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Desktop Programming
Windows Forms	Context Help Made Easy 2 Feb 2007 Updated: 2 Feb 2007 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 53 Popularity: 8.41 Licence: CPOL Views: 275,214 Bookmarked: 274 Downloaded: 2,691 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article introduces a new way of instrumenting your code that enables help authors associate help topics with the application’s visual contexts at any time - even post-compilation – and to do so using the application’s user interface without the involvement of the developer.
	A Pretty Good Splash Screen in C# 16 Nov 2003 Updated: 28 Jun 2014 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 309 Popularity: 12.12 Licence: CPOL Views: 1,831,185 Bookmarked: 869 Downloaded: 57,127 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A splash screen with some neat predictive progress bar features
	Solving the .resx Merge Problem 5 Jun 2009 Updated: 17 Jul 2014 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 32 Popularity: 7.35 Licence: CPOL Views: 121,603 Bookmarked: 42 Downloaded: 3,284 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article provides a console utility and a method for extending a merge tool to ensure that only real changes (not reordering) appear when merging files from different source control branches.
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C#	Solving Undo/Redo Problems with the MSHTML Editor 4 Jun 2013 Updated: 10 Jun 2014 Rating: 4.76/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.54 Licence: CPOL Views: 20,511 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article presents solutions to problems relating to Undo/Redo when using the MSHTML editor.
XML	A Magical Edit Menu Manager 29 Jan 2004 Updated: 12 Oct 2018 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 83 Popularity: 9.29 Licence: CPOL Views: 368,884 Bookmarked: 164 Downloaded: 1,185 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A magical edit menu that works with no connections to the rest of your project

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SQL Server	How to convert UTC time to Local Time [Tip/Trick] 2 Jan 2012 Updated: 2 Jan 2012 Rating: 3.40/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.05 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,141 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I wanted to point out that while I agree with the general approach (storing DateTime in UTC and converting into local time for display as well as accepting input in local time), it's not always what the requirements call for. If you're creating a meeting calendar, then of course it's perfect,...
Desktop Programming
Windows Forms	WinForms TextBox to accept numbers in a range [Tip/Trick] 2 Jan 2012 Updated: 2 Jan 2012 Rating: 4.20/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.26 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,970 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A few notes on this code: Wouldn't you get an exception if the user happens to put in a number bigger than can be stored in an int32? Wouldn't int32.TryParse be better because of this?The control can be initialized with a negative number as a constraint, but it doesn't permit the '-'...

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Tom Clement

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United States

I've been programming in C, C++, Visual Basic and C# for over 35 years. I've worked at Sierra Systems, ViewStar, Mosaix, Lucent, Avaya, Avinon, Apptero, Serena and now Guidewire Software in various roles over my career.