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Andy West

Austin, TX

http://andrewtwest.com/

I’m a software developer with almost 15 years of professional experience. I mainly develop in C# and ASP.NET.

In that time I’ve also dabbled in:

  • C
  • C++
  • Perl
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • VB.NET
  • Java
  • F#
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How to include an ampersand (&) in the content of a ComboBoxItem
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String.Empty versus ""
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What is the OR operator in an IF statement
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The ability to convert your Stack Overflow's reputation into money
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Visual Studio: Where does it store "Set as startup project"?
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What is the point of "Initial Catalog" in a SQL Server connection string?
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How to redirect the output back to the screen after freopen("out.txt", "a", stdout)
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JPG+Zip File Combination Problem with Zip Format
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How do I merge multiple .net assemblies into a single assembly?
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Trigger before delete MySql
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Diffing between two entire directories/projects in hg or git?
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.NET File Stream write method writes all empty lines
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Extending the Visual Studio 2010 editor by adding a context menu item to manipulate selected text
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Accessing masterpage properties from child pages in ASP.net VB
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How to restrict a user not to open a folder using vb.net
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Looking for case insensitive MySQL collation where "a" != "ä"
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XmlNode.ReplaceChild is complaining that the node I'm trying to remove is not a child despite the fact that I got to the node via ParentNode
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C# code snippet calculating the surface and vertex normals
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max-width in select tag is not working in IE
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Fastest way to remove chars from string
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Do I need to Refer to the Mit license on my website?
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ADO.NET parameters from TextBox
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C# check if a process exists then close it
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Warm-up when calling methods in C#
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Is there a less hacky way to do this in MySQL?
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5
I need help translating this portion of the ECMAScript grammar?
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Auto insert values to table from range
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5
In .Net using File.CreateText() also locks file, why?
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How can I validate that several textboxes contain data when I click submit?
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Does a programming framework make you less of a programmer
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