One of the most common task for professional software engineer is to merge code from multiple branch, on popular source control system git which enables configuring third party merging tool to facilitate this process. p4merge is a visual merging tool...

When there are multiple versions of the same assembly exist in the machine, it is very easy to get confused about where is the assembly being loaded in a reflection call. Here is a code snippet which can tell you where the the assembly coming from. ...

Event handlers are methods that are executed in response to specific events that the component receives. The following are notes of my reading of "How events are implemented" section of CLR via C# by Jeffrey Richter. Event handler in C# are implemented...

XML is the most widely used file format in computer world. What if you have a character that is not ASCII, how to put it into the XML? The answer is simple, encode it either in character entity or in unicode. Here is an example of encoding the character...

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The short answer is no. SQL server BCP utility is not capable of recognizing UTF8 encoded string correctly, even worse, it won't report any error, it will simply treat UTF8 encoded string as ASCII encoded string. These string will become unrecognizable...

In web service enviroment, it is often necessary to convert the Xml tree to a string in order to calculate the hash or digital signature. NET framework provides several classes to parse XML document, each one has its own strength, here we investigate...