* pardon this post, it's just a stream of consciousness* This is the final weekend of a fairly large project I'm working on. So I've been slammed for the past week with changes, bugs, etc. I've not had less then a 13 hour day for the last week. So bloggin' has been out and I'm really afraid to open SharpReader after not doing it for a week ( lets say in 3 days I was upto 1,300 posts ). But all this I've come to a revelation. My life has been ASP before .Net and I was quite good at it ( toot, toot my own horn ). But ASP.Net and the fw definitely have changed the way I code and the way I approach a problem. Try/Catch/Finally is my new best friend. Datagird Items:

   
• use the DataKeys always when doing inline updates    
• if your gonna use hidden columns: use bound columns; set visible to false; set to readonly. Then you'll be able to do something like: e.Items.Cells(2).Text without worries and with out having to worry about LiteralControls and stuff..

I understand that I'm not the only one that has felt the way about, I just don't want to get all zealot about it, but I've felt very productive this past week.