Why are there strange backspaces in my WPF file?
Our software uses a DataGrid throughout the entire user interface to display editable lists. While editing some metadata, I wanted to delete the text in a specific column for many rows. It's pretty fast if you get into the rhythm of F2-Backspace-Enter, F2-Backspace-Enter, F2-Backspace-Enter ....
Things don't go quite so well if you miss the F2 part of the pattern and just press Backspace-Enter on a cell. The WPF DataGrid will actually replace the contents of the cell with the backspace character. Depending on how you look at your string, this might show up as 0 × 08,, \ u0008, or \ b.
What's on earth?
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This CodePlex post confirms a bug in the DataGrid and includes some workarounds. At our end, the current fix is to simply ignore lines that have a backtick. So they don't end up in XML, which is good because backspace is illegal in XML 1.0.
See also Microsoft Connect issue .
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