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Martin Brown

London, United Kingdom

codestudio.com

Age: 37

Martin is a .Net developer and the director of a small software development firm called Code Studio Ltd. He is also the project cordinator for RegExEditor, the open source project based at CodePlex.

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Top Questions
59 votes

How do you UrlEncode without using System.Web?

c# .net urlencode .net-client-profile asked Oct 1 '10 at 15:42
stackoverflow.com

39 votes

How can I change my default database in SQL Server without using MS SQL Server Management Studio?

sql-server sql-server-2005 ssms default-database asked Dec 12 '08 at 10:38
stackoverflow.com

18 votes

What security issues should I look out for in PHP

php security asked Jul 22 '09 at 12:51
stackoverflow.com

12 votes

What do people think of a Stack Overflow project marketplace similar to Elance.com?

discussion feature-request stackoverflow asked Nov 17 '10 at 11:24
meta.stackoverflow.com

10 votes

How do you estimate how much memory to buy?

windows windows-server-2008-r2 memory capacity-estimation asked Feb 13 '12 at 10:55
serverfault.com

10 votes

How do you make Yorkshire Puddings rise reliably?

baking yorkshire-puddings asked Jul 21 '10 at 11:36
cooking.stackexchange.com

8 votes

Which .config element affects exception handling with UnhandledExceptionMode set to UnhandledExceptionMode.Automatic?

c# winforms configuration asked Feb 13 '09 at 12:38
stackoverflow.com

7 votes

Should Microsoft avoid implementing a feature in .Net just because internationalising it is too difficult?

.net microsoft internationalization language-features asked Dec 5 '08 at 12:47
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7 votes

Is it possible to use a Relative path when setting a custom error page in IIS7?

asp.net iis7 custom-error-handling asked Jun 9 '11 at 16:36
stackoverflow.com

7 votes

How does SQL Server determine the order it takes locks in while selecting a table?

sql-server locking deadlock asked Dec 13 '11 at 14:19
dba.stackexchange.com

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Top Answers
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How can I change my default database in SQL Server without using MS SQL Server Management Studio?
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56
What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?
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49
Should one use < or <= in a for loop
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44
Add spaces before Capital Letters
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38
A standard set of questions to ask an interviewer?
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26
What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?
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16
Visual Studio immediate window command for Clear All
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14
Why is this name not CLS Compliant?
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13
What is the difference between ManualResetEvent and AutoResetEvent in .NET?
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11
Why does (string)int32 always throw: Cannot convert type 'int' to 'string'
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11
does this switch statement smell bad?
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10
Set Identity of Thread
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10
I am missing something about the usefulness of hashes
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10
Suggestions for setting up a webhosting company?
serverfault.com

8
How to initialize ConnectionStrings collection in NUnit
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8
What exception to throw from a property setter?
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8
DateTime.Parse issue, not support in System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar
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7
Best programming methodology for very fast timeline and little requirements?
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7
How did you sign a contract to an Agile project? (not how you think you would, how you did)
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7
XmlSerializer and Collection property with private setter
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7
Performance difference for control structures 'for' and 'foreach' in C#
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7
Getting Application path during the installation
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7
Is software testing actually done on professional projects?
programmers.stackexchange.com

6
Email Address Validation for ASP.NET
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6
Multiple domains, same web application on IIS 6
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6
CallContext vs ThreadStatic
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6
SQL Statement Help - Select latest Order for each Customer
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6
What does the Call keyword do in VB6?
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6
Copy a directory tree to a single directory at a command line
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5
Simple javascript only working in FireFox
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