Where can I find a list of .NET unicode (wide) functions?

Question

I would like to get a list of the VB.net/C# "wide" functions for unicode - i.e. AscW, ChrW, MessageBoxW, etc.

Is there a list of these somewhere?

Answer 1

All string methods in .NET are Unicode by default. .NET uses unicode strings for all String methods, since System.String is Unicode.

From System.String's Documentation:

Represents text as a series of Unicode characters.

Any time you call any method that takes a String as a parameter, you're working in Unicode. There is no need for "wide character" versions of methods in .NET.

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In fact, if you want to work with ANSI text, you need to explicitly tell the framework that is what you are doing.

This is often used via a method from the Marhsal class (for interop with other libraries), or via the Encoding class (Encoding.ASCII, or a different character encoding) to convert a series of bytes to or from text.

Answer 2

All .net strings are Unicode already. There are no Ascii strings to worry about. So they dropped the W from the Win32 names.

Answer 3

Strings in .net are all Unicode. You don't need specific functions to handle Unicode because it's built in already.