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: 9,559
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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: 14,400
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: 5,301
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: 8,160
Bookmarked: 9
Downloaded: 64
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: 16,589
Bookmarked: 9
Downloaded: 289
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: 8,792
Bookmarked: 11
Downloaded: 116
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: 9,753
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: 20,113
Bookmarked: 5
Downloaded: 250
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: 31,725
Bookmarked: 10
Downloaded: 870
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: 11,361
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: 7,790
Bookmarked: 12
Downloaded: 94
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: 7,591
Bookmarked: 7
Downloaded: 78
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: 8,993
Bookmarked: 9
Downloaded: 140
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: 7,180
Bookmarked: 7
Downloaded: 114
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: 10,962
Bookmarked: 7
Downloaded: 66
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: 7
Popularity: 4.23
Licence: CPOL
Views: 9,816
Bookmarked: 10
Downloaded: 249
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: 6,995
Bookmarked: 7
Downloaded: 52
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: 7,233
Bookmarked: 6
Downloaded: 467
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: 34,002
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: 26,681
Bookmarked: 9
Downloaded: 397
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: 8,020
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: 14,272
Bookmarked: 5
Downloaded: 123
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: 9,071
Bookmarked: 5
Downloaded: 72
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: 12,771
Bookmarked: 6
Downloaded: 173
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: 7,320
Bookmarked: 7
Downloaded: 61
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: 13
Popularity: 5.14
Licence: CPOL
Views: 38,441
Bookmarked: 12
Downloaded: 1,214
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: 12,242
Bookmarked: 6
Downloaded: 478
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: 17,424
Bookmarked: 5
Downloaded: 662
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: 7,122
Bookmarked: 8
Downloaded: 168
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: 8,700
Bookmarked: 8
Downloaded: 97
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: 16,812
Bookmarked: 10
Downloaded: 389
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: 11
Popularity: 5.21
Licence: CPOL
Views: 40,890
Bookmarked: 17
Downloaded: 2,185
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: 8,370
Bookmarked: 9
Downloaded: 94
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: 10,760
Bookmarked: 9
Downloaded: 158
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: 13,814
Bookmarked: 8
Downloaded: 190
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: 5,360
Bookmarked: 9
Downloaded: 48
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: 26,043
Bookmarked: 10
Downloaded: 461
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: 15,357
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: 10,990
Bookmarked: 3
Downloaded: 48
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: 10,390
Bookmarked: 6
Downloaded: 101
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: 21,832
Bookmarked: 10
Downloaded: 223
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: 12,113
Bookmarked: 7
Downloaded: 339
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: 10,205
Bookmarked: 8
Downloaded: 140
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: 3.82/5
Votes: 7
Popularity: 3.23
Licence: CPOL
Views: 14,681
Bookmarked: 4
Downloaded: 87
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: 56,597
Bookmarked: 11
Downloaded: 461
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: 33,934
Bookmarked: 17
Downloaded: 1,004
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: 15,757
Bookmarked: 4
Downloaded: 87
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: 23,724
Bookmarked: 8
Downloaded: 372
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: 17,782
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: 8,812
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: 5
Popularity: 3.49
Licence: CPOL
Views: 18,019
Bookmarked: 6
Downloaded: 1,190
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: 4,620
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: 3,321
Bookmarked: 2
Downloaded: 309
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: 11,351
Bookmarked: 11
Downloaded: 124
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: 12,730
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: 14,950
Bookmarked: 13
Downloaded: 269
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: 10,691
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: 15,881
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: 63,854
Bookmarked: 50
Downloaded: 630
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: 13,100
Bookmarked: 8
Downloaded: 10
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: 16,051
Bookmarked: 7
Downloaded: 788
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: 10,992
Bookmarked: 14
Downloaded: 89
This tip provides examples of how to use the different arguments of the Linq GroupBy extension method.
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