Some interesting reads on AJAX, ADO.NET, and Distributed communications

There are a couple of interesting reads that I want to pass along.

Sahil Malik. While I don't know if Sahil is as hot as he mentions in the post, he has a REALLY GOOD article on creating a progress bar involving ADO.NET.

MSMQ Performance. Thanks to Christian Weyer for mentioning some performance aspects of various distributed app communication technologies.  MSMQ is my fav, but I am sure it is a personal problem.

Jason Salas.  And I thought I was doing a lot with Ajax and ADO.NET.

Michael Schwarz.  PPT file that discusses where he is headed with Ajax and the Ajax Library for .NET and some ideas there.