Viewstate is a great way to track the last-known good state of a web page. Unfortunately it's also a good way to bloat up pages unnecessarily. Dino has advice for how to save state on only the page elements you need
Language INtegrated Query (LINQ) is one of the new features coming in the Orcas version of Visual Studio. LINQ lets you use a SQL-Like syntax to work with objects, relational databases, or XML
Udi answers questions around how to create Smart Clients that are capable of working when disconnected, as well as solutions to the conflicts that occur when reconnecting. Join us for an in-depth discussion on conflict identification and resolution, and how messaging helps out even here.
Migrating to Vista means big changes in application support. Will your applications work in Vista? Here are some strategies and tools to mitigate the impact of moving to the new OS.
What does XmlLite provide? Briefly, it provides a non-cached, forward-only parser (that delivers a pull programming model) and a non-cached, forward-only XML generator. Both have proven to be very valuable functions.