Practical, Pragmatic Agile
Having written an extension method to create an instance from a Type and been a bit underwhelmed by its performance, I looked into exactly what was happening and have now got it working much, much faster. Here's how.
I recently wrote an extension method which uses an Expression Tree to create a Func which creates an instance of an object from its Type. With that done I thought I'd check the performance difference between my method and Activator.CreateInstance(), which it was intended to replace. Here's what I found.
I recently wrote a Type.GetInstance() extension method, and used the opportunity to play around with Expression Trees, which I'd recently read up on. Here's the set of extension methods I came up with, which allow you to quickly create an instance of a Type from the Type itself.
I've recently refactored the way Routes are declared in an ASP.NET MVC application I'm working on, and I wanted to share part of the system I came up with; a really easy way to declare and keep track of ASP.NET MVC Routes, which then allows you to find the name of the Route which has been selected for the current request.
I was a bit of a late-comer to the JQuery party, but now I've been using it for a while it's given me a host of options for adding extra flair to the client side of my applications. Here's a few generic JQuery functions I've written which can be used to add some neat little features to a page. Just call any of them from a document ready function.