Professional ASP.NET - Chris Love's Official Blog

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 they announced the CTP release of version 4 of the Enterprise Library. According to the ...

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).  ...

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. 10)  Improved .NET framework.  So many more classes and methods.  ...

I get this error from time to time and I must admit it 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.  I use the Application Data Blocks to wrap up all my interaction with the database, trust me you want to use them too, do not even ...