Manuel Abadia's ASP.NET stuff - July, 2006

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.

In previous posts I created a custom data source and explained the theory of the DataSourceDesigner class. Now I implement a designer with full design time support for the custom data source control.

I have made a list of a few frequently asked questions about the ObjectDataSource.

Being able to dynamically call an arbitrary method on an object or the ability to get/set any arbitrary property by name at run time is very important when it comes to do some generic stuff. In .NET Framework 1.x the only way to do that was using reflection and that means to do it slow.

Fortunately, the .NET Framework 2.0 introduces a new class that let us to quickly call an arbitrary method without the overhead of a reflection call.