This one is going to be about creating a knockout.js project on Codepen. Knockout.js has long fallen from the internet’s good graces but it’s still a very useful library that is much easier to grasp, write, and publish than React.js. First, the Demo Apparently, you can’t embed Codepen projects… so here’s the link: Knockout.js Template…
Category: Tutorials
Simple Speech Recognition App
It’s amazing what technology can do, and how easily it can do it. Last night, I was playing around with some ideas that eventually led to curiosity for speech recognition in C#. That led me to this page on Microsoft docs. It took all of five minutes to set this project up, copy some code,…
Anatomy of a JavaScript Fade
Showing and hiding elements with JS (and some CSS) This one is going to be a short one (hopefully). I know a lot of developers depend on Bootstrap and jQuery to add a little bit of pizzazz to their apps with fade-ins, smooth transitions, and whatever other fancy little thing they find themselves needing. However,…
Write an RSS Feed Aggregator, Displaying the Feed Content
TL;DR: We’re almost done with this series. Hallelujah? This one is about building the class that will display all of our feed contents and an HTML helper class that will help us build the HTML that goes into the WebBrowser control. Code is here, video is here. Displaying the Feed Content So again, a little…
Write an RSS Feed Aggregator, The FeedsManager class
TL;DR: We’re getting there. In this one, we build the Feed class and the FeedsManager class that manages all of the feeds the user wants to view in the Aggregator. Code is here, video is here (and down below) The Brain of the Aggregator Like I said above, we’re gonna talk about the Feed class…
Managing App Configs with the ConfigurationManager
TL;DR: So, ASP.NET has a build-in method for handling custom, user-specific app configs. It’s called the ConfigurationManager, and I’ll show you how to use it. Code is here, and the video is here (or down below, whatever floats your boat).
Write an RSS Feed Aggregator, Part 2.1 Setting Up the GUI
TL;DR: Just a bunch of GUI setup stuff. Watch the video here. If you’re not familiar with adding controls to forms and working with Visual Studio, I would recommend this video and this blog post.
How to build a Simple Calculator in C#
TL;DR: Here’s the code: GitHub: Simple Calculator The video is down below.
Write an RSS Feed Aggregator, Part 1 The Parser Library
TL;DR: Code is here: GitHub: RSS Aggregator Video is embedded down below.