Building a DAL using Strongly Typed TableAdapters and DataTables
posted by gavinjoyce(25.7k) 6 years ago 0
Another great in depth article from Scott Guthrie. I actually considered adding a Scott Guthrie category to dotnetkicks.com ;).
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Web Applications: N-Tier vs. N-Layer
I really like the quote: “Tiers are not a good thing, they are a necessary evil required to obtain certain levels of scalability, fault tolerance or security.” This site has is currently deployed on one physical server, but as it is designed in a number of loosely-coupled layers, it will be relatively easy to introduce one or more physical tiers as and when it is needed.
Atlas tutorial in ASP.NET without the template.
Great, I tried an earlier version of Atlas but the installation blew up on me. I used the dojo toolkit instead (http://www.dojotoolkit.org/). It will be good to get under the hood of Atlas, I feel that you can only really use the high level tools correctly when you have a good understanding of the inner workings.
VB.NET and C# - Duplication of Effort
I have used both languages, although I prefer the clean syntax of C#. There is really little difference between them other than syntax, and I believe the VB.NET exists solely to easy VB developers into the .NET world. Having said that, the ability to select from a number of .NET languages is really a great feature of .NET when dealing with specialised application requirements. Cω(C-Omega) comes to mind.
Microsoft Research Group Shot
What an unfortunate name, maybe they have a death wish?