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Serialize into an XML Fragment - not XML Document

- by Canoehead

How do I serialize an XML-serializable object to an XML fragment (no XML declaration nor namespace references in the root element)?

SQL 2000 Not Supported by .NET Framework Data Provider for SQL Server in VS2010's Server Explorer D

Just tried creating a data connection to a SQL 2000 database in VS2010's Server Explorer using a .NET Framework Data Provider for SQL Server (versus OLE) and found that it didn't work. VS2010 complained that I had to use SQL Server 2005 and up. This used to work in VS2008 (using .NET Framework Data Provider for SQL Server instead of the .NET Framework Data Provider for OLE DB). Is this just a VS2010 restriction or has the ability to connect to SQL 2000 with .NET Framework Data Provider for SQL Server been obsoleted in a post-2.0 version of .NET being used by VS2010? Anyone know why this was done by MS (please don't speculate - I can do that myself ;)?

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Comparison of GAMS versus AMPL Algebraic Modelling Languages

- by Canoehead

I'd be interested in getting the opinion from users of GAMS and AMPL on what the strength and weaknesses of each these languages are.

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What Character Encoding Is This?

- by Canoehead

I need to clean up some file containing French text. Problem is that the files erroneously contain multiple encodings within the same file. I think some sections are ISO8859-1 (Latin 1) but other parts have text encoded in single byte characters that look like 'extended' ASCII. In other words, it is UTF-7 encoding plus the following: 0x82 for é (e acute) 0x8a for è (e grave) 0x88 for ê (e circumflex) 0x85 for à (a grave) 0x87 for ç (c cedilla) What encoding is this?

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Why is my GetNextChar() in my DecoderFallbackBuffer Specialization Repeatedly Getting Called?

- by Canoehead

I need to produce my own DecoderFallback and DecoderFallbackBuffer classes to implement some custom stream decoding. I have found that the stream reader making use of it is calling GetNextChar() repeatedly even when my specilizaed DecoderFallbackBuffer.Remaining property returns 0 to indicate that there no more characters to return. The end result is that the stream reader gets into an infinite loop. Why is this happening?

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