As a followup to my previous entry on faster reflection with expression trees, I have released the source on code plex and that is where i will actively be distributing updates through. Some noteable changes are that now you retrieve an FastProperty instance through a factory method which will cache the property for subsequent reference. Also, I have ......

---

Currently I'm working on a data synchronization tool in which I have finally had the need to use reflection. I'll admit that I'm not an expert when it comes to reflection, but it isn't that hard to work with either. And I have heard before about the performance hit you take with reflection, so up until now I hadn't ever needed / wanted to use it, but ......

---

Well, even though I had heard before that Vista SP1 wasn't going to be out until March time and I just did a quick Google News search and the most recent article from Computer World still says that it won't be released until then, I was surprised to see that Windows Automatic Update had downloaded SP1 and was ready to install. I had heard about issues ......

---

I came across a need the other day to recurse the page control tree (or any control tree really) to find all controls of a certain type, so this is the extension method I wrote to help me do that. Hopefully it will help others as well. /// <summary> /// Recurses the control tree and finds all controls in the control collection that are of the ......

---

So i decided to start playing around with Windows Server 2008 now that it has hit Release Candidate 0 status. So i fired up virtual pc and mounted the ISO and started to type in the product key and noticed what one of the sections was. Here it is in picture form for all of your enjoyment ......

---

While being a developer short for a while isn't the most fun thing for a small company... losing your new developer wouldn't be much fun either, but i think this was worth taking the chance. What would you do if the first time you loaded up visual studio you saw this? From the look on the new guys face... i would categorize the 30 minutes i spent finding ......

---

I've decided to live the verbose lifestyle in programming. I've learned that usually doing something verbosely ends up working better in the long run (even though it might take a bit longer). I'm definately glad that the visual studio and/or c# compiler team do this as well. Right now our company is in the middle of converting from asp to .NET and have ......

---

This is the future current home of all my rantings/insightful blog entries. Thanks to geekswithblogs for hosting this wonderfulness.

Expect more to come.

---