I have an integer, say 0x819A, which represents the Japanese shift-jis
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How do I convert this to the System.Char? (that is the unicode encoding).
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I'm preparing to teach a group of high school kids web application
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Hi everybody;
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I need to invoke an event dynamically using Reflection. I can use
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I'm developing a windows service with c#. Now I'm trying to use a .net class
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