The ColumnExpression type exposes the following members.
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        Methods
| Name | Description | |
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| Clone | Clone the expression.
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| ContainsAggregationMethod | Checks if column expression contains an aggregation method.
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| Create | Parse a column expression and return a ColumnExpression.
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| CreateFromPlotExpression | 
            Parse a custom expression that can be used on plots and return a list of ColumnExpressions.
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| Finalize | Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection.  (Inherited from Object.) | |
| GetExpressionReturnType | Get the result type for the given expression using the columns
            in the specified table.
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| GetType | Gets the Type of the current instance.  (Inherited from Object.) | |
| MemberwiseClone | Creates a shallow copy of the current Object.  (Inherited from Object.) | |
| QualifyNames | 
            Make sure that all column/hierarchy references in the query are fully qualified.
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| RenameColumn | Rename all column references from oldName  to
            newName.
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| RenameHierarchy | Rename all hierarchy references from oldName to
            newName.
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| ToString | Get a string representation of the column expression.
              (Overrides Object ToString .) | |
| Validate | Validates if the column expression is valid in the given
            DataTable context.
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Properties
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Alias | Get the alias (name) of the calculated column if there is an AS 
            part of the column expression.
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| ColumnNames | Get the names of all column names referenced in the expression.
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| ErrorDisplayMessage | Get the localized error message if the expression is 
            invalid, null otherwise.
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| ErrorExpression | Get the expression that could not be parsed if it exists,
            if the expression is valid then this property is null.
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| ErrorMessage | Get the error message if the expression is invalid, null
            otherwise.
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| Expression | Gets the expression as a string.
            This would exclude any alias (name) statement.
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| HierarchyNames | Get all hierarchy names referenced in the expression.
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| IsValid | True if the expression is valid, false otherwise.
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| MethodNames | Get the names of all the methods which are referenced 
            in the expression.
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