From Vaclav Novak: Push your ASP.NET Web Forms to the extreme. This session focuses on advanced tips and tricks for ASP.NET page development, including UI that morphs based on the data it displays, dynamic templates, passing values from page to page, adding client events to server controls, and more. Assumes a basic understanding of ASP.NET pages and controls.

From Hun Boon Teo: Another research paper from Wolfgang Schult and Andreas Polze, part of abstract: "Within this paper, we focus on dynamic management of aspect information during program runtime. We introduce a new approach called "dynamic aspect weaving" to interconnect aspect code and functional code. Using our approach, it is possible to decide at runtime whether objects living inside a compoent should be instantiated with support for a particular aspect or not. We have implemented our approach in contect of the langauge C# and the Microsoft .NET environment."

From Hun Boon Teo: A research paper from two German scholars, part of the abstract: "Within this paper, we discuss the usage of aspectoriented programming techniques in context of the .NET framework. We focus on the fault-tolerance aspect and discuss the expression of non-functional component properties (aspects) as C# custom attributes. Our approach uses reflection to generate replicated objects based on settings of a special “fault-tolerance” attribute for C# components."

"The idea of connectionstrings.com is to provide an easy reference for connectionstrings. All connection string and enumeration info are collected from other internet sites, books, helpfiles, Microsoft msdn, etc." Holy cow! An entire site of just connection string examples! Cool! [John Bristowe: radio.weblogs.com/0112381]

I just like to read JasonW, but this one was particularly nice. He refutes some pretty wild claims from one member of the Java community. Along these same lines, I spent a day of onsite consulting having a .NET vs. Java debate. I was the outsider .NET guy and the company already had three Java guys already on staff (one was the VP of Engineering). Needless to say, .NET won. : ) It boiled down to what to do with the existing ATL/COM/C++ code base and the .NET interop story wins there hands down.

A somewhat wordy list of what’s new in VS.NET 2003. It figures that just after I'd learned to use the Designer for event handling that MS would add C# "code spitting" for the override keyword and the delegate += operator...

I just stumpled onto a set of very cool .NET samples from Jeff Key and *had* to share them. There are too many cool things to pick a favorite.

In writing the resources chapter of my WinForms book, I found that there was no single utility for displaying the resource contents of assemblies, .resx files and .resource files (even embedded .resources files) in a way that made sense to me. So, I built one and called it ResourceExplorer.

ResourceExplorer is very simple and could stand some extension to show specific resources at images, text, data, etc, but it certainly served my needs, especially when it came to understanding the usage and limitations of the ResourceReader (for reading .resources files) and the ResXResourceReader (for reading .resx files). Enjoy.