Steve Joubert, a colleague of mine at ASPSOFT [http://www.aspsoft.com], recently had his article Does Your App Need an Independent Data Layer ? [http://www.simple-talk.com/2005/10/03/net-data-access/] published. You can check it out online at the Simple Talk [http://www.simple-talk.com/] web site.

Was asked for this code a few days ago after a quick demo I did, so I thought I'd throw it out here. Its a quick code snippet that displays the contents of a DataSet for debugging purposes. But first, here is a quick code snippet that grabs a DataSet full of 2 DataTables. private void GetData()

TheNovember 2005 issue of MSDN Magazine [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/11/default.aspx]is now posted online. My latest Data Points [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/11/default.aspx] column outlines the evolution of the DataSet and the DataTable in ADO.NET 2 [http://msdn.micr

This is one of those simple coding issues that I was recently faced with that I wish I had a simple example to show me how to knock this out. I had to create a treeview whose nodes were supposed to display a tooltip that could change based on the selected node. Pretty straightforward issue overall,

VSLive Boston [http://www.ftponline.com/conferences/vslive/2005/bo/] in late June was fun. I spoke on 2 topics (one regarding the new features of ADO.NET 2 [https://www.johnpapa.net/blogs/john.papa/archive/2005/06/15/64596.aspx] and the other one regarding System.Transactions [https://www.johnpapa.n