Cool. Just be sure not to use this for anything serious; using undocumented APIs results in code that doesn't upgrade well over time and may have unknown side-effects. Those APIs are left undocumented for a reason.

Excellent website. Fast, usually accurate responses. The right responses bubble up to the top thanks to voting. Works great.

StyleCop was released several months ago. It's the documentation and SDK that was released, right?

Awesome!

...And where three exclamation points are better than one.

Nifty. It's kind of like Mac's quick launch bar.

Direct link to the Silverlight demo: http://labs.nerdplusart.com/particles/fullscreen.php

We've used Red Gate tools like Ants Profiler for 3 or 4 years now, and have found them to be a good company. I'd prefer Reflector to be maintained by Lutz Roeder himself, but if I had to pick a company to manage it, Red Gate would be up on the list.

While any technology can be abused, the author doesn't make a compelling case. The snippet he pasted is not very readable with or without LINQ.

A friend who worked on operating systems for IBM said he just uses notepad.

I thought of all the tools that help me get my job done: auto-complete, go-to-references, shift+f6 to build, refactoring fields and methods and classes, running unit tests within the IDE, code snippet insertion, the list goes on. Even simple things like finding out what line you're on and what column you're on...notepad lacks.

In all honestly, I'd lose 80%+ efficience without these tools.

3 installs from scratch in one year. Wow. I haven't had to install from scratch since I upgraded from Windows 98 to XP.

Wow.

The solution presented is an interesting idea, worth kicking. But the title is misleading and I agree, shows misunderstanding.

Nonsense. These were the outspoken critics of Vista given a blind test. They had every opportunity to criticize, and even had done so earlier.

The previous reviews were obviously clouded by public perception. A blind test was precisely what was needed.

Hahah, I love it. So true. Way to go MS. A lot of whiny folks were shown to have nothing but hollow objections based on public perception, not actual experience.

And of course, the pro-Linux, anti-MS high horse techno zealots jumped on the anti-Vista bandwagon. Combine that with the Mac ads and the initial driver compat problems, and you have Vista today: a pretty good OS, but a marketing and PR nightmare.

MS will learn a lesson from this.

Oh. That onion. Not THE onion: http://www.theonion.com/content/index

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The compiler can enforce purity by allowing calls only methods which are marked as pure. Most property getters could be marked as pure, for example, as well as many utility methods that do arithmetic, deal with strings, or otherwise don't rely on and don't modify external state.