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C# error at compile time challenge

Problem:
I have a challenge for you. You will find at the end of thispost a link to a zip that contains a .NET 4.0 projects. The challenge is tomake this project to compile and give me the cause of the problem. I will letyou until Friday morning.
Good luck.
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=BB7D9F52E4FDB024!259&authkey=!APfTPi6HWX0VJQg


Solution:
In the ‘class’ word from the Foo class we had an odd character for Unicode world. The character named is ‘Zero with space’. Is like a space between words but without a visible space (width). Because Visual Studio can process also Unicode files, we have no limitation to add Unicode characters that are not visible using a normal editor. If we open the file with Total Commander viewer for example we will be able to see the character (in hex view for example).
Nice job :-)

Comments

  1. Hehe, simple one.

    When in doubt, retype the text. The problem is with the keyword "class". For example, if you put the cursor at the end of "class", and press CTRL+Left (that is, jump over one word), it will jump INSIDE the class, after the 'l' char.

    Looking at the source with a HEX Viewer we see:
    cl​ass . That is the ANSI representation. There is some UTF-8 garbage in there :)

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    1. You are almost there. You need to tell me what is that character? What represents?

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    2. U+200B

      Unicode line break:
      http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/200b/index.htm

      Probably from some weird editor/another operating system

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    3. Nice - the file is UTF-16 encoded (big endian), that is ok.. Word has the habit to insert zero-width-spaces sometimes.. :)

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  2. I think that the file is encoded in ANSI and the "a" character in "class" is "â" which isn't a latin character. The ANSI encoded file permits to use characters from other alphabets not only latins character.

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  3. I added the solution to the post. Enjoy.

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