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Windows Forms	Flexible CSV reader/writer with progress reporting 3 Aug 2011 Updated: 3 Aug 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 34,410 Bookmarked: 38 Downloaded: 2,918 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Flexible CSV reader/writer with progress reporting and many file format variations.
	Class to read Unicode character names and a tool to display/search them 3 Aug 2011 Updated: 3 Aug 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,920 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 571 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A class to read Unicode character names and a tool to display/search them.
WPF	WPF TextBox with PreviewTextChanged event for filtering 2 Aug 2011 Updated: 2 Aug 2011 Rating: 4.60/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.19 Licence: CPOL Views: 47,511 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 2,139 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A WPF control, PreviewTextBox, used to filter/validate user input.
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C#	A general purpose base class for TextBox filtering 20 Mar 2007 Updated: 20 Mar 2007 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.11 Licence: Not specified Views: 44,253 Bookmarked: 19 Downloaded: 662 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes a base class, FilterTextBox, that can be used to implement flexible filtering for a TextBox control.
	Why, Where, and How of .NET Configuration Files 4 Jul 2013 Updated: 11 Mar 2021 Rating: 4.82/5 Votes: 46 Popularity: 7.97 Licence: CPOL Views: 292,366 Bookmarked: 164 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. .NET configuration files overview
	Removing or replacing non-printable Unicode characters 16 Mar 2007 Updated: 16 Mar 2007 Rating: 4.81/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.01 Licence: Not specified Views: 134,028 Bookmarked: 31 Downloaded: 1,937 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A class for removing or replacing non-printable Unicode characters.
	Using C# Code to Access the GitHub API 28 Feb 2019 Updated: 28 Feb 2019 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 5.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 43,967 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 3,498 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article will provide C# coding examples to introduce some of the more common features of GitHub's API.
C# 4.0	Display or format lists/collections/arrays using simple LINQ-style extension methods. 10 May 2013 Updated: 10 May 2013 Rating: 4.75/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.27 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,560 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 175 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article provides and describes the EnumerableExt class, which simplifies the display and formatting of lists, collections, and arrays. It accomplishes this by implementing extension methods (Append, BuildString, and Write) that are available via the IEnumerable interface.
C# 7.0	LINQ Part 1: A Deep Dive into IEnumerable 28 Mar 2018 Updated: 28 Mar 2018 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 32 Popularity: 7.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 43,187 Bookmarked: 67 Downloaded: 355 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A deep dive into the IEnumerable interface, how the C# language supports it, how to avoid some of its pitfalls, and an introduction to some basic LINQ concepts.
	Flexible C# Command Line Parsing via Attributes 27 Mar 2018 Updated: 4 Apr 2018 Rating: 4.84/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.95 Licence: CPOL Views: 29,904 Bookmarked: 40 Downloaded: 709 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A flexible command line parsing class that uses C# attributes and reflection to discover syntax
	LINQ Part 2: Standard Methods - Tools in the Toolbox 18 Apr 2018 Updated: 18 Apr 2018 Rating: 4.78/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.62 Licence: CPOL Views: 26,613 Bookmarked: 36 Downloaded: 303 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A very quick survey of the standard LINQ methods defined in the System.Linq.Enumerable class
	LINQ Part 3: An Introduction to IQueryable 20 Apr 2018 Updated: 20 Apr 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.21 Licence: CPOL Views: 54,624 Bookmarked: 23 Downloaded: 1,073 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Part 3 in the LINQ series, this provides an introduction to IQueryable, IQueryProvider, and LINQ expression trees.
	LINQ Part 4: A Deep Dive Into a Queryable Extension Method 25 Apr 2018 Updated: 25 Apr 2018 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.74 Licence: CPOL Views: 23,126 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 297 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Part 4 in the LINQ series, contrasts the System.Linq.Enumerable and System.Linq.Queryable extension methods and explores how expression trees are produced and consumed.
	Extending Visual Studio to Provide a Colorful Language Editor 20 May 2018 Updated: 20 May 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.77 Licence: CPOL Views: 23,022 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 523 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, we explore the implementation of a Visual Studio editor that allows editing of a fictitious "Colorful" language. The editor minimally implements both syntax classification / coloring and IntelliSense completion.
	Reflecting Within a Method Body 15 May 2018 Updated: 15 May 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 5.21 Licence: CPOL Views: 23,856 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 285 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Extends .NET reflection to decode the byte array returned by System.Reflection.MethodBody.GetILByteArray(), discusses the techniques to achieve this, and provides a brief primer on .NET reflection.

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Eric Lynch

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Eric is a Senior Software Engineer with 30+ years of experience working with enterprise systems, both in the US and internationally. Over the years, he’s worked for a number of Fortune 500 companies (current and past), including Thomson Reuters, Verizon, MCI WorldCom, Unidata Incorporated, Digital Equipment Corporation, and IBM. While working for Northeastern University, he received co-author credit for six papers published in the Journal of Chemical Physics. Currently, he’s enjoying a little time off to work on some of his own software projects, explore new technologies, travel, and write the occasional article for CodeProject or ContentLab.