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Marcel

Switzerland

http://marcelsuter.ch

I am an experienced software developer for both technical and business software, mainly in C#/.NET.

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Top Questions
212 votes

Why is the default value of the string type null instead of an empty string?

c# string default-value asked Jan 15 '13 at 12:17
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124 votes

How to detect the encoding of a file?

file-systems character-encoding utf-8 notepad++ asked Feb 15 '13 at 9:45
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88 votes

Is the LIKE operator case-sensitive with MSSQL Server?

sql sql-server-2005 varchar sql-like asked Feb 19 '13 at 16:27
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88 votes

What is the difference between “LINQ to Entities”, “LINQ to SQL” and “LINQ to Dataset”

c# sql linq dataset entities asked Mar 14 '10 at 21:22
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46 votes

LINQ: How to skip one then take the rest of a sequence

c# linq list iterate skip asked Mar 12 '10 at 9:47
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36 votes

In C#, how to check whether a string contains an integer?

c# string parsing integer tryparse asked Aug 15 '13 at 11:36
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32 votes

Difference between CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture() and the constructor of the class?

c# .net-3.5 globalization cultureinfo asked Aug 30 '12 at 9:35
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29 votes

NHibernate 3.0: No FirstOrDefault() with QueryOver?

linq nhibernate linq-to-nhibernate queryover asked Dec 29 '10 at 13:23
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28 votes

Is Nullable<int> a “Predefined value type” - Or how does Equals() and == work here?

c# .net nullable string-comparison value-type asked Jun 16 '14 at 7:39
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26 votes

In C#: How to declare a generic Dictionary with a type as key and an IEnumerable<> of that type as value?

c# generics dictionary types asked May 31 '10 at 14:56
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Why do I need to hide my phone's IMEI
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Best Free Controls for .NET
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Is Active Directory required for a team using TFS 2010?
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What is Silverlight? (In one sentence, in an interview)
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How can I avoid using my own name in the identifiers, packages, or namespaces of open sources projects I create?
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Generating HTML email body in C#
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How to delete user accounts in asp.net?
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Which opensource license to use to retain commercial rights for myself
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