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Former Stack Overflow employee.

I am a C# ASP.NET developer, with a long professional history of work with web and Microsoft technologies.

I am passionate about writing usable and secure software and am constantly learning.

Blog at http://OdedCoster.com/blog.

I have written a blog series about getting good answers on StackOverflow.

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Daylight saving time and time zone best practices [closed]
Mar 28, 2010
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How to get the identity of an inserted row?
Sep 3, 2008
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What is "Linting"?
Dec 14, 2011
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How do I get the color from a hexadecimal color code using .NET?
Jan 21, 2010
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How do I initialize an empty array in C#?
Jan 4, 2012
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403 Forbidden vs 401 Unauthorized HTTP responses
Jul 21, 2010
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How do you reset the Zoom in Visual Studio 2010 and above
Sep 22, 2010
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How can I group by date time column without taking time into consideration
May 19, 2011
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What's the difference between text/xml vs application/xml for webservice response
Jan 28, 2011
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For i = 0, why is (i += i++) equal to 0?
Nov 22, 2012
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We're adding a setting to disable fixed/sticky navigation
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Do the people who develop Stack Exchange use Stack Overflow?
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