>Yeah, I agree with you, adding a helper method in the manner you described would be good.

Seems about right to me.

>VS2008 has extension methods, which allow you to (as the name implies) extend an existing class where you don't have the code for the source class. Has benefits and potential design drawbacks...

Right, that was them - "extension methods". There is so much going on right now, I don't know how we are expected to remember everything! :)

How's tricks Kevin - things going well for you?