Interestingly, Resharper flags usages of this as a style warning. It considers it redundant. Personally, I like this because it makes it immediately obvious that the variable is not local.

Funny, I ran reflector today and it told me it was out of date and asked to update automatically. How old is your version? I would guess really old, too bad it didn't auto-update ;)

Most decent apps that I can think of auto-update and I wish more did.

Not sure how .NET related this is other than many web developers still use FTP. Good rant though. Wouldn't it be nice if Windows servers came with ssh/scp instead of FTP?

While it is nice to hear that Microsoft is supporting the Moonlight project, it is a bit misleading to say that they are extending support to Linux. Moonlight is a Mono project and not written by Microsoft. They are only jumping on with support for a project that was already up and running.

Not much .NET here, I doubt it is worth the stop unless you are looking for other stuff.