Scott Guthrie on Data with ASP.NET in VS.NET 2005
I just finished watching Scott Guthrie's episode on MSDN TV on "Data with ASP.NET in Visual Studio 2005", and I definately have to say that this is one of the better demonstrations of databinding I've seen for Whidbey. During the first half of the demo, it was the "quick-n-dirty" way of creating data-bound pages, which in corporate environments, have no play for "reality". This half went back to my earlier rants (which I can't find :( ) about why some properties are set the way they are...and that is to provide the quickest & dirtiest way of providing a working demo for non-technical users in the least amount of time.
However, the second half of the demo was right up every enterprise and corporate developers alley... databinding with the use of business tier objects. This was by far the best & easiest example of how to do this. Being able to do this in future versions has really amazed me, only because this is THE only way business applications should be using databinding.
Great job & Thanks a TON Scott!!