Rss + Northwind disconnected = Developer Friendlies

I've noticed a couple of developer-friendlies floating around recently, namely:

• Kent's RssView UserControl - which I've added to the Rss resources folder on my memory key and plan to convert to a server control in the not too distant future.
• Northwind disconnected - Early+Adopter's article regarding semi-disconnected apps.

The Northwind disconnected article talks about some of the real issues faced when building these kinds of apps and gives special insight into some problems that you might encounter unexpectedly.  For example, if you do an Asynch call to a webservice and need to marshall the result back to the main thread in a Windows app, you could be asking for unexpected behaviour.  This article probably opened my eyes some of the issues that are faced in multi-threaded programming more than anything else that I've ever read!  For that reason alone I consider this to be essential reading.

Both of these resources will undoubtedly prove their worth to me in the not too distant future :)