Last year I had the pleasure of meeting Scott
Hanselman (who
also talked about this subject today) when he was in town to speak at the Dallas
.NET User Group and North Dallas .NET User Group.
I told him “I’m paid more today because of you, thanks.” and he quipped that perhaps
he should setup a “Hanseltax”. Well I don’t know that I’m ready to start forking over
cash to Scott just yet, he costs me enough in gadgets already, but I might just be
convinced that a “RoederTax” is necessary after the release of Reflector 5.0.
Lutz Roeder’s Reflector is a must
have for all .NET developers, period, full stop. If you don’t have this on your box
yet, stop reading this right now and go download it. The latest version includes the
ability to set a display font size, which I much appreciate given the 1400×1050 resolution
of my Toshiba M200 Tablet, and an incredible new Custom Protocol Handler registered
to code://.
Why is this so incredibly cool? Because now it becomes possible to link directly to
methods from a blog post. For instance if I’m writing about XML, as I’m like to do
from time to time, I might say you need to check out System.Xml.XmlReader and
if you’ve got Reflector 5.0 installed it will open Reflector and open that exact method
for you to examine.
There are a ton of other features in Reflector 5.0, but I doubt that many will be
affecting my life as quickly as this one. Lambda Expression, LINQ syntax, C# 3.0/.NET
3.5 support are all great, but code:// will be used today!