While most of the Q&A about ASP.NET happens in the forums , I also receive a number of direct questions from users (and so do other people on the team). In most cases, I try to convince the sender to post to the forums instead, and there are a couple of good reasons for it. And no, the reason is not to just get rid of the user! :-) The first reason is that posting to the forum gives you a much larger audience of people who may be able to answer the question. The answer may come from one of the Microsoft folks who are active there, or from one of the many experienced users from the community. As a result, you're much more likely to get a quick answer than by sending a private email to one person. A second very...
Josh Heyse has just released a very cool extension to ASP.NET Dynamic Data which supports much fancier filtering than is available is the core Dynamic Data. The core idea is that filters can contribute arbitrary LINQ expression trees to the Select query performed by the data source. So for instance you can have a Range filter which checks that a column is between two values, or a Search filter which performs sub-string matching (e.g. StartsWith, EndsWith or Contains). All that is made available with very little effort from the user. It's all available on CodePlex , so check it out! Start with the included AdventureWorks sample to get an idea what it's all about. Great job Josh! Read More...