Again, System.Uri tries to be smart and does something on my behalf :-( This time, the victim is trailing dot (which is common in wiki pages). See this connect bug for details. The workaround is similar to the one described in this post . The only...

This is an article written by Jan Gray. It is quite old, but most of the contents still apply today. The original article on MSDN can no longer be found. Here is the pdf version on OpenRCE: http://www.openrce.org/articles/files/jangrayhood.pdf . Overview...

In GoingNative 2012 , there are some discussions on the new coding style for C++11. One interesting thing which is mentioned by Bjarne Stroustrup, Stephan T. Lavavej and Herb Sutter is the most efficient way to pass the argument. In C++98, pass by reference...