MatthewMartin

United States

Age: 40

I'm a developer from Arlington, Virginia. I work mostly with database and line of business applications.

Technologies I Use

SQL Server
ASP.NET
C#
VB.NET.

Everyone who answers one of my questions gets an up vote...eventually. I will not down vote an answer on one of my questions, even if I think you are wrong. I thank everyone who has freely given me some of their time to answer my various questions.

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Is there any way to put malicious code into Regex?

regex security asked Jan 2 '11 at 17:16

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57 votes

How to find path of active app.config file?

c# .net nunit app-config configurationmanager asked Apr 27 '09 at 14:08

stackoverflow.com

45 votes

Is there anything wrong with a class with all static methods?

c# java oop asked Mar 18 '10 at 14:28

stackoverflow.com

42 votes

How do I generate random number for each row in a TSQL Select?

sql sql-server tsql asked Jun 25 '09 at 17:17

stackoverflow.com

39 votes

When did Obi-Wan Kenobi learn that Anakin was “dead”?

star-wars asked Jan 11 '11 at 22:01

scifi.stackexchange.com

35 votes

How do I know if a C# method is thread safe?

c# concurrency static-methods asked Jan 7 '09 at 16:06

stackoverflow.com

31 votes

Why does “orange” rhyme with (almost) nothing in English?

rhymes asked Aug 7 '10 at 22:00

english.stackexchange.com

29 votes

Simplest way to do a fire and forget method in C#?

c# .net nonblocking asked Jun 19 '09 at 15:33

stackoverflow.com

27 votes

Why is this name not CLS Compliant?

c# .net cls-compliant asked Jul 28 '09 at 15:49

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27 votes

How can I programmatically check (parse) the validity of a TSQL statement?

c# .net sql-server tsql ado.net asked Jun 21 '10 at 11:57

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