Recently I needed to measure an exact size in memory for a string – asked a developer sitting next to me how would he do it. An answer was: “Take a string’s length multiply by 2(it’s a UTF-8 encoding) – you will get an exact size”. Well this answer was wrong… And the explanation is in a definition of UTF-8 encoding. Here is a quote from Wikipedia : UTF-8 (8- bit UCS / Unicode Transformation Format ) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode . It is able to represent any character in the...
For those of you who enjoy playing with brand new Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 – Training Kit was released, so have fun… Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit .
Today was published release date of Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 and final release dates. Currently it’s October 21 for Beta 2 and March 22, 2010 for Final Release. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/19/visual_studio_2010_second_beta_packaging/