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Weekly Poll Results
If you had to develop an app for mobile devices, what app types would you develop?
Survey period: 6 Feb 2012 to 13 Feb 2012| Option | Votes | % | ||
| Native app - written to run directly on the device | 493 | 50.62 | ||
| Hybrid app - cross-platform app that runs on the device and is developed using frameworks such as Sencha and PhoneGap | 222 | 22.79 | ||
| Dedicated web app - a website tailored to a specific device | 86 | 8.83 | ||
| Generic web app - a website tailored to run on any mobile device | 352 | 36.14 | ||
| I will never write a mobile app | 116 | 11.91 | ||
| Responses | 974 | |||
| Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100% | ||||
This week's survey: If you had to develop an app for mobile devices, what app types would you develop?
Most popular new articles
6 Feb 2012 - 13 Feb 2012
- ASP .NET Plotter (Ajax, jQuery and HTML5) - Akram El Assas
- Let's customize Google to show previous searchs - HiteshSharma
- Convolutional Neural Network Workbench - Filip D'haene
- How To Work With CloudDrive - Your Azure Hard Drive In Azure - maq_rohit
- Handling simple text files in C/C++ - Richard MacCutchan
Latest Additions
112 articles overall. 50 new, 62 updated.New articles added
.NET Framework
- Using MSMQ in mail relay - Zoltán Zörgő
A compelte solution how to build a simple mail relay application using MSMQ . [Unedited]
C#, .NET4, service, email, MSMQ
Ajax
- AJAX Chat Application - faisal 121
The project illustrates how to design a simple AJAX web chat application.
ASP.NET, Ajax
Algorithms & Recipes
- Kalman filtering demo - HoshiKata
A short demonstration of how to write and use a simple Kalman filter. [Unedited]
C#, .NET, Dev, Design
ASP.NET
- YaBlogEngine - A Tiny Blog Engine written in ASP.NET/C# - Rahul Rajat Singh
YaBlogEngin is a Tiny Blog Engine written in ASP.NET/C#
C#, Windows, ASP.NET, SqlServer
Azure
- Windows Azure Event Logs Notifier - Shay Yannay
Create an email notifier using windows azure event error logs [Unedited]
C#, Cloud, Azure, CEO, Dev, SysAdmin
C#
- C# Language Features, From C# 2.0 to 4.0 - Marc Clifton
A description of the new language features starting from C# 2.0, going through to version 4.0 [Unedited]
C# (C#2.0, C#3.0, C#4.0), Dev
Collections
- Ten Pin Bowling Scoreboard - StephenPhillips
Command line application for recording and displaying scores for Ten Pin bowling. [Unedited]
C++, Windows, STL
Database
- Relationship Oriented Programming - The IDE plus More on Agile Project Management - Marc Clifton
An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the Relationship Oriented Programming Tool [Unedited]
C# (C#4.0), .NET (.NET3.5), ADO.NET, LINQ, Architect, DBA, Dev, Design - Message Manager - ebrahim amini sharifi
Sending and receiving message, user authentication, user permission, priority message
Windows, Linux, MySQL
Design and Architecture
- Understanding and Implementing Observer Pattern in C++ - Rahul Rajat Singh
This article presents the basics of Observer Pattern, when to use it and how to implement it in C++.
C++, Windows
Dialogs and Windows
- Making a Borderless Form Movable in C++ - Preston Gull
How to make a borderless form movable. Now in C++! [Unedited]
C++, .NET, Visual-Studio
DLLs & Assemblies
- Injection into a Process Using KnownDlls - Apriorit Inc, Kotik Anton
In his article, we will consider an interesting, universal and rarely used method of code injection into a Windows process using KnownDlls sections. To demonstrate the method work we will develop a sample project to inject into all running processes and intercept some calls from ws2_32.dll. [Unedited]
C++, Windows, Win32, Win64, Architect, Dev, Injection
Game Development
- Learning XNA 2d Engine IceCream With 1945 Demo Project - Tyler Forsythe
IceCream1945 is a demonstration of XNA and the IceCream 2d library in a 2d top-down scrolling shooter similar to 1942 for the NES. [Unedited]
C#, Windows, .NET, XBox, Dev, Game, XNA, XNA4.0
Internet / Network
- An Introduction to Mutual SSL Authentication - Elvin Cheng
Provides a brief introduction to mutual SSL authentication and its handshake messages
C#, Windows, IIS (IIS7)
Interviews
- A Coder Interview With Dave Ward - The Code Project
Welcome to our continuing series of Code Project interviews in which we talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves. In this installment we talk to Dave Ward, better known to many of his readers and followers as Encosia.
All-Topics
Office Development
- Manage business logic in Access forms - Torsten Tiedt
Avoid event spaghetti code when business logic becomes complex [Unedited]
All-Topics, Access, Events, VBA, function, Business, logic
Shell and IE programming
- A Bridge Card Hand Displaying Presentation - w5828
Displaying random drawing four players bridge card game [Unedited]
C#, Windows, .NET, Design, C#3.5
Silverlight
- Silverlight web comic - apis3445
Its a silverlight page to create a simple comic with photos and text-ballons [Unedited]
.NET, Silverlight, Design, Web-Development
Tools and IDE
- Simple Unix Like commands using C# - Rahul Rajat Singh
Emulating Unix command behavior on Windows
C#, Windows
Web Security
- The Art of Win32 Shellcoding - AmrThabet
How to write a reliable shellcode on win32, how to bypass the obstacles that you will face in writing a win32 shellcode and how to implement your shellcode into Metasploit
C, ASM, Windows, Win32
Windows Phone 7
- Stop Watch application for Windows Phone 7 - Vivek Pandey (V)
Stop Watch application for Windows Phone 7 [Unedited]
C#, .NET, Mobile (Windows-Phone-7), XAML, Dev, Design
Windows Presentation Foundation
- WPF / MVVM Real-Time Trading Application - o.shelest
This project is a real-time multi-threaded trading application framework developed with WPF / MVVM [Unedited]
C# (C#4.0), .NET, XAML, WPF, UI, GUI - WPF Main and Child Window Management - atik sarker
WPF Main and Child Window Management
C#, WPF - WPF: Custom Generic Animations - Yury Goltsman
The basis for the fast custom animation creation
C#, Windows, .NET, XAML, WPF - A XAML-Only Font ComboBox - Barry Lapthorn
A XAML-Only Font ComboBox [Unedited]
C#, Windows, XAML, Dev
Articles updated
.NET Framework
- Extending Visual Studio Part 2 - Creating Addins - Dave Kerr
Create an amazingly useful 'Switch' addin to switch between cpp/h, designer/code, XAML/codebehind and more! [Unedited]
C#, Windows, Visual-Studio, Dev
Ajax
- Asynchronous File Upload - Ali Al Omairi(Abu AlHassan)
An Ajax control that enables a user to upload a file asynchronously with extra data
C#, Windows, ASP.NET, Ajax
Algorithms & Recipes
- Convolutional Neural Network Workbench - Filip D'haene
A workbench to create, train, and test convolutional neural networks against the MNIST and CIFAR-10 datasets. [Unedited]
C#4.0, Win7, WPF, VS2010, Dev, MVVM - Anonymus, a New Optimal Language - Dávid Kocsis
A new general purpose language that makes programming easier
C, C#, ASM
Applications & Tools
- Let's customize Google to show previous searchs - HiteshSharma
The application adds a custom button and a few anchor elements on Google page which link to a previously searched text on google. [Unedited]
C# (C#4.0), Javascript, XML, HTML, Windows, .NET (.NET3.5), Visual-Studio (VS2010), COM, Web-Development, Web, Automation, SHDocVw, MSHTML - ToDoList 6.4.b3 Beta Release - An effective and flexible 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 - Lucene.Net ultra fast search for MVC or WebForms site => made easy! - Mikhail T. (devnoob)
Step-by-step tutorial for any developer who wishes to get Lucene.Net search working with their web site or app really quickly! [Unedited]
C#, WebForms, MVC, library, .NET4, Lucene.NET, search
ASP.NET
- MVC Grid to Excel file download - Ritesh Ramesh
Convert the results of a ASP.NET MVC grid to a downloadable Excel file [Unedited]
C# (C#4.0), .NET, MVC - Using HttpModules with URL Re-writing to Handle Fake Directory Requests - Terrence Sheflin
Explains how to use HttpModule in conjunction with IIS to handle requests to fake directories
C# (C#2.0), Windows, .NET (.NET2.0), ASP.NET, IIS (IIS5.1, IIS6, IIS7), Visual-Studio (VS2005), Architect, Dev - ASP.Net MVC Client / Server Bot Trap - DaveAuld
Using Client Side Timer and Hidden Elements to catch a Bot submission in Asp.Net MVC [Unedited]
C#, Javascript, VB.NET, ASP.NET, MVC
Azure
- How To Work With CloudDrive - Your Azure Hard Drive In Azure - maq_rohit
How to work with CloudDrive, Your azure hard drive in Azure [Unedited]
C#, Cloud, ASP.NET, Azure
C / C++ Language
- Morse code from a tiny chip - peter gabris
Example PIC microprocessor program on a tiny RF transceiver [Unedited]
C, PIC
C#
- How does it work in C#? - Part 1 - Mohammad A Rahman
How does var, auto implemented properties and += or -= of events work in C# programming language. [Unedited]
C# (C#3.0, C#4.0) - Export Data to Excel, Word, PDF without Automation from DataBase - rlejason
This article introduces how to export data from database to Excel, PDF, MS Word, HTML, MS clipboard ,XML, DBF, SQL Script, SYLK, DIF, CSV without Automation and Acrobat Reader. [Unedited]
C#, SQL, .NET, SQL-Server - Sharing Data among Windows Forms - Shahin Khorshidnia
In Windows application, passing values from a child form to the parent or share data among several applications .Net application. [Unedited]
C#, .NET (.NET3.5), Visual-Studio (VS2010), Dev - Bulk SMS Sender - Fahad Rafiq
Sending multiple / bulk SMS through Excel file to multiple recipients using GSM phone or GSM modem
C#, Windows, .NET - Custom Message Box in VC# - Awadhendra1234
How to create custom message box in C#.NET
C#, .NET - Peter - Programmers Extensive Text Editor - Jpmon1
A robust text editor that supports plug-ins, code parsing, projects, and more.
C# (C#2.0), Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista), .NET (.NET2.0), Win32, Visual-Studio (VS2005), Dev, Design
Charts, Graphs and Images
- ASP .NET Plotter (Ajax, jQuery and HTML5) - Akram El Assas
Nowadays, There are a plenty of Javascript charting libraries. Justly, this article aims to show you how you can integrate Javascript charting libraries in ASP .NET and build custom charting user controls depending on your flavor and your needs. [Unedited]
C#, XML, CSS, XHTML, ASP.NET, jQuery, Design
Cryptography & Security
- Basics of Signing and Verifying code - Sergey Chepurin
How to sign code with digital signatures and associating them with files
C++, Windows
Database
- RaptorDB - The Key Value Store V2 - Mehdi Gholam
Even faster Key/Value store nosql embedded database engine utilizing the new MGIndex data structure with MurMur2 Hashing and WAH Bitmap indexes for duplicates. [Unedited]
C#, .NET, DBA, database - SqlCommand Generator - Ashkan.hosseini
A static method that returns a SqlCommand object with all the parameters for a specific stored procedure
C#, .NET - A Portable and Efficient Generic Parser for Flat Files - Andrew Rissing
GenericParser is a C# implementation of a parser for delimited and fixed width format files.
C#, Windows, .NET1.1, VS.NET2003, DBA, Dev
Date and Time
- gTimePicker- Control to Pick a Time Value (VB.NET) - SSDiver2112
Stop using the DateTimePicker for time values. This control makes it easy to pick a time, and if you act now, get the matching Nullable gDateTimePicker at no extra cost.
VB8.0, .NET2.0, Dev
Miscellaneous
- Run Linux in Microsoft Windows in a VirtualBox - Dr. Song Li
This article is a study note on installing Linux in Microsoft Windows in a VirtualBox. I hope that it may be of some help to the people who are also interested in this topic. [Unedited]
Windows, Linux - Streaming live results to a web site using MSMQ/Duplex WCF/SignalR/jQuery - Sacha Barber, Richard E King
Streaming live results to a web site using MSMQ/Duplex WCF/SignalR/jQuery [Unedited]
C# (C#4.0), .NET, ASP, ASP.NET, WCF, Ajax, Architect, Dev, Design, Google-Maps, Threading, Application, Framework
Office Development
- VBA Extend - NewPast.Net
Format, add line numbers, error handler and expose some dot Net library to VBA [Unedited]
VB, Office, VS2010, VBA, AddIn
Programming Tips
- Tips and Enhancements in Dynamics AX - Venkat Chaitanya Kanumukula
Tips and Enhancements in Dynamics AX [Unedited]
X++, .NET (.NET3.5), SQL-Server, Visual-Studio, WCF, MOSS2007, Dynamics-AX - Understanding & Implementing Smart Pointer in C++ - Rahul Rajat Singh
This article aims at understanding what a smart pointer is and implementing one
C++, Windows, Linux
SharePoint Server
- Custom Webservices with SharePoint Online for Office 365 - Giorgio Lasala
Development of webservices using sandbox solutions [Unedited]
Cloud, ASP.NET, Sharepoint, JSON, WebService
Social Network APIs
- Drive your application through Twitter direct messages - rawwool (Rahul Kumar)
Use Twitter as a globally available persisted message queue in your distributed applciation work flow [Unedited]
C#, .NET, WPF, MEF
User Controls
- MVC3 @Html.CheckBoxList() custom extension - Mikhail T. (devnoob)
Extends MVC HtmlHelper class so you can create POSTable checkbox list [Unedited]
C#, HTML, .NET, Visual-Studio, MVC, Architect, Dev, Design, Marketing, checkbox, Web-Development, Post, Controls, MVC3
VBScript
- VBScript for Reading and Writing to the Windows Host File - Ludvik Jerabek
VBScript for reading and writing to the Windows host file
VBScript, Win2K, WinXP, Visual-Studio, Dev
Win32/64 SDK & OS
- Mnemonic: Assisting Your (virtual) Memory - Phil Atkin
A tool for visualizing the virtual memory used by Windows processes
C#, Windows, WinForm
Windows Communication Foundation
- Creating a WCF Service with MSMQ Communication and Certificate Security - Mohammad Sepahvand
Implementing a Simple, Secure WCF Service with MSMQ Communication [Unedited]
C#4.0, WCF, security, MSMQ, certificate
Windows Phone 7
- A framework for building of WP7 application - Ilya Builuk
This article describes the key principles of PhoneCore Framework implementation and how to use it for building Windows Phone 7 application. [Unedited]
C#, .NET, Silverlight, Dev, programming
Windows Presentation Foundation
- NetworkView: A WPF custom control for visualizing and editing networks, graphs and flow-charts - Ashley Davis
This article examines the use and implementation of a WPF custom control that is used to display and edit networks, graphs and flow-charts. [Unedited]
C#, Windows, .NET, XAML, WPF, Dev, Controls, MVVM
XML
- XSLT 2.0 in .NET - Akram El Assas
The .NET Framework provides XslCompiledTransform which is an XSLT processor 1.0. However this doesn't mean that we can’t work with XSLT 2.0 in .NET. This article is for folks who want to use XSLT 2.0 in .NET. [Unedited]
C#, XML, CSS, HTML, XSLT, .NET
New Tips and Tricks added
Author Resources
- Tips to recover folder & files from the pen drive - rk_prabakar
Unable to view folder & files in pen drive[usb] [Unedited]
DOS
Programming Tips
- Validate From and To Date using JavaScript - Ramanujam Shankar
Validate entered From Date and To Date in web application using JavaScript [Unedited]
Javascript, ASP.NET - Trim, Mouse Hover Pointer Functions using JAVASCRIPT - Ramanujam Shankar
Trim, Change button mouse hover pointer Functions using JavaScript [Unedited]
Javascript, ASP.NET - Get Checked Rows In a Webgrid Using Checkbox MVC3 - Winstan
MVC3 webgrid does not return rows collection, here is a tip to get several objects selected [Unedited]
C#, MVC3
Tips and Tricks updated
Algorithms & Recipes
- Quicker Prime Number Test - pranav95
Prime Number Testing [Unedited]
C
ASP.NET
- Disable button after click and display text [Processing...] - Sunasara Imdadhusen
Disable button after click and display text [Processing...] [Unedited]
ASP.NET - YouTube Top100: HTML5/ASP.NET Video Player - DrABELL
YouTube Top100 extended statistics in HTML5/ASP.NET Video Player (Feb 2012) [Unedited]
Javascript, ASP.NET, WebForms, Video, Web-Development, CSS3, RIA, HTML5
C#
- How to simplify coding DependencyProperty in WPF and Silverlight - DawningTiger
Simplify Coding DependencyProperty [Unedited]
C#, WPF, Silverlight
Client side scripting
- Simple cross browser JavaScript get set - LordXandor
Simple cross browser JavaScript get set [Unedited]
Javascript
Database
- Saving Changes Is Not Permitted On SQL Server 2008 Management Studio. How To Solve? - IkhwanKrisnadi
How to solve when saving changes is not permitted on SQL Server 2008 Management Studio [Unedited]
SQL2008
Debug Tips
- Attaching a Console to a WinForms application - DaveyM69
How to have a real console window as well as your forms [Unedited]
C# (C#2.0, C#3.0, C#4.0)
Exception Handling
- Render Exceptions in an Entity Framework application - Harry von Borstel
Extension Method for exceptions that give a useful text even on Entity Framework Exceptions [Unedited]
C#, .NET, Exception, EF
HTML / CSS
- HTML Marquee & its alternatives - thatraja
HTML Marquee & its alternatives [Unedited]
Javascript, HTML, jQuery, Web-Development
Programming Tips
- Handling simple text files in C/C++ - Richard MacCutchan
Recent questions on reading ANSI vs Unicode text prompted the following [Unedited]
C++, Unicode, Text, ANSI - File Download from the GridView rows in asp.net 4.0 - Tadit Dash
There will be one Link button in the GridView row. On clicking the Link button, the Image displayed in that row gets downloaded. [Unedited]
C#, Gridview, file, image, ASP.Net-4.0 - Allow only Numeric values in ASP Text box control using JavaScript - Ramanujam Shankar
Allow only Numeric (either whole or decimal) values in ASP Text box control using JavaScript [Unedited]
Javascript, ASP.NET - How to make a callback to C# from C/C++ code - Tecfield
This post shows how to make a callback to C# from C/C++ [Unedited]
C++, C, C#, Windows, DLL - Findcontrol using a non recursive approach - rj45
[Unedited]
findcontrol, recursion, ienumerable, yield - The Underlying Connection Was Closed: The Connection Closed Unexpectedly in EF 4.0 - akhil khare
The Underlying Connection Was Closed: The Connection Closed Unexpectedly in EF 4.0 [Unedited]
C#, WCF, EF4.0 - Replace one color with another in the bitmap of a given device context - Mukit, Ataul
Given a device context, replace a color (clrColorReplace) in a rectangular region of the device context with another color (clrColorFill) [Unedited]
Win32, MFC
Tools and IDE
- Android project structure (Eclipse) - Bart Dubois
Memo about structure of the Android project and Support Package [Unedited]
Android, Project
Uncategorised Tips and Tricks
- Converting VS2010 Solution to VS2008 - GPUToaster™
Converting VS2010 Solution to VS2008 [Unedited]
.NET4
New Technical Blogs added
ATL Server
- Use a SQL script to generate well formatted stored procedures in SQL Server - Rob Kraft
Use a SQL script to generate well formatted stored procedures in SQL Server [Unedited]
Windows, SQL-Server
Game Development
- Use Root Cause Analysis for Defect Prevention in your Software Development Process - Rob Kraft
Use Root Cause Analysis for Defect Prevention in your Software Development Process [Unedited]
All-Topics
Internet / Network
- Extending Internet Explorer – Scenario based overview - Jyothikarthik_N
Extending Internet Explorer – Scenario based overview [Unedited]
Windows
Miscellaneous
- Part 1: My Experiments With Windows 8 – Getting started guide - kishore Gaddam
Microsoft unveiled new Windows 8 operating system and new development improvements on September 13, 2011, day one of the BUILD developer conference. Microsoft released a developer preview of Windows 8 for the developer community to download and start working with. [Unedited]
All-Topics, Windows8
Mobile Development
- How To: Use Leaderboards on BlackBerry with XPG - XPG Live
This post will cover leaderboard types and setup, accessing leaderboards in game, posting a score to a leaderboard, retrieving scores from a leaderboard. [Unedited]
Mobile (Blackberry), Dev, Game, Framework, UI, cross-platform, IDE, GUI, Development, Code, API, posting
Reviews on Third Party Products and Tools
- Choosing technologies for .NET project - Jan Fajfr
Choosing technologies for .NET project [Unedited]
All-Topics
SQL Reporting Services
- How to instantiate derived LINQ to SQL entities - HeWillem
How to instantiate derived LINQ to SQL entities [Unedited]
C#, WCF
Uncategorised Technical Blogs
- Prism 2.x Weirdness - Ivan Krivyakov
Prism 2.x Weirdness [Unedited]
All-Topics - Multi-Lingual UIs in WPF - SteveAdey
Multi-Lingual UIs in WPF [Unedited]
All-Topics
Web Security
- WIF and Claims Based Security Tokens - Ruben Rotteveel
Windows Identity Foundation - Security is really a deceptively simple problem of merely two parts, Authenticating and Authorizing users. The problem is that there's been an absence of standards and interoperability is really impossible without them. [Unedited]
Windows, .NET
Win32/64 SDK & OS
- ZDNet Flame Bait Taken - Jeremy Hutchinson
Response to blog on Windows 8. [Unedited]
All-Topics
Technical Blogs updated
Dialogs and Windows
- WinForms.ColorDialog in WPF - kribo
This article demostrates how to use System.Windows.Forms.ColorDialog in a WPF project. Why you may ask, simply because one can and must try… For not wanting to design a UserControl nor an extra project for my solution I started an extensive search for a simplistic solution and thus I created t [Unedited]
All-Topics
Windows Communication Foundation
- What’s new in WCF 4.5? Automatic HTTPS endpoint for IIS - Ido Flatow
This is the sixth post in the WCF 4.5 series. [Unedited]
IIS, WCF, https - What’s new in WCF 4.5? Configuration validations - Ido Flatow
This is the fourth post in the WCF 4.5 series, and a direct addition to the previous post, since I neglected to mention something important about editing configuration files in WCF 4.5 and Visual Studio 11 – validations during editing and compilation. [Unedited]
WCF, All-Topics




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