2004 - Page 4 of 4 - Buck Hodges

Converting a text file from one encoding to another

May 18, 2004 May 18, 2004 05/18/04

Buck Hodges

The .NET framework handles file encodings very nicely. Not too long ago, I needed to convert files from one encoding to another for a library that didn't handle the encoding of the original file. Since someone on an internal alias asked about doing this a couple of weeks ago, I thought it would be useful to post it here. The .NET ...

Bill Gates’ visit to the University of Illinois

May 15, 2004 May 15, 2004 05/15/04

Buck Hodges

I didn't realize that Microsoft hires more computer science graduates from U of I than any other school. It's a great school with a lot of bright people (I don't miss the cold January days, though). Bill Gates, the chief software architect for Microsoft, chose Illinois for his first stop on a three-day, five campus tour to ...

Download the VC++ Toolkit

May 14, 2004 May 14, 2004 05/14/04

Buck Hodges

Three weeks ago the Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 was made available as a free download. It's the full optimizing compiler. That's pretty cool. It doesn't include the IDE, though people have used it to replace the non-optimizing compiler in the VS Standard edition...