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Weekly Poll Results

When do you write the specs for your projects?

Survey period: 14 Apr 2008 to 21 Apr 2008

There's 'When we should do it' and 'When we actually do it'. Your answer is anonymous so be honest!

OptionVotes% 
During requirements gathering9112.1591 votes, 12.15%
Before Design8711.6287 votes, 11.62%
During Design7910.5579 votes, 10.55%
After Design233.0723 votes, 3.07%
During initial development374.9437 votes, 4.94%
During development as a whole466.1446 votes, 6.14%
Near the end of development202.6720 votes, 2.67%
After the project is complete415.4741 votes, 5.47%
Continuously during the lifetime of the project14819.76148 votes, 19.76%
We don't (or rarely) write specs for our projects17723.63177 votes, 23.63%
Total749  100%749 votes

Most popular new articles 14 Apr 2008 - 21 Apr 2008

Latest Additions

81 articles overall 46 new, 36 updated, 1 moved. 23 were edited, 58 unedited
Article topics listed: All Topics

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New articles added Last week

Button Controls

Combo & List Boxes

  • FULLY data-bound CheckedListBox - vbar
    BoundCheckedListBox is bindable to 3 tables representing a many-to-many data relation (Unedited)
    C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), Windows, .NET, ADO.NET, WinForms, Intermediate

Grid & Data Controls

Hardware & System

  • Build Your Own NAS Device - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
    How to go about buildingyour own NAS device (Unedited)
    Intermediate

Miscellaneous

  • Creating Audio CDs using IMAPI2 - Eric Haddan
    Using the Image Mastering API to create Red Book Audio CDs (Unedited)
    C# (C# 2.0, C# 3.0), Windows (WinXP, Win2003, Vista), .NET (.NET 3.5, .NET 3.0, .NET 2.0), Win32, COM, WinForms, Dev, Intermediate

  • Connect Multiple UI Elements to a Single Command Object - MarkLTX
    An easy way to group several UI elements (menu items, toolbar buttons, etc.) so they all execute the same command and are enabled/disabled together (with Visual Studio designer support). (Unedited)
    C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, WinForms, Dev, Intermediate

Ajax and Atlas

ASP.NET

ASP.NET Controls

Custom Controls

  • Keyword Matching RSS Reader Control - xbadenx
    Display RSS results that contain specific keywords. (Unedited)
    XML, HTML, C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), ASP.NET, Arch, Dev, Design, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Internet / Network

  • A WCF-WPF Chat Application - Islam ElDemery
    An Internet chat application with file transfer.
    C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), .NET (.NET 2.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 3.0), Visual Studio (VS2008), WCF, XAML, WPF, Intermediate

General Graphics

  • FrameGrabber - Jacob Klint
    A class for extracting individual frames from a video as bitmaps
    C# (C# 2.0), Windows, .NET (.NET 2.0), Dev, Intermediate

Database

.NET Framework

  • using Xaml in app.config and web.config - Edward Moemeka
    a continuation of using xaml for configuring applications (Unedited)
    C++/CLI, C# (C# 3.0), VB (VB 9.0), Forth.NET, .NET (.NET 3.0, .NET 3.5), ASP.NET, WinForms, ADO.NET, WCF, XAML, WPF, Design, Arch, Dev, Intermediate

  • Reflection BenchMark and Optimize - Sarafian
    Benchmarking Reflection and Optimizing it (Unedited)
    C# (C# 2.0, C# 3.0), .NET (.NET 2.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 3.0), Dev, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

  • P2P Communication - Proxy Listeners and Proxy Clients - Victor Pirkle
    Implementation of Listener and Client objects that communicate through a web proxy (Unedited)
    C++, C#, VB, Windows (WinXP, Vista), .NET (.NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5), Visual Studio (VS2008, VS.NET2003, VS2005), WinForms, ASP.NET, Design, Arch, Dev, Intermediate, Advanced

Windows Communication Foundation

Windows Presentation Foundation

  • WPF 3D : Part 2 of n - Sacha Barber
    A WPF 3D Panel that allows tabbing, and activates current item (Unedited)
    C# (C# 3.0), .NET (.NET 3.0, .NET 3.5), WPF, Design, Arch, Dev, Intermediate

  • An article on sorting ItemsControl (with some bonuses) - Sacha Barber
    An article on sorting ItemsControl (with some bonuses) (Unedited)
    C# (C# 3.0), .NET (.NET 3.0, .NET 3.5), WPF, Design, Arch, Dev, Intermediate

  • WPF - Schema Diagrammer Part I - Marc Clifton
    Programmatically placing UI elements on a Canvas (Unedited)
    C#, Windows, XAML, WPF, Arch, Dev, Intermediate

  • Introduction to XPS - Part 1 of n(ot too many) - Lee Humphries
    XPS is a fixed document format derived from XAML - so how do you use it to produce the documents you want? (Unedited)
    C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), XML, XSLT, .NET (.NET 3.5, .NET 3.0), XAML, Arch, Dev, Beginner, Intermediate

C / C++ Language

C#

  • Microsoft.Reporting without Sql Server Reporting Services - Josh Christensen
    Learn how to use the Report Viewer with any data source and build reports on the fly for use on the web or in Windows applications. (Unedited)
    C# (C# 2.0), .NET (.NET 2.0), ASP.NET, Dev, Intermediate

  • Personal Time Tracker - Vance Kessler
    This article describes what I did to write an application to track my billable and non-billable time.
    C# 2.0, Windows, .NET 2.0, WinForms, Dev, Intermediate

Java

VB.NET

XML

Algorithms & Recipes

Macros and Add-ins

Programming Tips

String handling

  • Plural forms - Peter Kankowski
    Spelling messages like "5 file(s) found" correctly in any language. (Unedited)
    C++, C

  • 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), ASP.NET, Beginner

Design and Architecture

  • Dependency Injection in C# 3.0 with Autofac - N Blumhardt
    Use the Autofac dependency injection container to simplify the configuration of object-oriented applications (Unedited)
    C# (C# 3.0), .NET (.NET 3.5), Arch, Dev, Design, Advanced

Installation

Scrapbook

Articles updated added Last week

Button Controls

  • A Managed C++ Button Control - CodeWizard1951
    This is an example custom button control written entirely in managed C++ (Unedited)
    C++/CLI, .NET (.NET 2.0), WinForms, Dev, Intermediate

Clipboard

  • Copying a DIB to the Clipboard - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
    Helps with copying a device independant bitmap to the clipboard.
    VC6NT4, Win2K, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate

Files and Folders

  • Convert PBS Legacy Files to XML - Henrik Thomsen
    Legacy file formats, such as UN-EDIFACT with a record per line and fixed-length fields, still exists and are widely used for B2B transactions. A tool that can convert legacy files to human-readable XML might come in handy. (Unedited)
    C#, .NET (.NET 2.0), Dev, Intermediate

Miscellaneous

  • High-speed Charting Control - Cedric Moonen
    A flexible charting control to display 2D data.
    VC6, VC7NT4, Win2K, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate

Tabs & Property Pages

Ajax and Atlas

Applications & Tools

  • KeePass Password Safe - Dominik Reichl
    KeePass is a free, open-source, light-weight and easy-to-use password safe.
    VC6, VC7, VC7.1NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, MFC, VS6, Dev, Intermediate

  • QuickSYS - Chunhua Liu
    A tool to generate Windows driver framework
    VC6NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VistaVS2005, VS6, Dev, Intermediate

ASP.NET

ASP.NET Controls

Silverlight

  • Developing a Custom Control for Silverlight 2.0 - Attila Hajdrik
    In this article I show the key steps to develop a Silverlight 2.0 custom control (Unedited)
    C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), Windows, .NET (.NET 3.5), XAML, Design, Dev, Beginner

SharePoint Server

DirectX

  • Falling Blocks - Xavier John
    A game written using Visual C++ and DirectX.
    VC6, VC7NT4, Win2K, DirectX, VS.NET2002, VS6, VS2008, Dev, Intermediate

Database

Libraries

  • Xport: XHTML Parsing and Objective Reporting Toolkit - Mitchel Haas
    Open source C++ class template library for generating and parsing xhtml documents. (Unedited)
    C++ (VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0), C++/CLI, C, Windows (NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista), Win32, STL, CEO, Arch, Dev, Intermediate, Advanced

Win32/64 SDK & OS

  • JLib - A Windows Console Library - Pepsibot
    A console library capable of colored input and output. Includes user definable menus, ASCII character windows, save/restore a screen worth of characters, 256 console color combinations, and a smart coloring.
    C++/CLIWinXP, Win32, STL, Dev, Intermediate

C / C++ Language

C#

  • DataSets, Xml Schemas and Excel - Oh My! - George Zabanah
    This article demonstrates the amazing transformation power of the DataSet with agnostic Xml Schemas, Xml and Excel Read/Write (all with colourful XML rendering using XmlBrowser) (Unedited)
    C# (C# 2.0), XML, Office, ADO.NET, Intermediate

  • 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), Dev

  • VTD-XML: XML Processing for the Future (Part I) - Jimmy Zhang
    Introduce VTD-XML, the future of XML processing
    C, C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), XML, LINQ, Office, Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista), .NET (.NET 3.5, .NET 3.0, .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0), Win32, Visual Studio (VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, VS2005, VS6, VS2008), Dev, Design, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

  • Index XML Documents with VTD-XML - Jimmy Zhang
    Introduce a simple, efficient, human-readable XML index called VTD+XML (Unedited)
    C, C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), JScript, XML, CSS, HTML, ASM, MSIL, UML, Forth.NET, XSLT, LINQ, Office, XBox, Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista), WinCE, .NET CF, .NET (Mono, DotGNU, .NET 3.5), ASP, ASP.NET, Win32, Win64, SQL (SQL 2000, SQL 2005), IIS, GDI, GDI+, OpenGL, DirectX, Ajax, WCF, XAML, WPF, COM, COM+, ADO, ADO.NET, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, VS2005, VS2008, Design, CEO, Arch, DBA, Dev, QA, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

  • 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), XML, .NET CF, .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

  • XML String Browser (just like Internet Explorer) using WebBrowser Control - George Zabanah
    This article will show you how to view a colourful collapsible treeview for XML Strings/XmlDocument in a browser (just like Internet Explorer) without the need for XML files (Unedited)
    C# (C# 2.0), Windows, Arch, Dev, Beginner

VB.NET

  • Export to Excel using VB.Net - Senthil S
    Export data from VB.Net Dataset to Excel without using Datagrid/DataTable (Unedited)
    VB (VB 7.x, VB 8.0, VB 9.0, VB 6)

XML

  • XML on a Chip - Jimmy Zhang
    Discuss the technical considerations of porting XML processing to custom chips (Unedited)
    XML, Arch, Dev, Intermediate

Algorithms & Recipes

  • C++ Strtk Tokenizer - Arash Partow
    A brief introduction to a tokenizer implementation in C++ (Unedited)
    C++ (VC7.1, VC8.0), C++/CLI, C, Dev, Beginner

  • Computational Geometry, C++ and Wykobi - Arash Partow
    A brief introduction into computational geometry processes using Wykobi and C++ (Unedited)
    C++ (VC7.1, VC8.0), C++/CLI, Windows (NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, TabletPC, Embedded), WinCE, .NET (.NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0, Mono, DotGNU, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5), STL, GDI, GDI+, OpenGL, Arch, Dev, Beginner

  • Simple Random Number Generation - John D. Cook
    A simple random number generator in C#
    C# 2.0, Windows, .NET 2.0, Dev, 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

Design and Architecture

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