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A comment on Strings and the CLR – A Special Relationship. Parent comment

Re:Strings and the CLR – A Special Relationship by matthewwarren on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @04:52AM (#11812950)
I love comments like that, it's almost a history lesson on VB and the CLR!
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Re:Strings and the CLR – A Special Relationship by adzm on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @02:43PM (#11817042)
Then you'd probably love to know why the OLE DATE epoch is 1899-12-30...

also the B in BSTR is for Basic!

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ericlippert/2003/09/16/eric...

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