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ATL	Circular Reference-proof ATL Object Collections 22 Sep 2003 Updated: 13 Jul 2017 Rating: 3.90/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 3.72 Licence: CPOL Views: 63,554 Bookmarked: 39 Downloaded: 1,735 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using ATL and STL to create collections of COM objects without circular references
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C#	Image Slide Show with Transitions 17 Oct 2014 Updated: 17 Oct 2014 Rating: 4.84/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 38,853 Bookmarked: 18 Downloaded: 4,959 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Displays a list of images with various transitioning effects
	Nested Transactions for System.Data.SQLite with Savepoints 10 Sep 2016 Updated: 10 Sep 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,274 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 360 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A set of extension methods giving System.Data.SQLite access to Savepoints
	Safe Images from Streams 3 Oct 2016 Updated: 9 Oct 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,291 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 247 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Alleviate issues with Image objects created from streams and files.
	Sorted Set and MultiSet with Embedded Keys 16 Feb 2008 Updated: 16 Feb 2008 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.38 Licence: CPOL Views: 20,452 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 253 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. AVL Search tree implementation with the objects accessed by an embedded key
	Remove Unwanted Properties and Events from UserControl 14 Oct 2014 Updated: 14 Oct 2014 Rating: 4.87/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.72 Licence: CPOL Views: 20,706 Bookmarked: 23 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Use an ICustomTypeDescriptor implementation to remove all access to inapplicable properties and events from a UserControl.
Shell	The Windows Property System 28 Nov 2016 Updated: 5 Jan 2017 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 6.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 23,373 Bookmarked: 22 Downloaded: 1,743 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Accessing the Windows Property System in the Shell

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	Coping with DBNull [Tip/Trick] 16 Sep 2016 Updated: 17 Sep 2016 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.15 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,861 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 74 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A set of helper functions to cope with DBNull results from database queries
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Windows Forms	GuidTextBox [Tip/Trick] 12 Oct 2016 Updated: 26 Oct 2016 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 4.88 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,042 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 207 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An edit control for the masked input of GUIDs
	Simple Custom Collection Designer Support [Tip/Trick] 15 Nov 2015 Updated: 15 Nov 2015 Rating: 4.55/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.84 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,874 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 241 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The simplest solution for adding a custom collection of custom objects to the designer
	Resolve DesignMode for a User Control [Tip/Trick] 23 Sep 2016 Updated: 23 Sep 2016 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.97 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,490 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 60 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is an alternative for "Resolve DesignMode for a user control"
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C#	Getting the Image Displayed in a Windows Forms TreeNode [Tip/Trick] 10 Jan 2017 Updated: 11 Jan 2017 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.34 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,864 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 211 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Extension methods to get the index or key of the image currently displayed in the node of a Windows.Forms.TreeView control
	Simple DateTime to Julian Day and UnixTime Values [Tip/Trick] 24 Nov 2015 Updated: 24 Nov 2015 Rating: 4.69/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.96 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,113 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 231 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Four one-line methods to convert between DateTime objects and Julian Days or Unix Time Stamps
	Finding Items in a Collection that Match one of... [Tip/Trick] 19 Oct 2016 Updated: 19 Oct 2016 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.77 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,010 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Use LINQ to get the members of a collection that match the members of another collection
	Print to XPS from Code [Tip/Trick] 5 Nov 2013 Updated: 5 Nov 2013 Rating: 4.64/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.92 Licence: CPOL Views: 43,484 Bookmarked: 17 Downloaded: 2,992 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Generate XPS documents from code using the XPS Passthrough driver.
Shell	When A File Is Not A File [Tip/Trick] 13 Nov 2016 Updated: 13 Nov 2016 Rating: 4.77/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.15 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,340 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 194 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Getting information about a file that does not yet exist

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Midi_Mick

	Software Developer
	Australia

Been programming for 40 years now, starting when I was 13 on DEC PDP 11 (back in the day of paper tape storage, and hex switch boot procedures). Got right into micro-computers from an early age, with machines like the Dick Smith Sorcerer and the CompuColor II. Started CP/M and MS-DOS programming in the mid 1980's. By the end of the '80's, I was just starting to get a good grip on OOP (Had Zortech C++ V1.0).

Got into ATL and COM programming early 2002. As a result, my gutter vocabulary has expanded, but it certainly keeps me off the streets.

Recently, I have had to stop working full time as a programmer due to permanent brain damage as a result of a tumour (I just can't keep up the pace required to meet KPI's). I still like to keep my hand in it, though, and will probably post more articles here as I discover various tricky things.