The answer to "what is the best ORM product in .NET realm?" remains controversial when it comes to individual preference. The following blogs post is a good place to find out statistical information on the performance benchmark of popular ORM suites; NHibernate, Subsonice, Entity Framework etc.

http://ormbattle.net/

There are sometimes when you need to query the Web Controls hierarchy by specifying a Control type rather than Control ID in Code Behind. Even though it can be done easily in prototype js and jQuery selectors in client side, it is a bit tedious to do in server side. In fact, .NET extension method OfType() provides you this functionality and all you have to do is to write a single line of code:



List < CheckBox > checkBoxList = Page.Controls.OfType < CheckBox >… Continue

ASP.NET Developers in MITP might want to try out the client-side Ajax Control Toolkit which is integrated into ASP.NET Ajax Library.

http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary/
http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary/learn.ashx

Microsoft's answer to Chart solutions. It's worth to try them out.

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/mschart
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=130f7986-bf49-4fe5-9ca8-910ae6ea442c&displaylang=en

As you roamed around blogs, articles and community websites, you could probably find the answers to “what is LINQ? How does it work? ” and all other FAQ-style questions but the FAQs that I have summarized and prepared here are truly based on what I feel like ones.



What is LINQ (Language INtegrated Query)?



Apparently, most of the FAQs should start with “what-is” question and I merely preserve this tradition.

“LINQ is a set of extensions to the .NET Framework… Continue