• ASP.NET AJAX “Disposable Objects” Performance Heads Up - Part II
• ASP.NET AJAX “Disposable Objects” Performance Heads Up
• Getting a distinct list of changed files from TFS using PowerShell
• IE JavaScript Debugging near useless when try/[catch|finally] is used
• JIT’d JavaScript is all the rage and Microsoft dropped the ball again
• Velocity Cache API needs TryGetValue
• ScriptReferences to ScriptResource.axd for GAC’d assemblies are problematic in server farms
• ADO.NET Entity Framework's CompiledQuery when using anonymous projections shows why C# needs "mumble" types
• David Teitlebaum on Channel 9 reviewing WPF 3.5 SP1 features
• Greg Schechter begins series on WPF Effects

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• I use try/catch extensively. Without it you have no way of discovering problems in your code that you didn't discover for yourself - bugs your users discover will remain for ever. Every line of code I write is wrapped in a try/catch block somewhere up the...
  by William
• D'oh, was writing my new post when you followed up with another comment. Well, you read my opinion in the new post, but basically I think we have to question the "don't pollute" approach here, because the performance hit we're faced with...
  by Drew Marsh
• I wouldn't say there is "nothing wrong" with expandos... we generally try to avoid them except where it just makes the most sense (this is possibly one of those cases, not sure yet). Some people I dont think take kindly to a framework di...
  by Dave Reed
• Dave,Ok, I'm an idiot and thanks for pointing it out. ;)My redemption is easy though: you keep a counter, toString() the counter and tag each object you're handed with a well known key. Now each object that's registered has a unique identifier (handed out...
  by Drew Marsh
• Objects in JS are associated arrays, but the keys _have_ to be strings. If you use an object as the key, internally it is just calling toString() on it. An object's toString by deafult is something like "[object]". Your code seems to ass...
  by Dave Reed
• Toby, I'm on 2008 and I'd venture a guess that it's only for 2008, but I don't know for certain.Sorry,Drew
  by Drew Marsh
• Do you happen to know if this only works with the 2008 versions? It seems that with Visual Studio 2005 only the 2005 Power Tools work and this option isn't available.Thanks, Toby
  by Toby Martin
• Or you could just use tfpt history /format:unified
  by RichB
• Oh, sure... no problem with the runtime here at all. It's just that the debugger has absolutely no way to break where the error originally occurred which is pretty much what any good modern debugger offers with "first chance" exception handling.
  by Drew Marsh
• I griped about ASP.NET AJAX here: francisshanahan.com/.../the-problems-with-aspne...But I have to say, the try/catch block is working as advertised. The whole point is to catch the exception. Probably the mistake is that in the catch in this instance ther...
  by Francis Shanahan