DateTime.Parse and DateTime.TryParse fail in .Net 2.0 if the user locale date override has a space in it. Ie: if its something like "M d yyyy". .Net is getting tripped up over the space (we're working on a fix for SP1/Orcas). A workaround is to pass...

In some cases MLang (on which MSXML6 depends) can added extra ? to decoded UTF-7 data, which can cause UTF-7 encoded XML to fail to parse. UTF-7 isn't a great encoding anyway, so this is just another reason to Please Avoid UTF-7 . In particular...

Well, that's pretty tricky. We provide the Microsoft Character Code Conversion Routines For HKSCS-2004 functions, but those are intended for use with unmanaged code. The fundemental problem is that these "HKSCS" characters were in use prior to the...

A common question is "how do I get my ANSI based code page application to run on a system that has a different code page?" The most obvious solution is to use Unicode :) Then you won't have the code page messiness that leads to this kind of problem...

UTF-7 inherently some of the security issues that concern people about encodings. For example, by shifting in & out of the base64 mode one can create multiple representations of the same string, enabling spoofing and other problems. UTF-7 is primarily...