The Beta of .NET 3.5 and VS2008 SP1 is out. I'm sure everyone is blogging the heck out of it, so I'll try to add my own specific kind of value. There's fixes, many improvements (some subtle, some dramatic), and some new technology. Should You Fear This (B...

I've been getting more and more interested in how folks extend their applications using plugins and things. In my new ongoing quest to read source code to be a better developer, Dear Reader, I present to you twenty-sixth (half a year!) in a infinite numbe...

While reading source today, I saw some code in the wild today that looked roughly like this (not the actual code): type = typeof(T);if (type == typeof(Boolean)){ returnValue = (T)((object)Convert.ToBoolean(value));}else if (type == typeof(String)){ return...