building XPath expression base on XML Schema. - Thanh Dao
A tool for building XPath expression base on XML Schema. (Unedited)

ASP

ASP Code Analyzer - fschudel
A simple tool to find unused subs, functions and variables in your ASP code.

C# Controls

Extending basic WinForms Controls and the DataGrid - Noogen
dotNet 1.1 - AutoComplete ComboBox, bindable CheckBox and DateTimePicker, ReadOnly simulator, extending the DataGrid for designer support of DataGridComboBoxColumn and more... (Unedited)
DropDownPanel: a complete Expandable Panel - darisole
Useful and simple, it can be used for options pages in your Apps (Unedited)

JavaScript

HTML Table Filter ala Excel - WoutL
A way to filter a large table in a simple manner.

C# Programming

An improvement on capturing similarity between strings - Thanh Dao
An improvement on capturing similarity between strings. The algorithm was developed in C#.
COM+ Running Process - M_Rizwan
Monitoring COM+ running applications.
Rapid development and refactoring using code generators - Part 1 - Chris Cole
Using CodeDOM and SQL Server to build entity and factory classes - Part 1: CodeDOM basics.
Navy Battle Game - II - Alex Cutovoi
A client-server navy battle game.
Image Resizing - outperform GDI+ - ltinka
This article discusses a little weakness in GDI+ filters and shows a class for top-quality image resizing.
Generic Singleton Provider - davojc
An article describing how to use Generics to create a singleton provider.
Extracting tags and details from your mp3 collection into XML - Raven123
Extracting various information (ID3vN tags and general info) from mp3 files in a directory tree into XML format (Unedited)
Full-text searching with IFilter's - klaus_salchner@hotmail.com
Indexing Server, SQL Server, Windows SharePoint Services, SharePoint Portal Server, Exchange Server and Windows Desktop Search provide full-text search capabilities. Each utilizes so called IFilter components to index the content and then allows clients to search the index. (Unedited)
Automatic Undo/Redo for .NET classes - Matt Davison
A unique spin on implementing generic Undo/Redo funcionality for .NET classes using method invocation interception... (Unedited)
Abstract class versus Interface - Rahman Mahmoodi
Abstract class versus Interface: usage and implementation (Unedited)
String Enumerations in C# - CodeBureau - Matt Simner
Options for declaring and referencing static string data (Unedited)
Using XML CDATA nodes to send files via a Web Service - kubben
Using XML CDATA nodes to send files via a Web Service (Unedited)
Move window/form without Titlebar in C# - FreewareFire
How to move a form without having a Titlebar in C# (Unedited)
Windows Style via IExtenderProvider - Dan Andreescu
Implementing Cascading Style Sheets for .NET Windows Forms with IExtenderProvider and C#.
Fireball.XmlGui - dotnetfireball
A library for creating plug-ins with User Interface created from an XML file.
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.

Multimedia

The ultimate Managed DirectSound 9 Tutorial. Part 1: a full introduction to Playback - darisole
How to playback sounds, apply effects and more with the Managed DirectSound 9 (Unedited)
CustomUI: C# Quickstart Guide -
A quick guide to the C# CustomUI sample from the DirectX SDK (Unedited)
Media files conversion using C# - daniel049
Demonstrates building DirectShow filter graphs for file conversion.

Product Showcase

Developers ensure database accuracy - Red Gate Software
SQL Data Compare and SQL Packager help iCOMCept ensure customer's database accuracy

Updated Articles

.NET

Simulating Stored Procedures in Microsoft Access using Enterprise Library Application Blocks - defwebserver
Simulating stored procedures in Microsoft Access using Enterprise Library Application Blocks.
Creating project item code templates for Visual Studio .NET - Emil Åström
This article describes how new project item code templates work in Visual Studio .NET 2003 (and 2005) and presents a component that makes it easy to write new templates.
Visual Studio .NET 2003 Add-in that adds diff tools, an explore command, Subversion support and web project reporting. Version 2.1 - 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 2.1.