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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 runtim...

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 promote c...

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.