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Typed programming can be nice but when you have to write something like this things have gone too far:
Microsoft.Msn.Hotmail.SortBy _sortBy = (Microsoft.Msn.Hotmail.SortBy)
Enum.Parse(typeof(Microsoft.Msn.Hotmail.SortBy), aSortBy);
Compared to a dynamic typed language:
var _sortBy = aSortBy;