Re: Sql server to xml string with encoding

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From: Per Bolmstedt (per.bolmstedt_at_framINGENreklamTACKfab.se)
Date: 06/22/04 

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 22:27:05 +0200

"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <skeet@pobox.com> wrote:

> I think it may be time to start writing a page about this topic...

That's not a bad idea, because as I see it, one of the biggest differences
between text handling in ASP and ADO vs ASP.NET and ADO.NET is that whereas
the former all but encourages you to treat text as binary, and lets you stay
completely ignorant of any encodings, and doesn't do textual conversion, the
latter requires of you to treat text as encoded glyphs, requires of you to
be aware of the encodings involved, and does a lot of implicit textual
conversion. Even if this binary treatment of text was A Bad Thing with ASP
and ADO, there is a world of difference between the assistance the .NET
framework provides to someone who wants to expliclity manage text encoding
and conversion compared to what was offered to the ASP/ADO developer. (This
difference was certainly the problem in this particular thread.)

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