I attended a dinner a few days ago with my friend, mentor and co-worker Andy Warren. He was hosting a dinner with attendees from the class he was teaching. Being a football fan I struck up a conversation about my favorite sport with a few of the other guys at the table. A few minutes after listening to our conversion Andy interjected and stated "Now if I could get that type of passion in his work we'd be getting somewhere".

One of the cool new features of .NET 3.5 is extension methods. What is an extension method? In layman’s terms it's a method that can be added to an existing class without inheriting that existing class. The official definition from Microsoft is "Visual Basic 2008 introduces extension methods, which enable developers to add custom functionality to data types that are already defined without creating a new derived type. Extension methods make it possible to write a method that can be called as if