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Friday, November 19, 2004

I found a new Hex Oddity this week while I was browsing through the MSDN documentation for the System.Resources.ResourceManager class: Apparently Microsoft is using 0xBEEFCACE as magic number for their resource files.

Up until now, the only other strange magic number I came across was 0xCAFEBABE, which is used as the first 4 bytes in Java .class files.