Database Development
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12 Sep 2018
Updated: 12 Sep 2018
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 1
Popularity: 0.00
Licence: CPOL
Views: 13,532
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Method to change source of a Form’s Subform source to a Query or Table in Microsoft Access
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Desktop Programming
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Win32 |
15 Aug 2012
Updated: 2 Oct 2012
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 8
Popularity: 4.52
Licence: CPOL
Views: 16,021
Bookmarked: 13
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This article presents a way to display totally dynamic data in a windows grid using a dictionary.
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27 Jun 2018
Updated: 27 Jun 2018
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 5
Popularity: 3.49
Licence: CPOL
Views: 6,861
Bookmarked: 13
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These are some methods I created to help with creating and deleting Windows shared directories.
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2 Apr 2018
Updated: 2 Apr 2018
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 5
Popularity: 3.49
Licence: CPOL
Views: 9,851
Bookmarked: 9
Downloaded: 69
This tip provides a behavior that will reset all RadioButton controls within a Control that has this behavior when the Visibility changes.
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3 Apr 2018
Updated: 3 Apr 2018
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 7
Popularity: 4.23
Licence: CPOL
Views: 22,239
Bookmarked: 9
Downloaded: 370
Normally a popup will stay open until explicitly closed. The Behavior will close the Popup if the mouse is clicked within or outside the Popup area or leaves the Popup area.
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4 Apr 2018
Updated: 4 Apr 2018
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 9
Popularity: 4.77
Licence: CPOL
Views: 10,732
Bookmarked: 11
Downloaded: 123
This behavior will require that for any Group of ToggleButton/Checkbox controls that are associated together, the user cannot set all to not IsChecked.
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5 Apr 2018
Updated: 5 Apr 2018
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 5
Popularity: 3.49
Licence: CPOL
Views: 12,393
Bookmarked: 11
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Normally, there is no need to ensure that types exactly match when using a Binding. For instance, the Control property double to and int in a ViewModel
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20 Jun 2018
Updated: 20 Jun 2018
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 7
Popularity: 4.23
Licence: CPOL
Views: 27,423
Bookmarked: 6
Downloaded: 300
This behavior will select the entire text when a TextBox or PasswordBox gains focus
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19 Mar 2018
Updated: 19 Mar 2018
Rating: 4.68/5
Votes: 11
Popularity: 4.68
Licence: CPOL
Views: 40,060
Bookmarked: 10
Downloaded: 1,008
A alternative ToggleButton/RadioButton control
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9 Aug 2015
Updated: 9 Aug 2015
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 6
Popularity: 3.89
Licence: CPOL
Views: 13,451
Bookmarked: 6
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This tip provides an alternate way to combine data with text in a WPF control using a ValueConverter that could be considered easier.
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18 Apr 2018
Updated: 18 Apr 2018
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 6
Popularity: 3.89
Licence: CPOL
Views: 9,530
Bookmarked: 12
Downloaded: 100
I had a situation where a control appearing was significantly affected by the initialization of the UserControls. This behavior fixed my problem.
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27 Apr 2018
Updated: 27 Apr 2018
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 5
Popularity: 3.49
Licence: CPOL
Views: 9,211
Bookmarked: 7
Downloaded: 85
This is a behavior that that will reset ToggleButton derived controls to false (or a specified default value) when the container's visibility becomes false.
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3 Mar 2019
Updated: 3 Mar 2019
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 8
Popularity: 4.52
Licence: CPOL
Views: 12,113
Bookmarked: 9
Downloaded: 164
This tip presents a behavior that will allow buttons to control the items in a WPF Selector (or ListBox) control.
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3 Mar 2018
Updated: 3 Mar 2018
Rating: 4.56/5
Votes: 7
Popularity: 3.85
Licence: CPOL
Views: 9,051
Bookmarked: 7
Downloaded: 128
This tip presents a way to use the ContentControl and DataTemplate to easily control an image in a Window.
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2 May 2018
Updated: 2 May 2018
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 4
Popularity: 3.01
Licence: CPOL
Views: 12,972
Bookmarked: 7
Downloaded: 70
The tip provides a behavior that will set a control to a default value when the Visibility changes
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25 Jun 2018
Updated: 25 Jun 2018
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 8
Popularity: 4.52
Licence: CPOL
Views: 12,276
Bookmarked: 10
Downloaded: 271
A way to create a custom derived control with the XAML file attached like a UserControl
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4 Mar 2018
Updated: 4 Mar 2018
Rating: 4.56/5
Votes: 8
Popularity: 4.11
Licence: CPOL
Views: 8,335
Bookmarked: 7
Downloaded: 58
Provides a way to have a string in XAML that can contain string values and references to resources that are inserting into the string like string interpolation
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16 Jul 2020
Updated: 15 Aug 2020
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 6
Popularity: 3.89
Licence: CPOL
Views: 9,773
Bookmarked: 7
Downloaded: 505
A media player application specifically designed to support listening to language learning tracks
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2 Jun 2012
Updated: 2 Jun 2012
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 4
Popularity: 3.01
Licence: CPOL
Views: 36,142
Bookmarked: 5
Downloaded: 0
A rather quick and dirty way of creating a filtered combo box in WPF.
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6 Jun 2012
Updated: 6 Jun 2012
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 8
Popularity: 4.52
Licence: CPOL
Views: 28,701
Bookmarked: 9
Downloaded: 402
A little trick that will more completely fill the DatePicker background from the code-behind.
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26 Aug 2015
Updated: 26 Aug 2015
Rating: 4.86/5
Votes: 6
Popularity: 3.78
Licence: CPOL
Views: 9,142
Bookmarked: 5
Downloaded: 0
If you are having issues with getting the WPF Focus() method working, then maybe all you need to do is add a delay on the Initialized event before setting the focus. This solution is a nice demonstration of the features of TPL, and how easy TPL can make doing asynchronous programming in the UI.
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10 Mar 2016
Updated: 10 Mar 2016
Rating: 4.78/5
Votes: 5
Popularity: 3.34
Licence: CPOL
Views: 17,652
Bookmarked: 5
Downloaded: 130
When binding to an Enumeration, the Required Attribute does not work if the enumeration does not have a zero value. This validator does work.
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18 Mar 2016
Updated: 18 Mar 2016
Rating: 4.18/5
Votes: 7
Popularity: 3.53
Licence: CPOL
Views: 10,751
Bookmarked: 5
Downloaded: 74
There may be times when it would be nice to have a timer on a window. This is a behavior that when attached to a TextBlock, will display the time in minutes and seconds since the control was created.
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24 Mar 2016
Updated: 24 Mar 2016
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 4
Popularity: 3.01
Licence: CPOL
Views: 14,471
Bookmarked: 6
Downloaded: 178
WPF popup enumerated button control
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6 Aug 2016
Updated: 6 Aug 2016
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 12
Popularity: 5.21
Licence: CPOL
Views: 8,690
Bookmarked: 7
Downloaded: 64
This tip presents a way to have disabled items in your ComboBox
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5 Oct 2016
Updated: 5 Oct 2016
Rating: 4.94/5
Votes: 14
Popularity: 5.33
Licence: CPOL
Views: 45,882
Bookmarked: 12
Downloaded: 1,367
Presents and implementation of a control that can be pressed to bring up a Menu.
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5 Jan 2017
Updated: 5 Jan 2017
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 7
Popularity: 4.23
Licence: CPOL
Views: 15,335
Bookmarked: 6
Downloaded: 521
This is a simple popup that includes drag capability. The code should be helpful to anyone looking to create a control drag capability.
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7 Feb 2017
Updated: 7 Feb 2017
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 7
Popularity: 4.23
Licence: CPOL
Views: 21,916
Bookmarked: 5
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This tip presents a control that is derived from the ItemsControl that uses a UniformGrid to display.
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16 Aug 2017
Updated: 16 Aug 2017
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 9
Popularity: 4.77
Licence: CPOL
Views: 8,512
Bookmarked: 8
Downloaded: 176
This is a simple behavior that can be attached to a ContentControl and allows zooming and dragging the Content.
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2 Sep 2017
Updated: 2 Sep 2017
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 5
Popularity: 3.49
Licence: CPOL
Views: 10,780
Bookmarked: 8
Downloaded: 113
Presents a very simple control with an IsChecked property that allows definition of two different contents depending of if IsChecked property value is true or false
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26 Sep 2017
Updated: 26 Sep 2017
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 12
Popularity: 5.21
Licence: CPOL
Views: 23,596
Bookmarked: 10
Downloaded: 501
A behavior that allows the developer to bind an IList to SelectedItems of a ListBox or MultiSelector.
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11 Oct 2017
Updated: 11 Oct 2017
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 13
Popularity: 5.57
Licence: CPOL
Views: 52,762
Bookmarked: 18
Downloaded: 2,536
This tip presents a way to display checkboxes for selection of ListBox Items instead of the default highlighting
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12 Oct 2017
Updated: 12 Oct 2017
Rating: 4.81/5
Votes: 9
Popularity: 4.59
Licence: CPOL
Views: 10,340
Bookmarked: 9
Downloaded: 103
A Behavior is presented that will ensure that only one Checkbox will be checked within the visual tree of the control to which this behavior is attached
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17 Oct 2017
Updated: 17 Oct 2017
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 6
Popularity: 3.89
Licence: CPOL
Views: 14,130
Bookmarked: 9
Downloaded: 181
A Behavior is presented that will ensure that only one CheckBox (ToggleButton) will be checked with the same GroupName within the visual tree of the control to which this behavior is attached.
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3 Nov 2017
Updated: 3 Nov 2017
Rating: 4.94/5
Votes: 8
Popularity: 4.46
Licence: CPOL
Views: 16,998
Bookmarked: 9
Downloaded: 209
This tip shows how easy it is to create a Style with DependencyProperty definitions and avoid the much heavier UserControl
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1 Apr 2018
Updated: 1 Apr 2018
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 3
Popularity: 2.39
Licence: CPOL
Views: 6,140
Bookmarked: 9
Downloaded: 49
This is a control that is like a Expander Control but there is both Expanded and not Expanded Content. It demonstrates some concepts on how to easily create controls whose functionality can be mostly implemented in the XAML with the code behind being mostly DependencyProperty definitions.
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5 Sep 2012
Updated: 5 Sep 2012
Rating: 4.57/5
Votes: 7
Popularity: 3.86
Licence: CPOL
Views: 29,694
Bookmarked: 10
Downloaded: 469
The IValueConverter can be used to select a View.
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21 Nov 2015
Updated: 21 Nov 2015
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 4
Popularity: 3.01
Licence: CPOL
Views: 15,957
Bookmarked: 5
Downloaded: 0
Using a breakpoint in this WPF Value Converter which basically does nothing can be of assistance in binding when the object is not well understood.
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27 Apr 2016
Updated: 27 Apr 2016
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 7
Popularity: 4.23
Licence: CPOL
Views: 13,541
Bookmarked: 3
Downloaded: 57
This article presents a way to display a message in a single control with several sources in a priority order
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23 Jun 2016
Updated: 23 Jun 2016
Rating: 4.38/5
Votes: 8
Popularity: 3.95
Licence: CPOL
Views: 12,222
Bookmarked: 6
Downloaded: 105
This presents a simple converter that supports binding to an object, but display of a property in that class.
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29 Jun 2016
Updated: 29 Jun 2016
Rating: 4.92/5
Votes: 8
Popularity: 4.45
Licence: CPOL
Views: 24,443
Bookmarked: 10
Downloaded: 234
This class based on the ObservableCollection supports updating instead of replacing
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2 Aug 2017
Updated: 2 Aug 2017
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 7
Popularity: 4.23
Licence: CPOL
Views: 16,309
Bookmarked: 7
Downloaded: 384
Fairly straight forward way of binding in a HierarchicalDataTemplate or DataTemplate to the parent ViewModel when using the TreeView control.
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11 Aug 2017
Updated: 11 Aug 2017
Rating: 4.75/5
Votes: 6
Popularity: 3.70
Licence: CPOL
Views: 12,176
Bookmarked: 8
Downloaded: 158
Sometimes want to have some action in a View when there are no items or are items in a collection. It is very easy to do this with a converter and binding to the Collection's Count property
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10 Oct 2016
Updated: 10 Oct 2016
Rating: 3.72/5
Votes: 8
Popularity: 3.36
Licence: CPOL
Views: 18,131
Bookmarked: 4
Downloaded: 93
This article presents a behavior that can be used to attach properties to a bound class.
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2 Jul 2012
Updated: 2 Jul 2012
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 5
Popularity: 3.49
Licence: CPOL
Views: 61,857
Bookmarked: 11
Downloaded: 474
Why didn’t Microsoft provide this in the ObservableCollection?
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1 Oct 2015
Updated: 1 Oct 2015
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 11
Popularity: 5.21
Licence: CPOL
Views: 43,540
Bookmarked: 17
Downloaded: 1,177
Presents a behavior to prevent entry of anything but digits into a control
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5 Dec 2015
Updated: 5 Dec 2015
Rating: 4.38/5
Votes: 5
Popularity: 3.06
Licence: CPOL
Views: 18,317
Bookmarked: 4
Downloaded: 91
This tip presents a ValidationAttribute that can be applied to enumeration properties. The normal RequiredValidationAttribute normally works but if numbers are assigned to the enumeration values, the default value is zero and that may not be valid.
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9 Apr 2018
Updated: 9 Apr 2018
Rating: 4.50/5
Votes: 6
Popularity: 3.50
Licence: CPOL
Views: 31,417
Bookmarked: 8
Downloaded: 425
Shows how to set DataContext of View to itself using XAML and discusses the advantages of INotifyPropertyChanged to DependencyProperty
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19 Dec 2015
Updated: 19 Dec 2015
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 4
Popularity: 3.01
Licence: CPOL
Views: 20,903
Bookmarked: 5
Downloaded: 0
It is not straight forward to change the row selected and hover colors on the Telerik RadGridView. This is a ControlTemplate that works, and works with the detail pane.
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Productivity Apps and Services
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Microsoft Office |
25 May 2018
Updated: 25 May 2018
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 5
Popularity: 3.49
Licence: CPOL
Views: 11,477
Bookmarked: 8
Downloaded: 0
VBA Code that will take a string and attempt to pull out the company name, street address, city, state, zip code, phone number, and web address
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7 Sep 2018
Updated: 7 Sep 2018
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 6
Popularity: 3.89
Licence: CPOL
Views: 24,250
Bookmarked: 7
Downloaded: 1,478
This is a tip that has the code for selecting an Excel file and sheet for import into Microsoft Access. This includes the code required to browse for a file, and populate a ListBox with the sheets of the Excel Workbook, and the code to import an Excel spreadsheet.
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Programming Languages
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C# |
13 Jun 2018
Updated: 13 Jun 2018
Rating: 4.93/5
Votes: 8
Popularity: 4.46
Licence: CPOL
Views: 5,970
Bookmarked: 11
Downloaded: 0
This is a set of methods to help in working with Services on the local machine.
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10 Aug 2020
Updated: 10 Aug 2020
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 1
Popularity: 0.00
Licence: CPOL
Views: 4,901
Bookmarked: 2
Downloaded: 399
An application to define, save and watch segments of a video that I have selected
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26 Aug 2016
Updated: 26 Aug 2016
Rating: 4.75/5
Votes: 10
Popularity: 4.75
Licence: CPOL
Views: 13,361
Bookmarked: 11
Downloaded: 134
A simple timer that will expire if it is not nudged within a certain time. This will cause an Action to be executed.
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27 Apr 2016
Updated: 27 Apr 2016
Rating: 4.08/5
Votes: 11
Popularity: 4.25
Licence: CPOL
Views: 14,380
Bookmarked: 6
Downloaded: 0
I have used a Func to set the value of a property.
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8 Jun 2012
Updated: 8 Jun 2012
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 9
Popularity: 4.77
Licence: CPOL
Views: 16,280
Bookmarked: 13
Downloaded: 272
You can implement BackgroundWorker using Lambdas without any sort of helper class very easily.
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25 Mar 2013
Updated: 25 Mar 2013
Rating: 4.25/5
Votes: 8
Popularity: 3.84
Licence: CPOL
Views: 11,971
Bookmarked: 8
Downloaded: 67
Design to create a simple tree view that can be copy and pasted
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11 Jul 2013
Updated: 11 Jul 2013
Rating: 3.86/5
Votes: 8
Popularity: 3.48
Licence: CPOL
Views: 18,081
Bookmarked: 12
Downloaded: 111
Helper for serializing objects to a string
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25 Jul 2013
Updated: 30 Jul 2013
Rating: 4.59/5
Votes: 35
Popularity: 6.85
Licence: CPOL
Views: 79,455
Bookmarked: 50
Downloaded: 633
Helper for serializing objects in XML or binary and saving to a file
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15 Mar 2016
Updated: 15 Mar 2016
Rating: 4.64/5
Votes: 12
Popularity: 4.84
Licence: CPOL
Views: 14,470
Bookmarked: 8
Downloaded: 13
There is a Parse and TryParse for fields, but they cannot be used for properties. Here is a concept to create TryParse that will work for properties.
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28 Nov 2016
Updated: 28 Nov 2016
Rating: 5.00/5
Votes: 8
Popularity: 4.52
Licence: CPOL
Views: 18,251
Bookmarked: 7
Downloaded: 838
The WPF WebBrower control leaves a lot to be desired.
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17 May 2018
Updated: 17 May 2018
Rating: 3.70/5
Votes: 8
Popularity: 3.34
Licence: CPOL
Views: 13,462
Bookmarked: 14
Downloaded: 92
This tip provides examples of how to use the different arguments of the Linq GroupBy extension method.
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