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<li data-nav-id=/navpatterns/1-patterns/conditional-cascading-update/ title="Conditional Cascading Update" class=dd-item><a href=/navpatterns/1-patterns/conditional-cascading-update/>Conditional Cascading Update</a></li>
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<li data-nav-id=/navpatterns/1-patterns/product-name/ title="Product Name" class=dd-item><a href=/navpatterns/1-patterns/product-name/>Product Name</a></li>
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<li data-nav-id=/navpatterns/3-cal-coding-guidelines/internationalization/using-calcdate/ title="Using Calcdate" class=dd-item><a href=/navpatterns/3-cal-coding-guidelines/internationalization/using-calcdate/>Using Calcdate</a></li></ul></li>
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<li data-nav-id=/navpatterns/3-cal-coding-guidelines/localizability/captionml-for-system-tables/ title="CaptionML on System Pages" class=dd-item><a href=/navpatterns/3-cal-coding-guidelines/localizability/captionml-for-system-tables/>CaptionML on System Pages</a></li>
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<li data-nav-id=/navpatterns/3-cal-coding-guidelines/localizability/use-text-constants/ title="Use Text Constants" class=dd-item><a href=/navpatterns/3-cal-coding-guidelines/localizability/use-text-constants/>Use Text Constants</a></li>
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<li data-nav-id=/navpatterns/3-cal-coding-guidelines/localizability/using-optioncaptionml/ title="Using OptionCaptionML" class=dd-item><a href=/navpatterns/3-cal-coding-guidelines/localizability/using-optioncaptionml/>Using OptionCaptionML</a></li></ul></li>
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<li data-nav-id=/navpatterns/3-cal-coding-guidelines/readability/begin-end/ title="Begin-End - Compound Only" class=dd-item><a href=/navpatterns/3-cal-coding-guidelines/readability/begin-end/>Begin-End - Compound Only</a></li>
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<li data-nav-id=/navpatterns/3-cal-coding-guidelines/readability/binary-operator-line-start/ title="Binary Operator to Start Line" class=dd-item><a href=/navpatterns/3-cal-coding-guidelines/readability/binary-operator-line-start/>Binary Operator to Start Line</a></li>
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<li data-nav-id=/navpatterns/3-cal-coding-guidelines/readability/case-actions/ title="CASE Action" class=dd-item><a href=/navpatterns/3-cal-coding-guidelines/readability/case-actions/>CASE Action</a></li>
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<li data-nav-id=/navpatterns/3-cal-coding-guidelines/readability/colon-usage-in-case/ title="Colon usage in CASE" class=dd-item><a href=/navpatterns/3-cal-coding-guidelines/readability/colon-usage-in-case/>Colon usage in CASE</a></li>
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<li data-nav-id=/navpatterns/3-cal-coding-guidelines/readability/comments-curly-brackets/ title="Comments inside Curly Brackets" class=dd-item><a href=/navpatterns/3-cal-coding-guidelines/readability/comments-curly-brackets/>Comments inside Curly Brackets</a></li>
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<li data-nav-id=/navpatterns/3-cal-coding-guidelines/readability/end-else-pair/ title="END ELSE Pair" class=dd-item><a href=/navpatterns/3-cal-coding-guidelines/readability/end-else-pair/>END ELSE Pair</a></li>
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<li data-nav-id=/navpatterns/3-cal-coding-guidelines/readability/indentation/ title=Indentation class=dd-item><a href=/navpatterns/3-cal-coding-guidelines/readability/indentation/>Indentation</a></li>
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<li data-nav-id=/navpatterns/3-cal-coding-guidelines/readability/line-start-keywords/ title="Line Start Keywords" class=dd-item><a href=/navpatterns/3-cal-coding-guidelines/readability/line-start-keywords/>Line Start Keywords</a></li>
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