Most Popular Stories for January 2006

1. Web Applications: N-Tier vs. N-Layer (31 kicks)
2. Building a DAL using Strongly Typed TableAdapters and DataTables (31 kicks)
3. Data Paging with the ASP.NET 2.0 DataList Control and ObjectDataSource (25 kicks)
4. Test-Driven Development in .NET - Introduction & Unit Tests (24 kicks)
5. Flexible and Plug-in-based .NET Application using Provider Pattern (23 kicks)
6. Ajax Patterns Wiki (19 kicks)
7. Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 is released (18 kicks)
8. Best and Worst Practices for Mock Objects (17 kicks)
9. Transactions made easy with .NET 2.0 (17 kicks)
10. Behind the kicks - multiple hosts within one ASP.NET application (17 kicks)

Most Commented On Stories for January 2006

1. Where does your .NET development team keep its passwords? (6 comments)
2. Building a DAL using Strongly Typed TableAdapters and DataTables (5 comments)
3. dotnetkicks.com : a couple of new features (5 comments)
4. MSDN Beta Homepage (4 comments)
5. RegEx-based URL Rewriting Module (4 comments)
6. Channel 9 Video: Microsoft Max (3 comments)
7. VB.NET and C# - Duplication of Effort (3 comments)
8. .NET Reflector 4.2 Released (3 comments)
9. Atlas tutorial in ASP.NET without the template. (2 comments)
10. Microsoft Research Group Shot (2 comments)

Most Popular Tags for January 2006

1. C# (4 tags)
2. ADO.NET (3 tags)
3. AOP (2 tags)
4. .net2.0 (2 tags)
5. DataReader (2 tags)
6. OpenSource (2 tags)
7. Paging (2 tags)
8. SQL (2 tags)
9. TDD (2 tags)
10. dataadapter (1 tag)

Most Published Users for January 2006

1. gavinjoyce (35 stories)
2. RobChappel (29 stories)
3. dereklakin (10 stories)
4. croarty (8 stories)
5. james_crowley (7 stories)
6. k000der (3 stories)
7. nestor (2 stories)
8. jmacdonagh (2 stories)
9. sbanwart (2 stories)
10. chadh (2 stories)

Most Popular Domains for January 2006

1. weblogs.asp.net (170 story kicks)
2. msdn.microsoft.com (140 story kicks)
3. www.developerfusion.co.uk (115 story kicks)
4. www.microsoft.com (83 story kicks)
5. blogs.msdn.com (69 story kicks)
6. www.codeproject.com (63 story kicks)
7. codebetter.com (48 story kicks)
8. www.15seconds.com (32 story kicks)
9. channel9.msdn.com (30 story kicks)
10. geekswithblogs.net (29 story kicks)

Most Published Domains for January 2006

1. weblogs.asp.net (16 stories)
2. msdn.microsoft.com (14 stories)
3. www.developerfusion.co.uk (11 stories)
4. blogs.msdn.com (8 stories)
5. www.microsoft.com (7 stories)
6. www.codeproject.com (6 stories)
7. channel9.msdn.com (4 stories)
8. geekswithblogs.net (3 stories)
9. aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com (3 stories)
10. codebetter.com (2 stories)

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