David Douglass

I’m sure you’ve noticed that Windows Explorer thinks that everything you care about is in My Documents.  If you’re like me that isn’t true; important stuff is in the C drive, network shares, external storage, etc.  Wouldn’t it be nice if Windows Explorer opened showing all the devices on the computer?  Change your Windows Explorer shortcut as below and it will.

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

So I’m doing a little coding using reflection and the following exception is raised:

It is illegal to reflect on the custom attributes of a Type loaded via ReflectionOnlyGetType (see Assembly.ReflectionOnly) -- use CustomAttributeData instead.

I don’t get it so I pump the error message into Microsoft’s Live Search.  Live Search comes back with:

We did not find any results for It is illegal to reflect on the custom attributes of a Type loaded via ReflectionOnlyGetType (see Assembly.ReflectionOnly) -- use CustomAttributeData instead..

Not believing this for even 1 nanosecond, I run the same query using Google.  Google’s first hit points me to Kirk Evens’ MSDN blog where the exact messages appears in the entry!