I have long had a love affair with the Data Access Application Block, DAAB since it was first release way back in the old days. Since then it has become part of the Enterprise Library and supported and maintained by the Patterns and Practices Group. Today
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Normally I have been one to jump right into the latest technologies, unless I think the newer method would take longer to implement and manage than it is worth. Hence why I will most likely never do unit based testing and development (honestly, my clients do not want me to develop their app twice, they just want to be up and running). When the Data Application Blocks were release some years ago I was the first to jump on this. I had been developing my own version for about year as it was. Encapsulating commonly used code is the key to being a pragmatic programmer in my opinion. If you look at my code you will see SQLHelper all over the place.
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Over the past 8 months or so I have been working pretty steady with ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. I thought I would drop an entry with 10 things you should either use or be aware of that I think really help my ASP.NET programming efficiency.
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I get this error from time to time and I must admint is is now a legacy bug I propogated through my first Code Smith templates to generate my businesss logic. The problem is a simple one to overcome.
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