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A Custom WPF ScrollViewer

by Dirk Bahle

Making better use of the available UI space.

A Database Initialiser for SQLite and NPoco

by Private Dobbs

How to initialise a database and then automatically keep it up to date with version releases

A Fixed Block Memory Allocator in C

by David Lafreniere

Unique allocator features improve performance and protect against heap fragmentation faults on any C or C++ project.

A Simple Pathfinding Laboratory

by Robert Vandenberg Huang

Experiment, run and compare different pathfinding algorithms and heuristic functions

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A Custom WPF ScrollViewer

by Dirk Bahle

Making better use of the available UI space.

A Database Initialiser for SQLite and NPoco

by Private Dobbs

How to initialise a database and then automatically keep it up to date with version releases

A Fixed Block Memory Allocator in C

by David Lafreniere

Unique allocator features improve performance and protect against heap fragmentation faults on any C or C++ project.

A Simple Pathfinding Laboratory

by Robert Vandenberg Huang

Experiment, run and compare different pathfinding algorithms and heuristic functions

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VS2017

A Database Initialiser for SQLite and NPoco

by Private Dobbs

How to initialise a database and then automatically keep it up to date with version releases

A Fixed Block Memory Allocator in C

by David Lafreniere

Unique allocator features improve performance and protect against heap fragmentation faults on any C or C++ project.

A Simple Pathfinding Laboratory

by Robert Vandenberg Huang

Experiment, run and compare different pathfinding algorithms and heuristic functions

A Wizard Application in WPF with MVVMC Navigation

by Michael Shpilt

Shows how to create two Wizard-type applications using Model-View-ViewModel-Controller navigation framework

A WPF ListView Custom Control with Search Filter Tutorial

by Michael Shpilt

A WPF tutorial on how to create FilteredListView: A ListView custom control with search filter that uses Throttling.

A WPF Rotary Control

by Leif Simon Goodwin

This article presents a highly configurable rotary dial control.

Adding EntityFrameworkCore Support to .NET Core Project

by Benktesh Sharma

Demonstrate how to add EF support in .NET Core project

Angular 2 to Angular 4 with Angular Material UI Components - Part 3

by Yaseer Mumtaz

In this article, we will convert our Angular 2 application to Angular 4 and replace the traditional HTML & third-party components with Angular Material components.

Angular 7 with .NET Core 2.2 - Global Weather (Part 2)

by Fred Song (Melbourne)

Angular 7 with .NET Core 2.2 - Global Weather (Part 2)

Angular Fundamentals - Building an Angular 7 Application with .NET Core 2.2 (Global Weather) - Part 1

by Fred Song (Melbourne)

Demonstrating a series of Angular fundamentals through an Angular 7 application.

Angular2 in ASP.NET MVC & Web API - Part 1

by Yaseer Mumtaz

This article will help beginners to step-up Angular2 in ASP.NET MVC, create the RESTful APIs in ASP.NET MVC Web API and front end in Angular2.

ASP.NET Core 2.0 and Docker on MacOS

by Vincent Maverick Durano

A quick walk-through on building an ASP.NET Core 2.0 application on MAC and running it on Docker container

ASP.NET Core 2.1: Integrating VMD.RESTApiResponseWrapper.Core to Your REST API Application

by Vincent Maverick Durano

A quick tutorial on how to integrate VMD.RESTApiResponseWrapper.Core library into your ASP.NET Core 2.1 REST API application

ASP.NET Core and Web API: A Custom Wrapper for Managing Exceptions and Consistent Responses

by Vincent Maverick Durano

This article will talk about how to implement a custom wrapper for your ASP.NET Core and Web API applications for managing exceptions, providing meaningful and consistent responses to consumers.

ASP.NET Core Razor Pages Using EntityFramework Core with Enums as Strings - Part I

by Leonard E. James

Create initial object model and database and display first Razor Page

ASP.NET Core Razor Pages Using EntityFramework Core with Enums as Strings - Part II

by Leonard E. James

Complete Initial CRUD Pages

ASP.NET Core Razor Pages Using EntityFramework Core with Enums as Strings - Part III

by Leonard E. James

Add Project and Project State Processing

ASP.NET CORE Token Authentication and Authorization using JWT (No Cookies) – Part 1

by Joseph Rozario

This article explains how to implement Token Authentication and Authorization using JWT in ASP.NET CORE.

ASP.NET CORE Token Authentication and Authorization using JWT (No Cookies) – Part 2

by Joseph Rozario

This article explains how to implement Token Authentication and Authorization using JWT in ASP.NET CORE.

ASP.NET Multiple Selection DropDownList Using .NET C#

by Nitin_Rajurkar

ASP.NET Multiple Selection Drop Down List using C# and ASP.NET

Asynchronous Multicast Callbacks in C

by David Lafreniere

Simplify passing data between threads with this portable C language callback library.

Build an ASP.NET Wiki to Explain TDD

by Daniele Fontani

TDD & BDD explained with examples

Build My Own 3D Graphics Engine Step By Step

by Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

How to build my own 3D graphics engine from ZERO step by step

C# Debug vs. Release Builds and Debugging in Visual Studio – from Novice to Expert in One Blog Article

by Ben Hall (failingfast.io)

Most articles and documentation about the 'out of the box' C# Debug and Release build configurations were written prior to Roslyn. I take a fresh look at what you now get under the covers in 2018.

C# Source for SQL Formatting

by Mitchell Vines

Source code for SQL formatting (now with formatting options)--as opposed to a utility, web service or plug-in/add-on...

C#/.NET Console Argument Parser and Validation with ConsoleCommon

by Yisrael Lax

.NET Library for automatically validating and casting console input parameters

C++ 17 New Features and Trick

by Volynsky Alex

New features of the C++17 standard

C++ audio mixing and WAV file & AudioFile classes

by CalicoSkies

Mixing audio from multiple WAV files to a single WAV file. Includes a C++ class for reading and writing WAV audio files, derived from an AudioFile class for future support of other audio file formats.

C++ Object Relational Mapping (ORM)- Eating the Bun - Part 1 of N

by BrainlessLabs.com, sibani.p

Creating a simple ORM for C++ on-top of SQL database

Choose Your Poison on the rPi: Entity Framework, Linq2DB, or ADO.NET

by Marc Clifton

Performance differences on the rPi

Clean Factory Design Pattern with IoC Container

by kusnaditjung

Coding principles

Client and Server-Side Data Filtering, Sorting, and Pagination with Angular NgExTable

by Shenwei Liu

A custom and configurable Angular data grid tool and demo application presenting both client and server-side data filtering, sorting, and pagination (updated to Angular 11)

CNTK Model Concurrency Demonstration

by asiwel

How to Deploy Trained Models Concurrently

Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) of ASP.NET Core Application on Azure Web App using Jenkins – Day 3

by Akhil Mittal

In this article, we’ll focus on Azure Active Directory and Service Principal and integrate Jenkins with Azure Service Principal before we move on to CI/CD of ASP.NET Core application on Azure using Jenkins Azure Pipeline.

Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) of ASP.NET Core Application on Azure Web App using Jenkins – Day 4

by Akhil Mittal

In this article, we’ll learn the CI/CD of ASP.NET Core application on Azure using Jenkins Azure Pipeline.

CoreObjects/GoliahCore17: *.* for plain C

by Sauro Abbondanzieri

UWP, COM, C++/WinRT, OOP in plain C. What else?

CoreObjects/GoliahCore17: Effective OOP for plain C || 2

by Sauro Abbondanzieri

Implementing a Canvas concept with OOP, in a fresh, polished and effective, pure and plain ANSI C

CQRS - Hosting an Event Sourcing System on Microsoft Orleans

by Duncan Edwards Jones

How Microsoft Orleans can facilitate a very highly scalable CQRS and event sourcing based system

Creating ASP.NET Core 2.2 Application Step-by-Step

by Shweta Lodha

This article will walk you through the creation of ASP.NET Core application using ASP.NET Core 2.2 from scratch, by utilizing the capabilities of package manager, EF Core, Identity API, Razor Class Library, etc.

Data Visualizations And Bezier Curves

by asiwel

Data modelling and visualization using longitudinal Bezier curves

Debug multiple .NET Core projects concurrently running on different docker containers in VS 17

by Khairul Islam Sujon

Debugging multiple .NET core projects running on docker containers.

Deep Dive into OWIN Katana

by kusnaditjung

Web specification and framework

Dependency Injection in ASP.NET Core 2.0

by syed shanu

How to use Dependency Injection in ASP.NET Core 2.0 and use the result to bind in our View page

Drawing and Evaluating Math Formulae in WPF Applications

by Sergey L. Gladkiy

The article describes a simple way of realizing math formula evaluation and drawing in WPF applications.

DSGraphEdit: A Reasonable Facsimile of Microsoft's GraphEdit in .NET

by Rich Insley

A library for adding DirectShow GraphEdit-like abilities to .NET applications

Easier Hand Rolled Parsers

by honey the codewitch

Easier Hand Rolled Parsers

Export HTML Table Content to Excel - Server Side

by Muhammad_Faraz

Take HTML structure of a table & export to a genuine Excel file - Sever side processing

Fast and Practically ‘perfect’ Partition Problem Solution

by Fedor Naumenko

A combined solution of the generalized partition problem, which allows to quickly get the good quality result

Fast Binary Serializer with Compile-Time Members and Version Check

by Alexander Lednev

This is a fast binary serializer with compile-time members and version check

Flexible C# Command Line Parsing via Attributes

by Eric Lynch

A flexible command line parsing class that uses C# attributes and reflection to discover syntax

General Purpose MultiSlider

by John Trinder

Comprehensive Multi-Slider(-Range) that can add, delete and move arrows (thumbs)

Getting Started with Angular 7 And ASP.NET Core 2.1

by syed shanu

Getting started with Angular 7 and ASP.NET Core 2.0 using Angular 7 Web Application (.NET Core) Template and ASP.NET Core MVC Application

Getting Started with ASP.NET Core and Angular4 using WEB API

by syed shanu

In this article, let’s see how to get started with ASP.NET Core and using Web API.

Getting Started with Machine Learning DotNet for Clustering Model

by syed shanu

In this article, we will see how to work on Clustering model for predicting the Mobile used by model, Sex, before 2010 and After 2010 using the Clustering model with ML.NET.

Getting Started with PouchDB - Part 1

by Paul D. Sheriff

As more and more users interact with web applications on their mobile devices, it is becoming increasingly important for software developers to allow them to work offline; PouchDB can help.

Getting Started with Selenium 3.7 using Visual Studio 2017/C#

by Mohammed Faci

This article provides detailed steps for writing test cases using Selenium 3.7.0 and Visual Studio 2017/C#.

Getting Started with the Bing Search APIs

by Michael Dodaro

Basic code scenarios using Bing Search API endpoints to search the Web

Getting started with Xamarin Android Single View App

by syed shanu

Create Xamarin Android Single View app

Guidance for the Implementation of Repository Pattern and Unit of Work with ASP.NET Core Application

by Jeevanandan J

Guidance for the Implementation of repository pattern and unit of work with ASP.NET Core application

Handwritten Digits Reader UI

by KristianEkman

A C# object oriented Neural Network, trainer, and Windows Forms user interface for recognitions of hand-written digits.

HotPatching: (VERY) Deep Inside

by Michael Chourdakis

A ready to be used hotpatching library with five methods!

How to Create SQL Server Management Studio 18 (SSMS) Extension

by Stefan Timovski

Tutorial on how to start developing SSMS extensions

How to Embed Resources in a Static Library

by Michael Haephrati

How can a Static Library embed resources and other data so any application (even a Console based one) can use them.

How to Find User's Email Address

by Michael Haephrati

Here is a way to find what is the email address / addresses used by the user running a program

How to Make an LL(1) Parser: Lesson 1

by honey the codewitch

Creating a simple parser in 3 easy lessons

Implementing Enumeration Inheritance using Roslyn based VS Extension

by Nick Polyak

Describe VS2015 extension for generating sub-enumerations (akin to sub-classes)

Introducing IoCy - Simple and Powerful IoC Container

by Nick Polyak

New simple but powerful IoC container

Invoking Workflows from Azure Functions

by Roman Kiss

Design, implementation and usage of invoking WF4 from Azure Function

IP Address Control using Pure MVVM Pattern with Events

by Jitendra_Shri

IP Address control using MVVM pattern with auto focus change, various validation and full customization

Learning Entity Framework (Day 4): Understanding Entity Framework Core and Code First Migrations in EF Core

by Akhil Mittal

Entity framework core, code first migrations and data annotations in EF Core

Lightweight Domain Services Library

by L. Michael

This article provides a concrete example of a very simple and lightweight – yet useful – domain services library.

MEAN Stack

by Shashangka Shekhar

MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, Node.js abbreviated as MEAN - these development tools all use Javascript. In this sample, we are going to use MSSQL Server instead of MongoDb.

Month-Name Ordering

by David Wincelberg

Sort by month name in database tables, filenames or strings

My Favorite Filter Queries SQL, C#, Entity Framework, Lambda Expression

by DiponRoy

Conditinal filter query example in SQL, Lambda Expression, C#

Pck/Edit: A GUI for Building Parsers

by honey the codewitch

Quickly and easily build parsers and tokenizers using Pck's editor

Pck: Code Roundup and Quick Start Guide

by honey the codewitch

Using PCK to create grammars, parsers and tokenizers for C# and other .NET languages

Pck: The Parser Construction Kit

by honey the codewitch

A parser generator and unification system for different parsing tools

PDF Document Display and File Downloads with Angular, AngularJS, and Web API

by Shenwei Liu

A sample web application and discussions on creating, displaying, and downloading PDF documents with Web API data sources (including ASP.NET Core), client Angular CLI or AngularJS Components, and resolutions for web browser compatibility to handle PDF documents.

Performance of a Circular Buffer vs. Vector, Deque, and List

by SeattleC++

Reports performance of C++ container classes on a variety of operations

Programming on Trees

by Nick Polyak

Proposal for a generic framework for programming on trees

Python for .NET developer

by Himanshu Thawait

Python from the .NET developer point of view

RaptorDB - The Document Store

by Mehdi Gholam

NoSql, JSON based, Document store database with compiled .net map functions and automatic hybrid bitmap indexing and LINQ query filters (now with standalone Server mode, Backup and Active Restore, Transactions, Server side queries, MonoDroid support, HQ-Branch Replication, working in Linux, .net

Require Confirmed Email in ASP.NET Core 2.2 - Part 1

by Ken Haggerty

Scaffold and modify Identity in the new ASP.NET Core 2.2 Razor pages template

Require Confirmed Email in ASP.NET Core 2.2 - Part 2

by Ken Haggerty

Scaffold and modify Identity in the new ASP.NET Core 2.2 Razor pages template

RoundedButton Control - Demystifying DrawArc

by RickZeeland

This is an alternative for "RoundedButton Control - Demystifying DrawArc"

Securing ASP.NET CORE Web API using Custom API Key based Authentication

by Saineshwar Bageri

In this article, we are going to learn how to create a secure Web API in ASP.NET Core MVC.

Sending WhatsApp Messages from a Win32 C++ Program - Part 2

by Michael Haephrati

A simple way for sending WhatsApp documents and images to an individual or to a group in C++

Setup and Test Python Environment in Existing Visual Studio 2017

by MukeshKumarTech

This article will help you to understand how to setup Python environment in existing Visual Studio 2017. If you don’t have Visual Studio 2017 installed and you would like to install it, then you can refer to the below article for step by step information.

Simple Event Sourcing Demo in C#

by Emmanuel Nuyttens

Example on how to use Event Sourcing in C#

Simple SignalR Data Streaming Infrastructure Out-of-the-Box

by Igor Ladnik

The article presents infrastructure components for data streaming from server to clients and bidirectional communication with SignalR .NET Core.

Slack Chatting with your rPi

by Marc Clifton

Talk to your rPi over a Slack channel, getting status, controlling devices, and running shell (bash) commands and viewing the console output posted back to your Slack channel

Sponge Constructions and SHA-3 Hashing Functions: A C# Implementation

by phil.o

C# implementation of sponge construction and SHA-3 hashing operations

Sprache.Calc: Building Yet Another Expression Evaluator

by AlexeyYakovlev

This paper demonstrates a technique of building Sprache parsers using grammar inheritance.

Sprite Editor 2019: My Little Gymnast

by Christ Kennedy

Draw multiple sprites of different appearances with a single instance of classSprite

The "SMAT" Subsystem for C++

by Doctor Autonomy

A surprisingly easy way to avoid memory leaks with new/delete allocations in C++

Tic Tac Toe Using AI –The Easy Way

by George Swan

A simple invincible implementation of Tic Tac Toe

TicTacToe - MiniMax Without Recursion

by Christ Kennedy

An exhaustive search of all game-states used to trace Mini-Max decisions from End game up through to Start game

TridentOpt: A Multi-Objective Optimization Engine or Solver

by trident99

A new Open Source general purpose Multi-Objective Optimization Engine that uses a Hybrid Genetic Algorithm – Multi Agent System is described

TypeScript for Object Oriented Developers in Easy Samples Part 1

by Nick Polyak

TypeScript tutorial for object oriented programmers

Universal SMTP Code to Send Emails in .NET Apps

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan, Iqra Ali

Since I wrote an article previously, I had been asked on various occasions to share the code on Yahoo! or Bing, etc. I wanted to write an article, with the code, which covers all of those vendors as well.

Using MongoDB .NET Driver with .NET Core WebAPI

by Petru Faurescu

How to build step by step an ASP.NET Core WebAPI (.NET Core 2.0) with latest MongoDB driver. The project supports all requests to MongoDB asynchronously.

Using Roslyn for Compiling Code into Separate Net Modules and Assembling them into a Dynamic Library

by Nick Polyak

Dynamically compile and assemble code snippets into a dynamic assembly

Using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Git with VS 2017

by RahulMittal2018

How to use Visual Studio Team Services and Git with VS 2017

UWP Storage Wrapper

by Shao Voon Wong

UWP Storage Wrapper

Visual C++ 11 Beta Benchmark of Parallel Loops

by Shao Voon Wong

Benchmark between OpenMP, Parallel Patterns Library, Auto-Parallelizer and C++17 Parallel for_each

Visual Studio Collection Visualizers

by Juan Francisco Morales Larios

Collection Visualizer for Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2017. Preview your collections in debug mode.

VSLauncherX - Better Recent List (and More) for Visual Studio

by Andreas Saurwein

Better recentlist, solutions and projects management for Visual Studio, not replacing the start window

Working with the dtSearch® ASP.NET Core WebDemo Sample Application

by F. Scott Barker

Some features of the ASP.NET Core WebDemo application dtSearch provides in the dtSearch Engine product include a scrolling word list, faceted search navigation, and multicolor hit highlighting.

WPF IValueConverter/IMultiValueConverter Helper Class

by Clifford Nelson

Presents a class to help create flexible value and multi-value converters that use the ConverterParameter to specify return values for true and false results using the ?: operator

WPF: OpenWeather

by Meshack Musundi

WPF-MVVM weather forecast application that displays weather data using the OpenWeatherMap API