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	Roxy: Strong Types and Method Overloading Posted: 25 Feb 2018 Updated: 25 Feb 2018 Views: 4,842 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. describes Strong Typing and overloading functionality recently added to Roxy.
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WPF	WPF Drag and Drop using NP.Visuals Library Posted: 9 Sep 2018 Updated: 9 Sep 2018 Views: 8,092 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Drag and drop using NP.Visuals package
	Roslyn based Simulated Multiple Inheritance Usage Patterns (Part 2) Posted: 28 Dec 2014 Updated: 4 Jan 2015 Views: 23,832 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.44 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 385 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Continue describing usage of NP.WrapperGenerator.vsix visual studio extension. Present more complex cases of multiple inheritance including diamond multiple inheritance.
	Plain C# implementation of WPF Concepts - Part 1 AProps and Introduction to Bindings Posted: 7 Jun 2015 Updated: 16 Jun 2015 Views: 57,451 Rating: 4.97/5 Votes: 69 Popularity: 9.12 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 125 Downloaded: 590 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Implementating Attached Properties and Bindings outside of WPF, in plain C#
	WPF-less Collection Bindings and Two Way Bindings Posted: 11 Oct 2015 Updated: 11 Oct 2015 Views: 20,202 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.64 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 20 Downloaded: 146 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Describes Collection Bindings and Two Way Property Bindings implemented in plain C# (outside of WPF)
	WPF MultiSelect TreeView Sample Posted: 23 Mar 2008 Updated: 23 Mar 2008 Views: 137,967 Rating: 4.63/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.63 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 30 Downloaded: 5,709 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Shows how to add multi-select capabilities to WPF TreeView control
	MultiSelect Drag and Drop in WPF Posted: 5 Mar 2008 Updated: 6 Mar 2008 Views: 83,285 Rating: 3.33/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 3.82 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 26 Downloaded: 2,142 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Discusses implementation of Drag and Drop functionality for multiselected items in ListBox/ListView
	Implementing Drag Drop Operations for Browser Based WPF Applications (XBAP) Posted: 16 Mar 2008 Updated: 16 Mar 2008 Views: 43,470 Rating: 4.71/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.67 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 21 Downloaded: 512 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Simple implementation of Drag and Drop operation without full trust requirement
	Very Simple WPF Drag and Drop Sample without Win32 Calls Posted: 3 Mar 2008 Updated: 16 Mar 2008 Views: 141,193 Rating: 4.23/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.09 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 38 Downloaded: 4,409 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Drag and Drop sample without P/Invoke
	WPF Control Patterns. (WPF and XAML Patterns of Code Reuse in Easy Samples. Part 1) Posted: 25 Jun 2014 Updated: 5 Jul 2014 Views: 51,834 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 55 Popularity: 8.63 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 107 Downloaded: 1,055 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Article describes WPF and XAML patterns for code and functionality reuse.
	View-View Model based WPF and XAML Implementational Patterns. (WPF and XAML Patterns of Code Reuse in Easy Samples. Part 2) Posted: 27 Jul 2014 Updated: 19 Aug 2014 Views: 55,607 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 6.99 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 76 Downloaded: 772 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. View-View Model based implementational patterns
	MVVM Pattern Made Simple Posted: 7 Nov 2011 Updated: 24 Sep 2014 Views: 604,229 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 179 Popularity: 10.93 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 473 Downloaded: 23,622 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article gives an overview of MVVM pattern, its usage and advantages
	Architecturing an Extensible and Flexible WPF Client Application using WPFWidgetizer Framework (Part 1) Posted: 22 Sep 2014 Updated: 27 Sep 2014 Views: 40,403 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 6.37 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 39 Downloaded: 464 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Describe architecturing a flexible and extensible WPF application with the help of WPFWidgetizer framework
	WPF Lookless Controls Posted: 15 Nov 2015 Updated: 19 Nov 2015 Views: 47,904 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 40 Popularity: 7.98 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 73 Downloaded: 761 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Lookless controls vs User Controls. Lookless controls usage patterns
	WPF Fundamental Concepts in Easy Samples Part 1: Dependency Properties, Attached Properties and Bindings Posted: 6 Dec 2015 Updated: 6 Dec 2015 Views: 18,522 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 6.03 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 29 Downloaded: 387 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. WPF Fundamental Concepts Explained and Illustrated by Simple C#/XAML Samples
XAML	Silverlight 2.0 in Examples: Part 1 - Silverlight Elements: Panels and Controls Posted: 24 Sep 2008 Updated: 24 Sep 2008 Views: 65,150 Rating: 4.74/5 Votes: 24 Popularity: 6.54 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 58 Downloaded: 1,412 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. part 1 of silverlight 2.0 tutorial
	Multiplatform UI Coding with AvaloniaUI in Easy Samples. Part 1 - AvaloniaUI Building Blocks Posted: 21 Jul 2021 Updated: 21 Jul 2021 Views: 4,160 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 6.28 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 17 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. AvaloniaUI is a great new multiplatform UI package similar but in many respects better than WPF. This is an introductory tutorial article.
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C#	Prism for Silverlight/MEF in Easy Samples. Part 3 - Communication between the Modules Posted: 20 Feb 2011 Updated: 21 Feb 2011 Views: 135,997 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 47 Popularity: 8.22 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 54 Downloaded: 3,339 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. 3rd part of Prism tutorial describing communications between the modules
	Silverlight Animations along Arbitrary Mathematical Paths via Easing Posted: 1 Feb 2011 Updated: 28 Aug 2011 Views: 56,010 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.45 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 16 Downloaded: 967 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Describes a simple algorithm for animating object movements along arbitrary paths
	Task Parallel Library and async-await Functionality - Patterns of Usage in Easy Samples Posted: 30 Dec 2012 Updated: 13 Apr 2013 Views: 298,874 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 94 Popularity: 9.82 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 303 Downloaded: 3,411 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. TPL/Async tutorial with emphasis on how to use it and why it is needed
	Roslyn Code Analysis in Easy Samples (Part 1) Posted: 6 Jan 2015 Updated: 11 Jan 2015 Views: 71,343 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 24 Popularity: 6.88 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 32 Downloaded: 2,338 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Describe Roslyn code analysis functionality providing easy samples
	Roslyn Code Analysis in Easy Samples (Part 2) Posted: 1 Feb 2015 Updated: 1 Feb 2015 Views: 20,328 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 1,037 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Present Roslyn's code analysis capabilities in easy samples
	Implementing Custom XAML Intellisense VS2017 Extension Posted: 22 Nov 2017 Updated: 22 Nov 2017 Views: 12,370 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.40 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 176 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Describes creating a XAML Intellisense Visual Studio 2017 extension
	Collection Behaviors Posted: 26 Nov 2017 Updated: 26 Nov 2017 Views: 5,760 Rating: 4.97/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.20 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 59 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I describe reusable implementation of the collection behaviors that make items behave in a certain way as long as the items belong to a collection.
	Introducing Roxy: Powerful Proxy Generation and IoC Container Package Posted: 26 Jan 2018 Updated: 29 Jan 2018 Views: 10,734 Rating: 4.57/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.86 Licence: The Apache License, Version 2.0 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 46 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Roxy is a powerful new Roslyn based proxy generation packages that facilitates separation of concerns, creating adaptors and smart mixins.
	New Roxy Features allowing to Choose Interface Implementation Automatically Posted: 16 Mar 2018 Updated: 16 Mar 2018 Views: 4,610 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 23 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Describes new important Roxy features for mapping the interface and its implementation wrapper
	Separation of Concerns and Smart Mixins with the help of Roxy IoC Container and Code Generator Posted: 6 Feb 2018 Updated: 10 Apr 2018 Views: 9,591 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 5.00 Licence: The Apache License, Version 2.0 Bookmarked: 19 Downloaded: 85 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Achieving separation of concerns using Roxy IoC Container and Code Generator.
	Concern Oriented Programming (COP) Posted: 29 Jul 2018 Updated: 30 Jul 2018 Views: 10,233 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. New programming paradigm involving combining various small pieces of functionality together
	Introducing IoCy - Simple and Powerful IoC Container Posted: 13 May 2018 Updated: 13 May 2018 Views: 12,757 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.52 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 74 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. New simple but powerful IoC container
	Software Design Principles and Patterns in Pictures Posted: 4 Mar 2018 Updated: 22 May 2018 Views: 36,488 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 52 Popularity: 8.30 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 102 Downloaded: 352 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I try to explain some design patterns and principles using analogies and pictures from the non-software world.
	Implementing Adapter Pattern and Imitating Multiple Inheritance in C# using Roslyn based VS Extension Wrapper Generator Posted: 7 Dec 2014 Updated: 11 Jan 2015 Views: 59,652 Rating: 4.68/5 Votes: 22 Popularity: 6.19 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 29 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using a single file wrapper generator to facilitate creating Adapter pattern and Multiple Inheritance
	Implementing Enumeration Inheritance using Roslyn based VS Extension Posted: 22 Feb 2015 Updated: 14 Nov 2017 Views: 33,282 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 6.52 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 25 Downloaded: 287 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Describe VS2015 extension for generating sub-enumerations (akin to sub-classes)
	Using Roslyn for Compiling Code into Separate Net Modules and Assembling them into a Dynamic Library Posted: 13 Nov 2017 Updated: 16 Jun 2021 Views: 21,813 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 30 Popularity: 7.39 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 31 Downloaded: 240 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Dynamically compile and assemble code snippets into a dynamic assembly
C# 3.5	WPF Fundamental Concepts in Easy Samples Part 2 MultiBindings, ControlTemplates, Styles Posted: 20 Dec 2015 Updated: 20 Dec 2015 Views: 12,844 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.77 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 17 Downloaded: 189 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. continues explanation of basic WPF concepts - multibinding, control templates and styles
C# 4.0	Prism for Silverlight/MEF in Easy Samples. Part 2 - Prism Navigation Posted: 13 Feb 2011 Updated: 21 Mar 2011 Views: 192,838 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 66 Popularity: 9.06 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 79 Downloaded: 3,815 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Prism for Silverlight/MEF in Easy Samples tutorial. Part 2 - Prism Navigation
	Parameter Substitution within Expression Trees Posted: 6 Jan 2011 Updated: 6 Jan 2011 Views: 45,621 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 7.08 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 26 Downloaded: 376 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes how to substitute a parameter within an Expression tree by another expression, similar to how one can substitute an argument within a mathematical function by a different function
C# 5.0	Roslyn based Simulated Multiple Inheritance Usage Patterns (Part 1) Posted: 26 Dec 2014 Updated: 4 Jan 2015 Views: 21,901 Rating: 4.76/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.70 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 353 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. describe how to use VS 2015 preview Roslyn base extension for simulating multiple inheritance in C# and provide usage examples
	WPF-less Property Bindings in Depth - One Way Property Bindings (WPF Concepts Outside of WPF - Part 2) Posted: 5 Jul 2015 Updated: 17 Jul 2015 Views: 37,588 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 38 Popularity: 7.83 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 56 Downloaded: 254 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Implementing powerful property bindings in plain C#
	Generic (Non-WPF) Tree to LINQ and Event Propagation on Trees Posted: 9 Aug 2015 Updated: 26 Aug 2015 Views: 51,275 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 45 Popularity: 8.19 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 69 Downloaded: 431 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Navigation and event propagation on generic trees
Java	Software Project Development and Decision Making Posted: 13 Feb 2018 Updated: 28 Oct 2018 Views: 38,944 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 71 Popularity: 8.94 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 94 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. making decisions when starting and running a software project.
XML	Programming on Trees Posted: 22 Nov 2018 Updated: 22 Nov 2018 Views: 8,493 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.45 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 173 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Proposal for a generic framework for programming on trees
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HTML	HTML5, JavaScript, Knockout, JQuery, Guide for Recovering Silverlight/WPF/C# Addicts. Part 1 - JavaScript and DOM. Posted: 10 Sep 2012 Updated: 30 Nov 2012 Views: 145,393 Rating: 4.87/5 Votes: 85 Popularity: 9.40 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 178 Downloaded: 1,260 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. JavaScript/DOM basics for WPF/Silverlight/C# developers
	TypeScript for Object Oriented Developers in Easy Samples Part 1 Posted: 29 Nov 2017 Updated: 2 Dec 2017 Views: 20,583 Rating: 4.97/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 6.24 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 24 Downloaded: 119 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. TypeScript tutorial for object oriented programmers
	Prism for Silverlight/MEF in Easy Samples. Part 1 - Prism Modules Posted: 9 Feb 2011 Updated: 24 Sep 2014 Views: 1,128,905 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 245 Popularity: 11.73 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 301 Downloaded: 7,285 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Prism tutorial in easy samples
HTML5	HTML5, JavaScript, Knockout, JQuery, Guide for Recovering Silverlight/WPF/C# Addicts. Part 2 - Solar System Animation built with SVG, Knockout and MVVM Pattern. Posted: 24 Sep 2012 Updated: 26 Sep 2012 Views: 69,732 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 31 Popularity: 7.43 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 70 Downloaded: 1,388 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Creating Solar System animation in HTML5/JavaScript
	Anatomy of HTML5/JavaScript Single Page Application in Samples (basics, navigation, composition, communications with the server) Posted: 6 Dec 2012 Updated: 20 Dec 2012 Views: 173,914 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 43 Popularity: 8.14 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 142 Downloaded: 4,998 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Describes Single Page Applications and a new BPF Framework that helps to develop SPAs.

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WPF	Data Templates Implementation Outside of WPF [Technical Blog] Posted: 28 May 2014 Updated: 28 May 2014 Views: 6,100 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 1 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Data Templates implementation outside of WPF
	Tree Structures and Navigation [Technical Blog] Posted: 29 Nov 2013 Updated: 29 Nov 2013 Views: 15,543 Rating: 4.69/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.83 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This post talks about generic Tree structures in C#.
	Attached Properties outside of WPF [Technical Blog] Posted: 29 Apr 2013 Updated: 29 Apr 2013 Views: 40,872 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 111 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Re-implementing and improving WPF concepts outside of WPF and in a way that is not necessarily connected to GUI development.
	Binding without WPF [Technical Blog] Posted: 31 Mar 2013 Updated: 29 Apr 2013 Views: 38,157 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.44 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 24 Downloaded: 90 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Here we are going to talk about the binding concept and how it can be re-implemented outside of WPF without being tied to the visual libraries or the UI threads.
	AProperties and Bindings outside of WPF Revisited [Technical Blog] Posted: 21 May 2013 Updated: 24 May 2013 Views: 6,800 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 15 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. AProperties and Bindings outside of WPF Revisited
	Bind Markup Extension [Technical Blog] Posted: 25 Nov 2013 Updated: 25 Nov 2013 Views: 9,890 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.32 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I continue a series of blog posts about implementing WPF concepts outside of WPF.
	Attached and Routed Events Outside of WPF [Technical Blog] Posted: 1 Dec 2013 Updated: 1 Dec 2013 Views: 17,350 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.42 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A series of blog posts regarding implementing WPF concepts outside of WPF
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C#	Expression Based Property Getters and Setters [Technical Blog] Posted: 28 Apr 2013 Updated: 29 Apr 2013 Views: 66,584 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 569 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Expression Based Property Getters and Setters
	A Great WPF Localization Package [Technical Blog] Posted: 18 Mar 2013 Updated: 18 Mar 2013 Views: 13,570 Rating: 4.60/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.22 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The package is open source, allows switching the locales at run time and also allows localizing any Dependency or Attached properties – not only strings.
	Event Bindings Outside of WPF [Technical Blog] Posted: 9 Jun 2014 Updated: 9 Jun 2014 Views: 5,721 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Event bindings outside of WPF
	Composite Path Bindings outside of WPF [Technical Blog] Posted: 27 Jun 2013 Updated: 27 Jun 2013 Views: 7,750 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 32 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Composite Path Bindings outside of WPF

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Nick Polyak

	Architect AWebPros
	United States

I am a software architect and a developer with great passion for new engineering solutions and finding and applying design patterns.

I am passionate about learning new ways of building software and sharing my knowledge with others.

I worked with many various languages including C#, Java and C++.

I have my Ph.D. from RPI.

here is my linkedin profile - I'll be happy to connect!