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Like Duncan, I just checked my Rss feed.  Guess what?

Lately I've been playing around with the Whidbey a bit more, focussing on such things as UrlMapping, WebParts and Profiles.  In that time I've been doing things in a rather ad-hoc manner.

In ASP.NET V2 the new portal framework looks very interesting.  It seems to me that this framework will lend itself very nicely for building applications which allow for a plug-in style of architecture and therefore make re-use of componentize UI widgets much more prominent.

While sneaking around the web tonight looking at sites which have interesting dhtml controls or cool stylesheets, I came across this article:

Fredrik has blogged some great Whidbey posts  - not to mention his 3,000 or so posts on the www.asp.net forums!  Recently he wrote a couple of articles about some of the data access techniques which are available in Whidbey.  First he looked at the Data Component which allows to quickly and easily create Crud-like data access layers:

Before I start my rant I should say that .Text is pretty decent web app.; it's seems way more complex than it needs to be and it's very difficult to install but there's a lot of great implementation code in there. Last week while unsuccessfully trying to get it installed and create some initial users I decided that, for my next application I'm going to build a blogging app.  Much of the API design and feature-set is done and I'm currently working through the technical architecture.

Found this site via Mitch's blog:

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