A Crashcourse on ASP.NET Control Development: Building Composite Controls   08 Feb 2006 01:35 GMT
Dino Esposito continues his series on ASP.NET control development and in this fourth installment shows you how to use and create composite controls.
Source: MSDN

Using Strongly-Typed Data Access in Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0   08 Feb 2006 00:00 GMT

"Never put off until run time what can be done at compile time."
David Gries, Compiler Construction for Digital Computers

When we as developers are learning new techniques, examples can be our own worst enemies. Tutorials are designed to be easy to understand, but at the same time they often reinforce lazy, inefficient, and even dangerous coding practices. Nowhere is this more common than in ADO.NET samples. In this article we're going to take a look at what it means to strongly-type objects from your database, and why despite the lack of examples, you will almost always want to do so in your applications.

Specifically, we will see how to create and use strongly-typed DataSets in Visual Studio 2005. As this article explores, strongly-typed DataSets offer a number of advantages over alternative, loosely-typed data access techniques and, with Visual Studio 2005, creating and using strongly-typed DataSets has never been easier. Read on to learn more!
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Review: BrowserHawk 9   08 Feb 2006 00:00 GMT
BrowserHawk is the market leader for commercial browser detection components. In this review, Steve describes his experience with the product and demonstrates some of its features.
Source: AspAlliance

Scaling and Hit-Testing in Ink Applications   07 Feb 2006 04:31 GMT
In addition to text recognition and similar capabilities, Ink can also be useful for image annotation and markup, such as in medical and insurance applications, where marking up images can be a valuable and critical form of input.
Source: DevX

"What is Your Quest?" - Determining the Difference Between Being an Architect and Being a Developer   07 Feb 2006 00:00 GMT
In this piece, Ambrose shares some thoughts about one way that we might further disambiguate between the developer and architect roles and why doing so might be valuable.
Source: AspAlliance

Binding the ReportViewer Control to Multiple Generic Collections   06 Feb 2006 00:00 GMT
It is easy to get the ReportViewer Control to report off of a DataSet that is set during design time. But what if you want to use code to cause one ReportViewer control to display many totally different reports using your own O/R mapper collection instead? It is not easy to see how to do this, but it is only a few lines of code once perceived. Now, using generics, we can easily report on any kind of object data.
Source: AspAlliance

Data Access for Partially Connected Applications   03 Feb 2006 21:26 GMT
Modern applications require more sophisticated data access features than a simple connection to SQL Server. Data needs to be available in distributed scenarios as well as offline scenarios. This article provides an architectural overview and implementation examples that support these scenarios.
Source: DevX

Download the Windows Mobile Developer Resource Kit   03 Feb 2006 01:41 GMT
Order or download the Windows Mobile 5.0 Developer Resource Kit today. The kit contains all the tools and resources you need to start developing for Windows Mobile 2003 and Windows Mobile 5.0 based devices.
Source: MSDN