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Day 2 of DevDays 2010 and again 5 interesting sessions at the World Forum in The Hague.

First day of DevDays 2010, I was looking forward to DevDays to see all the new things like VS2010, .NET4.0, MVC2. The lineup for this year is again better than the year before, there are 100+ session of all kind of topics like Cloud, Database, Mobile, SharePoint, User experience, Visual Studio, Web.

As you probably know you can “Eval” an array property like below:

Sometimes when you connect to an external host and you get for example the error “The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel”, you want to have more detailed info about what causes the error.

When you have a list of strings like IList<string> of IEnumerable<string> and you want to convert it to for example a comma separated list you can easily do that with the String.Join method.

The second day of DevDays and 5 more interesting sessions to follow.

The first sessions of today was the key note session with David Chappel, the talk was about Microsoft's cloud computing platform Azure. He told us what this new technology means and what it can do, like how do we use it in practice. The technologies that came by are Windows Azure, .NET Services and SQL services. He also mentioned some alternatives like Amazone  EC2, Google Appengine and Salesforce Platform.

How do we convert a string to a byte array (byte[]) and the other way around. The most simple way to do this is with the Encoding class: