Can It Be? Whidbey Performance Opportunities

Microserf Rico Mariani posts about Whidbey and its performance benefits. Most notably:

"Exception Avoidance

Many classes now support exception-free variations such as TryParse which give a return code instead of throwing an error in failure cases. These are highly recommended in cases where parsing failures can be reasonably expected."

This would be useful when, oh, I don't know, perhaps writing an HTTP client that uses the If-Modified-Since header. 'bout time, Rico.