Manuel Abadia's ASP.NET stuff - Monday, January 08, 2007

Another year ends and a new one comes. Life goes as fast as usual and we’re keep on our way. It’s time to think about it… our actions, hopes, wishes, mistakes, etc.

I usually listen to a special song a few minutes after the start of the year. In the last few years I have been choosing "Aerosmith – Full Circle" because it has special connotations for me.

I wish you the best in the coming year.

I was going to start posting about Atlas, but as you have probably read here, now Atlas has a new name and the next version will have some changes to reflect the new product name.

I think it is better to wait for a few days to see if a new Atlas version gets released in order to create samples that work with the latest version. If the next version does not get released soon I'll start posting about atlas anyway so stay tunned.

On my second day of vacation I bent my ankle playing stepmania so I can't use my right feet for at least 14 days :(

So I'm spending most of the time in the computer (as usual) but without internet access.

I hope to be able to do something unusual at the end of the month...

I'm going on vacation until the end of august.

I'll be here and here most of the time.

Unfortunately I don't have internet access available but I'll be checking my email from time to time.

Of course I take a computer with me so I'll be learning something new this holidays (maybe Atlas or SSIS).

If you can understand portuguese I recommend you to take a look at Luis Abreu's webcasts about Atlas.

Have a nice month

The last post completed what I wanted to explain about data source controls.

As a summary, here is a full list of the posts about data source controls of the last months:

I explained the generalities of data source controls here:
* Data Source Controls - Under the hood (1/4)
* Data Source Controls - Under the hood (2/4)
* Data Source Controls - Under the hood (3/4)
* Data Source Controls - Under the hood (4/4)

The theory about designers is here:
* Introduction to designers
* ASP.NET designers. The ControlDesigner class
* ASP.NET designers. The DataSourceDesigner class
* DataSourceDesigners... Non visual controls?

A custom data source control sample with full design time support:
* A custom DataSourceControl sample
* Creating a custom DataSourceDesigner

I hope you find them useful.